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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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fessor Olmstead, nnd according to my own cost- 

 ly exporieiice, use more than ilouMc the quiin- 

 titv of lime that the good ot'llieir work requires, 

 merely because their own l.ibours are lessened 

 hy il. Thoii;;h shoemakers, lor very e;ood rea- 

 sons, as concerns themselves, willdouhtless con- 

 demn the use of coiton thread, buyers and wear- 

 ar^ iiill rniicult tlielr own interests. The dis- 



[■'roni files of Englisli papfrs recrivrd at the office of the 

 New iMip^land Farmer. 



Odd J^otimis. — Democritus affirms that if cat- 

 Ier[)illar5 attack turnips, a woman goina; with her 

 hair loose, and barefooted round each lied will 

 kill Ihein. "Women" he says, "must be rarely 

 admilled where cucumbers or gourds are plant- 



iiaritv- in the value of shoes made to sell and ed, for commonly green things languish and are 

 those made to wear, will be giealer hereafter , chucked in their growth by their iiaiidUng them." 

 than it is ;vt present if these hints receive the ^^^ Augustin Quinto, the author of a Practi- 

 altcntion Ihey deserve^ [ ^^1 (-purse of Agriculture, much esteemed in 



n^r, r vT-TPV Polll •fin' ! •'^P^in.P"l'l'shed in 1819, relates in that book the 



lOl-AliLiN lUUbiix*. tf„llowiug auecdoln : "In my late journey in 



P/»/,rrffV/,.a, .¥a,f/i, 9, 182o. ; [.v-jncp/l luippeued to spend n i'f^w days at a 



Dear Sii\ — The following method of fattening ! (.puptry house in Dufielin. 1 was looking one 



fowls was communicated to me by a tarmerlrom | niorning at a yo<ing girl who was churning but- 



Jfuck's county in this slate, who is in the prac- j (gp She asked me for a piece of silver coin to j I'he blades and husks remaining on them and 

 lice of supplying this market uilh the linest and j pyj \„ (he churn, that the biiller might come I greedily eaten bv cattle. Alter the corn is gath- 

 fallest I have ever seen ;--coiiline your fowls i*i (jiiicker, which was slower in forming than usual, iered, they should be carted home and housed ; 

 1 larje any iiiclosure, and feed Ih.em on broken ; i criive her a dollar, she put it in the churn, and : If this cannot be conveniently done, they may 

 Indian corn. Indian meal, or mush, with raw po- ^ ^fiop „ feiv more turns the butler was lormed. j he placed in large shocks in the field, well tied 



grateful and more boncllcial to cattle. Clover 

 cured in this »vay and salted, will retain much 

 of the color of its blossoms and loaves. 



In order to make good fodder iVom cornstalks, 

 they should he cut down clo'^e to Ibe ground wiili 

 the corn on them in the month of September, 

 when dry and llie weather good, and immediate- 

 ly put into small shocks in the field, for the pur- 

 pose of alloiviug the com to ripen, and the 

 ' shocks to cure. In about five or six weeks the 

 corn will have ripened and become dry, — it is 

 then to be gathered. This will require more 

 time and labor than the common method, but 

 the farmer will be amply repaid for his trouble, 

 in the excellency of his fodder and the quantity 

 of manure made tVom them. The stalks will be 

 found comidelely cured, retaining much of their 

 o-reen color, and tilled with saccharine matter; 



Yours, &c. A SUBSCRIBER. 



BORI.fG FOR WATER, OR MINRRALS. 



laloes cut into small pieces, not larger than a j | ratinot account how or in what manner the 

 (ilbert ; placing within their re^nch, a 'quantity! metal rould have produced that efi'ect ; but cer- 

 of charcoal broken into small pieces, which he i (;|jn j( is that the thing happened in my pres- 

 savs, they will greedily cat, a:ul thereby pro-! gpce, and the girl a-sured me that she always 

 mote a ra^id digestion of their food. By tliis ' employed the same mean^ in similar cases."!! 

 method he assures me they will fatten iaonej __ 



half the usual time, and with much less ejspense. | Trcnlmerii of Ihjdrophobia. — A medical prac- 

 titioner at l>yons writes that instances of hydro- 

 |ihobia have been more frequent in that country 

 than in England, though not so dangerous in 

 It is desirable to collect all the information i their effects, from the sucsessful system which 

 <5n the sub-ect of boring into the earth we can ; j was persevered in during the summer of 1823, 

 it would greatly assist in forming some general j 1G21. He states that in the middle of .'one, 

 conclusions, that might be of the greatest im- j 1G23, a man was severely bitten by a dog in a 

 Dorlance ; we therefore earnestly solicit the at- I rabid state, which in a few days at'ler died ra- 

 lention of those who have been, or nwy hereaf- vingmad. His wife in the agony of the moment, 

 ter, be engaged in searching, by this meads, ei- i sucked the wound, completely cleatud it ol'the 

 ther for fresh or salt water, or minerals, to the , poisonous matter, and by advice of her surgeon 

 subject; and request each to furnish whatever | Monsieur Dupin, the operation of sucking was 

 may be in his power, in the following order: — .continually repeated, the wound kept open, and 



1. To describe the surrounding country,' a free discharge promoted. The man recovered 

 and (he nearest mountains and highlands, ami and is now alive and well. Since the Isl of last 

 the country between them and the place bored, Jure there have been no less than 3C persons 

 noting their distances from it; and to send speci- ; bitten hy dogs in a rabid slate, who having all 

 mens'of the most abundant rocks on the surface adopted the above precautionary system, not 

 when a suitable opportunity may occur. I one of these has experienced any of those symp- 



2. To state whether natural spiings arc nu-'toraatic feelings allied to hydrophobia, 

 merous in the adjacent country, an<l whether 



the quantity of water that issues from them, is 

 materially reduced in dry seasons, and increas- 

 ed during such wintersas there falls much snow 



(To the Pi-esiitcnt of the N. J. Agricultural Society.) 



or rain. 



3. To send specimens of each kind of rock 

 or other substance, met with in boring ; and as 

 a correct knowledge of their positions is impor- 

 tant, particular attention will be necessary to 

 prevent mistakes ; it will therefore be best to 

 take each as it is met with, stale the thickness 

 of the bed or stratum, and the distance of the 

 highest part of it from the surface, and as they 

 are taken to number them, commencing with 

 that nearest the surface as No. 1. and so on to 

 the bottom of the well. 



4. To note as often as possible during the 

 operation, the height to which the water has 

 lisen ; it would be desirable to know this on 

 arriving at each different kind of rock or other 

 substance. 



The tacts ought to be written down as they I an' 



Bridgclon, JV". J. Dec. 14, 1024. 

 Sir, — A great error (irevails among many of 

 the farmers in this country, in the making of 

 H,iv, and in the curing and preserving of corn 

 stalks. Grass loses much both in quality and sub- 

 stance by too much exposure to the sun whilst 

 curing ; and corn-fodder much more when ex- 

 posed in small bundles ; both, but particularly 

 the latter, are injured by heavy dews and rains. 

 Our grasses can for the most part be sufficiently 

 cured for hay in good weather, without being 

 shaken from the swarth. After laying one or 

 two days in swarth, (according to circumstances 



u|), to preserve them from the weather. As 

 soon as the farmer begins to fodder his cattle, 

 the stalks should he first fed out, as it is neces- 

 sary when slacked out, that they should be all 

 consumed or taken to the barn yard by Christ- 

 mas ; if left beyond that time exposed to the 

 winter, they become injured ; and unless fodder- 

 ed out early, they are not snfficiently rotted for 

 manure in the spring. When cured in this way 

 and fed out bel'ore they are damaged by the win- 

 ter, I consider them preferable to any hay ex- 

 cept good red clover. 



1 am sorry to add, that although cornstalks are 

 carefully preserved by many of us and turned to 

 profit, both as an article of food and manure, yet 

 there are numbers in this country who suffer 

 them to remain through the winter, exposed to 

 the inHu«nce of the sun, air and frost ; or their 

 half starved cattle are turned in, to trample upon 

 and gather a scanty living from them. Thus in- 

 stead of converting every thing into manure, 

 and making a liberal return to the soil, they 

 take every thing from it, and thereby produce 

 a complete barrenness of soil ; to this cause may 

 be ascribed the ravages made on our woodlands 

 and the outcry about old fields and worn out 

 plantations. 



RECIPES FOR THE lXdIES. 

 To make loaf coke. — Take 14 ounces of flour, 

 10 ounces of*ugar, 6 ounces of butter, 4 eggs, 



1 lb of raisins, and half a teaspnnnlul of pearl- 

 ash dissolved in a cup of milk and a cup of wine. 

 When properly incorporated together, set the 

 dough by the fire till il is warm. This is like 

 raised cake. 



Another kind. — Five lbs. flour, 2 lbs. of butter, 



2 lbs. sugar,2 lbs. stoned raisins, 2 lbs. currants, 

 nutmeg, cinnamon, and cloves, — 16 eggs, yenst 

 and wine to wet it, 



Queen''s Cuke. — Four lbs. flour, 1 lb. sugar, 

 half pound butter, 4 eggs, a gill of wine and a 

 gill of brandy, a gill of cream — spice and fruit 

 as you please, — warm the wine, brandy and 



and the kinds of grasp) it should be raked and 



put into small cocks in the hot part of the day, cream, and put them together, 

 and remain there until cure^ for housing.— At- 1 Composiiion Cake.--l 3-4 lbs. of flour, 1 1-4 

 ter curing if it he carted and housed during the.|i,s. sugar, 3-4 lb. butter, 1 pint milk, 4 eggs, 

 ' ot pari of the day, whilst heate.i hy the sun, I a lea spoonful pearlash dissolved in a glass of 

 liille salt be adiled to each layer as il is j , vine— spice, Snd 1 1-2 lbs. fruit. 



occur, and each of the specimens should be dri- j put jnio ti.e mow, it will make excellent hay. — I Pound Cahe. 3 4 lb of flour, 1 lb. butter, 1 lb. 



ed, and tied up in at least two strong papers, j Sail prevents mildew, and renders the hay more of sugar, 10 eggs, and 1 glass of brandy. 



