1863. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



143 



NEW BOOKS. 



These fanners feed their meal drv. This is a 



"""tZ^^^^^^^'l^r^^^'-'f^T i:^^^ i» l^'«^"i"S beef and 



York ; )inrper & Brotiiers, I'ubiishtrs. 1 Vol., 8\o.", 420 pp. i '^^^"^e, as well as teeding COWS lor milk, has been 

 Price $5 00. j to i)our boiliiit,' water on as much meal us would 



The author of tliis work was appointed by the ' "?\"^'»1^'; the aiumal'.s bowels move too freely, at 



' night and in the mornin-i: ; wlien the mush is cool, 

 give it to the cow or i)i 



Governor of California, under a legislative act, to 

 report the "ways and means best adajited to pro- 

 mote the improvement and culture of the grape 

 vine ill California." He accordingly visited vari- 

 ous parts of France, the Netherlands, Holland, 

 Rhenish Prussia, Bavaria, Nassau, Baden, Switz- 

 erland, Spain, Italy and England. After travers- 



al covering the meal with boiling water in this 

 way, the starch of the grain is dissolved, and the 

 latent nutritive i)roperties extracted, and tlic ani- 

 mal receives the enlire nutriment of the grain. 



I calculate stock do not, in eating dry meal, re- 

 ceive more than one-half of the goodiu-ss of the 

 meal. There is not action enough in mastication, 



ing these countries with a scrutinizing eye and an | oi' heat sufficient in the stoinacii of the animal, to 



inquiring mind, the author came to the conclusion 

 that California is superior in all the conditions of 

 soil, climate and other natural advantages, to the 

 most favored wine-producing districts of Europe, 

 and that it actually has yielded considerably more 

 per acre. • He is satisfied, he says, that even if the 

 separate advantages of these countries could be 

 combined in one, it would still be surpassed by 

 California, when its now dormant resources shall 

 be developed ; that it can produce as noble and 

 generous wine as any in Europe ; more in quanti- 

 ty to the acre, and without repeated failures 

 through frosts, summer rains, hailstorms, or other 

 causes. 



It is his opinion, also, that no country can sur- 

 pass California in raising the sugar beet. Sorgho 

 and Imphee, and that no part of the world, ex- 

 cept, perhaps, Africa, can produce the same quan- 

 tity of these commodities to the acre. 



The work seems to contain everything necessa- 

 ry to teach one to produce grapes and make wine 

 successfully. It is printed on fine paper, large 

 type, and abundantly illustrated with engravings. 

 It has a short paper on the Culture of the Silk 

 Worm, one on the Manufacture of Potato-Starchi 

 one on Grape Sugar, one on Beet Sugar, and one 

 on Sorgho and Imphee. 



Complete Manual o>- the Cultivation- of Todaco. New- 

 York ; C. M. Saxtou, Publisher. 1 Vol., IGmo. Price 25 cts. 



This is one of our old friend Saxton's hand- 

 books, and the only one with pernicious tenden- 

 cies we have ever known him to publish. Al- 

 though it is in his usual good style, our hope is 

 that no one will read it or practice its teachings. 

 For sale by A. Williams & Co., 100 Washington 

 Street, Boston. 



extract and receive the entire and real sweetness 

 of the grain. 



Had I roots, I should feed them to my fattening 

 beef But not having any, I feed only meal and 

 hay, and I have fatted two ordinary sized cows, 

 two years past, and to which I fed otdy three cwt. 

 of meal each, and they each yielded upwards of 

 forty pounds rough tallow. Once a week, 1 throw 

 into the musli a little salt, and occasionally a table 

 spoonful of wood ashes. 



My experience teaches me that one cwt. of meal 

 fed as described above, is equal to two cwt. fed 

 dry. Try it, young farmer, and see if you can in- 

 dorse this. Qui Nlxc. 



East Granville, Feb. 17, 1863. 



Por the New Kn island Farmer. 

 FEEDING MEAL TO STOCK. 

 Doubtless many of your readers have had longer 

 experience in feeding meal, and perhaps know as 

 economical and effectual a manner of feeding it, I leave his master's body ; and as the coat was 



Fi/r the A'eir England Fanner. ' 

 FIDELITY OF A DOG. 



Mk. Browx :— When Col. G. L. Prescott, of 

 the Massachusetts 32d Regiment was at home a 

 few weeks since, I was among a crowd of eager 

 listeners to hear his thrilling story of the battle of 

 Fredericksburg. Among other incidents he men- 

 tioned a dog that attracted much attention. The 

 ground was covered with men, either lying to es- 

 cape the enemy's fire, or fallen to rise no more. 

 This dog continually ran in and out among them, 

 searching for his master, or entreating somebody 

 to follow him. 



The following, from the Inquirer, probably re- 

 fers to the same faithful animal. I have no doubt 

 a later visitor will find him keeping watch and 

 ward over the soldier's grave. w. D. B. 



Concord, Mass., March, 1863. 



As Hon. John Covode, in company with a num- 

 ber of officers, was passing over the l)attlc-field 

 beyond Fredericksburg, after the liattle, their at- 

 tention was called to a small dog lying by a corpse. 

 Mr. Covode halted a few minutes to see if life was 

 extinct. Raising the coat from the man's face, 

 he found him dead. The dog, looking wisifully 

 up, ran to the dead man's face and kissed his si- 

 lent lips. Such devotion in a small dog was so 

 singular, that Mr. Covode examined some papers 

 upon the body, and found it to be that of Ser- 

 geant W. H. Brown, Co. C, {'Ist Pennsylvania. 

 The dog was shivering in the cold, l)ut refused to 



as the subscriber. I believe there are a few, at 

 least, of your patrons, like many farmers whom 1 

 know, who feed from four to eight quarts of meal 

 a day to one beef creature, till they feed from seven 

 to ten cwt. of meal to one beef, and who never 

 slaughter an ordinary sized l)eef that yields up- 

 wards of forty pounds of rough tallow. 



thrown over his face again, he seemed very unea- 

 sy, and tried to get under it to the man's fice. 

 lie had, it seems, followed the regiment into hat- 

 tie, and stuck to his master, and when he fill, re- 

 mained with him, refusing to leave him or to cat 

 anything. As the party returned, an ambulance 

 was carrying the corpse to a little grove of trees 



