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NEW ENGLAND FAKMER. 



Feb 



cannot be purchased in Wilmington at less 

 than $12 per cord delivered on the field. 



The Northern and the Eastern stock could 

 reach this spot one hour earlier than they can 

 Cambridge. The Western cattle could come 

 from Worcester to Groton Junction, and then 

 over the Stony Brook road through Lowell to 

 this place. The ride on the railroad for these 

 cattle would be some longer, but they could 

 be let from the cars right into the pens. 

 Therefore it would take no longer to deposit 

 them in the yards here, than it now does to 

 deliver in the yards at Brighton. 



The butcher occupying a stall in Boston 

 market house, could take the cars on the Bos- 

 ton and Maine railroad, and arrive at this 

 place in less time than is now required for 

 him to go to the yards in Brighton. Butchers 

 at Salem and Peabody can take the Salem and 

 Lowell road, and arrive at this place in one- 

 half the time now occupied in going to Brigh- 

 ton. Butchers at Nashua, Lowell, and Law- 

 rence, Andover and Haverhill can leave their 

 homes and arrive at this junction in one quar- 

 ter ot the time required for a journey to 

 Brighton. 



If the drovers wish to visit Boston, after sell- 

 ing their stock, they could step into the cars 

 on the Boston and Maine road and arrive at 

 Hay Market Square in Boston quicker than 

 they can now go from Brighton by the horse 

 cars to Boston. 



A short distance at the northeast from this 

 junction, is a large and beautiful swell of land, 

 more than a mile in length, which overlooks 

 thousand of acres of land on the west. This 

 rise is now covered with wood, and the land 

 can be bought for a very little more than what 

 the wood is worth that is standing on it. When 

 cleared it would make on^ of the most beau- 

 tiful sites for a village that can be found in 

 the State. 



The cattle markets have built up Brighton 

 and Cambridge, and the land has now become 

 too valuable for cattle and sheep to stand or 

 walk upon. The bellowing of cattle, and the 

 bleating of sheep and calves is not a very 

 pleasant sound to most of the residents in 

 these villages, and their streets and sidewalks 

 are so nice that cattle can scarcely be driven 

 away from the yards without committing some 

 damage for which the owner is liable. 



As the market in these places has thus be- 

 come a nuisance, and as real estate has greatly 

 advanced, the butchers there might sell their 

 property at a high price, and locate themselves 

 at a much cheaper rate in Wilmington, where 

 their slaughter houses could be so located with 

 reference to the railroad track that the beef 

 may be shifted from the hooks in the slaugh- 

 ter house, to the hooks in a car made for the 

 purpose, without lifting a single pound, and 

 one long car, properly fitted up, would take 

 forty oxen from this place to Boston, quicker 

 than one horse can take four oxen from Brigh- 

 ton to Boston in a wagon. Mutton, veal, &c. , 



might be transported in the same way, and 

 the expense could not be great. Much more 

 might be said of the advantages of Wilming- 

 ton as a cattle market, but if the foregoing 

 shall direct public attention to the subject, my 

 present object will be accomplished. 



A. G. Sheldon. 

 Wilmington, Mass., Dec. 28, 1868. 



Sale of Choice Stock. — A few week since 

 we noticed the arrival in Canada of Short- 

 horned and Jersey cattle, Cotswold and other 

 sheep, Suffolk horses, &c., purchased in Eng- 

 land by Mr. M. H. Cochrane, for his farm in 

 Compton, C. E., at an expense of some $15,- 

 000 in gold. From his stock we learn that 

 he has recently made the following sales : 



To H. C. Buileigh, Fairfield, and G. G. Shores, 

 of Waterville, Maine, his entire herd of Herefords, 

 consisting of fourteen animals. The above won 

 first class prizes in all their classes and the State 

 Gold Medal at Rochester, N. Y., this season. 



To A. R. Duncan of Towanda, 111., one imported 

 heifer, Wharfdale Rose. 



To J. H. Pickrell, Harristown, 111., the imported 

 yearling bull, Baron Booth, of Lancaster, winner 

 of first prizes wherever shown. 



To A. I. Hallet, West Waterville, Me., one im- 

 ported Cotswold ewe; one imported Oxford Down 

 ewe ; one imported Lincoln ewe, and one Cotswold 

 ram lamb. ^ 



To E. G. Bedford, Paris, Ky., three imported 

 Berkshire swine, one boar and two sows. 



Cutting Timber to Last. — Mr. Skinner, 

 an experienced farmer of Herkimer County, 

 N. Y., recently stated before the Little Falls 

 Farmers Club, that he always cut timber when it 

 was frozen, in order that it might last a long 

 time without decay. He was aware that other 

 seasons of the year were recommended. He 

 had tried all seasons and with a number of 

 varieties of wood, and no timber lasted so well 

 as that cut in winter when the timber was fro- 

 zen. He said a hemlock stick used as a string- 

 er for bridges would last longer when the 

 bark was left on. Had observed it often, and 

 gave as a reason that the bark kept the wood 

 moist. He thought the best timber for sills, 

 or for building purposes, was red elm, next in 

 order was oak, white elm and red beach. For 

 pins, the raves of wood sleds, and bolsters to 

 wagons, there was no timber he preferred to 

 red elm. 



Remarks. — Thus "doctors disagree." We 

 solicit the results of the experience of the 

 readers of the Farmer as to the best season 

 for cutting timber for seasoning and preserva- 

 tion. 



Cheese. — In the year ending May 1st, 1867, 

 there were 43,000,000 pounds of cheese ex- 

 ported from this country. The average price 

 received by the factories was over 17 cents 

 per pound in currency. 



