1863. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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nsed it for garden purposes. We have sometimes 

 pumped three hundred gallons at a time, and as far 

 as ease of working and liability to get out of repair 

 are concerned, we can say that no pump in our knowl- 

 edge is more desirable than West's. Our pump not 

 being in use in the winter, we cannot say whether it 

 is liable to freeze, if the water is not let off after pump- 

 ing, but should think the common pattern would have 

 that objection. The pump is constructed, however, 

 from another pattern which allows everything but the 

 handle and spout to be below the curb of the well, and 

 if it is to stand in the yard we should prefer this pat- 

 tern for all seasons, as the heat of the sun in summer 

 dries the valves unless the pump is kept in daily use. 

 The pump is made ♦"or service, and has no ornamental 

 features, and is very heavy and durable. It will throw 

 twelve gallons a minute easily. 



A 15arge crop of grass. 



There is a lot of land in Shrewsburj', Mass., of less 

 than four acres, owned by L. S. Allen, Esq., upon 

 which there has been a little less than thirteen tons of 

 dry hay taken off the ground this season. Out of 

 these four acres there is one and a half acres that was 

 mowed twice the last year. w. r. s. 



PORTABLE MILLS. 



The portable mills which can be transplanted 

 frono place to place, and operated by horse power, 

 are likely to prove of great convenience to farm- 

 ers. The portable saw mill is carried to the logs 

 instead of carrying the logs to the mill, and being 

 ojjerated by horse power, transforms the logs to 

 such shape as is desired, and in that every large 

 farmer may have a mill at his own woodland and 

 his logs sawed where they lay, or where they are 

 to be used. 



In like manner portable grist mills may be still 

 more convenient, as the farmer has' every year his 

 grain to be ground. Clarke's Patent Flour Mill 

 was described in the Farmer of Feb. 15, 1851. 

 It does not appear by the statement there made 

 whether the mill is worked by hand or by horse 

 power. The merits of that mill we are not ac- 

 quainted with further than the statement referred 

 to makes it known to us. But it is as practicable 

 and easy to operate grist and flour mills by horse 

 power, that will be sufficient for the purposes of 

 grinding and flouring, as it is to operate a saw 

 mill by the same power. Clarke's mill, it is said, 

 makes flour equal to the best. These mills, when 

 set up, might be operated by steam, or by both 

 steam and horse power. 



Heavy Seeding. — The editor of the Oenesee 

 Farmer, in a late visit to Connecticut, called on a 

 Mr. Collins, of Collinsville, a milkman, who it 

 seems believes in sowing grass seed with a liberal 

 hand. For hay he uses the following : 



9 lbs. Timothy, 7 lbs. Ilnlian Rye Grass, 



9 lt>s. Oi-eli:i»l Grass, Sfcs. Pfrc-iini;il Rye Grass, 



3 lbs. Rfil Clover, 2 lbs. Tall Meadow Uat Grass, 



3 lbs. Red Top, 4 lbs. Wliite Clover. 



tW Since the 1st of July, one thousand Cana- 

 dian iiorsi-'s have crossed from Windsor, opposite 

 Df'troit f(i- the United States service. 



For the Kew England Fanner, 

 NOTES FROM THE MONOMACK. 

 B\ SAGGAUEW. 

 "Walka and Talks with Essex Co. Farmers. 



])EAR Farmer : — During our annual family 

 "camjjs out,'' a few weeks since, — which this year 

 happened to he at that romantic and really desi- 

 rable place, "Marblehead Neck," where were some 

 forty other families, in tents, for several weeks, 

 the writer, in company with a camp com])anion 

 and brother "quill driver," paid flying visits to 

 the farms of Horace Ware, Jr., in Marblehead, 

 and Dr. George B. Loring, in Salem. These vis- 

 its were especially pleasant and suggestive to the 

 visitors, and perhaps a few "Notes" may not be 

 without interest to the readers of the Fai-mer. 



The farm of Mr. Ware contains about seventy- 

 five acres, all fit for cultivation. The soil is most- 

 ly a rich and deep sandy loam, with some gravel, 

 and with a clayey subsoil under a part or all of 

 it. The owner was "born and bred"' a farmer, and 

 by his intelligence and skill is fairly entitled to a 

 place in the front rank of his profession. He 

 purchased the farm upon which he now lives most- 

 ly upon credit, and run in debt for manure for his 

 frst crop. From this beginning, he has risen to 

 the honorable position of a truly "independent 

 farmer." 



The farm is situated about fifteen miles from 

 Boston, and is carried on as a market farm, the 

 owner driving his market wagon to the city almost 

 daily, the year round. One of his largest crops 

 is onions, of which he this year has fourteen acres, 

 from which he was confident of realizing five hun- 

 dred dollars per acre — or seven thousand dollars 

 fortius crop alone! We understood him to say 

 that the total cost of raising the crops was only 

 about one hundred dollars per acre. Think of 

 that, readers of the Farmer ; four hundred dol- 

 lars per acre clear profit in one year ! One way 

 he does it, is to "keep the run" of the market. 

 Last year he was confident that the harvest prices 

 were too low, and ke])t his crops until nearly 

 spring, when he realized over tipo thousand dollars 

 advance on the fall prices. He has been "looking 

 around" this season, and knows very near how 

 many onions will be raised, and he intends to 

 govern himself accordingly. So much for onions. 



Last year he sold from his farm 1000 barrels of 

 apples. His trees are planted around the edge 

 of his fields, and thus occupy hardly any room. 

 This mode of planting an "orchard" is one which 

 the writer has long favored, and endeavored to 

 encourage by word and pen. Its advantages are 

 obvious and positive. Both the trees and the land 

 will in most cases get better care if this plan is 

 adopted, than they will if the more common plan 

 is followed. The land will be cultivated, and if 

 land is cultivated, the trees will be sure to reap 

 their share of the benefits from such cultivation. 



There is no secret about Mr. Ware's farming. 

 He will tell anybody just how he does it. In con- 

 versation with him, he expressed the opinion that 

 about the only limit to crojjs was — nuimire. Tiie 

 more manure, the more crops. He makes all he 

 can, gets all he can, u^es all he gets, and contin- 

 ually wants more. He uses large quantities of 

 "sea manure," and so highly does he praise it, that 

 he assured tiie writer he would call his entire force 

 ctf hniid« RPfl teams awav at aov bour. fi'^m anv 



