40 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jan, 



CORN AMONG POTATOES. 



The writer last season planted a plot of pota- 

 toes about the first of April, which grew fine- 

 ly, and received their final hoeing about the 

 arst of June. At this date my little son, un- 

 known to me, went and planted a few hills of 

 corn between the hills of potatoes. The pota- 

 toes were in drills some eighteen inches apart. 

 At the time of digging, 25th of July, the corn 

 was up some three feet high, and if there had been a 

 sufficient amount of it, I should have left it to 

 ripen. But wishing to use the land for a late 

 crop of turnips, I cut the corn for foddei*. But 

 the random planting of the lad went far to con- 

 vince me of a fact which I hope to profit by, and 

 now communicate for the benefit of your subscrib- 

 ers, i. e., that a crop of some quick growing corn 

 — say the King Philip — may be grown after an 

 early crop of potatoes, if planted immediately af- 

 ter the last hoeing of the potatoes, or about the 

 first of June ; care being taken at the digging not 

 to molest the roots of the corn. 



Wm. J. Pettee. 



Lakemlle, Conn., Dec. 3, 1857. 



VERMIN ON CALVES AND SHEEP. 



Can you or any of your correspondents inform 

 me what is the best way to kill lice on calves and 

 ticks on sheep, and oblige a farmer? 



Tyson Furnace, 1857. A. H. Hoslet. 



Remarks. — A careful application of some soft 

 grease or oil, twice a week, continued two or three 

 weeks, will generally destroy these vermin. It 

 should be rubbed in with the hand, so as to oil 

 the hair or wool. A little yellow snuff may be 

 sprinkled in after the oil is applied. Clean wood 

 ashes is also often used, but all such applications 

 must be used with care. Preparations of mercu- 

 ry, such as unguentum, are used in des2)erate cas- 

 es, but they are dangerous remedies, and their 

 nature ought to be well understood by those who 

 resort to them. 



"J. B. N." communicates to us the following 

 mode, and it is one we think quite well of, provid 

 ed the animal is kept warm after the washing is 

 done : "Take one-third soap and two-thirds water, 

 and wash the animal all over at three different 

 times, and it will kill all the lice." 



viewing farms entire. 

 After much attention to the subject, I am con 

 firmed in the belief that as much, or more, bene 

 fit may accrue to the farmer from such views, 

 discreetly conducted by competent agents or com- 

 mittees, as in any other manner. I am not un- 

 mindful that different notions are entertained by 

 some. I find in the report of the learned Secre- 

 tary, upon the Agriculture of Massachusetts, in 

 1856, page 441, the following sentence : "from 

 motives of delicacy gentlemen were frequently 

 reluctant to communicate fully, when informed 

 that facts so collected were intended for publica- 

 tion." I think the gentleman who penned this 

 sentence was misled in his inferences, from the 

 facts before him ; for I have good reason to be- 

 lieve that many, very many of those who com 



municate to him facts, were as anxious that such 

 facts should be made known to the public as he 

 was to have them ; and that what he construed as 

 "motives of delicacy," were neither more nor 

 less than a false pride or morbid sensitiyeness. 

 If there be any such, let them pass by, and call 

 on those who have no such delicate misgivings. 

 Aratoe. 



HOW TO cure foul IN THE FOOT. 



Mr. Charles Robinson, of Lexington, in- 

 forms us that the application of a little oil of 

 spike, oleum nardenien, about a tea-spoonful once 

 a day to each foot, will effect a cure in one week. 

 The claw should be opened, cleaned a little, and 

 the oil turned in. 



SHEEP husbandry. 



I was recently made acquainted with a gentle- 

 man from Germany, who was desirious of renting 

 a farm to introduce the keeping of sheep. I di- 

 rected his attention to the county of Franklin, or 

 the region thereabouts, as the best locality for 

 this purpose in Massachusetts. There may be 

 some farms in the hill towns of Worcester where 

 sheep can be kept advantageously — but as a gen- 

 eral thing, sheep flourish best where there are 

 high hills, covered with a good coating of grass, 

 and where lands can be had at a price not exceed- 

 ing tioenty-five dollars the acre. I have no doubt 

 that a few sheep would be serviceable, on every 

 considerable farm, even in the eastern counties of 

 the State, but they will be kept to better advan- 

 tage to the proprietor, where lands are cheaper, 

 and dogs are not so plenty as they are in 



Dec, 1857. Middlesex and Essex. 



BLACK POLAND FOWLS. 



Will some of your readers tell me where I can 

 get pure breed Black Poland Fowls, the most 

 useful as well as the most ornamental of all birds, 

 and oblige An Old Subscriber. 



Northjield, Mass., Nov., 1857. 



GARGET IN COWS. 



Can you inform me of a cure for gargety cows ? 



Remarks. — A few drops of the tinture of Aco- 

 nite, given upon a little wet corn meal, has prov- 

 ed effectual in many cases. 



A fine HOG. 



Mr. John G. Solger, of Plymouth, Vt., has just 

 slaughtered a pig, eight months and four days 

 old, which weighed 356 lbs., dressed. A. 



For the New England Farmer. 



GIRLS CAN TAKE CAKE OF THEM- 

 SELVES. 



Mr. Editor : — I suspect "A Farmer's Son," in 

 your paper of this date, (Vol. 12, No. 47,) is more 

 theoretical than j^ractical, in his sympathy for the 

 girls of the household. The truth is, girls cap 

 take care of themselves, quite as well as boys, if 

 they are only made to feel, when young, that 

 they have got to do so. There are many honor- 

 able ways in which they can provide the means 

 of living ; — and if rightly directed by their moth- 



