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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jan. 



WILLAED'S PATENT KOOT-CUTTBK. 



"This cutter is a recent invention. It cuts 

 ■vegetables very rapidly, and in slices thin and 

 fine enough for sheep, lambs or calves. It is very 

 easily operated, so that a boy can turn the crank 

 rapidly. The inside arrangement is such as to 

 prevent all liability of clogging the cutter while 

 working it, and the knives are easily repaired. 

 The vegetables, after being passed through the 

 cutter, may be mixed with straw, coarse hay, or 

 other cheap forage which one w'ould like to dis- 

 pose of economically, and the mixture, after lying 

 a little time, so that the forage may become im- 

 pregnated witH the sceut and juices of the sliced 

 roots, will be greedily and wholly consumed by 

 the stock. Pumpkins (if not hard-shelled,) are 

 easily cut with this machine, so as to be conveni- 

 ently and quickly cooked for swine." 



It would be a matter of economy for any per- 

 son feeding out two or three hundred bushels of 

 roots annually, to purchase one of these ma- 

 chines. They are very thoroughly made, and sold, 

 singly, for $10, by Nourse, Mason & Co., Quincy 

 Hall, Boston. 



Horses' Coats. — Lately going to the country 

 to spend a few weeks with a friend of mine, I 

 drove a very handsome horse, and a good one — 

 but he was always annoyed about his coat. It 



was more like a lot of bristles than a horse's 

 smooth skin, and all the grooming he could get 

 "wouldn't do it no good." My friend, who is a 

 great horse-breeder and fancier, made me try 

 giving him a few raw carrots every day to eat out 

 of my hand, saying that he would have a good 

 smooth coat in three weeks, — and he was right, 

 for in that time my horse had a beautiful, sleek, 

 glossy coat, and all from eating a few raw car- 

 rots daily. He tells me it is infallible.— C'o)'. Par- 

 ter's Spirit of the Times. 



For the New England Farmer, 



FOWL MEADOW GHAS3 SEED. 



Mr. Editor : — Much inquiry has of late been 

 made for fowl meadow seed, as to where it can 

 be found, &c. I read with much interest the de- 

 scription, as given and represented l)y cut, in the 

 N. E. Farmer of June 26th, never having known 

 before what "fowl meadow" was. But I have 

 for years known that the grass more abundant 

 than any other, which goes to seed at the height 

 of a few inches in all our pastures and by the 

 roadside, bearing a very fine seed, is considered 

 by many as the native grass of this country. 

 Upon reading the article above alluded to, it ap- 

 peared to me that the "fowl meadow," the "Poa 

 jiervata" there described, was identical with this 

 grass which is so common among us. Mowing 

 on low ground last July, I found the grass you 

 describe, which had crippled down and produced 



