1869. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



415 



not the bot prove injurious to the horse, as grubs 

 do in the head of a sheep, or in the hack of a cow ? 

 Still it is prohaVile that bots do le.-s injury than is 

 popularly supjiosed, and that the books are nearer 

 right than many believe. 



The fact that bots are found in healthy horses 

 when kill-.d by accident, might only show what is 

 generally understood to be true, that parasites 

 often remain apparently inactive and harmless in 

 ordinary states of the health of their victims, but 

 in Cd'-e of weakness, or fai;igue, or fasting, or a cold, 

 or (;ther illness, they cause trouble and not unfre- 

 quently death. 



But be this as it may, we have little faith in the 

 efHcacy of the muhiuidinous remedies for bois. 

 wiih which horses are dosed. Regularity in feed- 

 ing, with an occasional run at grass, ( r feeds of 

 carrots or oihtr loots, to preserve the general 

 health, we sliould recommend instead of "powertul 

 doses" of any kind. Mr. Youatt says, bots "can- 

 not be removed by medicine because they are not 

 in that part of the stomach to which niediine is 

 usually conveyed; and if they were their mouths 

 are too deeply buried in the mucus fur any medi- 

 cine that can be safely administered toaffcct them ; 

 and, la!-t (.fall, in due course of time they detach 

 themselves, and come away." 



DUXBURY, VT. 



Duxbury in Washington County, lies south of 

 Wmioskl river, nearly opposite to VVaterhuty. It 

 is almost entirely an agricultural town, — the dairy 

 business being tue most promment as well as most 

 prutital)Ie. The lumbering business is carrit d on 

 to su lie extent in the section of the town nearest 

 to the railroad. 



Ic has within its boundaries the celebra'^ed 

 mounain knoA-n as Camel's Hump; being the 

 second highest mountain in Vermonr. The view 

 from the top is said by some louiists to be the 

 tine.-t ill the State ISonie of our b' ys had some 

 rare sport one week this spring bear huntiuj. Tlie 

 trophies of the chase were an old bear and two 

 cutis; the o:d one w.is d iven to her den and shot 

 by the glare of her e,\es. Gen. Pu'iiam style. 



No town in the State can ^llow a better war 

 reeoid than Duxbury, (or us population. Strong 

 young mi n tilled up ourquoia-, and were mar^heo 

 quiLkly to the ticld; too many, ala-, nev.r t < re- 

 turn. The eld army coat or lil iu>c, with the fitai 

 bnlli t hole in it, or the laded cap, haiii; in many a 

 closet in what appears to Of h 'ppy thriving iiomes, 

 as t-ad relicts of the lost and mourned. 



The past winter was one of the l.mgest fodder- 

 ing .-ea-ons I ever knew, and all kmds of fodder 

 was used up in this section. If' it iiad not lit-en 

 for the generous supply of Western corn, it seems 

 as iljough some of our eaille muathave starved. 



Duxbury, Vt., 1869. g. h. c. 



What kind of barley is the most profitable to 

 raise, — the bald or bearded ? When shoula it be 

 sow.'d ? Fkank. 



^Voudstock, Vt., June, 1869. 



Remarks. — We prefer the bald. Sow as early 

 in May as the soil will admit, on a sandy, or even 

 a gaveily loam. It requires a warm, quick soil, 

 but oue moderately lich. 



AGRICULTURAL ITEMS. 



— A dairyman infortns the Mahie Fanner that 

 having tried various things fir s.^re tea's on cows, 

 he tinds lard best, the mo-t healing and sofu ning. 



—A patent h.is been obtained for the mauutac- 

 ture of waterproof paper. It will be no uncom- 

 nion thing, by and by, to carry a quart oi milk 

 home in a paper bag. 



— At the recent Horticultural Fair at Rochester, 

 N Y , several gentlemen stated that the currant 

 worm would not di.sturb bushes under which coal 

 ashes were liberally sprinklid. 



— Corn may be sown up to the middle of .Tulv, 

 or later; and tbnt which is not ntedcd for green 

 fodder, should be cut and cured for winter u>e be- 

 fore the frost cuts. 



— Anson Parker, of Londonderry, Vt., lately 

 took an elm tree root from ttie baik of the river 

 whkh measurtd forty-tno and onc-half feet in 

 length, wi h a diameter in the largest place of 

 three-eighths of an inch. 



— To protect cahbage piantsfrom cutworms take 

 liist year kave^ — oak is good — make muist with 

 water, wrap once around the stem, whi n trans- 

 planting, extending from loots to a little above the 

 leaf stem. 



— The cabbage fly is committing ravages in 

 Maine. It wa>- first seen in America ia Quebec in 

 1854, and was probably brought to the States in 

 grain from Canada. It strongly reseuii^lea the 

 common butterfly in general appearance. 



— A. M. Winslow & Sons, Putney, Vt., lost two 

 bulls recently valutd at $4000, through the care- 

 lessness of a hired man, who washed the animals 

 all over with tobacco ess nce for the purp ise of 

 destroying the lice, but the death of the bulls was 

 the consequence. 



— The West Milton Chcesi Factory is now using 

 13,000 pounds of milk daily, from some of the 

 best dairii s in Vermo it. M.iny of these dairies 

 have native cows whiihaveraiie thirtv, rhiity-one 

 and thirty-ihree pounds daily. The factory is 

 turning out each day tivenfy-<me and twi-nty-five 

 cheeses, averaging aiiout sixty pounds each. 



— The Rural Xeic Yorker pulilishcs staicments 

 of two fleeces of wool shi)in thi> season in Central 

 New York from Merino r^nis two years of age, 

 which weighed thirty-five pounds each. One 

 fleece is to be scoured, while the owner of tne 

 other docs not care to be at the trouble and ex- 

 pense of the operation. 



— The Missouri Journal of Agriculture gives an 

 account i.f a family of slVcu persons who stopped 

 at a vill.ge thro.jgh whicli they were moving and 

 bought a sugur-cured ham. Being quife hungry 

 six of the St veil individuals are some ( f it raw. 

 All who ate i/f it soon became sick. A girl fourteen 

 years of age had died irom the effects ui' trichina 

 spiralis in the ham. In a portion of the muscle of 

 the arm of the giil that died, of only one-eighth ol 



