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PUBLISHED BV JOSEPH BRECK & CO., NO. 52 NOllTH MARKET STREET, (Aohicoltural Wabehouse.) 



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BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 8, 1844. 



tNO. 45. 



N. E. FARMER 



For the N. E. Farmor. 



IMED MILK ANn ANTf-SICrMMED 

 MILK. 



Drtck — The expediency of roaiinp- calves 



|; particular mode, nni.'it always be deteniiined 



jcuinstanees. At a jrreni distance from niar- 



id where butter and cliee.=e are of secondary 



eration to beef, the best mode probably is to 



ves suck all the milk, (or as mtich of it as 



lease,) and either let iheni rnn with the cow 



times, or be let to ihem two or three times a 



But in proportion as milk, butter, and cheese 



te objects of profit, the advantages of this 



[Will be less. I have reared calves by nearly 



! various modes that I have ever seen recoui- 



•d, and find ihey all have their peculiar ad- 



I;e8 and disadvantages — varyinf^ with the 



e value of butter, cheese and beef, and other 



istances. 



he norlliern and eastern section of our coun- 

 should in geiieriil prefer leaching the calves 

 ik, instend of letting them suck. They be- 

 more completely doiuesiicaled in this way — 

 s look to man as their protector — are so tame 

 liet that they may always bo handled — and 

 is less trouble in "breaking," either for coxvs 

 :n. If they are taught to drink, their food 

 ■e regulated both as to quantity and quality, 

 18 is desired. Skimmed milk, or oil-cake 

 &.C. may be mixed with now milk in any 

 rtion, and at the proper time, the new milk 

 be entirely discontinued. By giving new 

 ill the calf is three weeks old, I have found 

 Sculty in having them do well on skimmed 

 ind oil. cake gruel afterwards, provided due 

 las been taken in feeding, 

 ■ould not recommend this mode to a careless 

 or one who did not see that his animals were 

 rly attended ; for a disregard of the health of 

 ilf, and giving its food too C(dd, or in a sour 



might spoil it in a few days. But with 

 r care they will do well. I have had calves 

 ;n/ fat, at two months old, which never had a 

 jf new milk alter the third week from their 



Their food was skimmed milk and oil-cake 

 , given at the right time and at the right tern- 

 ire — always taking care that they were kept 

 nd comfortable. 



ing in the neighborhood of Albany, the other 

 I called to see Messrs. Corning & Sothnm's 

 'ord cattle. I found about sixty head, all in 

 ondilion — beautiful animals. But the calves 

 attracted my attention. There were some fif- 

 or twenty of them, and had all been reared 

 ly without new milk ; yet they were in fine 

 — nol fat, but in thrifty growing trim, and as 

 as moles. One fact will show that they 

 not have had much cream with their skimmed 

 and gruel. The woman who has charge of 

 airy, assured me, that on a trial with seven of 

 ows that first calved, they gave a fraction over 

 pounds of butter each, per week. Mr Soth- 



ain sells hia butler as fast as made, at 20 to 22 els. 

 per pound. His yearlings, raised in this way last 

 year, are very fine. 



These facts show that the rearing of good cat- 

 tle, with good management, is practicable, without 

 new milk. ECONOMY. 



CLAPP'S PULVERIZER. 



In an account in the London Gardener's Chroni- 

 cle, of the proceedings at a weekly council of the 

 Royal Agricultural Society of England, held at 

 London, on the I3lh of fllarch, we find the follow. 

 ing: 



"Mr Colmnn, the Agricultural Commissioner of 

 Massachusetts, and at present engaged in an agri- 

 cultural tour through Europe, having presented at 

 the previous Council, the model of a new imple- 

 ment, transmitted from Boston, in the United 

 States, to this country, by Mr Isaac Clapp, for 

 which the Council voted their best thanks, and or- 

 dered all shipping charges to be paid, has laid be- 

 fore the Society Mr Clapp's own account of his 

 invention. This implement consists essentially of 

 two rollers confined loosely on a fixed axle, and 

 followed closely by an attached scarifier, formed of 

 a single row of strong tines. INIr Clapp states : — 

 " I have used this implement on newly-plowed 

 sward-land to great advantage. The greatest value 

 which I consider it as possessing, consists in the 

 despatch with which it works, and the perfect con- 

 trol it gives one over the soil, producing a rotation 

 of soil, which, in my opinion, is as advantageous 

 as a rotation of crops. The working of the soil 

 in rotation can be best effected by the use of the 

 Pulverizer, the second year, in place of the plow, 

 leaving the sod to decompose, and then sowing 

 grass-seed, or a second crop, on the surface given 

 by the first plowing. If seeded to grass the sec- 

 ond year, and after the ground has acquired a 

 sward equal to that first turned under, it may then 

 be re-plowed, bringing to the surface a vegetable 

 mould that will insure an abundant crop without 

 the aid of manure. By cultivating the soil in this 

 manner, we have always one vegetable mould at 

 work, and one at rest." 



Mr Isaac Clapp, the inventor of the implement 

 above noticed, is a worthy farmer of Dorchester. 

 His invention has been described and highly rec- 

 ommended in our columns, by the former editor of 

 the Farmer, Allen Putnam, Esq. Mr Tescheina- 

 cher, also, has expressed a high opinion of its val- 

 ue. The Essex Agricultural Society, at its last 

 annual Show, awarded Mr Clapp a premium for the 

 "Pulverizer" — and we believe it is destined to 

 come into as general use as any other improved 

 implement in husbandry. — En. N. E. F. 



Carrots. — This year we shall adopt an average 

 distance of 18 inches from row to row ; but in or- 

 der the more efficiently to use the horse-hoe, we 

 shall sow the seed in rows alternately 1 foot and 2 

 feet apart; the one-foot interval to he kept clean 

 by hand-hoeing, and the two-feet interval by the 

 1 horse. hoe ; thus, one side, at any rate, of every row^ 

 I will have the benefitof deep stirring. — Card. Chron. 



From the Maine CulliT.itor. 



CULTIVATION OP CUCUMBERS. 



Messrs. Editors — An unknown friend recently 

 forwarded me a copy of an agricultural paper, pub- 

 lished in Massachusetts, in which I noticed the 

 following paragraph, marked with a pen : 



"It is desirable that those who have succeeded 

 in the cultivation of the cucumber, make known 

 their practice, and that they detail, with as much 

 definiteness as possible, the manner in which "< 

 important and useful a result is to be broiig.,1 

 about." 



For several years I have been in the praclic' if 

 growing this vegetable for the market. In n/ 

 earliest undertakings, I was, like all novices in 

 dined to the belief that old ground was preferabu' 

 to new, and that it was next to impossible to grow 

 a good crop unless the soil had been previously 

 '^ ameliorated,^^ and its texture refined by manuring 

 and cultivation during a series of several years. 

 This error, however, soon corrected itself, and I 

 found to my chagrio and mortification, that old 

 soils, however rich in the principles of vet'etable 

 life, are wholly unfit for this use, and that I must 

 either modify my practice, or " lose my trade." 



It so chanced, :a breaking up a piece of pasture 

 ground, that a small triangular piece remained un- 

 oociipied, and my hired man insisted on planling 

 it in melons and (jucumbers, a proposition to which 

 I consented, and the piece was accordingly planted 

 with these seeds. A small shovelfull of old hog 

 manure was deposited in each hill, and in the Au- 

 tumn as fine a crop of melons was gathered as I 

 ever saw raised, while the cucumbers flourished 

 equally as well, and were untouched by worms or 

 bugs, and bore profusely until vegetation was ar- 

 rested by the frost. Since then I have chosen neto 

 siul, and have never failed of a good crop. 



Westbrook, Jipril, J 844. Chatham. 



Recipe for Preserving Eggs A friend in Sher- 

 burne has sent us the following recipe to preserve 

 eggs. He slates that he has kept barrels of them, 

 and finds no difficulty in keeping them good for a 

 year. He says : 



To one peck of lime put one pound of alum, 

 and make a solution as for whilewasli.ng. Put the 

 tip of ihe egg down, to prevent the yolk adhering 

 to the side, then fill up the vessel that contains the 

 eggs, with the solution, so as to cover them com- 

 pletely. In a few days the lime will bcconio dry, 

 then fill the cask with sea water, or brine of the 

 same strength, to be kept moist. — Mass. Ploicman. 



To kill Lice upon Cattle. — The Southern Cul. 

 tivator says, that lice upon cattle can be killed by 

 washing them with a decoction of sassafras, or lea 

 made of red pepper pods, or both mixed together. 

 Now, if red pepper pods, or what is the same in 

 effect, a tea niado of Cayenne pepper, will kill 

 these vermin, it is certainly a safe remedy. Try 

 it, and if il proves successful, let every farmer 

 know it. — Maine Far. 



