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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jan. 



man enjoyment. This is no fiction, but eternal 

 truth. The true farmer is like pure old brass, the 

 more you rub him, the brighter he sliines. The 

 fi-uits of his business, like the bright, morning sun, 

 cheers and comforts ail. His, indeed, is a noble 

 calKng, fit for him \vho was made in the image of 

 God. 



Young man, don't be in haste to leave the old 

 farm, with its cares and labors, to the "old folks," 

 until you are well convinced, the world has some- 

 thing more noble and glorious for you. Rest as- 

 sured, if you do, that in the sad hours which will 

 come over you, its inmates and shadows will haunt 

 you, while the aged folks at home will sigh and 

 lament that no son is near to cheer them on, as 

 the years come over them, and to lighten the la- 

 bors of the good old farm. Young man, stay at 

 home with the "old folks," and the farm is yours. 



King Oak Hill, 1861. N. Q. T. 



BO YOU BRUISE YOUR OATS YET? 



The London Omnibus Company have lately 

 made a report on feeding horses, which discloses 

 some interesting information not only to farmers, 

 but to every owner of a horse. As a great num- 

 ber of horses are now used in the army for caval- 

 ry, artillery and draught purposes, the facts stated 

 are of great value at the present time. The Lon- 

 don Company uses no less than 6000 horses. 3000 

 of this number had for theii- feed bruised oats and 

 hay. The allowance accorded to the first, was 

 bruised oats, 16 lbs. ; cut hay, 7i lbs. ; cut straw, 

 2 J lbs. The allowance accorded to the second, 

 unbruised oats, 19 lbs. ; uncut hay, 13 lbs. The 

 bruised oats, cut hay and cut straw amounted to 

 26 lbs. ; and the unbruised oats, &c., to 32 lbs. 

 The horse which had bruised oats, with cut hay 

 and straw, and consumed 26 lbs. per day, could 

 do the same work as well, and was kept in as good 

 condition as the horse wliich i-eceived 32 lbs. per 

 day. Here was a saving of 6 lbs. per day on the 

 feeding of each horse receiving bruised oats, cut 

 hay and cut straw. The advantage of bruised oats 

 and cut hay over unbruised oats and uncut hay is 

 estimated at 2^d. per day on each horse, amount- 

 ing to upwai'ds of £60 per day for the company's 

 6000 horses. It is by no means an unimportant 

 I'esult with which this experiment has supplied us. 

 To the farmer who expends a large sum in the 

 support of horse-power, there are two points this 

 experiment clearly establishes, which, in practice, 

 must be profitable — first, the saving of food to the 

 amount of 6 lbs. per day ; and, second, no loss of 

 horse-power arising from that saving. 



The Crop of Maple Sugar. — Hunt's Mer- 

 clianVs Magazine estimates the crop of maple su- 

 igar for the current year at 28,000 tons. The trees 

 are tapped h\ February to obtain the product, and 

 the process is usually completed by the end of 

 March. An intelligent judgment may, therefore, 

 be fairly formed at this date of the aggregate yield 

 by the aid of careful comparison with the ascer- 

 tained products of former years, and accurate ob- 

 servers generally concur in the opinion that the 

 foregoing is a moderate estimate, viz. : 28,000 

 tons, or 62,720,000 pounds. Maple sugar may be 

 fairly quoted at eight cents per pound. The ag- 

 gregate of tliis current crop is hence $5,017,000. 



EXTRAX!TS AND REPLIES. 



POULTRY. 



Please publish the enclosed statement as the 



result of my experience in keeping fowls, for one 



year, commencing Nov. loth, 1860, and ending 



Nov. loth, 1861. 



I commenced Nov. 15, 1860, with 35 fowls, valued at $17,50 



Cost of grain and other feed 67,73 



$85,23 



Have sold 127 chicken for, ,»,,, . ., 57,30 



" " 12fo\vlsfor 5,75 



" " 446 11-12 dozen eggs, for 97,51 



$160,56 

 Have 84 fowls on hand, at 50c.. .» „ ^... 42,00 



$202,55 

 Deduct the cost 85,23 



Xett profit for one year $117,33 



Number of dozen of eggs laid in one year 443 J 



Number of chickens hatched 101 



" " lost 3 



" " raised 183 



William Robinson. 

 WcdeHowih Nov. 15, 1861. 



SICK hens. 



Your correspondent from Marblehead says he 

 has several sick hens, and asks, "What is the name 

 of it ? Is it contagious ? What is the remedy ?" 

 In answer to number one, I would say it is what 

 is called in the books on fowls, the roup. Second, 

 Is it contagious ? Yes, it would affect a thous- 

 and fowls, if he had as many. What is the rem- 

 edy for it ? Charcoal. Remove the sick ones from 

 the other fowls as soon as they show any symp- 

 toms of hard breathing, the first indication of the 

 disease, and feed with a little finely powdered char- 

 coal mixed with Indian meal ; give plenty of fresh 

 water, and keep the fowls Avarm ; white-wash your 

 coop, and spread around in it cldoride of lime. If 

 his fowls are badly diseased, it is cheaper for him 

 to cut their heads off", and begin with a fresh lot. 

 That has been my experience. c. E. 



Maiden, Nov., 1861. 



TRANSACTIONS OF THE ESSEX COUNTY AGRICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



I learn that 120 pages of this annual are aheady 

 printed, and that the Essays and Reports which 

 have been approved, will probably make 40 or 50 

 pages more. I have long been of the opinion that 

 this Society has done more to advance the cause 

 for which it is organized, by its annual publication, 

 than in any other manner. I have these publica- 

 tions bound in decades, from 1818 onwards, and 

 value them as highly as any book in my library. 

 Like the farmer in his frock and trowsers, they 

 give instruction in the natural way. The impulse 

 given to tliis Society by Timothy Pickering and 

 Ilem-y Colman, will long be remembered, as among 

 their most creditable labors. They were men of 

 original thought and determined action — none of 

 your kid-glove gentry. p. 



November, 1861. 



COVERING FOR HAY STACKS, ETC. 



The "Rubber Clothing Company," No. 37 Milk 

 Street, Boston, maltc a tarpaulin, or stout drill, 

 coated with rubber. Tliis will keep stacks of hay. 



