1864. 



NEW EXGLAXD FARMER. 



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EXTRACTS AKT> KEPLTES. 

 Culture of 'Wliite Be&ns. 



I would Ifke to inquire of yoa or your correspond- 

 ents what saccesi may be exp>ected in raising whiie 

 beans as an entire ijup? Are they any more likely 

 to blast when planted alone, than when planted with 

 com r How many bushels may be expected from an 

 acre of land, tuitable for a crop of com ? Four years 

 ago I raised twelre ba«heU on less than one acre, by 

 plantinff ;hem between my com at an equal distance 

 tirom each hill. The corn was planted at the usual 

 distance apart, but only two or three stalks came up 

 in a hill, owin^ to ?nano put in the hill. G. 



Westboro', Feb^ 1864. 



Rbscarks.— This crop has been considerably neglect- 

 ed by our farmers, and we arc glad to find attention 

 directed to it. We look upon it as a profitable crop j 

 when judiciously conducted. There is no good reason 

 why they should not be cultivated as an entire crop, 

 and several why they should not be crowded in with ' 

 com. We have just been looking over the transac- 

 tions of the Little Falls Farmers* Clab, and find the ' 

 following, by Mr. A. Wilcox, a member of the club : 



"Alternate hills of com and beans were dropt about 

 twenty inches apart, in rows; distance between the 

 rows three and one-half feet. The ordinary cultiva- 

 tor was used before hilling and hoeing. Two acres 

 produced thirty -five bushels, while there was no per- 

 ceptaMe difference in the yield of the com from the 

 rest of the field. The next year I raised 115 bushels 

 from a little less than seven acres, managed in the 

 game way. The seed planted was of the small, white 

 variety. I have raised more than thirty bushels of 

 the same kind, on a single acre, when sown in drills, ' 

 about rwo feet between the rows, tcithout the com. 

 The quantity of seed required to the acre, when beans 

 is to be the only crop, should be from twenty-eight to 

 thirty-two quarts ; when planted with com, sixteen to 

 eighteen qnans per acre. Any soil that is well adapt- 

 ed to com will produce tieans, if the tillage is thor- 

 ough. When convenient, plant on land where com or 

 potatoes grew the year before." 



Beans are cultivated as an entire crop by some of 

 our friends, and with good success. Sixteen to rwen- 

 ty-five bushels per acre is considered a good yield, 

 from good land and good care. 



Salting Hay and Stock. 



In the Farmer of February 13, I tind the matter of 

 Salting H.iy discussed by your able correspondent, 

 "More Anon," who, no doubt tells the experience of' 

 nearly all who salt their Jiay. Most of the farmers in ! 

 this part of Vermont salt their hay more or less, but ' 

 do so m >re to preserve the hay than to make the 

 stock eat it better. As strKk will not eat as much salt 

 in winter as in summer, I think that as much salt as 

 some of fhe writers in the Farmer put upon their hay. 

 would be more than the sttxk wi>u'd naturally eat. I 

 have lately used the rock or mineral salt, as our deal- 

 ers call ir, which comes in lar.: - -: or more of 

 which I pur in the racks or iV - of my cat- 

 tle and sheep, where they can ;.eni at will. 

 I think in that w.-«y they get wh..: s^ii: •.hcv need much 

 better than mixedwith their fi^dder. My sheep seem 

 to enjoy this method of salting better than any ocber. 

 I give my sheep a foddering of hemlock Njughs once 

 or twice a week, which, with a daily meal of slictd 

 turnips, serves to keep them in health and gives them 

 a better .sppetite for their other food. j. l. 



St. Johnsbvry. 



Sheep Prilling and Eating "Wool. 



1 have a flock of about 30 native breed sheep, and 

 they pull and eat each other's wool, eating one-third 

 part of the wool off of some sheep. One has died of 

 cold for want of its natnral covering. I have giren 



them salt, wood ashes, earth, hemlock boofhs, sul- 

 phur and tar, and they seem to do no good, and I 

 would inquire throcgh the medium of your exccUeat 

 paper, if yoo, or others, know a remedy for tiiis com- 

 plaint : I give my sheep an avera^ quality of bay 

 and two quarts of com daily. By giTing a remedy in 

 your paper as soon as possible, yoo will much oblige 

 anir. 'uirinc FaK-Mkr. 



Bni::/, S'. H, Feb., 1864. 



Remasks. — The habit which sheep form of psiliiig 

 wool from each other, and eating it. is probably in- 

 duced by some want that is not supplied, or by some 

 disease which has not yet been discovered. We have 

 had considerable personal experience in sheep hus- 

 bandry, bnt have never seen a fl">:k where rhis mania 

 prevailed. We are glad to publish this notice of our 

 corre.«pondent, and hope some of the fiock-masten 

 who reid this will throw light upon the matter. 



-\. Mr. Lewis Clark, in the K7*:o>i«"n Farmer, sayi 

 the best plan to keep the wool on sheep is to keep 

 them fiii, and that if sheep are "run <own" from any 

 cause, and are fed high at once, their wool wHl start. 

 Even a change of pasturage, from a poor to a Timothy 

 and "clover pasture, will start the wool from a lean 

 sheep. But the feeding of com, beans, wheat rye, bar- 

 ley, oats, vegetables, or anything that sheep will e&t 

 that makes _/a/, avoiding sudden changes, will not only 

 cause the wool to stick, bnt will increase it more than 

 enough to pay the additional cost. Our correspon- 

 dent's sheep seem to be fed and cared for welL 



Manure for Early Vegetables. 



Will yon, or some of your numerous correspondeats 

 inform me what kind of manure is best to promote 

 the early growth of com and garden vegetables ? 

 Early growth being of the greatest imponance. The 

 soil is a rich, fine, sandy loam, bordering somewhat 

 on the quicksand. Location, Burlington, Vt. 



The land h.is been in p.is:urage tor several years, 

 until last spring, when it was plowed and com plant- 

 ed on the sod, with no manure, except a small qaatity 

 of plaster in each hill. I had a good crop. 



Btcrbngton, I't., 1S64. iNariKXB. 



Remasks. — Manure from the horse stables is nn- 

 doiibtedly the best for such a special purposes. If the 

 soil is somewhat sandy, some means slKHiid be provid- 

 ed to keep it sufficiently moist, as the horse manure is 

 too heating for a decidedly sandy soil. A little gnano, 

 superphosphate of lime, or some other specific ma- 

 nure would stimulate an early growih. Wood ashes 

 is excellent to carry out the plants. 



SPRr>-G Knees ix the Horse. — The trouble 

 does not always result from an injury of the leg, 

 or strain of the tendons ; it is more often found 

 in horses that have bad corns in the feet, or troa- 

 bled with navicubr disease, than any other. The 

 animal raising his heels to prevent pressure upon 

 the tender parts bends the knee, which bending 

 becomes finally, from the altered po»itiv>n of the 

 limb, a permanent deformity. Horses with sprang 

 knees are unsafe for saddle purp»>ses, owing to 

 their cv>nsequent liability to stumble. Respect- 

 ing the treatment, it may be said that six out of 

 every ten sprung-kneed horses will be found 

 10 have corns. If these be of recent growth. 

 there is a fair prospect of straightening the limbs 

 by removing the corns as directed under the head 

 of that disease ; by the removing of these the 

 heels are brought to the ground, and the limb 

 becomes straight- Under any other circumstances 

 all treatment proves useless. — Jenmngs on iJU 

 Horse. 



