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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 



it is probably not so. Col. Whipple has dug, 

 stoned and covered some two hundred rods of 

 drains on his land ; one effect of which was shown 

 last season in the fact that he cut twenty tons of 

 hay on six acres of land where formerly only a 

 Bmall crop was produced. — N. II. Democrat. 



EXTRACTS AND REPIilES. 



OX KAISING MILLET. 



Can you give me any information in regard to 

 raising millet? Is it a good fodder for milch 

 cows ? Will it do to sow it upon green-sward and 

 sow grass seed with the same ? IIow much seed 

 will it take per acre, and when should it be sown ? 

 What soil is best adapted to raising it ? 



Bedford, 1859. J. o. D. 



Remarks. — Millet makes a good crop for 

 green or dry fodder, and may be fed to milch 

 cows with advantage. It may be put on sward 

 land if it has been deeply-plowed and well pul- 

 verized — but it grows too thick and rank to al- 

 low grass seed to do well with it. Any good 

 corn land is suitable, and eight quarts of seed 

 per acre is enough. Sow from first to middle of 

 June. 



POTATO BLIGHT. 



In going from Hartford to Waterbury, in 1846 

 at the time of the blight, there was only one field 

 that looked healthy, and that one was over- 

 topped with buckwheat, so that if the blight came 

 from the atmosphere, that it kept it from the 

 the potato. One farmer informed me that a day 

 or two before the blight he kept his wagon in 

 his potato field, and a few bundles of straw were 

 thrown out of the wagon upon the potatoes, and 

 remained about a week, when he dug the pota- 

 toes. Those that M'ere covered were not diseased, 

 and the remainder of the field would not pay for 

 digging. I think that early potatoes and early 

 planting will be more successful than late plant- 

 ing, as far as my experience goes. 



I will give you a receipt for curing a ring-bone, 

 as it was given to me by one that told me he had 

 cured quite a number by this application. 



Take a pair of scissors and cut the hair from 

 the bone, or around the hoof, then apply the oil 

 of ambre, let it remain about two hours, then ap- 

 ply the soap palmoil; this do once every day, 

 and in 3 or G weeks the bone will disappear. 



ROSE-BUGS. 



June, the month of roses, will soon be along, 

 and, as is usual, I expect to see rose-bugs come 

 in large numbers ; they not only spoil the roses 

 but the grape vines also suffer by their eating 

 tlte blossoms. I know of no way to get rid of 

 them. Who can tell ? Henry M. Falls. 



North Wrerdham, May 30, 1859. 



A LAME COLT. 



Can you tell me what will cure the stiffness of 

 the fort legs of a colt that was caused by stand- 

 ing in the stable and eating too much grain? It 

 appears to be in the joints. H. M. A 



Cliarlestown, N. H., 1859. 



VALUE OF RUTA BAGAS. 



I noticed in one of your papers a piece from 

 Mr. Otis Brigham, of this town, on root crops. 

 It was answered by a gentleman, the next week, 

 who did not exactly agree with him. He thought 

 that ruta bagas were as profitable a crop as any. 

 I have raised them until I am satisfied that they 

 are not worth the trouble of raising. You can 

 raise, on good land, from 600 to 1000 bushels 

 per acre, but what corn you can raise on the 

 same land will be worth four times as much for 

 feed to cows, as the turnips. They will make 

 milk enough, but it is good for nothing after il 

 is made. The turnips taste in the milk, butter 

 and cheese, and even the pigs turn their nosea 

 up when it is fed to them. Besides this, they 

 injure the land so that you can raise nothing on 

 it after them. J. L. T. 



Westhoro\ May, 1859. 



PREMIUMS. 



Abstract of premiums awarded in the several 

 towns in which exhibitions were holden in 1858 : 



Essex, Dan vers $291.63 



Middlesex, Concord 2-12.00 



Middlesex South, Framingham 293.61 



Middlesex North, Lowell 335.37 



Worcester, Worcester 340.50 



Worcester West, Barre 240 99 



Worcester North, Fitohburg 329.44 



Worcester South, Sturbridge , 108.00 



nnmpshire South, Northampton 216.00 



Hampshire, Amherst 152.68 



Hampden, Springfield 264.8i2 



Hampden Eabt, Palmer 195 75 



Franklin, Shelburn 205 00 



Berkshire, Pittsfield 344.50 



Hnusatonic, Great Harrington 251.00 



Norfolk, Dedham 135 00 



Plymouth, Bridge water 314.76 



Bristol, Taunton 350 75 



Barnstable, Barnstable 360.75 



Nantucket, Nantucket 157.00 



$5149.44 



The whole amount awarded is believed to have 

 been about $12,000. Truly there is something in 

 locality, where 20 towns out of 300 get nearly 

 half the whole amount awarded. These facts 

 present matters for deliberate consideration. — 

 Conclusions are left to tbose disposed to make 

 them. P. 



Jmie \st, 1859. 



TO PREVENT THE YELLOW BTRIPED BUG FROM 

 DESTROYING WATERMELON VINES. 



Take feathers from a hen's wing, or take 

 sticks and split them and put in cotton, which ia 

 about as good, dip them in spirits of turpentine, 

 and stick them into the hill in an oblique or 

 slanting position a little above the vines ; two 

 or three will be sufficient for a hill, and as often 

 as it loses its strength, dip them over, and after 

 every shower. I have taken boards five inches 

 wide, made boxes and covered them with milli- 

 net, and put them over the hills ; the vines would 

 run up tall, like growing in the shade, and come 

 to take the boxes off they would not do well ; 

 but put spirits of turpentine around the hills, and 

 they will do well. n. s. 



East Thetford, Vt., 1859. 



TRANSPLANTING WHITE PINES. 



If your correspondent, "Oak Hill," will give 

 me his address, I will write and inform him 



