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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Feb. 



ing dry feed. Have fed with ground corn, and 

 sometimes corn and oats ground together wet up 

 with boiling water, fed when cold. Have also fed 

 mixed corn and oats, boiled potatoes, &c. Hope 

 no one will think I am trying to tell a big chicken 

 story. I cau't do it this year, but with a little 

 more experience and a few hints from the Farmer 

 perhaps I'll try another year. c. f. d. 



Berlin, Vi, Dec. 20, 1869. 



CRANBERRIES ON UPLAND. 



Can you give me any information in regard to 

 raising cranberries on hill plough land ? What 

 marure should be used, and how much, and how 

 far apart should they be set, and when ? 



A Subscriber. 



North Prescott, Mass., Dec. 13, 1869. 



Remarks. — We think that cranberries on hill 

 or dry land should be treated very much as you 

 would treat apple trees or corn on a wet meadow ; 

 and that is not to put them there at all. We 

 should expect about as good success in raising fish 

 in a sheep-pasture, as cranberries on dry land. 

 The cranberry is a water plant, and we believe 

 that all attempts to grow it contrary to its natural 

 instincts have proved failures. 



relieving choked cattle. 



In the Farmer of December 11, there is a de- 

 scription of an apparatus for relieving choked 

 animals. The gag is all correct, but there are 

 strong objections to putting a stiflf broom handle 

 down the throat. Instead thereof use a slim rod, 

 the size of a whip handle, put a wooden ball is 

 the shape of a Minnie bullet, on the small end, as 

 large as will go through the hole in the gag — con- 

 cave end down — and fasten it on so that it will 

 not be pulled off; oil or grease the ball before us- 

 ing. This can be used with perfect safety from 

 injury to the gullet. 



Another remedy is to apply a small quantity of 

 saltpetre to the roots of the animal's tongue. It 

 makes them cough so violently that it is pretty 

 sure to remove the obstruction and give immediate 

 relief. c. k. p. 



Watetbury, VL, Dec. 19, 1869. 



BLOODY MILK. 



We have a valuable three year heifer, which has 

 given bloody milk from one teat, for more- than 

 two months. Bean meal, tincture aconite and 

 garget have all failed to effect a cure. She is a 

 very nice heifer, or I should not feci so particular. 

 What can be done for her ? G. D. Barton. 



Chester, Vt., Nov. 14, 1869. 



Remarks. — Try salt-petre, half an ounce twice 

 a day, dissolved in her drink or feed, and bathing 

 half an hour at a time with warm soap-suds, daily. 



grade DURHAM YEARLING STEERS. 



A notice of my steer calves was published last 

 January — Monthly Farmer, page 145 — which at 

 ten months old weighed 1400 pounds. They now 

 measure six feet in girth. They have not been 

 weighed recently, but are estimated at '21-50 pounds. 

 They had nothing but grass during the summer. 

 William F. Loomis. 



Langdon, N. H., Nov., 1869. 



— It is reported that nearly one-half of the pota- 

 toes raised in the northern part of Maine will be 

 lost by the dry rot. 



AQEICTJIiTUIlAL ITEMS. 



— The Iowa Homestead estimates the average 

 cost of producing a bushel of wheat in Iowa at 

 not less than eighty cents. 



—The students of the Iowa Agricultural College 

 have, during the past term, earned one-half their 

 board. 



—In Wisconsin f 80,000 have been added to the 

 funds of the Agricultural College of the State 

 University by the sale of agricultural college lands 

 during the past year. These sales will add an in- 

 come of about $6000 annually to its fund. 



— Those keeping horses should twice a week 

 throw into the manger a handful of salt and ashes. 

 Mix them by putting in three parts of salt to one 

 of ashes. Horses relish this, and it will tend to 

 keep them in good flesh and their hair short and fine. 



— A farmer in Bakersfield, Vt., during the past 

 dairy season has made from fifteen cows 3000 lbs. 

 of butter. He sold it for 45 cents a pound, real- 

 izing $1350. He also raised ten calves, now worth 

 $100, and 1000 pounds of pork, which he sold for 

 .$130— making, as the proper income of the dairy, 

 $1580, besides supplying his family. 



— Secretary Bout well has sent a circular to the 

 Collectors of Customs directing them not to allow 

 the landing of any animals from Europe without 

 a certificate from a Consul that they are free from 

 any contagious disease. This has been done in 

 consequence of the prevalence of a hoof and mouth 

 disease in Europe. 



— A correspondent of the Southern Cultivator 

 had a young horse whose nose was covered with 

 warts, many of which were tender, bleeding, and 

 very troublesome. He dissolved half a pound of 

 alum in a quart of water, and with a brush or cloth 

 wet the warts twice each day for ten days and 

 they all disappeared. 



— The Prairie Farmer says that the law passed 

 three years ago by the legislature of Illinois, pro- 

 hibiting the importation of Texan and Cherokee 

 cattle, has been pronounced unconstitutional by 

 Judge Gillespie ; but does not give the ground on 

 which the decision is based. Hundreds of suits 

 through the States have been brought, and some 

 of them tried, with varying results, under that law. 



— Iowa is larger than New York or Pennsylva- 

 nia — larger than New England, without Maine — 

 and more productive than all of them put together. 

 She has thirty-five million acres of rich, black 

 mould, and to-day a clean furrow can be turned 

 over thirty million of these acres. Although less 

 than five millions are under cultivation, they pro- 

 duced last year eighty-five million bushels of grain. 



— Where an old cow or an old horse is kept 

 singly it is generally found in good condition, but 

 whci! either are put with others it declines in flesh 

 and animation. On account of poor teeth they 

 cannot masticate their food as rapidly as others, 

 and as mangers are usually constructed, the more 



