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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Dec. 



A NEW VOLUME AND NEW TERMS. I 

 In our last number, as well as upon the cover 

 of the previous number, we announced an entire 

 change in the terms of the Farmer. Without oc- 

 cupying pages of our journal this month with ad- 

 vertising our plans, and puffing our own publica- 

 tion, we wish simply to say that the arrangement 

 we have proposed will be fully carried out. 



To our old subscribers we need say nothing of 

 the merits of the Farmer. We suppose they read 

 our regular issues, and can form their own judg- 

 ment of thoir merits. We can only say that we 

 have spared no pains, and shall continue to use 

 every exertion, to make the Farmer the most prac- 

 tical and reliable agricultural publication in the 

 country. We have numerous intelligent corres- 

 pondents, who write of things they know, and who 

 do not go into speculative arguments on the merits 

 of operations of which they know nothing practi- 

 cally. We are in favor of progress in agricultu- 

 ral science, as well as in any other. We encour- 

 age experiments in every new method of cultiva- 

 tion which promises to advance the general pros- 

 perity of the farming community, whilst we dis- 

 courage the universal adoption of any scheme 

 which shall not have been fully tried and proved. 

 We hope our subscribers who have given us their 

 cordial support in past years, will extend to us 

 under our new terms the patronage we shall try 

 to merit. The plan of advance payments will free 

 us from the expenses of agents, and from discour- 

 aging losses, and we can give the benefit of these 

 advantages to our subscribers in the reduced 

 price of the Farmer. 



Our terms for the new year are 



Single ciipy $1,00 for 1 year; $1,60 for 2 years. 



Two to five copies 80 cents each. 



Six to ten copies 75 '" '* 



And an extra copy for every Club of ten. 



Old subscribers whose bills for the past year 

 are paid can have the Farmer for 80 cents next 



year, if they cannot arrange clubs to reduce the 

 price lower than that. 



Old subscribers who have not paid their dues, 

 will be charged only 80 cents a year for what they 

 are now owing us, provided they pay up and sub- 

 scribe for next year. 



All subscribers are requested to forward their 

 dues, and payments for the next year, immediately, 

 as it will greatly facilitate our labors in the prep- 

 aration of the January number. As we shall em- 

 ploy no agents we must depend upon those 

 who are indebted to us to send their dues by 

 mail. If this is not done within a reasonable 

 time, we must adopt such a course for their col- 

 lection as will secure that result with the least ex- 

 pense to ourselves. 



Liquid Manure. — Prof. Sprengel, the cele- 

 brated German chemist, asserts that each cow 

 produces annually 18,000 pounds urine, which 

 contains of solid matter, 900 pounds. This solid 

 matter is fully equal to the best guano, weight for 

 weight, 80 that the liquid manure of every cow 

 kept on a farm for one year, is worth, when ap- 

 plied to the crops, more than $20 annually, and 

 so in proportion to all the rest of the domestic an- 

 imals. It may be said that in no other depart- 

 ment of rural economy does the American farmer 

 lose so much by neglect, as in the management of 

 solid and liquid manures. 



To Remove Chaff from Animals' Eyes. — 

 Mr. C. E. Todd states, in the Ohio Farmer, that 

 he had a valuable cow which became partly blind- 

 ed with oat chaff, and tried the various remedies 

 commonly prescribed, but to no effect. He then 

 took a silk pocket-handkerchief, drew it tightly 

 over the end of the fore-finger, and after raising 

 the eyelid as much as practicable, thrust the cov- 

 ered finger carefully into the eye. The chaff ad- 

 hering: to the silk was at once removed. 



To Cement Broken China. — Beat lime into 

 the most impalpable powder ; sift it through fine 

 muslin, then tie some into a pocket formed of fine 

 muslin. Put on the edges of the broken china 

 some white of egg ; then dust some lime quickly 

 on the same, and unite them exactly. 



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