1862. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



261 



HENS, TURNIPS, SELF-SUCKING COWS. 



Will some of the readers of the Farmer give us 

 their experience as to the profit of keeping hens 

 on a larger scale than we find in almost every 

 number of that valuable paper, with their mode of 

 treatment, &c. ? I keep 400 in 8 houses, which 

 paid me a profit of $200 on last year. When I 

 have had more experience in the business, I will 

 give you the particulars. 



Will you also inform me why my ruta baga tur- 

 nips (which I raised quite extensively for sheep 

 last year) had an inclination to run up to seed, or 

 had a stalk on many of them from 6 to 1 2 inches 

 high? I got my seed from a respectable seed store 

 in Boston, and supposed it to be good. Was it in 

 the seed, or through some mismanagement on my 

 part? 



Also, will some one inform me how to prevent 

 a valuable young cow from sucking herself? 



Cape Cod Farmer. 



East Orleans, April, 1862. 



Remarks. — We hope "Cape Cod Farmer" will 

 get satisfactory replies to his questions. 



GOATS AND HORSES. 



I wish to inquire through your paper — 



1. How much of the year will a goat give milk? 



2. Which is the best, to let her breed once or 

 twice a year ? 



3. Which is the best age to let a goat begin to 

 breed ? 



4. What is the best fodder in the winter ? 



5. Will sheep and goats do well together ? 



6. Which is the best, plank or ground for horse 

 stables ? 



7. What is good for bots and worms in horses ? 



A Farmer Boy. 

 Kensington, N. H., 1862. 



Remarks. — We cannot answer the questions in 

 relation to goats. Wood ashes, mixed with cut 

 feed will destroy worms in horses. 



leghorn fowls. 



In reply to "Subscriber" in the Farmer of 

 April 12, 1 would say, 



1. The piece I referred the gentleman to was in 

 the Neio England Farmer. 



2. It might not be pleasant to the writer of the 

 article to have his name used in this connection. 

 I dare say he was perfectly honest ; but very like- 

 ly had never seen many Leghorn fowls, and 

 thought them as nice as others. 



3. The gentleman who purchased the six fowls, 

 was C. K. Hubbard, (opposite City Hall,) Worces- 

 ter, who knows and keeps nice fowls. 



If "Subscriber" is particular about knowing the 

 name of the writer of the article I referred to, he 

 he can ascertain by addressing 



New Worcester, 1862. C. K. Hubbard. 



how to make EMPTYINGS OR YEAST. 



Having seen a number of receipts for making 

 bread, etc., in your valuable paper, I venture to 

 send you one for making emptyings : Make hasty 

 pudding, (Indian,) in the usual way; as soon as it 

 is cookpd odd three or four large spoonfuls of sour 



milk, and a small quantity of lye, or wheat meal, 

 or Hour, to a quart of pudding ; and after suffi- 

 ciently cooled so as not to scald, stir in a little 

 yeast and set to rise. Emptyings made in this way 

 may be used, (adding a little saleratus,) to mix 

 bread, dumplings, &:c., with, using no other wet- 

 ting, thus effecting a great saving in flour. Bread 

 and other things, made in this way, are as good 

 or better than when mixed with milk. 



Cheshire, N. II., 1862. Subscriber. 



FINE BARLEY. 



In 1860, from fifteen pounds sowing, I raised 

 480 pounds. It weighed from fifty-eight to sixty 

 pounds to the bushel. I send you 'a head or two 

 of the barley. H. A. Buttolph. 



Shelburn, Vt., 1862. 



Remarks. — This barley is very handsome. 



MACKAY swine. 



Will you, or some of your correspondents, in- 

 form me where I can obtain two pigs, one male 

 and one female, of the full-blooded Mackay breed 

 of hogs, and oblige a subscriber ? r. H. S. 



Northfield Farms, April, 1862. 



PERILS OP CHAMOIS-HUNTIWG. 



Three experienced shots of Appenzell were 

 hunting on the Gloggeren, that lofty wall rising 

 south-east from the See Alp, which one passes on 

 the way from Weissbad over the Meglis Alp. One 

 of them went by thiii lower path, a second higher 

 up over Marwies, and the third hunter over a nar- 

 row grassy ledge on the rocky wall between the 

 two first mentioned. The chamois were driven 

 along this grassy ledge. The highest and lowest 

 had easier going, and came earlier to the place 

 where the combined shooting was to begin. The 

 first saw the beasts coming to him, coming direct- 

 ly towards his rifle, and waited, looking out con- 

 stantly for the third, Avho was driving them along 

 the grass ledge. The chamois came gradually 

 nearer ; he is afraid of losing his shot, lies in a fe- 

 verish state of excitement, fires, and, frightened at 

 the report, the beasts turn and fly hurriedly along 

 the ledge the same way that they had come. Just 

 at a narroAV sloping place, scarcely broad enough 

 for a man to pass where it bends round a project- 

 ing rock, they came in their wildest flight upon 

 the hunter climbing toilsomely upwards. If the 

 two parties had met upright on this giddy rim of 

 the rock, the hunter must infallibly have been 

 dashed over a clift" sinking for more than 100 feet, 

 as the chamois would instinctively in the agony of 

 despair have tried to squeeze themselves between 

 the rock and the hunter. The man prudently ob- 

 served this, and to save his life, threw himself 

 down and let the whole herd rush at a flying leap 

 over him. Another hunter in Glarus, in a similar 

 position at a critical place, thought that he might 

 secure his booty by a quick resolve, and cowered 

 down sitting, wedged firmly against a rock, and 

 shot. The charge missed, the chamois jumped 

 over him, but touched him in his bounding elastic 

 spring with one of his hind hoofs on the jacket, 

 and tore its highest button-hole ; a hesitation 

 would have infallibly sent both over a crushing 

 Ml— -"The Alps," hy II. Berelepsch. 



