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NEW ENGLAND 1 AllMER, 



„OVEMBER 19, 193*. 



SEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOV. 19, 1034. 



PARMER'S WORK FOR IVOVEMEER. 



Bog Fence. A writer in a Soutliern paper observes^ 

 " This is the season [November] of the year to clear 

 meadows of the bogs that frequently grow on low lands, 

 and I would recommend flora my own experience, to 

 cut up the bogs and build fence with them, by which 

 means the land is doubly benefitted ; first, by clearing it 

 of that which is injurious, and secondly, by making a 

 fence which is equally substantial with that made of 

 stone, independent of its compactness : After having 

 tried dilferent methods, I would recommend laying them 

 after the manner of stone fences : on low and wet lands, 

 it will settle much slower than on upland ; the wild 

 grass will cease to grow and a spear grass commence, 

 which in two years will connect the bogs. I would ad- 

 vise laying this fence three feet at bottom, and four feet 

 height, with one lateral rail supported by slakes at each 

 end, usually termed " stakes and rider," which will keep 

 it in place. Although it settles considerably the first 

 year, and gradually afterwards, I am convinced from 

 four years' experience, that it will endure ten years 

 without any additional bogs, and it can be laid up at one- 

 tenth expense of that which is made from stone. 



Sicinc. A good sty is of the utmost importance in fat- 

 ting hogs. Nor is it of less importance for keeping them 

 in winter ; as the more comfortable they are kept, the 

 less nourishment they require. The sty should be pro- 

 portioned in size to tlie number of swine it is to contain. 

 One of sixteen feet by twelve, is probably sufficient for 

 eight fatting swine. It should be divided into two 

 apartments ; that in the rear which should be about six 

 feet wide, should be close and warm for the hogs to lie 

 in. There they should have a constant supply of dry 

 Utter when the weather is cool, for it is an essential 

 point to keep them comfortable. The front part of the 

 sty which would then be about ten feet wide, should 

 have the floor descending on one side for the filth to run 

 off; and in this side should be an opening. The trough 

 should be on the upper side, covered with one or more 

 lids ; and upright pieces should be set before it, at such 

 distances apart as that one hog only could put his head 

 between any two of them, in order that when feeding, 

 the weaker animals should be protected against the 

 stronger. The whole should be covered with a roof, for 

 it is essential that they should be protected from storms, 

 while they are in the outer or feeding apartment. Ac- 

 cording to the foregoing, if sixteen hogs are to be kept 

 or fatted in the stye, it should be thirty-two feet long, 

 and twelve wide, and in that case there might be a 

 sleeping apartment at each end. These apartments 

 should be again subdivided, that, for the quiet of the 

 animals particularly in fatUng, too many may not be 

 forced to lie together. It would probably be best also 

 to divide the feeding apartment ; for too many hogs kept 

 together, are not apt to enjoy that peace and quiet which 

 is necessary to their fatting well. Posts should also be 

 set up in the sty for hogs to rub themselves. If thirty- 

 two hogs are to be kept or fatted, then perhaps the btst 

 way is to have two styes of the dimensions last described, 

 placed together, but with a roof over the whole, and a 

 passage between them for the purpose of carrying food 

 to the troughs. If a part of the roof extended consider- 

 ably beyond the sty, it would aiford a convenient cover 

 ' for forming a heap of compost from the dung of the 

 swine. 



The Flying Weevil. We are informed by a friend, 

 that an easy and effectual preservative to the ravages 

 made in wheat and other grain by the Flying Weevil, 

 will be found in strewing over, and mixing through the 



threshed grain slacked lime— that a peck of lime will 

 answer for a thousand bushels. Those having their 

 grain in stacks will do well to thresh it immediately and 

 resort to this simple mode of preventing its entire de- 

 struction. The grain can easily be cleaned from the 

 lime by screening. The remedy is practised as we are 

 informed in the Southern States, where the Weevil has 

 been for some years very destructive to grain.— OAiO 

 Paper.* 



Cut Fodder. " Cut or chaff your hay, straw, corn 

 tops or blades, and even your stalks with a straw cutter, 

 and you will save a great proportion which is otherwise 

 wasted or passed through the animal without contribu- 

 ting to its nourishment. One bushel of chafled hay at 

 a mess given in a trough, three times in twenty-four 

 hours, is sufficient for a horse, ox, or cow. A bushel of 

 chaffed hay, lightly pressed, weighs from .5 to .5^ pounds 

 A horse or horned beast thrives more on 15 pounds thus 

 given, than on 24 or 25 pounds as commonly expended 

 (including waste) in the usual manner of feeding in 

 racks ; to which troughs properly constructed, are far 

 preferable. 



" Feeding your stock by weight and measure of food, 

 will not only save your provender, by its orderly distri- 

 bution, but frequently save the lives of animals, too 

 often starved by niggardliness or gorged and ihjured by 

 profusion. If it be true, as it is, that " the master's eye 

 makes the horse fat," it is equally so thatthc master's eye 

 prevents the horse from being pampered, wanton bloated, 

 foundered, and finally wind broken and hWnd."— Judge 

 Peters. 



Store keep for Cfltt/f— should neither be too rich nor too 

 abundant ; and if an ox is once made fat, and then loses 

 his flesh, he is like one of Pharaoh's lean kine, the more 

 he devours the leaner he becomes. If young cattle arc 

 kept in rich pastures in summer, and poor fodder m 

 winter, sometimes stufl:'ed, at other limes starved, they 

 lose their disposition to fatten. 



SUPERIOR SQ,XIASU. 



Mr. S. Thayer, of Brainlree, Mass. has favored us 

 with a Squash of surpassing magnitude, and fine form, 

 which he denominates Whig Squash. It weighed, 

 when taken from the vine 42 lbs., and is respectfully 

 submitted to the inspection of the curious connoiseur in 

 prime productions. 



ITEMS OF INTELLIGENCE. 



The committee of the City Council on the subject of 

 introducing pure soft water into the city, submitted a 

 report, accompanied by an elaborate report of Loammi 

 Baldwin, Esq. together with a plan of the proposed 

 route it is intended to bring said water into the city, 

 were read, and 7,000 copies of the same ordered to be 

 printed for the use of the citizens of Boston.— Jlfej-. Jour. 

 The cotton crop at the present year has been at 1,100- 

 000 bales. We think it will rather exceed than fall 

 short of that vast amount, though the croi)S, in some 

 places, were much injured by storms and floods and the 

 rot— and the force of the cultivation weakened by the 

 prevalence of the cholera. Of the amount stated, about 

 200,000 bales will be required for tlie home consump- 

 tion. If the sales are taken at an average of 350 lbs. 

 each, wliicli, perhaps, is a low estimate, we have 385 

 millions of pounds, worth at 10 per lb. $:!a,500,000. 



We see that the crop of last year has been estimated 

 at 1,205,000 bales. If this is correct, the crop of the 

 present year is rated much too low. — JVilcs' Register. 



We see advertised for sale in a Manchester (Eng.) 

 paper, a sow which had been tlie happy mother within 

 eighteen months, of sixty-one pigs. 



.^tcaiii Ships of War. A writer in the London United 

 Service Journal for August, says, " The French have 

 established a complete steam dock-yard, on the Loire, at 

 the Island of Isidret ; five steamers have been launched 

 there, and six of 160 horse power, are now constructing. 

 At the end of this year, their steam navy will consist of 

 24 vessels, with a power of 3,172 horses." If by any 

 accident we should get into a war with a nation thus 

 equipped, we should be rather awkwardly situated it 

 must be confessed. We should like to see a few such 

 vessels added to our own Navy. — Jour, of Com. 



Well done, Baltimore. At a late meeting of the Teach- 

 er's Lyceum in the city of Baltimore, it was resolved, 

 " that the Society will take immediate measures to as- 

 certain the number of children in the city of Baltimore 

 who do not attend school, to use all proper means to 

 bring EVERY CHILD within the pale of instruction." 



We learn from the Montreal papers, that the British 

 Government has given a decision in favor of allowing 

 A'ftitrican Beef and Pork salted, to be exported from the 

 Canadian ports to other British ports, duty free. This 

 will enable the West Indies to obtain their articles of 

 provision at much cheaper rate than heretofore. The 

 consequence of this decision will be to create a more ex- 

 tensive demand for Beef and Pork, from New York, 

 Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Micliigan, in the Montreal and 

 Quebec market.— JV. Y. Gaz. 



A Fleet. We saw from the "windows of our office 

 yesterday morning, twenty-eight schooners, and three 

 steam-boats, with their sails spread for the ' Far West,' 

 all having left our harbor within two hours. Such a 

 scene as this will show to our friends abroad the impor- 

 tance of the ' Young city of the West,' and the highly 

 prosperous condition of our trade and commerce. — Buf- 

 falo Bulletin. 



A ftiend has handed us the following communication. 

 We have seen the model of the improvement in ques- 

 tion, and as far as we are able to judge, we concur hear- 

 tily in the opinion of the writer that the discovery is one 

 of great importance, as it has long been a desideratum 

 in sleam-boat navigation. 



IMPORT ANT INVENTION. 



We have seen a small model of a water wheel, in- 

 vented by a gentleman of this city, some months since, 

 called the " non-reaction water wheel." The principle 

 is entirely new, and the reaction which is so great, and 

 causes so much loss of power in the wheel at present 

 used in this country, is entirely saved by this simple 

 machine. 



Two paddles or buckets are attached to the end of two 

 frames of iron, which work on the arms of the wheel, 

 by bearings in plumber blocks. These frames and pad- 

 dles perform about tlie third of a revolution, and are 

 prevented from turning entirely round, as the wheel re- 

 volves by guides attached to the arms, consequently as 

 the wheel turns so do the frames with the paddles, and 

 fall into the water edgewise, and both at the same time 

 causing no reaction. They pass through the water and 

 come out in the same position thereby tlirowing up no 

 water.. Tliey have also this advantage, that they will 

 propel the boat much faster without noise or shaking. 



Several steam-boats are preparing to use this wheel, 

 and all those who have seen it, among whom were sev- 

 eral engineers, engine builders, &c., acquainted with 

 the subject, have no hesitation in pronouncing it an im- 

 portant and useful discovery. The inventor, we under- 

 stand has taken measures for securing a patent in Eng- 

 \a.nd.— Pittsburg Jldvoeate. 



nomcsticuting the Ot/er and Muskrat. From an Ohio 

 paper it appears that a Mr. Entz, of Cambridge, in that 

 Stale, has domesticated the wild Otter of the western 



