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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 



outer edge of the hill, say six inches apart. Ihen 

 insert eight or ten poles just within the circle, at 

 equal distances from each other, and tie the tops of 

 the whole together— forming a cone. Cover up the 

 seed and wait the result. Each of these hills will 

 yield you a peck or half a bushel of dry beans 

 next 'fall— which, if you have but a dozen such 

 .rblUs, will give you perhaps half a dozen bushels. 

 Tms will be enough for your purpose. By this 

 .course but a little land is occupied. Pole beans 

 jieldiTueh more abundantly than bush beans, and 

 ocfujv' air, whilst the latter must have the surface 

 of the pMXh. If you wish to produce your own 

 dry bean«, reader, try this system the present sea- 

 son. 



EXT-RACTS AND KEPLIES. 



MILLET. 



Please inform me where the seed can be ob- 

 tained ? If it will do well on ordinary land ? How 

 much seed is required to the acre? If the proper 

 way to seed would be to mix the millet, Timothy 

 and clover together, and how much of each, or the 

 two last named, to the acre ? E. D. Takbell. 



Chester, Ft., 1857. 



Remarks.— The seed is sold at the agricultural 

 stores, and will give a good crop on ordinary corn 

 land. Eight to twelve quarts of seed per acre are 

 sufficient. Cut the crop when green if you do not 

 wish it to exhaust the land— then plow in August 

 or early in September, and sow your grass seed. 

 Sow twelve quarts of Timothy seed and six pounds 

 of clover per acre— but sow the clover seed next 

 March on the snow. 



and forth, is not less than three hundred miles a 

 year; that is an item of expense of some conse- 

 quence. The barn-yard should face the south if 

 possible, with a shed or high fence to keep off 

 north-easters. Cattle, sheep and swine, indeed, all 

 the stock of the farm, love the sun; and it is bet- 

 ter for them, especially for young cattle, in quiet, 

 sunny days, to spend a portion of the time in the 

 open air, basking in the sun, but sheltered from 

 cold winds. So arrange accordingly. 



A manure cellar is of importance in several re- 

 spects; it prevents evaporation and desiccation ; it 

 keeps the manure from freezing, thus affording the 

 farmer an opportunity of working it over during 

 the winter and mingling it with other materials, 

 and, if he chooses, of hauling large portions of it to 

 his fields. It enables him to save nearly all the 

 liquid portions of the manure by introducing dry 

 muck or loam, leaves or other litter. 



There should also be a portion of the cellar re- 

 served for roots, vehicles, grind stone, casks, &c, 



(b.) White pines are easily transplanted, grow 

 rapidly, are beautiful to look at, and answer the 

 purpose of a screen as well as any other tree. The 

 limbs should be left close to the ground, and the 

 trees well mulched the first few years. But other 

 trees may be mingled with them to suit the taste 

 of the operator. 



(c.) We cannot say what sheep are the best- 

 but those the best kept will soon be good If not the 

 best. 



BARNS, TREES, &C. 



I take the liberty of asking your advice about 

 the arrangement of barns and sheds for a farm of 

 130 acres, both for convenience and the saving of 

 manure ? Whether a cellar is of much importance, 

 cmd also the best way of saving the liquid man- 

 ure ? (a.) 



What kind of trees are best to set in a hedge 

 to break the wind off from the land and build- 

 ings ? (6.) 



Can you give any information about the basket 

 willow, its present price per ton, and whether there 

 is much demand for it at its present price ? 



What kind o*f sheep are the most profitable for 

 a farmer to keep who keeps only a few, as regards 

 the wool, lambs and mutton ? (c.) 



By answering the above you will greatly oblige 

 Ludlow, VL, 18j7. An Old Subscriber. 

 Remarks.— (a.) To answer your inquiry as to 

 the arrangement of barns and sheds for a farm, 

 and answer satisfactorily to ourselves, would re- 

 quire considerable time and space. The internal 

 arrangement we will say nothing about ; that de- 

 pends upon the kind of farming thi>.t is to be done, 

 and very much upon taste. The location is very 

 important. If too near the house, there is the dan- 

 ger of fire, in case the house is burned, and the in- 

 convenience from unwholesome odors in warm 

 weather. WTiere a barn is ten rods from the house 

 we tliink the amount of travel between them, back 



REMARKS ON THE STIFLE CASE. 



Mr. Editor : — I noticed in the Farmer an in- 

 quiry, "What would cure a stifle ?" lonce bought 

 a mare seven years old which had a dislocated sti- 

 fle ; it was so bad that she had not much use of 

 her leg. I took a peck of fine, strong hemlock 

 bark, which I steeped and boiled down quite strong, 

 and washed the stifle with this hot liquor, and 

 warmed the part with a hot shovel ; in three weeks 

 the mare was apparently sound. I bought her for 

 $25 in Februarv, 1844, and the next May she was 

 worth 8100. I" write this that it may benefit Mr. 

 G. W. Hayes, Jr., and others. L. Ames. 



Vermont, 1857. 



ABOUT A COLT. 



I have a colt who is continually rubbing himself, 

 and had rubbed the skin off in many places before 

 I noticed anything ailed him ; upon examination, I 

 found in spots a kind of wart dried upon his hair 

 next to the skin. By rubbing, the skin and hair 

 comes off" in spots from the size of a three cent 

 piece up to a ten cent piece ; the skin heals up in 

 a few davs. I would Hke to be informed as to 

 what rem'edy I shall use for it? What will pre- 

 vent dandruff on colts ? B* 



Marlboro', .Y. H., 1857. 



FTLER's churn, and GOOD BUTTER. 



A "Windsor County Farmer" will please accept 

 thanks for his generous and prompt action in rela- 



