1869. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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Lake, which formerly covered about 300 acres. 

 On the land thus drained monster potatoes have 

 been raised. Nine tubers presented to the editor 

 weighed twenty-five pounds and seven ounces — 

 the largest five and a half pounds, and measuring 

 twenty-five inches. 



— A stone at Metheun is situated in two States, 

 Massachusetts and New Hampshire ;, three coun- 

 ties, Rockingham and Hillsborough, N. H., and 

 Essex, Mass., and three towns, Salem and Pclham, 

 N. H., and Methuen, Mass. 



— The Vermont State Journal says that Mr. Zal- 

 mon Pierce, of Calais, wintered two geese and a 

 gander, from which, the past season he raised 27 

 goslings. When fattened for market they weighed 

 278| lbs., bringing $55.65 ; 17 pounds of feathers 

 sold for ^21.25 ; total #76.90. 



— It was recently stated in a discussion by the 

 Waltham, Mass., Agricultural Club, that a farmer 

 in HoUiston had raised cabbages on the same land 

 for fifteen successive years, and always success- 

 fully. He manures his land with common salt, 

 and watered the plants with lime. 



— Four Norman Stallions were lately sold by 

 auction at Irwin Station, Ohio. They had recently 

 been imported, were six, four, four and three years 

 old, and brought $2,335, $2,475, $'2,925 and $1,500 

 respectively. All were purchased by parties in 

 Ohio. 



— In reply to an inquiry of Edward Jennison, 

 of Winchester, N. H., at the New York Farmers' 

 Club, Wilson Isham, Watertown, N. Y., E. Coryell, 

 Hooper's Valley, N. Y., Lewis Andrews, West 

 Winstead, Conn., and C. C. Wyckoff of Skanea- 

 teles, all state that they have cows, born twins 

 with a bull calf, that bear young, and give milk 

 just like any cows. 



— Timothy Mather, of Hartford, has sold to Mr. 

 Capen, of Bloomfield, Conn., four Short-horned 

 cattle,— the bull "Rosalind's Oxford," 6138, the 

 cow "Holiday, 2d" and calf, and a heifer from 

 "Holiday 4th." He has also bought the bull 

 "Ulysses," 6379, by "Brigand," 4598, out of 

 "Windsor Lass." 



— California wheat is so dry, by origin and na- 

 ture, that in coming East through and into a 

 humid atmosphere, it gains greatly in weight by 

 absorption. This is an element of profit to ship- 

 pers. So with the flour, it will absorb twenty, 

 thirty, even forty pound more water per barrel 

 than our Eastern flour, and so the bakers gain 

 greatly in using it. 



— At a Farmers' Club in Long Meadow, several 

 men gave their experience in cow feeding. Mr. 

 Allen said he had found that wheat shorts make 

 the sweetest milk, rye bran the whitest, Indian 

 meal the richest, and oil cake the most. Clover, 

 they thought, should be cut early, not mowed 

 away dry, but stored, a little damp, between layers 

 of rye straw. Four quarts of oil cake a day is too 



much for a cow ; she will be likely to calve pre- 

 maturely. 



— In his lecture on the breeding of the horse, 

 delivered at Manchester, N. H., last week, Col. 

 Lang, of North Vassalboro', Me., said the finest 

 gentlemen's horses be had ever seen were in 

 France. There breeding is carried as near per- 

 fection as possible in this class as well as in the 

 sporting horses, in which the French people seem 

 to be much interested, and bid fair to beat the 

 world. 



— The medical journals report the case of Mr. 

 Eli Townsend, Montgomery, Ala., who treated a 

 horse having the glanders. Mr. Townsend had, at 

 the time, a scratch upon one of his hands, through 

 which his system became inoculated with the poi- 

 son, and after great sufi'erirg, he died in fifteen 

 days from the beginning of the attack. A similar 

 case has recently occurred in the City of New York, 

 where the disease is very prevalent among horses. 



— An American Jersey Cattle Club has been 

 formed by the election of Samuel J. Harpless, St. 

 Road Station, Chester County, Penn., as Presi- 

 dent { Thomas J.Hand, Sing Sing, N. Y., Treas- 

 urer ; Geo. E. Waring, Newport, 11. 1., Secretary. 

 Thomas Motley, Jamaica Plain, Mass., S. W. 

 Robbins, Weathersfield, Conn., are announced as 

 members. 



— Mr. J. Harris, of Rochester, N. Y., author of 

 "Walks and Talks on the Farm," in the Afnerican 

 Agriculturist, and one of the Professors in the 

 New York Agricultural College, said in a late ar- 

 ticle, "It is more important for a farmer to know 

 how to get out stones, and to have energy and de- 

 termination enough to do it, than it is to know all 

 about the absorptive power of soils." 



— The Maine Farmer says that Mr. Drewry N. 

 White, one of the farmers of Dixfield, made the 

 past season over three tons of cheese from twenty- 

 two cows. This will amount, at eighteen cents 

 per pound, the price at which he sets it, to $1,075.00. 

 He raised seventy-five bushels of beans — enough 

 to constitute him deaoon for seven years — dried 

 1200 pounds of apple, and raised thirty-five bush- 

 els of wheat on one and one-fourth acres of land. 



Windsor County, Vt. — At the late meet- 

 ing of this Society, the committee on farms 

 awarded the first premium to John Miller, of 

 East Barnard, and the second to Elisha S. 

 Gallup, of Woodstock. 



The first premium on Spring wheat, yield 

 22 bushels to the acre, $10 was awarded to 

 John Brockway, of Pomfret. 



To T. L. Slayton, of Hartland, was awarded 

 the first premium, $10, on corn, yield 90 5-7 

 bushels. The second premium, $5, was 

 awarded to Solomon Woodward, Woodstock, 

 yield 79^ bushels'. 



