1860, 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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EXTRACTS AISTD BEPLIBS. 

 FEEDING BEES. 



I purchased last summer two swarms of bees ; 

 the youngest one I am afraid did not laj' up honey 

 enough to last them till summer. If you, or some 

 of your correspondents, will inform me what will 

 be the best food for them you will oblige a reader 

 of the Farmer. . Lazarus. 



Salisbury, N. H., 1860. 



Remarks. — Put a little liquid honey on the top 

 of the comb, where it Avill slowly trickle down 

 among the bees, or put a few sticks of barley can- 

 dy among the combs, as near where the bees are 

 clustered as you can get them. 



HOW TO BUILD A MILK-ROOM. 



Some thi'ee years since it became necessary to 

 build a new dairy room. And in order to have it 

 handy and right, it must be next to our cook- 

 room. There being a rise of ground and an orch- 

 ard of apple trees where it was destined to be, 

 there was not room enough to set it level with the 

 rest of the buildings, therefore it was, decided to 

 set it three and a half feet liigher than the cook- 

 room. It is divided into two rooms — one for a 

 summer milk-room, with blinds, ventilator and 

 milk-racks to set the pans upon, which gives a cir- 

 culation of air around the pans. And plenty of 

 cool air is what we want to make the cream rise 

 well. 



The room next to the cook-room is the winter 

 milk-room. We neither scald the milk, nor put in 

 carrots to make yellow butter, but simply strain 

 the milk through a cloth and set in on the milk- 

 rack. The room being higher, the heat rises, and 

 the temperature is just right to give a beautiful 

 yellow cream ; that is what makes yellow butter. 

 Churn the cream in the thermometer churn made 

 by Nourse, Mason & Co., Boston and Worcester, 

 and you will have butter worth as much as Mr. 

 Joshua T. Everett's. F. s. c. 



Woodhvry, Vt, 1860. 



ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATIONS. 



I am pleased with the spirit of those who de- 

 mand of writers to put their names to what they 

 say. This is certainly well when what is said has 

 not strength in it to stand alone ; but when it has, 

 why not put it forward to make its own way in 

 the world ? 



I have often thought where a man comes out 

 with his name signed to something that others 

 may possibly know as well or better than himself 

 — especially if they have had many more years for 

 experience and opportunities for observation — 

 that it savors not a little of vanity thus to sign 

 one's name. For myself, until better advised, I 

 shall be content to throw out such ideas as I have, 

 and let them find their way along as best they 

 may. *. 



January 21, 1860. _ 



TO KILL LICE ON A COLT. 



Feed it with meal, and mix in about a spoonful 

 of sulphur a day for a week, and then rest a week ; 

 then feed more sulphur, a few days, and the lice 

 will leave. 



POTATO SPROUTS FOR PLANTING. 



After ray corn was up and hoed last season, 

 there were some hills missing. I told my son to 

 go into the cellar and pick off some of the larg- 

 est sprouts, from six to eighteen inches long, 

 and set them out in the corn-missing hills which 

 had been hen manvu'ed in the hill for corn, which 

 he did. They all grev/, and yielded equally as good 

 and as many in the hill as the same kind did in 

 the same kind of ground the year previous. There 

 was no rot among them ; they were the Coburg 

 and Sand Lake varieties. Please remember that 

 the sprouts or vines were picked off with X\\Qjin- 

 fjers as close to the potato as possible. The pota- 

 to, after this, was given to tl;? hogs, whole and 

 sound. So I say to all, you ma> 'et your potato 

 sprouts grow as did mine, in a warm place, and 

 then set out the top, and raise th'nn as well, I be- 

 lieve, as in the usuhl way, saving the whole of 

 the tuber for other purposes. W. Sheldon. 



Bristol, Vt., Jan., 1860. 



MUCK FROM OTTER CREEK. 



I wish to inquire what sort of manure I shall 

 have, if I cover my yard with a cort of muck tak- 

 en from the bank of old Otter Creek, and let it 

 mix with the cattle droppings through the remain- 

 der of the winter. A Young Farmer, 



Rejlvrks, — Cannot tell you, sir ; ask some of 

 your neighbors who have given attention to 

 mucks. Don't hesitate to learn of any one about 

 you, _ 



A FINE CALF. 



I had a calf 8^ months old, dressed yesterday. 



To-day the four quarters, hide and tallow, weighed 



(350 lbs. If any of your Massachusetts men have 



had a larger native calf than mine, please say so. 



William Rhodes, Jr. 



Richmond, Vt., Jan., 1860, 



TO CURE chilblains. 



Take strong vinegar, one spoonful, and as much 

 fine salt as Avill dissolve in it. Bathe the part so 

 chilled two or three times, and you are better; 

 then next night two or three times more, and 

 you are v/ell. L. Ames, 



Walking Horses — A Suggestion. — I would 

 like to suggest an idea, which, if you ap])rove, 

 you can prepare an article, or get some of your 

 correspondents to discuss, as to the propriety of 

 a premium being offered at our annual feirs, for 

 fast walking horses as well as trotters. I think 

 horses trained to walk fast would be a greater 

 benefit to farmers in general than fast trotters, 

 as almost all of their work has to be done with a 

 walk. I once knew a man in Massachusetts, 

 who, before the railroads were built, kept from 

 two to four teams at work on the road, and nev- 

 er allov/ed them to trot at all, and made the dis- 

 tance in quicker time than his neighbors, who 

 made their horses trot at every convenient place. 

 He said that when a horse commenced to walk 

 after a trot, he Avalked much slower than his com- 

 mon gait if kept on a walk, and thereby lost rxiore 

 than he gained. — Country Gentleman. 



