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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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become but a shadow of what they ought to be. 



Let the farmer never forget that his wife is his 

 best friend, the most steadfast on earth, would do 

 aiore for him in calamity, in misfortune, and sick- 

 ness, than any other human being, and that on 

 this account, to say notiiing of the marriage vow, 

 made before high heaven and before men, he owes 

 to the wife of his bosom a consideration, a tender- 

 ness, a supjiort, and a sympathy, which should 

 put out of sight c%'e.y feeling of profit and loss 

 rhe very instant they con»e in collision with his 

 wife's welfare as to her body, her mind, and her 

 affections. No man will ever lose in tlie long run 

 by so doing; he will not Jose in time, will not 

 lose in a dyin<j hour, nor in that great and myste- 

 rious future which lies before all. — IIull's Jouruai 

 of HmUh. 



EAISIWG CALVES. 



Mr. Editor ;— I notice in the last Telegraph. 

 an article on the above subject, which is altogeth- 

 er very good, but in some few ways I difler from 

 the writer. Allow me to give my plan, and let 

 your readers choose for themselves. 



In the first place, about the jiaj/uii/ part. That 

 alone has of late years prevented me from raising 

 stock. Within a certain distance from the city, 



THE CUIiTUHE OF "WHEAT. 



"Bread is the staff of life." Wheat bread is so 

 universally jjopular, and what, according to the an- 

 alyses of the chemists, contains so much nourish- 

 ment as wheat bread ? There is no other so pal- 

 atable to most persons, and, at the same time, that 

 can be eaten so long without paUing on the appe- 

 tite, as the bread of wheat Hour. 



There is no crop, also, more easily raised on 

 suitable lands, or that may be grown to more profit 

 to the farmer or more benefit to the State. It some- 

 times fails, as do most other crops, but even this 

 failure is quite likely to be considerably checked, 

 when we come to understand its true mi^de of cul- 

 tivation, — such, perhaps, as the jireijaration of the 

 seed and getting it into the ground early. 



In England, one of the best farming countries 

 of the world, wheat is the principal crop, that upon 

 which the farmer mainly relies, says Mr. Culman, 

 for his money returns, and for the payment of his 

 labor and rent, and to which his attention is prin- 

 cipally directed. In France, an immense crop of 

 where farms sell from $175 to S2.5() an acre,"l ' ''■^^''' *'' "'^*^'^'"^''- Statistical accounts have shown 



think it will not patj to raise stock, unless the price 

 of stock is much higher than it has been for a year 



that in England upwards of one hundred mid eleceii 

 millions of bushels have been raised in a year, and 



or two ; but when you do raise stock, by all means in France about two hundred millions (fbusheh! 

 have good stock to raise from 



My plan was, if I were going to raise a calf, not 

 to allow it to suck the cow. It will learn to drink 

 alone much easier. I have had them drink alone 

 before they were twelve hours old. I like to liave 

 three or four to start at a time, and to start them 

 a few weeks before pasture. After that, if they 

 run where there is water, shade and grass, they 

 wUl want but little care until fall, when they should 

 have shelter at nights, and a little hay, roots or 

 brewers' grain are excellent to feed them during 

 the winter season, to keep them in a thrifty con- 

 dition. By all means keep them growing for the 

 first three years, and if lieifers, not to allow them 

 to have a calf until three years old ; and you will 

 have cows that, w hen your friends call, you will not 

 be ashamed to take them to the barn to see your 

 stock. — Qtrmantotcn Tdegraplu 



German Mode of Preserving or Trans- 

 MiTTixG Cuttings of Plants to a Distance. 

 — Cylindrically shaped strong glass bottles with 

 wide mouths are used, into which the cuttings are 

 thrown just as they are taken from the i)lant ; 

 from a teasjwonful to a tablespoonful of water is 

 put in the bottle and the sto]>])er hermetically 

 sealed up. Cuttings kept in this way for a month 



In all our States, out of New England, this crop, 

 as in Great Britain, is the money crop. In the 

 Western States, a farmer who has a crop of wheat 

 in the ground, gets what he wants for his family 

 at the nearest store on the credit of the wheat, and 

 when ready for market it is hauled to the store and 

 received in payment, and the balance, if any, cred- 

 ited to the farmer, passing thus as the medium of 

 payment in the dealings of the farmer at the store : 

 or, otherwise, is carried to the nearest mill, and 

 sold for cash. 



It is always a cash article where nothing else is, 

 and always easily transferable as cash, or as the 

 best and readiest medium in exchanges. In the 

 middle States, in Pennsylvania, New York, Mary- 

 land ; in Virginia and Ohio, it is on about the 

 same footing in commerce, and is, in like manner, 

 relied upon as the thing needful to the farmer to 

 pay for those articles of necessary use which he 

 does not raise and is oliliged to buy. It may un- 

 doubtedly be made as important in tlic produce of 

 a Massachusetts farm. 



It should be remembered by everj- farmer, that 



have grown most freely, and instances have oc- 

 curred whei-e they have sent out roots during a I it is not so much the amount of what he produces 

 journey from Edinburg to Vienna, and Ijeiiig im- J that enables him to succeed in his business, as 



what he is able to retain and use for his own jileas- 

 ure. His first effort, therefore, it seems to us. 



mediately potted on their ai'rival have grown free- 



A Good Remedy for a Fei.on is made of should be to produce, himself, everything re- 

 common soft soap and air-slacked lime, stirred till ' quired for use in his own family : — that is, every- 

 it is of the consistency of glazier's putty. Make a ^^- adapted to the climate and his peculiar loc'a- 



leather thimble, fill it with this composition, and 

 insert the finsjer therein ; and, our informant says. 



tion and soil. This saves transportation, loss in 



a cure is certain. This is a domestic application exchanges, and loss of Ume in marketing. It 

 that every housekeeper can apply promptly. I would require a considerable amount of all these, 



