NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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are still living, but not so fresh as I presume they 

 would have been if they had been out in the open 

 air and felt the influence of the rain and dews. 

 They are shaped like the top leaves of the pine- 

 apple, and from the centre springs a beautiful 

 orange flower, the upper side of which is a bright 

 yellow." 



HINTS FOR THE AGRICULTURIST. 



Cold water, administered externally, or in the 

 form of a bath, is a certain cure for prussic acid. 

 Cows and other domestic animals are often lost 

 from the poisonous effects of cherry leaves — par- 

 ticularly the leaves of the black and red cherry 

 which are found growing in a state of nature in 

 fields and pastures, and which contain prussic ac- 

 id in sufficient quantity to render them fatal when 

 eaten by ruminating animals, either in a green or 

 wilted state. When an animal has been poisoned 

 in this way, it should be plunged into cold water, 

 or have it dashed over its body in bucketsfull from 

 the pump or well. 



Sheep. — These animals should be protected from 

 cold and wet, though they have access to the 

 ground. At all seasons protection of the most 

 efficient kind should be afforded them, as no ani- 

 mal is more injured by the wet, and especially by 

 long storms. Sheds should be erected in pastures, 

 to which they can retire whenever the weather is 

 cold or stormy, and supplied with troughs, con- 

 taining salt and ashes — one part of the former to 

 three of the latter. When not protected, sheep 

 often take cold, even in summer, which produces 

 coughs and other affections which too often have a 

 fatal result. 



Hog Manure. — There are probably few articles 

 of a fertilizing character which possess greater in- 

 trinsic excellence than hog manure. On this point, 

 indeed, there appears to be no discrepancy of opin- 

 ion whatever, among practical men. By furnishing 

 materials, large quantities could be made annual- 

 ly, and at comparatively little cost. On this sub 

 ject a judicious farmer observes : — "It appears to 

 us, then, an object of considerable consequence to 

 farmers, that he should avail himself of this re- 

 source for fertilizing his soil as far as possible, and 

 that methods should be adopted by him to pre- 

 serve, and increase the amount at his command, 

 as far as may be, and not allow the avails of his 

 pig-pen to be lost to the farm, as is frequently 

 done. Where pigs are allowed a small yard to 

 run in from the pen, they may be made to produce 

 a large quantity of good manure, by frequent ad- 

 ditions to the material in the yard of straw, 

 weeds, turfs, muck, or even good common earth, 

 to absorb the fluid part of the manure, and pre- 

 vent its salts from escaping." Yet there are many 

 farms on which little of this invaluable article is 

 produced, compared with what might be furnished 

 by the number of animals kept. 



AVorking Cows. — The cow is seldom subjected 



to the surveillance of the yoke in this country. — 

 Why, more than the mare, she should be consid- 

 ered entitled to this exemption, is a question not 

 easy to be solved. In many cases where cows have 

 been moderately worked, they have not been at all 

 injured thereby, and have produced nearly if not 

 quite as much milk as when suffered to employ 

 their leisure on the best of feed. Mr. Colman, 

 in his European Tour, mentions an instance where 

 a man in Sussex, England, who cultivated a small 

 farm of four acres and kept two cows, worked one 

 of the cows in a cart, by which he made a saving 

 of twenty-four dollars a year. Notwithstanding 

 the cow was worked, she made eight pounds of but- 

 ter per week, besides furnishing some milk for the 

 family. In Massachusetts a man has performed 

 all his farm work with four cows ; hauling wood, 

 stone for walls, &c, as with oxen. The cowswere 

 two years old when first yoked, and were "broke 

 in" in three days, so as to be perfectly managea- 

 ble and kind at all times. 



EDITORIAL DELINQUENCIES. 



Who is " Exchange ?" We see many of our ar- 

 ticles copied into other papers credited to "Ex." 

 and "Exchange," and sometimes to "Exchange 

 paper." Now this occurs so often that we are led 

 to think those who "hook" these articles know 

 full well what paper they originate in — nay, that 

 they are often direct from the Farmer. Is this do- 

 ing the honest thing, brethren 1 When you thunder 

 with our thunder, have the goodness to label it 

 correctly. — Maine Farmer. 



■Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something, nothing; 

 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands; 

 But he that filches from me my good name, 

 Robs me of that, which not enriches him, 

 And makes me poor indeed." — Shakspeare. 



Hit them again, Brother Holmes, "they have 

 no friends," and never will have until they ob- 

 serve the conventional courtesies of the press. 



When an editor publishes the results of labori- 

 ous thought or experiment, it is for the purpose 

 of instructing his readers, and-, also, by having his 

 articles copied into other papers, to receive an in- 

 crease of subscribers. He gives his brethren of 

 the press the use of his brains, in exchange for 

 the advantages arising from their advertisement of 

 his articles : but when the conventional credit is 

 not given, he is robbed, and in a most flagrant 

 manner. Have no mercy on these pirates, brother 

 Holmes, we will willingly join you in the warfare, 

 and chastise the lazy loons, who steal from others, 

 rather than write themselves. — Working Farmer. 



We have in our mind a paper, which copies 

 good articles and credits them "Ex.," but when 

 they wish to correct an error and show how smart 

 they are they always give credit. When we see 

 "Ex." in a paper we feel like adding "stolen from 

 a source which we do not like to credit." Some 

 editors make up first-rate papers by putting in 

 them "original" matter "hooked" from other pa- 

 pers. — American Artisan. 



|^* If men will not observe the proprieties of 

 life among their own craft, they certainly ought not 

 to be trusted any where else. There is a practice 



