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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 



V. 



PIPES FOR COXVEYING WATER. 



Mr. Brown: — I would like to inquire of your 

 subscribers about the best material to use, to con- 

 vey water to buildings. In this section, a large ma- 

 jority of the farms can have running water to all of 

 their buildings. But the great desideratum is, what 

 material to use, with an eye to cost and durability. 

 Wood lasts so short a time, that I have discarded 

 that ; with me it has lasted from three to seven 

 years. Lead pipe, under some circumstances, is 

 poisonous. I now carry water to all my buildings 

 in half-inch lead pipe. I wish to take up a part of 

 it, and put inch pipe in its place. How long will 

 iron pipe last to convey soft, spring water ? Inch 

 iron pipe is sold in Boston for fifteen cents per foot. 

 Is there anything better and cheaper ? How should 

 iron pipe be laid down ? 



I have a hydraulic ram that has been in opera- 

 tion three years. It has worked well, so far; raises 

 water forty feet, and supplies my house with an 

 abundance. H. Morse. 



Johnson, Vt, Feb., 1856. 



AGRICULTURAL ANECDOTE. 



Capt. B., from small beginnings, became a rich 

 man, if his own definition of that phrase be coiTect, 

 (and I have never seen a better,) viz : "He is a rich 

 man who is a little better ofi' than his neighbors." 



Capt. B. could give orders as exjilicit to his 

 hired men as to the militia company over which he 

 had presided. And he was fortunate in having Mr. 

 P., a young man who understood the English lan- 

 guage, and could toe the mark. 



It was in the spring of the year ; two stout yoke 

 of oxen were hitched to the plow and driven to a 

 part that had become nearly barren l)y cropping 

 without manure. Mr. P. was placed at the ])low, 

 and furnished with a boy as teamster. "Now," said 

 the Capt., "I want you should plow up the dirt that 

 hasn't seen the sun for four thousand years." The 

 ' orders were fulfilled by letting the plow in beam 

 deep. The next order from the Capt. was, "jYow 

 dung it to death." JVuf sed. Mr. P. was as faith- 

 ful as Jack Tar on board a ship of the line, and, 

 said he, "I watched that piece of land for several 

 years, and it taught me one thing, that is, to plow 

 deep and manure thoroughly." p. F. 



THE GARDEN LILY. 

 Will you inform me through the Farmer where 1 

 can obtain the white Garden Lily, so called with us. 

 Manchester, jV. H. b. s. s. 



Remarks. — Probably in many gardens in your 

 neighborhood, or at the nurseries. 



Dear Sir : — I was reading the fourth Legislative 

 Agricultural Meeting of Feb. 9th, which treated of 

 manures and their preparation ; and I wish, through 

 your valuable paper, to know how is best to prepare 

 apple pomace, and how to use the same for the 

 benefit of the land and crops. A Subscriber. 



Dublin, m H., 1856. 



PtEMARKS. — Apple pomace rots very slowly, and 

 perhaps for that reason has been neglected as a 

 manure. Its decay may be hastened by mixing it 

 with some rapidly-decaying substance, as fresh horse- 

 dung or urine. Judging as we do of other matters, 

 it ought to be beneficial to apple trees. 



BROOM CORN STALKS. 



Messrs. E. and J. Cushman, of North Amherst, 

 have succeeded in making good wrapping paper 

 from these stalks, which have been considered worth- 

 less. They mix the stalks, in about equal quanti- 

 ties, with rye straw. The value of this invention 

 may be inferred from the fact that rye straw is 

 worth $7 per ton, and stalks may be had for the 

 gathering. 



Apjilication has been made for a patent. 



R. B. H. 



Fur the New England Farmer. 



THE WINTER. 



Mr. Editor : — With your permission, I will give 

 the readers of the Farmer a short account of the 

 past severe winter. Although we have not had as 

 severe weather as reports bring from other places, 

 yet it has been uncommonly severe. Snow that 

 fell on Dec. 25 still remains, and we have had good 

 and uninterrupted sleighing from that time to 

 March 20, when the main roads began to be bare, 

 and about the 25th we began to use wagons; al- 

 though at this time the ground is two-thirds cov- 

 ered with snow, with enormous drifts in many pla- 

 ces. The snow in March drifted more than in any 

 previous month, and consequently the measurement 

 is quite uncertain. The following is the amount of 

 snow in this place : — 



December 14 inches. I February 5J inches. 



January 17 inches. | March 13 inches. 



Making about 49^ inches. We have had no rain, 

 except a light mist on the forenoon of Feb. 12. 



Owing to the topography of the place, we have 

 generally less snow and rain than other places 

 around us. We are situated in the valley of Otter 

 Creek, with the Green Mountains on the east, a 

 moderate range of hills on the west and south, 

 while at the north the land is decidedly higher and 

 more hilly, which gives us climatic conditions of 

 less intensity, regarding temperature and humidi- 

 ty, than may ])laces around us. 



The following table exhibits the extreme cold 

 days during the winter, with the temperature at 

 three observations during the day, and the daily 

 mean : — 



DECEMBER, 1855. 



.10. 



.2... -1.50 



JANUARY, 1856. 



.10 9 6.5.... 4.16 



.22.. ..-1 -7.66 



..1 7. ...-6 66 



7. ..-16. ...19.. ..20 7.66 



8 21. ...20 -1 13.3.3 



9 -5 2 -4 -2.33 



12 -6.. .21 12.5. .13.16 



20 10 7. ...-2 1.67 



22. ..-16.. ..13 -2 1.67 



...-4 1.5 2.5. .-1.67 



26 18.5. .20 13.5. . .7.00 



MONTHLY MEANS. 



December.... 



January . 



February.. .. 

 March 



7 a. in. 

 ..23.27., 

 ...6.28.. 

 ...9.46.. 

 ..16.81.. 



2^}. m. 

 . 31.34.. 

 ..18.63.. 

 ..23.75.. 

 ..29.86.. 



9 p. vt. Mean. 



..24.88 26.49 



..10.40 11.72 



..14.88 16.03 



..21.49 22.75 



The prevailing wind, in the region of the cloud.«i, 

 has been from between west and north-west, while 

 the amount of cloudiness is between 5 and 6-10. 

 The weather continues cold. Thermometer this 

 morning 10 deg. at sunrise, 



Brandon, Vt, Jpril 1. D. BUCKXAND. 



