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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Feb, 



manure in a wagon, Laving tediously to shovel 

 out the whole load. He wisely lost no time, 

 as did the Irishman who was greatly perplexed 

 with the "four-wheeled cart," in shouting at 

 his horse's head, "rear up, there, you rascal! 

 rear up, there !" 



NEW HOBTICULTURAIj MAGAZINE. 



Commencing with the year, Messrs. Tilton & 

 Co., of Boston, issue a new magazine of horti- 

 culture with the title of ''American Journal 

 of Horticulture, and Florisfs Companion.'''' 

 Fruit, flowers and vegetables are the three 

 branches of culture to which the work is to be 

 specially devoted; treating severally of the 

 garden, the forcing and cold house, the or- 

 chid-house and stove, window gardening, care 

 of house plants, pomology in its many branch- 

 es, entomology and ornithology, as connected 

 with horticulture, &c. Our country presents 

 an open and inviting field for a work of its 

 proposed high character, and an examination of 

 the first number encourages the hope that this 

 want is now to be supplied. It contains arti- 

 cles from Francis Parkman, J. M. Merrick, 

 Jr., Hammatt Billings, John Lewis Russell, E. 

 S. Rand, Jr., William C. Stone, J. F. C. Hyde, 

 E. A. Samv.cls, and selections from the Eng- 

 lish Journal of Horticulture, Revue Horticole, 

 Scottish Ciardener, &c. It is neatly printed 

 and illustrated. The subscription price is $3. 



There is one feature in the plan of this mag- 

 azine which we should be glad to see imitated 

 by the agricultural press. We allude to the 

 publication of illustrated biographies of distin- 

 guished horticulturists. 



PAPER MILLS. 



In tlie United States there are 750 paper mills in 

 active operation. They produce 27,000,000 pounds 

 of paper, which, at an average of ten cents per 

 pound, would be worth $27,000. As it requires 

 about a pound and one-half of rags to make one 

 1)0und of paper, there are consumed bj; these mills 

 400,000,000 pounds of rags in a single year. If we 

 estimate the rags to cost four cents per pound, 

 there would be a profit of $!11, 000,000 in this branch 

 of manufacturing. — North West. 



Remarks. — The paper-makers have been 

 reaping a most abundant harvest for several 

 years past. Paper is too high. These high 

 prices operate as a tax upon education. They 

 greatly abridge the circulation of books, news- 

 papers and letter-writing. Excellent paper 

 may be made from a large variety of substan- 

 ces. From straw, cora-husks, or almost any 



weed or substance that is of a fibrous nature. 

 We have manufactured a pulp, in a limited 

 way, from the common bass-wood of the coun- 

 tiy, which paper-makers pronounce a most ex- 

 cellent article. There is no doubt on our 

 mind that the judicious emplojTnent of a capi- 

 tal of $10,000 would produce a similar pulp, 

 in any quantity, at a cost of four cents per 

 pound, in a dry state. It is now done in Eu- 

 rope, in more than one hundred instances ! 

 The process is extremely simple, requiring no 

 chemicals or bleaching of any kind. 



The California Farmer suggests that their 

 "Tule Grass" must be a good article, and 

 states that paper is now being manufactured 

 from sedge grass, which is very white and 

 clear, and is so good as to serve as a substitute 

 for ordinary cap or writing papers made of 

 cotton or linen rags. 



There is scarcely any branch of industry in 

 the arts that requires change and progress, so 

 much as the art of paper-making. It is too 

 costly. It ought to be sold at less than one- 

 half its present price. 



Michigan Agricultural College. — We 

 have received a catalogue of this institution for 

 1866. The names of 47 students in the regu- 

 lar course are given. Senior class 2, Junior 

 5, Sophomore 12, Freshman 28. There are 

 also 51 in the Preparatory Class and 10 in the 

 Select Course. Total 108. In addition to 

 the usual college facilities, this institution has 

 the following means of illustration : a farm of 

 676 acres, of Avliich about 300 are under culti- 

 vation ; botanical gardens of trees, shrubs and 

 herbaceous plants ; vegetable gardens, small 

 fruit garden, apple orchard, pear orchard, gen- 

 eral lawn and grounds ; Galloway, Ayrshire, 

 Devon and Short Horn Cattle ; Essex and 

 Suffolk Swine ; Sotithdown, Cotswold, Spanish 

 jMerino, and black-faced Highland Sheep, &c. 



— Alexander Dale, Allegan, Michigan, recom- 

 mends, and Dr. Snodgrass of the New York Far- 

 mers' Club, endorses the recommendation, of a 

 poultice of stewed pumpkin, renewed every fifteen 

 minutes, for inflammatoiy rheumatism. 



— A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer who 

 kept a dairy, knmvs it to be a fact that if his cows 

 were not salted as often as every fourth day they 

 would fill! off in their milk from a pint to a quart 

 per day. 



