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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jan. 



1-5 to come at the net weight, gives 8 2-5 lbs. of 

 pork as the product of 1 bushel of corn. If 8 2-5 

 lbs. of pork are iimdo by 1 bushel, or 5C lbs. of 

 corn, 1 1'). of pork is the product of 6| lbs. of 

 corn. 



From an experiment made by Samuel Linn, of 

 this c )unty, with 58 hogs, as reported in the Pa- 

 tent Oilioe Report for 1849,6^ lbs. of corn produced 

 1 lb. of pork. 



From the experiment of the Hon. H. L. Ells- 

 worth, reported in the Patent Office Report for 

 the year 1847, it appears that 3 4-5 lbs. of cooked 

 meal made 1 lb. of pork. This experiment was 

 on a small scale. 



Assuming thnt it requires 6| lbs. of corn to 

 make 1 Ih. of pork, the edit of its production will 

 be seen from tlie following table. The labor of 

 feeding and taking care of the hogs is not includ- 

 ed in the estimates : 



When corn costs 12Jc ^ bu., pork costs lie. ^^ ib. 



When corn costs 17c. ^ bu., pork costs 2c. ^ ib- 



When corn costs 2oc. ^ bu., pork costs 3c. ^ lb. 



When ci>rii costs HSc. ^ bu., pork costs 4c. ^ ft 



When corn costs 42c. ^ bu , pork costs 5c. ^ lb. 



The following table shows what the farmer real- 

 izes for his corn, when sold in the form of pork : 



When pork sells for 3c. ^ lb. it brings 25c a bu. corn. 

 " " 4 " " 33 



" '• 5 " " 42 " 



" " 6 " " 50 " 



The Glory and Renown of New England. 

 Mrs. Bateham, who conducts the ladies depart- 

 ment of the Cultivator, frcm which we have quoted 

 above, has been rambling over New England dur- 

 ing the past summer, and thinks "the days of its 

 greatest glory and renown have seemingly passed 

 away." We hope that it only seems so — that such 

 is not really tlie fact. To our eye. New England 

 never appeared brighter and more prosperous than 

 at the present time. The New England mind was 

 never more active, never scattered its blessings 

 more diffusely over the world in the way of its 

 books, its machines and manufactured articles, 

 than at the present moment. Agriculture is cer- 

 tainly at a higher point than it has ever before at- 

 tained, while the Homes of New England are 

 probably not surpassed by any in the world, in the 

 comforts and elegancies of life. Thei-e is a higher 

 degree of civilization among all classes than was 

 ever known before. The schools are not only 

 better, but all are required to attend to the means 

 of education; there is ropra in them for all, of what- 

 ever degree, and no good excuse is left for grow 

 ingup in ignorance and vice. The state of relig- 

 ious feeling in the public mind is better, as all sects 

 have more carefully considered the apostle's in- 

 junction to "love one another," which has greatly 

 broken down sectarian divisions. Poetry, painting, 

 music, with all the fine arts, and commerce and 

 manufactures, have all been in healthy progress, 

 while there are comparatively fewer poor, and a 

 greater general intelligence among all ; with this 

 increase of comforts and intelligence the duration 

 of human life has also increased. New England 

 is so threaded with railroads, and the communica 



tion from place to place so easy, cheap, and con- 

 venient, that it has become much like one great 

 family — we visit and see each other almost every 

 day. 



These circumstances are so favorable to 'physical 

 growth and mental development, that we can an- 

 nually spare from our homes enough of the sons < 

 and daughters of New England to found an "em- 

 pire in the west. These are the "stars that West- 

 ward take their way," carrying with them the 

 stern principles that well sustained them on our 

 "shallow, rocky soil," and which will enable them, 

 (with your assistance) to make the waste land of 

 the West to blossom like the rose. There, Mad- 

 am, does that look as though the "glory and re- 

 nown" of New England had passed away? Per- 

 haps we may be honored with a share of your next 

 visit, and discuss the subject more fully. 



CojiPAiiATivE Value of Different Kinds of 



Firewood. 



The Plough, Loom and Anvil, gives a table 



showing the comparative value of different kinds of 



firewood, which is worthy the attention of all who 



use wood as fuel. 



To those who are in the habit of using wood as 

 a principle article of fuel, a'knowledge of the re- 

 lative comparative value of the various kinds in 

 market cannot be unimportant, particularly as 

 the consumer is thus enabled to judge of tlie com- 

 parative difference in each, and consequently to 

 select the cheapest, or that which is offered in 

 market at the lowest price in proportion to its re- 

 lative value. For this purpose we have compiled 

 the following table, originally prepared from care- 

 ful experiments, conducted on the most correct 

 and strictly philosophical principles. It shows 

 the weight of a cord of different kinds of wood, 

 when dry, or seasoned, and the comparative value 

 of the same, assuming as a standard the shell-bark 

 or white-heart hickory : 



Lbs. in a Prop. Comp. 



curd. value. value. 



Each cord of wood, when green, is estimated to 

 contain 1443 lbs. of water. The farmer, then, 

 who takes a cord of green wood to market, has a 

 load not much less for his team than his neighbor 

 who should put on with his cord of dry white oak, 

 three quarters of a cord of seasoned pine, or make 

 up his load of more than iwo coris of dry white 

 birch . W e have always considered the carting of 

 water to market, especitxlly over rough and heavy 

 roads, an unwise and unprofitable business. 



