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NEW ENGLAND FARIMER. 



Feb. 



cies of insanity." Mr. Youatt says, "kindness 

 will aggravate the evil, and no degree of severity 

 will correct it." He, however, recommends the 

 Rarey system for training vicious horses, with 

 straps, &c. After the horse is down, he says the 

 operator should confine his treatment to lifting the 

 head, bringing it close down to his own body as 

 he sets upon his shoulder, and forcing both of the 

 jaws into immediate and repeated contact. 



"When we consider the danger from this habit, it 

 is surprising that so many will tickle and pinch 

 horses merely to see them resent the indignity. 

 Such horse-play should be carefully avoided by 

 every one that has anything to do with a horse, 

 unless it is desirable to educate him into absolute 

 viciousness. 



KICKING cows. 



I think I can give our friend who is plagued by 

 the kicking cow, advice that will be of henelit to 

 him. My practice is, — when kindness and gentle 

 means fail, which is rarely the cijse, — when the 

 cow attempts to kick, to grapple the leg jusc above 

 the gambrel joint, and lilt it as higher higher than 

 her belly, straight backwards ; having tirst made 

 arrangements so that she cannot wheel round from 

 me. In this position I hoUl it till she gives up 

 struggling, then let it down. After a few trials 

 the slightest touch on her thigh will remind her 

 that she is perfectly under her master's control, 

 and will generally become as gentle as a lamb. 



The idea of holding a kicking cow's leg by main 

 strength may appear soniewhatSamsonian to those 

 who have never tried it. But if the leg is grasped 

 firmly and lilted at once high enough, they will 

 find no difficulty in doing it. In a case like his I 

 should stand by the side of the cow, place my left 

 hand firmly on her thigh and commence milking 

 with the other hand, when I snould be all ready 

 for the strucglc, which would not be long or hard. 



Roxbury,''Vt., Dec. 30, 1868. W. I. Simonds. 



COST OF RAISING PORK. 



I have this day killed my pigs, and think 

 they have done very well, considering all things. 

 They were eight months and ten days old. I have 

 had them 220 days. The two weighed when 

 I got them 34 pounds. They weighed when 

 dressed 619^. I have kept an account with them. 

 It may be interesting to others : — 



May 20, 1868. To paid for pigs $ 8.00 



Aug.-Oct to 450 Its meal 12.12 



Nov.-Dec. " 15 bush, corn, 8a 19 96 



Dec. 26, " butchering 1 50 



$41.58 

 They had plenty of milk all of the time, and while 

 I was husking I fed them nothing but soft corn for 

 one month. The meal charged was some that I 

 bought, and the corn I raised and had ground. 

 The meal I scalded after it began to be cold weatb- 

 er. The pigs were a mixture of the common breed 

 and Chester County. If you think the above, 

 which is my first attempt at writing for a paper, 

 worthy of note, you may put in shape for your 

 Extracts and Replies. Subscriber. 



- Rockingham, Vt., Dec. 26, 1868. 



PEEDING cows FOR MILK. 



I notice there is a discussion going on among the 

 milk producers in your vicinity. Being a milk pro- 

 ducer myself for the market here in Concord, I 

 would like to inquire how the milkmen feed their 

 cows during the winter to make them give the 



most milk on the least expense. At present, I feed 

 on meal fi'om cob and corn ground together. I 

 give each new milch cow three quarts meal and 

 three quarts shorts per day, mixed up with hot 

 water, about a pailful of water to each mess. How 

 can I improve on this feed ? j. v. a. 



West Concord, N. H., Dec. 21, 1868. 



REMEDY FOR BORERS. 



After twenty years' experience, in which I have 

 found it to work not only to my own entire satisfac- 

 tion, but to that of others who have tried it, I can 

 confidently recommend stopping up the holes of 

 borers in trees with hard so^ip, as an in fallible care 

 for this pest to our orchards. Though simple, try 

 it, brother farmers. Permit me to say that I like 

 your paper' very much. Harvey B. Pierce. 



North Dartmouih, Mass., Nov. 30, ISiiS. 



AGBICULTUEAL ITEMS. 



— The first shipment of wheat from Chicago was 

 78 bushels in 1838. This year the amount shipped 

 is 50,000,000. 



— The California Farmer of Nov. 19, says there 

 are fifty thousand tons of wheat in the warehouses 

 at San Francisco, or about one quarter of the year's 

 surplus. 



— The old Massachusetts Society for Promoting 

 Agriculture voted at a late meeting' to offer two 

 prizes, of $300 and $200, for best experiments in 

 the State in the artificial propagation of fish. 



— Every part feeds a part. Hence put the drop- 

 pings of grain-fed animals on corn and wheat 

 fields, of hay-fed animals on grass lots, and the 

 droppings of forests on orchards. 



—A rock maple was recently cut near West 

 Concord, N. H., whose circumference when chop- 

 ped, was fourteen feet nine inches. It was at least 

 one hundred feet high, and had been tapped for 

 sugaring one hundred and six years. 



—The Early Rose sprang from seeds in a potato 

 ball. From the seeds of that one ball seven kinds 

 of potatoes have been raised; and, what is stran- 

 ger than all, each of the seven varieties is excel- 

 lent in its way. 



—The Prairie Farmer says that at least one 

 hundred cattle have died in Story County, Iowa, 

 of a disease supposed to have been caused by 

 eating smut which was very abundant on the corn 

 in the fields where they were fed. 



—The Worcester County West (Barre,) Mass., 

 Agricultural Society has re-elected its President 

 and Secretary, J. W. Jenkins and Charles Brim- 

 blecom, and has chosen John T.Ellsworth, a mem- 

 ber of the State Board of Agriculture for three 

 years. 



— A correspondent of the Mirror and Farmer 

 says that Mr. Aaron S. Bucknam, of New Ipswich, 

 N. H., obtained from seventy-one (quarts a7id one 

 pint of milk, the present antumn, eleven pounds 

 four ounces of butter, being a fraction more than 

 one pound to six and one-half quarts. The milk 

 was obtaiaed from four cows, running in a pasture 



