1855. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



53 



Which is the best kind of spring wheat, and how; and give her the slops of the family mixed with a 



much seed will it take for an acre V ('/.) 



Are peat ashes-good as a fertilizer ? (e.) 



Young Farmer. 



Remarks :—(«•) There is, probably, no better 

 plow for breaking up grass land than the No. 33, 

 Double Eagle plow, where two or three catttle are 

 to be used. For four cattle take No. 35 1-2 of the 

 same construction. 



(6.) We have tried several kinds, but find noth- 

 ing equal to GJe's Paten' Eagle sh-aw and corn- 

 stalk cutter. It works rapidly with a single knife, 

 and is exceedingly simple in its construction. 



(c.) On ground mostly free from roots and 



quart of sweet shorts twice a day ; and she will 

 probably yield you an average of four quarts of 

 milk a day. When she is six years old, if kept in 

 the manner described, she may yield you an ave- 

 rage of six quarts a day for four years. She ought 

 not to go dry more than three or four weeks. 



For the Nrjr Eii'^land FarmiT. 



PRODUCTS OF A SINGLE ACRE. 



I am a subscriber to the Fnrmir, and am pleased 

 with it, both as an agricultural and family paper. 

 I see in its columns a tone of freedom, -which I like, 

 and a hatred of oppression, which every lover of 

 liberty must admire. 



I give you below a statement of the products 



stones a good steel-tooth cultivator is better than a f^om^one acre of ground, tor the last three years, 



horse-plow ; but on rough, stony lands, the plow 

 would be best. 



((/.) The best seed wheat we get comes from 

 Canada. A kind called the "Scotch Fife," is con- 

 sidered the finest spring wheat. On ordinary soils 

 six pecks are required, but on very rich land ji?ye 

 pecks will be sufficient. 



GAS LIME. 



If" T. H.," from New London, who in the Dec. 

 No. inquires about gas lime, will look at the Oct. 

 No. of the iV. E. Fanmr for 1853, page 455, he 

 will find an analysis of gas lime. T. o. J. 



FOOD FOR MILCH COWS. 



Mr. Editor : — I recommend to your corres- 

 pondent " Worcester," if he wants to raise milk for 

 market at the least possible cost, to feed half a 

 bushel of turnips, boiled with four or five quarts of 

 shorts, once every day to each cow. This, I think, 

 is the cheapest food for milch cows. Will "Wor- 

 cester" please give the result, if he trys it ? 



Dec, 1854. Yours, Hunter. 



Mr. Editor : — What breed of cows do you 

 consider the best for quantity and quality of milk 

 and butter — viz. : for one family where one good 

 cow W'dl kept will furnish milk sufll ;ient for all 

 purposes ? 



This is the query. Are not some of our natires, 

 as good milkers as some o{ the foreign blood, — De- 

 vons, Ayrshires, &c. &c. V 



"\Vc go in for natire born, so far as our experi- 

 ence goes, but we do want the "good article," any- 

 how. II- 0. Parker. 



Mancliester, N. H., 1854. 



Remarks : — A good Jersey cow would proba- 

 bly be the best where the milk is required only 

 for family use — say milk for bread-making, for the 

 table, with cream for the pitcher and for an occa- 

 sional churning. But Jerseys are at present high 

 and scarce, and some other breed may be found 

 which will answer the purpose. Select a native 

 cow four years old, Avith small limbs, a neck some 

 what slender, lean head, small nose and tail, with a 

 well-developed bag, reaching considerably forward 

 and with good sized teats. A middling-sized ani- 

 mal with a bright, lively countenance, but at the 

 same time gentle, 

 where a ton or a ton and a half to the acre is cut,\tleman. 



which I think is not bad. The first year I plowed 

 in the grass, and put about forty loads of manure 

 on the sod, harrowed and planted to corn, hoed 

 three times, and got fifty bushels. The second 

 year planted to potatoes, and had 315 bushels. 

 The third year sowed to wheat, put on eight bush- 

 els of ashes and 200 pounds of plaster, and had 

 twenty bushels. I also send you a sample of gold, 

 which I dug on the bank of a brook, which runs 

 through a farm that my father sold this fall to a 

 Californian. There has been somewhere from 

 fifty to a hundred dollars' worth taken out this fall, 

 by dillerent persons digizint; tor the fun of it. It 

 remains to be seen whether it will pay to work it 

 or not. 



Tours, &c., B. G. Russell. 

 Stowe, Vt., 1854. 



Remarks. — Your experiment shows what the 

 soil will do if it has a fair chance. There is no 

 doubt on our mind that farming is just as profitable 

 as a business ought to he, when it is properly con- 

 ducted. The gold came safely. Potatoes are 

 wanted more, and we hope your people will give 

 the potato crop the preference. 



A Good Move.— On the 5th inst., INIr. Werit- 

 worth, of 111., offered the following resolution in 

 the House of Representatives : — 



Resolved, That the Committee on Agriculture 

 inquire into the expediency of establishing a Na- 

 tional Agricultural School, uj>on the same princi- 

 ple with the National Naval and IMilitary Schools, 

 to have one scholar educated at the public expense, 

 from each congressional district, and to be estab- 

 lished in connection with the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion, so as the better to carry out the object of its 

 founder. 



Very good, so far, and we are greatly obliged to 

 Mr. Wentworth ; but will the resolution be passed, 

 and if it is, will the committee on agriculture press 

 the matter on the attention of Congress ? Judg- 

 ing from the past we fear not. But remember, far- 

 mers, there's a "good time coming," when your 

 voices will be heard at 'W'ashington as well at the 

 several State capitals. Asiile from its warlike ten- 

 dency, we consider the Military Acadamy at West 

 Point the best educational institution in the United 

 States. An Agricultural Academy, conducted with 

 the same energy and thoroughness, would be of in- 

 Feed her upon upland hay calculable advantage to our country.— C'o«/i//-?/(?c?j- 



