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KEW EXGLAXD FARRIER. 



Aug. 



spoken of by many. A. Williams & Co.. 100 Wash- 

 ington street, has the latter, and would prob.ahly 

 furnish cither of Mayhew's, postage paid, on re- 

 ceipt of price. We can assure our correspondent 

 that responses from him will be received with 

 pleasure at any time, and that his plea of want of 

 competency is shown by the letter from which the 

 above is an extract, to be utterly void and of none 

 effect. You are altogether too modest. We shall 

 have plenty of room this summer for what young 

 farmers have to say as to their own experience or 

 as to the practices or theories of others. Free your 

 mind! 



A GOOE cow IN A GOOD DAIRY. 



I am milldng nineteen cows this season, all of 

 ■which are civing what I call a good mess. Several 

 of them will give from thirty-tive to forty pounds 

 of milk per day. I have one cow, of the native 

 breed, eight years old, and raised by myself, which 

 goes so far ahead of the otht.r>:, that on seeing the 

 hint of your correspondent "F." about steelyards 

 increasing the flow of milk, that I thought I would 

 weigh her milk lor a few days. She dropped her 

 calf abont*the middle of April and has given a 

 large nie-^s ever since, though she has had only a 

 common chance with the other cows. The milk 

 was weighed on platform scales, which are consid- 

 ered correct, with the following result: — 



Morning. Evening. 



Jure 15 — !tis. — oz. 25 tbs. 12 oz. 



" 16 1*5 " " 25 " " 



•< 17 17 " 8 " — " — " 



"18 19 " " 27 " 10 " 



"19 18 " 4 " 23 " " 



"20 1" " '■ 27 " " 



"21 16 " 8 " 24 " " 



"22 17 " 4 " 25 " 8 " 



Totals 123 8 177 14 



Waking 301 pounds and 6 ounces in 7 days ; or 43 

 pounds and almost one ounce per day. On account 

 of my a'lscnce from home, the evening mess of 

 June 17!h was not weighed. I also weighed her 

 milk at night, June 24, when she gave 27 pounds. 

 Last evening, Jiin^ 2o, noticing that her mess was 

 larger than u-ual, I found she gave 31 pounds of 

 strained milk; and this morning, June 26, her 

 milk weiiihed 18 pounds and four ounces ; making 

 the two miikings of last night and this morning 

 49^ pounds. 



"SHOE-BOIL." 



1 have a valuable horse who had a shoe-boil on 

 her leg as large as a goose egg. Last October I 

 had it cut out, it then being a hard bunch. It 

 never healed, and it is now a raw fove, twice as 

 larg? as before. What can be done for it ? Can 

 you, or any of the readers of your valuable paper, 

 give me, through its column", any iiiformatiim as 

 to the best method of treating it ? Would it do to 

 tie a cord around it and let it rot off ? 



W. P. Griffin. 



Annisquam, Mass., June 21, 1868. 



Remarks. — AVe suppose our correspondent 

 means by 'Shoe-boil" the swelling which is some- 

 times caused by the shoe or hoof in lying down. 

 After the part becomes sore and painful the horse 

 will often avoid lying on that side or lie in such a 

 way^s not to aggravate the evil. We think he did 

 wrong in cutting out the bunch. He must now 

 do Bomething to prevent the irritation which pro- 

 duced it in the first place, and which still keeps 



open the running sore. A large cushion is some- 

 times made, some three inches or more thick in the 

 middle and tapering off at the ends, stuffed with 

 straw or some other material, and buckled upon 

 the leg, between the foot and knee, while the horse 

 is in the stable, to prevent the dou1)ling up of the 

 limb so as to bring the shoe or hoof against the 

 "boil," or irritated part. Will some experienced 

 horseman reply more fullj'- ? 



CORN con MEAL. 



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As I have used cob meal for some twenty years, 

 I wish to corroborate the statement of my neigh- 

 bor, "T. S. F.," recently published in the Farmer, 

 as to its value, especially when prepared according 

 to his directions. Two years ago I determined 

 to give the cob meal a fair trial, as I had a cow 

 that was to give milk all winter. She was fed 

 constantly with cob meal, and gave the most milk 

 we ever got from one cow during the winter sea- 

 son. 



On speaking the other day with one of my 

 neighbors about what was said in the Farmer 

 of cob meal being very injurious to horses, he re- 

 plied by saying, "Well, accordingto that doctrine, 

 my old horse, now sixteen years of age, ought to 

 have died long ago, instead of being as smart and 

 lleshy as he is, for he has eaten lots of meal in his 

 life, made by grinding corn and cobs together." 

 In my opinion corn and cob meal is better for a 

 horse than pure corn. Some farmers here are 

 willing to pay a small price for cobs when their 

 own supply is short. Don't waste even corn cobs. 



Wm. Wilkins. 



Felchville, Vt., June 28, 1868. 



mending roads. 



Why is it that highway surveyors will continue 

 the old way of mending the roads, or rather mak- 

 ing them worse, by carting and throwing on loam 

 and sand from the sides, instead of digging down 

 the hills and knolls in the roadway, thereby ob- 

 taining better material for the road and improving 

 the grade ? Some towns have boucrht gravel for 

 years, to repair their highways, when tiiey had 

 gravel of better quality nearer, in the hills of the 

 highway. Even if a little harder digging, it would 

 seem to be policy to benefit two jjlaces instead of 

 one, when it can be done at the same or less cost. 

 Often have I seen the survej'or team gravel one 

 mile and pay five or six cents per load for it at the. 

 pit, when better gravel could be had for the tak- 

 ing within forty rods of the place where it was 

 wanted, and lower the grade of the road at the 

 same time. Most toivns in New England have 

 plenty of good material for building roads, in the 

 hills of their own roads, although sometimes it 

 might have to be teamed a considerable distance. 



lieading, Mass., June 24, 1868. z. 



A GOOD HEIFER. 



My neighbor, I. W. Raynolds, of Tunbridgc, 

 Vt., has a one-fourth Durham heifer, from one of 

 his native cows, which at twenty-one months of 

 age dropped her first calf, weighing siventy-sevcn 

 pounds, last Aiiril. Mrs. Raynolds set her milk 

 separately the first week in June, making from the 

 cream thereof seven pounds of good yellow butter. 

 The heifer had no feed except grass. O. Foster. 



ritnbridqe, Vt., June 27. 1868. 



WHITE MAPLE St'GAR. 



I noticed an inquiry in the Farmer whether 

 sugar can be profitably made from the common 

 White Maple. I used to suppose that it could not. 



