1868. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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furrow required 42 pounds less power than a 

 flat furrow, and on sharpening the ' cutter and 

 giving it more rake, the draft was further re- 

 duced to 453 pounds in a furrow 8x11 inches, 

 showing that the lap furrow required a less 

 power by 99 pounds than a flat furrow. 



No society in this country is doing more to 

 promote the interest of agriculture than that 

 of the State of New York. It is a power in 

 the land for good. Great credit is due it for 

 instituting these valuable experiments. These 

 followed on the heels of those relating to mow- 

 ing machines, and will undoubtedly be suc- 

 ceeded by others equally valuable and inter- 

 esting. 



I have enjoyed these opportunities greatly, 

 and am truly yours, Simon Brown. 



P. S. Before leaving town, Richard Brad- 

 ley, Esq., took most of the party over one of 

 his farms, where I saw the most extensive and 

 complete example of irrigation that there is, 

 probably, in New England. I hope to speak 

 of it more particularly at some future time. 



THE END OP THE HORSE. 

 When the horse falls, he is bled, and his 

 blood is preserved for the use of the dyer. 

 The mane and tail are next cut off for the 

 manufacturer of selves, hair cloths, and bow 

 strings for the violin ; the shoes are taken off 

 for the nailer ; the hoofs are cut off for combs 

 and various other kinds of horn work, and a 

 portion of the feet goes to the glue maker ; 

 the skin is stripped off for the tanner, who con- 

 verts is into excellent leather for boots, har- 

 ness, &c., and the collar-maker finds it in its 

 rough state, the best material for cart harness.. 

 The flesh is then cut up for carnivorous beasts 

 in menageries, or for dogs, and though with- 

 out knowing that they are (hippophagi,) a club 

 of horse eaters, who regularly advertise their 

 club days, some of our fellow creatures are 

 regaled in the cheap eating-houses of great 

 cities with delicate bits of carcass in the form 

 of pates, pretended beef steaks or soup. 

 When the flesh and fat have been removed, the 

 stomach and intestines are laid aside for ma- 

 chine straps and strings for musical instru- 

 ments, and are often sold for the latter pur- 

 pose as the best Naples cords ; the ribs are 

 turned into buttons and children's toys ; the 

 large round bones serve for tweezers, whistles, 

 ferules, knife handles, cups and balls, dominoes, 



&c., the large flat bones are of use to the idy 

 men for many things ; even the teeth are use- 

 ful when polished, to the dentist, and for many 

 purposes for which ivory is required. The 

 bones of the head are either consumed m heat- 

 ing furnaces, or crushed for manure. 



The remainder of the carcase is burnt, and 

 by this process produces ivory black, soot 

 black, and valuable manure. And from the 

 fat is extracte'd a coarse oil, which is used by 

 mechanics. 



MICHIGAN "WOOL BUYERS' ASSOCIA- 

 TION. 



A meeting of this association was held in 

 Detroit, June 2. By the report of its pro- 

 ceedings furnished by the Western Rural, we 

 learn that the "established rules" are to be 

 rigidly enforced by the association, as, among 

 others, the following resolution was adopted : 



Resolved, That we will buy wool only on these 

 conditions, nor put any local or travelling agents 

 in the market except upon the same terms, and 

 that in any case of deviation from thrse rules, on 

 the part of any such agents, we will withdraw them 

 from the market. 



In another resolution, surprise is expressed 

 that a spirit of antagonism should be manifest- 

 ed or encouraged by any wool grower or deal- 

 er to the full adoption of these rules. 



In his statement of the objects of the meet- 

 ing, the president, Thomas McGaw, said "there 

 seemed to be a determination among farmers 

 to sell wool in a bad condition, for the same 

 price as the best quality of wool should bring." 



This accusation against wool growers appears 

 to us to come with very poor grace ft-om the 

 president of an association which, by their 

 own rules, insist on buying wool only on a 

 principle which denies their agents the privi- 

 lege of discriminating between the bad and the 

 good. 



The mutton butchers of Faneuil Hall em- 

 ploy "travelling agents" in the Western States 

 and in Kentucky to buy sheep for their sham- 

 bles. But whoever heard of any oth^r rules 

 for buying "heavy bucks," fat wethers, or half 

 fed sheep, than the exercise of a sound and 

 trained judgment as to the value of each par- 

 ticular flock ? Why, then, should the manu- 

 facturers of wool expect, by any set of arbi- 

 trary rules, to avoid the necessity of employ- 

 ing, as their "travelling agents" for buying 

 wool, men of skill and experience ? The dro- 



