1855. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



359 



comes solidified. In wet and cold weather the I slightest prospect of their ever exhibiting any na- 

 milk is less rich than in dry and warm, and onjtural signs of life. They were perfectly "copper 

 this account more cheese is obtained in cold than | f^g^ened !" Luckily I only experimented on a 

 in warm, thousrh not m thundery weather, ihei ,, ^. „ , , , ,. ■, ,, 



season has its effects. The milk, in spring, is^^'^^l T^^'^'^'^ "^ ^^'^ potatoes, and discovered the 

 supposed to be the best for drinking, hence it joke in time to remedy it by planting potatoes in 

 would be best for calves; in summer it is best' their natural state. p. t. b. 



suited for cheese; and in autumn the butter . 



keeping is better than that of summer — tlie cows; mTT-n -rrrrvn TT-TtTn n-n nrwTrT« 



less frequently milked, give richer milk and con-| THE WORKING Oj! COWS. 



sequently more butter. The morning's milk is| Why should not cy/rs work for tlieir living, as 

 richer than the evening's. The last drawn milk 'well as other females— animal and human? We 



of each milking, at all times and seasons, is richer 

 than the first drawn, which is the poorest. 



were visiting a friend the other day, who owns a 

 small farm, and manages it well; and, in the 



. course of our oltservatious about his premises, he 



TTTT? "CATJ-M- T?T T?-DiT A xm I Called our attention to a large calf, the largest 



int. ± AKSUL iiLif.l'iiAJM i ! ojjg ^e g^.^,^. g.^^^ j^j the early age of two days old. 



In reply to our inquiries, some time since, as It was a beauty. We wanted also to see the cow 

 to the amount of provent required per day by Mr. that produced such fruit. He showed her to us. 

 Barnum's Farm Elephant, he has sent us the fol-'She was a good conditioned cow, but only of the 

 1^,^;,.^ ,-„+„^.,*^- „4. -ii i. • i i. 'ordinary size. He then remarked that the cow 



lowing interesting note, with a postscript respect- u 1 i i. i ^ i- t -u j. 



° ° . ^ t 1" belonged to a yoke of cows, which, with two 



• —^1— potatoes in copperas water. ^ther cows, yoked, had done all his farm work 



ing soakins: 



The Farm Elephant: — Copper Bottom Potatoes 

 Bridgeport, Ct., July 7, 1855. 

 Editor of New England Farmer : — Sir, — In 



for several years past, — hauling wood, drawinf^ 

 stone, plowinggreen-sward, harrowing theground, 

 hauling manure, &c. , itc. They worked as kindly 

 and more actively than oxen, and appeared in as 



answer to your inquiry in regard to the diet and igo^^^ plight, and produced as good -alves, and 

 _^- 1 i „r ,„ „ 1 • 1 u i T ij i. X 'gave as much milk as any kny cows, that did not 



weight of my working elephant, I would state* i u • j. i\ ^ \\ c i 



° •' o r ) work. He IS quite sure that a small fanner, who 



that he eats on an average one bushel of oats and! has no very heavy work to do— such as logging, 

 one hundred pounds of hay per day, Sundays and|&c., had much better keep four cows, and teach 

 all! His weight is 4700 pounds. He will ac- them to work, than to keep two cows only and 

 complish any kind of work set before him, and I ^ne yoke of oxen. The expense is less ; he will 

 „o^o +„ +• 1 ij. • 1 L i.\ i.1 c J.1 'set more milk, and will be able to perform as 



uses ten times better ludgment than three-fourths I ° , ^ r\e -c u i i- 



•J ° 'much work. Or coarse, if he works his cows, 



of the "help" which I am obliged to employ on he will give them extra keeping; and this will 

 my farm. Above all things, he is not an eye- 

 servant. Once set him at work piling wood, 

 picking up stones, or any thing else, and you can 

 leave him without fear of his playing "old sol- 

 dier" in your absence. Another capital negative [ other sex" in" tlie° service^ of man ; why", "pray" 

 quality is, that he dont pick up his duds and should not cows also be made to perform such 



enable tliem to give as much milk whilst they 

 work as less well-fed and more idle cows will 

 give. The females of our own species work, and 

 some of them work as hard as men ; the females, 

 too, of the horse genus, equal their mates of the 



start for home exactly at six o'clock in the after- 

 noon, as many other farmers' "assistants" do. 

 He is willing to labor till sundown, and even la- 

 ter, if work is pressing. On the whole, he is a 

 very honorable, industrious, intelligent and well- 

 behaved farmer ; nevertheless, I cannot conscien- 

 tiously recommend elephants as the cheapest work- 



ies on a farm. Tiiey cannot work in cold weath- 1 ticks on sheep, and thinking the remedy used 

 er, and of course would eat themselves up, trunk 'hero preferable to the one you recommend, I give 

 and all, in a single winter. ^t 



Truly yours, P. T. Barnvm. 



operations as may be consistent with their health 

 and usefulness in other respects? — Drew's Rural 

 Intelligencer. 



For the New Ens^land Farmer. 



HOW TO KILL TICKS. 



Mr. Editor : — In the June No. of the Farmer, 

 a subscriber wishes to know the best Avay to kill 



Take tobacco, about 10 pounds to 100 sheep, 

 and boil in water until the strencrth i.-^ extracted. 



P. S. — Do let me improve this opportunity to j reduce the liquor if too strong, (about 8 pailsfull 

 caution my brother farmers against "believing of liquor to 10 pounds of tobacco is the right pro- 

 all they read in the paners." Aliout planting portion,) and dip the lambs into it all over, tak- 



+• ,,„ T _„.,,i • „ ^ ,, , ,. 'in"; them out quickly squeezing out the liiiuor 



time 1 read in a newspaper that a sure preventive p ° ., / . ,./ /, i , k„ . .n i 



„ , ^ ^ ^ .from the wool. After tlie lambs have all boon 



ot tlie potato rot was to soak the seed potatoes in | thus treated, put the old sheep into a close yard 



in as small a space as can be and throw the re- 

 maining liquor over tliem with a pail. The ap- 

 plication should 1)0 made in a dry day and imme- 

 uiateiy after siiearing. One application will kill 

 every tick witliout any injury to tlie sheep. 

 Most of our sheep-growers consider tobacco bene- 

 ficial when sheep are not infested with ticks. 



water witli an ounce of sulphate of copper to the 

 gallon. I tried it, and it did prevent mine from 

 rotting and from chitting ! After tliey liad been 

 two weeks in the ground my man dug them up, 

 and found them sound inside, but as dry and 

 hard as a bono on the outside, with not the 



