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NEW ENGLAND FAEINIER. 



Jan. 



ties in the fields, and on the whai'ves at the land- 

 ings there, and upon the wharves here, and remem- 

 ber also that there has been already 150,000 tons 

 sold. 



— After having tried several other prescriptions 

 for removing warts from a horse, and having offer- 

 ed five dollars for a cure, Mr. S. N. Tal)or, of East 

 Vassalboro', informs the Maine Farmer that he 

 has been entirely successful, by dosing the animal 

 with chopped cedar boughs, given in his grain, 

 also washing- the warts in a strong decoction of 

 cedar. 



— The Canada Farmer mentions a horse owned 

 by M. Yodcr, of Springfield, Ontario, which is be- 

 lieved to be over thirty years old and is still fat, 

 plump and handsome. Twenty-five years ago he 

 was a dashing roadster. The Farmer suggests the 

 propriety of having prizes at Agricultural Fairs 

 for the best old horses, as, while any one may 

 have a good colt, it is only a good, kind horseman 

 that can show a sound, active old horse. 



— The Turf, Field and Farm, the organ of the 

 Fast-horse men, calls for a national convention of 

 horsemen, to correct the "growing evils" of the 

 trotting turf. It says "the case is a bad one, the 

 disease is eating into the vitals, and the remedy to 

 be effectual must be national as well as prompt. 

 Another year of trickery and fraud, like the one 

 over which the autumnal leaves are dropping, Avill 

 check the tide, — turn the current in a different 

 direction." 



— We learn by the Country Gentleman that Mr. 

 "VVarrcn Percival, Vassalboro, Me., has recentl}' 

 sold the following Shorthorns: Sheridan, bull 

 calf, sired by Gen. Smi'Ji, 5711, out of Kitty, to 

 Silas Hawes, of Union, Maine; to A. C. Chandler, 

 of New Gloucester, Me., cow May Day 6th, by 

 Dake of Manlius, out of May Day — also bull calf 

 Pboan Star, by Monarch, .5964, out of Perfection, 

 and heifer calf Red Lady 2d, by Gen. Smith, 5711, 

 out of Red Lady. 



— A Florida paper, the Gainesville Era, says : 

 "During a recent ride of five miles through a sec- 

 tion of the country once famous for the abun- 

 dance of live stock, we counted only twelve head 

 of horned cattle, fourhogs, and not a single sheep. 

 The diminution in their numbers is alarmingly 

 rapid, and a very few years avIU witness their 

 almost entire disappearance. Beef .must continue 

 to increase in value, and will soon reach Charles- 

 ton and Savannah prices. 



— A correspondent of the Country Gentleman 

 furnishes the following as a partial list of Fish 

 Breeding establishments. In New York, Mr. Seth 

 Green, Mumford; Stephen H. Ainsworth, West 

 Bloomiicld; Mr. William Nicoll, Islip; Mr. Aaron 

 S. Vail, Smithtown. In New Jersey, Dr. J. H. 

 Slack, Bloomsbury. In New Hampshire, Mr. 

 Livingston Stone, Charlestown. In New Bruns- 

 wick, one— connected with the one at Charlestown, 

 N. II. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 KECIPKOCITY, AND COMBING WOOLS. 



Having read your remarks on the reprocity 

 treaty, and also those by Dr. Randall, and 

 havini^ had some experience in wool, 1 may, 

 perhaps, be able to throw a little light on this 

 subject ; believing, as I do, that should the re- 

 procity treaty take effect to-morrow, and 

 should wool from Canada be brought in free 

 of duty, it would not alFect the price of comb- 

 ing wools of this market. 



At the same time 1 do not recognize any 

 duty on the part of the United States to legis- 

 late for the relief of the British Provinces, by 

 giving them access to our markets. If they 

 really desire the benefit of our markets, and if 

 the British goverment desire that they should 

 have these benefits, let them become annexed 

 to the United States ; and then, being one of 

 us, they would have an equal right to all the 

 benefits belonging to the seveal States of this 

 Union. But so long as they remain a part of 

 the British Empire, I do not see what we have 

 to do with their distresses, only so far as they 

 may appeal to our individual benevolence. 



Establish the reciprocity treaty, and so far 

 as wool is concerned, it would be equal to an- 

 nexing the Canadas, inasmuch as both the 

 States and Canadas do not produce an amount 

 sufficient to supply the wants of our manufac- 

 turers. At the present time, Mr. Walworth, 

 the wool buyer for the Pacific mills, and Mr. 

 Moffit, buyer for the Atlantic Delaine Com- 

 pany of Providence, are in England making 

 purchases. So long as England is the prin- 

 cipal long-wool producing country in the 

 world, and the only country, apart from 

 Canada, that would compete with our farmers 

 In its production, the price of combing wool 

 in this country will be the price at which it is 

 sold in England, — duties and expenses added ; 

 and so long as Canada is the only favored 

 country allowed to have free access to our 

 markets, in which to sell its wool, the Canadi- 

 an farmer will be just as much protected by 

 our tariff as our own farmers are. 



I am opposed to the renewal of the recipro- 

 city treaty, not because I think the wool-grow- 

 ing interest of this country will suffer, or that 

 the production of combing wools in this coun- 

 try will be retarded by it, but because the 

 Canadian farmer pays the duty now, and 

 should the treaty be renewed he would pock- 

 et it. 



In 18G5 and 18G6, under the reciprocity 

 treaty, combing wool was not in any more de- 

 mand than now, yet Canada wool was worth 

 from ten to twenty cents per pound more 

 than it is at the present time. This year, the 

 Canadian farmer received from twenty-three 

 to twenty-live cents per pound, gold, for bis 

 wool ; then, he received from forty to forty- 

 five cents, gold, and the value of gold then 

 was but little higher than now. I am accjuaint- 

 ed with a person who not a year ago bought 



