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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



the horse, and at once the cure is completed, witn no 

 harm to the horte. The medicine is slightly loos- 

 ening to the bowels. To prevent horses having 

 botts, give in feed of oats, meal or fine cut, two or 

 three dried leaves of mullein, riii)lx'd tine in the 

 hands, once a week. That gathered in blossom is 

 best. Van Dooen. 



Vermont, Oct. 1, 1867. 



CATTLE STANCHIONS. 



A writer, without name, in referring to my arti- 

 cle on cattle stanchions in the Farmer of Aug. 

 17, sa.ys that I neglected to tell him how to con- 

 struct them. 1 will reply by saying that the stan- 

 chions that I use are the Saffoi'd Patent, 



Hope, Me., Sept. 30, 1867. A. L. w. 



BLACK KNOT. 



Mr. H. G. Allen, of North Bridgewater, Mass., 

 informs us that he has been very successful in the 

 treatment of the black knot on his plum trees by 

 cutting the knots off carefully and applying to the 

 wound a little spirits of turpentine. 



CLUBFOOT. 



This is one of the troubles which often discour- 

 age those who attempt to raise cabbages, &c. We 

 were informed by a gardener, the other day, that 

 by planting in hills where they are to grow, and 

 throwing on a handful of ashes after covering the 

 seed, he is not troubled with this disorder in his 

 plants. 



AQBlCULTUKAIi ITEMS. 



— Have you any implements rotting or rusting 

 out in the weather ? 



— Barton, Orleans county, Vt., produced 1177 

 tubs or 62,562 pounds of butter during the months 

 of August and September. 



— A correspondent of the Country Gentleman 

 Bays that farms can be bought now in Central Il- 

 linois, for about the figures of ten years ago. 



— Including the pennanent improvements of Mr. 

 Mechi's farm, it is said the cost per acre is equal 

 to $500. 



— The quantity of sorghum grown this year in 

 Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, is said to be much less 

 than last year or the year before. 



— Henry Daniels, of Williamstown, has a cow 

 only 14 months and 27 days old, which has given 

 birth to A large and healthy calf. 



— The Agriculturist, Jucunda and other choice 

 eastern strawl)crries fail to meet the expectations 

 of Western cultivators. 



— The Journal of Horticulture says that Gladio- 

 lus can be raised from seed, and perhaps better 

 flowers be olitaincd than from imported bulbs. 



— The Prairie Farmer says that one pint of 

 strained honey mixed with two gallons of water, 

 will make excellent vinegar, after standing three 

 weeks. 



— ^The Utica Tlerald of Oct. 8th, quotes the price 

 of cheese from i)rivate dairies at 14 to 15c, from 



factories 14| to 16c, with some prime extra at 17c 

 per lb., and says, "the quantity of fine cheese in 

 the country is quite limited and prices for our best 

 factories it seems to us must advance." 



— A fat cow of Durham grade was recently 

 slaughtered in London, which weighed when killed 

 1950 pounds, and yielded 340 pounds of rough tal- 

 low. 



— It is reported that an agricultural society, 

 somewhere in the State of New York, offers larger 

 premiums for butter and cheese than it does for 

 horse-racing. 



— The grape crop along the lakes is good, but on 

 the Atlantic coast from Maryland to Massachusetts 

 there is great complaint of the fruit being late and 

 much injured by the rot, in consequence of the 

 unfavorable season. 



— On the 22d of August, an ox belonging to Mr. 

 Alvin Morse, of Newfane, Vt., was missed from 

 his pasture. Nine days after he was found in a 

 piece of woods with his head between two trees 

 where he had remained for this time unable to ob- 

 tain any food or even to lie down. 



— Josh Billings, in describing the horse fair of 

 the Billingsville Agricultural Society, says : "There 

 was tew yoke ov oxen on the gi'ound, besides sev- 

 eral yokes ov sheep, and a pile of carrots, and 

 some wosted work, but they didn't seem to attract 

 enny sympathy. The people hanker for pure ag- 

 ricultural hoss-trots." 



— A new grass is springing up in the Southern 

 States. It appears to be a dwarf clover, is very 

 thick set, covering the earth with a beautiful car- 

 pet of green. It is much relished by cattle, and is 

 a complete exterminator of Bermuda, joint, sedge, 

 and other grasses. In Middle Georgia it is very 

 abundant and is attracting much attention. 



— There is a tree standing on the farm of Levi 

 Graves, in Leverett, Mass., that rises from the 

 ground by two distinct trunks, standing a foot 

 apart. Each trunk is more than a foot in diame- 

 ter, and straight and well formed. They run up 

 twenty feet or more, and then join in a solid single 

 trunk, forming a beautiful top like any single tree. 



— In his address at the late Pomological Con- 

 vention at St. Louis, Hon. Marshall P. Wilder al- 

 luded to the fact that history informs us that "the 

 planting of vineyards in Italy had so much in- 

 creased about A. D. 85, that agriculture was there- 

 by neglected ; on which account Domitian issued 

 an edict prohibiting any new vineyards to be 

 planted in Italy, and ordered one-half of those in 

 the provinces to be cut down." 



— It appe.irs that drought this year has prevailed 

 over a wide extent of country. In the western 

 part of New York it has been severe, while in the 

 eastern and middle portion of the State there has 

 been comparatively little rain since last July. In 

 the dairy region the supply of after feed is much 

 less than usual. The editor of the Ohio Farmer, 



