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NEW ENGLAND FARMEK. 



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March' 



CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 



Thoughts about March Page 65 



Agricultural Movements gs 



Agricultural College of Pennsylvania V.V.V.V.'.67 



MixinsGrain in Seeding— Dangers of Cold Weather 67 



Ventilation in Bee Hives g' 



Letler from Mr. Brown '.*.'.'.'.*.".'.!.'. 65 



Bad Effects of Irrigation .'.'.*,'.',*.!] 72 



Knowledge ; Its Benefits lo the Farmer '.'.'.'.13 



The Agriculuiml Report ."73 



War and Agriculture *.'.".'.'.'.','.'.'. '. '. 74 



Clover Hay for Horses 75 



The School ■..■." * ta 



Extracts and Replies 



ing these four weeks. Dut this is not all. Maine comes into 

 Uji market as a buyer— as a buyer of Western cattle too ' Her 

 (fbvers, f .r the two last weeks at least, have loaded both ways 

 -bnngmg their best cattle to Brighton, and carrying back to 

 lortland for barrelling and canning the lichter grades of the 

 Western 'I he whole supply of cattle has been hanily up to the 

 demand, while the market is largely overstocked with sheep 

 Consequently while the prices for beef have increised, as is usu- 

 al at this season, those for mutton have declined, as will be seen 

 by our quotations. 



The trade in store hogs at Brighton has dwindled into a mere 

 retail traffic. 



Stray Hints from My Kitchen— Diseases in Sheep. '.!!!'.'. '...'.78 TnJi 



New Vork Fmit Trees— Sore Eyes in Sheep 79 



White Hedge >viIlow 80 I 



Reading— The Seasons 



Aside from a few milch cows, and now and then a pair of 

 )rkiDg oxen, all cattle at market, fat or lean, are slaughtered 



,^ „ , -Pear Trees from Seed 81 



At Home Again— Mutton and Wool Growing in the U. S 82 



Various Moiles of Cultivating Corn 83 



Wintering Bees -Straw Hives— Antidote fQr'Poison"!.'!!!!!!83 



Catechism of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology 84 



Clothes Wringer— Cutting Feed for Horses §5 



\ alue of Roots in Fattening Hogs— Sorghum Sugar ! . . . 81 



Poetry, Music and riealth ^ 



Musk Melon— Early Potatoes !..'!.".'.'!!!!.'.*."!!' "ss 



Essex Co. Transac.ions— Pruning Apple Trees.!'..!!',*.".'. 89 



Culture of Indian Corn— Whitewash 'bq 



Pleuio-Pneumonia in Cattle ! on 



How the Rebellion Works— The Canada Thistle! !!!!!! 91 



Associated Dairies— .V. Y. Slate Agricultural Society '92 



FiscicuUure in England— Live and Dead Weight of Sheep... 99 



Model Farm and C rden— Common Schocris 93 



Pasture Lands of New England— A Yankee Farmer 94 



Ladies' Department 'q- 



Cattle Markets for February !.!!!!. !!!!!.'..!!!.'!.*!.'.*.96 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Initial Letter "M" -, 



White Hedge billow „„ 



Green Cilron Melon oq 



Common Musk Melon ! bo 



Sales of Cattle and Sheep. 



The following is from our report of sales, February 10: 

 n ^'l"*^''°SS sold 10 good oxen to C. Richardson, 8 at about 

 o , ^^^"'' one pair of extra oxen fed bv Sylvanus Owen of 

 St. Johnsbury, Vt., sold by dollars at Q'^-c, on estimate of seller 

 and at about JOc •^ lb, on the estimate of buyer. Noticed four 



no'fcs! for oi '^t' "'^'"'' '' '■ ^- ''^^""•' '"'' '" '^'•-^ 

 C. T. Houghton sold his best pair of oxen at 9^4-0, 2 other 



pairs at 9c ^ tt,. and 13 smaller cattle on drift, to cost about 8c 



V lb. 

 J. Lyman sold 4 oxen laid at 1100 fts. each, for 9i^c ^ ft 



^ D- ij'f sold 4 New York oxen at 9c ■)? lb. and one, laid to 



dress ';00 fts. for $46, or6t<c #■ ft. 

 G. W. Barker sold 4 oxen at 9c, 5 fat cows at SJ^c, 3 younu 



cattle at Sc, and was selling 8 others at less than 8c ^f m 



G. BiUchtlder Slid four pairs tf well fed, extra Vermon 

 One pair weighed 3955 



N 

 oxen to J. F. Taylor for lOi^c ■^' lb 

 and another pair 3560. 



CATTLE MARKETS FOB. FEBBUABT. 



The fallowing is a summary of the reports for the four weeks 

 ending February 10, 1864: 



NUMBER AT lURKET. 



Cntt'c. 

 Jan. 20 2336 



" 27 1040 



Feb. 3 2119 



" 10 1266 



Total. 



.6,701 



Sheep. 

 6236 

 3015 

 4316 

 6281 



19.84S 



Shotes. 



150 

 50 



Fat Hoss. 



The following table exhibits the number of cattle and sheen 

 from each State for the last four weeks, and fur the correspond^ 

 ing four weeks last year ; also the total numbersince the first of 

 .January, ol Ciich year: 



Westfield Premidms.— Hezekiah Taylor sold to N. 

 Jackson J2 txlra good oxen, fed by himself in Westfield J 

 10 of which he estimated to weigh 4400 lbs. at home. The 



& S. 



Mass., 



i.T , , . , ^ , , „ -^- .,--.«. ...^.„^. The whole 



12 he laid to dress 1 00 #■ bullock, and the buyers said fhev 

 would gladly compound at 1400 lbs. each. At these weights 

 and with some ]0'ic4?' lb., a dozen such o.xen sell for money 

 enough to buy a comfortable farm, with all the pridleges and 

 appurtenances thereunto belonging. 



io^fi^"r'''c 'o'i'' ^^ "''^stern steers, average live weight 

 1286 fts, for 8c, 3S sk ; of a better lot as follows: 3 averaee 

 live weight 1113 fts. at 10c, 30 sk ; 6 averanin" 1.33t fts at 

 same price ; 11 weighing 1567 lbs. at 10,'^c dressed weight :'25 

 of 1384 lbs. for 10c, 2:5 sk. Mr. Monroe also sold 20 thin West- 

 ern cows, 19 of an average live weight of 810 fts. for 5o 40 sk 



C. H. Potter delivered a carload of 70 fine well fed sheep. 

 which averaged 119 lbs. on a previous contract at 9c •}? ft • J 

 Lyman reports sales of lots at 6c, 6i^c, 7c and 7ijc 1* ft • Wil- 

 old 86 New York sheep, 98 fts. each, at T'^'c ; D. 



cox & Lo! 



THIS TEAR. 



Catt'e. Sheep 



Maine 532 



New Hampshire 78I 



Vermont 1624 



Massachusetts 420 



Rhode Island 47 



Northern i\ ew Vork 277 



Western States 29(j3 



Canada 87 



Total, last four weeks 6,761 19,843 



Total, since Jan. 1,(6 weeks,).. 9,375 26^03 7 

 PRICES. 



1001 

 2042 

 4543 



4072 



1164 



eiio 



16 



LAST YEAH. 



Cattle. Slieep. 



Jan. 20. 

 Beef,l8t,2d,3dqual 6 (fiO 



" ex. and pr«niium...9^'S9J 

 Sheep and lambs, #■ ft. . .6ia8 



" " extra — @ — 



Shotes, retail 7 gSJ 



Becfhidesj^" ft 9 ggi 



Pelts, sheep & lambs $—■ fi3 



Jan. 27. 



^ 65(g9| 



91^10 



8]<a9^ 



7 esi 



9 (ggj 



$3 (gSJ 



Rbmaeks— From the foregoing statements it appears that the 

 number of both cattle and.shtep from the West is almoBt twioe 



Kice sold 85 sheep, 90 fts. each, for 7>Jc 4?' ft ; Geo W Jo 

 sold SO fat River-fed sheep. 110 lbs, each, for b'^'c ; 'f Barl 

 sold 40 other "River-ftds" for 63^c ^ ft ; GeoT Rust sold 



ones 

 J w oiner -uiver-ttds" for 63^c ¥ ft ; Geo. Rust sole ^ 



fio'*v''4.^''"1 n7^ ;"-''"'" ^"^^^ ^'' "'' ^"^""^ '8 '4 »=*• ^ head, for 

 be rtb and 9S others, gross live weight 83SO lbs, or 88K fts. 

 fts. i? head lor 7c ■{;>■ ft ; Do Wolf & Pnmty -.old 3 lots at 7c 

 7;^c and 8c 4f lb ; A. Peck sold 93 sheep, av raisin" 85 fts at 

 I 4c ; I. B. Sargeant sold to Ifcnry Goodnow K6 sheep at $5 75 

 W iiead, after seeing how sheep lost weight between the farm 

 and the mark, t scales, and after hearing the price F ft. whicU 

 the nitcheis oETered. P. F. Aldrich sold 19 cossets which aver- 

 aged 120 lbs. each, for 7%c W ft, 9 of them 10 G. F. Swift, and , 

 10 o Mr. Shaw ; J. W. Warner sold 94 sheep from the rich ami ' 

 fertile intervales of the Connecticut valley, which weighed on 

 the scales at Cambridge, 6320 fts, or nearly 67>^ fts. .^ head, 

 101 0,'i^ c *|f Id* 



7 (g8» 

 9 @94 

 $3 @3J 



Window Gardening in Denmark.— Graves' 

 recent ''Cruise in the Baltic," tells us: "In Copen- 

 hagen every window is filled with pretty flower- 

 pots, in which roses, pinks and fuchsias seem to 

 thrive to perfection. These beautiful plants give 

 a neat eflect to the fronts of the houses, and tell 

 the passing stranger of the deeply-rooted love of 

 flowers, which forms part of the national charac- 

 ter of the Danes, as well as of the Swedes." 



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