1869. 



NEW ENGLAND FARIVIER. 



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sion ; then omit tlio medicine for three days, and 

 £0 alternate it, until you have given a poiinti, more 

 or less, according to the nccessitii s of the case. 

 If the horse is very bad, it will require doulile or 

 treble the above dose, — exercising judgment, of 

 course. I write from experience. Try it. An 

 ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. 

 A Friend of the Afflicted. 

 Newport, X. H., Dec. 13, 1868. 



PARALYSIS OF A HORSE'S LIPS. 



I discovered this fall that my horse had lost the 

 use of her upper and under lips. She would seize 

 amnuthrul of hay with her teeth, but couhl not 

 get it whtre she could grind it. Consequently she 

 grew poor very fast. I gave her some phy>ic and 

 bled lier in her under lip near the teeth. She im- 

 mediitely improved, awd is now well. I also 

 wa^hed her head in wormwood and urine. I as- 

 cribed her difficulty to a cold in the first place. 



Hinsdale, N. H.,Dec. 8, 1868. A Subscuiber. 



GRAPE VINES ON TREES. 



In reply to an article in your paper, recommend- 

 ing planting grape vines at tbe foot of trees, I 

 would say, I once planted one in that way^ While 

 the tree remained small, I was benefited by the 

 grapes. But as years rolled on, the tree t)ccame a 

 lol'ty one, so that the fowls of the air lodged in 

 the" bran- hcs thereof and devoured the grapes, 

 while I, a dweller here below, must be content to 

 take up with such as fall to the ground, which I 

 geucraliy find to be wormy and rotten. 



Leander Morton. 



Hatfield, Mass., Dec. G, 1868. 



ashes injurious to apple trees. 



I notice that several of the correspondents of the 

 Faumer caution the public against adopting my 

 rccomiuendation of putting ashes around trees to 

 protect tlieni from mice. 1 said it should I'e ap- 

 plied as late as possible before winter sets in Broth- 

 er Tainier imt the ashes against the trunks of ills 

 trees in June. As the tree is then full of sap, and 

 the bark strained to its utmo>t by the flowing sap, 

 I should ]v>t dare to pile ashes around the trunks 

 at that time, affected as ashes must l)e .l)y heavy 

 dews and fiot suns. I may refer lirother Tainter to 

 the young orchard of C. Gray, Esq., of Wilton, not 

 more than lifceen miles from his place, on which 

 aslie* his been used as recommended by me. 



East Jay, Me., Dec, lb6S. Jack. 



A CROSS OF MERINO AND COTSWOLD. 



I wish to inquire through the columns ot your 

 paper whether I can make it prutitaiile to make a 

 cross on my sheep by using a pure blood Spanish 

 Merino buck on some pure CotswolJ ewes. Will 

 you or some of your correspondents inform me ? 

 A Constant Reader. 



Alstead Centre, N. H., Nov. 2, 1868. 



Remarks. — We arc very fortunate in being able 

 to rcfi-r you to some remarks upon this sulject on 

 another page of this number, by a gentleman of 

 large experience in the wool business, and shall be 

 pleased to publish more direct answers to your in- 

 quiry, as many wool growers are interested in the 

 subject of the improvement of their flocks. 



MILK. OF jersey COWS KEEPING SWEET. 



One of our milk men says that the milk of a 

 Jersey cow in his herd will keep sweet from ten to 

 twelve hours longer than any other milk he has. 

 Is it because the milk is riciier ? Wiio wdl tell ? 



If it is, as the man referred to thinks, because the 

 milk is richer, it will, or should, add much to the 

 value of a cow that gives rich milk. Is the sub- 

 ject worthy of discussion ? It is new to me, and 

 ma^ be to many of your readers. f. 



Mast Yard, N. H., Oct. 29, 1868. 



SCRATCHES ON HORSES. 



In the last Farmer I see an inquiry for a rem- 

 edy for scratches. I have lately cured the worst 

 ca^e I ever saw with two applications of white pine 

 tui^entine, thoroughly rubbed on. 



Wesiboro\ Mass., Nov. 23, 1868. W. S. Grow. 



DUTCH CATTLE. 

 From expressions that we have heard from 

 cattle breeders, we believe that the reports 

 which have been published of Mr. Chenery's 

 late sale of stock, particularly of his Dutch or 

 riolstein cattle, have made an erroneous im- 

 pression on many minds. The idea seems to 

 be that the prices obtained for his half and 

 three-fourths blood Dutch, were an indication of 

 the popularity of the pure Dutch in this sec- 

 tion, which we have good reasons for believ- 

 ing is not correct. Those in attendance at his 

 sale were probably mostly breeders, who 

 wished for pure blood or none. We find the 

 following note from Mr. Chenery in the last 

 Prairie Farmer. Perhaps it may be proper 

 for us to say, that we publish it in justice to the 

 Dutch cattle, and not at the suggestion, or 

 even with the knowledge of Mr. Chenery : — 



In your notice of the auction sale of live stock 

 at my farm, on the 12ih inst., you say that "but 

 three Diit -h cattle were sold; one for $S0, one for 

 $■5.5 and the other at $35." As this i's likely to 

 lead to very erroneous impressions with regard to 

 the value of my "Dutch" or "Holstein" cattle, 

 allow me to say that none of my pure bred Dutch 

 cattle were offered or advertised for sale at auc- 

 tion. The auction catalogue embraced only ^ and 

 ^ blood, yearling heifers and heil'er calves (got by 

 bulls out of common and grade cows). Those 

 sold at aijove prices were ^ blood calves, and, as 

 you say, the balance were withdrawn. I may add 

 that since the auction, some of them have been 

 sokl at private sale as high as $200. 



Boston, Mass. Winthrop W. Chenery. 



About Hokses. — From iho, Eocltester Union 

 we take the following : — 



Horses a^ a general thing get too much 

 licking and too little feed. If a man loses his 

 hat while driving his horse, he licks the horse 

 to pay for it. If he runs into another wagon 

 ihrotighhisown carelessness, he licks his horse 

 to make it all right. If his horse slips or stum- 

 bles, he gets licked for it — if he does anything 

 he gets licked, and if he doii't do anything he 

 gets the same. A great many horses know "a 

 sight" more than their drivers, and if they could 

 change places with them, society at large would 

 be the gainers, and so would horses. 



