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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



June 



it is healthy to use the water passing through it ? 

 Also, if it is cheaper than lead pipe, and whether 

 it must be laid in logs or without ? Will it bear 

 the pressure that ten ounces lead pipe per foot 

 will ? W. J. Smith. 



Ludlow, VL, 1858. 



Remarks. — Gutta percha pipe of any size and 

 in any quantity may be obtained of Charles Stod- 

 der, 7-5 Kilby Street, Boston. It costs about 

 the same as lead pipe ; does not affect the Avater, 

 and need not be laid in logs. Cannot tell you 

 about the pressure it will bear. 



SHAKKR GRAFTING CEMENT. 



I have forwarded you a few pounds of grafting 

 cement, and wish you to give it a trial. 



It is composed of such ingredients as make it 

 the best article for grafting in its various forms 

 now in use. It is perfectly pliable at a proper 

 temperature of the weather, and may be spread 

 upon the cut surface of the grafted stalk, with 

 ■the most perfect ease, with the fingers, by touch- 

 ing them to a little tallow, which all grafters usu- 

 ally have with them. The greatest heat of the 

 sun will not cause it to run off the stalk, neither 

 will it crack or pull of, as most other cements do 

 the second year. 



I have used this cement more than twenty 

 years, and have yet seen nothing of the kind that 

 will equal it. Others who have used it, acknowl- 

 edge it to be the best article in their knowledge. 

 I call it Shaker Grafting Cement. 



Peter A. Foster. 



Shaker Village, Merrimac Co., N. H. 



Remarks. — Thank you, Sir. We shall try 

 your "Shaker Grafting Cement" in a few days, 

 and if it proves good, we will tell the "world's 

 people" so. 



LAMP OIL. 



To Remove Lamp Oil from Cotton and Woolen 

 Goods. — Rub in thoroughly with the hand some 

 clean, fresh lard, let it remain for two or three 

 hovu's, then apply soft soap, and Avash in warm 

 water. This can be depended on. 

 MILCH cows. 



Can you inform me if a book entitled, I think, 

 "Guenon's Cow Book," is in print now, and where 

 it can be obtained ? The book contained, what 

 was claimed to be, a discovery made by Mr. 

 Guenon, a Frenchman, of a never-failing means 

 of ascertaining the milking properties of cows by 

 the direction of the growth of the hair upon the 

 rump of the animal. It was transcril^ed entire to 

 the pages of the Montldy Journal of Agricul- 

 ture, published by Greeley & McElrath, New 

 York. B. F. M. 



Lmvell, Mass., April V2th, 1858. 



Remarks. — The book you inquire for may be 

 found at this office, as well as all the best works 

 on agricultural and horticultural subjects. The 

 pamphlet edition of Guenon costs 37^ cents. 



turkeys — HOW TO RAISE ? 

 Some few months since I noticed in your pa- 

 per an article stating that sixty-six turkeys had 



been raised from two or three hen turkeys. I 

 would like to inquire in regard to the feeding and 

 other care bestowed, by which such a fort\inate 

 result was obtained. In this vicinity many of 

 our farmers find it extremely difficult to raise 

 even a small number of this valuable fowl. 

 Gloucester, April. 1858. G. II. Procter. 



cure FOR CHILBLAINS. 

 Take a saucer full of beef brine, and if it be 

 cold weather, warm it a little ; then take a flan- 

 nel cloth and dip it into the brine, rub it on and 

 dry it in, and a few applications will entirely re- 

 move the chilblains. L. F. D. 



A SICK HEIFER. 



I have a two-year old heifer which has been 

 troubled since a few months old with a constant 

 running at the eyes. Will you or some of your 

 numerous correspondents please inform me the 

 cause and remedy, and oblige, 



Freetown, April, 1858. A Subscriber. 



WHEAT STRAW. 



Last season we were presented with a speci- 

 men of wheat straw for examination, which had 

 grown on a piece of land formerly very produc- 

 tive in this species of grain, but which had failed 

 to produce it for some years, except in very di- 

 minished quantities. On examining the texture 

 of the straw, it was found to be lax, and very 

 "flabby," something like a towstring, without so- 

 lidity or strength. The cause of this was at once 

 apparent. The soluble silex of the soil necessa- 

 ry to the production of a firm, glossy straw, had 

 been exhausted by the previous crops, and the 

 present one had failed from want of a supply. 

 No wheat can be produced where this mineral 

 ingredient does not exist. It is still more diffi- 

 cult to grow barley where there is not considera- 

 ble sand or gravel. 



Land for wheat should not be made very rich ; 

 if it is, there will be a great growth of long, coarse 

 straw, which will be quite likely to fall before 

 the berry is formed, and the crop fails. There is 

 little danger of this in the Indian corn crop — it 

 will bear almost any amount of manure. Where 

 it is intended to lay land to grass with wheat, it 

 is best to manure rather lightly for the wheat, if 

 the land is in tolerably good condition, and add 

 the fine manure to the young grass immediately 

 after the wheat is harvested. 



The Borer. — INIr. Travis, of Natick, states 

 that a mixture of one part salt, two parts fresh 

 slaked lime, and two parts soft soap, applied to 

 the lower limbs and the body of the apple tree, 

 after first scraping the tree gently, will prevent 

 the borer from depositing its eggs in the bark. 

 It should be applied about the middle of April. 

 He states that the success of this remedy is com- 

 plete. 



