1868. 



NEW ENGLAND FARIMER. 



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arise, take up thy bed and walk back into the 

 country where laborers are scarce and wages high. 



Down here in Maine, in Somerset and Franklin 

 counties, poverty and want is not known. There 

 never was a time when the laboring man or woman 

 could do any better than now. We pay here 

 twenty to twenty-six dollars per month, and board, 

 for labor, and men are very scarce at that. In the 

 haying season we pay $50 to #75 per month. 



We have young men amongst us that clothe 

 themselves in good style, and lay up two hundred 

 dollars a year, by working on a farm for wages. 



Female labor is equally scarce. It is with diffi- 

 culty that we can get a woman or girl to do house- 

 work at any wages. o. h. 



Neio Vineyard, Franklin Co., Me., Feb. 16, 1868. 



SPRUNG KNEES — CUT "WORMS — SCRATCHES — 

 WORMS IN HORSES — FATTING HOGS. 



Tell J. M. Canney to put angle-worms into a 

 flannel bag and bind on to his horse's knees. A 

 sure cure ; and good also for all cases of contracted 

 cords. 



To stop cut worms from eating corn, I put a 

 table spoonful of lime in the hill, when planting, 

 and the same on the hill after covering. It will 

 keep the worms at a distance. Trj'- it. 



Commo« molasses for scratches on horses, well 

 rubbed in with a cob, will generally effect a cure 

 in three applications. 



For worms in horses I give poplar bark, cut 

 fine, and mixed with feed, and find it a perfect 

 cure. 



A little chalk and alum given to hogs will cause 

 the female to fat as fast as the male. 



Brimfield, Mass., March, 1868. Eli Powers. 



A QUESTION FOP. STOCK GROWERS. 



I know of a colt four years old this spring, which 

 is supposed to be smaller than it would have been 

 if it had been kept well. The question is. Can the 

 colt be made to grow more from this time than it 

 could have been made to grow if it had been kept 

 as well as would have been for its health and 

 gi'owth previous to this time ? f. 



Mast Yard, N. H., March 10, 1868 ? 



TO PROTECT ONIONS FROM THE MAGGOT. 



Put one ounce of onion seed in half a pint of 

 water, and add one ounce of fine salt and half an 

 ounce of saltpetre, pulverized. Set it in a warm 

 place, and stir it three or four times a day for 48 

 hours. Before sowing, pour off the water and mix 

 dry ashes to separate the seed, and sow in rows 

 from 16 to 20 inches apart. 



Samuel Palmer. 



Cornish Flat, N. H., March, 1868. 



ICE-HOUSE UNDER A MILK ROOM. 



I wish to inquire of yon or any of your correspon- 

 dents, if it would Ije a benefit to raising of cream to 

 build an ice-house under my milk house, which is 

 about four feet from the ground, so that a place 

 for ice might very easily be made, if any benefit 

 can be derived from it. G. W. Blake. 



Georgia Plain, Tt., Feb. 24, 1868. 



PLOUGHING AND HARROWING IN MANURE. 



Much has been said about the application of 

 manure; whether it shall be ploughed under or 

 dragged in with the han-ow. I think both ways 

 are right. On moist, heavy soil no doubt it is best 

 ' applied to the surface. Still I think I can show 

 neighbor Hubbard as good potatoes as he ever saw 

 raised where the manure was spread on the turf and 

 turned under ; the land harrowed and planted on 



top. My land is a dry loam. Last spring spread 

 a light coat of manure on my wheat ground and 

 dragged in a part and ploughed in the rest. I 

 could see no difference in the wheat or stocking. 

 I intend to do the same next spring, and'watchthe 

 hay crop on the same. . l. k. 



Randolph, Vt., 1868. 



AGRICTJLTUBAL ITEMS. 



—The proposed Exposition of Wool and Wool- 

 ens has been postponed until 1869. 



— Some careful men save hog's bristles to be put 

 on the edge of iron wedges to prevent them from 

 being forced out by frosty logs. 



— In Paris it was recently shown that duck 

 rearing is nearly three times more profitable than 

 hen rearing. 



— The apple, though the most important fruit of 

 the North, meets with very indifferent success in 

 Ohio, especially in the southern part of the State, 

 owing to destructive insects and heavy spring rains. 



— Dr. Dadd, now of Baltimore, says that he be- 

 lieves that the pleuro pneumonia, which made its 

 appearance in Massachusetts in 1859, is now prev- 

 alent in the State of Maryland. 



— "W. F. B."'writes to the Rural New Yorker 

 that he tried wintering bees in the cellar which 

 was dry, but their breath seemed to dampen the 

 comb and it became mouldy. 



— An English paper advertises a vacancy on a 

 farm for an agricultural pupil, and great pains will 

 be taken to give the young man an insight into 

 farming. Terms $1000 a year, and the use of a 

 horse, with hunting. 



— Some one writes tlTat the grass known in New 

 England as herdsgrass or timothy, derived its 

 names from Timothy Hurd who introduced it into 

 Rhode Island. The Quaker's called it Timothy, 

 and the world's people Hurd's grass. 



— Dr. Jas. R. Jfichols, of Haverhill, Mass., har- 

 vested 31 bushels spring wheat from one acre, last 

 year. , He was offered -^^ a bushel for it^but pre- 

 ferred to keep it as a family luxury. He sowed 

 500 lbs. bone dust and harrowed it in with the 

 wheat. 



— By the following operation, says the Rural 

 World, a fowl will be dead at once and the flesh 

 white. Open the bill and insert a sharp, narrow 

 blade into the back part of the roof, severing the 

 vertebras. Then hang up by the legs and let it 

 bleed clean. 



— The extent to which the country has been 

 covered with snow the past winter, and the unir 

 formity of its depth, arc noted as peculiarities of 

 the season. A more perfect protection from frees- 

 ing and thawing all over the Middle States was 

 never before experienced. 



— We are gratified to learn, says the Illinois 

 Prairie Farmer, that some twenty-five counties 

 have already reported examination of students 

 for the honorary and prize scholarships in the Ift- 



