1869. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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encloses them. The kidneys appear to be in their 

 natural srate, with the exception of this jelly-like, 

 yellowish suhstance about them. The liver is 

 nearly black and very tender or rotten. It is not 

 spotted, nor are there many ulcers in it. The gall 

 is small. The lungs appear health3\ The bowels 

 do not adhere, but this yellowish substance is 

 found about them, and also about the paunch, in 

 large quantities. 



Wy flock came from Salisbury, about thirty 

 miles south of Plymouth, some twelve years ago, 

 and no other sheep have been put with my flock. 

 My young sheep are kept at one barn, and the 

 older ones at another barn, separated by a high- 

 way. A stream of water passes through the yard 

 in which my young sheep are kept, and with these 

 the disease has been most fatal. The other flock 

 has access to water at a little distance. The pas- 

 tures in this section are hilly and dry. Many of 

 my young sheep have become thin in flesh. 



F. A. C. Nichols. 



Plijmoutk, N. H., March 15, 1869. 



Remarks. — Some of the above mentioned 

 symptoms correspond with Mr. Youatt's descrip- 

 tion of a disease known in England as the Rot, 

 while others do not. Dr. Randall says he has 

 never witnessed an instance of this disease in the 

 United States. We venture no opmion as to the 

 name or treatment of the disease among our cor- 

 respondent's sheep, but hope some of the readers 

 of the Farmer may be able to do so. 



A SICK cow. 



I am a constant reader of the Farmer, but 

 never have seen anything among your "Extracts 

 and Replies" relative to a case I have of a cow. 

 Nearly a year ago she commenced being lame in 

 her hind legs; apparently healthy otherwise; no 

 sortness appearing anywhere; a contraction of 

 the cords seemed to be the trouble, and when walk- 

 ing, she scarcely will raise her hind feet from the 

 ground, and a snapping noise is distinctly heard. 

 \Vill you or the readers and correspondents of 

 your paper inform me of the cause and remedy ? 



Randolph, Vt., Ftb. 1869. e. h., 2d. 



Remarks. — We cannot form any definite opinion 

 without a careful examination of the animal. It 

 may be rheumatism, or it may be paralysis. You 

 had better consult some veterinary surgeon. 



pedigree. 



I have a question to ask you. I have a heifer 

 and I wish to find her grade. Her mother, which 

 was from a full-bred Jersey cow, and half Jersey 

 and half Ayrshire bull, was taken to full-bred 

 Jersey bull, the result being my heiter. What 

 grade of the Jersey is she ? I took her last year 

 to a full bred Jersey bull ; and what grade is her 

 calf? A Monthly Subscriber. 



Blackstone, Mass., Feb., 1869. 



Remarks. — Your cow is three- fourths, your 

 heifer seven-eighths, and her calf fifteen-sixteenths 

 Jersey. 



kicking and stepping cows. 

 Having seen considerable in the Farmer lately 

 about milking kicking cows.l will give my method 

 ■which has been successful when everything else 

 h:is failed. Take a strap two or three feet long, 

 pass It round the hind kgs above the gambrels, 

 crossing it between ihe legs and buckle it tight. 

 The beauty of this arrangement is, it does not 



worry or tire a cow while she stands still, but she 

 finds it very inconvenient to do anything else. I 

 always break my heifers to milk in this way, and 

 never have kicking cows, neither will they keep 

 stepping while being mi'ked. j. w. o. 



Cum?mngton, Mass., March 1, 1869. 



sick pigs. 



Tell J. C. Miller, of Fort Kent, Me., whose pigs 

 are troubled with a swelling of the hip, and are 

 lame all over, to rub their i,-sues on the inside of 

 the fore legs with a cob and soft soap, and I will 

 warrant a cure. e. k. 



Bennington Centre, Vt., March 2, 1869. 



worms in horses. 



The best remedy for worms in horses 1 ever tried 

 is to give them plenty of poplar poles to gnaw at 

 their leisure. The greasing process amounts to 

 nothing with me? l. h. d. 



Cornish, N, H., Feb. I, 1869. 



AGHICULTUKAL ITEMS. 



— A man in Launceston, England, recently lost 

 his life by the sting of a bee on the jugular vein. 

 Faintness came over him and he died within half 

 an hour. 



— A couple of red squirrels stole from Ihe barn 

 of Mr. Bixby, a farmer in South Reading, Wind- 

 sor County, Vt., sixty bushels of corn, which they 

 had stowed away in the barn loft. 



— In England and France, dried fern leaves are 

 used extensively fur packing fresh fruit, grapes 

 especially; they seem to possess, to an unusual 

 degree, the property of preserving vegetable and 

 even animal substances for a long time. 



— The present class of scholars in the Indnstrial 

 College at Orono, Me., now numbers seventeen, 

 the average ages of the pupils being eighteen years. 

 Of the number, ten are sons of farmers or have 

 been bred to farm work. 



— A correspondent of the Rural New Yorker 

 says cattle can be fed in winter, on hay, for as 

 many cents per day as the hay is worth dollars 

 per ton. He thinks five sheep will eat as much as 

 a full grown steer. Such estimates are, of course, 

 very far from being exact. 



—The farm occupied by Mr. Hyde, near Alton, 

 111., consists of 400 acres : 100 acres of which are 

 fruit planted as follows: 2000 apple trees, 3000 

 pear trees (of which 2300 are standard,) 150O peach 

 trees and ground prepared for 1000 more in spring, 

 500 cherry trees, 3000 grapevines, one acre of Law- 

 ton blackberries, COO gooseberry bushes, 600 cur- 

 rants. The farm is intended exclusively for grow- 

 ing fruit. 



—The Maine Farmer notices the following crops 

 of wheat rai-ed in that State last year. Mr. For- 

 rest L. Stewart, of Corinna, raised fifteen bushels 

 from half an acre of land and one bushel sowing, 

 variety the "Lost Nation." ( ?) Joel Prescott, 

 Esq., of Northport, raised twenty-six bushels of 

 nice wheat from one acre. Mr. J. S. Morrill, of 

 Albion, raised fifty bushels from two acres, lie 



