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NEAV ENGLAND FARMER. 



Feb. 



Kelley, M. D., re-elected. Vice Presidents, A. 

 W. MiLTiMORE, William Asiiby. Corresponding 

 and Recording Secretary, A. HoKTON. Treasurer, 

 W. W. Caldwell, Jr. Committees were also 

 appointed on fruits, flowers and vegetables. 



The Treasurer reports that 129 new members 

 have been added ; that $220,79 have been paid for 

 incidental expenses and premiums, and that 

 $3.54,36 have been added to the cash fimds of the 

 Society during the past year. 



For the New England Farmer. 

 ■WHAT ONE CO'W DID. 



Mr. Editor : — Your correspondent from 

 Chelmsford, I am glad to see, is Avaking quite an 

 interest in relation to the profits of farming. If 

 he is right, you, sir, are in bad business, and, with 

 your kind, benevolent feelings, will undoubtedly 

 take the back track, and devote the influence of 

 the Farmer to dissuading the young men of New 

 England from engaging in agricultural pursuits. 

 I hope, however, you will not be hasty, but con- 

 tinue to inculcate the same old doctrines for a few 

 numbers more, at least. Mr. P., in your last num- 

 ber, supposes a case, and sets all your readers to 

 ciphering it out. Now I will state a simple fact, 

 (my neighbors might state many better ones, if 

 they would.) and ask your correspondent to tell 

 how soon a young man, with ten such cows as the 

 one I am going to speak of, would become bank- 

 rupt. 



My cow calved Jan. 1. Sold the calf at five days old, 



to raise, for $3,00 



January and February, she gave 12 qts. milk per day, 

 aud in JIarch 11 qts. per day — 977 qts., which I 

 sold at 3i cts. per qt 34,19 



April, May and June, she gave 9 qts. per day, July 8, 

 August 7, September 6 — 1156 qts., sold at 1\ cts. 

 per qt 36,40 



October, 4 qts. per day — 124 qts., sold at 3^ cts 4,34 



Total §77,93 



November and December she was diy. I kept 

 the cow seven months on a mixture of English 

 hay, oat or barley straw, meadow hay, corn stover 

 and rowen, cut and seasoned with salt, and shorts 

 or meal. Of this she would eat twenty-five pounds 

 per day, (including corn butts left.) 



5325 lbs., at $10 per ton $25,62 



6 qts. shorts, 5 cts., or same value in meal, per day 10,05 



One peck roots per day, 5 cents 10,65 



The other five months she had good pasture aud corn 



fodder, at 8 cts. per day 12,16 



Cost of keeping for one year $60,08 



Now I have sold all my fodder at the full mar- 

 ket price, have a1;ood pile of manure for future 

 use, a cow increased in value, and $17 85 left. 

 No dairy ought to average less than this. 



If it were not trespassi<»-g too much, I should 

 lilte to say a word on the economy of raising stock 

 and grain, but at present, I will only remark that 

 I know, from experience, that a young man can 

 buy a farm on credit, support a large family, pay 

 interest and taxes, and after a while, principal, 

 too ; and I will say, that, in looking back for many 

 years, I cannot call to mind the first young farm- 

 er, with an ordinary share of intelligence and en- 

 (!rgy, with habits of industry, temperance and 

 economy, who sacredly regards the Sabbath, pays 



his minister's tax and the printer, but has, with 

 the help of a good wife, succeeded in acquiring a 

 pleasant home. Indeed, I believe such men never 

 fail. 



Westhoro\ Dec. 20, 1859, 



SILVEB. 

 Half a century ago, the annual production of 

 silver, so much as comes to the use of Atlantic na- 

 tions, was estimated at $39,500,000 ; with no ma- 

 terial deviation in the average in the meantime, 

 the annual yield is now $44,000,000. Silver is 

 floAving to the East with grci^t rapidity. M. Che- 

 valier, in his recent M'ork, states the following 

 facts : From the books of an English navigation 

 company, it a])pears that in 1856 this company 

 carried direct from England to Asia, $60,000,000, 

 and in 1857, $84,000,000 in silver. In 1851, the 

 quantity shipped through the same channel was 

 onlv $8,500,000. There was sent to the East from 

 the" Mediterranean ports in 1856, $18,000,000. It 

 goes eastward through many other channels, but 

 the two items given above for 1857 amount to 

 more than double the annual supjily tliat comes 

 to our part of the world. The Chinese and ajl 

 tbe barbarous nations of Asia demand silver. In 

 the British Empire of India, silver alone is the le- 

 gal tender ; and a new market is now opened for 

 the same metal in Japan. Hoav extensive a mar- 

 ket this last will prove to be, cannot yet be known ; 

 but the Japanese will aid in draining silver from 

 Europe, to the extent of whatever gold they now 

 possess. — American Merchant. 



GOOD ADVICE. 



Let our young farmers throw their novels to 

 the dogs, and fill their own heads \iit\\ facts. Let 

 them get up village lyceums, debating societies, 

 agricultural meetings, anything adapted to the 

 locality, and encourage the latent talent in the 

 place, to show itself. There is no reason why a 

 farmer should not be a well informed man, and be 

 able to speak or write in such a manner as to de- 

 mand attention. He Jias, or might have more 

 leisure time than men in other professions, and in- 

 stead of sitting down and complaining that the 

 government is aUministered for the benefit of the 

 idle at the expense of the worker, and that he does 

 not get his share of the offices, let him_/rY liimself 

 for the performance of legislative duties. An in- 

 telligent farmer, who is able to draw his own con- 

 clusions, and form his own opinions, and give his 

 reasons for them, in a clear, concise and logical 

 manner, Avill have more influence in any legisla- 

 ture ever assembled in the state, than any lawyer, 

 because it is generally believed to be the peculiar 

 art of a lawyer, to "make the worse appear the 

 better cause." — N. II. Journal of Agriculture. 



A Judicious Investment. — A correspondent 

 says : "I have recently bought a farm, and the 

 very first dollar I have paid out on that account, 

 is the one I now enclose for your Monthly New 

 England Farmer." 



We predict that this man will not often be heard 

 grumbling, and that he will make money by farm- 

 ing. 



