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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Feb. 



cent, in value, to every load, as you will see, by and another portion of it into manure, for that is 

 the increase of my crops. Previous to having the natural result of the chemical change pro- 

 my cellar, I raised from thirty to forty bushels ^duced in the laboratory of the cow's stomach, 

 of corn to the acre, and since, I have raised from I The same result will follow any other kind of 

 fifty to seventy-five bushels per acre. I bought 'feeding. Good pasture Avill produce an abundance 

 $100 worth of hay a year, but since I have had: of milk, often as much as the cow can carry ; but 

 the cellar I have kept more stock and had several [does it follow that even then it Avill not be prof- 

 tons of hay left, notwithstanding I have turned itable to feed her with some more oleaginous food 



out four acres of mowing to pasturing. I have not 

 only got my mowing in good condition, but I 

 plowed last spring four acres of an old pasture 

 that produced hut very little feed, manured it 

 well, and raised fifty-five bushels corn to the acre. 

 Barre, Mass., Dec. 11, 1858. R. Haynes. 



Remarks. — Isn't that a practical report from 

 a practical man ? It is such a report as we 

 phould expect from such an operation. 



KING AND QUEEN. 



B7 L. B. ADAMS. 



I am a king in my own domain, 



And my little wife is queen, 

 And jointly over our realm we reign, 



A royal couple, I ween. 



Beauty and grace are the robes that Dow 



From her lily shoulders down. 

 The gems of truth on her bosom glovr. 



And love is her golden crown. 



But her dainty hands are brown with toil — 



Her cheeks with the breezes kiss, 

 And she works for a tiller of the soil 



As if toil for him were bliss. 



I am the king and the tiller too, 



lly farm is my proud domain, 

 And the will to dare and the s trengtn to do 



Are the scepters of my reign. 



At my touch the teeming earth yields up 



Her wealth for my feast and store, 

 The nectar of health brims high my cup. 



My measure of bliss runs o'er. 



0, ne'er was a happier realm, I ween. 

 Than ours, 'neath the arching sky, 



And never a happier king and queen 

 Than my little wife and I. — Michigan Farmer. 



to increase the quantity of butter just as it some- 

 times proves profitable to feed bees to enable 

 them to store more honey. It certainly does ap- 

 pear to us that the value of a cow, feeding upon 

 ordinary winter food, may be almost double by 

 making that food suitable for the purpose of in- 

 creasing the quantity of milk, if that is the pur- 

 pose for which the cow is kept. Farmers gener- 

 ally understand that they can convert corn into 

 beef, pork and lard, and some of them know ex- 

 actly at what price per bushel it will pay to con- 

 jvert it into these substances : but does any one 

 know at what rate it M-ill pay to convert corn or 

 any other grain into butter, or any other kind of 

 feed into the dairy products? Is the whole busi- 

 ness a hap-hazard one ? We fear so. Some per- 

 jsons know that they can increase the saleable 

 j value of butter by adding the coloring matter of 

 carrots to it. Does any person know the value 

 of a bushel of carrots fed to a cow to increase her 

 value as a butter-producing laboratory ? Exper- 

 imental proof upon this point would be far more 

 worthy of agricultural prizes than it is to see who 

 can show the largest sized roots ; for by a few 

 carefully conducted experiments we should be 

 able to increase the value of a cow almost at 

 pleasure. — N. Y. Tribune. 



For the New England Farmer. 



"VALUE OP SHEEP TO THE FARMER." 



A selection entitled as above, (monthly Farm- 

 er, Sept ,'58, p. 399,) has called forth some "Hints 

 on Keeping Sheep," {Farmer for Nov., p. 499,) 

 from J. Whitney, of East Sullivan, N. H. His 

 communication contains many ideas of value, but 

 seems to me not in all respects applicable to the 

 text upon which he comments. There can be no 

 doubt, as Mr. W. says, that "sheep are profitable 

 to the farmer who has a broken and uneven farm, 

 and his pastures have been suflered to grow up 

 to bushes, or where the soil has become exhaust- 

 ed by excessive feeding, and M-ill produce none 

 (not more, as printed) of the grasses, except June 

 grass or white-top. Land that has thus been re- 

 duced will keep sheep better than any other 

 stock." This is claimed by the writer in ques- 

 tion, and also, that sheep will give such pastures 

 a smoother appearance, by eradicating the wild 

 In summer or winter this plants, so that good glasses may take their place, 

 can be improved just as the yield of a cultivated j Whether white clover would come in, if continu- 

 crop can be improved by what is fed to each, and I ally crop])ed by sheep, I have my doubts, and 

 it is simply a question of will it pay, in manuring j agree with Mr. W. that a good pasture, produc- 

 the one or feeding the other. Indian corn will ing clover, red-top and timothy, would, if fed by 

 add to the quantity and quality of the butter to sheep alone for fifteen or twenty years, give, in 



HOW TO INCREASE THE VALUE OP 

 A COW. 



Every one who owns a cow can see at a 

 glance that it would be profitable to increase the 

 value of her, but every one cannot tell how to 

 do it. We can, and we think that we can make 

 it equally palpable to our readers. If a cow is 

 kept for butter, it certainly would add to her val- 

 ue if the butter-making properties of her milk 

 should be improved 



a very sensible degree, and it is simply a ques 

 lion of easy solution, by experiment, whether it 

 will add to the profit of the butter-maker to buy 

 corn at one or two cents a pound, and convert a 

 portion of it into butter at twenty-five cen^s a 

 pound, or whatever the market price of corn and 

 butter may be, and another portion of it into fat, 



the end, very little clover or timothy. The same 

 would be true if fed constantly and closely by 

 horses and cattle. 



The proportion of sheep to other stock, should 

 depend "on the character of the pasturage, and 

 the proportion of the same fitted and desirable 

 for tillage," if one would keep^sheep "without in- 



