1867. 



KEW ENGLAND FARRIER. 



53 



threshing machine known or believed in. The 

 grain is cnltivated and harvested just as it was 

 5000 years ago. 



— A letter from Buenos Ayres says the wool clip 

 in that country will probably exceed that of last 

 year. It is estimated that it will be worth twelve 

 million of silver dollars. 



—The prize of $100 offered by Mr. Greeley for the 

 best grape for general cultivation has been awarded 

 to the Concord, as raised by William H. Goldsmith, 

 of Newark, N. J. 



— Quince cuttings are generally successful when 

 set in the fall. They are not so sure in the spring. 

 Put them in the ground as soon as possible and 

 protect them by a covering of barnyard manure. 



— The average yield of wheat per acre in Michi- 

 gan is believed not to exceed ten bushels per acre 

 by a Marshall county correspondent of the Western 

 Rural. 



— Mr. Meehan, editor of the Gardener's Monthly, 

 says that he has discovered long ago that the roots 

 of ti-ees die in proportion to the severity with which 

 the tops are pruned. 



— In some of the large dairies of Devonshire, 

 each milker has three buckets, and divides each 

 cow's milk into three poi-tions, which, with their 

 cream, arc kept entirely separate. 



— To keep wann feet, line your boot with calf- 

 skin dressed soft with the hair on, or with young 

 lamb skin. Every man should have tWo pairs in 

 use, and change every day. 



— J. A4 Pollard, Esq., Superintendent of Ver- 

 mont State prison, at Windsor, raised large vege- 

 tables this yeai". A marrowfat squash 73 'j' lbs.; 

 a cabbage 23)2 ; a turnip beet Qli ; a blood beet 

 &% lbs. 



— A hole in a tin pan or dish may be mended by 

 cleaning around its edges, sprinkling on a little 

 rosin, putting on a lump of solder and heating the 

 other tide with a lamp, or otherwise, until the sol- 

 der melts. 



— The people of Southbridge, Mass., are rejoic- 

 ing exuberantly over their new railroad ; but the 

 Boston Journal says the fanners' wives who live 

 near the track "think the engine whistle sours milk 

 worse than thunder." 



— A correspondent of the Country Gentleman 

 thinks it will be found that ewes will yield more 

 mutton from a ton of hay or grain than will 

 any male sheep. It has been shown that they yield 

 more wool in proportion to weight. 



— A man, a short distance from the city, says no 

 one need tell him that advertising won't cause a 

 big rush, for he advertised ten bushels of gi-apes 

 for sale, and the next morning there wasn't one 

 left — the boys stole 'em all. 



— A good substitute for buffalo robes, which are 

 now very costly, may be made from the skin of a 

 bullock, which is natttrally soft and woolly, or of 



sheep skins tanned with salt and alum and rubbed 

 until pliable. 



— ^The Editor of the Turf, Field and Farm re- 

 gi'ets that "the turf is on a decline in Louisville, 

 Ky. The people take no interest in racing, and it 

 is thought that the beautiful Woodland course will 

 have to be abandoned to the plow." 



— T. C. Peters, of Maryland, says that the aver- 

 age yield of wool from an ordinary flock of sheep 

 will be about one pound to twenty pounds of car- 

 cass, live weight, and that if more is obtained, it 

 must be paid for in better care and keeping. 



— A large number of horses have been sold in 

 Maine within a few weeks at prices varying from 

 $500 to $3350. These prices ought to secure excel- 

 lent horses, and they certainly encourage persons 

 to raise blood horses of good quality. 



— What is worth doing is worth doing well. Do 

 not keep stock, if you cannot keep them properly. 



"Let the flock's good feed 

 Be the master's heed ; 

 What at fii'F.t he may cast 

 Will be doubled at last." 



— In Brittany, the milk of the previous evening 

 is mixed with the morning's milk, and after stand- 

 ing a few hours, the whole is churned, and is said 

 to produce a large amount of butter, of a better 

 qualit}', and will keep longer, than that treated in 

 the usual manner. 



— For the relief, but not complete cure, of the 

 heaves, a correspondent of the Rural American re- 

 commends the outside of shell bark, burnt to ashes 

 and mixed with the horse's feed, as much as he can 

 be made to eat, and allow him to eat no dusty hay, 

 especially clover hay. 



— It has generally been supposed that there would 

 be great difficulty in rearing chickens hatched in 

 February and March, on account of the cold, but, 

 with proper accommodations or conveniences, Mr. 

 Bement says he has found it more certain than 

 those hatched in June. 



— By warmth and judicious feeding, says Mr. 

 Bement, a hen may be made to lay as many eggs 

 in two years as she would under ordinary circum- 

 stances in three; and every one knows, or ought to 

 know, that a fowl fatted at two years old, is much 

 more tender and palatable, than one that is older. 



—To sort potatoes or apples, stand upright and 

 save the backache. It is more healthy. Make a 

 platform 3x3 feet, with sides 4 or 6 inches high. 

 Leave a gap at one comer, to pour out from. Set 

 the foi-m on a ban-el, or other support, and pour a 

 bushel at a time of apples on it, and sort them 

 standing. It is easier to lift up than stoop down. 



—A Northern cotton planter in Florida, says the 

 Tribune, had a dairy of three cows this summer, 

 and they made a pound of butter a week, besides 

 having some cream for coffee. This is what it is to 

 live in a country without grass. A Maine farmer 

 speaks of having one cow from which two potinds 



