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NEW ENGLAND FAKTklER. 



April 



imitate nature in this case, we will put a barrel or 

 two of loam into the cellar in tlie fall, and after 

 the cattle come to the bani, we will take an old 

 dripping pan or other tin or iron dish, and till it 

 with loam, and after the "glide wife" has done 

 with thestovcovenfor the day, bake it until morn- 

 ing or until the natural moisture is all evaporated, 

 and we have an article that will dust like ashes. 

 AVlth this dust, your cattle once in a week or two 

 freely, and give them a good chance to rub them- 

 selves, and the lice will disappear without danger 

 of injuring your cattle. Deacon. 



North Vienna, Me., Jan. 27, 1868. 



Remarks. — We may congratulate ourselves on 

 one effect of the recommendation of the use of 

 these "deadly poisons." It has called out indi- 

 viduals who never before took up their pens to 

 write a sentence for publication, and thus devel- 

 oped talents which ought not to be again "hid in 

 the earth." 



ALL HAIL TE FARMERS OF TE LATTER DAT. 



Although seventy winters have passed since I 

 made my first appearance on earth, I can not 

 hold my peace. Though with a trembling hand, I 

 must respontl to my young friend "G. S.," in the 

 Farmer of Feb. 1. I am made happy when [ 

 learn through your worthy paper, taken by my 

 son, J. Baker, that the young farmers are beginning 

 to walk in their own shoes, instead of plodding 

 along in their father's old ones. I think "G. S." 

 is right as to cutting hay. I have proved it by ex- 

 perience. What he says as to barns I know to be 

 correct. I can say, give me a tight bam. I care 

 not if it is lathed and pla itered, with good ventila- 

 tors. I would have the stables so tight that ma- 

 nure never freezes. Keep the stalls well littered 

 with straw or meadow hay, and I will winter a 

 stock of cattle on three-fourths of the amount of 

 fodder that I can with the barn so open that I can 

 thrust my hand between the boards. What folly 

 to let grass stand until it l)egins to shell. Such 

 hay is nothing more or less, in a word, than small 

 grain and wood. 



Go on, young farmers, investigate for yourselves, 

 improve, experiment, and don't give over until you 

 prove to the world that you are masters of your 

 trade, and don't need ministers, lawyers or doctors 

 to lay out vour work for you. v. b. 



Brookfield, Mass., Feb. 3, 1868. 



TJNGUENTrM IX THE BLOOD, FOR LICE. 



I once assisted an experienced hand to insert 

 nnguentnm under the skin of a number of calves, 

 as recommended in the Farmer by Mr. Tallant; 

 and in about the number of days that he mentions 

 for the lice to be found dead, the best calf in the 

 lot died, and the lice with him. and the others ap- 

 peared numi) and stiff in their joints for some time 

 after, caused, as we supposed, by the poison. Pre- 

 vious to this cruel act the calves and lice to all ap- 

 pearance were in a thriving, healthy state. Insert- 

 ing poison enough into the l)lood which is the life 

 of the animal to kill the lice on the surface of the 

 body is aiiuut as consistent as it was for the boy 

 to set fire to the barn to rid it of rats. Both sure 

 remedies, but not advisable. R. m. 



Lincoln, Vt., Jan., 1808. 



APPLICATION OF MANURES. 



While enclosing my subscription I am halting 

 between twuoiiinions; whether to attempt to write 

 a few lines as to my experience in the ai)plication 

 of manures, or not to make the attempt. Some 

 advocate, without qualification, the plan of spread- 



ing and ploughing it under ; others, with equal pos- 

 itiveness, recommend harrowing it in. My idea 

 is that neither system will answer in all cases. 

 On some soils, and with some depths of farrow, 

 it may answer to plough in the manure, but I have 

 known heavy coats almost entirely lost by l)eing 

 ploughed under. But hardly feeling competent to 

 appear on paper, 1 defer furthfcr remarks. 

 Hyde Park, Vt., Feb., 1868. Orson Hadle^^. 



NARROW roads. 



I have often thought that farmers were not as 

 liberal as they should be in fencing out roads. It 

 is frequently the case that these fences are not 

 more than sixteen to twenty feet apart, which 

 causes the snow to drift into the travelled path, 

 badly. Except for the simple purpose of travel- 

 ling and repairing, the land fenced off for the road 

 lielongs to the farm from which it was taken ; and 

 the public has no right to it or to what it produces, 

 except as a passage-way. Until we have no land 

 that does not produce good crops, let us be more 

 liberal, and have wider roads. 0. Foster. 



Tunbridge, Vt., Jan., 1868. 



AN EXTRA HEIFER. 



I have a pretty little three-year-old heifer that is 

 coming in in April. She gives now four quarts of 

 milk per day, and seven quarts of her milk makes 

 one pound of butter. Her feed is hay and slops 

 from the house, without pny provender. If any 

 one has a better heifer will they let us know where 

 she is ? p. H. 



Milton, Vt., Jan., 1868. 



Remarks. — Probably every reader of the above 

 "honorable mention," will regi-et that the writer 

 has omitted to state to which breed or race this 

 heifer belongs. 



CURE FOR STIFLE. 



I have cured two bad cases, by simply dashing 

 cold water on the stifle joint, until it smoked well, 

 and repeated twice, (.'over the horse after you 

 shower him. l. h. d. 



Cornish, N. H., Jati. 20, 1868. 



"WHEAT IN" HAMPDEN" CO., MASS. 



The Agricultural Society of this county 

 awarded three premiums on wheat grown in 

 that county last season, at the rate of 25, 37 

 and 38i bushels per acre. The following 

 statements were furnished by the respective 

 competitors, and are copied from the Transac- 

 tions of the Society : — 



On the 28th of September, 18G6, I sowed 



li bushels of wheat on | of an acre of tobacco 



ground, with the following result : 



Cost of seed $4 60 



l^i bushels of lime 80 



Ploughing and sowing 4 00 



Reaping, binding and carting 5 00 



Threshing with machine, and cleaning 11 00 



Total cost $25 30 



Result : 28 bunbels of wheat at $3 $84 00 



1 ton straw 12 00 



Profit $70 70— $96 00 



East Long Meadow, Oct. 1, 1867. L. C. liuBT. 



The sample I exhibit is a part of oS] bushels 

 of Red Mediterranean wheat, grown on an 



