1853. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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and the chartfe is laid upon onr scraping favorites. 'inefficiency of kyanizing from a conversation with 

 Another animal, says Bacuman, one exceedingly [a gentleman recently an engineer on one of the 

 shy in its habits, does the mischief; Lkconte's ^^^,1;^ ^.^rkg of the general government. We 

 pine mouse, {Arincoja pincfm;um,)\s the destroyer ^j^^^j^ ,^^ ,^ ^^ ^^^^ ^,^^^ j.,^^ ^^ j^ ^ ^^j^. 



80 much complained of and is truly very injurious , , ^ ^ 



to vegetables. Since the innocent character of, ^'^le one. 



the mole is established, upon the authority of the 

 greatest of living naturalists, we hope that this 



numerous and varied family will be allowed, in un 

 interrupted safety, to dig and delve for the good 

 of man, and thus keep under those insects which, 



For the New England Farmer. 

 COWS SHEDDING MILK— BUTTER- 



MAKING. 



I Gentlemen: — Can you, or any of your corres- 

 breeding and dwelling in the earth, cannot he de-j^^jg^^^g^ ^^^i^q known a simple and effectual 

 stroyed by the birds. They are both wise checks, I ^^^,^,,^1 ^^ prevent cows from shedding milk? 

 which tlio Creator has placed here, to aid and re- 1 ^yill some one who has practical experience, 

 strain nature, by the exercise of their peculiar I ^^^3^^.^),^ in the Far/Hcr, the whole process of but- 

 functions, and we say again, protect (he moles and tcr-making, including the place for keeping milk, 



I (its ventilation,) the kind of pans, de()th of milk 



in them, churning, salting, (and other ingredients, 

 if any,) and place of keeping it in the tub, espe- 



'cially as respects dryness, or moisture, &c. 



R. P. 



t/ie birds. — Southern AsricuUurist. 



For tlie New England Farmer. 



KYANIZING TIMBER. 



Mr. Brown : — I saw in your last Farmer an in- 

 quiry respecting the kyanizing of timber. In 

 your remarks you say that "the process has been 

 abandoned, it having been ascertained that it does 



Doctoring Cattle. — The following remarks un- 

 der the head of Veterinary, in the Dec. No. of the 

 Prairie Farmer, are so physiological, just, sensible 



. ig y 



anizing in this place. In 1847, I was employed 

 to kyauize the bridge-timber and cross-ties, for a 

 part of the Providence and Worcester Railroad. 

 The ties were of spruce, and hemlock, six inches 

 square. From the small size of the ties, they soon 

 began to fail to hold the spikes, many of the hem- 

 lock ones proving sliaky. As kyanizing was a 

 new thing to me, I felt a curiosity to see the re-, 

 suit, and accordingly watched the appearance of I fj^^^®' 

 the timber as the ties were from time to time ta- ' ^ ^'"^ 



ken up to substitute larger ones ; and recently, a 

 very large part of the ties at the joints of the rails 

 have been taken up, and out of the several hun- 

 dred which I have seen, not more than two or 

 three ties were decayed at all, and those were ev- 

 idently from unsound trees. The general appear- 



and furrow deep, never fail to float something 

 ashore worthy to be picked up and garnered among 

 our choice things. Dr. Kennicott always, gener- 

 ally says good things: 



"We have one piece of general advice to offer, 



under this head. Treat all domestic animals upon 



the same principle that you would the animal man 



_j — making due allowances for the circumstances of 



3 case. 



The best general remedy is care ; a comfortable 

 shelter, and a kind and timely attention to natu- 

 ral wants ; and the less medicine and the fewer 

 medications the better. But if you will "doctor" 

 your cattle, do not employ quacks, nor follow ev- 

 ery floating recipe ; but get a good veterinary prac- 

 titioner, if to be had, who has read the books of 



ance of the kyanized ties is such, that the people l^^'.^P'-ofess'^"- a°f understands them; or better 

 in the vicinity are purchasing those taken up, and still, perhaps, read yourselves ; and follow the in- 

 setting them for fence posts, after having been' ^'cations, it you are right. And if not, better 

 used for ties about .six years. Mr. Thompson, (the *^"^<^ ^^ "'^■^"r^' ^^i''^® ^^"^f «"* f ^""'"v, ^^^""^ 

 man who has the charge of keeping the road in|^a"le,_as well as me.v, are doctored to death than 

 repair at this end) tells me that he finds all the people in general suspect, 

 kyanized ties and timber free from rot. I will 

 add that T have an open trough (for carrying off 

 the water from a sink spout) made of kyanized 

 spruce plank, partly in the ground and partly out, 

 which has been in that positiorTsix years, and ap- 

 pears to be perfectly sound. I know that it may 



be said that six years is not sufficiently long to 'posts by frost, an evil which is more or less expe- 

 test the value of the process, yet as I see chestnut 'rienced among fence holders in proportion as the 

 ties unkyanized, rotting sooner than the spruce 'soil in which they are set is more or less wet, 

 and hemlock, I must wait a longer time to be ; clayey, &c. 



satisfied that the kyanizing does no good. An excellent preventive forthis action of frost, 



Respectfully yours, J. H. Benculey. [and one highly beneficial to the yard and contigu- 



Fur the New England Farmer. 



SETTING FENCE POSTS. 



Dear Sir : — A correspondent, in your paper of 

 June 4 asks a remedy for the upheaval of fence 



Milbvry, June 20, 1853. 



P. S. Should any one be disposed to try thel^^ t a- ^ c .. /i «.„ r^^^ frnm ;<■ 



kyanizing, I will cheerfully impart such in.forma-!^^"^^ ^* ^ ^'^^^"«' «^ *'^^ *''' ^'^'"' ^''* ^'^"^ '^' 



ous grounds, may be found in thoroughly under- 

 draining. Let the drain run parallel with the 



tion as I possess respecting the process, &c. 



Remarks. — Mr. B. will- please accept thanks for 

 the above remarks. We formed our opinion of the 



and be of a depth greater than that to which the 

 posts are set ; where there is no superabundance 

 of water, there will be but little action of frost. 



Another method which we have often seen tried, 

 was, to dig the hole considerably larger than the 



