1857. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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Keep a good look out, and if his feet grow uneven 

 pare them, that he may stand square on them. I 

 have seen not a few colts, two, three, or four years 

 old, whose feet and ankles were much out of 

 shape in consequence of their feet breaking oif on 

 one side, or wearing off,'';which might have been 

 prevented by paring their feet occasionally. If con_ 

 venient let him run out in a warm yard, or shed in 

 the day time, after he has done crying for his 

 mother. 



I have learned by experience, that sav/ dust is the 

 thing for horses to stand on. I had rather they 

 would stand on the clean floor than stand on their 

 manure. I think the best thing to cure a horse 

 that is foundered is to let him stand on saw dust — 

 at any rate, I have cured a number in this way. I 

 take off the shoes, keep their feet pared, and level 

 for five or six months, wash now and then with cold 

 water, and eight out of ten will get well. G. v. 



Plainjidd, Mass., 1856. 



SINKDTG STONES. 



I find many valuable suggestions in your paper, 

 and among them one on the subject of sinking 

 rocks, instead of blasting and getting them out. 

 This fall, I have been clearing up land covered with 

 rocks, many of them too large to be moved by a 

 team. So I set one man to drilling and blasting, 

 but soon found that would not pay. I recollected 

 reading a piece in your paper about digging under, 

 and sinking them, and resorted to that plan, and 

 soon found that one man would sink three times 

 the number that he could blast. The advantages 

 derived from one piece which I worked over in this 

 way has already paid me for last year's paper. 



Bethel, 1856. w. n. L 



Remarks. — You will receive still further benefits, 

 for where you have^ sunk the stones you have 

 trenched the land some two or three feet deep, and 

 if well drained it is in a condition to yield you the 

 heaviest crops, if properly manured. The land is 

 also kept on the same level, or, if anything, raised 

 a little, where the rocks are sunk, and they are still 

 present to attract heat and moisture. 



Mr. Er.iTOR : — A writer in your paper, over the 

 signature of *., speaks of an extra heifer, and wishes 

 to know where a better one may be seen, and at 

 what price. A heifer may be seen at the stable of 

 the subscriber, in Wilmington, Mass., that in Janu- 

 ary, 1855 made 42 lbs. of butter; in 20 days in 

 October, made 25 lbs. ; in the whole season, she 

 made 375 lbs. She was three years old June 3d, 

 1855. In July, 1856 she made 11% lbs. of butter 

 in one week. The first nine days in September, 

 made 18 lbs. 10 oz. Price five hundred dollars. 

 Yours, &c., Asa G. Sheldon. 



Wilmington, JVov. 24lh, 1856. 



THE HUBBARD SQUASH. 



Thanks to J. J. H. G., Marblehead, for a speci- 

 men of this squash. We intend to test it. 



The seeds of this squash so kindly sent us a year 

 ago, were planted on a good soil, came up readily, 

 made large and vigorous vines, and blossomed pro- 

 fusely, but — produced no fruit ! Not a squash set 



on them alL Was this a "sport of the season," 

 friend G., or did they need fructification from neigh- 

 boring plants ? We should be glad to try again, 

 if you can spare a few seeds. 



PRODUCT OF AN ACRE. 



Two years ago this summer, I raised on one scant 

 acre of ground on my farm, forty bushels of good 

 sound corn, one hundred and fifty bushels of pota- 

 toes, seven large cart loads of pumpkins, fifteen 

 bushels of carrots, twenty bushels of turnips, three 

 bushels of onions, forty cabbage heads, one bushel 

 of beans ; after using all we needed for our family, 

 and a lot of peas, more than we needed, and fifteen 

 bushels of sugar beets. g. v. 



Plainfdd, Mass., 1856, 



BLACK TEETH pf PIGS. 



Mr. Editor : — Is there any such disease as the 

 black tooth, or tush, as it is called ? I have examined 

 medical works, but can find no such disease des- 

 cribed. Last summer I had a nice thrifty pig which 

 died instantly while feeding. On examination I 

 found two small teeth on each side of the under 

 jaw that were black. A year ago I had a pig die 

 not quite so sudden. The same teeth were black. 

 On examination we found the heart extended, the 

 pericardium nearly gone, blood, coagulated, adher- 

 ing to the back bone. 



Can any of your readers tell me what ailed my 

 pigs ? I was informed a few days since, that on 

 board of vessels rosin was given to hogs for the 

 scours. Have any of your readers tiied it, if so 

 with what success ? 



Remarks. — Who can answer these queries ? 



ABOUT HEDGES. 



There was an allusion to hedges some time ago, 

 in the Farmer, by H. F. French. I wish to inquire 

 of him what kind of plant is best, and would be 

 fitted for the northern part of Vermont. I should 

 like to procure something fit for a hedge ornament, 

 and fence too, in front of my buildings. 



Parkersfield, Ft., 185 Horace Denis. 



CORN AND PLIMPKINS. 



Captain Cook, of this town, has one acre of land 

 that he has plowed but once a year and planted the 

 same with corn and pumpkins for eighteen years in 

 succession, and has had not less than forty bushels 

 of corn every year, and more or less pumpkins ; 

 has always put in each hill about half a shovel full 

 of common barn manure, and has applied no other 

 kind of manure in any shape. 



May be some one that talks about rotation in 

 crops will like to read this. G. v. 



Plainfeld, Mass., 1856. 



HOW IS CHAMOIS LEATHER MADE? 



In a late number of the Farmer you gave a 

 receipt for dressing skins with the fur on. 



Now, can you tell us how to prepare them soft, 

 without the hair, i. e. make chamois of them ? How 

 do the Indians and Backwoodsmen tan deer-skins 

 for jackets, moccasins, &c.? D. 0. K. 



jYov. 4, 1856. 



Remarks. — We do not know — who does ? 



