1854. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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do almost everything besides. A Canadian en- icidedly historical, too. So were Hogarth's pio» 

 gineer, neglected in his own province, is working tures, and told their story to the public with as 

 atTiptree, under Mr. Mechi's patronage ; soon the \^^ directness and force as Junius or the Dun- 

 imrilement IS to be ready which 18 to revolutionize . , . „ ,^ , . p ^.u^ o+;„„ 



SSitish agriculture, to"^ enable farmers to plow ^^^d, and were felt as keenly as any of the sting- 



twelve inches deep instead of five inches, and to 

 benefit agriculture aljout ten millions of pounds 

 per annum ! "What are all the budgets of rival 

 chancellors of the exchequer to this ? His guests, 

 the gentlemen of the top boots and gaiters at least, 

 were withheld, either liy utter blank astonish- 

 ment, or by not having heard so much Latin from 

 exclaiming Credal Judaus Apella ! However, the 

 sober truth remains, that we have now farms in 

 which steam does all the fixed machinery work, 

 that such farms are increasing in number, and that 

 machinery of every kind is so rapidly extending 

 that the farm is fast assimilating to the manufac- 

 tory ; and tliat the farmer and his laborers bid 

 fair, in another generation, to equal in intelligence 

 their brethren of the towTis. — Eng. paper. 



ing sarcasm of either. 



Hogarth would have found plenty of subject 

 matter in your picture on the right for one step in 

 the Rake's Progress. P;iS3 it along. 



STABLING AND PEEDING COWS IN 

 WINTER. 



Can you inform me through the columns of the 

 Country Gentleman how I can prevent my cowa 

 from lying in their manure when in the stable ? I 

 have tried every way that I can think of, but all 

 to no purpose — for every oiorning their udders are 

 80 filthy that it would take five or ten minutes and 

 one gallon of water to wash them clean. My sta- 

 ble floor is good, slopes back three inches in ten 

 feet. I clean it out every day and cover over with 

 clean straw. Unless I can find some remedy I 

 shall have to abandon stabling altogether. 



Should cows be fed before or after milking, or 

 does it make any difference in product of milk or 

 butter ? 



Ought cows to be subjected to long stripping, 

 or not ? I have a heifer with her first calf, that 18 



A GOOD HIT. 



The Pennsylvania Farm Journal, published at 

 West Chester, gives an excellent contrast between 

 the thrifty and thrift-/cs5 farmer, in two engrav- 

 vings, opposite each other. The picture on the 

 left shows the nice and convenient farm buildings, , 



tastefuUy set off with shrubbery, shade trees, fineiJ^^PO^^^ !« ^f"^ ^ ^f S ,^^^°' ""f ] ^^ ''.?,: Tin 

 r •' T , , 1 1 11 1- J to spend the time unless the product ot milk 18 in- 



fences, good gardens and roads, and all enlivened L^eased thereby. 



by the most active industry of men and teams in j^\^^ -which is the best straw and hay cutter 

 the fields. On the right, not a shrub or shade for general use with which you are acquainted; 

 tree is to be seen near the buildings. The roof of what is the price, and where it can be obtained? 

 the barn is in waves, like a troubled sea; the Or will it pay ^^*^^^^.*° ^J^"^\^^''^f ^J^^^j^"^^^^ 



weathercock is keeled over, while the doors look ^^^^^' ^^^ ^ J _ P "^ J , , i^ 



, , . « 1 m 1 1 your whole time at / o cents per day, ana can pur- 



as though they had just come out of a dreadful • ^^^^ j^ay at seven or eight dollars per ton ? 

 spree and didn't know which way to lean. Brok- Please give me all the information you can on 

 en slabs, old wheels, tin pots and cast off boots and [the above subjects, which will be^ tliankfully re- 

 used up crockery are scattered in the door-yard, ceived by 



Emaciated cows are mumbling away at the hay 

 stacks, while lank and haggard oxen are drinking 

 at a trough at the end of the house farthest from 



A SUBSCRIUER. 



Connellsville, Pa. 



To keep cows clean during the period of their 

 stabling, we have found it absolutely necessary to 

 the barn, and lean horses are collecting the scat-: clean the stables at least twice a day, and more ca- 

 tering blades of grass on the dreary looking pas- pei--ially in the evening just before spreading their 

 ture in the rear The sheep, with their backs ^«ds of straw for the night They should also have 

 , , • w . 1,, ,1 ^ ,, • . room enough to select a clean place to lie m, and 



humped up, might stand "all fours" m a two k^ tied so as to lie down and rise again without 

 quart measure. The foreground is embellished t^g least inconvenience. With these precautions 

 with the skeletons of dead cows, pigs and poultry, we have no difficulty in keeping them clean. 

 The hogs have just Ijroken through the rickety The udder of some cows is more easily drained 

 fence, which Tom is patching up, while Sam, club ^^^^^ o.^ others. Where necessary for completely 

 . , , , i. xu i •? t- 1 11 emptAang the udder, long-stripping must not be 



in hand, hangs on to the tail of a long-nosed, lop- ! g^^^^te^ C'ows which are not milked clean, di- 

 eared, race-hog, which he is belaboring with un- minish in quantity, and soon "dry up." The pro- 

 merciful blows. The 1)ull-dog, Grip, has another cess of stripping may possil)ly be continued so long 

 by the ear, whose direful squallings set the hens, m to be a waste of time, but we have never kno^yn 

 turkeys and geese into a perfect flutter. h" ««^"7'^°«,« ^^ this sort, for not one milker in 



„ '' 1 , ., . . xi 1 . • i twenty does the work thoroughly enough, especiai- 



To complete the picture, the lout-propnetor U^ ^^^^^.^^ ^h^ close of the year, when the sup- 

 sits in the piazza, perched on the hind legs of his Liies are given down more slowly, 

 chair, contemplating the scene before him, and A cheap and perfect straw-cutter has not yet 

 complacently listening to the rebukes of a woman pcen made. Those manufoctured by Emery, Rug- 

 11 1 u u I i. r 1 1 -1 dee. and others, consist of a cylinder or knives 



who has popped her head out of a broken window, » 71'. '„ n • „^„ ifi^ .,r„i ^„f «-;fK 



. / ii ' cutting on a roller of green hide, and cut with 



just in time to see the hogs destroy what few gar-L^.^..^^. "^.^^ ^nd rapidity, and do not easily get out 

 den vi-'getaljles were left, from former depredations. Lf order. They have but one serious defect — they 

 Your hit, Mr. /owraa/, is admirable — it is do- 'will not cut shorter than an inch, which will do 



