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NEW ENGLAND FARMEII, 



NOVEMBER 36, 1S3*. 



NEW ENGLANU FARMER. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOV. S6, 1834. 



FARBlBR'S WORK FOR NOVEMBER. 



Swine. He Ihat attempts to fatten liis hogs in winter 

 unless their pen can be kept comfortably warm without 

 extra expense of fuel, will be a loser. But if warm win- 

 ter habitations with dry and cleanly lodgings can be af- 

 forded to tlie animals they will fatten as well, and with 

 as little food in winter as in summer. This may be in 

 a good measure effected by the construction and location 

 o/tlieir pens. Their styes may be placed on the south 

 side of an acclivity, and defended on the west, north and 

 east by banks or walls of earth against the cold winds of 

 winter, with some contrivance like a swinging door, 

 which will close of itself, to prevent the access of cold 

 at the entrance. In that case they will thrive on but a 

 part of the food, which would be necessary, in an ex- 

 posed situation, to enable them to support a sorry e.xist- 

 ence in opposition to the incessant assaults of the pitiless 

 elements. In front of their pens may be a well inclosed 

 yard, which will answer as a receptacle for weeds, fallen 

 leaves, brakes, »tc. the raw materials of their swineships' 

 manure manufactory. Swine, as well as cattle intended 

 for the shambles, well and warmly lodged in winter are 

 half fed, but if not made comfortable in that respect are 

 scarcely worth feeding ; and attempting to fatten tln^m 

 is like laboring to fill sieves or broken cisterns with 

 water. With store animals the case may be different. 

 If growing stock which it is wished to keep on hand a 

 year or two or longer, are too warmly housed, they are 

 liable to suffer in cases of accidental or inevitable ex- 

 posure, much more than those which have never been 

 accustomed to such indulgence. 



With regard to food for fattening swine, it was re- 

 marked by tlie Rev. Mr. Elliot, " I know of nothing 

 that will fiitten hogs faster than a dough of meal and 

 water. But as this is expensive food, the dough may 

 be minced with boiled potatoes, or boiled carrots.— They 

 eat these mixtures as uell as the dough by itself; and it 

 ippears to make no mafcrial difference in tlieir fattening. 

 In the mixture, barley meal will answer instead of In- 

 dian ; which should be attended to in our more northern 

 parts, where two bushels of barley may be as easily rais- 

 ed as one of Indian corn. Both kinds of im al I have 

 found to be a good mixture with boiled potatoes ; but it 

 should by all means be a little salted to give it a good 

 relish." 



The follow ng mixture for fattening swine lias been 

 recommended, and we have no doubt will answer a val- 

 uable purpose ; Wash potatoes clean, boil and mash 

 while hot— mix in at the same time oat-meal and pea- 

 meal. Put the mixture into a laige tub, which must 

 Bland till it becomes sour but not putrid. Keep a quan- 

 tity of this on hand, always fermenting and give it to 

 your hogs as often as they will eat. 



K'tTitcr Food/or Cnulc. A writer for the American 

 Farmer gives the following under the head "Cheup t'od- 

 a<rr." " Having been iiifurined of the advantages of 

 usinir the tops of Indian corn, cut as rye straw, to be 

 nixed with potatoes or meal, as a food for horses or cat- 

 tle. I have been making the experiment. I find that 

 fciy cattle thrive better on the fodder than on rye straw, 

 (cut and used in the same manner.) The corn stalk cer- 

 UJnly contains a great quantity of farine substance and 

 nuBt be highly nutritive, Being cut and scalded with ^ 

 Biall quantity of liran, they afford un excellent mess o 

 wilch cows. In the common way of foddering cattle 

 with tops, the blades are greedily eaten, but stalks are 

 wuted. By adopting the plan recommended, the whole 

 tffotia a outritire food." 



Save your loood. " A Farmer" says, " a very consid- 

 erable saving may be reahzed by using the saw instead 

 of the axe in preparing wood for the fire, although very 

 lew country people are aware of the fact, having never 

 tried the experiment. A saw suitable for this purpose 

 costs no more than an axe, is as easily kept in order, and 

 with careful usage will last as many years. A man can 

 saw as much, and probably more wood in the same 

 time than he can cut with an axe. Scarcely any litter 

 is made, the wood may all be cut of an exact length, and 

 on the whole the annual saving to every house-holder, 

 by using the saw instead of an axe, would in the course 

 of several years amount to something of considerable 

 consequence. 



PATENT HOKSE-SHOB .NAILS. 



We have in our office a sample of horse-shoe nails^ 

 manufactured by Hay ward, Ralph & Sturtevant, in 

 Plympton, Massachusetts. The nails appear very fair, 

 and, as we understand, are highly approved of by their 



numerous consumers . They may be obtained at 



the smith shop of Thomas Faxon, Pond street, Boston, 

 opposite the Massachusetts Hotel. 



(.S'ce advertisement on another page.) 



ITEMS OF INTELIiIUENCE. 



The English papers are occupied with details of the 



destruction of the two houses of Parliament, on the 17th 

 October, by fire. In addition to the misfortune of losing 

 a hall, consecrated by so many elevated associations, that 

 of tlie entire destruction of the House of Commons, and 

 of a great amount of valuable records, will be deeply re- 

 gretted. There is no reason to believe, that the fire 

 arose in any other way than by accident. 



The Shakers make a flour of the slippery elm, and 

 use it the same as arrow-root. It it excellent for infants 

 just weaned, and prevents the bowel complaint. One 

 table spoonful is boiled in a pint of new milk. It is 

 also excellent for consumptive and dyspeptic persons. 



About three weeks ago, a lad was playing with his pet 

 dug, at Marlinsbuig, Va., when the latter jumped up and 

 bit his finger, but not severely. The wound soon heal- 

 ed, and nothing more was thought of it until some days 

 alter when the lad, in going to school, passed a house at 

 the time a servant was throwing some water into the 

 street. The sight of it gave him peculiar sens.itions ; he 

 soon fell into fits, was conveyed to a house, and medical 

 aid resorted to, but in vain. Pie died sounafler, in great 

 agony; 



The Medical Journal of last week relates a cure of 

 deafness of some years standing, by removing Ironi the 

 external auditory passage of the right ear of a female of 

 17 years of age, a cherry-stone winch was put in her car 

 by a jilay-maie ten years ago. 



A man by the name of Gier has been arrested for the 

 murder of young Perry, in the city of Pliiladelphia, at 

 the late elections. He was a common laborer in Pliila- 

 delphia, and was engaged in the riots during the day it 

 the election. He fled from the city that night in such 

 haste, that he took some of his clothing from the w.isli- 

 tub, not giving himself time for them to dry. He was 

 taken near Lancaster. The evidence of his guilt is said 

 to be very strong. 



A Grkat Yield. Caleb Chase writes the editor of 

 the Portland Courier, in illustration of the advantages of 

 high cultivation of land, that he raised in a garden, the 

 past season, from four grains of wheat, eighty heads, 

 one of which measured six and a half inches in length 

 From these eighty heads, he obtained four thousand fire 

 hundred and Uurtij-siL grains of wheat, measuring little 

 short of half a pint, being one thousand one hundred 

 and thirty-four fold. This is worthy the aUenUon of 



those farmers who are only desirous of increasing the 

 number of acres on their farms, without improving the 

 quality of the soil. 



A Dear Bird. Through the carelessness of a lad, 

 who shot at a bird on a stack of grain, twelve stacks of 

 wheat, rye and oats were destroyed by fire, in Bucks 

 county, Pa., valued at $300. They were the property 

 of Chirles Wise, who might say to the lad as the frogs 

 did to the boys, '• Though it be sport to you, it is death 

 to us." 



The British Government has decided in favor of al- 

 lowinir American Beef and Pork, salted, to be exported 

 from Canadian ports to other British ports, duty free. 

 This arrangement is calculated to benefit the West In- 

 dia Islands, and will enable them to obtain their provis- 

 ions at a much cheaper rate than heratofore. It will al- 

 so put a handsome sum of money into the pockets of the 

 stall feeders and hog feeders of New York, Peniisylva-.« 

 nia, Ohio and Michigan. '■'* 



A young man in the employment of Messrs. Sykes & 

 Son, Sheffield, England, has made a steam-engine, which 

 weighs seven ounces. It is so perfect, that with a spirit ' 

 lamp and two table s;oonfulls of water, it will go at the 

 rate of a thousand strokes a minute, and will continue ■ 

 to work until almost the last drop is expended. 



From the Vermont Chronicle. 

 Messrs. Editors— If the following, which you may 

 rely upon as being strictly true, is worthy a place in 

 your columns, it is at your service. L.. J. 



Rev. James Johnson, of this place, has a heifer which 

 was two years old last April. A calf was expected from 

 her the fore part of August. In May, her bag became 

 large and tender, and seemed to be in danger of being in- 

 jured by inflammatinn. To prevent this, they coramenc- 

 ed milking her regularly, and though she had no other I 

 pasture than the highway, she gave from six to eight 

 quarts a day till she calved, which was August 6th. Her 

 calf was of a good size, and by no means poor. Her 

 milk, before calving, was set by itself, and from the 

 cream skimmed during the ten weeks she had been milk- 

 ed, were made forty pounds of excellent butter. She 

 now bids fair to be a fine cow. 

 St. Johnshury, Oct. 1S34. 



MASS. HORTICULTLl RAL SOCl ETY. 



FRUITS EXHIBITED. 



Sidurdinj, JVovemher 22. 



Penrs. By the Hon. John Lowell— two of the new 

 varieties received of Mr. Knight, one of them No. 10, is 

 described as Pcngclthij, "a large brown fruit ;"— A small 

 fruit, beurre and of a sweet and good flavor. The other 

 a fruit of medium size, beurre, more astringent and of' 

 excellent flavor. 



By B. V. French, Esq— A new fruit, sent by Micahi 

 M. Ruo-gles, Esq. of Fall-river; a native winter fruit,, 

 lately fimnd wild on the farm of Mr. Wilbur ; a round- 

 ish fruit of medium Bizp,of a green color, of good flavor, 

 with a portion of astringency, indicating that this fruit 

 mio-ht be improved by cultivation. It has been reco;ii- 

 mended that it be called Wilbur's Winter. 



By Mr. Manning— Passe Colmar and Doyenne Gris, 

 and the Sabine. Also, the Duchesse d'Ango-:leme, al- 

 ready celebrated for its uncommon size and beauty, its 

 excellent flavor and productiveness. The Pastorale, ai 

 fruit of medium size and oblong, its form and color re- 

 sembling that of the English Jargonelle ; a most pro- 

 ductive winter fruit of good flavor. Princesse DOrange, 

 very beautiful and excellent, and the first specimen oil 

 this new fruit which we have seen exhibited. 



J]pples. By Samuel Fond— White Colville, a fruit o* 

 good flavor with a good prbportion of acid. 



By Messrs. Winships— a variety of the Colville spM 



