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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 



This purifies tlie blood and creates an appetite. 

 After tlioroughly washing with strong soap suds, 

 and rubbing dry, apply, night and morning, an 

 ointment composed of half a pint of linseed oil, 

 two tal)le spoonfuls of fine salt, same of sulphur, 

 same of saltpetre, and one ounce of turpentine, 

 well mixed. Having cured a valuable horse of his 

 own, in this way, he confidently recommends it to 

 others. 



"W. H. J.," of Winchester, N. II., suggests, as 

 the disease is caused by impurity of blood, that, in 

 addition to good feed and careful usage, a spoon- 

 ful of sulphur should be administered once a week, 

 and then if, on trial, our remedy docs not cure, ap- 

 ply every morning, after washing clean, an oint- 

 ment composed of a tea-cupful of lard, with as 

 much camphor gum as can be dissolved therein, 

 simmered together with a little rosin. 



"J. C. M.," of Lancaster, N. H., is now using a 

 good horse, that some six years ago had the 

 scratches badly, which he cured by giving him sul- 

 phur, cleaning the issues on his legs, and roweling 

 in a bit of onion. On his recommendation others 

 have effected cures by the same means. 



"B. F. B.,"of Fletcher, Vt., gives the following, 

 which he knows to be a sure cure : Wash perfect- 

 ly clean with castile soap and warm water, then 

 apply, while warm, an ointment of gunpowder 

 mixed with sweet cream or fresh butter, to the 

 consistency of thin paste. 



«'C.," of Groton, N. H., also recommends the 

 gunpowder, gi-ound fine, and mixed with lard. Rub 

 thoroughly into the cracks. 



IS IT ADVISABLE FOB, A YOUNG FARMER TO SEEK 

 FORTUNE AT THE MINES ? 



When a boy I thought that an Editor knew 

 everything, and I still think that they are better 

 nual'ified to answer questions than most people, so 

 I venture to ask the following: Do you thmk it 

 advisalile for a young man to seek his fortune at 

 the mines, and is there any prospect of success ? 

 If so, would vou advise one to try his fortune in 

 California, Colorado or Georgia ? I am a young 

 farmer, and do not like farming unless I can possess 

 one of my own, and there is no prospect of that 

 very soon if I stay at home. If you thmk it ad- 

 visable to try mv "luck in any of the abovcnamcd 

 places, please state what it would cost to go there, 

 and oblige a reader of the Farmer. Albert. 



should, you would probably ruin your health in 

 the effort. The employment, as it is generally 

 conducted, is debasing to both body and soul. Do 

 not make haste to he rich. Stick to tue farm, and 

 health and honors will stick by you. 



"A POOR MAN, ON A POOR FARM." 



What kind of farming w ill profitably succeed on 

 a pine plain farm, in western Massachusetts, where 

 the soil is sandv, and don't yield a good crop ? 

 Can any one advise a poor man, on a poor farm, 

 what to do ? ^^'- c. R. 



i Remarks.— This is just what Ave all wish to 

 > know. Who will tell us how to get good crops 

 from sandy lands without the aid of much capital ? 

 If some one could find out this secret, and get a 

 patent for it, wouldn't he make a pile. Plenty of 

 our correspondents have been through the process 

 and know how to handle the pen as well as the 

 plow ; we hope they will inform their brother, "W. 

 C. B.," how they did it. We should not be sur- 

 prised if "W. C. B." could give us some valuable 

 hints on the subject, himself. It is just the ques- 

 tion that a thousand New England farmers want 

 answered. 



HENS EATING THEIR EGGS. 



Mv hens have got in the habit of eating their 

 eggs' as fast as thev lay them. Will you or some 

 ofVoiir correspondents inform me through the 

 columns of the Farmer, of a remedy and speedy 

 qhyq} a Subscriber. 



Uadley, Mass., March, 1867. 



Remarks.— Give the hens two or three kinds of 

 grain during the week, and a dish of warm mashed 

 potates and cob-meal, each day, and mix this with 

 some fatty substances, such as scraps, or grease 

 from the kitchen. Furnish them a place where 

 they can be in the sun when it shines, and where 

 they can come to the ground and get plenty of dry 

 ashes to wallow in. Let them run at large a por- 

 tion of the day, and when shut up have scrupu- 

 lously clean quarters. They ought to have a little 

 fresh meat or fish occasionally, and always gravel, 

 oyster and clam shells, pounded, where they can 

 be obtained readily. Dry bones in the stove oven 

 and break them into small pieces for them. They 

 will act as though they were hungry when you put 

 them before them. 



Remarks.— Stick to the farm. ' Read the letter 

 dated at Georgetown, Va., and also the statements 

 of a correspondent, which shows how one poor 

 boy in Massachusetts obtained a good farm. 



Why not work on a farm for wages several 

 years,' learning all the time how to manage one, 

 while your money is accumulating to purchase 

 with ? This is better than young men do in stores 

 where they frequently get no wages, and are 

 obliged to pay their board! A relative of ours laid 

 up $;:3000 from wages as a journeyman farmer, be- 

 fore he purchased the Connecticut River farm on 

 which he now lives. 



There is not one chance in one hundred that you 

 will succeed if you go to mining; and if you 



LETTER FROM VIRGINIA. 



Mb. Editor:— It seems strange to me that 

 Northern people do not turn their attention more 

 this way. Tlicre is much land in Gloucester ami 

 Matthews Countv, probably as good as the Con- 

 necticut River bottoms, and as healthy. The lands ^ 

 are low, but not sufiicicnt to ovcrllow. Oysters, 

 fish, cral)s, &c., are plenty in season. Tins land i8 

 excellent for apples, pears, peaches, figs, ike, witQ 

 navigation to the door. 



I wouUl be glad to join .in association of farmers 

 and mechanics to form a settlement lor a town or 

 fruit farms, at an excellent location, high and dry, 

 where a ship of the line could aiielior within a few 

 varils of the shore, in a good harbor. Facilities 

 ■f.n- taking fruit or i)rodnee to market are ii'i^"!"- 

 p:i<'<ed as steamers run daily to Baltimore, 1 hila- 

 dclphia, New York or Boston. The asking price. 



