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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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Farmers can readily compare iheir own experi-,dition, and give you a good return for your atten- 

 ence with these results. So far as my own obser- lions. Let the sun in upon them if you can. 

 vation extends,' they would tend to confirm these j Barley, meal is good for any stock, and we can 

 observations generally, though with some modifica-,see no necessity of going through a course of ex- 

 lion?. The white chenango, and all the other long^ change to get it into corn meal. Your milch cows 

 white potatoes, have been most subject to disease.' will always be glad to see you approacliirg with a 

 I have never heard that Kidney shaped potatoes bucket of barley meal. 



were more exempt than other varieties. Early 

 planted potatoes have, I think, usually stood the 

 best chance, and dry or well drained land is certain- 

 ly better than wet land, to prevent the disease. 

 The favorite variety for the table, with me and my 

 neighbors, just now, is the round blue or pink po- 

 tato known as the Dover, or Riley, or Worcester 

 potato. It was introduced by Capt. Riley into Do- 

 ver, N. H., and hence tliose names. It was exhibit- 

 ed at the Mass. Horticultural Exhibition last sum- 

 mer, as the Worcester seedling. With us, it is a 

 first rate table potato, yields well, when highly cul- 

 tivated, and rots less than any other variety that is 



fit to eat. Excepting that it is rather a late than an] ' . , , , i j t rru 



^ ^ °. .... . . .1 almost sand when dry, grows rank weeds, cvc. Ihe 



APPLE TREES — HORSES. 



Mr. Editor: — 1. I sowed a nursery in Dec., 

 1854, with sweet winter apple seeds ; what proba- 

 bility is there that the trees will bear such fruit, so 

 that it would l)e safe to leave some ungraited ? 



2. I learned from one of Fowler's books that a 

 person could tell from the shape of a tree, its bark, 

 leaf, &c., what was going to be the fruit. Can you 

 give me any information in the A*. E. Fanner, or 

 direct me to any work on the subject ? 



3, I intend to set out an orchard, soon, on good 

 corn land of two or three different kinds of soil ; 

 first, stiff loam, not very stony, medium red ; second, 

 light, stony, pliable loam, dark brown, stony open 



and third, a verv light, vegetable mould, 



early variety, it tends to fortify the conclusions of 

 our Prussian friends, 



EXTRACTS AND EEPLIES. 



DR.\TN TILE 



Are advertised in your paper, "manufactured by 

 Crafts & Beals, Whalely, Mass., NourhC Mason i- 

 Co., Boston, Agents. Yet, in your November num- 

 ber, in an article l)y Henry F. French on "Thor- 

 ough Draining," he speaks of procuring tiles from 

 Albany, and the same thing was done to try an ex- 

 periment in draining on the State Farm at West- 

 boro'. 



Why go out tf our own State to procure for its 

 uses that which can be had cheaper and better at 

 home? "Sx.iTE Rights." 



Remarks. — We certainly can see no good rea- 

 son why our people should not send to Whately 

 for what tile they wish to use. We are assured 

 that the Whately tile are superior to the Albany. 

 Messrs. Crafts & Eeal are men of integrity, and 

 ought to have a host of customers in this State. 

 The tile are needed on most of our farms, and in 

 many instances, are cheaper than stones. 



I have two shoals in a small bam cellar where 

 there is some manure collected from the cattle 

 yard during summer. I also keep a horse and cow 

 in the barn over the cellar, and the manure is daily 

 dropt into the cellar below. Is it advi.-able to 

 still keep them there, or what is jour opinion ? 



Is barley meal good for cattle or milch cows, or 

 would it be more profitable to sell the barley and 

 buy corn to feed to cattle .'' J. Potter. 



Hopewell , R. I., 1856. 



Remarks. — Pigs require a warm and light place ; 

 light is indispensable to health and thrift. If the 

 cellar has these two requisites, together with a 

 proper ventilation, and plenty of clean and nutri- 

 tious food, your pigs ought to be in a happy con- 



whole slopes to the south and slightly to the east. 

 Now can you divide the usual list of apjiles in two 

 or three parts to suit the different soils, so thai 

 each kind will have its appropriate soil ? 



4. Can you refer me to an elementary work on 

 the subject of horses, colts and mares, so that an 

 ignoramus like me can learn to buy, raise, bi'eak 

 and manage them with some prospect of success ? 



5. Can you tell me anything about creosote as a 

 curer for meat — anything practical, I mean? 



Clarence, JS''ova Scotia. Wm. R. Dodge. 



Remarks. — 1. Very little indeed ; but by leaving 

 a few trees in their natural condition, you may find 

 a new fruit which will prove worthy of cultiva- 

 tion ; but there would be, perhaps, not one in a 

 hundred that would be good. 



2. Skilful nurserymen will often tell a Baldwin, 

 Hubbardston or Greening by the ap])earance of the 

 tree, because they differ not only in the form and 

 size of the leaf, but materially in the spurs and 

 branches and general formation of the tree. But 

 they would find it difMcult to tell wliat fruit would 

 grow on a seedling by the appearance of the tree. 



3. No, Sir, we possess no such skill, — nor can 

 we refer you to man, or book, who does possess it. 



4. Linsley's new work on the Morgan Horse 

 will be a great help to you in that way, if you really 

 are a novice. 



5. We know nothing of creosote in curing, nor, 

 indeed, do we desire to, only to let it alone. It is 

 one of those powerful irritants which ought to be 

 kept away from every thing we intend to eat. 



HOW TO TAX CHAMOIS SKIN. 

 In answer to the question shout tannivg chninois 

 skin, I will state that my exjjerience wiih a back- 

 woodsman in the Nevada Mountain was to use 

 the brains of the animal killed and make a liquor 

 of it. After soaking the hide ten days in water, 

 take from it a thin film upon the inside, which will 



