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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 



chips that are unfit to burn ; and if you are conve- 

 niently situated for it, get sea-weeds from the sea- 

 shore, oyster shells, old bones, horns, etc., etc. 

 Dead animals are of great value. The offal from 

 a slaughter-house, worthless scraps of hides, BONp:s, 

 etc., etc., should be used only with large quantities 

 of common soil, or of some other solvent. Not one 

 in a hundred turns to the best account the contents 

 of privies, hog-pens, soap-suds, and other kinds of 

 waste. 



Pardon us for asking why will you tax yourselves 

 so severely by neglecting any of these modes of im 

 proving your lands ? It may be only such neglect 

 that keeps you in poverty ; and though you enter 

 upon the work with many painful doubts in rela- 

 tion to the result, we will assure you against loss 

 from any such operations, if conducted with tolerable 

 discretion. 



Now is the time to commence tliis system of 

 operation for the next year. On every leisure day, 

 let the time be occupied in these preparatory labors. 

 Every hour thus spent is worth sometliing, and will 

 tend to fill your purse at the time of harvest. 



Almost all farmers sadly neglect their barn-yard 

 manm-es. Were these properly cared for, their 

 value, as a whole, would be more than double. 



Having thus suggested the means by which man- 

 ures may be provided, the next inquiry is, how and 

 where shall they be used ? Perhaps we are unable 

 to give the iuforjnation that many would desire, for 

 reasons suggested in the last number. Perhaps you 

 have an enclosure that for many years produced 

 very large crops, and you just looked on and watch- 

 ed your opportunity to tai^e from it the most you 

 could get, returning nothing to it. It may be that 

 it is so situated that it is almost able to take care of 

 itself, like much of the interval on the Connecticut, 

 which is annually enriched by being overflowed. If 

 this is so, we should labor to hasten this process of 

 improvement, and should do all in our power to get 

 this soil back into the condition of a fertile field. 

 When tills is accomplished, talce the next promising 

 lot, leaving the more desperate cases to the last. 

 AVhen you plow your clayey grounds, fill in, with- 

 out stint, a sandy compost. If the field is sandy, 

 plow in a clay compost. This need not be a costly 

 job, but generally is practicable for the poorest far- 

 mer. If you have a boggy meadow, a thorough 

 ditching will be a part of the process necessary in 

 reclaiming it, wliile the material thus thrown out is 

 exactly what some other soil most needs. Compen- 

 sations are not found only in the structui-es of ani- 

 mals, but they occur in almost every farm the world 

 over. — The Plourrh, Loom and Anvil. 



GALLS mi HOESES. 



Mr. Editor : — I have noticed lately in several 

 agricultural papers remedies suggested for galls on 

 horses. Canal horses are more cruelly galled than 

 horses in any other service. Generally they lie idle 

 during the winter season. To a considerable extent, 

 also, the horses of the farmer are but little used 

 during the winter, especially when more than one 

 span is employed on the iiirm. Ordinarily a single 

 ])air is well fed on grain so as to do the chief por- 

 tion of the winter work, and the rest are kept at a j — — 



cheaper rate, and do little or no work until sprinir. i ^^-^ t> ^j. ■ ^^• • j-/r <. -*■„ ^e n;,;^ o+ 

 Tu u • *u 1 ^ 111 i' 1, ..1 (5^ Butter is selhng m different parts of Utuo at 



i he result is, the breast and back of horses thus' ""^ , i 



idle become tender, and when the hard work ofl^f"" 10 to 13 cents; cheese 6 to 8 cents; and eggs 

 spring commences, and the weather is warm and, 8 to 10 cents. 



the animal sweats freely, the skin bemg tender is 

 scalded, and then galled. 



Now, prevention is better than cure. A cooling 

 application, that will toughen the skin before use, 

 and prevent inflammatory action when used, is what 

 is needed for the work horse. From long expe- 

 rience, I have found these results to follow the use 

 of spirits saturated with alum. I keep a bottle of 

 alum and whiskey in the stable, and bathe the part 

 pressed by the hames, or breast-coUar, and also the 

 back, for several days, before the horses commence 

 their spring work, and also along through the sea- 

 son occasionally, when there is special danger of 

 scalding the breast. I have thus passed entire sea- 

 sons, employing constantly not less than five horse 

 teams in farming uses, and have not lost the ser^^ce 

 of a horse a single day, for years together, on ac- 

 count of sore back or breast. This remedy will en- 

 able a sore to heal, although the animal continues in 

 constant use. 



Now the remedy I have seen most frequently and 

 highly recommended is the application of wliite lead, 

 in some form or other, to the injured part. I have 

 at an early period tried tliis remedy — have used it 

 when I knew nothing better — but dislike it much. 

 It answers the purpose, I acknowledge, — makes a 

 hard, tough scab or incrustation on the sore, likely 

 to terminate in a white spot, if the hair ever grows. 

 But I consider this tanning the skin into leather, 

 while on the horse's carcass, to be a tough business, 

 to say the least. — Wool Grower. 



IRON SETTEES FOR PIAZZAS AND 

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