1856. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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kept the other for my own use. Aggregate value 

 of the four, $178,04; deduct cost, $27,48, leaves 

 a gam of $151 48. They were kept by me 309 

 days, and gained, as I calculate, 1217 lbs., or a tri- 

 fle over a pound, each, per day — nothing to brag 

 of if they had l)een high fed — but they were kept 

 very cheaply, and had but little meal until the last 

 month of the time, when they were fed with cob 

 meal (corn and cobs ground together.) The re- 

 mainder of the time they had the wash of the 

 house and the skimmed milk of two or three cows, 

 with small jjotatoes, and pumpkins boiled up with 

 a little meal. I keep five cows and sell about one- 

 half of the milk." — Boston Cultivator. 



as a writer, chemist, &c., and now the principal 

 Editor of the Farm Journal, published at Philadel- 

 l)hia, is the Editor. For sale by Kuggles, Nourse, 

 Mason & Co., Boston. 



WEALTH OF THE ROTHSCHILDS. 



The number and amount of the loans that have 

 been negotiated by the Kothschilds is scarcely any 

 mdex of their wealth. It is not necessary that they 

 should be worth the enormous sum of a thousand 

 million of dollars, Mhich has been absurdly attribu- 

 ted to them, in order to take, since the Crimean 

 war, the English loan of eighty millions of dollars, 

 the Austrian of a hundred and twenty millions, the 

 Turkish of forty millions, an e?rly one to Russia of 

 one hundred and thirty millions, one to Sardinia of 

 ten millions, another to England in exchequer bills 

 of thirty-tive milHons, and a second now on the tapis 

 of a hundred millions of dollars. 



Just consider how such loans in this country and 

 everywhere else are made. Some house, like the 

 Rothschilds, for example, confers with its corres- 

 pondents and friends of various cities, ascertains 

 how much they will assume of a jn-qjected loan, and 

 then rejects or accepts the proposal of the borrower 

 on specified terms. The house named represents 

 the whole, and perhaps is the only one recognized 

 and known in the transaction ; but takes no more 

 of the loan, perha])s, than others not named, if so 

 much, and may immediately, or soon, part with that 

 moderate fraction, if a satisfactory advance can be 

 obtained. 



Negotiators of public loans in this country are not 

 always men of large capital, but, acting in the capa- 

 city of conductors, they are merely in possession of 

 ability to place them among those who are. They, 

 as well as the Rothschilds, doubtless sometimes act 

 in the capacity of brokers simjily, though at others, 

 without question, as loaners of their own cajjital. A 

 merchant might as well be set down as worth five 

 millions, Ijecause his sales amount in two years to 

 that sum, as the ]{othschilds be estimated as worth 

 a thousand millions of dollars, because the loans 

 they have negotiated within a few years reach that 

 prodigious figure, — a sum comprising about one- 

 quarter of all the precious metal of the globe. — 

 j^ewark Advertiser. 



Year Book of Agriculture. — This work is a 

 compilation of articles and engravings, on nearly all 

 subjects connected with agriculture, and contains 

 a thousand suggestions valuable to the farmer who 

 has not access to a variety of works on similar top- 

 ics. It is printed handsomely, is illustrated by nu- 

 merous engravings of implements and plants, 

 among the latter, some half-dozen full large en- 

 gravings of the cotton plant in its various stages. 

 David A. Wells, Esq., a gentleman well-known 



THE FIRESIDE. 



When the snow-flakes softly rattle 



On the darkened window pane, 

 And the nicht winds moan and murmur 



In a wild and fitful strain — 

 0, how welcome is the cheerful, 



Brightly burning, ruddy light, 

 Glowing from the evening fireside, 



Glowing, sparkling, warm and hright ! 



How the mellow beams are dancing 



On the ceiling, in the hall, 

 E'en within the heat's dark corners. 



With a gentle glance they fall. 

 And in the clear and pleasant radiance, 



As in the waves of gold it plays, 

 Melts the soul that's filled with sadness, 



Lights the eye with radiant rays. 



Loved ones meet around the fireside, 



Through the dreary winter eve. 

 Whilst the storm without is wildest. 



Tales of other ("ays to weave, 

 Songs that to the heart are dearest, 



Breathe upon the hallowed air. 

 Voices gay in mirth are mingled, 



"Household words" are sweetest there. 



How the aged and the weary 



Look back to the happy hearth. 

 By whose merry li^ht they sported, 



Ere they tasted aught but mirth. 

 Though the glow has long been faded, 



Brighter than of yore it burns. 

 When the spirit, worn with waaijrin, 



To that cherished vision turns. 

 Then, while falling snow-flakes rattle 



On the darkened window pane. 

 Let us gather round the fireside, 



Heedless of the night wind's reign. 

 And when life's cold winter Cometh, 



'Mid the darkness and the storm 

 We'll again in memory's chamber 



Meet around the fireside warm. 



Fur the New England Farmer. 



FANCY STOCK. 



WHO KNOWS \A^IERE IT CAN BE FOUND. 



Mr. Editor : — I am one of the "constant read- 

 ers" of the Kew England Farmer, and froln_ it 

 have gained a deal of useful information in relation 

 to the various matters on which it properly treats, 

 (i. e. ruralities.) besides a great variety of pleasant 

 and instructive reading on various other subjects. 

 But there is one thing that I have been rather sur- 

 jnised at, — and that is, that people do not avail 

 themselves more of the opportunity of advertising 

 in its columns many things which are wanted by 

 those who reside in the country, and particularly in 

 suburban villages ; — I refer to the various kinds of 

 fanai stock, such as fowls, pigeons, ducks, geese, 

 rabbits, and dogs of various kinds. 



Now there are very many who have a taste for 

 such things, and would gladly become jjurchasers, if 

 they only knew where the sellers were to be found. 

 In England, it is quite the fashion to advertise 

 every such thing in the rural papers, so that if a per- 



