1858. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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hay they eat in 24 hours is barely seven i^ounds ! 

 and coarse oat and corn meal enough to make 

 it up to 20 pounds — just as many pounds as you 

 give one cow ; your cow lies down, sleeps, chews 

 her cud, has a good time generally, and only pro- 

 duces ycu a little milk, while the horses of which 

 ■we speak perform prodigies of labor every day, 

 in hauling all sorts of human beings up and down 

 Broadway, New York. We are inclined to believe 

 that when the true mode of feeding neat stock is 

 ascertained, 12 pounds of good hay and 6 cents' 

 worth of corn meal will produce results as good 

 as those realized from your more liberal feeding 

 at present. We (hank you for correcting our er- 

 ror, and when we next listen to your interesting 

 story, hope we shall not be so near half-frozen as 

 when we heard the last. 



others, more than anything else, led us to our 

 present field of labor. We are confident that no 

 one can take and read even the poorest agricul- 

 tural paper in the country, without deriving hints 

 and suggestions therefrom, which will in the long 

 run pay him enough to meet the expense of a 

 hundred annual subscriptions. — American Agri- 

 culturist. 



I5r DEBT FOR HIS FAEM. 



This is the case with many throughout the 

 length and breadth of the land. Not having all 

 the needful cash on hand to purchase their farms 

 at once, they paid what they could, and gave a 

 mortgage for the remainder. Very well. They 

 now have a powerful motive to industry. Every 

 dollar saved is at least as good as one earned, 

 and every dollar earned is a new step towards 

 independence. From year to year, the incum- 

 brance grows a little lighter, and the prospect of 

 a competence a little brighter. But some tell us 

 that the good time is a long while in coming ; 

 they' do not make farming as profitable as they 

 could wish ; can we help them by any sugges- 

 tions? 



We reply that we know of no royal road to 

 riches through agriculture more than in other 

 pursuits. But we are assured that much can he 

 gained by farming in an intelligent and thorough 

 manner. It will not do to work at random, or by 

 rote, even though one work like a slave. It will 

 not do to work with poor and insufficient' imple- 

 ments. It will not do to waste time and strength 

 and manure on wet land, when it ought to be 

 drained. It will not pay off the debt, to let the 

 manure heap waste its virtues in the sun and 

 rain. In short, it will not answer to labor hard 

 and hoard Avith one hand, while wasting with tne 

 other. 



But we cannot go into details on this subject; 

 it would only be rehearsing the lessons Ave have 

 so long and so largely taught in our columns 

 heretofore. We can say, however, most truthful- 

 ly, that one of the best ways to learn how to re- 

 duce the farm debt rapidly, will be to read one 

 or more of the leading agricultural journals. 

 They give instructions in economy ; they teach 

 how to m.'ike the most of a little ; they abound 

 in facts, notes of experience and observation ; in 

 short, tliey teach how to farm in tlie best and 

 most profitaljle manner. A little money and 

 thinking so invested will yield the most ample 

 returns. In our own experience, we remember a 

 single hint obtained from an agricultural paper, 

 in regard to putting in a grain crop, Avhich Avas 

 Cicnrly Avorth sixty-tAvo dollars the same year. 

 This and similar results on our own farm and on 



EXTRACTS AND REPLIES. 

 TORTURING A HORSE. 



It is cruel to fasten a horse's head in any posi- 

 tion, even a natural one, much more at an unnat- 

 ural and uneasy elevation. Yet many persons do 

 not like to see a horse standing, draAviiig or traA'- 

 elling, unless his head is raised to a fashionable 

 or high position. It is very fatiguing to the horse 

 to have the cords of his neck thus cramped for 

 hours, or a day at a time. Besides, he cannot 

 travel so easily, or draw so much Avitli his head 

 curbed or fastened. And if he trips or stumbles, 

 he cannot gain his footing so easily as Avhen his 

 head is free. 



If persons desire a short rein or check for their 

 horses, they should be made so as to be as easy 

 as possible for the horse, for it is unmerciful and 

 cruel to afflict and punish a horse thus for no of- 

 fence or fault. The bridle rein should have elas- 

 tics in it, one upon each side, so as to yield Avhen 

 the horse trips, or strains to draAV a load. r. 



Remarks. — Any person whose attention has 

 been called to the subject, and Avho still persists 

 in the use of a tiglit check rein, ought to have his 

 own head placed in a similar position to that to 

 AA'hich he has cruelly subjected that of the horse. 

 If Ave were the " Grand Sultan," every man who 

 torments his horse Avith a check rein, should hold 

 out both arms at right angles with his body for 

 ^n hour at a time once in each tAventy-four hours, 

 as long as he continued the use of the check rein. 



THE YELLOAV LOCUST. 



Please inform me when and how Yellow Locust 

 seed should be sown ? PiiiLiP Collins. 



Guilford Centre, Vt., ISoS. 



Remarks. — The seeds of the YelloAv Locust 

 should be sown in a rich, free loam, an inch or 

 two apart every Avay, and covered Avith light soil 

 from a quarter to half an inch deep. The seeds 

 may be sown in the autumn or spring, and under 

 favorable circumstances, the plants will be from 

 2 ft. to 4 ft. high the folloAving autumn ; the larg- 

 est may then be removed to Avhere they are to 

 remain, and the others transplanted into nursery 

 lines. If the seeds are not soAvn in the autumn 

 it Avould be better to keep them in the pods until 

 spring, but in a dry state. See monthly Farmer 

 for 1854, pp. 265, 479, 482. 



SPRING SADDLES. 



There has been a patent granted for spring rid- 

 'ing saddles. It Avoukl be Avell if the patent should 

 be applied to the dray or cart horse saddle. — 



