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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Let those who arc from necessity confined within 

 the walls of cities sometimes emerge from their 

 smoky atmosphere and respire a purer air in the 

 country, where their hearts may bo rejoiced with a 

 pure and innocent pleasure, and their souls rise up 

 to heaven in aspirations of praise and gratitude to 

 the Author of every blessing. — Selected. 



AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE. 



The time has gone by, when Agricultural vScience 

 was a subject of derision or neglect by practical 

 fanners. Every one must rejoice to see the rapid 

 advance which it is making in the United States. 

 Its greatest triumphs have been hitherto in the old 

 world, and especially in England, where it has made 

 a garden spot of the whole island, and enabled a 

 mere speck on the surface of the waters to support 

 an immense population. But even in our own coun- 

 try it has achieved its victories, for our farmers are 

 every day paying more attention to the pi-inciples on 

 which it devolves, and ap]ilying them with great 

 Buccess in their cultivation of the soil. This is par- 

 ticularly observable in some of the worn-out lands 

 of our own state, which have been made to renew 

 their youth, and though at one time as poor as Job 

 in his lowest estate, yet it may now be said of them, 

 as it was of the afflicted patriarch, that their " latter 

 end is better than their beginning." "SVe have the 

 authority of one of the wisest practical fai'mers of 

 the state for the opinion, that Virginia, by the ad- 

 vantages afforded by practical agricultural science 

 and the enlightened and persevering employment 

 of them, is destined not only to repair her waste 

 places, but make them equal in fertility and beauty 

 to the virgin regions of the Western States. — Rich. 

 {Va.) Bepub. 



RAINY DAYS. 



How much time is thrown away by some farmers 

 when the weather will not permit them to work out 

 doors ! And how well this time might be improved ! 

 There are many days and hours of wet weather in a 

 year, in which it is impossible to do any work on the 

 farm ; and when these are lost, as they are to many 

 farmers of my acquaintance, they amount to a con- 

 Bideralile sum. " Time is money," as my grandfather 

 used to saj'; and further, "Take care of the pence, 

 and the pounds will take care of themselves." 



Now, if this is good advice in money matters, it 

 will surely apply to economy in time, to those hours 

 and half days when the rain drives us under cover. 



Well, how are these hours to be best improved? 

 I will tell you, my brother farmers. Get yourselves 

 a set of carpenter's tools, and make a work-bench ; 

 and if you can plane a board and drive a nail, you 

 will find enough to occupy all your spare time. 



The tools will cost but five or six dollars — such 

 as are most necessary ; and then you will be able to 

 keep your out-buildings, fences, and manj^ of your 

 farming implements in good repair. If your barn or 

 stable doors break down, mend it immediately the 

 first rainy day. If a board is loose, put a nail in it 

 or replace it. If j'ou want any plain, useful kitchen 

 furniture, such as pine tables, benches, &c., take 

 those occasions. But it is unnecessary to multiply 

 the things that might be made or repaired in such 

 times. Every farmer that looks around him (if he is 

 not in the habit of so doing) will find the wood work 

 on his place lamentably out of repair. 



Besides, every farmer should accustom himself to 

 the use of tools. When he wants a small job done, 

 it wa-tes as much time often ns it is worth, to go 

 several miles after a carpenter. I know some farmers 

 who have not a hatchet, di-awing-knife, auger, plane. 



or work-bench about thcii- place. The consequence 

 is, their jobs and repairs generally oo undone, and 

 they have nothing to do half their time in rainy 

 weather. Is this economy ? Yet such men will 

 carry their grain five miles farther to a market 

 where they can get two cents more on a bushel. — 

 Genesee Farmer. 



TO DRY A COW OF HER MILK. 



Circumstances render it necessary to stop the lac- 

 tescent action in cows ; and when this occurs, all 

 that is absolutelji required is to make a liquor by 

 pouring into a fresh rennet bag two quarts of pure 

 well, spring, or rain water; reduce the quantity of 

 the liquid, by boiling briskly, to about one quart, and 

 strain it. Then let it cool to a lukewarm tempera- 

 ture, and give it as a drink to the cow. In forty- 

 eight hours she will be dry. For some days, her 

 food should be dry and unsucculent, no water being 

 allowed. — Selected. 



AMERICAN BUTTER. 



Considerable shipments of buttei-, mostly of inferior 

 quality, have been made this season from this port, 

 and also from New York, to England. In referring 

 to a public sale of some of this butter, the London 

 Commercial Journal of March 27th says : — 



" At a public sale of American butter at Liverpool, 

 it fetched for best sorts, [one hundred and t\\clve 

 pounds,] eighty-four shilliTigs ; seconds, seventy-two 

 to seventy-four shillings, duty paid ; while inferior 

 only sold at forty- three shillings to forty-four' shil- 

 lings in bond, of which the parcel chiefly consisted. 

 The quantity arrived at the London market shows 

 the same results, the principal part being sold for 

 grease purposes. The American makers of butter 

 are very far behind the Irish, English, or Dutch : 

 from the first operation to the last, all seems to be 

 done without system or care ; the same materials 

 would, if managed by experienced hands, fetch in 

 this market twenty-five shillings or thirty shillings 

 more money : there is no attention paid to the 

 making, salting, putting, or packing. 



Extract from a Letter. 



"As it is probable that American butter and lard 

 will in future seek a market in Great Britain for the 

 surplus product, it may be well that the farmers and 

 others should know that their interest will be to 

 take more care in making these articles. Nothing 

 can be superior to the rich flavor of the Ohio and 

 other western butter, fed on prairie and other rich 

 soils in the autumn, but even a moderately short 

 voyage, or the approach of spi'ing, changes the char- 

 acter of it into a white and rancid grease ; the evil 

 seems to be, that the buttcrm.ilk is not worked out, 

 neither is it properly salted. The best American 

 butter, imported this year, has sold not higher than 

 eighty-five shillings, while the best from the conti- 

 nent has fetched one hundred and leu to one hun- 

 dred and fifteen shillings. The latter will keep for 

 years." — N. Y. Ship, and Com. List. 



HORSES. 



Flies are a great trouble to horses at this season. 

 They Avill eat all the skin off the inside of their ears, 

 and "then feed upon the flesh, prod\icing a great deal 

 of pain and uneasiness. This evil may be prevented 

 by rubbing upon the inside of their ears a little 

 grease or oil, which should be repeated occasionally. 

 Every merciful man who has a horse, will be "mer- 

 ciful to his beast," and prevent this injury. 



