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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 



and one-half cents per lb. live weight in this mar- 

 ket. Add one-half cent per lb. fur transporta- 

 tion to Brighton, and I think you will find the 

 market of 1835 equalled in cheapness at aconipar- 

 tively recent date. Now if these things are so; 

 and as corn is only about twenty-tive per cent, 

 higher it was in 1862 and beef and pork more than 

 300 per cent, higher, where is the justice of the uni- 

 versal cry of the producer that "we don't make 

 anything ?" 



Furthermore we wish to inquire is there any 

 real necessity for the present high prices of meat. 

 If there is no necessity why continue it longer ? 

 If there is, what and where is it, and when and 

 where is it to end ? 



To those producers who grumble because they 

 cannot get the eighteen or twenty cents for their 

 beef and pork, fitty to sixty cents for their butter, 

 $1.00 for their wool, &c., which they obtained 

 during the war, we refor to the prices of 1862 and 

 the ten years previous, when the country was, as 

 now, in a state of peace. We would also ask them 

 to show us tive consecutive years in the history of 

 the United (States or any other natu)n when prices 

 for farm produce have ruled so high in comparison 

 with labor and manufactured goods as the tive 

 J ears just past. We think brighter days are com- 

 ing for those consumers who Live in Hope. 



Mmtpelier, Vt., July 16, 1869. 



Remakks. — If "Live in Hope" — who has neg- 

 lected to give his address, and is therefore hardly 

 entitled to a hearing — will accept as a gift a calf of 

 a week old, and nurse and feed it up through the 

 months and years necessary to make such beef as 

 he demands of his butcher, we think he will put 

 himself in the way of answering his own ques- 

 tions. Does he believe that the tbree-cents-a- 

 pound beef and poik of 1862. or 1834, paid the far- 

 mer a decent living price for bis labor ? We ad- 

 mit that he is about correct in his quotations of 

 prices in 1862, and our reporter probably referred 

 to those of 1834, simply in connection with the 

 importation of Mr. Clay's herd at that time. It is 

 true that prices of meat and other farm produce 

 have been ruinously low at periods much less re- 

 mote. These unremunerative prices have driven 

 great numbers of farmers' sons from the ranks of 

 the producers to those of "consumers who live in 

 hope." And we venture to guess that "Live in 

 Hope" himself is one of those who have aban- 

 doned the farm for a more lucrative employment ; 

 that he is one of tho-e who finding farming to be 

 an unprofitable and laborious business, quit in dis- 

 gust, bi.lieving that brighter days would dawn on 

 him in another pursuit. 



treatment of kicking cows. 



I have noticed in the Farmer several methods 

 of treatment fur kicking cows, and have in times 

 past tried all of them, except that of seizing the 

 cow's leg and holding it by main strength— this 

 method 1 should prefer to leave with the originator. 

 I think Mr. Foster's manner the tiest, viz: kind 

 treatment; but sometimes we find an animal 

 so stubiiorn as not to be subdued by kinUness, and 

 it is not convenient to spare her tor beef. 



In such a case I woulu recommend the following, 

 which I do not recollect seeing in print. Take a 

 small strap, lung tnuugu fur the purpose, bena the 

 four legs so as to liriug the tout up lo the boely, 

 put the strap round the arm and small ot the leg 



near the hoof crossing between so as not to slip off 

 over the knee, and buckle. In this condition it is 

 an impossibility for a cow to kick; they may 

 come to the knee a few times but are soon quiet. 



In confining the hind legs either singly or to- 

 gether, there is danger of spoiling the animal. A 

 spirited cow will struggle and sometimes is ihrown, 

 when the hip, stifle or some other part is injured, 

 perhaps for life. 



RAISING CALVES. 



I see that Mr. C. F. Lincoln and Mr. W. H. Jor- 

 dan disagree somewhat as to the best manner 

 of raising calves. Now, the common practice in 

 this vicinity is rather between the two methods, 

 viz : the calf remains with the cow about four 

 days or until the milk becomes good, when he is 

 easily learned to drink, and after a short time is 

 put upon skim milk, to which is sometimes added 

 a little scalded meal, which is continued until fall 

 — perhaps through the season. Usually they are 

 turned out to grass. I see Mr. J. objects t > calves 

 going to grass. But grass seems to be the most 

 natural. I let them run with the cows; others 

 pasture them separate. 



We can show very good stock raised in this 

 manner; I think equal to any, taking trouble and 

 cost into consideration. Mr. J. says his neighbor 

 has a steer one year old which girts "five feet and 

 one 'inch," — a grade Durham. If he will come 

 this way we will show him yearlings which will 

 girt fiom five to six feet, raised in our way, 

 and nothing but native stock at that. We will 

 also show him two year-old native heifers, raised 

 in the same way, that girt tive feet and a half 

 or more, and will make a pound of butter each 

 per day. 



NATIVE STOCK. 



Now, Messrs. Editors, where can we find a 

 breed of cattle possessing the conii>ined qualities 

 required by the farmers of our hills mure fully 

 than the natives, when bred a series of years with 

 the same care as are the fancy breeds ? We want 

 woi king, beef and dairy stock combined. Almost 

 any breed will work, but some require a third 

 more keeping than others do. The Durhams are 

 large for beef, but they also take all the richest 

 pasiures, the liest of hay, and the shakings of the 

 meal bag. Who ever heard of a big butter cow 

 among the Durhams, according to cost. The Ayr- 

 shires are great for milk but not for butter ; be- 

 sides they are too small for beef, but are rather 

 easily kept. The new fancy breeds — Alderneys 

 and JerfCys — probably give the richest milk, but I 

 have information from those who have them that 

 they are very small milkers, which spoils them for 

 chi ese dairies ; besides they are small and ill- 

 looking animals. 



Now where shall we find the flowing pail of 

 milk forchee-e, or fortwo pounds of butter each per 

 day, combined with a handsome form, and from 

 six to twelve hundred pounds of beef, in such per- 

 fection as in well bred native stock, taking into 

 consideration the cost of breed, keeping, &c. 



Montpelier, Vt., July 10, 1869. A. 1). Arms. 



WARTS ON HORSES. 



I have a horse with warts on his face, and one as 

 large as a good sized hen's egg betweeen his fore 

 legs. As ue is a valuable animal, I am very de- 

 sirous to ascertain a remedy for taking them off, 

 or driving them away. Byhon W. Follard. 



iVewJ Haven, K<., Juty 1, 1869. 



Remarks. — Warts on animals may usually be 

 destroyed in two ways : first by cording them. For 

 a small, young wart, tie a horse hair about it, 

 close to its roots, and tighten it two or three times 



