1858. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



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cause they have heard the cry so often that "there 

 can be nothing made in farming." New Enghmd 

 is the place for honest enterprise, and for farming 

 especially, — but then men and women ought to 

 understand the business as well as the cabinet- 

 maker or wheelwright does his. J. E. W. 

 Souih Londonderry, Vt., 1858. 



BE GEIsfTLE WITH THY WTFE. 



Be gentle : for you little know 



How many trials rise ; 

 Altliough to thee they may be small. 



To her of giant size. 



Be gentle ! though perchance that lip 



May speak a murmuring tone. 

 The heart maj' beat with kindness yet, 



And joy to be thine own. 



Be gentle ! weary hours of pain 



Tis woman's lot to Isear ; 

 Then yield her what support thou can. 



And all her sorrows sliare. 



Be gentle ! for the noblest hearts 



At times may have some grief. 

 And even in a pettish word, 



May seek to find relief. 



Be gentle ! for unkindness now 



May rouse an angry storm, 

 That all the after years of life 



In vain may strive to calm. 



Be gentle ! none are perfect — 



Thou'rt dearer far than life ; 

 Then, husband, bear and still forbear — 



Be gentle to thy wife. Fannt Feen. 



For the Neip England Farmer. 

 BLOOD MANUBE--AN EXPEKIMENT. 



Mr. Editor : — I wish to inquire, through you, 

 if Nourse, Mason & Co. still continue to manu- 

 facture the blood manure, of which I bought last 

 season ? If so, I propose to give the results of 

 what I used by way of trial, both for their bene- 

 fit and for the advantage of the farming commu- 

 nity, through the columns of the Farmer. Think- 

 ing as I do that the farmer cannot manure too 

 highly, and that some concentrated manure may 

 be used to much advantage in forcing forward 

 the young crops, I have always used, to consid- 

 erable extent, stimulating manures at the time of 

 planting. 



I began to use guano among the first, having 

 taken two bags of lluggles, Nourse & Mason, I 

 think of their first importation, and have used it 

 to a greater or less extent ever since, mostly with 

 profit to myself. 



But as it became more known and in greater 

 demand, the sellers of the article, deeming it a 

 necessity to the farmer, continued to raise the 

 price, until they carried it too high for their own 

 advantage. I then began to try other fertilizers. 

 Super-phosphate, ashes, muriate of lime, (a poor 

 manure, according to my opinion, by the way,) 

 fish guano, &c., still continuing, however, to use 

 Peruvian guano side by side with the other ma- 

 nuc-;es mentioned, and comparing the cost and the 

 result. 



Last year, on seeing the advertisement of the 

 concentrated blood manure, I resolved to try tliat, 

 side by side with guano and super-phosphate, on 



a small scale, and therefore purchased two bags, 

 weighing, I believe, 300 lbs. The cost, I think, 

 was $35 or $40 per ton, while guano was selling 

 for $68 or $70 ; the blood manure being but 

 little over one-half as much per lb. as the latter. 



I applied it in the hill to corn, as nearly as 1 

 could in equal proportions of iveigld, thus making 

 it cost me about twice as much where I manured 

 with guano as with the blood manure. I put up 

 stakes at the end of the rows, marked for each 

 kind of fertilizer on the land, and watched the 

 efi"ects through the season. I used on the piece 

 guano, super-phosphate, muriate of lime and 

 blood manure, ten rows of each, leaving ten rows 

 unmanured. I said 1 watched the growth through 

 the season with much interest, and could perceive 

 but little difi"erence between the looks of the corn 

 manured with blood manure and super-phosphate, 

 both being of a darker green and more luxuriant 

 growth by far than where the muriate was used, 

 which did not appear to have made any better 

 growth than where the corn was not maniu'ed in 

 the hill at all. The guanoed rows were nearly, 

 but not quite up to the rows on which the blood 

 manure was used, but at double the cost; and 

 we must also take into consideration that not one 

 year in five is as good as the last to obtain all the 

 virtues of guano. 1\\ a dry season I have found it 

 worse than money thrown away to apply it. 

 Therefore I shall use the blood manure in future 

 as a stimulant, with perhaps some exceptions in 

 favor of super-phosphate. 



There is one objection to the super-phosphate, 

 that you are not sure of getting a good article, 

 and being manufactured at a distance — I have 

 always used De Burg's — it is not (should what 

 you bought prove inferior,) so handy to blow the 

 manufacturer up as it would be to complain of a 

 firm nearer home. 



For their sake, and for the benefit of the farm- 

 ing community, I hope Nourse, Mason & Co. will 

 continue to make and sell the blood manure, and 

 from their well known standing as fair business 

 men, I think we may rely upon the article as be- 

 ing Avhat it professes to be. 



I intended to harvest the rows and husk them 

 separately, when I could have given a more definite 

 result ; but fortunately for me, although unfortu- 

 nately for my making on accurate trial, I had so 

 much fruit last fall, and was so much hurried 

 thereby, that I did not do so. 



Westford, March 1. L. H. IIlLDRETll. 



Cure for the Bite of a Mad Dog. — A 



writer in the National Intdl/gencer says that 

 spirits of hartshorn is a certain remedy for the 

 bite of a mad dog. The wound, he adds, should 

 be constantly bathed with it, and three or four 

 doses, diluted, taken inwardly during the day. 

 The hartshorn decomposes, chemically, the virus 

 insinuated into the wound, and immediately al- 

 ters and destroys its delecteriousness. The wri- 

 ter, who resided in Brazil for some time, first 

 tried it for the bite of a scorpion, and found that 

 it removed pain and inflammation almost instant- 

 ly. Subsequently he tried it for the bite of a 

 rattlesnake, with similar success. At the sug 

 gestion of the writer, an old friend and physician 

 tried it in cases of hydro])hobia, and always with 

 success. — Qermantoicn Telegraph. 



