1867. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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vein, causes it to swell. Prick the swelling, but 

 take special care and not injure tiic nervous cord, 

 as this may bring on the lockjaw. Upon opening 

 the swelling you will find a gelatinous humor to 

 issue from it. Now apply a turnip poultice for a 

 few days, to draw out the humors, and then 

 strengthen the part by bathing it in good brandy. 

 Blood spavin is caused liy a vein being ruptured ; 

 the blood cxtravasatcs, and forms a protuberance. 

 The following remedies arc good for bog spavin or 

 blood spavin : 



Take a strong mixture of copperas and vinegar, 

 with which rub the parts affected, keeping the 

 horse dry, and stirring him only enough for exer- 

 cise. 



Take about a pailful of urine, into which throw 

 a quantity (the more the better,) of old rusty iron ; 

 put the vessel near a tire and let it stand three or 

 four days, stiiTing it occasionally, when it will be 

 fit for use. Apply this mixture twice a day, and 

 in all cases it will soon effect a radical cure, or 

 prove highly beneficial. s. e. f. 



Monkton,' Vt., Dec. 24, 1866. 



POTATO WATER FOR CHAPPED HANDS AND SWELLED 

 UDDERS. 



It is very provoking when I would like to write, 

 to find the ink frozen. I was going to tell of a very 

 simple yet efficacious remedy for chapped hands. 

 It is to wash them frequently in potato water, or 

 the water in which potatoes have been boiled. A 

 few months ago we had a heifer with the udder 

 very badly swollen and quite hard. Several reme- 

 dies had been tried without success, when I tried 

 bathing it in potato-water and it was completely 

 cured by a few applications. Mrs. . 



North A?idover, Mass., Jan.. 1867. 



Remarks. — We are very glad that Mrs. 



had the patience to thaw out her ink, and hope 

 that others will find her remedy equally efficacious. 



CARIJOTS FOR WINTER BUTTER. 



In your last week's paper you gave a very inter- 

 esting account of making butler in the winter. It 

 is worth the price of the paper for one year to 

 many a new housekeeper. Our method of making 

 butter is the same as yours, with one exception. 

 We grate up two or three orange carrots, put them 

 into one quart of milk, then stj-ain and put it into 

 the cream. The l)utter will look like fall butter, 

 and we think it adds to its flavor. Please try it, 

 and report in your valuable paper. 



A Young Farmer. 



Goshen, Vt., Dec. 26, 1866. 



AGiUCULTURAI. ITEMS. 



— Hon. Andrew D. White, of Syracuse has been 

 chosen President of the New York Agricultural 

 College, known as Cornell University. 



^Dr. Boynton mentions five square feet as the 

 smallest proper allowance of space for each sheep 

 in its winter quarters. 



— Fourteen thousand bushels of apples have been 

 shipped from Burlington, Iowa, the present season, 

 valued at $i2,000. 



— "Be thou diligent to know the state of thy 

 flocks, and look well after thy herds, for riches are 

 not forever.'" 



— A young man recently wrote to Mr. Horace 

 Greeley to use his influence in obtaining a situation 

 for him. He received the following reply : — "New 



York is just entering ujjon the inl cresting process 

 of starving out 200,000 people whom war and irre- 

 deemable paper have driven hither. It is impossi- 

 ble to receive and employ more till these are gone." 



— The two-year-old South Down wether that took 

 the first prize at the last N. Y. State Fair was re- 

 cently killed and weighed, when dressed, 125 

 pounds. 



— Two correspondents of tlie Bural American 

 say that a few seeds of the Pahna Chrinti, or castor 

 bean, scattered about their haunts, will destroy 

 ground moles. 



— Success to all Labor, 

 For toil is man's fate, 

 And 'tis laborina; men only ' 



That can build up our 8tate. 



— The Frankville, Ohio, Pioneer says there is 

 now living in Sandusky, in that State, a fanner 

 named Matthias Bateman, wlio, having been born 

 in 1755, is 111 years old. He is quite active yet. 



— Roots or grain should be fed to sheep some 

 distance from their pens, says Dr. Boynton, that 

 should they be compelled to get some vigorous ex- 

 ercise in running to and from their feed. 



— Mr. Van Alstine, of Columbia county, N. Y., 

 says that with him the best ripened grapes are 

 grown on a clay or slaty soil. On sandy loam he 

 had never succeeded in producing well-ripened 

 grapes ; too much wood is grown. 



— In consequence of the sanitary measui-es which 

 were adopted last summer at St. Louis, to prohibit 

 the sale of fruits and vegetables, in consequence of 

 of cholera, large numbers of grapes were suffered 

 to rot upon the vines and ground. 



— A Milwaukee paper tells of a butcher in that 

 city who killed a cow, a few days since, and found 

 a live mud-turtle in her stomach. The shell was 

 much eaten by the acid of the stomach, and the 

 turtle lived but a few hours after its release. 



— D. C. Comstock, of the U. S. army, writes to 

 the New York Tribune that he has seen acres of 

 wild hops, superior to those in some of the Eastern 

 States, growing on the Rio Miembres, the Pecos, 

 and the Rio Bonito rivers in New Mexico. 



— Charles A. Peabody, Columbus, Ga., after ten 

 years' experimenting, has succeeded in producing 

 an improved variety of long-staple upland cotton, 

 which for thread manufacturers has been found 

 worth double that of the ordinary upland cotton. 



— A correspondent of the New Exoland Far- 

 mer writes that six or seven acres of meadow, in 

 the town of Essex, Ct., were prepared and stocked 

 with cranberry plants four or five years ago. This 

 last fall eight hundred bushels of cranberries 

 were gathei-cd on this patch. 



— Every flock of sheep in Texas, says Dr. Boyn- 

 ton, must have a shepherd, or the wolves would 

 soon have the better part. Each flock must also 

 be yarded at night, in a wolf-proof pen. A moon 



