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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



IJfVITATIONS— THINKS. remedies as similar ones have heretofore con- 



The agricultural festivals of this and other gained, we would condemn it at once; hue it 



States have taken place this autumn in unusual h'^^™^ to adviae to the use of moderate ones. If 



number, and have clashed with each other so I ^^e usual Homceopathic remedies were added, as 



that in some instances three or four have oc- [they are in Youatt and Martin's work on cattle, 



curred on the same day. The three great conn- 1 ^he book would be still more valuable. The 



.. c T7< n/r- 1 ]i I \\r „„ !„,. „ii 1-,, 1,1 work is very neatly printed and hound, and. 



ties oi Essex, Middlesex and VVorctster, all held I j j r- > 



^1.1 , .,1. ^- ^1 1 • • *v, lousht to be on the table of stock-owners who do 



their shows at the same time, thus depriving thej" » "' ^ _ 



people of the opportunity of attending the exhi- 

 bition of their nearest county neighbors. 



We have been kindly invited to attend most 

 of the county shows in this fetate, and to attend 

 the State and county shows in other States. As 

 many of these as we have had opportunity and 

 strength to reach, we have attended, found much 

 to commend, and but little — though some things 

 — to condemn. We desire to express our thanks 



not now own one. 



For the New Ens;land Farmer. 

 BA.RNS FOR ISEW ILKGLAND. 



In your paper of Sept. 10 we have a long and 

 ably written article from "J. VV". K., Stravvberry 

 Bank, Durham, X. H.," upon the construction of 

 "Our Barns." Will you allow me to say that I 

 fear many of your intelligent readers, who have 

 an eye i'or the practical, and a keen perception. 



for invitations to the Vermont, New York, New for the useful, will justly imagine that "J. W. 



Hampshire and Maine State societies, and to I K." was but throwing out marks for others to 



the Nantucket, Plymouth, Barnstable, Essex, I «hoor at, instead of giving us what we are ever 

 „ , • , „ ^, ,,. , ,, „ , anxious to receive, i. e., practical information 



Worcester, North and South Middlesex, Frank- ^^^.^^ ^^^j^j^^^g ^^^^^^g^^^^ ^^.-^j^ ^.^^ farming and 



lin, Martha's Vineyard, Norfolk, Worcester North Iquj. farm "buildings. 



and Bristol county societies, and to various town | Ai.d allow me to accept the proposition of "J. 



associations in Massachusetts, and to several coun-iW. K."as regards the three important requisites 



, , . • .• • ^.1 c*,. „ Ifor a f'ood barn, viz : "stowage, stable and ma- 



ty and town societies in other ot ites. p » i .i ^ ^? i • ■ 



■',.,^ , ,, , ,1 . , 1 1- 1 J nuie-lactorv, and then follow his imaginary 



We shall be glad to receive the published trans-! .^..^y. tluo'ugh his unimaginable barn, which re- 

 actions of any of the societies in the State, or minds one of the wanderings of a huge ant among 

 country, and to call attention to any new and] a box of berries from that "Strawberry Bank," 

 useful facts and suggestions which they may con-; moie than the every day cAo; wh^ in a farmer's 

 tain, or warn the managers of these institutions 

 of the approach of any insidious foe that we may 

 discover from our stand-point, so that this new 



barn. 



And, 1st, our friend "K." objects to our plans 

 of barns, and suggests the most common. Let 

 him consider that a barn without a sizeable floor- 

 fabric, reared with so much pains and cost, may j way, with a good tight floor, is as deficient as a 

 not be crushed, like those of old, under the hou«e without a cellar or cook-stove. I ask every 



1 • 1 1 1 • 1 V r •4. t .• ireader of the i*^a?"Hier, how could vou dispense 



shields which it assumes lor Its own protection. . . ' , ,• 'n ■ -^ .■ 1 j 



'■ with your threshing-noor, spacious, tight and 



handy? The machine may do the most of our 



BTSW PUBLICATIONS. threshing, but the machine is not always at hand 



for our Indian wheat, buckwheat, peas and beans, 



DaBB on the Nature and Treatment of the Diseases of Cattle, 1 n .1 1 n-rii'iis Ao-ain wp want the 



with Descriptions and Illuftrations of vari<,us Organs and i ^J^^ ^11 the le^^er grains. Again, we M dnt ine 



Functions of ti^e Animal Economy. Containing, also, us^eful floors tO Store COrn lOr husking, to paSS tO and. 



fro, as we feed the various kinds of stock with 

 as various kinds of fodder ; and will not "J. W. 

 K." require as much room when he feeds stock 

 Every stock-breeder, and even the farmer who j [^^ hj^ "clapped up stalls anywhere ?" to say noth- 

 keeps ten or a dozen head of cattle, and raises ing of his "horse pitch-fork, and machinery" for 

 two or three annually, must find himself occasion- ; dohig so much of his work ? Say, farmers, will 

 ally with a sick animal before him, whom heyo^g!^'^ up the floorway ? Imagme "J VV. K." 

 , 1-. 1 1 . . , ^ .1 • .. i wheeling his uncut hay upon a wheelbarrow, 



knows little how to treat, so that the anxiety without space to move ! The floor is never neces- 



and practical Information on Breeding, Vfutilation and Diet. 

 By Georoe H. Dadd, Veterinary Surgeon, &c., &c. Boston : 

 Joiin P. Jewett 85 Co. New Yorli : (J. M. Saxton. 



about the creature occasions more trouble than 

 would its actual loss. He cannot judge from 

 symptoms, and is puzzled to know whether the 

 disease is in the head or heart, lungs or liver, or 



sarily expensive, and when not wanted for other 

 uses, may be filled with hay or corn fodder, with- 

 out a horse-fork, or any machinery whatever. 

 2. "The cellar is at best an ugly, inconvenient^ 

 , , , , 11 1 . . . , I costly and dangerous affair, and should never 



whether he should administer tonics or cathar- ^ ^^'^j ^^ ^ ^^^.^. New England farmers, who 



tics, or let nature take her own course, and cure j have good cellars, what do you think of this ? It 

 if she can. In such cases there is really aid and j inconvenient, keep out of it; if costly, make 

 comfort iui the possession of a pkin, sensible, cheaper next time, and if dangerous, fill it with 



book, treating of the diseases of animals, show-^/^^f T'''^ ^ ^'^^V ^"^ i^'" ''^''"^' ff' '' 

 , ,.° . . \. often built where either a cellar or a Iramed base- 



mg what diseases certain symptom.s indicate, ^^3^^^ ^.^^^^not be made to good advantage, and il 

 and what medicines ought to be given to cure! convenience and profit are consulted, no barn 

 them. If this book recommended such terrible ever will be. The manure and muck to be mixtd 



