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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. J 7, ltf'J(5. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, NOV. ]7, 1826. 



FEEDING CATTLE. 



Regularity with regard to feeding cattle is of 

 more consequence than superficial tiiinkers, wlio 

 are not acquainted with the subject, can possibly 

 imagine. If cattle misa their customary meals 

 they will fret away more flesh in half an hour,thnn 

 you can put on again in a week, or thereabouts. — 

 Feeding cattle is like rowing a boat against a cur- 

 rent ; if you miss a stroke or two, you not only 

 cease to advance but are driven bnckwavds. If 

 you have reason to apprshend that you h.-ive less 

 fodder than your stock would consume if you laid 

 no embargo on their appetites, you will, neverthe- 

 less, be careful,how yoa attempt in the forepart of 

 the season, to put in force a nonintercouse act be- 

 tween your cattle's moutlis and the hay-mow. If 

 they must be stinted with regard to eatablcs(which 

 ve hope is not the casejput off the evil day till the 

 latter part of winter. " Cattle," said Dr Deane, 

 "are more liable to be pinched with cold in De- 

 cember and January than afterwards. And no 

 man knows how favourable the latter part of win- 

 ter may be. Advantage also may be made of 

 browsing in the latter more than than in the former 

 part of the winter, as the buds have then begun to 

 Bwell, and the twigs have more sap in them than 

 before." 



" Neat cattle and horses." says the same writer, 

 "ehould not have so much laid before them at once 

 as will quite serve to fill them. The hay they 

 have breathed on much, they will not eat up clean 

 unless when they are very hungry. It is best, 

 therefore to fodder them twicu at night, and twice 

 in the morning. Let neat cattle as well as horses 

 have both light and fresh air let in upon their fod- 

 der,aiul when the weather is not too cold or storm- 

 y, allow the windows to be open. What one 

 sort of cattle leave, should be thrown to another 

 sort. Those which chew the cud will eat the 

 leavings of those that do not, and rice vtrsa. 



"It is also well known to farmers, that what rat- 

 tle leave in the barii they will oat abroad in the 

 open air ; and most freely, when it is laid upon 

 clean snow. Not only this.but the meanest of straw 

 should be given them in this way. What is left 

 will help to increase the manure in the yard." 



Mr Lawrence says " Throe times a day, precise- 

 ly at the commencement of a certain hour, ought 

 to be tlie regular observance, and cattle, particu- 

 larly if corn-fed, require their fill of water. The 

 easy, contented, and improving disposition of the 

 cattle, and small waste of provender, attendant 

 upon this regularity, is a source of constant satis- 

 faction to a superintending proprietor. 



"The golden rule respecting (iUANTiTv is, as 

 much as a beast can eatwith a vigorous appetite; all 

 beyond that important criterion.is so much lost to 

 the proprietor, and not improbably an impediment 

 to thiiftm the animal. Here is the foundation of 

 a good argument for the removal of tiiat whicli the 

 animal loaves,that it may not remain to be contam- 

 inated by his breath, to disgu.st him, and pall his 

 appetite. I will fairly acknowledge, however, that 

 I have frequently seen these apparently rational 

 theories fail in practice,and the perpetually stufled 

 and glutted animal improving and improved be- 

 yond all others. Precautions are necessary, that 

 a sufficient quantity of food, of the original stand- 

 ard goodness to carry the stock tbroun-h, be pro- 



vided, or procurable: fori would advise no feeder 

 to trust to a certain vague notion, that fattening 

 cattle may be safely and advantageously reduced 

 from rich to indifferent, or even poor keeping. — 

 Frequently any change is disadvantageous; but if 

 any, it surely ought to bo jirogressive in goodness 

 of the food. There is often, perhaps generally, a 

 considerable saving in the provision, as the animals 

 advance in fatness; but this relates to those chief- 

 ly wlio load themselves with internal fat. Some 

 will devour nearly the s:ime rations from first to 

 last. 



" Cattle licking or rubbing themseves has been 

 formerly held a bad sign ; on the contrary, there 

 can be no doubt of jts being an incontestible proof 

 of their tliriving ; the former notion seems to have 

 arisen from the damage they sometimes receive,by 

 the quantity of hair and dirt collected by the 

 tongue from their hides, and which may form hair- 

 balls in the stomach, of dangerous consequence. — 

 Hence the use of currying oxen, which are confin- 

 ed from going into the cold air, of keeping them 

 perfectly clean, and their hides open, like those of 

 horses in condition. O.xen fed in tlie yard, and 

 cows, may be wisped clean, without danger of tak- 

 ing cold." 



A f^ood pkkh for Beef and Pork, called the 

 " Knickerhocker Pickle." — The following receipt 

 for making pickle for beef and pork is strongly re- 

 commended to the adoption of those who pickle 

 beef and pork for family use. Persons in the trade 

 who will oilopt it will find a ready sale. It has 

 been used by many families in this city and al- 

 ways approved. We do not hesitate to assert that 



there is no pickle in use to be compared with it 



Could this receipt be generally adopted, our pick- 

 led beef and pork would have certain preference 

 in foreign markets. 



Take (5 gallons water, 



9 lbs. salt, coarse and fine nii.xed, 



.3 lbs. Brown Sugar, 



3 oz. salt petre, 



1 oz. pearl-ash, 



] gallon molasses. 

 In making a larger or smaller quantity of pickle, 

 the above proportions are to bo observe-1. Boil 

 and skim these ingredients well, and when cold, 

 put them over the beef or pork. 



_()L?°Wehavc heretofore publixhed the substance 

 of the above, and its utility has been established 

 by experience in this vicinity. We give it another 

 insertion for the ber.efit of those who have either 

 overlooked, or had no opportunity to look over or 

 some how never attentively looked at our former 

 edition of the receipt. Editor. 



Defence of fhe Seaboard. — An official dotument 

 relative to the defence of the sea-board has lately 

 been published in the National Intelligencer. It 

 was communicated to Congress at the close of the 

 last session, by the Board of Engineers employed 

 to survey Ihe coast. By this it appears that the 

 whole line of sea-coast extends 3330 miles. Tlie 

 whole e.\-pense of its fortificaticn is estimated at 

 •$(3,.533,454— tliat for the additional defence of Bos- 

 ton at ,91, 279,420. The fortifications are divided 

 into three classes, more or less necessary, and 

 therefore not requiring to be completed at once. 



Msolvte power — Among the favours granted by 

 the Emperor of Russia at his coionation was the 



gift of VM,000 peasants to different personages 



Count Nesselrode received 4000. 



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Tornado.— On the 29th of Oct. a violent torna, 

 visited the vicinity of Chilicothe. Oliio. A bar 

 stable, and two horses belonging to a Mr Cochrai 

 were destroyed. The upper part of a barn, t 

 property of a Mr Orford, was blown off, and i 

 dwelluig house prostrated on the ground, his b 

 reau, tables, and other furniture carried to a d: 

 tance jf more than half a mile by the violence 

 the wiod. 



Early Snow. — A Quebec paper of Oct. 26t 

 says "on Thursday night it froze so hard that i 

 full an inch thick was formed, and yesterday, cv 

 in situations e.xposed to the sun the ice hard 

 thawed. In the evening snow commenced fallin 

 an! the ground is covered with it to day to t 

 depth of two or throe inclies. On Tuesday snc 

 fell in the parishes six or eight leagues to t, 

 south of Quebec. Carioles have been used in tl 

 vicinity of Quebec. 



A Fire at Constantinople broke out on tiie .'A 

 of August, in a bake-house near the walls of t 

 Seraglio, which was not e.xtinguished till thei 

 of September. 



Ens;li.^h electio7is — Lord Wharncliffe lately j 

 serted in a speech at a dinner given to him 

 Sheffield, that the recent Yorkshire election c( 

 the four candidates 1.50,000 pounds sterliuT, 

 (;(i(;,000 dollars. Two of the candidates attcutpt 

 to terrify others from competition by the extra* 

 gance of their expenditure ; they hired almost ' 

 the carriages in the county to prevent their co, 

 petitors from finding the means of conveyiii" lh( 

 parti/ans to the place of election. 



Cherry Boards. — Last week a gentleman 

 chased between 40 and .50,000 feet of Ch- 

 Boards, put them on board the Canal Boats, at 

 place for Hartford, Con. A gentleman who ki 

 a lumber yard in this village, recently receive 

 order to furuish 20, UOO feet of Chc-rry Boards 

 Scantling for the Rhode Island market! Bzif. 



J\rew York Election — Mr Clinton is thouo-J 

 be elected Governor of the State by 5000 oi"? 

 majority. 



It is said in the Savannnh Republican, that tl 

 are at this time fifteen vol Jmes of MSS. shut u 

 the office of the Board of Trade and Plantati 

 in London, relating to the colonial history of G 

 gia, from its first settlement down to the rev 

 tionary war. Many of these manuscripts are i 

 the pen of General Oglcthrope, the founder of 

 state. 



Snow and IJail fell for about three hours in ] 

 ladelphia, on the 4th iu.st. 



The Trenton Federalist says, " We had a 

 of sBow, the first this autumn, on the afternooi 

 the 4th inst." 



Z,o«m«._Several petitions have been pres 

 ted to the A^ermont legislature, praying for 

 grant oftotteries, the wlumsical groundslpor w 

 are thus noticed by the Vermont Patriot. "( 

 wanted a lottery to raise ${500, because' he 

 broken his hips, and his wife had been scale 

 and they had long been confined by sicka 

 another wanted to raise .$1000, by lottery, bee* 

 he was poor and rickety and wished for an edu 

 tion I a third was a " very ingenious man" but not 

 able to build a mill and find machinery and there- 

 fore wanted;a lottery,a fourth was an "honest nmo" 

 who had a large family, and but one arm, and k 

 wished for a lottery to enable him to buy a tract of 



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