1857. 



m:ew England farmer. 



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others, which we shall find room for when our pres- 

 ent pressure is abated. An article in the Working 

 Farmer on the education of farmers' boys, and la- 

 borers, ought to be perused by every farmer. 



EXTRACTS AND REPLIES. 



BUTTER MAKING. 



I have been in the dairy business for about twen- 

 ty years, and my wife as long ; we have tried all 

 the ways recommended to make butter, and nearly, 

 all Kmds of churns. I take four agricultural papers, 

 and never M-rote a word for either of them. I 

 think my experience worth as much as a man that 

 never made a pound of butter. I have always sent 

 my butter to the same market, and generally got 

 good prices. About two years ago, a friend of 

 mine sent me a circular, highly recommending Ty- 

 ler's Butter-Working Churn, with particular direc- 

 tions for using it. It struck me as something new 

 and useful. I ordered a number 4, of Henry 

 Holmes, of Grafton, Vt., proprietor the two past 

 years. I have worked my butter, and mixed the 

 salt in this churn, and in no other way. I only 

 work it once, as the direction says, and then take it 

 from the churn, and pack in the tub. I can work 

 20 lbs. and salt it in less than ten minutes. My 

 butter has never kept as well before, or given as 

 good satisfaction. I am fully satisfied I have saved 

 better enough to pay for six chuTns, and at least 

 one-half the labor. I don't know Mr. Holmes, but 

 I do know and appreciate his churn, and his princi- 

 ples in butter-making. I am informed the churn 

 has taken 36 premiums in two years, and I am glad 

 of it, for there are now many in my neighborhood, 

 and highly approved ; and as a farmer and nothing 

 else, I feel it my duty, in this day of impositions, to 

 speak out in favor of a good article, when I know 

 it to be such. A Windsor Co. Vt. Farmer. 



Ludlow, Vt., Feb., 1857. 



Remarks. — That is a plain story, and comes from 

 the heart, no doubt. We have never tried the 

 churn, but have heard it highly spoken of. Next 

 June we shall probably make butter from six or 

 eight as good butter cows as can be found on the 

 hoof anywhere, and we will make it in the Fyler 

 churn, if he will send us one. If it proves well, we 

 will say as much for it as you have ; if not good, 

 we will speak just as plainly. Isn't that fair, Mr, 

 Vermont Farmer ? 



HORSES — now TO BE USED. 



Mr. Editor : — I rejoice to see the same senti- 

 ment echoed from Maine, New Hampshire, New 

 York, Rhode Island and Massachusetts, as to the 

 inexpediency of testing the value of the horse by 

 the speed of his movement. It seems to be admit- 

 ted on all hands, that a mile m four minutes is am- 

 ply sufficient for every ufeful purpose. If this con- 

 clusion is the result of the exhibitions that have re- 

 cently been forced upon our view, it must be ad- 

 mitted that some good has come out of evil. As 

 to female equestrianism in public, no one now pre- 

 tends to advocate it. The wonder is that any fe- 

 male, having the least regard for decency, should 

 have ever presumed thus to exhibit herself. I 

 trust there will be no more such exhibitions. * 



Februanj 23, 1857. 



the garget. 



1. Do you consider a cow any more likely to 

 have the garget on account of once having had it ? 



2. Would the fact that a cow had once had 

 the garget, and apparently well recovered from it, 

 depreciate the value of it in your estimation ? and 

 if so, what per cent. ? 



3. Is there any reliable preventive for this dis- 

 ease in cows, and if so, what is it, and when, and 

 how should it be administered ? f. 



Lempster, jV. //., Feb., 1857. 



Remarks.— 1. Yes— if she had it badly. 



2. Yes — 10 per cent. 



3. We have the evidence of several good farmers 

 that Aconite administered, ten pellets at a time, 

 and continued once in twelve hours for three or 

 four days, will cure the garget. 



It should be given the moment there are symp- 

 toms of the disease, in a little ball of meal, mixed 

 up with water. 



ONIONS. 



In your paper of January 31st, I see an inquiry, 

 by "a subscriber," wishing to know how to raise 

 onions, and says he can raise "maggots and scul- 

 lions." Now the method I have practised in my 

 garden to make them bottom is this ; — at about the 

 time that some commence to bottom and others do 

 not, I pass along the rows, and flatten, or break 

 down the tops to the ground ; thus preventing the 

 juices from ascending into the stalks, which then 

 must be retained in the bottom, and give them a 

 greater growth. For the maggot preventive, I 

 have tried salt brine and ashes, but not with so 

 good results ; although I have not been troubled 

 much with them, late years. I think that to com- 

 municate with brother farmers on the results of 

 our experiments, back and forth, is right, and if you 

 think this will be any benefit to any one, you are 

 free to publish it. A Farmer. 



Vermont, 1857. 



SWEDISH TURNIP SEED. 



Thanks to Mrs. C. S. Morton, of Heath, for a 

 small package of this seed. Will you come and 

 take tea with us when we raise one large enough 

 to dig out and set a table in ? Mrs. C. says her 

 husband has raised a turnip that would weigh twen- 

 ty-three pounds ! California will please to stand 

 back. 



a hint TO farmers' clubs, 

 Mr. Editor : — Would it not advance the inter- 

 ests of farming for the formers, at the close of their 

 club-meetings, to appoint committees to examine 

 the different branches of farming ? Let those com- 

 mittees be so arranged that every member shall be 

 on every one of them ; then, after the harvesting 

 is done, have an annual meeting, or a neighborhood 

 festival, which may be held in a grove. At these 

 meetings, let each member bring a sample of his 

 fruit, vegetables, grain, corn, butter and cheese. 

 Have a committee to examine the specimens, and 

 give their opinion who has produced the best. Al- 

 so, at these meetings, have a full report from each 

 committee, giving an account of each farm, the 

 manner of cultivating, and what kird of soil, the 



