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NEW ENGLAND 



FARMER, 



PEBRITART 15. IsSr. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1837. 



FARMERS' AVORK. 



Cows which are expected to calve, ought to be lodged 

 by themselves in some convenient place, ander cover 

 for a week or two before c.ilving, as such care may be 



the means of saving the life of the calf, and perhaps of <,o„5gq„g„pp of ij^^ calves biting the teats, but also pre- 

 the dam also. In order that it may be ascertained what j yg^^g ,heir f.oidjng back the milk from the milker, which 

 is the time when cows may be expected to calve, an o,ten serves to diminish the quantity of milk after- 

 account should be kept of the time when each cow is j ^grds. 



" 1. li is much cheaper than to let them suck in the 

 ordinary way ; whereas it makes a great saving of cream 

 for butter, and that without injuring the calves, if they 

 are properly attended to. 



" 2. It prevents calves from moaning or pining, so 

 much while weaning as they would otherwise do, when 

 taken from the cows. 



" 3. It not only prevents the cows being injured in 



" The only disadvantage to be found in the above 

 method of treatment is, that it requires some more la- 

 bor to feed them, where they thrive equally well in ev- 

 ery respect as those do which are permitted to suck in 



pot to the bull. The day and night after a cow has 

 calved, she should be put under cover, her drink should 

 be luke warm, and she should not be exposed to the 

 dampness of the ni^ht. 



Inflamed teats should be washed with two drachms of. jj^^ ordinary way.' 



sugar of lead in a quart of water. Should tumors ap- 1 



pear, apply a common warm mash of bran, with a little | MASSACHUSETTS HORTICl'I-TCRAI- SOCIETY 

 lard. 



To prevent cows from sucking their own milk, it is 

 said that rubbing the teats frcqaently with old and strong 

 smelling cheese, is effectual 



pounds will be sold by him, and he will dislribute the 

 whole among the applicants, pruporlioni'ig the quantity 

 given to that asked for, provided the demand :^hauld 

 exceed the supply. Applications must be made before 

 the 10th of March, and some person in this city desig- 

 nated to receive and pay for the seed on delivery. 



We believe the demand last year was much beyond 

 the supply, and unfortunately a month or two of the sea- 

 son passed away before the seed was distributed. Still 

 large quantities of sugar were made. — U. S Gaz. 



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EXHIBITIO.N Of FRCITS. 



Saturday, Jan. 28, 1837. 

 From Messrs Winship — Branches of the Shcphardia 

 The following prescription for drying cows, which j argentia or Buffalo Berry tree, loaded with fruit, which 

 conlinne to give milk till too near the time of their are about the size of currants, and possess a pleasant 

 calving ; or to expedite their becoming fat enough to acid flavor, very agreeable to the taste. The tree is 

 be good bpef,is taken from Monks .Igricultural Diction j very ornamental both in summer and winter. Messrs 



Winship have a number of trees, which are now, at 

 this season of the year, bending under the weight of 

 their fruit, which seem to require the fiosts of winter to 

 bring to perfection. 



ary, an Enali^h work of established reputation. 



" Take an ounce of powdered alum ; boil it in two 

 quarts of milk till it turns to whey ; then uke a large 

 handful of sage, and boil it in the whey, till you reduce 

 it to one quart ; rub her udder with a little of it, and 

 give her the rest by way of drink; milk her clean be- 

 fore Tou give it to her, and as you see need, repeat it. 

 Draw a little milk from her every second or third day, From E. Bartlett 

 lest her udder be over-charged." 



Calves. — The following mode of rearing Calves 

 adopted by the Society, denominated Shakers, in Can- j Passe Colmar Pears 



EXUIBITIOH or FRUITS. 



Saturday, Feb. 4, 1837. 



Chaumontelle Pears, fine speci- 

 mens. 



From Wm Marsh. — Lewis Pears. 



From S. Downer. — Beurre Uiel, Beurre Ranee, and 



terhurv, N. H. was communicated in a letter from Fran 

 cis Winkley, to Levi BartUti, of Warren, N. H., and 

 was published in the N. E. Farmer, in 1824 ; but such 

 have been the changes since that period, in our sub- 

 scription list that it would probably be new to many of 

 our readers. 



Apples. — Ortley Pippin, and Pomme d'Api. 

 For the Committee. 



P. B. HOVET, Jr. 



CcTTiXG Timber. — We shou'd be much obliged to 

 any intelligent observer, for any statement of facts rel- 

 ■' We let calves ihat come in the fore part of JIarch, ; ^jj^g j^ ,f,e best time for cutting Timber for building, 

 sack a week or ten days, then take them from the cow, ^ fencing and agricultural implemenls.' There can be no 

 giving them a moderate allowance of new milk to drink jo^bt hut that the time of year in which the tree is cut, 

 till they have learned to drink it freely ; then put in ! a^a.ke% an immense difiereiice. The very sreat length 

 gome skimmed milk; and we feed them wholly with . of time which some timber will last, and the short time 

 skimmed milk, taking care to give it at about the tem- \ ,„ which other timber will decay, can be accounted for 

 I erature of milk taken directly from the cow, by heat- ; ;„ no other way tlian by the diflerence in the time of 

 ing a part of it and mixing it with the rest. Care should j cutting. We have seen apparently good white oak posts, 

 be taken not to scald the milk, when heated ; also, not rot ofi"and become useless in four or five years, and on 

 to give them any sour milk, for this will make them j the other hand have seen a common fence post, which 

 scour. The trough or vessel in which they drink their i had been iu use on a farm more ihan sixty years. The 

 milk, should likewise be kept clean, and not suffered to barrel mentioned in a late number of this paper, which 

 become sour. We let the milk sUnd about twelve hours had been in use in the Hopkinson family in Bradford. 



Mr HoiJGHTOs, — If any of your readers have horses 

 that are inclined to dig holes in the stable iloors by con- 

 stant pawing and scraping, they may pnl a stop 10 the 

 habit in the following manner ; — Go to the wood pile 

 or some other place, and get a stick of round wood, 

 about four inches in diameter, and split it in two ; take 

 one of the pieces and nail it across the floor of the stall, 

 about four or five inches in front of the place where the 

 horses forwaid feet usually stand; nail the other piece 

 on the floor, four or five inches forward of the first 

 piece ; each piece to be the round side up and flat side 

 down. The horse will find pawing so inconvenient, that 

 he will abandon the practice. — Dtdham Patriot. 



ToRKiPS, CoRS, Potatoes, &c. — Assuming that 

 600 bushels of Swedish turnips will grow upon an 

 acre of ground which will produce thirty-five bushels of 

 corn, and that six bushels of tlie Swedes will fatten as 

 much as one bushel of corn, it will be seen that one acre 

 in ruta baga will go about as far in making beef as three 

 acres in corn, with the further advantage that the latter 

 will cost four times as much labor iii its culture as the 

 former. We have given an instance of the Swedes yield- 

 ing more than 1500 bushels to the acre, and the opinion 

 of an intelligent feeder that two bushels are as much for 

 feeding, as one bushel of corn. The mangel wurizel, 

 the carrot and the parsnip, may be all raised in field cul- 

 ture, at about the same expense as corn, and they will 

 give as great a yield, and aflbrd as much nutriment as 

 the ruta baga. The potato, whose culture we are all ac- 

 quainted with, should be made to yield 300 bushels per 

 acre ; and these afford a far more profitable food than 

 grain. A bullock will consume from ISO to 240 pounds 

 of ruta baga per day ; but if full fed with this or other 

 roots, they will consume bnt little hay, and have little 

 or no occasion for water. — Cnltivator. 



before it is skimmed ; giving a calf at first about four 

 quarts, night and morning ; increasing the mess as need 



seventy-five years, and had become almost as hard and 

 dark colored as Lignumvitte, is another instance not to 

 requires, till he is six weeks old, from which time till j be otherwise accounted for. A few facts might per- 

 tea weeks old, he will require, perhaps about 12 quarts , haps decide the point, and such facts are not°new al- 

 per day. I tainable. A course of experiments should be instituted, 

 " When about tea weeks old, we begin to diminish „.hich would be of the greatest use to the farmer.— Ha- 

 the quantity of milk for about the space of two or three j^rAj/Z Gazette. 

 weeks, at which time we wean them. Dsring the 



To HAKE Leccbes BITE. — An experimental leecher 

 savs, to make leeches bite, cut small holes in a piece of 

 blotting pnper, corresponding to the places on the skin, 

 to which it is desired the leeches shall be attached. — 

 This being moistened and applied, leeches crawl about 

 until they come to the holes in the paper, when they 

 immediately take hold. 



If, after all this, the leech will not bite, carry him to 

 \\"aU street, and bind him apprentice to a broker, for a 

 week, and his teeth will become so sharp, that he will 

 almost bite through the bottom of a brass kettle. — J\'. Y. 

 Trans. 



whole process, from two to fourteen weeksof age,calvi 

 should be well supplied with good hay, salt and prov- 

 ender, such as oats, wheat, bran and oil cake, ground 

 fine. 



" The particular advantages to be derived from the 

 above method of treatment, are the following: 



Sugar Beet Seed — Mr J. Snider, 32 VValnut St., 

 gives notice, we perceive, that he has received from the 

 highest source in France, some choice Sugar Beet Seed, 

 of last year's growth. He purposes to distribute the 

 whole among applicants, at the low price of 40 cents a 

 pound, the exact cost of importation. No less than 25 



Immense Height of tbe Rockv Mocntaiss. — Pro- 

 fessor Renwick of Columbia College, in a letter pub- 

 lished in Mr Irving's Astoria, gives it as his belief foun- 

 ded on baromelic and trigonometric experiments of Mr 

 Thomson, a surveyor of the N. W. Fur Company, that 

 one of the peaks of the Rocky Mountains has an alti- 

 tude of 25,000 feet, which is nearly equal to the Hyma- 

 laya of Asia, the highest range in the world. 



(Cr Nothing will fatten mutton quicker than apples. 

 It is necessary, or best, to cut up the apples when fed 

 to sheep. 



