1861. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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REARING CALVES ON HAY TEA. 



I wish to inquire if you or your subscribers 

 can give information respecting the renring of 

 calves on hay tea ? If so, any information will 

 be thankfully received. A Subscriber. 



Shaker Village, N. H.,\SQ>\. 



R,emarks. — We have reared calves for several 

 years upon hay tea. Take the calf away at one 

 day old. Milk into a pail, put the hand into the 

 milk and one finger up into the calf's mouth, and 

 he will soon suck up a quart or two. After doing 

 this two or three times, add a little hay tea, in- 

 creasing the quantity of tea and lessening that of 

 milk. If you skim milk that is sweet, add that to 

 the tea. Make the tea by steeping a little per- 

 fectly sweet English hay as often as you wish to 

 feed the calf, and give it to him as warm as milk 

 is when taken from the cow. 



SHEEP, DOGS AND POVERTY. 



I noticed in your last week's paper a few lines 

 concerning "Sheep, Dogs and Poverty." 1 can- 

 not say a great deal about sheep, because I do 

 not keep them and they are not raised to any 

 great extent in Massachusetts. But I can say 

 something in regard to dogs, because I have got 

 one that 1 would not part with any more than 

 I would with my left eye. The writer alluded 

 to states that "when a man is poor he gets him a 

 dog, and when very poor, two !" I don't think that 

 is the case in Massachusetts. The dog law is 

 a good thing, because there were once a great 

 many curs that were a nuisance. He says that 

 dogs and their owners are nuisances. Then I 

 suppose I am one, because I am a dog-holder. 

 According to his theory there are a great many 

 nuisances in this world ; I don't think we shall 

 kill our dogs because he thinks so. H. p. K. 



Lunenburg, Mass., 1861. 



FENCE POSTS. 



About the first of June, in 1840, I made two 

 pairs of hemlock bar-posts. The sticks of which 

 they were made were about ten or twelve inches 

 in diameter at the largest end, sided down to four 

 or five inches, to the top of the ground, being 

 round below, cut at the time, and of course the 

 bark stript off. One pair was set in quite moist 

 ground, and is now standing, though I think, 

 nearly used up ; the other pair was set in dry, 

 loamy ground, and broke off in the fall, from a 

 high wind, the fifteenth year after they were both 

 set. The same sticks cut in the winter would 

 not have lasted more than half as long. c. w. 



Johnson, Vi., 1861. 



EXPERIMENTS IN TOP-DRESSING. 



I have read with much interest the communi- 

 cation of Mr. Rogers in your paper of Feb. 9, on 

 the above subject. I know that any experiment 

 which he undertakes will be carefully performed, 

 and that the results may be relied upon. I am 

 not surprised at those results for the past year ; 

 they are what, from my own observation and ex 

 perience, I should have expected. The results 

 for the next two or three years will, however, test 



the comparative value of these manures as a top- 

 dressing for grass lands ; and I shall be much sur- 

 prised if they do not show the green cow ma- 

 nure to be much the greatest, so as to put it far 

 beyond question. R. I. I. 



DEATH OF MR. PINNEO. 



I regret to say to you that Mr. Joseph Pinned, 

 of Hanover, died last Tuesday. The funeral was 

 attended on Thursday. He was, for the last 

 twenty or twenty-five years, extensively engaged 

 in the nursery business, and it was through his 

 energy and zeal that nearly all the improvements 

 in fruit and orcharding in this section have been 

 made. He was the pioneer, and the fruit of his 

 labor extends over a large extent of country, and 

 is a blessing to the world. It is hard to part 

 with such men as Downing, Cole, French and 

 Pinneo. I am in hopes some one will send you 

 a tribute to his memory worthy a place in the 

 Farmer. 



Hanover, N.H., IS61. 



WORMS IN horses. 



I see inquiries in the Farmer as to what will 

 kill worms in horses. You remarked that wood 

 ashes is good. When ashes does not effect a 

 cure, take bass wood bark and boil it in water 

 down to a strong liquid, then take whatever 

 grain is given to the horse and soak it in it over 

 night. Give it to him in the morning on an 

 empty stomach ; follow giving it three or four 

 mornings, then give something physicking and in 

 a short time a cure will be effected. 



Conway, N. H., 1861. E. Walker. 



A BIG CALF. 



I sometime since gave you a short description 

 of my Durham bull calf, and promised to let 

 you hear from me in relation to him. I did not 

 weigh him at one year old, as I had intended, be- 

 ing unwell at the time, and long after it was 

 very icy in our street. At 13i months old he 

 weighed 925 lbs., measured 6 ft. in girth, and 

 11^ feet from tip of nose to tip of tail. 



Stockbridge, 1861. S. Byington. 



THE DELAWARE GRAPE. 



Would the Delaware Grape, spoken of by Mrb. 

 Porter in the Farmer for February, page 85, be 

 hardy in this latitude, 43° ? And if so, where 

 can it be obtained ? S. Guild. 



Milford, N. H., 1861. 



Remarks. — With special care, perhaps you 

 might succeed with it — but we think it would be 

 quite uncertain. Any of the seedsmen at the ag- 

 ricultural stores would furnish it. 



A distinguished physician lately announced 

 that one reason why so many people have the 

 dyspepsia is because they have no sympathy at 

 table. They eat alone at restaurants, and devour 

 their food like wild beasts, instead of sitting at 

 the table with their families, where their sympa- 

 thies would be called into healthful activity, and 

 where they would eat like civilized beings. There 

 may be something in this idea. At auy rate, it 

 would do no barm to test it. 



