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NEW EN^GLA-ND FARMER. 



March 



is but "knowledge methodically digested and ar- 

 ranged—a liberal art." And the springs of the 

 hills, or the sunshine of Heaven, have been no 

 more liberal to the farmer, than this much con- 

 temned science ! There is still time left in March 

 to understand it better. 



Manure. — While the mominga are frosty and 

 the ground frozen for a fevr hours, the opportunity 

 should be improved to cart out manure and drop it 

 in heaps of convenient access to the fields where it 

 is to be used. The heaps should be covered with 

 muck or loam, and occasionally overhauled, and 

 thoroughly pulverized and mingled. It is an error 

 to use coarse and crude manures ; the finer they 

 are made, the more generally will they be diffused 

 through the soil, and give off their fertilizing pro- 

 perties to the delicate roots in search of sustenance. 

 It is therefore labor well repaid to get manure into 

 compact heaps, bring it into slight fermentation, 

 and work it over until it is all reduced so fine as to 

 be easily worked with the shovel. 



Seed Potatoes. — Sort and collect such potatoes 

 as are intended for seed ; also prepare the seed 

 corn, and all garden seeds, that no time may be 

 lost when the earth is waiting to receive them, and 

 when you feel that the day is scarcely long enough 

 to accomplish what you desire. 



The Wood Pile. — Money invested in a year's 

 stock of good wood, so that it may always be had 

 dry, is better than in 6 per cent, stocks. In this 

 estimate we do not take the item of good temper 

 into the account at all, but look at it merely in a 

 financial manner. Then let it be cut, split, — and 

 if it can be put under cover where a draft can pass 

 throuo-h it, — piled before the month closes. Such 

 fuel has a wonderful tendency to keep peace in the 

 kitchen ! 



The Stock. — Perhaps at no season does the stock 

 require more attention than in this month — espe- 

 cially cows that are coming in. They should not 

 be exposed to sudden changes — sleet, snow, sun- 

 shine and high winds. Feed liberally, and use the 

 card gently, but freely. 



But, enough for March. Seed time has been 

 promised us. Soon the earth will unfold her am- 

 ple bosom to receive our labors, and we must be 

 ready to accept her favors, which, if once neglect- 

 ed, cannot be recalled. 



in by J. L. Loyerino, Esq., of Hartford, Vt. These 

 hogs were pronounced by tho&e accustomed^to the 

 porkers as the l>est lat seen in our market this sea- 

 son. They were selected for fatting, as they 

 lacked some of the fine points for which Mr. Lover- 

 ing's swine are famoua. The one giving the larg- 

 est weight above was a sow who gave a litter of 

 pigs in September last. 



The SuSblks which we have frequently obtained 

 for our friends were from this gentleman's stock. 



Dairy Woman Wanted. — Attention is called to 

 the advertisement for a dairy woman, in the proper 

 department of this paper. Windsor is one of the 

 most romantic, healthy, and beautiful towns in 

 New England, and the opportunity for a skilful 

 person to engage in this business is a good one. 



PECULIAR DIFFICULTIES OF NEW 

 ENGLAND HUSBANDRY. 



lEXTRACTS FROM Mr. FrENCH's ADDRESS ] 



The abolition, in our country, of the rights of 

 primogeniture, and preference of males over fe- 

 males, in inheritance, is another difference between 

 us and England, which operates to prevent the ac- 

 cumulation of large estates ; and so, to render im- 

 possible here the grand and expensive schemes of 

 improvement, of which we read so much in works 

 on British husbandry. 



By the English Common Law, the eldest son in- 

 herits all the father's i-eal estate. Here every sod 

 and daughter inherits an equal share. 



There, immense tracts of land are owned by a 

 single individual, and it is his pride to preserve 

 and increase the estate in extent and value through 

 his life, and transmit it to the son who bears hrs 

 title, while the other children are left landless and 

 often dependent. 



Mr. Colman states that the Duke of Portland, 

 by turning the course of a river, irrigates at his 

 pleasure between three and four hundred acres of 

 land. liord Yarboro' has more than 60,000 acres 

 of land in his plantation. He has 150 tenant farm- 

 ers, and more than 600 tenants in all, and you can 

 ride upon his estate in a direct line thirly miles. 

 One of his tenants said he, the tenant, raised 

 18,000 bushels of wheat in a year ; and many of 

 the tenants pay a rent of 5 or $6000 a year. 



barren new ENGLAND SENDS FOOD TO STARVING IRE- 

 LAND. 



But, while we are amazed at the grandeur of the 

 estates of the English nobility, while we feel thai 

 the vast operations in agricultural improvement 

 practiced there are, from the nature of our lands, 

 impossible with us, we should remember also, that 

 600 tenants, the happiness of each of whom is of 

 as much value in the sight of Omniscience as that 

 of the lord of this vast domain, are dependent, 

 that one may be great. And we have a right to 

 fell proud, that New England, from her barren hills 

 and small and lialf cleared farms, but a few years 

 since, freighted whole ships with food, as cliarity 

 for starving Ireland, — with food for the tenants 

 even on the estates of English nobles, and that 

 although we have no great estates, we have, on 

 the other hand, enough for ourselves, and some- 

 thing for our hungry neighbors. 



poverty of new ENGLAND SOIL. 



The poverty of our soil would be, at once, sug- 

 gested by a citizen of a southern or western State 

 as the one great insuperable obstacle in the way 

 of farming in New England. 



If, however, we had time to institute a thorough 



Fine Pork. — We recently noticed a lot of nine 

 Suffolk ho"s at the stall of Mr. Richards in Faneuil 

 Hall Market, weighing respectively 263, 256, 392, 

 318, 351, 236, 309, 252, and 229, fatted and sentj comparison between the condition of the whole 



