1869. 



NEW ENGLAND FAE:MER. 



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thought it not economical to have so many 

 modi rate sized buildings scattered over the 

 farm. 



This isihe practice, however, throughout the 

 region. A commodious carriage house, with a 

 horse stable in the rear, is usually the first 

 building near the dwelling house; then 

 one or more small barns, and from four to 

 eif.'ht or ten more scattered about according to 

 the size and (eriiliry of the farm. 



This plan has always seemed to us a mis- 

 taken one ; as lacking economy in the first 

 outlay ; as inconvenient and expensive in 

 tending stock in the winter, separated as it is 

 into half a dozen difforent parcels; expensive 

 in keeping so many buildings in repair, espe- 

 cially their roofs, and as lacking the warmth 

 for the stock which a large and compact barn 

 would afford. 



What progress would a cotton or woolen 

 or, indeed, any other manufacturer, make 

 under such circumstances ? The true way in 

 farming, as in all other business, is to have 

 the work under constant observation, in the 

 most convenient and compact form possible ; 

 the implements and machines of the farm kept 

 where they can be seen and reached at once ; 

 the stock brought as near togf^ther as it can 

 be, and be comfortable, in clean and well ven- 

 tilated stalls ; or if young and wintered in the 

 yard, with economical places for feeding, and 

 suitable bheds to go under in stormy weather ; 

 and the fodder as near at hand, and as easd) 

 to be got at as circumstances will allow 

 Every thing, then, will be daily under the 

 master's eye. He will see that the cattle are 

 properly fed and cleaned; that they are regu- 

 larly watered ; that vermin do not make a de- 

 scent Hpon them and eat them up bodily ; that 

 the young catole have a fair chance and are 

 not robbed of their food or hooked about by 

 old and ugly ones. Under such circumstances, 

 the manure will receive proper attention, and 

 when sledding is good may be more easily 

 taken to the fields than f ora dozens of frozen 

 heaps at half a dozen barns. 



From our stand point, the practice to which 

 we advert, and now so common in Western 

 Vermont, seems to us greatly lacking in con- 

 venience and economy, to say the least. Never 

 having, however, managed a farm under such 

 cireuuistances, we may be mistaken, and if so, 

 shall be glad to have some fiiends there, show 

 us in what respects. 



In moral and intellectual qualities. It would 

 be difficult to find a people, an} where, occu- 

 pying a higher position than the famili'^s into 

 which we went. The newspaper, and among 

 them the Farmer, was upon every table. 

 Books, of a high order too, were common, 

 and there was evidence among all of the exer- 

 cise of a sound judgment and scrutinizing ob- 

 servation. 'J heir soil and climate are all that 

 could be desired ; and they would be lacking in 

 duty if they did not manifest their gratitude m 

 a life of good works. 



A Cure for Bloat or Hoven — Mr. 

 John Hodges of Rockdale, Crawford County, 

 Pa , communicates the following to the New 

 York Farmers' Club : — I saw in my journal 

 this morning that twenty cows had recently 

 died at or near Davenport, Iowa, by being 

 bloated from eating clover, and 1 hasten to in- 

 firm you of an infallible cure, if applied fifteen 

 minutes before the animal would otherwise 

 die: — fake half a pint of salt, and cover it 

 with water, and lay it on the animal's back 

 over the kidneys, and have the skin thorougly 

 impregnated with the brine, particularly where 

 the paunch adheres to the pleura, on the left 

 side, just back of the last long rib. I have 

 followed the cattle business for more than 

 twenty years, and I learned this from a 

 brother drover. I once turned a drove of 

 cattle into flush feed on tie Susquehanna, on 

 a rainy evening ; a little after sunset a very 

 fine young ox came to me with his tongue out 

 as far as he could get it, breathing so that he 

 might be be heard twenty rods or more. I 

 s nt my boy into the house for a tin cup half 

 full of salt, covered with water. The old 

 Dutchman said 1 might calculate to take his 

 hide off in the morning. I told him I should 

 do no such thiri»g. He said he would die in 

 less than one hour ; that there had more than 

 a dozen dieil on his farm just so. and never 

 one cured. He was so bad I attempted to 

 stal) him, but did not and said I would wait 

 five minutes to s-ee if the brine would cure. 

 In le^s than ten minutes his tongue was in his 

 mouth, and he was chewing his cud before 

 nine o'clock." 



To Relieve Choked Cattle — Having 

 lost a heifer by choking with a turnip, a' d 

 having had one choked since f )r which 1 found 

 relief, 1 send } oil my remedy fur publication : 

 Get eight feet of telegraph w.ire, dout le in the 

 middle, and twist it together so as to leave a 

 loop in it. Take the creature by the horns 

 an(i run the loop end of the wire down its 

 throat and pull it out, and the turnip will be 

 pu.-hed down or pulled up in its mouth and 

 give instant relief. — Country Gentleman. 



