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NEW ENGLAOT) FARMER. 



March 



life, determined to make farming pay. It will 

 not be many j'Ciirs before our agricultural colleges 

 will turn out hundreds of sucli men. And the 

 more of them the better. So says Mr. J. Harris, 

 in his Walks and Talks in American Agriculturist. 



milk further than it is easier to estimate — ten lbs. 

 of milk being considered an average sufficient to 

 make one pound of cheese. 



— For manuring fruit trees, a mixture of peat or 

 swamp muck, with half its bulk of stable-manure, 



-A correspondent of the Country Grn<&man, I ^"'^ ''^''^"^•""^-^^^''-'"^ieth of leached ashes, will be 



at Gardner, Kansas, says a cattle dealer in that 

 place reports that he has bought 450 head of cat- 

 tle, from one to four years old, for .5(3,700, or only 

 a little over ^8 per head. Beef is plenty there at 

 two and a h If cents a pound. 



— For threshing wheat in Iowa, six cents per 

 bushel has been the ruling price paid the last sea- 

 son, to the owner of the machine ; he finding three 



found very suitable. The compost should l)e i)iled 

 for a considerable time and we'd mixed. If for 

 peach trees, soap-suds may be added with good 

 efTcct. For cherries the proportion of stable ma- 

 nure should be greater. 



— H. Vielle, living near Aurora, Illinois, died in 

 the month of December from the effects of inocu- 

 lation in doctoring a sick cow in May last. The 



men and six horses, and the owner of the wheat : ^■"^^' '^ ^^ supposed, had the hydrophobia, and Mr. 



finding live men and four horses, and feeding and 1 ^- received the inoculation while attempting to 



boardin"' the whole. thrust a piece of fat pork down her throat, the 



. ''. , , in i. , -1 ^ .., saliva coming in contact with a sore in his hand. 



— A grindstone should not be exposed to the i --t . , ■ , , . ,, 



. . ... , , , , . I He was taken with spasms, and continually grew 



weather, as it not only injui-es the woodwork, but 

 the sun's rays harden the stone so much, as in 

 time to render it useless. Neither should it stand 

 in the water in which it runs, as the part remain- 

 ing in water softens so much that it wears un- 

 equally, — "out of true." 



— "Wool Grower" writes the Prairie Farmer 

 that he has about come to the conclusion that the 

 only way in which we can be free from the neces- 

 sity for"niiddle men" in the wool business, will 

 be the institution of large wool fairs or markets, 

 where the growers and all classes of buyers are 

 brought together. 



— A disease styled the "chicken cholera," has 

 been very fatal during the latter part of the au- 

 tumn in many parts of Ohio, — geese, ducks and 

 turkeys, as well as chickens, being victims. The i 

 symptoms are a loss of appetite, a drooping of j 

 the head, the plumage disordered, the excrement 

 yellow, then death. No remedy has yet been found, j 



— A correspondent of the Conntry Gcnflemati, in | 



Avorse till his death, two days afterward. 



— At a meeting of the Piscataquis, Me., agricul- 

 tural society, A. M. Robinson, of Dover, was 

 elected President; Mordecai Mitchell, Dover, and 

 Seth Lee, Atkinson, Vice Presidents ; Lyman Lee, 

 of Foxcroft, Secretary and Treasurer ; A. S. Chase, 

 Atkinson, S. R. Jackson, Foxcroft, J. L. Roliinson, 

 Dover, trustees ; Luther Chamberlain, Atkinson, 

 member of State board. 



— The Lewiston, Me., Journal says that Mr. F. 

 M. Jordan, of Auburn, has conceived the idea of 

 using his large hot houses this winter for the cul- 

 ture of what the "genteel j'oung lady in the coun- 

 try" called "hen fruit." As a consequence a hun- 

 dred or two hens are co.r.fortablj and abundantly 

 lajing, under glass, deceived into the idea thnt it's 

 warm weather and the season for cheap eggs. 



— A correspondent of the Country Gentleman 

 assumes that the average price of com in Illinois 

 is now about 80c per bushel. For the past six 



I years he puts it at 30e, and for the si.x previous 

 Champaign County, 111., writes, Dec. 18, careful j ^^^^.^ ^^^^ j^^^.^, ^1^,^,^ 20e per bushel, and then says, 



farmers have alreadj' fed their stock six weeks, 

 and there is every probability that they will have to 

 feed beyond the 1st of April ; indeed there is every 

 reason to expect famine prices for feed and fat 

 stock of all kinds during next April and May. 



— The pursuit of agriculture, with diligence and 



if the best cuts of No. 1 fat beef don't fetch 7.5c to 

 $1 a pound in New York city, next April and May, 

 those men who are feeding 80c corn won't get pay 

 or interest for their investments. 



— As a possible explanation of the prevalence of 

 abortion among cows in the dairy districts of Cen- 

 prudencc, seldom fails of yielding, if not wealth, a tral New York, a correspondent of the Cotmiry 

 moderate iu'lependcnec. For the farmer who is | Gentleman mentions the fact that in not more 

 not in del)t, and the produce of whose farm is suffi- ' than one dairy in twenty are bulls kept over two 

 cient, with industry and frugality, to support his y^.-n-^ of age, and in most cases where the herd is 

 family, is, in reality, as independent in his eir- J g,„aii only a yearling bull is kept. This he thinks, 

 cumstanees as though he were worth a million. | ^yhcn continued through many generations, may 



—In reply to a question as to the weight of the | ^^•^'•'^ produced this disease, 

 gallon of milk usrd by the chee.se factories of New I — A correspondent of the Kentucky Uome Jour- 

 York, Mr. Willardof the Utica Herald says: prob- 'wai says : "I sow my lye when I dress my corn 

 ably 8.i pounds of milk would f)e about right for ! the last time; I use a one-horse harrow, in the 

 a gallon, icine measure. The usual rule adopted place of ploughs, and run twice in each row, 

 by our factories is to estimate 10 pounds of milk ' wliich leaves the ground very smooth and puts 

 to the gallon, the gallon being beer measure. We , the rye in bcautibilly, and I never failed to reap a 

 know no reason for this measure being adopted for good crop of rye, and my full and winter pastures 



