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NEW ENGLAIiTD FARMER. 



March 



to flour, its effects will be slow, unless it is brought 

 into, or very near the putrefactive state before it is 

 used. 



The same results, however, sometimes occur in 

 the use of bam manure. Wc can show our corres- 

 pondent a smooth pasture, one portion of which 

 was covered with coarse, but rich barn manure, in 

 the autumn of 1865, and another portion of the 

 same piece highly dressed with the liquids from 

 the cattle stalls. In the spring of 1866, the coarse 

 portions of the manure were raked up and carried 

 a-iVay, and a luxuriant growth of grass was expect- 

 ed on both pieces ; but, lo ! it did not come. Spring 

 rains did not give it any unusual vitality, and sum- 

 mer suns and showers came and passed away with 

 the same result ! Why ? Will our correspondent 

 tell us ? We do not know, and can only conjec- 

 ture. Such cases are not uncommon. Is it strange, 

 then, that similar failures should sometimes take 

 place in the use of a substance so dry and hard as 

 bone? 



Wc hope our con-espondcnt will not be entirely 

 discouraged by one or two trials, but mingle bone 

 with muck or soil, and let it remain until a slight 

 heat ensues, and fermentation takes place, and then 

 mingle it liberally with the soil in the hill, and care- 

 fully note the result. 



Flour of l)onc will heat rapidly, and care must be 

 taken not to let it go too far. An experiment 

 showed that a single gill of bone flour, mixed with 

 muck and put in a warm place, gave a heat of 112 

 degrees, in the course of two or three days. 



THE CONGENITAL SCROTAL HERNIA COLT 



For which I asked advice in the Farmer some 

 months since, has entirely recovered, without the 

 castration recommended, "or any other application! 

 So, also, has my neighlior's colt, in the same con- 

 dition ! 



Did any of vour readers ever know of such a 

 case, that'did not recover, if allowed a fair chance ? 



Vermont, Jan., 1867. Lectum. 



CURE FOR BOO SPAVIN. 



Please advise David George to apply an India 

 rubber bandage for his bog spavin, and keep it on 

 until the swelling is reduced. a. l. t. 



Fitchburg, Dec. 17, 1866. 



A PAIR OF NICE HOOS, ON UNCOOKED FOOD. 



I purchased two pigs, four weeks' old, October 

 16, 1864. They were a small breed, partly Chester 

 County. TheV were kept mostly on skimmed 

 milk, with a very little meal, till May, 1865. From 

 May to July they were kept almost wholly on 

 milk 'vith a "few weeds. When tlry weather com- 

 menced, not having sufficient milk for them, I 

 began to give them meal, increasing the quantity 

 of meal as the milk lessened. In Scpteniltcr, I be- 

 gan to give them potatoes and ))iimi)kins, but did 

 not disiontinnc the meal. For several monihs 

 their usual allowance was three quarts of meal 

 three times a day, wiili what milk we had, and the 

 same (juautity of potatoes, or an equivalent in 

 pumpkins. Sev(>ral weeks before they were killed 

 I began gradually to lessen the quantity of i)Ota- 

 toes, but gave tlu'm some at every mcai. I never 

 cooked anytliing for them, and never gave any- 



thing warm. They were never sick, and never 

 took any medicine. Dec. 15, 1865, one weighed, 

 dressed, 396, the other 342 pounds. 



Quite a number of pigs of this same litter were 

 sold to different individuals and killed about f?he 

 same time, but not one of them, so far as I can 

 learn, weiglxed over 300 pounds. There ai-e cer- 

 tainly two weighty reasons in favor of giving hogs 

 uncooked food. It saves labor, and avoids all 

 danger of injurinij them with hot food. e. b. 



Derry, N. H., 1866. 



■WOOL-GROWERS' ASSOCIATIONS. 

 Pennsylvania. 



Our thanks are due to some kind friend for 

 slips of the Pittsburgh, Pa., papers, containing 

 the proceedings of the Wool-Growers of that 

 State, at the annual meeting, Jan. 16th. The 

 following oilicers were elected : — 



President— Dr. F. Julius LeMoyne, of Washing- 

 ton county. 



Vice Presidents— James Slocum, Fayette county ; 

 J. C. White, Lawrence; H. H. Crell, Greene; J. J. 

 Bard, Butler; George Ilea, Westmoreland; J. 

 Hoagland, Mercer ; John Cain, Beaver ; Gen. Har- 

 ry White, Indiana; Joseph A. Thompson, Arm- 

 strong ; Asa Manchester, Washington ; Hon. Wil- 

 liam F. Johnston, Philadelphia. 



Secretary and Treasurer— John McDonald 

 Glenn, Alleghany county. 



Executive Committee — John Ewing, David 

 Houston, Samuel McFarland, Washington county. 



Representative to the National Society — James 

 Slocum, Fayette county. 



In some discussion upon the tariff bill, Mr. 



Lee, of Alleghany expressed fears that if the 



bill should pass in its present form, eighty-five 



per cent, of the foreign wools imported 'would 



come in at three cents duty ; alluding probably 



to the "third class," which provides for the 



Importation of "carpet wools,'" at that rate. 



The same fear has been expressed by others. 



After a full discussion, however, the following 



resolutions were adopted as the sense of the 



meeting : — 



That it is of the first importance that the wool- 

 growers' interest of our country should have amiilc 

 protection ; and vhat the presenc tariff is wholly in- 

 adequate for that pui'posc; that the association, 

 therefore, respectfully but earnestly urges uiion 

 Congress the passage of the tariff bill, on Wool 

 and Woolens, as passed by the lower House of 

 Congress at its last session. 



Ohio. 

 At the regular winter meeting of the Wool- 

 Growers' Association, at Columbus, Jan. 8, a 

 more elaborate series of resolutions to the 

 same eflect were carried nearly unanimously, 

 although a memorial was read by John H. 

 Klippart fi-om the Franklin county society, 

 whicli set forth in substance, as we learn by 

 tlu' Ohio Farmer, that by the arrangement be- 

 tween the Wool-Growers and Woolen Manu- 



