1853. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMi^R. 



28^ 



Keeping one pair of horses, at $132,25 $1322,50 



Shoeing, at $12 per annum 120,00 



Total $1441,50 



Keeping one yoke ofoxes ten years, at $89,95 $699,50 



Shoeing, at $5 per annum 50,00 



Total $949,50 



At this time the yoke of oxen arc worth for 

 beef $80,00, which being taken from the cost 

 of the ox hibor for the ten years. 



Considering the pair of Iiorses at fourteen worth 

 $125, this sum is to be taken from the cost of 

 horse labor which reduces that sum to 



Cost of horse labor $1327,50 



Cost of ox labor 869,50 



.«;448,00 



In ten years ihen the farmer is better in his 

 standing by $448, by the use of oxen instead of 

 horses for farm work. — Granite Farmer. 



WASH FROM THE SINK. 



There is probably no article that can be applied 

 to growing vegetables, more decidedly valuable, 

 than the wash from the sink spout. And yet this 

 is not generally understood by farmers, and few 

 efforts are made even by the most economical, to 

 economize an article in which are to be found all 

 the elements which contribute to the sustenance 

 of vegetables in a state of perfect solution, and 

 consequently in a condition the most readily ap- 

 propriable by the organs they are designed to 

 nourish, invigorate and sustain. 



It has been computed by chemical men that the 

 amount of pabulum, or alimentary matter, con- 

 tained in the urine of animals, is equal to that of 

 the solid voidings. It has also been asserted that 

 one hogshead of soap-suds, if applied in irrigation, 

 would produce effects upon the corn crop as obvi- 

 ous and enduring, as those resulting from a cord 

 of the best manure. This assertion is, perhaps, 

 erroneous ; but that the effects of the article ap- 

 plied in the manner specified, would be highly sal- 

 utary, no one who has witnessed the effects of 

 soap-suds upon cucumbers, squashes, house plants, 

 &c., can indulge a doubt. But the most econom- 

 ical method, probably, of saving and appropria- 

 ting this liquid to the purposes of vegetable en- 

 richment, is to mix it with the materials of the 

 compost heap. Any substance which will absorb 

 it, may be made a vehicle for conveying it to the 

 fields, such as swamp muck, which, in a dry state, 

 readily absorbs three times its weight of water, 

 loam, old tan, rotten leaves, straw or saw dust, 

 all of which are highly valuable, and act favorably 

 both on the soil and crop. 



If it is found inconvenient to convey the sink 

 waste to the piggery or barn cellar, dig a hole near 

 the house six feet square, and two or three feet 

 deep, according to the amount of water from the 

 sink. If this is designed as a permanent arrange- 

 ment, it would be well to stone or brick it and cov- 

 er the bottom and sides with water cement. But 



it will answer very well without either, by laying 

 some old timber, joist or stones round tlie edge, 

 and banking the earth up against it so that it may 

 be covered up and not be offensive to the sight or 

 smell. 



On the bottom of this, lay meadow mud, straw 

 leaves, weeds, or common loam, and let the watec 

 on. These materials should be frequently sup- 

 plied in small quantities until the place is full, 

 when it may be carted away and the operation con- 

 tinued. 



A farmer who has adopted this plan, thinks he 

 can make by it at least, twenty dollars' worth of 

 the best of manure in a year, though the opera- 

 tions of the kitchen are limited, the family being 

 small. 



"TIRED OF FARMING." 



A few months ago, a man who had been a farm- 

 er from "his early life, came to the city to buy 

 stoves to sell again. Said he to the stove dealer, 

 "the weevil begins to infest the wheat, and all 

 things considered, I am 'tired of farming,' and so 

 have sold my farm." The stove dealer remarked, 

 that he thought within himself, that just as like 

 as not the discontented farmer would find a weevil 

 in the heart of the new business — and so it proved, 

 for when the day arrived on which the note ma- 

 tured, given for the stoves, the old farmer, now 

 turned tradesman, confessed that he had not been 

 able to sell his stoves — that he had most of them 

 on hand. 



"Tired of farming," the most independent busi- 

 ness a man can engage in, because, forsooth, there 

 are disappointments, and perplexities, and trials, 

 and vexations, attending it. Remember, you who 

 are tillers of the soil, that your cares and troubles 

 and anxieties are few and far between, compared 

 with those suffered by commercial men. If your 

 chances to become rich are not so inviting and 

 profitable, as thoseof the tradesman, bear in mind 

 that the dangers of being very poor and destitute 

 are far less. Famine and abject poverty seldom 

 overtake the farmer, or haunt him in their ghost- 

 ly visits. He lives on the high table-land of 

 promise, rising far above the murky region of want 

 and destitution. His children can say there is 

 bread enough in our father's house, and a piece to 

 spare to the hungry of other less fortunate call- 

 ings. 



"Tired of forming!" Supposing you are. — 

 What is to be done in such a case ? Do you ex- 

 pect to find an employment without trials and 

 perplexities ? If so, you are doomed to disap- 

 pointment. There is no vocation in tMh world 

 that will exempt those who engage therein, from 

 cares and fears and vexations. So if you are tired 

 of farming, the best way is to get rested just as 

 soon as you can, and prosecute anew the Ijusiness 

 for which you were early trained, and which, if 

 diligently followed, will yield a good supply of all 

 the necessaries and comforts of life, together with 

 opportunities for mental and moral culture. — Ru- 

 ral Netv- Yorker. 



Franklin County Society. — Through the polite- 

 ness of Hon. H. W. CusHMAN, we Iiavc received 

 the Transactions of tliis Society for the year 1852. 



