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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jan. 



they were always to be employed in baking, brew- 

 ing, making and mending. 



Books upon the table, pictures, flowers and 

 music all about, and we have better wives, moth- 

 ers and sisters, and consequently, better hus- 

 bands, fathers and brothers. Anna. 



W , Mass., Dec, 1860. 



Remarks. — Excellent. We believe in progress, 

 but just as strongly believe that the present gen- 

 eration has no claim to all the virtues of the pres- 

 ent century. There is a little frost-work, or time- 

 work, about our temples, slightly indicative of 

 a "long time ago," in which we remember women 

 who were as much ornaments of society as any in 

 our acquaintance now. 



CARROTS. 

 We have frequently had occasion to define the 

 value of carrots as food for cattle, horses, etc., 

 and, we think, have established the fact, that one 

 acre of carrots will more than represent, in value 

 of product, ten acres of oats, and still the amount 

 of progressed inorganic pabulum taken from the 

 soil by twenty tons of roots and four tons of the 

 leaves of carrots, is as follows : 



Pounds. 



Phosphoric acid 39 



Sulphuric acid 57 



Lime 197 



Magnesia 29 



Potash 134 



Soda 103 



And the elements of salt 85 



Total 6-14 



When carrots are fed upon the farm, a large 

 proportion of these inorganic constituents find 

 their way back to the soil, and in so progressed 

 a condition, that the amount parted with in the 

 form of milk, animal flesh, etc., can readily be 

 spared, for they are fully compensated for by the 

 progressed condition of that portion returned to 

 the soil, added to the consequent progression of 

 the inorganic matters contained in the soil itself. 



It should not be forgotten that the carrot while 

 growing, throws ofl" matter, which although infe- 

 rior to the portion assimilated by the carrot, is 

 superior in status to the condition at which it was 

 received into the organism, and thus it is pre- 

 pared to furnish higher results for the future. — 

 Ud. Working Farmer. 



Cheap Paint. — Noticing an inquiry for a cheap 

 paint to put on old buildings, in answer I would 

 say I have had some experience in that line, and 

 will give the desired information. 



In the first place, take some fine oil meal, mix 

 it with cold water ; then put it on the stove, and 

 keep stirring till it boils. Then reduce it to the 

 desired thickness with warm water. If you wish 

 it white, stir in whiting, or any color you like. 

 Apply with a brush, the same as paint. It fills 

 the pores in the wood, so that after two coats, it 

 •will cost no more to paint an old building, than 

 it would a new one. It penetrates the wood, and 

 does not peel off like whitewash. It is never safe 

 to paint over whitewash. It will last a number 

 of 3^ears, as the oily nature of the meal keeps it 

 from washing. — A. D., in Country Gentleman. 

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CHURISriNG- MILK OR CREAM ALONE. 

 The following report of an experiment by Mr. 

 ZoUor, a dairyman of St. Lawrence county, is 

 from the Transactions of our State Agricultural 

 Society for 1<S59 : 



Mr. Zoller's cows are what are called native, 

 crossed with Durhams. 



We desired Mr. Zoller to make an experiment 

 as to the two modes of making butter, so as to 

 furnish us the result. He has done this, and the 

 result is as follows : 



Sept. 10. — Took 208 quarts of milk and strained 

 into pans — set till the cream had thoroughly risen 

 — skimmed and churned cold — produced 17^ lbs. 

 of butter, ready for ))acking. 



Sept. 11. — Took 208 quarts of milk, strained 

 into the churns, stood till sour, but not loppered, 

 churned and treated in the same manner ; gave 

 19^ lbs. butter ready for packing ; being again of 

 ten per cent, over churning the cream. 



This, Mr. Zoller believes, is about the fair dif- 

 ference between the two methods ; and if uni- 

 formly this result is secured, it certainly is an 

 important advantage. 



It will be seen by this experiment that 10 62-77 

 quarts of milk produced a pound of butter, which 

 is a much less quantity of milk than the average 

 returns of our dairies. Zklr. Zoller is of the opin- 

 ion that this is about the average amount of milk 

 required under his system, under ordinary cir- 

 cumstances ; but the trial, during the entire sea- 

 son, Avould probably alter this average. 



We think there is enough furnished by this ex- 

 periment of Mr. Zoller's which has been contin- 

 ued for some time past, to lead others carefully 

 to test this practice. If 10 per cent, can be se- 

 cured over the ordinary method of churning the 

 cream, and if an equally good quality of butter 

 can be made, it will need little urging to induce 

 our dairvmen to give attention to it. 



Pine-apple Cheese. — Mr. Norton, of Goshen, 

 Ct., manufactures this form of cheese quite exten- 

 sively. The Homestead thus describes the pro- 

 cess : 



The curd of about three hundred cows is bought 

 and daily brought to the factory to be made into 

 pine-apple cheese. These weigh about six and 

 one-third pounds each, and about six hundi'cd 

 and fifty are made every week in the best of the 

 season. They are pressed in smooth moulds, the 

 marks upon the surface being made by softening 

 them in hot water, and hanging them in nets 

 made for the purpose. Here they hang till fully 

 cured and fit to send to market. The whole 

 number made this year is about ten thousand. 

 They are carefully boxed and sent to market in 

 the neatest order, and being made hard and firm, 

 they improve with age, enduring any climate, and 

 are in steady demand for shipping. 



Plants foe Food. — Linnreus found by actual 

 experiment that the horse ate 262, and rejected 

 212 species of plants indigenous to Sweden; cat- 

 tle ate 276 species, and rejected 218 : while sheep 

 took readily 387, and refused only 141. A sheep- 

 pasture is a desert to a botanist. 



