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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 AMOUNT OF PRODUCE FROM COWS. 



An analysis of facts relating to the produce of butter on certain farms in the county of Essex, in the 

 summer of 1849, tsiken from the statements of the occupants, as presented to the committee on the dairy, 

 for the premiums offered by the Essex County Agricultural Society. The several claimants -were required 

 to state distinctly their produce for the month of June ; also for the four months next following the 20th 

 of May. 



Residence. 



John Stone 



Daniel Putnam 



Elijah Pope, 



Charles P. Preston,.. 



George Pearson, 



Nathaniel Felton, . . . . 



Jonathan Berry, 



Duncan M'Naughton, 



John Preston, 



Nathan D. Hawks, . . 



Marblehead, 



Danvers, 



Danvers, 



Danvers, 



Saugus, 



Danvers, 



Middleton, 



Byfield, 



Danvers, 



Lynnfield, 



June 

 Average to a Cow. 



45 lbs. 



34 " 



28 •* 



30 " 



30 " 



32 " 



30 " 



25 '• 



26 " 

 25 " 



Four Mnntlis 

 Average to a Cow. 



155 lbs. 

 124 " 



111 " 



112 " 

 109 " 

 llOi " 



99 " 

 98 " 

 92 " 

 85 " 



Total in Four 

 Months. 



620 lbs. 



744 " 



444 " 



784 " 



654 " 



884 «« 



790 " 



490 " 



366 " 



340 " 



56 



308 lbs. 

 f-bylO 

 = 30.8 " 

 the average. 



1095 lbs. 

 -J- by 10 

 = 109.5 '« 

 in 123 days 



6116 lbs. 

 ^by56 

 = 109-^5- lbs. 

 the average. 



Most of the above facts are distinctly set forth in the statements. Those which are not, are estimated 

 from those that are. They show what may be expected, from our well-managed dairies, in such seasons as 

 the past, where the feed for the months of August and September was materially cut off by the drought. 

 If you think them worthy a position in your record of New England farming, you have them, with my 

 confidence in their accuracy. Very truly yours, 



Danvees, Oct. 25, 1849. J. "W. P. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 FARMING WILL TRIUMPH. 



When the year nineteen hundred shall have been 

 borne on the rapid car of time, and pi'oclaimed in 

 our midst, what an advancement will have been made 

 in the arts and sciences, and the various departments 

 of agriculture, if new inventions and improvements 

 continue to be put forth to the world as they have 

 been for the last half century ! Who of us can im- 

 agine the improvements that will be made in the 

 cause of agriculture during the next fifty years ? 

 Judging from the past, when the year nineteen hun- 

 dred shall have dawned upon us, the jirofcssion of 

 agriculture will be as much coveted and sought after, 

 as it was once considered low and disgraceful. Time 

 was when farming was thought (especially by the 

 young) to bo a very unpopular and low business. 

 How many a young man has forsaken a comfortable 

 home and farm, and apprenticed himself to some 

 village grocer, because, forsooth, farming was de- 

 grading ! But a now era is dawning upon this west- 

 ern continent ; people are beginning to open their 

 eyes to their true interests, and to the interests of 

 the whole country. 



While great improvements have been made, and 

 are still making, in the arts and sciences, the cause 

 of Agriculture has not been left in the rear. With 

 giant force she has plouijhrd her way through, and 

 with eagle wings she is fast soaring towards the 

 summit of her glory. There was a time when the 

 farmer would grow crops on his New England soil 

 so long as his land would yield him an equivalent 

 for his labors, without the use of manure or compost, 

 and then " pull up stakes," and turn his face with the 

 emigrant towards the western wilderness. A differ- 

 ent state of things is being brought about. The soil 

 is cared for, and every waste material is turned to 



account. Thus the land is enriched and kept in a 

 productive state, and rewarding the husbandman 

 with an abundant harvest for his labors. Farming 

 is not now confined to the mere ignorant classes of 

 society, as men of talents and wealth have become 

 engaged in it, thus showing to the world that to be 

 a tiller of the soil is no mean occupation. 



Since the existence of the numerous machinations 

 of mankind to obtain money without a resort to 

 manual labor, the honest yeoman, by pursuing his 

 honorable occupation, in earning his bread by the 

 sweat of his brow, has won for himself unfading 

 laurels, and is receiving the attention and respect of 

 all classes of the community. The time will come, 

 and that too before the nineteenth century shall have 

 been numbered with the past, when farming will 

 become the leading occupation of the day, and those 

 who are now leaving the plough for the city will be 

 as eager to return to the plough, and enjoy the com- 

 forts of the farmer's life in the country, as they were 

 anxious to leave it. These are the writer's humble 

 predictions. A. TODD. 



Smithfield, R. I. 



For the New England Farmer. 



STRAW HENS' NESTS. 



Mr. Cole. Dear Sir : Perhaps it is as important 

 that we should have good nests for hens, as it is that 

 wo should have good hens. I have sent one to Rug- 

 gles, Nourse, Mason, & Co., which to me was a curi- 

 osity, and more than that, a great convenience ; and 

 as there has been much of interest published of late 

 concerning fowls, it may not be wholly useless to say 

 a word about what I call an Irish hens' nest. I 

 think no one would be without them if their con- 

 venience was once tested. They will cost about 



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