1856. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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effectual ; but although intelligent men will roll it item in the expense of preparation, -without -which, 

 as a sweet morsel under their tongues, it will make it seems to me, the horse's teeth will soon be worn 



a beast sick, and sometimes produce death 



My remedy is to rub unguintum sparingly on 



out. (a.) 



I wish to learn how to treat a piece of light, sandy, 



the parts affected, and repeat once a week, for a few, weak soil, so as, if possible, to reahze something 



times, and the cure is effected. 

 Pitts/kid, 1856. 



GUANO FOR COEN. 



\V. N. 



from it ; stable or barnyard manure being out of 

 the question, {b.) 



Fairhaven, Vt., 1856. W. Bbiggs. 



Rem.4IIKS. — (a.) Many persons never wash roots 



Mr. Editor : — Can I expect a good crop of corn J of any sort, for horses or cattle — though it is an 

 if I use guano alone ? If so how should it be ap-!g ^.^tter to do so. Take a half hogshead tub 

 plied.'' How much m a hill P I tried it on a very i ■> an -^ -u ^e t ■^^ e ^ ^-u • ^\. ^ i 

 small scale last spring, putting a small handful in^^"'^ ^^^ '^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^'^t""' ^^^^ ^" ^^^^ ^°°ts, and 

 the hill, and mixing it thoroughly, but the corn was] let them remain two or three hours, or over night, 

 all killed. As I should like to use it on a somewhat stir them about one mmute with a sled stake, or 

 larger scale, another year, [ thought it best to ask something like it ; then with the six or eight tined 



fork, throw them into a box and cut them with a 

 shovel. The same water -will answer for use for 

 Remarks.- There are nearly as many differ- ; ^^^.^^^1 j^y^^ -jj^j^ ^^^ be done in the root ceUar. 

 ent results in the use of guano, as there are experi- 

 ments. There is really no certain information to 



information of one who was able to give it. 



Taunton, Feb., 1856. SUBSCRIBER 



give you. We used it on two acres of corn, spread 

 broadcast and harrowed, and got a good crop. 

 Our neighbors used it and got nothing. The cir- 

 cumstances were not the same. Just so it is on 

 grass crops. We find no certainty in its results. 

 It is not so -with barn manure, or meadow muck 

 composts. Who ever knew them to fail ? or that 

 their application resulted in an entire loss ? You 

 must earn your knowledge experimentally — on a 

 small scale, and with great cai'e, and tell us by-and- 

 bye what it is. 



Poudrette is a good manure, because it is manu- 

 factured from very active fertilizers — that is, if it is 

 made well. Excellent potatoes have been raised 

 with guano, and in large quantities ; but as many 

 have failed with it in this crop as have succeeded. 

 These general remarks are the best we can do for 

 you. The truth is, we do not know what guano 

 will accomplish for any body. 



BARN ITCH IN CO-WS. 



Mr. Editor: — In your paper of the 26th of 

 January, one of yom- subscribers makes the in- 

 quiry, "What ails my cow ?" I think, from his de- 

 scription of the cow, she has got what we Vermont- 

 ers call the barn-itch. My remedy is, lard and sul- 

 phur, applied to the parts diseased. Rub it in 

 thoroughly. It is a disease prevalent in these parts, 

 but is easily checked l)y applying the above remedy. 

 In my opinion, it does not injure their milk in the 

 least, as it is a disease of the .skin. j. L. 



JVorth Springfield, Vt., 1856. 



(C^* Another correspondent, E. J. Bacon, Ware, 

 Mass., also gives it the same name, and says he had 

 seven cows afflicted with it ; thinks it does not af- 

 fect the milk. Remedy, rub on lamp oil. 



carrots for horses — HO-W SH\LL I TRK\T 

 SANDY LAND. 



Mr. Editor : — I see a great deal in the agri- 

 cultural papers about feeding carrots to horses, but 

 not a word about washing or cleansing them from 

 the adhering particles of soil — quite an important 



(6.) Use clay, and plenty of good peat muck, on 

 your weak, sandy land. If very sterile, after apply- 

 ing one or both of these, sow buckwheat and plow 

 it under tAvo or three times, and then you have a 

 basis to work upon which will last for years. 



W^HITE-WASHING ROOFS. 



Messrs. Editors : — In the Farmer of 23d Feb. 

 Mr. Orrin P.Allen, of Proctorsville,Vt., makes the 

 inquiry whether whitewash would not be a good 

 preservative for the roof of a building. In ans-wer, 

 I will tell him my first experiment. About twenty 

 years ago, we built a barn, and for the want of bet- 

 ter shingles, I used those made mostly of the sap 

 wood of white pine ; previous to laying of them, 

 they were dipped into a large kettle of boiling hot 

 white wash, well salted, till well soaked, and laid 

 on to the roof after being dried. Now after nine- 

 teen or twenty years, those shingles are apparently 

 sound and the roof tight ; had they been applied 

 without the antiseptic steep, they would probably 

 have been rotten in five years, if they had shared 

 the fate of those applied to some of my other build- 

 ings. The time that the shingles ought to contin- 

 ue in the white wash, must be decided by further 

 experience. 



Another advantage beside the preservation of 

 shingles is the fire-proof tendency of the salt com- 

 bined M'ith the whitewash, which we all know is a 

 damper to fire. 



Wilmington, Feb., 28, 1856. S. Brown. 



GUANO AND MUCK. 



Would it be good economy for a farmer, who 

 would get pay in return for the outlay, to purchase 

 guano and mix with muck for the purpose of grow- 

 ing corn or other crops ? and if so, how much guano 

 should be mixed with a load of 30 bushels of muck, 

 in order to put a shovel full to the hill. 



Webster, Feb., 1856. NoviCE. 



Rem.arks. — Apply at the rate of 300 pqunds of 

 guano to the acre, and if the land is of a sandy na- 

 tm:e, as much fine peat muck as you can aftbrd. Be- 

 gin by making the experiment in a small way. There 

 are so many circumstances, of which we know noth- 

 ing, in such cases, that a mere opinion would be 

 worth but little to you. 



