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NEW ENGLAND FARjMER. 



May 



. ages — sixty In each lot, one of calves or year- 

 lings, one of yearlings or two-year- olds, and 

 one of two or three-year-olds ; or in other 

 ■words, I buv sixty calves every summer, 

 and sell sixty fat cattle. Of the 820 acres of 

 land, there are 700 of it in grass, so you will 

 see I have no difficulty in grazing them. I 

 know that many of you are ready to say I can- 

 not winter that number ' well ; we will see. 

 Seven hundred acres being in grass, I have 

 one hundred and twenty in cultivation. I 

 usually cultivate about thirty acres myself in 

 corn, "and rent out thirty acres more to some 

 of mv neisihbors for corn ; for rent of which I 

 get half of the corn in the shock, which gives 

 me 45 acres of corn. The other sixty acres of 

 cultivating ground I rent and get half of the 

 proceeds ; and in addition I cut twenty-five or 

 thirty acres of grass, tmiothy and clover mixed, 

 cut when the clover is ripe, timothy green. I 

 do not like ripe timothy hay for cattle — would 

 rather have straw. You will now perceive I 

 have 40 acres of corn, about twenty acres of 

 wheat straw, from live to ten acres of oats, and 

 twenty or thirty acres of hay all told, to winter 

 the 180 cattle. Now please bear in mind that 

 I graze eleven mouths in the year ; my calves 

 or yearlings as you may call them, (for they 

 commence as calves but get to be yearlings be- 

 fore the year is out;) they run on good grass 

 with what hay they will eat until the 15th day 

 of March. They are then put In a lot and are 

 still fed on hay with addition of shelled corn 

 or oats once a day. The yearlings, or next 

 older lot, run on grass with wheat straw when 

 there is snow on the ground or very cold 

 weather; and the 20 acres of straw Is as much 

 as they will eat up to the 15th of March ; they 

 then go to lot and are fed hay and about two 

 bushels and a half of corn apiece. The next 

 lot, intended for market in July, run on good 

 grass and feed on hay In cold weather until 

 the first week in Februarj'. 



Then I commence feeding them corn, five 

 shocks per day, with a barrel to the shock, 

 but still running them on grass until the 15th 

 of March when they go to the lot, still feed- 

 ing the same amount of corn. You will per- 

 ceive now that all my stock go to lots on the 

 15th of ^larch and remain twenty-five or thirty 

 days. I always turn to grass from the 10th 

 to the 15th of April. But it must be distinctly 

 understood, to winter 180 cattle on that amount 

 of provender, they must have a full supply of 

 blue grass. 



Massaciiu.setts Steei'.s. — Mr. Joseph Bean 

 of Putnamville, Danvers, Mass., has a pair of 

 Grade Durham and Native Steers three years 

 old next April, raised by himself, that weigh 

 3200 lbs. One of them girts seven feet, the 

 other seven feet and one inch. They are well 

 mated and well trained. Mr. Bean hauled bis 

 hay in with them last season. 



TUMOB FROM A COW'S THROAT. 



A few weeks since a gentleman from Essex, 

 Mass., loft at this office a tumor which had 

 been removed from the throat of one of his 

 cows. The memorandum which accompanied 

 it has unfortunately been lost and the name of 

 Its owner Is not remembered. According to 

 our recollection of his statement, the tumor 

 was attached to the upper part of the throat, 

 and rested upon the tongue. As it enlarged 

 It prevented the animal from swallowing, to 

 such an extent that she pined away, lost 

 strength, and must soon have died. The tu- 

 mor was removed by extending the jaws of the 

 cow with an Iron ring, through which the op- 

 erator succeeded In cutting off the tumor, 

 which weighed one pound. After Its removal 

 the cow was able to eat, gained strength and 

 flesh rapidly, and is now In good condition. 



By most who saw the tumor at our office it 

 was thought to be fibrous ; a class known as 

 "non-malignant," and harmful mainly In a 

 mechanical way, as by impeding the functions 

 of some Important organ. But anxious to as- 

 certain Its true character, and not being posted 

 ourselves In relation to the nature of tumors, 

 we submitted this interesting specimen to Dr. 

 Ephralm Cutter, 13 Pemberton Square, who 

 makes a specialty of throat diseases In human 

 subjects, and who has successfully removed 

 tumors. In some cases where they had de- 

 prived the patient of the use of the voice. 

 One of these he exhibited to us, which though 

 much smaller than that from the cow, looked 

 ugly enough. 



The Dr. states that the physical characteris- 

 tics of this tumor, under the microscope, are 

 those of a cancerous nature, and that it is by 

 no means Improbable that It may grow again. 



CHEAP FERTILIZER. 

 For several years past, Mr. L.E. Metcalf of 

 Franklin, Mass., has used, as he recently In- 

 formed us, a compost of salt, ashes and 

 plaster on all his farm crops with results so 

 entirely satisfactory that he feels safe In re- 

 commending it to others. Without being very 

 exact in weighing or measuring the ingredi- 

 ents, he intends to mix one part of salt with 

 two parts of gray rock plaster, and then adds 

 about an equal bulk of wood ashes. The mass 

 is then thoroughly mixed, and allowed to stand 

 a few days before using. If applied alone, 

 about 300 pound are spread upon the land, 



