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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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limbs. Can you, Mr. Editor, or any of your cor- 

 respondents, furnish extracts or name any publi- 

 cation, and the page which gives any description 

 of these "warts" and insects found in them ? I 

 shall watch their further development. 

 Baltimore, Jan. 25, 1861. Lyman Reed. 



EXTRACTS AND BEPLIES. 



SWEET CLOVEU. 



Noticing your remarks about the Italian or 

 crimson clover, I send you some seed of what I 

 have called sweet clover, on account of the sweet 

 smell it has ; I would like to know if it is the 

 same you speak of? I have a few pounds of the 

 seed. In the time of blossoms I notice it is very 

 attractive to honey bees; it blossoms the second 

 year. In growing it resembles what you speak 

 of. Amos DoANE. 



Eoyalston, Jan. 21, 186L 



Remarks. — Thanks for the seed sent. As we 

 have no other seed but yours by us, we cannot 

 tell whether they are the same or not. 



NORFOLK TRANSACTIONS. 



By the kindness of the corresponding secreta- 

 ry, I have been favored with this handsomely 

 printed pamphlet of 140 pages. The first twenty 

 pages contain an address by an eminent scholar, 

 who cultivates a farm of one square rod in the 

 city of Boston, which affords illustrations of 

 draining the pockets of those who visit it. The 

 next paper is a report by the President and Sec- 

 retary, brief and pithy — valuable only for its ap- 

 pendages. The next is twenty pages of report by 

 a supervisory committee containing very sensible 

 remarks by an experienced man, and affording 

 much instruction. Then follow several reports 

 and statements, not unlike what we have hereto- 

 fore seen in publications annual for forty years. 

 Then eight pages on the hog, from which much 

 fat can be extracted. Then several other com- 

 monplace reports and a song, which shows that 

 even ministers sometimes have music in their 

 souls. Then twenty pages of names of officers 

 and other great men of the society, and a list of 

 premiums offered for another year. 



On the whole, the pamphlet is a creditable 

 specimen of the manner in which the State's 

 bounty is expended for the instruction of farmers. 



March 9, 1861. _ P. 



DOGS AT LARGE. 



I agree with your Orfordville correspondent in 

 all his suggestions except one, viz., "his incapac- 

 ty for writing a newspaper article." I think he 

 is capable of writing, and his article shows it. 

 His remarks are clear, to the point, and short ; 

 such should writers for an agricultural paper 

 ever be. 



He speaks of dogs and their owners in the 

 country as a nuisance ; they are such in the city, 

 and instead of a tax of $2, their owners should be 

 taxed at least $50 — unless the dog could be re- 

 stricted to the owner's own enclosure. 



I know of no reason why a man should be al- 

 lowed to keep a dog, or a family of children, to 

 the injury or annoyance of his neighbor, yet how 

 often is this the case. His children are kept from 



the village or city schools, and suffered to run at 

 large with his dog or dog.s, to the disturbance of 

 industrious and useful citizens. Delta. 



Boston, March, 1861. 



L\BOR-SAVING FI.XING FOR HOUSEKEEPERS. 



Knowing that you go in for all really substan- 

 tial improvements in house-fixing, I send you the 

 following. 



Looking into a lady's pantry, the other day, I 

 saw what I supposed to be a common writing- 

 desk on the floor, in one corner, quite out of the 

 way. On opening it, I found it had a wire bot- 

 tom ; that the floor under it was taken up, and 

 that it stood over the cellar. It was used in cold 

 weather for keeping all such small things as are 

 wanted at every meal, and that you wish to keep 

 from freezing. In the summer it was used for 

 holding such things as it is wished to keep cool. 

 It was, in fact, a little cellar up stairs, and saved 

 the good woman having to run up and down 

 stairs a thousand times a year. 



This little convenience may be common, but as 

 I had never seen one before, I thought it would 

 do no hurt to let folks as ignorant as I was have 

 the benefit. x. 



Remarks. — Certainly not — no one person yet 

 knows what conveniences all the rest of the 

 world has. We shall be glad to hear from you 

 on any topic you think will be valuable to the 

 readers of the Farmer. 



tile FOR AN AQUEDUCT. 



In the Farmer of Feb. 16 is a description of 

 Rowe's Patent Drain Tile, which I think might be 

 substituted for pump logs if they were laid in ce- 

 ment. Will you give me your opinion on the 

 sul)ject? I want to lay logs, or something, to my 

 barn, but the water would have to come up hill. 

 Will you tell me what you think about it, wheth- 

 er I can get it or not ? William S. Thorp. 



Underhill, Vt., 1861. 



Remarks. — We have no doubt but the tile, 

 well laid in hydraulic cement, would answer well, 

 and be the cheapest article known to us, in the 

 long run. If the water is desired at the barn, 

 and that stands considerably lower than the 

 source of supply, there will be no difficulty in 

 passing it over higher ground between the 

 source and the outlet. Care must be taken to 

 get the tile below the frost, so that neither ce- 

 ment or the outside of the tile should freeze. 



profitable hens. 



Your correspondent of Feb. 15, in the Farmer 

 of March 2, says he has 37 hens of the Chittagong 

 and Dorking breed that have laid him, from the 

 I5th of November, 1860, to the 15th of February, 

 1861, 1542 eggs. I have 10 hens of the Spanish 

 and common breed that laid me from December 1, 

 1860, to January 1, 1861, 216 eggs, and from 

 January 1 to March 1, 295 eggs, making in all, 

 from December 1 to March 1,511 eggs from 10 

 hens, which I consider rather better than your 

 correspondent's statement of February 15. 



North Raynham, 1861. Otis Homes. 



