1860. 



NEW ENGLAND FARRIER. 



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skin it ; and that thej^cale fishes, when they tm- 

 scale them. I have heard many men say they were 

 going to weed their gardens, when I thought their 

 gardens were weedy enough ab-eady. 



Far the Netc England Farmer. 

 IS STOCK-TLAISING PROFITABLE. 



This is a suhject which should interest all farm- 

 ers, as all are more or less engaged in the busi- 

 ness. Let us see how much it costs to raise dif- 

 ferent kinds of stock, and the net profit on it. 



A colt, for instance, taken as an average, 4 

 months old, is worth $20 ; the use of horse and 

 mare and other expenses is worth $12 ; leaving 

 $8 net profit. It will cost about $8 for forage 

 the first winter, and 10 cents a week for pasturing 

 26 weeks, making the whole cost, $2,60-f$8+$12 

 =$22,60. The colt is now worth $30. The second 

 winter it will not cost much more for forage than 

 the first ; as the colt will eat a great deal that oth- 

 er cattle leave, say $10; pasturing, 15 cents a 

 week, $3,90. Cost, $36,50. Worth $45. Third 

 winter, $15 ; pasturing, 20 cents a week, $5. 

 Colt is worth $65, Cost $56,50. Fourth winter, 

 $20. Pasturing, 25 cents a week, $6,50. Cost $83. 

 Worth $90. Here we have a net profit of $7 on a 

 colt 4 years and 4 months old ; which is one dollar 

 less than the profit on the same colt at 4 months 

 old. The prices which I have set may be called 

 small, but there are more sold under those sums 

 than over them. 



If the colt has been worked in this time, which 

 should not be done, it probably has not done any 

 more than enough to pay for breakage and the 

 interest on $20, which will amount to over $5. 



COST AND PROFIT ON SHEEP. 



A good lamb 6 months old is worth $2. Let 

 us keep the sheep four years, with 



Dr. Cr. 



First investment $2,00 



Cost of wiutering, $1,50 ; pasturing, 50 cts 2,00 



Income, or gain, 5 pounds wool at 35 cts $1,75 



Second year ; cost of keeping 2,00 



Income one lamb, $2, 3 pounds wool, $1,05 3,05 



Third year, Dr. to keeping sheep and lamb 4,00 



Cr. by 8 pounds wool, 35 cts 2,80 



Cr. by one lamb 2,00 



Fourth year, Dr. to keeping 3 sheep 6,00 



Cr. by21ambs, $2 each 4,00 



Cr. by 11 pounds wool, at 35 cts 3,85 



Income of one sheep for 4 years $17,45 



First cost, and cost of keeping same time $16,00 



Net profit $1 ,45 



The old sheep is worth as much as when bought. 2,00 



The yearlings, or 2 years old, 50c each extra. . . 1,00 



■yvhich leaves, after paying all expenses $4,45 



A calf one month old, if well fatted, is worth $4. 

 Now let us see how much profit there is on a 

 "fatted calf." Perhaps I may be wrong, but I 

 should say, it should have 8 or 10 quarts of new 

 milk a day. 8 quarts at 2 cents a quart for 31 

 days will amount to $4,96. 



If I am right in my estimate, there is no profit 

 in fatting calves, at the prices we get here. If the 

 calf is to be raised, it may be fed on part skim- 

 milk, and will then cost all it will be worth at 

 six mouths old, viz. : $5. It will cost as much 

 as a ton of hay is worth to winter the calf well, $8. 

 It is worth 8 o"nts n week for pasturing. $2,08. 



Second winter same as the first, $8. Pasturing, 

 12 cents a week, $3,12. Cost, at 2 years and 6 

 months old, $26,20. The usual price at this age 

 is $20. As another year's keeping and growth 

 would not materially alter the relation of cost and 

 profit, and as there are more cattle — heifers es- 

 pecially — sold at this age than at any other, I shall 

 not follow this subject any farther. It has always 

 been conceded by farmers that it costs as much to 

 winter a calf as it does a yeai-ling ; and if any one 

 can make the figures count up any difi'erent, or in 

 any way make both ends meet, I should be glad 

 to "have it done. T. B. Bailey. 



Newbury, Vt, Jan., 1860. 



TO PRESERVE STAKES, &c., IINT THE 

 GROUND. 



Q,uite recently, while walking in the garden with 

 the Hon. J. W. Fairfield, Hudson, N. Y., he called 

 my attention to the small stakes which supported 

 the raspberry canes. The end in the ground, as 

 well as the part above, was as sound and bright 

 as if lately made, but he informed me that they 

 had been in constant use for twelve years ! Said 

 I, "Of course they are kyanizcd ?" "Yes," he re- 

 plied, "and the process is so simple and cheap that 

 it deserves to be universally known, and it is simply 

 this : One pound of blue vitriol to twont}- quarts 

 of water. Dissolve the vitriol with boiling water, 

 and then add the remainder. 



"The end of the stick is then dropped into the 

 solution, and left to stand four or five days ; for 

 shingles thi"ee days v,'iil answer, and for posts six 

 inches square, ten days. Care is to be taken that 

 the saturation takes place in a metal vesspl or 

 keyed box, for the reason that any barrel will be 

 shrunk by the operation so as to leak. Instead 

 of expanding an old cask as other liquids do, this 

 shrinks them. Chloride of zmc, I am told, will 

 answer the same purpose, but the blue vitriol is, 

 or was formerly, very cheap, viz. : three to six 

 cents per pound." 



Mr. Fairfield informed me that the French gov- 

 ernment are pursuing a similar process with ev- 

 ery item of timber now used in siiip-building, and 

 that they have a way of forcing it into the ti'et's 

 in the forest as soon as cut, ejecting the sap and 

 kyanizing it all on the spot. I have not experi- 

 mented with it, but Mr. Fairfield's success seemed 

 to be complete. 



The process is so simple and cheap as to be 

 within the convenience of every farmer, and gar- 

 dener, even, and I therefore thought it so valiir.- 

 ble as to warrant a special notice of it. — U. G. 

 Pardee. 



The Country Gentleman. — The enterprising 

 publishers of this excellent journal have made 

 some typographical changes in it at the opening 

 year, omitting the benign countenance v/hich had 

 long stood as a vignette, but introducing a larger 

 tjTje as a compensation. The larger t\\^e is a de- 

 cided improvement. The doctrines of the Coun- 

 try Gentlctnan are sound, and its conductors gen- 

 tlemen of ability and the highest sense of honor. 

 The Old Gentleman makes his mark wherever he 

 travels. 



