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NEW ENGLAND FARMER* 



[Feb. 10 



Brighton; a part of which ! will sell. The 

 price will be fvr<m$20 to 100, according to their 

 age, size, and fineness, Ilolilernfiss stood at my 

 stable in 1024 ami many very line calves from 

 him may be found in tlii-s vicinity. 



1 am Sir. vonr*. 



UALrii vv.rrsox. 



FOR THE .NEW F..NCI..\ND FARMER. 



PLANTING SCIONS OF FRUIT TREES. 

 Boston, Ftb. 0, 1823. 

 Mr EniTOR— Yonr late remarks on this sub- 

 ject remind me of a fact which came iiniler my 

 notice about 30 years ago, in Biixlon, Me. In 

 the Autumn 1 trimmed a small nursery of apple 

 trees. The larger branches cut otl were re- 

 moved, some smaller ones remained, and were 

 partially covered with earlb by my hoeing a- 

 bout the trees after they were trimmed. 1 first 

 hoed these trees the following spring, probably 

 in May. 



I then noticed several of the twic;s as they 

 lay on the ground, half covered with earth, to 

 be pMltirig forth leaves; it occurred to me they 

 might live and grow, and to try the experiment 

 1 made al)out a dozen holes in the ground with 

 a pointed stick, about sis inches deep, put a 

 scion into each, inade the earth tight about tliem. 

 These twigs grew well through the summer, 

 when 1 left the place. The next year 1 inquir- 

 ed for then), I was informed that they coulinucd 

 lo groiv and flourish. My impressions on this 

 subject would lead me to repeal tlie experinienl 

 if 1 should have an opportunity to do so. 

 1 am, sir, 

 Your obedient servant. 



J. G. COFFIN. 



tliat the merino does not supply her young with 

 as great a tlow of milk as the native sheep. — 

 She must therefore be belter fed for a short 

 time before and after lambing, or the young will 

 suffer for the want of milk. From some obser- 

 vations, which fell from the writer, I am induc- 



COLTS. 



" Colts are nsunlly foaled about the beginning 

 of summer, and it is the custom to let them ruij 

 till .Michaelmas with the mare, at which time 

 they are to be weaned. When first weaned 

 they must be kept in a convenient house, with 



ed to believe that his sheep lambed while they [ ;, \^^^^ pac^ and manger for hay and oats ; the 

 were kept on dry food, i'lie disease took place ; hay mustgfa|^^w sweet and tine, especially at 



lii't, and aTi^p wheat bran should be mixed 



when the lanibs were from three to six weeks 

 old, and none under that age. 



Animals at the time of bringing forth, or soon 

 after, have an abundant supply of milk, which 

 decreases in quantity ncaiiy in propiu lion as the 

 powers of digestion in their young increase, so 

 as to require more solid food. If froin any cause 

 the milk is not secreted in sufticient quantity 



with their oafs, in order to keep their bodies 

 open, and make them eat and drink freely. — 

 When the winter is spent, they should be turn- 

 ed into some dry ground, where the grass is 

 sweet and shorthand where there is srood uater 

 that ihey may drink at pleasure. The winter 

 atier this, they may be kept in the stable, wilh- 



the youno-, from hunger, are foiced lo partake | out any .further care than that which is taken of 

 of food too hearty for their tender age. This olher horses: Rut after the first year, the mare 

 produces an acescent slate ofthn stomach, which jfo«ls:i"'d horse loals arc not to be kept together, 

 calls for absorbents to neutralize the superab- j There is no difficulty to know the shape a foal 

 undant acid. Fh>'sicians tell us this is the ra«e j is like lo be of; for the same shape he carries 

 in the human race; — and why not in the brute :"t a month, he will 'carry at six years old, if he 



From the EasUrn Chronic'.e. 



DISEASES OF SHEEP. 

 J\!r. Editor. — Observing in your useful paper 

 an extract of a letter from the owner of a flock 

 of Merino sheep in Sandwich,]". H. to the 

 I^ditor of the New England Farmer, dated De- 

 cember 20, 1825, giving an account of a disease 

 among his lambs last spring, which he found by 

 dissection to be balls of wool in the stomach, 

 nearly large enough lo close the passage into 

 the intestines ; and being the proprietor of a 

 flack of merino sheep, and believing every sleji 

 <ve advance in the improvemenl of fine wool 

 sheep is important, and i may add. of vital im- 

 portance to the tanning interest in ihenortlipru 

 jiarl of ,\mcrica, I beg the indulgence of making 

 a foiv remarks on his communication. Although 

 the disease he describes has never affected my 

 flock lo any considerable degree ; and from look 



creation '? Mas nol wool, whde satur.ited wilh 

 volk, an absorbent and neutralizing quality? 

 Chemists tell us it has. We should h< nee cin- 

 chide, a priori, these lambs were nol supplied 

 with a sulScienl quantity of milk, by which tliey 

 were comiK'lloil lo parlake of an undue quanti- 

 ty of snliil food, which brought about the change 

 spoken of above; then, as llie most convenient 

 absorbent, Ihey partook of wool, which pro- 

 duced the fatal consequences mentioned. Now 

 el us consider whelbcr this tie the case. We 



be not abused in after keejunir. ' 



'' We often bear it lamented, that our breed 

 of horses is so bad. But I am convinced that, 

 as our colts are managed, if we had any other 

 breed, we should soon make it appear to be as 

 mean as our own, if not »vorse. I'ho abusing of 

 colls in the first winter, is the principal cause of 

 their jiroving so bad. For our tanners seldom 

 allow their weaned colts any food besides hay, 

 and that is not always of the be'l kind. So that 

 thev seldom fail of being stinted in their growth. 



are told the flock suffered much from sore eves, ! in the fits! winter, to such a degree, that they 

 which certainly will have a tendency to da- j never get the belter of it. A colt that is toal- 

 crea«e the flow of milk. We are also indirect-led late, should not be weaned till 1 ehruary or 

 ly told, Ihey were kept upon dry food, which! March, and should have oats during ihe whole 

 will have Ihe same eiTccl. These ob.-^ervationsl of the winler. In some countries they allow a 

 1 cannot certainly say are true; but submit !y""ig coll (ilteen bushelr.. We need not gru,lgc 



id teed them with meal, oats and bran, besides 

 the best of clover hay ; for they will pn^' for it 

 in their growth. .After the first winler, they 

 will need no extraordinary feeding till Ihey are 

 grown up. Were the above directions observ- 

 ed, we should soon see an improvement of our 

 brePd of horses. They would be cijiable ot' 

 doins much greater service, and be likely ic) 

 liidd Out lo a greater age.'' — Dcuue's .\'txe Eng- 

 laiid Farmer. 



POULTRY. 



To fatten chickens expedilioufly. take a quan- 



Ihem I'or coiisiilcnition. Sliouiil lln?^ not pfove 

 fallacious, would nol a greater supply of green 

 I'ood lo the ewe, which would produce more : 

 milk at thai critical period of a lamb's life, be 

 a preventive? Am!, may not the disease 

 cease lo be known, by c uising the sheep to 

 lamb by grass ? 



Sore eyes among sheep, is a disease that 1 

 ac> well acquainted with, and of which I can 

 speak will) sonid degree of confidence; having 

 expelled it from my flock. The remedy is tur, 

 with which I cover their noses all over, about 

 three times a year, at equal intervals of time. 



It is also a prevenlive of worms in the head, |(j(y of ground rice and an equal quantity ot corn- 

 by keefiing ulT the fly which depositcs the egg. j (yjon flour; mix sufficient tor present use with 

 'Fhis liy, in many respect*, resembles the hot- ,,,[1;^ i,nd a little coarse sugar; stir Ihe whole 

 fly, which is so troublesnuie to liorsrs. \ pro- ! ,vcll over the lire, till it makes a lliick paste ; 

 pritlor of a large thick of>heep said lo me," 1 ; and feed ihe chickens in the tlay time only, by 

 have had my fluck healthy since I have used putting as much of it as they can eat, but no 

 tar enough, and never before." I must beg to more, into l!;e trousfhs bel'.' iging lo the coops, 

 renew C'liiioj' request, to all that can, to give ! It niust be eaten while warm ; and, if they have 

 ing back for about fifteen years 1 do not remem- j i„f,),-,n;,iJon. I would take the liberty to call j -,150 beer to drink they will soon grow very iiif. 

 bcr to have had hut one lamb which 1 have any j iheir atlenlioii to another disease, which I hive j ,\ mixture of oal-meal and treacle, combined till 

 reason to believe died of ibal disease, and that 1 |),,|j in ,-,1^, fl,,ck more or less evjry year, for a | ji crumble*, is said to form a food for chickens, 

 ! did not open, which renders it uncertain [,iu2e„ ^ears last pa-l. They begin by stretch- j of which they are so fond, and with which ihey 

 nhelher it was the disease or not, — I admire j j„g.^ ;,„j shewing evident signs of paius in the j ilirive so rapidly, that at the end of two months 

 the conduct of the writer in communicating his j iottslines. .M'tcr u«iiig purgatives in large (plan- [ iJiey become as large as Ihe generality of full- 

 fixperience, and calling un all who can, to give I titles, a dysentery follows which brings on the ! 



information cither as lo the cause, preventive, 

 or cure. 1 pretend not to understand the dis- 

 f ase, nor to prescribe the cure, with any degree 

 (■; certainly ;. but only to make such remarks 

 upon his conimunication as appear most profita- 

 ble. I suppose it to be iia acknoivledged fact, 



they 

 ! sjrown fowls 



'ed in the common way. But no 



rot, of which Ihey die. The disease has always , common fowl is to be compared wiih a capon 

 made its appearance in the first of ihe >viiitej-, 1 thus fed. Domalic Eucijclopedia. 



while the sheep were fed on dry iood. | •• 1 



MAINE FAR.ViER. 



Wi!Uhrop,Jan. 21, 1C26. 



The National Ca/ette says, tiierc are two 

 hundred lawyers in congress. 



