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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



We believe that care and attention in feeding is of 

 great consequence. Don't let him fill his stomach 

 too full with dry food. Let his food be moist, and 

 of a nature that contains much nomishment in small 

 bulk. You do not find heavey horses troubled 

 much with this complaint while they are at grass. 

 Then let their food approximate as near to the con- 

 dition of grass as you can. Cut the hay — wet it, 

 and sprinkle on meal. 



A writer in a recent number of the Rural New 

 Yorker, (J. Libbey, of Eagle Harbor, N. Y.,) 

 speaking- of this disease, attributes it to feeding on 

 clover hay that has become dusty in consequence 

 of being badly cured. He says he treated a horse 

 that he owned, and that had the heaves, in the fol- 

 lowing manner : He took the hay entirely away 

 from him, and fed him with straw, mill feed, 

 (shorts, &c, we suppose,) and grain. He thinks 

 if he had cut the straw and wet it with oat or corn 

 meal, it would have been better ; but as it was the 

 heaves did not trouble him much. 



Those who have good horses that are troubled 

 with heaves — anu most heavey horses are those 

 which are naturally most strong and active — should 

 furnish themselves with a straw-cutter and a mush- 

 tub, and give them cut and moistened feed. They 

 will thus not only keep their horse more economi- 

 cally, but will improve his health and keep him in 

 a comfortable condition for any kind of labor. — 

 Maine Farmer. 



BEAUTIFUL EXTRACT. 



Do trees talk 1 Have they no leafy lungs — do 

 they not at sunrise, when the winds blow, and the 

 birds are carolling their songs, play a sweet mu- 

 sic 1 Who has ever heard the soft whisper of the 

 green leaves in spring time, on a sunny morning, 

 who did not feel as though rainbow gleams of glad- 

 ness were i unning through his heart? And then 

 when the peach blossoms hung like rubies from the 

 stem of the parent tree — when the morning glory 

 like a nun before the shrine of God, unfolds her 

 beautiful face, and the moss roses open their crim- 

 son lips, sparkling with the nectar that falls from 

 heaven, who does not bless his Maker? 



Remarks. — It would be agreeable to us to give 

 credit to the author of the above beautiful para 

 graph, if we knew to whom it belongs. The ob 

 servations required in order to write it must have 

 been close ; and although they were made among 

 the loveliest- things of earth, and afforded the ob- 

 server enjoyments which military chieftains and 

 ambi'ious worldlings rarely feel, they ought to be 

 accompanied by his name, and go towards making 

 up his fame. We are constantly surrounded by 

 these interesting phenomena. The closer we study 

 them, the greater will be our enjoyment, and the 

 more shall we abound in gratitude, that we are 

 made capable of seeking out and appreciating 

 them. 



Apples for Stock. — A gentleman informed us 

 the other day that having a heap of refuse apples, 

 many of them being rotten, he fed a peck each to 

 a stock of fifteen cows, and that the next morning 

 theii mess of milk was increased eight quaits. 



This experiment in connection with observations he 

 had made had thoroughly satisfied him that apples 

 are highly beneficial to any stock. He thinks they 

 can be raised with profit for this purpose. His 

 judgment is worth something, for he is a large ap- 

 ple producer. 



For the New England Farmer. 



THE NORTH STOCKBRIDGE FARMERS' 

 CLUB. 



BY W. BACON. 



Messrs. Editors : — It is but a few years, not 

 more than four or five, since an institution bearing 

 the above name was founded by a few individuals 

 in the neighboring towns of Lenox and Stock- 

 bridge. Among its early founders were some of 

 the most learned and enterprising men of the for- 

 mer town, who make it a regular practice to attend 

 its stated meetings, and communicate with those 

 more directly concerned in the cultivation of the 

 soil, upon the best method of carrying out the 

 principles of agricultural improvement. 



As is usual, in all such cases, many of the 

 farmers at the beginning thought the whole affair 

 a useless innovation, — a something got up by the 

 lawyer and the doctor to secure their own popular- 

 ity, and for their part did not wish to go where 

 these fellows were, to hear them "talk about book 

 farming and all that kind of stuff." They were 

 brought up on the farm and knew all about it. 

 Other farmers thought the plan a good one at the 

 outset, and opened their doors for the meetings of 

 the Club, and their hearts to give and receive the 

 lessons of experience it was calculated to elicit. 

 As a matter of course, the more of these meetings 

 such individuals attended, the more interest they 

 found in them, and the more interest, the more they 

 were talked about when they met other farmers, and 

 other farmers said that a spirit of inquiry was 

 going on which was likely to elicit new facts in re- 

 gard to the better management of the farm, and 

 they, too, must be interested in the matter and join 

 the club. 



As the result of its progress and triumph, we 

 have now only to refer to the report of its (The 

 North Stockbridge and Lenox Farmers' Club) 

 second Cattle Show and Fair recently held at Len- 

 ox, which says, "The number of cattle exhibited 

 was 216. Besides these, it appears there were 

 horses, sheep, swine and poultry, — domestic man- 

 ufactures, — the products of the dairy, the orchard 

 and the garden in nameless, and for ought we know, 

 innumerable quantities." 



No premiums were awarded except the meed of 

 honest praise, which was bestowed in the ratio 

 which the several subjects on exhibition warrant- 

 ed, so that no one was stimulated to exertion through 

 the hope of obtaining a silver cup or a set of spoons, 

 but simply by a laudable ambition to excel, and no 

 one was under necessity of contributing from his 

 funds, to raise an amount to be paid in awards to 

 those more successful than himself. 



After the examination by the several committees 

 was closed, the club, numbering more than one 

 hundred, took a dinner got up for the occasion, 

 where ladies as well as gentlemen met to do honor 

 to the festive board. After which an address was 

 given by the president, and the party separated, no 

 doubt happier, wiser and more in love with their 



