1856. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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AN ALDERNEY, OR JERSEY COW. 



The Alderney cow, Flora, rejjresented above, wasj 

 exhibited and admired by the lovers of good stock, 

 at the great exhibition in Boston, last fall. She was 

 owned by G. H. French, Esq., of Andover, Mass.,' 

 who also exhibited other excellent stock. The Al- 

 derney and Jerseys are bred on two islands off the 

 coast of England, where no pains is spared to keep 

 them pure. They are light red, yellow, dun or 

 fawn-colored ; short, wild-horned, deer-necked, 

 thin, and small-boned, ii-regularly, but often very 

 awkwardly shaped. 



An English writer of emenence says : "The Al- 

 derney, considering its voracious appetite — for it 

 devours almost as much as a short-horn — yields 

 very little milk. That milk, however, is of an ex- 

 traordinary excellent quality, and gives more but- 

 ter than can be obtained from the milk of any oth- 

 er cow. Of this no one can doubt who has pos- 

 sessed any Alderney cows. The milk of the Alder- 

 ney cow fits her for the situation in which she is 

 usually placed, and where the excellence of the ar- 

 ticle is regarded and not the exjiense ; but it is not 

 rich enough, yielding the small quantity that she 

 does, to pay for what she costs." 



I presume that I have dug out more squirrels 

 than ever he did, and I do not find his account of 

 the manner of digging correct in one quarter of the 

 instances. They dig according to circumstances 

 in the soil and situation, frequently running along 

 several feet on a level, and not more than six or 

 eight inches below the surface. If anybody else 

 ever sees a squirrel digging his hole and'leanng the 

 dirt at the mouth, I wish they would let me know 

 it, as soon as possible, and I will pay them hand- 

 somely for the trouble. B. F. Cutter. 



Pelham,JV.H.,Feb.,l85G. 



THE STRIPED SaUIRREL. 



In answer to your corres])ondent, F. H. Whitney, 

 I would say that I live in New Ham])shire, and 

 very near the State of ]\Iassachusetts, and have l)een 

 acquainted with the striped scpiirrel in both States ; 

 that his habits are all the same ; and further, that if 

 Mr. W. ever saw fresh dirt lay at the mouth of a 

 hole, that there had been some other help at work 

 that did not belong to the family of striped squir- 

 rels. 



For the New England Fanner. 



HORSES WITHOUT HAY— LICE ON 

 CATTLE, &c. 



Mr. Editor : — Although not engaged in farming, 

 still I am a constant and well entertained reader of 

 your valuable paper, and feel highly interested in the 

 subjects that fill its columns. In the number for 

 March 15, 1 noticed an article on the use of corn- 

 stalks as fodder, and the preference cattle have for 

 those of the sweet corn, mentioned by Gen. Chand- 

 ler, of Lexington, and which fact has been observed 

 by others. But what I wish to say is, that one of 

 mv townsmen cuts yearly about six acres of stalks, 

 M-ith which he keeps five horses in good working 

 order, dealing it to them finely cut, with the aver- 

 age quantity of cob meal. With regard to keeping 

 on hay and grain, a friend of mine who has constant 

 use for his horses in teaming on the road, says he 

 keeps them in good condition with seven quarts of 

 meal and shorts with their hay, dealing to each 

 horse two quarts in the morning, two at noon, and 

 three at night, with no more hay than will be eaten 

 up clean. 



In the article under the caption "What ails my 

 Cow ?" the writer says "he uses unguintum on the 

 parts aff'ected, spanngly." It should be thus used, 

 if at all, as by the cow lapping it ofi", and perhaps, 



