1869. 



NEW ENGLAND FAKMER. 



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of the readers of this stately volnme that even 

 here they still look like advertisements. Such il- 

 lustrations may answer the purpose of agricultu- 

 ral papers, but they seem hardly up to the stan- 

 dard of a book which professedly avoids the 

 "crudities'* of these periodical issues. 



The remark is made in the excellent introduc- 

 tory chapter of this work, that "the tendency of 

 the age is to change. We may search every page, 

 from Cato to Palladius, a period of nearly five 

 hundred years, but there is no mention of any im- 

 provement in system, or advance of any kind, and 

 it is doubtful if the whole of that long period 

 added as much to the real productive power of the 

 farmer as has been gained within the last ten years 

 of our own history." Hence the ponderous tomes 

 which were published only a few years ago, such 

 as our "Farmers' and Planters* Encyclopaedias," 

 our "Farmers' Guides," our "Books of the Farm," 

 &c., require the frequent use of the dust brush, if 

 they are still permitted a standing place on our 

 bookshelves. The demand is for "live publica- 

 tions," those that keep up with the progress of the 

 times. Agricultural books grow old so fast now- 

 a-days, that we fear the publishers of "How to 

 make the Farm Pay," have been unfortunate in 

 the farm of issue they have adopted for the result 

 of the great amount of labor which has been ex- 

 pended on this volume. 



Ths Diseases of Sheep, Explainfd and Described, 

 with the Proper Remedies to Prevent and Cure the 

 Same. Witli an E-say on Cattle Epid mica. By 

 Henry Olok, V. 8., Pliiladelphi i, graduate of Roy<.l 

 College. Berlin, and late Veterinaiy 8urgeon-in-Cheif 

 of thd U. S. A. Published by Claxton, i.emsen & 

 Haffelfl .g<!r, Phihidelphia; Niuhols & Hall, Boston. 

 PagcB, 116. Price, $125, 



Here is a book by the "late Veterinary Surgeon- 

 in-Chief of the United States Army." Though 

 we never heard of that ofScer before, we are bound 

 to honor those in authority. "The chief and only 

 object of this work," the author informs us, "con- 

 sists in a description of the internal and external 

 diseases of sheep, as well as of their treatment and 

 prevention." But he soon afterwards adds : — 

 "Another, and not the least important, object 

 which I have in view is that the reader may be in- 

 duced tu form a higher opinion of the veterinary 

 science and of its disciples than has hitherto pre- 

 vailed." If this work shall inspire the public with 

 a like confidence in its merits which its author 

 evidently possesses, it must become a most popu- 

 lar book. He does not hesitate to say, "I have 

 proved that I am fully acquainted with the symp- 

 toms, the origin and the course of the diseases," on 

 the same page on which he speaks of the pleuro- 

 pneumonia and rinderpest as identical. 



Overlooking a little egotism, which may be par- 

 doned in the graduate of a foreign college, and in 

 the Surgeon-in-Chief of the U. S. A., and re- 

 membering that, as is claimed by the author 

 "everything related by me in the present work is 

 the result of my own experience and observation,*' 

 we may say, from a somewhat hasty examina- 



tion of the work, that we think it contains much 

 that the breeders of cattle and sheep will read 

 with interest and profit. 



"POWEB OF A GHOWING THEE." 

 A friend recently requested us to publish a 

 little article, •which has been "going the 

 rounds" for several years past, about a filbert 

 tree that grew up through the hole in a millstone, 

 until it not only filled the hole, which was eleven 

 inches in diameter, but lifted the whole stone, 

 which was five and a half feet across and seven 

 inches thick, from the ground and wore it like a 

 crinoline about its trunk. As this did not ac- 

 cord with our observation of the growth of trees 

 we could not believe the story, although it was 

 admirably told by a Mr. Waterton, and gave 

 this as a reason for declining to publish it. Its 

 appearance in the Prairie Farmer, however, 

 was the occasion of the statement by a cor- 

 respondent of the following reasons wby the 

 story cannot be true : — 



1. The filbert is a shrub, much like our ha- 

 zel bush, only about six to eight feet high, 

 and probably never exceeding three inches in 

 diameter. 



2. No tree ever raises an object upon the 

 side of its trunk, because the tree only grows 

 in length where the branches are small and 

 young. For instance, drive a spike into the 

 trunk of a young tree, four feet from the 

 ground, and it will never get any higher. 



SHOKT-HORNS FOB NEW ENGLA^STD. 

 We learn by the Country Gentleman that 

 Mr. N. B. Safford, White River Junction, Vt., 

 in connection with Messrs. D. Russ of the same 

 State, and Samuel Crafts of New Hampshire, 

 lately purchased in Kentucky upwards of a 

 dozen head of Short-horn cattle, spoken of as 

 a very fine lot, and including the following: — 



From "William "Warfield, Lexington, 'Ky., Jubilee 

 Oxford, red cow, by Royal Oxtord, (18774), dam 

 Jubilee 3d. Alice Toicnley, roan cow, by Dick Tay- 

 lor 5508, out of Amelia fownley. Mena, red cow, 

 by Muscatoon 7059, Mary Chilton. Belle, red and 

 white cow, by Constitution (recorded in next vol. 

 A. H. B.) out of Adeline. Leila Challenger, red 

 and white cow, by Gen. G. B. McClellan 566, dam 

 Princess Challenger. 



From James Hall, Bourbon Co., Ky., Kentucky 

 Duke, red bull, by Princeton 42S5, out of Cherry, 

 by Pearse 2012. Fanny Battaile, red and white 

 cow, by Willcy 3d, dam Lena. Bertha, red and 

 white cow, by Burnside 4918, dam Jtnny. Emily 

 2d, red and white cow, by New Year's Gift 7067, 

 dam Emily. Geraldine lOih. red and white cow, 

 by Princeton (4285) dam Geraldine 2d. Alice 2d, 

 red and white cow, by Dick Taylor 5508, dam 



