1869. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



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weigh 450 pounds dressed pork. I com- 

 menced feedinj^ this swine for fattening, the 

 three quarfs of meal per day, on the 5th day 

 of Sept. — Winslow Arey, Hampden, in Maine 

 Farvitr. 



THE HIGH PKICB OF MEAT. 



The Courrier de la Bouclierie of Paris con- 

 tains an article upon the rising prices of butch- 

 er's meat all over Europe, which have at- 

 tracted serious notice in France. All the 

 French markets have been gradually rising 

 for the past six years ; so much so that the ad- 

 vance constitutes a considerable surchage upon 

 the consumption of the country. Choice parts 

 are double the price ihey were, and inferior 

 joints are fulh one- third higher. It was thought 

 that the opt^ning of the new markets at La Vil- 

 lefte. Pois.'-y, and Sciana, two years ago, would 

 lowt r prices in Paris ; but the result has been 

 quit the opposite, and the advanceed prices 

 of Paris have been met by corresponding 

 movements at the provincial markets — for in- 

 stance, at Aix, Bordeaux, Caen, Chartres, 

 Dijon, Lisieux, Nismes, Rouen, Toulon, and 

 Lyons. 



It is the same in England, notwithstanding 

 great supplies of cattle from Holland and Bel- 

 gium and Germany. In Holland and Germany 

 fat cattle have not been so dear for two years 

 as they are now. In Germany beef and mutton 

 have not advanced so much as in France and 

 England, because the consumption of pork is 

 greater ; but in Prussia there has been a dis- 

 tinct advance in all descriptions of meat, and 

 in Italy the rise is still making progress. 



This review, adds the Courrier, will give 

 some idea of the present state of the trade 

 throughout Europe. It establishes the fact 

 that prices are as high as consumers can bear ; 

 that any further advance will gravely com- 

 promise the trade ; and on these grounds breed- 

 ers are urged, while the French government is 

 recommended, if a most important branch of 

 trade is to be maintained, to encourage breed- 

 ers in such effort. 



SAVE THE CORN FODDER. 



We have long been of the opinion that 

 there was not that attention paid to the curing 

 and saving of the cornfodder that its value 

 demandtd. Every good farmer must know 

 that cattle eat it greedily through the winter, 

 and if cut and steamed it is as good for them 

 as the best hay and really more milk-produc- 

 ing- 



Where is the necessity of allowing it to re- 

 main in shocks until the middle or end of 

 November? Corn should not be cut down 

 until the stalks are dying and the grain is 

 pretty hard, and then it should remain no 

 longer in the field than is absolutely necessary 

 for the drying of the grain. It should be 

 husked as early as possible, and the fodder 



tied up in bundles and either carefully stacked 

 near the cattle stables or put under shelter in 

 sheds. 



It is well known, too, that horses prefer it 

 to the best hay ; also that the blades are es- 

 pecially sought for to feed racing animals, 

 strengthening their wind and bottom beyond 

 any other food. It is besides wholesome pro- 

 vender and helps most beneficially in making 

 the winter's supply of hay hold out till late in 

 the spring, with the addition of chopped roots, 

 which every farmer, who shrewdly looks to 

 the main chance, ought to cultivate for leed- 

 ing in the early part of the winter. — Oermati- 

 town Telegraph. 



Bony Deposits. — The horse, either from 

 natural predisposition or from the severe ex- 

 ertions he is called upon to perform, is cer- 

 tainly more liable to bony depositions than any 

 other animal. Adapted as he is to carry 

 weight, and travel with speed, his ligaments 

 and sinews are severely tasked and exposed to 

 the consequences of over exertion. Yet, in 

 addition to this, we are disposed to con- 

 clude, that in the horse, nature more read- 

 ily seeks to relieve herself by ossific forma- 

 tions than in the human being. Some horses, 

 too, show a much greater disposition to these 

 depositions than others ; the same amount of 

 injury in the one animal will produce them, 

 while in others it will hav no such effect. 



This predisposition of some horses to be- 

 come affected with spavins, splints, or ring- 

 bones, is a matter of much importance in 

 breedmg ; for it is no doubt hereditary, and 

 ought to infiuence, in some degree, the choice 

 of the mare, or the selection of the sire. It 

 must, however, be acknowledged that the shape 

 of the limbs which may predispose horses to 

 become afflicted with these diseases is still 

 more hereditary, and an object, therefore, of 

 still greater importance. — Frairie Farmer. 



Manuring Land with Sod. — A Herkimer 

 County, N. Y. , correspondent of one of our 

 exchanges says that sod is one of the best 

 means of manuring — indeed the best generally 

 speaking, — for this sod obtains its wealth 

 mostly from t'ne atmosphere, and needs not be 

 shoveled and carted on the field. It is the 

 means of manuring the land here. It is the 

 successful means — only thoroughly so how- 

 ever, with the use of clover in connection. 

 Farms in this county have improved wonder- 

 fully. The land is better, and in many places 

 much better, than the original soil was. And 

 yet it has been cropped for near a century, 

 the last 20 to 30 years being employed in 

 graining and raising clover — raising it for 

 seed to a large extent, so much so that the 

 Herkimer county seed, was as noted as its 

 cheese now is. Since the dairying era com- 

 menced, the land has been improving, and all 



