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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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grass under similar circumstances. On the 1st 

 of May, Ave bushels of millet seed were sown on 

 four acres ; on the fifth of July the crop was 

 hauled, and estimated at four tons per acre. I 

 have obtained this season forty tons from sixteen 

 acres, of which four only had been manured ; the 

 remainder could not have borne a good wheat crop. 

 One of the loads was weighed ; an account of them 

 was regularly kept ; their size was made as nearly 

 equal as possible. I have generally used a large 

 quantity of seed, as not more than two-thirds of( 

 that which is usually sown will vegetate. Whilst 

 my own oxen consumed millet in its green state, 

 they performed their work with more strength and 

 vigor than they had done before, or have shown 

 since, except when fed with grain. My cattle, of 

 all ages, prefer it to both red, and the best white 

 clover, meadow, or timothy hay." 



The quantity of seed used for seeding and ob- 

 tained as a crop, is set extravagantly high, in the 

 quotations above. We are assured by those hav- 

 ing long experience in the cultivation of millet, 

 that eight quarts is seed enough for an acre. 



SPECIAL MANURES. 



It is said that the employment of manures which 

 are rich in nitrogen not only causes a large crop, 

 but also produces a gain which is much richer in 

 gluten. The experiments which have hitherto 

 been chiefly relied upon in proof of this result are 

 those of IIermbstadt. On ten patches each 100 

 square feet, of the same soil, (a sandy loam,) ma- 

 nured in equal weights of different manures in the 

 dry state, he sowed equal quantities, (ilb.) of tho 

 same wheat, — collected, weighed and analysed the 

 produce. His results are represented ia the foU 

 fowing table : 



WELCOME SPRING. 



The Halloivell Gazette, after some happy reflec- 

 tions upon the delightful season of Spring, makes 

 the following just and applicable remarks. 



When we hear a farmer tell about selling his 

 farm, with the intention of changing his business, 

 we are always reminded of Esau. There are some 

 men who seem to have been born for an adventur- 

 ous life of trade ; who seem to enjoy its fluctua- 

 tions and uncertainties, and consider it sport to 

 run desperate ventures ; who can descend from a 

 palace to a hovel, or ascend from a hovel to a pal- 

 ace, with equal indifference to their fate. Let 

 them enjoy it — let them be princes to-day and 

 paupers to-morrow if they will, but, reader, if you 

 are the oAvner of a farm, sow this spring as in 

 times past your seed ; and when the autumn shall 

 come you shall reap your harvest, whatever may 

 be the condition of stocks or the price of cotton, 

 or whether the store of the merchant shall be in 

 his possession or in the hiinds of his creditors. 



Then let us all, with contented mind and hope- 

 ful anticipations, hail the approach of spring, re- 

 membering that 



"Contentment walks 

 The sunny glades, and feels an inward blisa 

 Spring o'er his mind, beyfind the power o kings 

 To purchase. Pure serenity apace 

 Induces thought and contemplation still 

 By swift degrees the love of Nature works, 

 And warms the bosom; till at last sublimed 

 To rapture and enthusiastic heat, 

 We feel the present Deity, and taste 

 The joy of God to see a happy world !" 



For the Neit> England Farmer. 

 BONE WENS. 



Mr. Editor : — I noticed an inquiry for a cure 

 of bone wens ; I have a recipe which I have used, 

 and has effected a cure. Take equal parts of indi- 

 go dissolved in wine, and soft soap; apply it quite 

 warm, with a swab, twice or three times a day. 

 This I have tried on a calf six months old, and on 

 a two years old, and effected a cure. 



Hanover, 1853. J. Brqoks. 



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Pear Trees. — We passed an hour in the nur- 

 sery grounds of Col. Wilder, of Dorchester, on 

 Friday, and came to the conclusion that if any of 

 our readers are in want 0? pear trees, they can find 

 them there of all varieties, on pear and quince 

 stocks,with prices varying according to the age and 

 perfection of the tree. It is worth a journey there 

 merely to look at his trees. 



i^" Mr. Levi Burt, nurseryman at Walpole, 

 N. II., writes us that after 16 years experience in 

 raising, budding and grafting fruit trees, he is sat- 

 isfied that to get good healthy pear trees, that will 

 last and be productive, it ia necessary to graft on 

 pear stock. 



