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NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



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doned, the buildings removed and most of the 

 lands thrown out to pasture, large portions of 

 which will eventually be covered with a forest 

 growth." 



1776, 

 Farmer at the plough, 

 Wife njilkina: cow, 

 Daughter apinning yarn, 

 Son thrashing in the barn — 

 All happy to a charm. 



1869. 

 Farmer gone to see the show, 

 Daughter at the piano, 

 Madame gaily dressed in satin. 

 All the boys learning Latin, 

 With big mortgage on the farm. 



— At a cattle fair or market held at Guelph, Can., 

 recently superior beef cattle were sold at 4.J to 4^c 

 per pound live weight; milch cows $25 to $40 

 each ; 36 cattle at $48 per head. At Mount Forest 

 Fair, Can., oxen were sold at $70 to $90 per pair ; 

 steers $40 to $55 ; cows $16 to $25 ; heifers $10 

 to $14, each. A Hamilton correspondent of the 

 Canada Farmer says the American demand was 

 brisk lately for milch cows, but this has slacked 

 off somewhat, and he is assured that cows that 

 two months ago would have brought readily $35, 

 will not now bring more than $28 or $30. 



— Alfred Young, Trumbull County, writes to the 

 Ohio Farmer that he has had some experience in 

 feeding corn boiled on the cob to cows, which was 

 very unsatisfactory for the reason that much of it 

 was undigested and went into the manure heap 

 where the rats burrowed and got a good living at 

 the expense of the cows, and the crows would 

 scratch over the droppings and pick out the corn 

 in the field. Since he has adopted the plan of 

 grinding corn and cooking the meal, the rats have 

 left for parts unknown to him and his cows do 

 much better on less feed. 



— The editor of the Germantown Telegraph 

 says : "There is no mode that we ever tried so 

 effectual in transplanting tomato, cabbage, canta- 

 loupe, or any other tender plants, from the hot- 

 bed, or from one place to another, as to prepare a 

 vessel filled with manure-water and rich soil, 

 about the consistency of thin mush, with which 

 the roots of the plants should be well-coated and 

 set in a hole made with a sharp, round piece of 

 wood or dibble. After being rather firmly planted, 

 moisten again with manure-water. We have 

 never failed in any transplanting when done in 

 this way, and the trouble is very slight." 



— During a discussion about gapes in chickens, by 

 the New York Farmers' Club, Dr. W. E. Sanger 

 said that he had been successful in applying a very 

 little nitrate of silver, lunar caustic, to the inside 

 of the throat. J. B. Lyman thought that many 

 would be afraid to use so powerful a remedy, and 

 recommended mixing pepper and sweet oil or 

 melted butter and swabbing their throats with a 

 small slender feather about five inches long, the 

 , plume stripped off on one side. J. E. Thompson 

 preferred prevention to cure. As soon as the heu 



is off put her and her family on soft fresh earth, 

 and give them cooked food, if meal is used ; pre- 

 ferred wheat screenings. 



— On reporting the discussion at the last meet 

 ing for the season of the Waltham, Mass., Far- 

 mers' Club, the Senime/ remarks, "the meetings of 

 the season have been uniformly well attended, and 

 have fully kept up the interest of past years. Full 

 arrangements for places and subjects for the next 

 season have been made, and in all respects the 

 Club was never more prosperous. Several of our 

 young farmers have joined the Club the past sea- 

 son, and by their presence and words have added 

 to its interest. This is a good sign. Our young 

 men too often look to the overflowing city, when 

 the broad acres of their fathers would yield them 

 a competence with less of labor and anxiety. 



— The New York Farmers' Club in answer to an 

 inquiry says : "There are now five English steam 

 ploughs running in this country — one in Ken- 

 tucky, one in Texas, and three in Louisiana. 

 They cost about $15,000, and give great satisfac- 

 tion, as they do the work of twenty or thirty horses, 

 with the labor of two or three attendants. In 

 England there are 2000 of these ploughs, and in 

 Egypt 400. They run a gang of from three to six 

 ploughs, and pulverize as deep as fourteen inches. 

 They can go much deeper if the farmer wishes. 

 Two or three inventors are working out the Yan- 

 kee steam plough. One proposes to build, for 

 about $3000, an engine that will move back and 

 forth on the line of a wire rope fastened at the 

 headlands to a self-advancing anchor." 



— A. C. Thomas, of Wisconsin, says in the 

 Western Rural, that, "If you wish to plough a 

 land ten rods wide, instead of striking out a land 

 that width take one-half that width, pace off five 

 rods from the end, and set in your plough and 

 plough to within five rods of the other end and 

 stop ; now back furrow as usual the required width 

 and then turn a square corner at the end, observ- 

 ing to have the end furrow on a parallel line with 

 the outside. By this means you will always turn 

 round on the stubble, thus leaving the land un- 

 trodden, and instead of 'dead furrows' at the cor- 

 ners you will have 'ridges.' " 



EXTRACTS AND REPLIES. 



CABBAGE -WORMS. 



Will you please to give me, through your Ex- 

 tracts and Replies, a remedy for the cahhage worm ? 

 The cabbages were all destroyed through this sec- 

 tion by a worm formed by an egg or nit of a white 

 butterfly deposited in the head of ihc cabbage. 



Alburgh, Vt., May 17, 18G9. H. L. Sowles. 



Remakks. — Perhaps there is no better evidence 

 of the value of the cabbage than the fact that it is 

 palatable to so great a number of insects and ani- 

 mals, — a number that appears to be steadily in- 

 creasing. Every part of the plant, from the cro\tn 

 of its head to the sole of its foot, furnishes food to 

 various forms of animated nature. And who of us 



