1855. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER, 



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ters with what they are fitted for, as well as you j move about without coming in contact with it ; 

 can the land. We have an example of this in , these minute breathing holes become filled, and 

 the tautog, which is highly prized about Ply- they die. When the remedy is properly applied, 

 mouth. They were unknown m Massachusetts , , .^ ^ *'. ., r^ • u ,. 



Bay till 1790; when a fisherman took a load from i ^« ^'^^'« ^^^'^''^ '^""^^'^ '^ to fail. It requires but 

 Nairaganset to Boston to sell ; but as they hadj^ very little oil, but the application maybe neces- 

 not been in the market before, nothing could be sary two or three times. William Bethel, of 

 obtained for them, and they were finally loosed | Quechee Village, Vt., will find hie inquiries 

 from the well o[ the boat near Charles i^iveri^j^g^gj.^^ j^gj.^ 



bridge, and have since that time stocked the 



coast. In the same way any fishes may be trans- for the New England Farmer. 



ported from one shore to another adapted to „^„„.„-_. .„ . .^,^.„.,. .„^.,. „._^ 



their habits; and where they will live in fresh i MONTHLY FARMER FOR MARCH. 

 water, from the oceans to the ponds. The rivers] Why is Farndny Despised? — A clear-headed 

 s, hundred milc« in the country might be filled statement here* of six reasons, — one of which is 

 with bass, or others that line the running wa- thus expressed: "There is a seemingly natural, 

 ter ; and ponds, like Winuipisseogee for instance, innate repugnance — common to almost every in- 

 mtght furnish cod, pollock, haddock and macker- dividual — to daily manual labor." To which the 

 eL It were certainly worth the experiment. Itjeditor appends this remark: "All the result of 

 would be an easy thing for the farmer, if heleducation." My recollection of the process 

 coufd run to his little brooks for his dinner, as he I through which 1 passed in learning to endure 

 does te his barn-yard ; and so it would be to per- daily manual labor, my considerable experience 

 soas on the sea-coast, if they had their live fishes in training boys to habits of continuous industry, 



where they could always be taken. In the Sand 

 wich Isiaads the natives form fish ponds all along 

 the shores, and they are a source of revenue to 

 the owners. They leave a channel for the fishes 

 to enfcer that would spawn, and then close the 

 mouth so as to retain the big ones and let the 

 small ones go free. Those retained, become by 

 care large and fleshy. If, however, fishes could 

 not be transplanted from the oceans to the ponds, 

 they could from our western lakes, and thus the 

 whole country might be supplied without going 

 abroad. — Neicburyport Herald, 



For Ike Sew England Farmer. 



LICE OK CATTLE. 



If not now, the time is near at hand when ver- 

 min will trouble our cattle. I'he extra keeping 

 of six quarts of oats per day, will not keep the 

 fiesh gotKl when :he skin is covered with these 

 destructive insects. I will give my method for 

 killing the lice, which may he beneficial to the 



and my reading and observation, are decidedly in 

 favor of the innate theory. We may naturally 

 love play and activity, but it seems to me that 

 we as naturally hate drudgery and steady, hard 

 work. The Indian glories in the chase, but he 

 scorns to labor. Can it be "the result of educa- 

 tion" that his "untutored mind," and body too, 

 revolts from daily toil "with a repugnance too 

 intense to be overcome by any system of educa- 

 tion, or by any amount of rewards or severity of 

 punishments ? "Slavery and the slave-trade," 

 says Bancroft, "are older than the records of 

 human society." But, why was there ever a 

 slave in the world, or, if slaves, why the lash 

 and whipping-post, if this repugnance were not 

 innate and common alike to both master and ser- 

 vant? "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat 

 bread," was pronounced as a curse, and as a 

 curse it has ever been regarded by the human 

 race. Submission to this decree may prove to be 

 the wisest course for us, as submission to the 

 sentence of earthly tribunals is for transgressors 



readers of the ^Fanner. Sprinkle your stable ^^ i^^J'i^^^^^^'^^'i yet the "sweat of thy fiice" 

 floor with charcoal dust, (which is easily pro- j^"^*^ the "hard labor in prison" remain punish- 



cured at any blacksmith's shop,) put four quarts 

 under the fore feet of every creature, and if the 

 lice arc very plenty, sprinkle some on their backs, 

 then apply the card faithfully, and in a few days 

 you will find you have conquered the enemy. 

 Canaan^ Vt., 1855. 



Remarks. — Excellent suggestions, for several 

 reasons- The charcoal will not tan the living 

 hide, as some people do witli ashes and ley, nor 

 poison the animal as others do with unguentum. 

 If the charcoal does not kill tlie vermin, it will 

 prove an excellent absorbent in the manure heap. 

 Let this little fact be ri?moiul)ercd and practised 

 upon, and no one need to be troubled with ver- 

 min on their cattle or poultry. "Insects do not 

 breathe through their mouths, but through little |ture.'| 

 holes, called spiracles, generally nine in number 



These remarks are made in the conviction that 

 the question i^ one of the highest practical im- 

 portance. If we look upon repugnance to daily 

 manual toil ;is the result of education, then it 

 may be cured l»y education ; and agricultural 

 colleges may be just the things to inspire that 

 love of hard work, to impart that gift of con- 

 tinuance in daily toil, and to establish those 

 habits of enduring industry, Avhich shall give to 

 the scythe and axe, the hoe and manure-fork, 

 even stronger attractions than the yard-^tick and 

 gold-pen now have for our aspiring youth- But 

 if, on the contrary, we believe tliis repugnance to 

 be innate, — "bred in the bdiie," — natural, then 

 sliall we hope to ovcrcoiiie it only l)y such course 

 of training as shall finally, by force of liahit, 

 estaltlish the love of industry as a "second na- 

 This of course re([uires time. Not only 

 from day to day, liut from year to year, must the 

 labor" be c(mtintied. before the 



ii/^v.^ «o^u =; i„ «f iu I 1 51 XT Til 1- "daily manual laDor oe c( 



along each side of the body." Now, if the skin N^^^ ^^ -^ ,,^^^11 ,„.,,t^.^ ^,,^. ^^,5, [^ jg ^^ i^„g 



and hair are oiled or greased, and carefully i process, but good Yankee farmers can be manu- 

 ruljbed all over the animal, the insects cannot, factured in no otlier way, either in New England 



