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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Aug, 



shingled and the pump handles were cut off. 

 Has it rained any of late ? H. PoOR. 



Neio York, May, 1858. 



Remarks. — The Delano or Independent Tooth 

 Rake operates much like the Revolving Rake ; it 

 gathers very little that ought not to be gathered. 



A SAVINGS BANK. 



I should like to speak of my savings bank, and 

 ask you to make any suggestions as to improve- 

 ment in its management. It is not an incorpora- 

 ted institution, has no officers but a president, 

 and his or her assistants, no salary to be paid, 

 receives deposits at all hours, and of any quality 

 which Mill contribute to the general fund ; never 

 refuses to discount at any time, both principal 

 and interest ; the interest per centum varies in 

 proportion to the amount of deposits. 



Now, you may ask, is it a paying institution ? 

 Yes, if well managed, for the president is of such 

 a make, that he only requires his keeping for his 

 services, — and throws in his carcass in 9 or 12 

 months to boot. 



The deposits consist of various kinds of mate- 

 rials, 1, Good loam, sufficient to absorb all li- 

 quids. 2. The droppings of my cows, with the 

 loam upon which they stand and void their liquid 

 and solid manure, both summer and winter. And 

 finally, every weed, straw, litter and all refuse 

 vegetables not eaten by the cows or pigs. Now 

 how shall I make it better, or more profitable ? 



Prospect Hill, 1858. Sponge. 



Remarks. — A capital bank, that — its tenden- 

 cies are exactly opposite to those of banks general- 

 ly. Banks with salaried officers have a tendency 

 to fasten mortgages on the farm, while such as 

 yours are calculated to lift them ofi". K farmers 

 would have nothing to do with money banks, and 

 more with compost banks, their grass would be 

 thicker and higher, their corn stouter and sound- 

 er, milch cows better, oxen stronger, their orch- 

 ards and potato fields more prolific, and their 

 families happier, 



a cow that holds back her milk. 



Will you, or seme of your numerous subscrib- 

 ers tell me through your columns what will stop 

 a cow from holding up her milk ? I have a three- 

 year old heifer from whom at times it is impossi- 

 ble to get more than one-third of her milk ; she 

 has all the marks of a first-rate cow, gives rich 

 milk, is an easy milker, and perfectly gentle. 

 W. B. Williams. 



Chittenden, Vt., June, 1858. 



Remarks. — Treat her gently always, and at 

 milking time especially so, giving her a mess of 

 meal, oats, or grass. Such are the remedies we 

 have heard ofi'ered — we know of no other, 



what will kill houseleek ? 



A friend of mine wishes to know what will kill 

 the high houseleek, as he has a piece of land that 

 is almost overrun with it? E. W, KiNG. 



Charlton, June, 1858. 



Remarks. — Who can tell? 



CEMENT WATER PIPES, 



A correspondent inquires in regard to cement 

 pipes. Several years since, I laid a pipe pro- 

 cured of the Water and Gas Pipe Co., of Jersey 

 City, New Jersey, and it has proved to be an ex- 

 cellent aqueduct. I gave a particular description 

 of it a year or two since, in the columns of your 

 paper, if I remember correctly, I think no pipe 

 is so durable, and none so pure as this, unless it 

 be block tin. At the outlet I attach a block tia 

 pipe to the cement pipe in the bottom of the 

 ditch. Stop cocks should be used at every 

 branch in the bottom of the ditch and protected 

 by a cement box. The pipe is made in pieces 

 from 6 to 10 feet long, of tin or sheet iron, and 

 then lined on the inside with cement. When it 

 is laid, it is laid in cement, and a sheet iron sleeve 

 4 inches wide is put over the joints, and the space 

 between the joints filled in with cement and then 

 the sleeve is well covered with the same material. 

 If made with good cement and laid below the 

 fi'ost, I don't see how it can ever fail. The Com- 

 pany send men to lay the pipes, and Avarrant the 

 work. It is well to have a stop-cock near the 

 spring to shut off' the water for repairs. 



David Lyman. 



Middlefield, Conn., June 10, 1858. 



WEATHER IN VERMONT — WOOL. 



We had rain almost every day from the 10th 

 of May up to the 25th ; then dry, up to the 5th of 

 this month : since last date, it has rained each 

 day to this date, and is raining now. We have 

 had quite a full blossom for fruit ; grass looks 

 quite well for a good crop of hay. I think our 

 plowing was mostly done near three weeks earli- 

 er than in 1857. We have not had very warm 

 weather, as yet, nor have we had it very cool, — 

 on the whole, crops bid fair to give us another 

 blessing at harvest time, I think there was not 

 more than one-fifth of maple sugar made this 

 reason, as compared with last year, in this part 

 of our State, Our heaviest shearing flocks of 

 sheep have been shorn, and the wool sold in the 

 dirt and oil, at 25 cts. per pound, which, I think, is 

 fully equal to 40 cts. if cleansed, as the sheep 

 have been housed and fed grain, and most of them 

 oiled since the clipping of 1857. Farmers in 

 this vicinity expect to get from 34 to 40 cents 

 per pound for our cleansed wool. 



W, F. Goodrich. 



Middlebury, Vt., June 8, 1858. 



TO DESTROY VERMIN AND BORERS. 



Apply spirits turpentine. You will need to 

 wet the branch or limb both above and below 

 the nest, then wet, the nest well with the turpen- 

 tine, and life will soon be extinct. It is sure. 

 For borers put it round the tree near to the 

 ground. It will not injure the tree in the least. 

 It will destroy the egg as well as the worm. 



Lempster, N. II., June 10, 1858, L. Smith. 



SEED OF the white PINE. 

 Friend IvENRlCK,of South Orleans, may obtain 

 seed of the white pine by applying to B. F. Cut- 

 ter, Esq., seedsman, florist and gardener, Lowell, 

 Mass. Please have a pair of those whales har- 

 nessed by the time we get along that way ! 



