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NEW ENGLAND EARMER. 



March 



yoke. They had the milk of one cow and 45 

 pounds of oil meal before the cow went to pasture, 

 and nothing but hay and grass afterwards, till the 

 second day of December, when the cow weaned 

 them. Since then they have had hay and one 

 quart of corn and cob meal each per day. 



William F. Loomis. 

 Langdon, N. H., Jan. 17, lb69. 



THE EARLY ROSE POTATO COOKED. 



In reply to a correspondent in your last issue, in 

 regard to the cooking qualities of the "Early 

 Rose" potato, I can answer from personal experi- 

 ence with my neighbors who have tested their 

 merits. I procured ten pounds of seed and planted 

 the same every way as common sorts, except cut- 

 ting into single eyes. I found them much ahead 

 of any early sort we raised. I had good sized 

 tubers in two months from planting. The yield 

 was beyond my sanguine expectations, the ten 

 pounds giving a yield of 1575 pounds, equal to 

 26;^ bushels. They cook through very quick and 

 are every way a tirst-class table potato. 



I have noticed an account of a test of several 

 very prominent varieties in New York, at the 

 house of B. K. Bliss. Of the several varieties 

 cooked at that trial, Early Rose was voted No. 1. 



Hartford, Vt., Jan. 18, 1869. h. c. p. 



8VPERPH0SPHATE. 



Last spring I used one barrel of Bradley's Su- 

 perphosphate of Lime in planting corn. I then 

 purposed making an actual experiment so as to 

 know if the fertilizer was a protitable investment, 

 but in the hurry of harvest I failed to measure the 

 corn, so I do not possess the desired information. 

 Can some reader of the Farmer give it me from 

 actual experiment f I pronounce the fertilizer 

 good, but am impressed that it costs too much to 

 be prolitable. I paid three and one-half cents per 

 pound for mine. Why should it come so high ? 



LciQester, R., Jan., 1869. w. 8. A. 



A REMEDY FOR KICKING COWS. 



Take a cord, make a loop in one end, and make 

 a ligure 8 around the hind legs above the gambrel 

 joint and draw tight, and you have a sure cure. 



Bratllehoro', Vt., Dec. 28, 1868. s. M. 



AGBICULTimAIi ITEMS, 



— A cow gives richer milk when fat than wnen 

 poor. 



— D. H. Thing, Esq., has been chosen a member 

 of the Maine State Board of Agriculture for the 

 next three years, by the agricultural societies of 

 Kennebec county. 



— Mr. J. P. Douglas, of Middlebury, Vt., re- 

 cently forwarded 500 bushels of barley to market. 

 It was the first lot, says the Register, ever sent 

 from that station. 



— Col. Marshall P. Wilder, President of the 

 American Pomological Society has appointed Sept. 

 15, 18G9, for the next meeting of the Association 

 in Philadelphia. 



— The famous stallion General Knox has netted 

 his owner. Col. T, S. Lang, $60,000, and increased 

 the value of the horse stock of Maine many hun- 

 dred thousands. 



— The lbllowing\ire the officers of the Sterling, 

 Mass., Farmers' Club :— President, James A. Pratt ; 



Secretary, Ezra Sawyer; Treasurer, Wm. D. Peek, 

 with 127 members, at $1.00 per year. Meetings 

 well attended, A town fair is held each year. 

 Cash premiums last year $241. 



— The old complaint of abortion in cows is al- 

 luded to by the New York papers. Out of one 

 dairy of twenty -five cows in Buel, Montgomery 

 Co., seven have recently aborted, 



— The Mai7ie Farmer says that hops have been 

 selling at ten cents per pound in Oxford County ; 

 last year from forty-five to fifty-five cents. Pres- 

 ent prices do not pay for picking. 



— Prof. Gamgee stated at the late meeting of the 

 American Dairyman's Association that he believed 

 that his process of preserving meat might be suc- 

 cessfully applied for preserving the flavor of cheese, 



— A Mississippi correspondent of the Dixie Far- 

 mer says that on five or six contiguous plantations 

 where he knew there were nearly one thousand 

 negroes in 1860, one hundred cannot now he mus- 

 tered. 



— Caleb N, Bement, widely known as a writer 

 on agricultural topics, and especially of late years 

 on subjects connected with poultry raising, died 

 at his residence in Poughkeepsie, Dec. 22d, in the 

 78th year of his age. 



— At present the town of Andover, Vt., has no 

 lawyer or doctor, and but one clergyman, no store, 

 grocery, grist mill, and but one blacksmith shop, 

 yet over one hundred copies of agricultural papers 

 are taken by its 129 voters. 



— In Paris, toads are sold at the rate of two 

 francs fifty centimes per dozen. The dealers keep 

 them in large tubs. Toads are also kept in vine- 

 yards, where they devour during the night millions 

 of insects that escape the pursuit of nociurnai birds, 



— The following are officers of the Waldo County, 

 Me., Agricultural Society ; J. D. Tucker, President ; 

 D. L. Pitcher, Vinal Hill, Vice Presidents ; A. D. 

 Chase, Secretary and Treasurer; Wm. N. Hall, J. 

 P. Savery, N. W. Holmes, Joseph Ellis, Trustees. 



— A correspondent of the Country Gentleman 

 says he finds a sure cure of chilblains in the use 

 of a decoction, made by putting five pounds of oak 

 bark in a kettle with three quarts water and boil- 

 ing down to one quart. 



— There is more timber in Southern Minne.<^ota 

 than there was ten years ago. The prairie fires 

 are stopped by the roads and fields. Timber is too 

 valuable to be wasted and people guaid it with a 

 jealous eye. 



— At the annual meeting of Springfield, Mass., 

 Farmers' Club, the following officers were elected: 

 G. L. Cutler, President; Jas. Booth, Vice Presi- 

 dent; Henry M. Arms, Secretary; D. 0. Gill, 

 Treasurer, 



— The editor of the California Farmer has re- 

 cently visited a farm, or "ranch," of 6000 to 8000 

 acres belonging to Wm. Bihler, who has recently 

 expended some $20,000 to $30,000 in draining Tula 



