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IMEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



July 11, 1826. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BOSTON, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1828. 



tion to be attended to in turning lambs into a rich jsuch case, light dressings, such as soot, coal-ashes, 

 pasture, which is to let them be in some degree j peat, or wood-ashes, lime, malt-dust, &c. &c. are 

 satisfied with food, previoiigly, that they may not | often highly beneficial. Sir John Sinclair says. 

 I be surfeited or hoven or swollen. Should this 1 "as there are strong objections to the application 

 ! disorder occur the distempered animals should be I of pure dung to grass lands, (much of its strength 

 I treated as directed, page 334 of our current vol- I being evaporated, from its being exposed to at- 

 ' ume. On weaning the lambs, it may be necessa- j mospheric influence) composts are greatly to be 



■At the annual meeting of the Massachusetts Society , 

 for Promoting Agriculture, held at the hall of the 

 Massachusetts Bank, June 11, 1828. 



IMr Lowell having declined a re-election to j.y ,„ j„i]ij ,|,eir (ia,ns several times, in order to preferred. They may be* applied at the Vate of 

 the office of President, it was " voted that the reUeve their udders, which othervvisc sometimes from thirty to forty cubic yards per acre. To keep 

 " thanks of the Society be presented to the Hon. become swollen and painful. ! grass' laud in good condition, a dressing to this 



" John Lowell, the late President for his emi- Tijg y^-^rst wooled lambs, bad colored ones, and amount is required every four years. The appli- 

 " neiit services in that office ; and that the Society t]iose that are very small, should be made over cation of unmixed putrescent manure, will thus 

 " is deeply sensible both of the reputation it has {„ ,i,e butcher, and need not be weaned. It is be rendered unnecessary, which ought at least to 

 " acquired, and the substantial benefits secured to recommended, howevei, not to kill or sell for be avoided in meadows, {or pastures) appropriated 

 "the agricultural interests of New England, by the killing any lambs till th.y are about six months for the feeding of dairy cows, from its afiecting 

 " unwesricd exertion of his great and various old, at which time their fleece becomes valuable. ; the quality of the milk." 



"powers, and by the promptitude and kindness, "Those ewe lambs, which are intended for It was remarked in Deane's N. E. Farmer, thai 

 " with wiiicl! he has availed himself of every op- stock," according to Deane, "should not come at "it is ridiculous to think of taking many crops of 



the rams. For if they have lambs at a year old, it hay from any piece of upland, in uninterrupted 

 stints them in their growth ; and they have so lit- succession, without aflbrding it any manure. For 

 I tie milk that their lambs comti.only die for want it does not imbibe the richness of the atmosphere 

 j of nourishment. Or if they chance to live, they so plentifully as land in tillage. Grass land should, 

 \ will be apt to be always small. Tliis practice is therefore, once in two or three years at least, have 



" portunity to communicate the benefit of his ex- 

 " tensive acquirements to his fellow citizens." 

 A true copy from the record. 



BENJ. GUILD, Assist. Rec. Secy. 

 Brookline, June 11, 182S. 



The following officers were chosen for the en- one reason why our breed of sheep in this coun- ■ a dressing of good rotted dimg or of a compost. 



suing year. 



Hon. Th. L. Winthrop, President. 

 Hon. Israel Thor.'jdike, 1st Vice President. 

 Hon. Tiio. H. Perkins, 2d do. do. 



.loHN Heard, Esq. Treasurer. 

 Hon. John Lowell, Corresponding Secretary. 

 Richard Scllivan, Recording Secretary. 

 RE^^I. Guild, Assistant do. do. 



Trustees. 



Hon. Peter C. Brooks, 



Hon. John Welles, 



G. Parsons, Esq. 



E. H. Dfrbt, Esq. 



John C. Gray, Esq. 



SWINE. 

 An Ohio Farmer recommends coals os useful 

 in fattening hogs. After giving his hogs a small 

 quantity daily, say two pieces to each, about the 

 size of a hen's egg, lliey discontinued rooting, 

 were more quiet, and appeared to fatten faster. 



try is so poor. I suitable for the soil. But the best way is to do it 



"The largest lambs should be sheared at the i every year. Autumn is the tune for applying ma- 

 tinie of the new moon in Jidy. Their fleeces will i nure, according to long approved practice. But a 

 yield as much the next year, and the woti will be j writer in the Georgical Essays recoiranends doing 

 better ; and as cold storms rarely ha[i])cn .t thilt i it immediately after the first mowing when a sec- 

 time of the year, the lambs will do better v.ltliout ond crop is expected, which will luidoubtedly be 



their fleeces than with them. 



the larger." 



The last edition of the same work, under the 



head "Top Dressing," contains the foUowmg ob- 



There is scarcely any question, on 



GRASS LAND, 



By lying, is apt to become uneven and knobby, i servations": 

 To prevent tliis, good farmers pass a roller ovfer , which ftirmers are more divided than as to the 



pilify of applying manure as a toj) dressing to grass 

 laiii in spring or fall. The reasoning seems to 

 be !! iiivor of spring dressing, and it is supported 

 by liiany excellent names. But it ought to he 

 known that intelligent farmers, near the metropo- 

 lis, most jrenerally dress their lands in autumn. — 

 Besides tho reason stated above that grass lauds 

 are less inju.td by carting over them in the fall ; 



their land every sprmg and fall. This gives the 

 routs of grass a more equal advantage tor nourish- 

 ment and growth, facihtates the mowing of the 

 grass, and the raking of the hay. , 



When land becomes bound, or its surface mat- 

 ted together by interwoven roots of grass in such 

 a manner as to lessen the crop, if it be not ccn- 

 venient to plough it up, it should be cut or scari- 

 fied by a spiked roller; or il' tiie farmer do not , it may be ao led, that it is a season of greater 

 possess this, by a lieavy loaded harrow, when the leisure, and a!il,ough it is confidently asserted 

 ground is sottened by rains or the coming out of [that the mauur. is wasted by rains and snows, 

 He omitted the coal a lew days and they com- 1 jro^t. It may then be dressed with some sort of yet much ought to be allowed on the other side, 

 menced rooting ; he gave it again, and they ceas- compost, composed of materials which will net fo,. the protection afforded bv the top dressing, 

 cd to root. He supposes that the coal corrects ] i^^e their vu-tuc by exposure to the sun nor b; : to the tender roots of plants during winter; and 

 the morbid fluid m the stomach which »nc>tes g^giiy ^j^^bed away by rain ; and harrowed agaiii, | „„ght we not to allow something for the low tern- 

 them to root deep m search of fresh earth. Hogs ; g„ ^^ jo mix the manure with the surface of th? i pcrature of the atmcspliere in winter, which prc- 

 in summer should at all times have water m '^^^^ There is no danger of destroyhig the roots [ yents evaporation? Wl>atever principles of fer- 

 w'lich they can wallow, and they will encrust , ^f jbe grass by harrowing. Though they be brok- i tjlity exist in manure, are in winter carried down 

 Ihemsdves with a coating of mud, so as to pre- ! g„ (hey will be speedily renewed ; new offsets will into the soil. We are fully conviLced that a 

 ' ^C"' their being troubled with vermin. ,be more plentifully formed, and the crops will rise I scorching sun, and drying ai/. are more jiernicious 



WEANING LAMBS, &c. with renewed vigor. to manures, spread thinly over the surface than 



The w-a-.in- of lambs should be effected about! As a general rule, dung, or the recrements of} any drencl.mg rams can be, unless on declivities, 

 this time or when the lambs are from six weeks ' animal and vegetable substances cannot be pro- ^here top dressings are unouestionably of less 

 to two months old. At this age they should be Atal^'y 'iPUl'ed to land which is covered with a | value than on level grounds. The fart, that farm- 

 t-kcn from the ewes, and have the best of pasture \ thick sward. The sun, the atmosphere, and the j ers, who grow rich by supplying irreat to%vns with 

 JuiH"- the first fortnight; by the end of which | n<"ghboring streams of water in such case become , i^y, generally adopt the practice of fall dressing 

 time Hiev will be so much accustomed to livmg tlie recipients of nearly all the fertihzmg particles U^ass lands, deserves weight." 



,1 . .1 „„ ,>,o„ Ur. .iiriiffl inir, i i.nnrpr of manure thus applied. VVhen grass land be- 



OM g:ass that they may be turned into a poorer ^ . _ ii _^ _& ^ ^ ^^ | i iur.P TllVin 



pasture. It is important that the lambs when 



weaning should have a good bite of fresh grass, 



otjierv.ise their growth will receive a check 



which no subsequent management can overcome. 



Wiierc they have grazed with their dams so long 



as five or six weeks little hindrance to their growth 



will be sustained by the separation. The ewes 



should be removed to such distant pastures or 



other places as that their bleating may not be 



■heard hv the lambs. Tlici* is, however, one. cau- 



comes impoverished by repeated crops of hay be- | LARGE TIMOTHY. 



ing taken from it, the soil should, as a general I Among other specimens of the uncommon fruit- 

 rule, be ploughed, and manure apphed to the ara- \ fulness of the present season, we haTc seen spires 

 ble crops, such as potatos, Indian corn, mangel of Timothy, or (as it is must usually denominated 

 wurtzel, &c. and when thoroughly subdued, and i in the northern states) Herd's grass, which grew 

 made abundantly rich, it should agaui be laid ! on the farm of Mr Jeremiah Crosby, of Billcrica, 

 down to grass, with great plenty of grass seed.- | with heads 14 inches long ! Good soil, good cul- 

 But it is oflen the case that good grass land is tare, and a good season must he united to pro- 

 too moist or too stony for arable crops, and yet Ulucc siicli san)]ilcs of fertility, 

 may need recruiting by some kind of manure. In ] 



