1862. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



27T 



ures of the new plan is the annual publication of 

 the "aggregates" of the valuation of the several 

 cities and towns in the Commonwealth, as re- 

 turned by the assessors. The first of these inter- 

 esting documents has recently made its appear- 

 ance, and from it we copy the following valuable 

 table: 



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Total number of 

 Polls. 



Total Tax on 

 Polls. 



Total Value of 

 Personal Estate. 



Total Value of 

 Real Estate, 



Total Tax for 

 state, County, 

 City and Town 

 purposes, in- 

 ckiciing High- 

 way Tax. 



Total Valuation, 

 May 1, 1S61. 



Total number of 



D«'elling-house3 



Total number of 

 Horses. 



Total number of 

 Cows. 



Total number of 

 Sheep. 



Total number of 

 Acres of Land 

 taxed in the 

 County. 



MaPvAUDing Cattle. — Cattle may be educated 

 into almost anything. 



A quiet cow may be converted into a skilful 

 jumper in a single season. The first requisite for 

 such training is short feed, resulting from over- 

 stocking. The second is low fences ; and the 

 third, tempting crops of corn beyond these low 

 fences. In the spring grass is usually good, and 

 corn and other crops are small and uninviting ; 

 but during some midsummer periods, when pas- 

 ture is dried up, the process often begins. One 

 or two rails are accidentally knocked or bloAvn 

 from the fence ; the quiet and orderly animals 

 stretch their heads over to reach a morsel of the 

 tall grass ; they throw down accidentally two or 

 three more rails, and finally leap over. The owner 

 drives them out as soon as they have learned the 



diflerence between delicious food on one side and 

 short commons on the other, and puts up a rail. 

 They have already learned to leap a little, and the 

 next day they improve and go a rail higher. 

 Another rail is added, and the process is repeated 

 until they become quite expert. 



It is now a very busy season, but the farmer 

 should not neglect his fences ; if rails are thrown 

 down, replace them before cattle find it out ; keep 

 fences high at all times ; and if the animals should 

 actually break through, add rails enough to make 

 the barrier entirely impregnable at once. 



SUMMER CHICKI3NS. 



Those who bring out chickens in April, or ear- 

 lier, do it at the risk of making considerable loss, 

 as that month is usually a cold, wet and windy 

 one. AVhen successful, however, they bring a high 

 price, sometimes when marketed in July, as high 

 as fifty cents per pound. This has prompted many 

 to get broods as early as the last of March, and 

 the first of April. 



We copy the following article from the London 

 Cottage Gardener, and think it worthy of atten- 

 tion by those who do not care to send chickens to 

 market, but only to provide themselves with an 

 annual stock. 



There is an old proverb in some parts of the 

 country that summer chickens never thrive. It 

 runs thus in parts of Hampshire : 



"Chicks that are hatched when there's making of hay, 

 Will never grow up, but pine away." 



All those who wish to rear poultry without 

 much trouble choose the month of May for doing 

 so. Sometimes a hen deserts a few days before 

 hatching ; sometimes she dies upon it. If we 

 listen to the above tradition there is no remedy. 

 But we believe there is, and a simple one ; set 

 more eggs, and be not deterred by fables. We 

 go on hatching till August, and we are successful. 

 The London market is only supplied by this pro- 

 cess with the poultry for which it is so justly cel- 

 ebrated. Fowls of the same age can be had all 

 the year round because the work of hatching nev- 

 er ceases. If we were to tell such of our readers 

 as require instruction on the subject, that any ex- 

 pensive or very troublesome process was necessa- 

 ry, they might, perhaps, say, that of two troubles, 

 they thought waiting was the less. But it is not 

 so ; and Ave confess, it seems to us that the idea 

 can only be supported by that undeniable argu- 

 ment, "I do not know how it is, but I know that 

 it is so." 



Another large class of poultry breeders say they 

 do not believe in the saying; but June is too late 

 for chickens. Well, if you say it is too late, Ave 

 Scty — prove it. The nights are shorter in June 

 than in May ; the weather is warmer. Nearer to 

 the Avinter you say ; but you have four months to 

 the end of October, all good, growing, genial 

 weather, and at that age, your chickens Avill stand 

 anything. They are three weeks or a month later, 

 that is all. It may be said there must be some 

 foundation for the proverb ; the sun is too hot 

 and scorching, and if chickens are entirely ex- 

 posed to it, they Avill die. Put the rip, with the 



