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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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SHORT HORN, OR DURHAM BULL. 



Under the term Short Horned cattle are included 

 the Holderness and Teeswater breeds, which were 

 supposed to have derived their origin from a cross 

 with some large hulls that were imported, nearly 

 a century ago, from Holland into Yorkshire, in 

 England. The cattle are of good size, and are 

 beautifully mottled with red spots upon a white 

 ground ; their backs are level ; the throat clean ; 

 the neck fine, but not too thin, especially towards 

 the shoulder ; the carcass full and round ; the 

 quarters long ; and the hips and rump even and 

 wide. That this breed is excellent for the sham- 

 bles, is generally conceded. We would not say, 

 that they are the best milkers, though we have 

 known some that it would be difficult to beat, and 

 some excellent dairymen give them the preference. 

 But recently the Devons and Ayrshires seem to 

 have more of the public favor as milkers. 



Our engraving represents a Durham Bull, "Earl 

 Seaham," the property of Messrs. Sherwood & 

 Stevens, which received a prize at the State Fair 

 in New York last autumn, and is a well-propor- 

 tioned, fine looking animal. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 COWS GIVING BLOODY MILK. 



I have had cows give bloody milk, and have in- 

 variably effected a cure by giving a table spoon- 

 ful of saltpetre two or three days in succession. 

 Jere. Fullerton. 



Raymond, N. H., March, 1852. 



For the New England Farmer. 



CAUSE AND CURE OF POTATO ROT, 



Mr. Editor : — As it is drawing near the time of 

 putting the seed into the earth, I would call the 

 attention of your numerous readers, to an article 

 dated Sept. 15, 1851, headed, "Cause and Cure 

 of the Potato Rot," inserted in your columns first 

 of November, 1851. As some have pretended to 

 be the first discoverer of the same remedy, some- 

 thing like two months after the publishing of my 

 article, it puts me in mind of a man who went to 

 a neighboring town, and saw a peat fork, and on 

 his return home caused one to be made and claimed 

 to be the inventor. Yours, &c. 



I. N. Merrill. 



Six tons to the Acre. — Take a first rate piece 

 of land, Mr. New York Farmer, plow it sixteen 

 inches deep, spread on twenty-five loads of good 

 and well-composted manure ; plow that in, three 

 to six inches deep, level and sow twelve quarts of 

 herd's grass, one bushel of red top and six pounds 

 of clover seed to the acre, and with heaven's 

 blessing upon it, if you don't get six tons to the 

 acre in two cuttings, why then you wont get as 

 much as we believe Mr. Clapp, of Greenfield, 

 did, to whose statement you refer, and which we 

 heard and reported in these columns. It's a large 

 crop, sir, but it is often produced in this "cold 

 and barren New England." There is nothing like 

 knowing now. 



(53^" The Vermont State Agricultural Society 

 will hold their Annual Exhibition at Rutland, on 

 the 1st, 2d and 3d days of September next. 



