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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



PROFITABLE CX»WS. I Give your horse, (after, and while he is heated 



4t the Hartford County Agricultural Exhibition one quart of oats or dried corn, witli a sprinkle of 

 and Cattle Show, this fall, Doct. Samuel B. Wood salt, after his first drau-ht of water, of two quarts, 

 ward of Wethersfield, hud two Cows exhibited. These i)ortions of each, water and food, may be 

 one of which took the first premium, $5. Dr repeated at discretion, during the reasonable, but 

 Woodward, in his letter to the Committee, says, necessary time for the rest of the animal, and you 

 that 'on the 1st ofMav, he had three cows, one of may then with certainty and safety, pursue your 

 which had a calf which was well fatted, and killed | journey to any distance and time. 



" Rcnpe When the above directions are omitted, 



and the bad effects are apparent, give the animal 

 the followin 



at 5 weeks old. ' It will be interesting to our Far- 

 mers to know what Doctors can do in their line of 

 business. Cannot some of our Farmers give an 

 account of their receipts from the same source ? 

 We therefore jiublish the following statement of 

 the quantity of butter made, &c, from the Doctor's 

 statement, viz : 



In May, 110 lbs. 2 oz.; June, 109 11 ; July, 

 93 ; August, 80 S, Sept. 1018; Oct. 2.5th, 81 12 ; 

 total 576 lbs 9 ozs. 



On the 1st of Sept. another cow was added 

 which including what was made the last week in 

 Apriljto wit,21 lbs. would make 597 lbs. 9 ozs. in 6 

 months Besides all this, milk and cream have been 

 sold, to the amount of $3, and a family oC 16 per- 

 sons furnished with milk and cream, worth at least 

 a week, at 4 cents a quart, and pork fed to the 



Tincture of Benzoin, one ounce ; Spirits of Am- 

 monia, one do ; Aromatic Confection, half an 

 ounce ; Ginger one ounce. To be mixed in one 

 quart of water. When a horse is over heated, 

 this application will relieve him— and it may also he 

 given with success, in cases where a horse is affect- 

 ed with cholic or gripes, flatulency in the stomach 

 or intestines, mixed with a pint of warm oil — 

 to be repeated at every three hours until relieved. 

 Wm Cooke, Vetermary Surgeon. 



The Philadelphia papers mention a Grape vine' 



growing near the hanks of the Schuylkill, in the 



township of U[)per Merion, on the farm of Isaac 



Jones, which measures at several places between 



amount of at least $1. Not a pound of Butter j the root and the height of ten feet, from 30 to 35 



was sold for less than Is. per pound. 

 Butter, 



Milk,&c, sold, 

 Milk used in the family. 

 Pork, 



SlOO 



3 



26 



15 



$144 



The cows were fed on grass only after the mid- 

 dle of May, before which time they had rovven 

 hay and 2 quarts of meal a day. One cow is 6 

 years old, the other 5 years — one is half blood 

 Devonshire, the other common stock. 



The calves from the 3 cows sold 

 in the spring for 



15 75 

 144 00 



inches in circumference. It is a curiosity worthy 

 the attention of those persons who have doubts re- 

 specting the soil and climate of tliis country being 

 favorable to the growth of the vine. 



AVhole product. 



jYames on Trees. — In the last number of Dr 

 Brewster's Journal there is a curious paper on 

 'Inscriptions in Living Trees,' translated from the 

 Swedish. Worilsor figures are often idly cut 

 on trees ; and the general opinion is, that they are 

 soon obliterated by the growth of the wood. It 

 appears however, from a number of examples cited 

 that they are faithfully retained in the tree as long 

 as it endures ; and that, if it is not seriously injured, 

 the number of concentric rings of wood found 

 above tho inscription will accurately denote the 

 59 75 i time when it was cut. Professor Laurell of the 



I University of Lund, made two incriptions in two 



.„„.., r^r^^T^To .xTT^E-rrmivrr-! beech trees, in 1748. The one was opened in 

 IN RELATION TO WATERING AND FEEDING 1^^^^ ^^j ' ,,.,j j,,^ inscription remaining, with 



To i)revent all inflammatory disorders arising ! eight rings of wood over it, the other in 1764, and 

 from the too prevalent practice on the part of the , had sixteen rings over it. Bishop Faxe sent late- 

 inexperienced, in the use and application of the ; ly to the museum of Lund two pieces of wood 

 necessary and proper quantity of both food and ; from a tree which grew near Holzmborg, and 

 water to the comfort and preservation of their , which, during the sawing and cleaning, separated 

 health and consequent usefulness— I subjoin the in such a way, that the inscription stands right on 

 following unerring rules and directions, to secure ! the one piece but reversed on the other. It is ' F. 

 and insure the health, vigor, and consequent utility I M. d. 21, I. 1817.' but the letters and figures are 

 of this most valuable and indispensable animal, to placed below one another, in four hues. It was 



cut in 1828, ami the incription was found to be 

 covered with nine concentric layers of wood, the 

 tenth being imperfect. Several other examples 

 are given, but they are less precise. 



Wlien the horse is heated from any cause, great 

 care should he taken while in that state, to allow 

 him to take hut a very small quantity of cold water 

 at a time — say not more than two quarts, which may 

 be repeated at intervals, during his meals, which 

 should also be limited. New hay and corn should 

 always be rejected, when pure hay and oats can be 

 obtained ; the natural and certain tendency of 

 the introduction of either new or green hay, and 

 Indian corn (in too great quantities) into the stomach 

 of the horse, is to produce diseases in that organ, 

 and consequently the derangement of his whole 

 system ; the animal is rendered therefore worse than 

 useless ; for delays, and frequently further remedies 

 are vainly sought for, because it too often happens, 

 that from the ignorance of the operator, ho adds 

 to the malady, instead of removing it. 



Dec. 17, 18 30. 



Moderate watering of the jilants in dry weather 

 prevents exhaustion in a drought, and repletion on 

 the return of rain. Mr. C. states the following: 

 ' A very inteligent friend informed me, a i'ew 

 days ago, that a Swiss, of his acquaintance, settled 

 in Missouri, plants his vines thus: he digs a dilch 

 the length of a row, and three or four feet deep, 

 and at the bottom of this ditch he plants long cut- 

 tings, (eighteen or twenty inches,) a common 

 depth below it. On the bottom of this ditch he 

 scatters a little manure, and from time to time as 

 his vinos ascend, (which they do most ^igorou.-ily.) 

 he fills in the surface of the ground with the poor- 

 est earth ho can get, (to discourage the growth oi 

 side roots, we may reasonably suppose, but a mat- 

 ter of no importance to our text,) and that theii 

 success is surprising ; and no rot or mildew is 

 known among them. The ends of his cuttings- 

 must lay four or five feet deep.' 



Jirahian Horses. — Mr Rhind late Agent of ou 

 government, has transported to this city from Co»- 

 stantinople, four Arabian stud horses. They are 

 five or six years of age, and considerably smallei 

 than our common horses. Two are sorrel, on< 

 gray, and the other bay. The last had been takei 

 from the desert but a short time, and was pronouno 

 ed the swiftest horse in the Turkish Capital. 



Large Cucumbers. — A cucumber (the Bloor' 

 White spine) was cut on the 8th of June in th 

 garden of W. Ilardman, Esq. of Chamber Hall 

 near Bury, of the following dimensions : — Lengtl 

 20 in., girth 11 in., v/eight 5 lbs, 8| oz. It dl. 

 not appear overgrown, but in jiroper state for th 

 table. — .Morn. Chronicle, June 23. 



The Washington, N. C. Times, after an eigh 

 months' publication, has been discontinued, he 

 cause many peo|)le subscribed, not to pay hut t 

 encourage. 



This is about equal to those who subscribe to ei 

 courage a printer to establish a paper, and the 

 discontinue at the end of six months, leaving hii 

 in the lurch with a large debt on his shoulders. 



Geography of Boston. — Messrs Carter & Hentlei 

 have published a little volume under this title, b 

 the author of the History of Boston. It embraces' 

 description of the tojiograpliy of the city, and of I 

 principal buililiiigs and other objects deserving i 

 notice, illustrated by cuts representing the princ 

 pal buildings, and by maps of the city and of th 

 adjoining country. It will be found a useful aiti|||||( 

 agreeable work. 



To prevent the rot or Mildew of Grapes. — JMr 

 George J. F. Clark, in the Southern Agriculturist, 

 supposes this disease of the fruit of the vine to ari.se 

 from the root being too near the ground. A few 

 days of hot drying weather absorbs so great a por- 

 tion of the moisture from tlie roots that, on return 

 of a plentiful shower, they drink in tho rain so co- 

 piously as to produce a repletion that results in 

 the rot. Mr. C. says the vine, under favorable 

 circumstances, has a strong propensity to form a 

 tap root, which protects the vine from the ex- 

 tremes of moisture and dryness. To fiivor the for- 

 mation of this tap root, deep planting is requisite. 



..Imphoveme.nt of Stock. — We are informo |f 

 that George Hazen, Esquire, of Su.«sc:x Vale, h> 

 now on his farm, a Bull Calf, of six months oW (,( 

 which weighs 600 lbs. — and another of iivoinontll j, 

 and seventeen days, which weighs 465 lbs. Thi „ 

 stock is of the short horned Durham breed, iafj;,.i 

 ported a few years hack by the Agricultural Socl 

 ty of this Province. — St Jolin.[A'. B.) Gazette. 



Grapes. — The Boston Transcript says that u 

 wards of one hundred thousand pounds of grapi 

 are annually raised in that vicinity. We believ( 

 much larger quantity is raised near Philadelpliii 

 and have no doubt that if ten times as many Wj 

 cultivated they would be foiuul among the 

 profitable production of a garden or farm, 

 do not refer to their use in the manufacture 

 wine, hut merely as a fresh fruit in the mw^t 



