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when it was sown. This summer the piece gave a 

 fine crop of English hay, and the clover which was 

 thrown on in the spring now looks finely for fall feeding. 

 This land was thoroughly drained, and the mud from 

 the ditches helped us to form the new sm'face. 



Thus where there is soil near a meadow that is 

 made dry enough to be carted on, one man, in a week, 

 with a single yoke of oxen, will carry on enough of 

 soil to convert a whole acre of poor meadow into 

 English mowing. Say the expense is two dollars per 

 day, or twelve dollars per acre, — and such land needs 

 not much manure : it will nearly maintain itself in 

 grass, if the rowen crop is turned under once in a few 

 years. This land, thus prepared, is worth more than 

 one hundred dollars per acre twenty miles from Boston. 



How much of such land we have within thirty 

 miles of Boston which now bears a burden that will 

 hardly pay for fencing ! It requires no expensive 

 process to double the quantity of hay now cut in 

 Massachusetts. 



GARGET. 



This disease in cows is very troublesome at certain 

 seasons, and is more often found to afflict the best 

 milkers than the poorest. Garget root, as it is called 

 in Maine, jalap more commonly in Massachusetts, 

 has been the usual remedy for this disorder. It bears 

 a berry large as a pea, and full of purple juice. The 

 plant is quite common in this vicinity, but does not 

 flourish so well farther north. 



We have been in the habit of taking a piece of the 

 root an inch long, and half an inch in diameter, and 

 inserting it in a hole cut in the dewlap of the afflicted 

 cow. In cases of a severe attack, the dewlap will 

 swell sometimes to the size of a small hog's bladder. 



