INEW ENGLAND FARMEM. 



I'liBUSllKl) i;y WILLIAM NICHOLS. ROGKRS' BUILDINGS, CONGr.i:sS STREET, (KOURTH DOOR KnT..^^.^^\T^^^?^I^^iKT.y 



Vol. If. 



1^ 



)STON, SATURDAY, APRIL 24, 1824. 



No. .-^0. 



arorrrs4JOH5nttr. 



\» Ihc Editor of the A'l ic England Farmer, 

 ?IR, — Being at llv; Shaker Villajre, in Canterbury, 

 . IL last fall, Mr. \'"inklcy showcd'nie a very larg 

 irt handsome pairof.'o'e ca/i'CJ, which he told mcllip 

 tended lo Icoep up to hay, and not turn them to g^a .^ 

 11 this spring, thinking they would winter brtt 

 he result they have sent me, (at my request) will 

 leir method of raising calves — with liberty of ti-ansml- 

 ug a copy to ycu for publication. It was a month if- 

 :r the letter was d;Ued before I received it, or I shoild 

 ave favored you with a copy sooner. 



LEVI BARTLETT. 

 TTarner, -V. H. .ipril 13, 1824. 



Canterbury, March 9th, 1824. 



RFsPECTf;p Fr,ii:ND. — I jnst received your le- 

 T of" the 26th ult. requesting information r(- 

 jeciiug the course we take in raising calves 

 Itbough willing' at all times, to communicad 

 iy thing lo our fellow citizens, that would hi 

 eneficial to them in any respect, yet we ar< 

 r from claiming any superior knowledge on thl 

 ilijecf. However, in compliance with your re 

 uest, we give you the foliowing.which has beei 

 jr spneral motle of treatment for many years 

 We let calves that came in the fore part o 

 arch, suck about a week or ten days, then takr 

 em from the cow, giving them a moderate a! 

 wance of new milk to drink till they havi 

 arnt to drink it freely; then put in some skim 

 ed milk; and we feed them u'hollv williskin-l 

 ed milk, takiiig- care to give it at about the 

 mperature of milk directly taken from the 

 •w ; by heating a part of il, and mixing it u"'(h 

 e rest. Care shoulii he tak.'n not to scald Li:e 

 ilk when heated; also not to give them ai>v 

 ur milk, for this will ni;.ke f))em scour. The 

 ough or vessel in winch they diiuk their milk, 

 ould likewise be kept clean and not nii'fered 

 get sour. 



We let (he milk stand about 12 hours, before 

 is skimmed: giving a calf at first abcui four 

 larts night and morning; increaj': g the mess 



need requires, till he is sis weeks old, from 

 hich time till ten weeks old, he will require 

 irhaps about twelve quarts per day. 

 When about ten weeks oi;! we begin to dimi- 

 sh the quantity of milk for about the space of 

 o or three weeks, at v/uich time v.e wean 

 em. During the whole process from two to 

 urteen weeks old, calves should be well sup- 

 ied with good hay, salt and provender ; such 



oats, wheat bran, and oil-cake ground fine: 

 ey should also be supplied with «curf or dirt 

 longh scurf is the best) which is a preventive 

 ainst scouring. 



The particular advantages to be derived from 

 e above method of treatment are the follow- 

 > • 



1. It is much cheaper than to let them suck 

 the ordinary way ; whereas it makes a great 



ving of cream for butter, and ih;;! '.viihout injur- 

 the calves if they are properly attended to. 



2. It prevents calves from moaning, or pining 

 much while weaning, as they would other- 

 e do, when taken from the cows. 



3. I( not only prevents the cows being injur 

 ed in consequence of the calves biting the teats ; 

 but also prevents their holding back their milk 

 iVom the milker, which often serves to diminish 

 the quantity of milk afterwards. The only dis- 

 advantage to be found in the above method of 

 treatment Is that it requires some more labor 

 to (eed them, where they thrive equally well in 

 every respect, as those do which are permitted 

 to suck in the ordinary way. 



Those two calves, mentioned in your letter, 

 which you saw here last fall, were a couple that 

 came late, and which we kept from grass, sup- 

 posing theytCoulddo better on hay; but the re- 

 sult gives us no encouragement to recommend 

 the practice, it being more expensive, and per- 

 haps no better; although the two calves above- 

 mentioned did equally well as those that were 

 turned out to grass. 



Should the whole, or any part of the above 

 meet with your approbation, you are welcome 

 to publish it i\i the New England Farmer. 

 Yours, with due respect, 



FRANCIS WINKLEY. 



To Ike Editor nf the M'ew England Fanner, 



Dfah Sir, — Your remarks, on my account of 

 S. B.'s experiment of fastening a dead lamb up- 

 on the limb of an apple free, page 289, vol. ii. 

 seem lo convey the idea that 1 had recommend- 

 ed the practice of feeding trees by the appli. 

 cation of dead lambs, or other putrescent ani- 

 rml substances as the most eligible way of ma- 

 nuring them. But it was very far from my in- 

 tention to wish you or any of your readers to 

 put that construction upon it. I have long had 

 my doubts, as to the great benefits, (as stated 

 by sonu' writers) to be derived from incarcera- 

 ting fr jit trees in a thick coat of white wash, 

 blue clay paint,or any other paste. And believing 

 vvith D. W. .Ir. that cleanliness is important to 

 *lie human family* — and that frequent and judi- 

 cious bathing is better than annointing the body 

 with bear's grease or fish oil, and ochre^ as 

 practised by the Hottentots, and many tribes of 

 liulians — I think it but rational to infer that the 

 circulation — (or inhaling and exhaling) the 

 gases is less impeded, when the tree* are kept 

 clean by soap suds, &c. and of course more 

 healthy, than when pasted — and my communi- 

 cation respecting S. B.'s experiment was rather 

 in confirmation ot D. W. Jr.'s statement of the 

 limbs immediately over his compost heap, than 

 for anj' other object. 1 most heartily concur 

 with you in thinking it to be a " disagreeable, 

 un»yholsome and wasteful way of manuring the 

 tree." L. 



Warner, JV. H. April 1 3th, 1 824. 

 BY THE EDITOR. It was not our intention to inti- 

 mate iu our remarks on the communication of our re- 

 spected correspondent, (published in a former paper, 

 page 2S9, vol. ii.) that he " had recommended the 

 practice of feeding trees by the application of dead 

 lambs to their branches." We agree with him and 

 D. W. Jr. ia opinion that any application which closes 

 " the pores of trees'" will prove injurious. We meant 



* See page 258, N. E. Farmer, 2d vol. on Fruit Trees. 



nothing more than to talie that opportunity lo cnti r :t 

 protest against the practice of some cultivators, of sus- 

 pending the carcases of lambs, and other small animalf, 

 on the branches of apple trees, and other fruit trees 

 near their dwellings, and thus diffusing noxious efflu- 

 via where thnir influence would be perni'.lons lo health 

 with little comparative advantage to the trees. 



SIEVES, OR BOXES FOR VINE!?. 

 Ta the Editor of the M:to England Farmer, 



SiR: — f, lometime ago, promised you, an acromit of 

 my methcil of making sieves, or boxes, to preserve me- 

 lons and other tender vines from the yellow bug, &e. 

 and now forward the following 



DIRECTIONS. 

 Take a strip of pine board (about three 

 fourths of an inch in thickness is most suitable) 

 eight or fen feet in length, and four or five in- 

 ches in width — plough one edge of it, with a 

 carpenter's plough or match plain — then mark 

 off an equal number of side and end pieces ; be- 

 fore sawing the side pieces run a brad awl thro' 

 where you want to drive jour nails, as it is not 

 so likely to split, as after it is sawed. The 

 side pieces eleven inches long — ends eight in- 

 ches long. They must be of this particular 

 size, because one yard of millinet will just co- 

 ver nitu3 boxes ; or a third of a yard will make 

 three covers. After having nailed your box- 

 es and divided your millinet, have some 

 thin strips or tongues, as the carpenters call 

 tbem. Press these with the edges nf the covers 

 into the groove — which fastens them much 

 cheaper and more expeditiously, than small 

 nails. I made about twenty last season, and 

 they effectually secured them from the yellow 

 bug, and (by sinking the edges of them in the 

 earth a little,) from worms — But if they were of 

 no use, but to guard against insects, they would 

 be worth having, as they keep off the cold winds 

 and greatly promote the growth of the vine* in 

 the early part of the season. 



I sesdyou the expense of making 100 of said 

 boxes and cost of materials in the place wiiere 

 I live. 



1 1 1-9 yds. millinet at 18 cts. per yd, 

 150 ft. boards at 50 cts. per hundred, 

 3 lb. shingle nails, at 8 1-3 cts. per lb. 

 Carpenter I think could easily make 

 100 per day, 



$2,00 

 ,75 



,25 



1,00 

 $4,00 



They would most probably last,- with good 

 care, a great number of years. 



Yours, &c. L. 



ROT IN SHEEP. 

 To the Editor of the J^'ew England Farmer, 



Sir, — 1 wish to inquire through the medium 

 of your very useful paper, whether there has 

 been discovered any efficacious remedy for 

 sheep in the spring, which have become low 

 and almost approached to the state called the 

 rot, viz. Vv'e often find sheep in this season of 

 the year so poor and diseased as to be unable 

 to stand, and at the same time have a good ap- 

 petite, eat well, and derive no nourishment from 

 their food : at length there sets in a profuse di' 



