1867. 



NEW ENGLAND FARIMER. 



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STIFLED HORSES. 



Please inform nie, if you can, what will cure a 

 horse that is stifled, and olilige, L. J. Day. 



Bristol, Vt., Aug. 23, 1S67. 



Remarks. — The stifle joint in the horse answers 

 to the knee in man, and the "patella" to the knee- 

 pan. This bone in the horse, as in man, is liable 

 to be misplaced, in which case, it must be "re- 

 duced" or set. We presume that with Mr. Day's 

 horse the trouble is a mere sprain, to which this 

 joint is liable from violent exertion or sudden 

 slip, or from injury from the kick of another horse, 

 or from coming in contact with some hard sub- 

 stance. In these cases, says Mr. Youatt, there 

 will generally be sufficient heat, tenderness and 

 swelling ou the part to point out the seat of injury. 

 The animal will also step short on the affected 

 limb, being unable to extend it. The treatment 

 should consist in resting the animal, applying 

 warm fomentations to the part, and administer- 

 ing a dose of physic. If the inflammation runs 

 very high, it may be further relieved by bleeding 

 from the femoral vein, — the principal artery of the 

 thigh. When the acute symptoms have subsided, 

 a blister may be applied to the part. In relation 

 to fomentations the same writer observes that the 

 effect depends on the warmth of the water instead 

 of the wormwood, vinegar, tobacco, urine, juniper 

 berries, camomile flowers, &c., which may be 

 steeped or added to it. Fomentations are there- 

 fore seldom continued long enough. They should 

 be applied bj' means of flannel several times fold- 

 ed, and wrung dry, with the heat as great as the 

 hands will bear, and when removed the part should 

 not be left wet. Mr. Allen says that half an hour 

 should be devoted to the operation, — the water 

 being kept warm by the addition occasionally of 

 that boiling hot. 



ANOTHER LADY WHEAT GROWER. 



I was pleased to see an article on Wheat Raising 

 in last week's Farmer by a sister farmer; but 

 was sorry she did not tell how much she raised. 

 I raised six bushels this year ; both the grain and 

 ..Btraw very tine. Another year I shall raise more. 

 Will you please ask, through your paper, if any 

 one in this vicinity has used the cow milking ma- 

 chine ; if so, with what success ? I have gained 

 much information by reading the Farmer, and 

 found many of its receipts very useful, m. a. c. 



Dorchester, Mass., Aug. 23, 1867. 



Remarks. — In the early settlement of New 

 England our farmers raised wheat in abundance. 

 And it always affords us pleasure to publish state- 

 ments which show that our soil has not "forgot 

 its cunning" in this respect. But when ladies 

 send us the details of their successes in cultivat- 

 ing this staple, we accept it as evidence of another 

 fact, — one more encouraging perhaps than the 

 demonstration of the possibility of growing wheat 

 on our old farms, — the fact of a growing interest 

 in the great subject of agriculture on the part of 

 Miss and Mrs. Young America. Our countrymen 

 who travel in the rural districts of England, es- 

 pecially those in search of information on agri- 



cultural subjects, often speak of the interest man- 

 ifested l)y the ladies in everything pertaining to 

 the farm ; of the intelligent manner in which they 

 converse upon all agricultural subjects, and of the 

 readiness and familiar manner with which they 

 exhibit to strangers, in the absence of the propri- 

 etor himself, everything of interest about the es- 

 tate, whether pertaining to stock, the dairy, field 

 crops, drainage, or general farm management. 



When factory and shop life for girls, and village 

 and city life for mothers are better understood, we 

 are confident that the farm home and its interests 

 will be better appreciated by females. We hope, 

 therefore, that the wheat raising communications 

 of these two Massachusetts ladies is evidence of a 

 "change in the fashions" that is much needed, and 

 that other women will adopt the same style of in- 

 fluence and the same cut of practice. 



Will some correspondent reply to the inquiry 

 about the eow-milker ? 



AN OLD subscriber AND A QUEER FELLOW. 



Please find $2.50 to pay for the Farmer another 

 year. 



There cannot be a pole bean found in '67, but 

 what climbs the pole against the sun. This is the 

 town where the white huckleberries grow, and 

 where the town fails to raise money enough to 

 keep the public school six months, as the law re- 

 quires.- 



Rain and rotten potatoes plenty. I was one of 

 the first subscribers for the Saturday Rambler, 22 

 years ago. Horace Lawton. 



Mansfield, Mass., Aug., 1867. 



Remarks. — Twenty-two .years ago, and his cash 

 has come as regularly as the months themselves. 

 If all his townsmen had done the same thing, 

 there cannot be a doubt but the puljlic school 

 would have been continued twelve months in the 

 year, with a suitable vacation only for Thanksgiv- 

 ing, and for picking the white huckleberries ! But 

 the pole beans — the incorrigible beans, that insist 

 upon running against the sun, instead of an easy 

 climb along with it. Bless us. What a town 

 Jl/«ns-field must be. We wish all its people were 

 like our correspondent in one respect, at least, 

 then Mansfield would blossom as the rose, the 

 huckleberries be sweet, if not black, and the 

 schoolmaster and schoolmistress find ample op- 

 portunity for labor all the year. We must go and 

 see Mansfield, 



SPECIMENS OF WHEAT. 



Enclosed is a specimen of spring wheat, raised 

 by us the present season. The specimen ts some 

 that shelled out while being drawn from the field. 

 We think it is a desirable quality, as it can be 

 grown in this valley, where wheat raising has be- 

 come nearly obsolete. Notwithstanding the heavy 

 rain through Friday and Saturday, and the large 

 growth of straw, the wheat was cut with a cradle, 

 on Monday, without any inconvenience from be- 

 ing lodged. R. Burnham & Son. 



South Strafford, Vt., Aug. 26, 1867. 



Remarks. — Large, plump and handsome berries. 

 We have also received a specimen of whesK grown 

 by Mr. S.Pratt, of Chelsea, Mass., within sight of 



