1867. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEI^IER. 



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grains ? Wheat is a linndrcd times more valuable 

 than all other small gi-ains in the ai^tcrcsiate. It is 

 a crop that olFors a cloul)le advantaijiTovcr anv other 

 gi-ain, as it may be sown either in the spVinij or 

 tall. One or the other is almost «;/;•<?— pcrliaps 

 both. "\\ ith early sowing, to the depth of three 

 inches, there is more certainty of its being well 

 rooted and not affected l)y frost, as a winter grain 

 The best (lour comes from the winter wheat. Four 

 bushels IS cipial to a barrel of Hour to the farmer 

 netting the comforial)lc little sum of ^4.,5() toS5 00 

 a bushel when Hour is ^16 to !$iS per barrel ; that 

 being the price I pay for best quality. 



It is sincerely to Ije liopcd that your correspond- 

 ent, Mr. Hutchinson, being fairly in the licld, will 

 be unceasing in his labors upon this vital subject 

 It is the right source for information. His com- 

 munication is practical, sound, and of the high- 

 est value to every man who owns a farm. 



The States of Ohio, Illinois and Pennsylvania 

 have Iicen large buyers of wheat, this season, ow- 

 ii^ig to short crops. So it may occasionally be wiih 

 Eastern farmers. We do not always succeed with 

 any crop. 



Whytlonot the wheat raisers tell their experi- 

 ence, as Mr. H. has done } It would cncoura<'e 

 many a l)rothcr fanner to go aud do likewise "^ 



Brookli/n, L. I., March, iS67. H. Po'oR 



C.VXKER ^yonM rUEVEXTlVE. 



Last year a person came along wishing to sell a 

 preventive for canker worms. It was in" the form 

 of a lirpiid, which was to I)c put into a hole bored 

 into the sap wood, and plugged up. Ic would in- 

 fuse irsclf inio the foliage and the worms would 

 not cat it. As no one would buy, he nuulc the ap- 

 plication to two trees of my neighbor's. Those es- 

 caijed the ravages, while tlu^ oJicr trees were 

 stripped. I would like to procure some of it. 



Stratham, X. 11., March 25, 1867. s. D. 



Re:marks.— The idea of impregnating the sap of 

 trees with sulphur, calomel, or other oircnsivc or 

 deadly matter, to protect the foliage from insects, 

 is a very old one; and statements of the success of 

 such doctoring, occasionally go tiic rounds of the 

 papers. As both calomel and sulphur arc insolu- 

 ble in water, wc suppose (hey will prove so in the 

 sap of the fruit trees to which they are apiilicd. 

 But if two trees have been protected by the travel- 

 ling peddler's li(piid, wc advise him to ride (he 

 circuit again, or let "S. D." know where he can 

 obtain a bottle of his preventive. 



field being manured and otherwise mana"-ed the 

 same in all respects. 



Will some of our old experienced sheep farmers 

 five US, in the Fakmi:k, the best method of treat- 

 ing sheep manure from the first move in the Iiarn 

 to tlie last in the ground. Sometimes I have forked 

 mine over \yhcn it began to heat pretty well, then 



i'/^!ii," . f" •''•"''■ 'V:-'^ °'^'^^' f'""^^^ 1 '''''^■^' moved 

 It ( ncct from its solid state in the pen to tlie land 



iy sa?i'v'fu-t'l" ^ "^ '"• ^''"^'"" ""^'•'' '^^ ^"^i""' 

 Holdcn>l^s!y. H., March 25, 1SG7. ^'''^'■"'^«- 



AN excellent S0.\.P. 



I have n;;e(l it for more than fifteen rears and 

 kno>y Its good qualities lor those who liave hard 

 rough, and dirty hands. ' 



I take 4 iioun'ds castile soap, 4 pounds best vel- 

 owsoap. cut in thin slices and put it into a ket- 

 t c wiih a httle soft water, over a moderate fire 

 \Mwn It IS melted, I put in the oil of three beef's 

 galls, ami one pint of glycerine oil; stirwcllto-^cth- 

 er, then pour It into pans about an inch deep I 

 then stir in pumice stone, pounded fine, until it is 

 as thick as dough. When nearly cool cut it into 

 squares. For more delicate hands the puiuico 

 stone may be sifted. Age improves it. 



r, . -.r ,r , F. E. Bigelow. 



Concord, Mass., March 24, 1SG7. 



large crop of oxioxs. 

 I obsciTcd in your paper of January .5th a state- 

 ment that Mr. G. O. Gill, of West 'Medwav had 

 raised seven l)usliels of onions upon two sipiaic 

 rods ot ground. I have myself done much better 

 than this; having raiseil from a piece of laud 

 measuring oS In- 2;i i\vt, a little more than live and 

 one-halt square rods, thirtv-two bushels of onions 

 or at the rate of more than 9J0 bushels per acre. ' 



C.T ,r ,, . Ly.ma.\ IIe-wixs. 



Shaivn, Mass., March 19, 18G7. 



TLOUR OF ROXE— SHEER MAXfRE, 



Last season I purchased 9a pounds of the bone 

 flour. Applied it in the hill when planting corn, 

 by using Hour of bone in one row and superphos- 

 phate in the next row, ami so on. The yield from 

 tlie rows with (he superiihosphatc was oi) per cent 

 greater than from those ^vitll the flour of bouc— the 



IXVERTED ^VOMB IX SHEEP, 



I wish to inquire through the Farmer, what 

 the cause is, and what will cure sheci) that "cast 

 licir xycathcis .-" I had one last winter, and two 

 this winter ; one is so l)ad I iiave to keep her sewed 

 iq). I have washed them in alum water, and milk 

 and water. Will some one give me some informa- 

 tion what to do tbr them ? F. n. Hoit 



yetcark, Vt., March, ISGJ. 



Remarks.— Yon h.avo probably looked at Ran- 

 dall's book. If the alum w.iter docs not succeed 

 why not try Youatt's— and Randall recommends it' 

 too— i)lan of "tying a strong ligature round the 

 protruded parts, as near to the month of the vagina 

 as possible. The uterus will slough otf in the 

 course of two or three days. There will be no 

 bleeding, or the slightest inconvenience, and the 

 ewe will become as hcahhy and as fat as any of 

 the Hock." Of course, she will not breed any 

 more. 



ENCOURAGIXO, 



With pleasure have I perused vonr valuable pa- 

 per and immphlct. It brings me back to years 

 that arc pa>i, when I used io find so mm h picas- 

 urc and sa;i.--l'aeiion in looking over the old New 

 Knoland Fai;mi;i:, ininrcd iii vour ci.v by Joel 

 Noinsc, and cdircil iiy Mr. Blown, both of whom I 

 see arc interested in the present pap.cr. I have a 

 large pile of the old ones, liiat have been looked 

 over very many times l)y me aud mine, wi;h great 

 pleasure, wi.-hiiig there might be another one of 

 the same kind started, ami it is here before me in 

 the same old Ibnii. I hope it may give as good 

 satisfaction to all who read it as (iiir the former 



o"iV„ ■^^'•'»i- n. Black. 



Ellsrrorth, Me., 1867. 



Remarks.— Thanks, Mr. B., for your encourag- 

 ing appreciation of our laJiors. Nothing that Is 

 rcasonalile shall be left undone by us to make the 

 Farmer a valualilc paper to the cultivators of tho 

 soil, and to mechanics also. 



