1854. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMEE. 



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immersed iu business, he is still the ardent lover 

 and student of the beautiful and wonderful forms 

 and changes about him. lie knows that 



'•There's beauty all arounJ our paths, if but our watchful eyes 

 Can trace it mitlst familiar things, and through their lowly guise." 



"We hope his pen Avill not be idle, — but that 

 through it he will continue to speak to us, until 

 our appreciation of the beautiful is as comprehcn 

 sive as his own. 



POULTRY AND EGGS. 



Few persons, we apjirohend, have any correct 

 idea ofthe magnitude of trade, botli at home and 

 abroad, in poultry and eggs. Having recently had 

 our attention directed to a work embodying some 

 • interesting statistics on the subject, we jwoposc 

 placing them before the reader. The amount of 

 sales of poultry at theQuincy market, Boston, in 

 the year 1848, Avas six hundred and seventy-four 

 thousand four hundred and twenty-three dollars, 

 wliile for the city of Boston, they exceeded four 

 millions. The number of eggs sold in Quincy mar 

 kot was 1,12U,735, the price paid for them being 

 about $20o,352, or an average of IScts. per doz- 

 en. The sales in the Avhole city, it is supposed, 

 fell little short of $1 ,000,000. the daily average 

 consumption of eggs at three of tho hotels, iu that 

 year, was 200. 



The city of New York, however, it is estimated, 

 expends a million and a half of dollars yearly, in 

 the purchase of eggs. Probably the amount in 

 1853 was much larger, as the above estimate was 

 made in 1848. One single dealer in Philadelphia 

 sends to this city daily, one hundred barrels of this 

 commodity. 



Ireland and France are great egg-exporting 

 countries. "VVc have not the most recent statistics, 

 bat they are of sufficiently late date to rippvoxi- 

 mate to the present condition of the trade. M'Cul- 

 loch says that the amount paid yearly by Eng- 

 land to Ireland for eggs and poultry is from 

 £200,000 to £300,000. The yearly value of eggs 

 alone exported from Ireland t# Great Britain ex- 

 ceeds £100,000. The number is probably 70,- 

 000,000 and 80,000,000. The British census for 

 1841 gave an ad valorem estimate of the poiiltry 

 stock in Ireland, in which each fowl was valued at 

 only sixpence sterling. According to this estimate, 

 it showed that in the province of Leinster the 

 stock of poultry amounted to £50,243 ; in Con- 

 naught, to £35,210 ; in Munster, to £(32,830, 

 and in Ulster, to £47,883; making a total of 

 £202, 172. But even at the low average named, 

 tho amount proljahly much exceeds this, as the 

 people supposed the inquiry was made to obtain 

 the basis of some new t;ix, and reported the num- 

 ber a8*bcing less than it really was. 



The numl)er of boxes of eggs shipped by the 

 city of Dublin steam j-jacket company's vessels to 

 London during the year 1844-5 was 8,874. A 

 box of the usual dimensions contains 13,000 eggs. 

 but occasionally larger ones are used, capable of 

 containing four times tluit number ; so that about 

 23,505,500 are annually shipped from Dublin to 

 London. To Liverpool, in the same year, in the 

 same company's vessels, were shipped 5,135 boxes 

 containing 25,505 eggs : giving a total export from 

 Dublin to two ports of England of 48,539,900, 

 valued at .£122,500. Since then, however, tho 

 trade has enormously increased. 



In 1840 Great Britain imported from Franco 

 txnd Belgium 90,000,000 of eggs, the duty upon 

 which (one penny per dozen) amounted to £34,- 

 000. Nine-tenths of the foreign eggs imported 

 into (Jreat Britain are from France. The impor- 

 tation thence in 1842 Avas 89.548,741; in 1843, 

 70,415,831 ; aiid in 1844, 67,487,920. The yearly 

 importation ex "eds 80,000,000. The consumption 

 of eggs in Paris is estimated at upwards of one 

 hundred millions yearly. Supposing a fowl to pro- 

 duce one hundred and twenty eggs annually — 

 which is perhaps a fair average — tho reader may 

 imagine the immense'stock of poultry that must 

 be kept in France. Any one who has travelled 

 in that country is aware that they are reared in 

 vast numbers, tluey being the most profitable stock 

 on the many small farms owned or tenanted by 

 the French peasantry. 



The late poultry shows have tended to awaken 

 new interest in the breeding and rearing of poul- 

 try by our own fiirmera, especially tliosc whose 

 land IS situated near large cities, or where there 

 are means of rapid transport to such cities. Though 

 we are far from believing all the stories which in- 

 terested parties, or amateur poultry keepers put 

 forth, there can be no question that, with econom- 

 ical management, the poultry-yard becomes a 

 source of Lirgc profit, as it is of unabated interest. 

 On this subject, however, others are far more com- 

 petent to speak than wo are. But we are glad 

 when a new impulse is given to the rearing of any 

 domestic stock, and though the present movement 

 iu that direction looks a little too much to extrav- 

 agance in size, or peculiarity of l)roed, its more 

 mature result will be beneficial to tlie farmer, and 

 through him to the consumer. — Neic York Com- 

 mercial Advertiser. 



For the i\cw EiigUind Farmer. 



HEN MANURE. 



Mr. Editor : — Having a quantity of henmanui*e 

 on hand, and wishing to know how to use it to 

 the best advantage, I take the liberty to inquire of 

 you, or some your correspondents. How sliould 

 it be prepared, and how, and when applied ! On 

 vAiat crops is it most beneficial I What is its val- 

 ue as compared with stable manure?, AVill it kill 

 corn if applied in the hill at planting ? 

 'E. Raymond, Ale. S.Te.nxv. 



Remarks. — A neighbor of ours, who keeps some 

 one or two hundred fowls, finds an important item 

 of profit in tlie home-made guano which he is en- 

 abled to manufacture from tho droppings of the 

 roosts. These ai-e carefully covered with sand, 

 loam, or old muck, thoroughly mingled in the 

 spring, and a single handful applied to tho hill. 

 In tliis way a large cart i'uU of about 40 

 bushels, will manure an acre. lie iuids it about 

 as active as the Peruvian guano. 



"Blind Teeth" in horses, if let alone, cause 

 the animal to go blind. Hence tlie name. They 

 should be broken out as soon as discovered. One 

 hand should hold the animal's jaws apart, while 

 another with a nail-puncli, or something of the 

 kind, and a hammer, accomplishes the work. — 

 lOid. 



