NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Published by JOHN B. RUSSELL, at the corner of Congress and Lindall Streets, Boston THOMAS G. FESSENDEN, Editor. 



VOL.. IV. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1826. 



No. 30. 



ORXeXNAIi COiamUNICATIONS. 



FOR THE MCW ENGLAND FARMER. 



To the Edi.lnr and PuhUsher 



of the Nno England Farmer : 



Gen-ti.emen, — Enclosed is a tiia^Iily interesting 

 statement of the prnducn of Bnller from five 

 cows, on the farm of Col. Jes'^e Putnam in Dan- 

 vers, the past season. It will he seen from an 

 cxaminalinn of il, that in llie space of six months, 

 from the Kst of Jnne to the 1st of November, 

 these cows jielded ItXJS pounds of bnller, being 

 more than 207 pounds lo a cow. As lo the qnal- 

 ity, I can say iVom my own knowledge of it, 

 tliat 1 have never seen ar.y superior to il 



teed lliera ol)(ained, received between four and 

 (i\e quarts of Indian meal per day for each cow. 

 In September when the feed of the pastures was ' 

 nearly dried np, they were led wiih the suck-' 

 ers of about two and a half acre* of Indian corn ; 

 alter this, for a number of weeks Ihov received, 

 about one bushel of mangel wurlzol to a cow, a 

 d»y, — one half in the morning and the other at: 

 night. These are all the kinds of food ihey 

 have received, and the quantities are staled as 

 near as ihey could be ascertained, — my direc- 

 tions having been to supply them w ilh these 

 quantities, neither more nor less. 



It will be recollected that the season in this 

 vicinity has been unusually dry and warm. In 

 consequence, common pasture land has yielded 

 much less feed than usual. This was peculiarly 



It gives me pleasure to have it in my power 



to communicate to vou an account of an experi- 1 , ., l- l i .; 



lo Loumi iiiiv,iic -' ' , ithe case with my pastures, which are a light, 



ment. so we con< ncled, ot what may l>e oo- , ., . -' ' ' => ' 



nieui, su I- ,• I r 1 , a:, gravelly soil, ot ordinary quality. And tor the 



tained from our native cows. I would not (lis- ° •' ,. ,, ,. -, ' ,,•' ^ , ,• 



luiiieu iiuiii i^u. .,.,,.• e i- isame reason my tall leed, or the (eeA Irom my 



courage, ly any means, he introduction of >r- ^ |^^^^,^ ^^,.,^_. ^^^^ j.;^^ ^^,^^^ ^^1^^^^ _^^_ 



e,.n or hai.r breeds of cows. ,1 they car. be ^^,^, ^-^^^ ,^^^ ,j^^_^ ,^^^^^, ^ 



found; but woud re er o this experiment, Sim- 1 ,,,, . ,. r.L .i 



."""',, , , "^ XI i he extreme warmth of the weather was very 



DV to show what can, by good management, be! ,^i- . „ i , ,■ ,1, ,• ,■, ,, , 



1; V '" '" . •, , . - -J ,! unlavourable lor the making othuttcr, some part 



done with our own. And when it is considered .,■,,„ ,. ,, , = .- f 



, , , . ■ J . I ■ 1 ,• I oi the time, as will be seen Irom a comparison 



that the hio- h prices re(|uired (o be paid, lor ■-,, 1 , ■ . n- . 1 .1 1 



Ml. II iM ' =. t' 1 r I • 1 .1 I oMhe products in diili>rent weeks. And my cel- 



imporled animals or their progeny, lorbid the . „, ' , ,, , , 1 i 1 1 u 



I 1 o -^ _ ^ Inr vv;,s not as well constructed as I r.i iild have 



common farmers from availing themselves of 

 these advantages, it surely cannot be amiss to 

 encourage them to make the best use of those 



wished, and as I intend lo have it, for keeping 

 the milk and cream cool. 



, - , ,, • .1 1,1 fi As to Ihe quality ot the butter, I can only say, 

 (h"v have under their contro : and lo show tt, , . . u .1. . 



J.,' , ""'"=• ,, ;• 1 • 1 ■ - . (hat mv customers, who are among the most 

 tinssihe, that our animais, all ot which original- ,. - ... , . ,.,,. .• P .■ 

 1 ' , ' ' , ,' , , , ,; ..particular in the choice ot this ailicle ol any in 

 ■ed Irom Lurope, /ture rto( c/('gf)i('ca/f<( 0)1 (/(6 SO!/ V, ,_ _, ,_,, ,, , ,;^„i., 



of New-England. 



Yours, ^cc. 

 .T. W. FROCTOR. 



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TO THE TRUSTEES OF THE ESSEX AG- 

 RICULTURAL SOCIETY: 



Gentlemen, — The subscriber would submit 

 to )'our consideration the following state- 

 ment of facts in support of his claim for the pre- 

 mium offered by you on the Management of a 

 Dairy, in the year 1825. 



The premium is thus slated: 

 " For the greatest qunatity of good butter, in propor- 

 tion to the number of cows producing it (not less than 

 four) made on any farm from the 1st of June lo the 1st 

 of November ;. and the quantity of butter averaging 

 not less than seven pounds per week for each cow, — 

 twenty dollars," ic. 



My farm is situated in the North Parish in 

 .>Danvers, and consists of about one hundred acres. 

 My whole stock of cows is eight, all of the com- 

 mon native breed ; from these 1 selected live 

 for the purpose of ascertaining the quanlilj' of 

 butler that could be made in the lime above- 

 mentioned. They wei<' kept and fed through 

 the season separate from the other stock ; and 

 their milk was entirely used for the making 0/ 

 butler. During the last winter my cows were 

 fed on barley straw, salt hay, corn fodder, fresh 

 meadow hay, with some of ihe common flat tur- 

 nips. Thay were thus fed on coarse and cheap 

 fodder until about the lOlh of March, after which 

 they were fed with English hay, and received 



about one pint of Indian corn, on Ihe ears, a day, and true before me 

 to each cow, until abont the middle of May — 

 From this time they fed in the pasture ; — and 

 through the whole season, in additiou to the 



: Salnm, always expressed tliemselves entirely 

 •satisfied with it, and cheerfully gave the highest 

 market price through the season. 



The following is the quantity of butter fur- 

 nished for ihe market from tlicse five cows in 

 the several weeks as numbered, commencing 

 June 1st, and ending October 31st. 



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The whole amount in the above lime is G8I]- 

 pounds, being more than 8 pounds per week for 

 each cow. 



I have also kept an account of the produce of 

 these cows in the month of November, and find 

 the same to have been 157i pounds, — making a 

 total in six months from iive cows, of 10381 

 pounds, or 208 pounds to a cow nearly. 

 All which is respectfully .submitted by 



JESSE PUTNAM. 



Danvers^ Dec. 1, 1825, 



Then Jesse Puunam made oath that Ihe fore- 

 going statement by him subscribed, is correct 

 J. W. PROCTOR, 



Justice of the Peace. 



The Committee appointed by the Trustees of 



the Essex Agricultural Society, to examine the 

 claims for premiums on the Dairy, have exam- 

 ined the foregoing statement made by Col. Jesse 

 PufNA.M of Danvers, being the only one submit- 

 ted to their consideration, and are of opinion 

 that he is entitled lo the first premium on this 

 subject, being twenty dollars, and recommend 

 that the same be awarded accordingly. 



THOMAS STEPHENS,) Com- 

 JAMES GARDNER, > mit- 

 ABIJAH CHEEVER, } tee. 



At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of the 

 Essex .'Xgricuilural Society, February 6, 1826, 

 the forogoing Report of the Committee was 

 unanimously approved. 



A;iest, J. W. PROCTOR, 



S'cc'i/ Essex J}gric. Sacitltj. 

 FOR THE NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



At a meeting of ike Board of Trustees of the 

 Essex Jigricvkxtml Society, in Topsfield, on Mon- 

 day, Feb. 6, 182G— 



Fated, unanimously. That Ihe next .\nnual 

 Meeting and Public Exhibition of the Essex Ag- 

 ricultural Society, be at Ihe South Parish in 

 Uanveis, on Thursday the 12lh day of October 

 next. 



Voted, That the President and Secretary be a 

 Comrailee to prepare and publish a list of pre- 

 miums to be off^-'^d the present year. 



Voted, \\i\\\ tb<j Secretary be authorized to sub- 

 scribe for t-°i) r-ijjites of Ihe current volume of 

 the New Enolatsd Faumeb, published in Boston, 

 to be distributed es premiums at the next Exhi- 

 bilion. 



Attest, J. VV. PROCTOR, Sec'y. 



Danvers, Feb. 8, 1826. 



MULBERRY TREES. 



The following article is from a gentleman, who, we are 

 told, has been for some years successfully employed 

 in the culture which it describes. It will form a val- 

 uable addition to the able and useful article on the 

 Silk Worm, which we republish in this day's paper, 

 from the last number of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural Repository. — Ed. N. E. Farmer. 



FOR the new ENGLAND FARMER. 



Northampton, Jan. 23, 1826. 

 John Prince, Esq. 



Sm — Mr Hunt showed me a letter from you, 

 respecting planting Jlulberry Trees and raising 

 Silk. 1 will now with pleasure give you the 

 necessary information how to get the trees, or 

 rather bushes, for I have found that the bushes 

 are belter than trees; indeed that is the method 

 pursued in China and the East Indies, as 1 have 

 been informed by a gentleman who carried on 

 Ihe business for a number of years near Calcut- 

 ta, and who made his fortune by it. 



You will be able, I presume, to procure Ihe 

 mulberry seed in Marshfield, Connecticut. Alter 

 you have obtained ihe seed you will set apart a 

 piece of ground, which ought to be very rich 

 with manure, and Ihe earth made as fine as pos- 

 sible, it ought to look as fine as a parsnip-bed. 



