NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Col. Lincoln, the Hoiisatonic. 



(Should Col. Lincoln be prevented from attend- 

 ing- Dr. S. Reed was chosen substitute.) 



Voted, That the thanks of the Board be present- 

 ed to the Piesident, Secretary, and the other offi- 

 cers of the meeting. 



\ oted, To adjourn to the second Wednesday 

 in January next, at this place, at 10 'oclock in the 

 forenoon. 



Edgar K. Whitaker, Secretary. 



Boston, Sept. 3, 185L 



N B. Li conformity with a vote of the Board 

 the several Agricultural papers of the State are re- 

 spectfully requested to publish the above proceed- 

 ings. 



PRESERVATION AND USE OF STRAW. 



Messrs. Editors : — In Western New York 

 straw is worth more care than some farmers bestow 

 on it. With many it is thrown into a sort of ex- 

 cuse for a stack, or removed just so as to get it out 

 of the way of the machine. This mode of doing 

 business is all out of order, for the straw left thus 

 will require a long time to rot sufficiently to be 

 drawn out as manure, as portions of it long remain 

 dry or nearly so. 



Every flirmer will find it to his advantage to 

 build a good firm stack pen, say seven or eight rails 

 high — well staked or locked, with two rails at 

 each corner of the pen. Build your pen as near 

 as you can guess, just large enough for the straw 

 you intend for it, and then stack it as nicely as you 

 would hay, and if your stack is large, provide your- 

 self with a hay knife, cut down and feed out as 

 regularly as you would your hay. 



A good thing to put upon your straw is a good 

 supply ofbrinc, (as fine salt will not dissolve,) and 

 this can be easily done when stacking. The ad- 

 vantages of using brine are many. Your cattle, 

 horses and sheep will eat it better, and there will 

 always be a supply of salt in their feed ; besides, 

 salt is considered a fertilizer, and on some lands 

 very beneficial to crops, and perhaps would not be 

 irijurious to any. This three-fold benefit is .suffi- 

 cient to compensate any farmer for the trouble and 

 expense of putting a good supply of salt, in the 

 shape of brine, upon his stack of straw. 



And feeding out straw as above mentioned has 

 many advantages over the common careless way of 

 letting cattle run to the stack as they please, and 

 pull out and tread under foot, until they are in dan- 

 ger of being crushed to death by the fall of the 

 heavy mass of snow and ice that invaiiably accu- 

 mulates upon the top of the stack. An instance of 

 this kind once came under my notice. Word came 

 that the straw stack had fell over, or that the trap 

 had sprung and caught under it a fine two-year old 

 heifer. Hark, she is alive ; I hear her breathe. 

 Call the hoys; go ask neighbors ABC if they will 

 come and help dig out the poor creature. Then 

 witii forks, shovels, old axes, and everything we 

 could lay hands on, we fell to work to remove the 

 frozen mass, and release the poor animal from her 

 uneasy confinement. 



By taking the above advice, all such troubles 

 may be avoided, and you may have plenty of this 

 kind of fodder to last all winter, and no more ; for 

 it should be thrown out in the course of the win- 

 ter and spring, that it may become mixed with the 

 manure and absorb its liquid portions, when it can 



be easily removed from the yard with forks and 

 wagons to the soil that most needs it. 



From experience and observation we have be- 

 come satisfied that spring is the best time to clean 

 your barn-yard, not by throwing it into large heaps 

 in or out of the yard, but by drawing it where you 

 want it to use, with as niuch inoisture in it as it 

 will absorb, drop in loads so near together as will 

 manure as high as you wish, then spread no faster 

 than you want to plough, so as to prevent loss by 

 evaporation. — J. Siblev.— Eagle Harbor, Aug. 

 11, 1851. —Rural Neiv- Yorker . 



CURE FOR GLANDERS. 



Messrs. Editors: — I have heard it said all my 

 life that glanders in horses were incurable. But 

 this I have proved to my entire satisfaction to be a 

 mistake. Some lime in September, 1850, I met 

 with an opportunity of trading for what I thought 

 was a good brood mare — at the time she was run- 

 ning copiously at one nostril, wliich was represent- 

 ed to me to be distemper. I was suspicious of its 

 being glanders, but concluded to risk it. It after- 

 wards proved to be glanders. Now for the reme- 

 dy: In the first place I bled copiously; I then put 

 in a rowel or seaton of polk root, between the jaws 

 and in the brea.«.t; I then procured one gallon of 

 fresh tar; I next fixed a small mop on a stick long 

 enough to insert it as high up as the eye. I insert- 

 ed the tar into the nostril in this way twice a day 

 until I had made a complete cure. I had never 

 heard of the remedy before — but supposed there are 

 a great many little fibres in the head of the animal 

 that, from some cause or other, discharged the mat- 

 ter, and I supposed the tar would heal them up. 

 Great care should be taken to keep the blood in a 

 good state, to prevent it from turning to farcy about 

 the time the running at the nose ceases, as I be- 

 lieve glanders will produce farcy, and farcy produce 

 glanders. Respectfully, yours. Bason Hollow. 

 — Cobb's Mills, Ala., May 15, 1851. — Farmerand 

 Planter. 



NORTHERN POTATOES. 



On the 1st inst., we received a basket of potatoes 

 from C. D'Invillers, Esq., of this borough, which 

 were planted on the 24th of May, and exhibited 

 well-fonified bulbs in six weeks after. They are 

 called the Early June Potatoes, the seed of which 

 were obtained I'rom Buffalo, fijur years ago. They 

 are exceedingly smooth, round, well favored varie- 

 ty, and have appearance of being of fine quality, 

 which we are informed they possess in high per- 

 fection. They have never been known to be afiect- 

 ed by the rot, and are evidently a hardier potato 

 than the Mercer. The vines are very luxuriant, 

 though the ground in which they were produced 

 was not manured for the crop, but was in good con- 

 dition. 



We understand the same potatoe is raised in 

 great abundance — indeed is the favorite variety — 

 throughout the entire "lake country," and was 

 recommended on account of its quality and freedom 

 from the rot, to general cultivation in all the 

 potato-growing States. 



We shall endeavor to acquaint ourselves with 

 all the necessary facts connected with its history, 

 and will test its quality, so that we can speak more 

 authoritatively of its value to the region south and 

 west of Michigan and noithern New York. — Ed. 

 Gcrmantown Telegraph. 



