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TW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 



burn them ; this may be done with a feather or 

 soft brush. This can well be aflForded with par- 

 lor flowers. 



BUTTER STOCK. 



I am pleased to learn that William S. Lincoln, 

 Esq., of Worcester, has a cow that has yielded 

 eighteen pounds of butter a week, this spring. 1 

 am not informed as to her specific name, if she 

 has any — but if she continue to do as well as this 

 through the summer, she will be entitled to stand 

 alongside the famous "butter stock" from Fra- 

 mingham. We have in Essex several cows that 

 yield sixteen pounds of butter a week — but none 

 that come quite up to eighteen — since the famed 

 Oakes cow, which yielded more than nineteen, 

 and nearly five hundred pounds in the course of 

 the season. I am glad this cow has fallen into 

 so good hands. Nobody understands dairy man- 

 agement better than Mr. L., or can tell his cow's 

 story with more effect. Cream Pot. 



May 31, 1858. _ 



SHEEP AND OATS. 



If "S. D. C," of Sunderland, will take the 

 trouble to read the communication entitled, 

 "Feeding Oats to Breeding Sheep," from the be- 

 ginning, he will find that the question was not 

 whether breeding sheep should be "fat as a hog," 

 but whether oats were injurious to breeding 

 sheep, yea or nay. One writer whom I quoted 

 stated that he fed three sheep two quarts of oats 

 per day, and lost his lambs, as he thought, in con- 

 sequence. Judging from his statement his sheep 

 must have been fat, but perhaps not as "fat as a 

 hog." What I meant to suggest was, that per- 

 haps his sheep lost their lambs because of their 

 condition, and not because of the oats. liut how 

 or where he gets the idea that I preferred poor 

 starved scalawag sheep to raise lambs from, is 

 more than I can imagine. 



N. Thetford, Vt., 1858. Solon H. Berry. 



RHUBARB PLANT. 



Will you or some one of the numerous read- 

 ers of the Farmer, please give me information as 

 to which of the various kinds of rhubarb is best 

 to cultivate solely for the root, as a medicine? 

 Also, information as to the method of raising 

 cranberries from the seed, time and mode of 

 planting, and oblige A Subscriber. 



Vermont, June, 1858. 



use of coal TAR. 

 What will coal tar in a liquid state do towards 

 keeping vines free from insects ? It will pre- 

 serve wood from injury by worms and bugs. If 

 it is used, it should be quite weak, say a pint of 

 tar to a gallon of water ; if applied to the trunk 

 of peach and apple trees, it will keep off borers, 

 by wetting a brown paper and putting it around 

 the trunk just below and above the ground, or 

 wet straw in it, and secure it to the tree with 

 twine, it will be equally good. s. A. s. 



TRANSPLANTING STRAWBERRIES. 

 Will you, or some one of your correspondents, 

 please to inform me which is the best time to 



separate and transplant strawberry vines ? I have 

 a fine bed which I wish to enlarge ; therefore, 

 the above information will be gratefully received 

 by A Young Subscriber. 



Remarks. — The early spring is probably the 

 natural and proper time to transplant strawberry 

 plants. We do not think August or September 

 so good as the spring. 



AIR-SLAKED LIME FOR PLANTS. 



I wish to inquire how I can best apply air- 

 slaked lime to my crops of com and potatoes. 

 The land is dry and sandy. Shall 1 put it around 

 the plants at the second hoeing, or shall I sow 

 it broadcast and hoe it in ? C. W. 



Indian Orchard, Mass., June 2, 1858. 



Remarks. — Apply it to the hill at the first or 

 second hoeing, occasionally omitting a row in or- 

 der to see what the effect is. 



"WHAT I CALL A GOOD COW. 



After using what milk we need for coffee and 

 tea, for a family of four persons, we make about 

 nine pounds of butter a week from my cow. I call 

 her a good one. 



Beading, Vt, 1858. 



EATING AND SLEEPING. 



BalVs Journal of Health says : "For persons 

 who eat three times a day, it is amply sufficient 

 to make the last meal of cold bread-and-butter 

 and a cup of warm drink. No one can starve on 

 it, while a perseverance in the habit soon begets 

 a vigorous appetite for breakfast so promising of 

 a day of comfort." 



Yes, yes ; and by omitting the third meal, the 

 individual, besides securing a night cf sound 

 sleep, will not find on awaking in the morning a 

 bad taste in his mouth so indicative of general 

 foulness. 



If one would always have a sweet mouth and 

 a clean tongue, he can secure them both by sim- 

 ply ceasing to overtax his stomach. This frequent 

 eating is an idle, mischievous habit, ruinous of 

 both health and comfort ; and it prevents the in- 

 dividual from receiving the great amount of en- 

 joyment which it was intended he should receive 

 from eating, and which is necessary to perfect 

 nutrition. 



Nothing should be eaten between the regular 

 meals, whether these meals are taken either two 

 or three times a day ; nor should one eat so that 

 the quantity ingested will induce heaviness or 

 uncomfortable feelings. 



The cook tastes the food she prepares ; and by 

 this frequent tasting she destroys both the relish 

 for her meals, and her health. There are many 

 housekeepers who have the same pernicious habit. 



We know farmers who, at the close of a long 

 summer day, during which they have eaten heart- 

 ily five times, and worked hard from four o'clock 

 in the morning to nine at night, eat freely just 

 before going to bed. 



The stomach, already enfeebled by constant 

 working under disadvantageous circumstances, 

 has now imposed on it an impracticable task, and 

 the men lie down to sleep ! Next morning they 



