1853. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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REMEDY FOR BOTS IN HORSES. 



For many years past I have used a simple rem- 

 edy for hots, and am almost disposed to call it "an 

 infalli'ile remedy," sure enouo;h. But I can say, 

 with truth, that I have never known it fail if ad- 

 ministered at the commencement of the attack. 

 Drench freely vpith sweet milk and molasses, (su- 

 gar or honey will do) well shaken together. Con- 

 tinue it, a bottle full every fifteen or twenty min- 

 utes, according to the severity of the attack, un- 

 til the animal becomes easy ; then give a quart 

 bottle full of strong salt and water, followed soon 

 after with a quart bottle of Castor oil. 



It is worse tlian idle to give anything with the 

 view of killing the hots in a horse. The only plan 

 IS to convey them oS"; a sweet drench is tlie 

 thing ; they seize upon it with avidity, and in a 

 little while will fill themselves, increasing at least 

 one-tliird in size. In .salt and water they will lie 

 perfectly dormant for days together, hence the ad- 

 vantage in its preceding the oil. Whenever tlie 

 bota attack a horse they will always be found at 

 the neck of the throat, where a sweet drench is 

 thrown immediately amongst them the moment it 

 is swallowed by the horse. It is a great mistake 

 to suppose that they are hid in some secret recess 

 where medicine cannot reach them, and quite as 

 great a one to suppose that a sweet drench will 

 not divert tlieir attention from the horse. — Sou/h- 

 ern Cultivator. 



ADVANTAGES OF WARM WEATHBR. 



The autumn rains and continued mild Aveather 

 have already materially aided the farmer in sup- 

 porting his winter stock. If the weather should 

 continue moderate until the first of January, we 

 think there will be as much fodder on hand at that 

 time as there was on the first of last January 

 The Granite Farmer of the I5th states that "young 

 cattle and sheep have not required any feeding, 

 and a good portion of the sustenance of other stock 

 has been obtained from the fields to the present 

 time." 



At a recent agricultural meeting at the State 

 House, at Concord, N. II., Gov. Martin, in his ex- 

 cellent opening remarks, stated that the hay crop 

 of thatState, in 1848, amounted to 680,000 tons, — 

 which, at the average price of that year, $10 per 

 ton — would give as the value of the crop $6,800, 

 000. The present year he estimates there is a de- 

 ficiency, compared with 1848, of at least one 

 fourth, 170,000 tons, which at $15 a ton, will give 

 a loss to the farming interest of the State of $2, 

 550,000. Bat this would only be a fact if the 

 weather were the same under the same disparity 

 in the amount of fodder, for alow temperature de- 

 mands more nutriment, and of course more fod- 

 der. Therefore, the mild weather has been con- 

 stantly decreasing this apparent loss, by a con- 

 stant saving of hay and grain. 



Some idea of, the immense saving by the mild 

 weather may be had from the following statement 

 from the Granite Farmer. The editor says — 



"Being at Hillsborough, the other day, we were 



informed by several very intelligent gentlemen that 

 the amount of hay saved daily in that town v/as 

 at least 40 tons. Last year, it became 'necessary 

 to feed cattle some 45 days earlier tlian this sea- 

 son, but to give the advantage against our esti- 

 mate we will say it v/as 30 days. This, then, 

 would make a saving over last season in one town 

 of 1200 tons, which at f|kl5 per ton, would make 

 $18,000. In this county, there are 31 townSj 

 equal at least to 20 of the size of Hilleboro', and 

 equivalent to it in an agricultural point of view. 

 In the county, then, we have saved $360,000. Es- 

 timating that the ten counties in the State are 

 equal to seven of the size of Ilillsboro', and we 

 have saved in the whole State $2,520,000— a sum 

 nearly equal to the deficiency named by the Gov- 

 ernor." 



In Jefferson county, N. Y., according to the N. 

 Y. Farmer, it is estimated that the saving in that 

 county alone is one hundred tons of hay per day ! 



For the New En!;laiui Farmer. 



peculiar difficulitiss of nsw 

 engIjAnd farming. 



Extract from the address of IF F. French, before the York 

 Co. Agricullural Society, Maine. 



V'ANT OF SYSTEJIATIC -ATTENTION. 



The great and leading difficulty in the way of 

 successful husbandry, in New England, is the want 

 of systematic attention to it, as a business, resulting 

 from a want of confidence that it is sufficiently 

 profitable, a want of accurate knowledge of its 

 principles, and a want of pecuniary means and of 

 other f\icilities, to pursue it to the best advantage. 



Agriculture, thus far, in America, has hardly 

 been conducted as a business requii-ing tlie same 

 care, and skill and training with other pursuits of 

 life. The first settlers of our country, indeed, 

 were in no position to pursue it Avith system. Their 

 first endeavor was to protect themselves from the 

 savages upon the coast, — their next, to clear away 

 with steel and fire the grand old forests, and de- 

 posit in the virgin, fruitful soil, the seed, which 

 gave them without much subsequent care, a boun- 

 teous return. 



Generations passed away. The lands had been 

 cleared, and the crops which could be obtained 

 without skill, and with smallest labor, had been 

 gathered. The best lands of nearly all New Eng- 

 land, by this exhausting process, which cleared 

 whole forests for the ashes of its noble trees, or 

 for timber, then, of scarcely more value than its 

 ashes, have thus been passed over. 



The first fruits have been gathered. The first 

 stage of progress in the new country has l;)een fin- 

 islied. Tlie earth will no longer yield to man her 

 fruits, without labor — aye, and intelligent labor — 

 labor joined with a knowledge of the principlesof 

 husbandry. We, who would ?iow gain our daily 

 bread from the soil, must do it, not only by the 

 sweat of our brow, but by the travail of our brain 

 also. 



SKTLL, EDUCATION AND CAPITAL NECESSARY. 



It would be strange, indeed, if a business, m- 

 volving the most complicated processes which 

 philosophy and chemistry have revealed, should be 

 the only one that could be successfully omducted 

 without skill, without education, without capital. 



