1857. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEMER. 



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SKIM-MILK FOR COWS. 



As I have two cows which give milk and have no 

 pig to take the sour milk, I am desirous of knowing 

 through your valuable paper, whether the sour 

 milk is of any value to the cows or not. I have 

 been feeding it to them, but find they are not fond 

 of it, but by mixing it with slops and the addition 

 of a handful of dry meal upon every pailful, they 

 will drink it. Some of my neighbors tell me the 

 milk will cause my cows to be worthless for the 

 coming season. 



At present, the cows look finely, and I never had 

 cows give more and better milk. 



Reading, Jan., 1857. A Subscriber. 



Remarks. — Your cows, sir, are a capital ther- 

 mometer. They will rise and fall according to 

 your treatment of them — and they give you the 

 best possible evidence that skim-milk i s good for 

 cows as well as pigs. You are doing well, and need 

 no advice of ours. 



A LETTER TO MT NEIGHBOR. 



JVeighbor G.: — Your fine orchard on the hill- 

 side is deeply buried in the snow. If our "Janua- 

 ry thaw" has the usual effect on trees so situated, 

 (only the very tops of some appearing above the 

 drifts) the branches will be frozen into the snow, 

 which, as it sinks, vail carry them with it, and in 

 the end tear them from the tree. So, neighbor, 

 here is work for the prudent man. G. 



Remarks. — A very seasonable and important 

 hint. We found it necessary to attend to this mat- 

 ter as early as last week, as the limbs of some ap- 

 ple trees nine years old, "on the hill-side," were 

 buried in snow. Shovelling away must be done 

 with great care, as the limbs are extremely brittle 

 at this season of the year. Look at your young 

 pear trees, shrubbery, pines, arbor vita?, currant 

 bushes, raspberries, &c. An hour's labor now will 

 preserve the fair proportions of many a beautiful 

 plant. 



FINE noGS. 



Mr. Wales Lewis, of this town, recently slaugh- 

 tered two pigs, 8 mos. and 26 days old, weighing 

 325 and 382 pounds. Another of the same litter 

 weighed 340 pounds. The breed is propagated by 

 Mr. Joseph Spillar. F. BuRNllAM. 



Haverhill, Mass., 1857. 



WIND-MILL— FAN-MILL. 



There was an inquiry in your paper, Jan. 17th, 

 about wind-mills. I have a wind-wheel that has 

 been in successful use for three years, for cutting 

 fodder with sufficient power to draw a cross-cut 

 sa'w ; it can very easily be made portable ; it cost 

 some over $30, and could be made for less; it is 

 simple and durable. 



I also have a new small fanning-mill that will 

 do as much work and as well as a large one, is 

 much easier and more convenient. I carried it to 

 our county fair last fall, drew the first premium, 

 and have had calls for a number of dozens then and 

 since. Both the above are my own getting up, and 

 they work well. C. C. Shepler. 



Waterbury, Ft., Feb. 2, 1857. 



A TURNIP CROP. 



W fitted quarter of an acre as we would for corn, 

 made the rows a foot and a half apart, and put 

 about two table-spoonfuls of lime, ashes, plaster 

 and hen manure, in hills one foot apart, dropping 

 one seed in each hill. Hoed them twice, and har- 

 vested 156 bushels. The seed came from Penn- 

 sylvania, and were called "sweet turnips." They 

 weigh about 70 pounds to the bushel, and are good 

 the year round for table use or cattle. In market 

 they bring 50 cents per bushel, must he sowed as 

 early as the 10th of June. 



Bradford, J\lass. J. Knox & Son. 



A PORTABLE WINDMILL. 



In answer to the inquiry, whether there is a 

 Portable Windmill for driving a cross-cut saw, &c. 

 Mr. H. S. Rogers, Hampton, AYashington Co., N. 

 Y., states that there is, and that by addressing him 

 at that place, he will furnish further information. 

 See article above. 



CEMENT PIPES. 



. In the January number of the Farmer, I notice 

 an article from the Ciiuntry Gentleman, treating 

 upon cement aqueduct pipes, in which the writer 

 speaks very cautiously of the amount of pressure 

 upon them. I am desirous to learn what amount 

 of ])ressure an inch, or one and a half inch pipe, 

 would sustain. Whether an aqueduct could be 

 safely laid down a gentle slope of about 100 rods, 

 with a fall in the whole distance of 40 to 50 feet ? 

 If you or your corresjjondents could give the de- 

 sired information, it would be thankfully received 

 by One of your Readers. 



mibraham, Feb., 1857. 



METEOROLOGICAL. 



A. Shafter, Bradford, Vt., will please accept 

 thanks for his carefully prepared and interesting ta- 

 ble of the weather for January, 1856. 



THE TRUNK APPLE. 



We have already stated that we do not know 

 the residence of the correspondent v/ho wrote us 

 about the Trunk apple, and can give no informa- 

 tion respecting it, 



"Minnesotian" will probably find pear and 

 quince seeds at Nourse, Mason & Co.'s warehouse 

 in this city. His other question we cannot answer. 



"H. L. R." is informed that the sugar cane seed 

 may be purchased at the Agricultural Warehouses 

 in this city, and a pamphlet gives instructions for 

 its culture, and expressing its juices, and making 

 the syrup. 



Connecticut State Agricultural Society. — 

 Officers chosen for 1857 : — President, Nathaniel B. 

 Smith, of Woodbury ; Vice-Presidents, Charles H. 

 Pond, of Milford, Norman Porter, of Berlin ; Cor- 

 responding Secretary, Henry A. Dyer, of Brook- 

 lyn ; Recording Secretary, T. S. Gold, West 

 Cornwall ; Treasurer, F. A. Brown, Hartford. 



