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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Sept. 1,182(1. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 1, Ib-'G. 



AORICV IiTURAIi AXIO lttS. 



In no department is Bacon's celebrateJ maxim 

 more true, ('• Knowledge is Power,") than in re- 

 gard to agriculture ; Hence no farmer can be ac- 

 counted skilful in his profession, who does not avail 

 himself of the information to be derived from the 

 experience of others, and who does not improve 

 his knowledge of husbandry by the perusal of the 



the whole loss in tlie two bushels, botii by grind- 

 ing and dressing, did not exceed two pounds and 

 a half. The bran and jioUard were also dressed 

 in a bolting mill, and produced, 



lbs. oz. 

 Sharps 6 



Pine Pollard 5 8 



Coarse do. 7 8 



Broad Bran 5 4 



24 8 

 One pound only was thus lost in the bolting, and 



,11 >,„, „ .,.,;ff„„ ^M tl,-,t oiih if the sharps had been sifted, they would have af- 

 ab est works which have been written on that suD- j. , , ,, "^ , . ' ■' ,,^ ... 



. . , ,, ■ • „ .!.„. ,!,„ „„„,mnni<-n lordcd three pounds of good flour. We are inchn- 

 iect. It IS absurd to imagine, that the communica- ,.,,-,„ .t j ■ -i i . -f .u 



■> ^, , , , ■„,;.,„ „-Ki,.v, i,„o i.rnmnt I ^d to think, from these and similar data, if the 



ton of knowledge by printing, which lias promot- | c ,' ■ ^l . c a -1.^1. 



", , , / e „„„„7„ti,or nrt shniild hp i pncc ot wlioat were given, that of flour might be 



cd the advancement of every other art, snouia De , f 1 .1 r j 11 



easily ascertained, and those frauds which are now 



tlie grain harvest drowned by wet weatiier. 

 doubt partial and local injuries have been siist.ii 

 ed from both causes ; still we have reason to ho 

 that the year will be " crowned with goodness. 

 Potatoes in moist land, we are told, have rotted t 

 a great extent. But in dry soils they promise we 

 Indian corn bids fair for a large crop. Secor 

 crops of grass which have not yet been cut, ai 

 consequently spoiled by the late storm will prob 

 bly be uncommonly fine. Fall feed according 

 appearances wiir be luxuriant. Turnips and ru 

 baga have had a favourable commencement ; ai 

 we have every reason to hope that deficiencies 

 some crops, of which great complaints have bei 

 made, will be compensated for by uncommon pr 

 ductiveness in other crops. 



of no use in agriculture. 



Endeavour to raise good grain for it will always 

 sell, even in years of plenty ; whereas it is only in 

 dear and scarce seasons that there is a demand for 

 grain of an inferior quality. 



Let your stock of cattle, horses, &c. be of the 

 best sorts, and more remarkable for real utility 

 than for beauty or fashion. 



Be not above your profession, and always con- 

 sider it as the first that any man can follow. 



Admit no guest into your house, who cannot live 

 upon the productions of his own country. 



No fanner ought to undertake to cultivate more 

 land than he can stock and manage to advantage. 

 It is better to till 20 acres well than 100 in a slov- 

 enly manner. 



A man's owning a large farm is no excuse for 

 imperfect tillage. What he cannot improve, he 

 need not undertake to cultivate. Most of our land 

 in New England, if left to the operations of nature 

 will soon be profitable for fire wood and timber. 

 Large pastures may be profitable with no other la- 

 bour than what is necessary to keep them clear of 

 buslies. But to run over twenty acres of plough- 

 land or mowing-land for what with good cultiva- 

 tion may be obtained from five acres is the quint- 

 essence of bad husbandry. 



A large farm without skill, capital, and industry 

 is a plague to its owner. It is like what somebo- 

 dy said of self-righteousness, the more you have 

 of it the worse you are oif. 



Be not afraid of trying experiments, but let them 

 bo on a small scale at first, and few at a time. 



AGRICULTURK AND MANUFACTURES. 



There is no way in which agriculture can be 

 so well promoted as by the patronage and increase 

 of manufactures. A home market is better for the 

 farmer than a foreign market because it is at hand, 

 has nothing to do with the power or caprice of for- 

 eign nations, and is more regular and better to de- 

 pend on. 



QUANTITY OF FI.OUR IN A BUSnF.L OF WHEAT. 



A correspondent of the Editors of the Enc)/do- 

 pedia Britannica (Article Bread,) states, that he 



practised with impunity, could be effectually pre- 

 vented. 



BOILED GRAIN, GIVEN TO HORSES. 



It is satisfactorily ascertained, that boiling grain 

 of all sorts for horses, and giving them the liquor 

 likewise, will keep them in better condition than 

 double the quantity in a crude state. .Ms.Jlg.Rep. 



CHEAP METHOD OF PREVENTING THE DISAGREEA- 

 BLE SMELL OF PRIVIES. 



In some houses, privies, when badly placed and 

 ill taken care of, diffuse an odour as inconvenient 

 as unhealthy ; but the means of remedying this 

 evil is exceedingly easy. If a certain quantity of 

 milk of lime (w'ater in which lime has been dissolv- 

 ed, and whitened by the fine particles of that sub- 

 stance) be mixed with a ley of ashes, or sopy wa- 

 ter that has even been used for washing, be thrown 

 into the sink of the privy, it will destroy the offen- 

 sive smell. By these means for the value of a few 

 pence, any collection of filth whatever may be 

 neutralized. By the same process conveniences 

 for sick persons may be kept in their apartments. 

 Nothing is necessary but to have a tub covered 

 with a board as a seat; five or six pounds ofquick- 

 lime, a small quantity of ashes, and two buckets of 

 water thrown into the tub, will prevent any disa- 

 greeable odour. It may readily be conceived that 

 the same process may be employed in regard to a 

 night chair. The fecal matter, after being thus 

 neutralized is an excellent manure for land. 



[Repertory of Arts.] 



THE WEATHER. 



After an almost uninterrrupted succession of wet 

 and wearisome days and nights of about three 

 weeks' duration, when the sun was almost as 

 great a stranger as the sea-serpent, we are at 

 length blessed with a cloudless sky. 



We have had 



Eiirusque JVotusqite crcbri procellis ; 

 that is to say. East wind and South wind mingled 

 with storms, till the sky and the hopes of the hus- 

 bandman were involved in a gloom which seemed 

 perennial. But we have now abundant evidence 

 that the sun has not deserted the Solar System, 

 and his having hidden his head for a season causes 

 us to rejoice the more in the light of his counte 



weighed two bushels, Winchester measure, of [nance. The storm breathed its last in a pelting 

 wUte and red wheat, the whole of which amounted ' ^^A pitiless shower the fore part of the night of 

 to 122 lbs. This wheat was ground under his own j ^^e 29th ult ; and since that time tlie weather has 

 inspection, and yielded 121i lbs. of meal, so that ! i,gg„ delicious. 



the waste or loss in grinding the two bushels, ( Agriculturists complain that they have suffered 

 amounted only to half a. pound. The meal was al- : ^^g n,„cii by superabmidant rain in the latter part,as 

 so dressed in his presence, and produced 93J lbs. j by the want of rain in the fore part of the season, 

 of .«fronds, and 25J lbs. of pollard and bran, so that ' The hay harvest, thev say, was blasted bv dry. and 



ON THE MANAGEMENT AND DISEASIf* 

 OF HORSES. (Continued from page ^\.) 



It sometimes happens that, notwithstanding e\ 

 ry attention is paid to a horse, with regard to fee 

 ing, exercise, and grooming, he continues thin a 

 out of condition: this, upon a careful examinatii 

 will often be found to depend on one of the folio 

 ing circumstances: 



1. Tenderness of the Mouth. — Young hors 

 about the period of changing the teeth, are son 

 times observed to feed badly, while at the sai 

 time they look dull and languid, cough more or Ic 

 and not unfrequently have a slight degree of fev 

 This often depends on the mouth's becoming s 

 and inflamed, which, on examination, will rea( 

 be perceived, and is generally attended with so 

 degree of disturbance in the functions of the st< 

 ach. In this case a mild laxative should be giv 

 and tlie mouth washed by means of a syringe « '^ 

 the following lotion. If the eyes appear to be 

 flamed, bleeding is also necessary ; and as lon| 

 the mouth continues tender, his food should con 

 chiefly of bran mashes, in which may be pu 

 small proportion of bruised oats or malt, or a li 

 sweet oatmeal. 



Lotion for the mouth. 

 Powdered alum ^ ounce 



Honey 2 oz. 



Infusion of roses 8 oz. 

 Mix. 



In eld horses the insides of the cheeks someli 

 become sore, and even ulcerated from some 

 jecting points on the outside of the upper grim 

 teeth. This is a considerable impediment to n 

 tication, and causes a horse to swallow a par 

 his oats unbroken. In this case they are not ac 

 on by the juices of the stomach, but pass off 

 changed. There are few horses that do not si 

 low some part of their oats unchewed ; particu 

 ly such as are greedy feeders ; hence it ar 

 that birds and poultry so carefully search the d 

 of horses. The mischief arising from swallov 

 unmasticated grain is greater than many are av 

 of In the first place, there is a considerable w 

 of corn ; in llie next, the digestive powers 

 fruitlessly exerted ; and if the quantity of unb: 

 en grain is considerable, it often swells in 

 stomach, causing violent colic and sometimes { 

 a rupture of its coats ! several instances of wl 

 have been recorded by veterinary writers 



In stables where several horses are kept witl 

 being separated by partitions, a horse with a V' 

 cinus appetite will often rob his neiglibours oft 

 allowance, which he cannot well accomplish w 

 out swallowing a great deal of it unbroken, 

 such cases the remedy is sufliciontly obvious, 



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