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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Feb. 



perienced flock-masters who see Mr. Sowles' state- 

 ment give their opinion Of the disease and of its 

 proper treatment ? 



POULTKY WANTED. 



One correspondent in Hanover and another in 

 Monroe, N. H., v/ish to purchase Embden or Bre- 

 men geese, of which we gave an illustration some 

 weeks since. Another correspondent in Shelburne 

 Falls, Mass., inquires for the East India or Shake- 

 bag fowls. Breeders who have fowls for sale will 

 do well to advertise their stock. 



"ashes applied to kill vermin, when a calf and 

 allowed to get wet." For this reason I don't con- 

 sider it safe to put ashes on any cattle, as they 

 may get wet when we are not expecting it. I 

 know of no remedy that will cause the skin to be- 

 come smooth and the hair to grow over these bare 

 places, but if any one does, I should like to hear 

 from him. H. C. Buhleigh. 



Fairfield, Me., Dec. 28, 1869. 



BLOODY MILK. 



Perhaps Mr. Barton will be encouraged to try 

 saltpetre, as you recommend, bj'' my success. 

 Last summer I had a cow troubled in this way, 

 which was cured by giving her one tablespoonful 

 of saltpetre with one quart of meal twice a day 

 for one week. John Owens. 



Wilmingtoti, Mass., Dec. 22, 1369. 



' cost of keeping hens. 



Can you tell me how much corn a hen of the 

 Game or Dorking breeds will eat per day, and the 

 cost of keep tor a year, if they are allowed to run 

 at large, en a large farm ? L. Jones, Jr. 



Lawrence, Mass., Dec. 12, 1869. 



Remarics. — We have generally considered a 

 bushel of corn, or its equivalent, as the approxi- 

 mate rule for the food of a hen a year, and con- 

 sequently its market value the measure of the 

 cost of keeping one. If they have the run of a 

 Jarge farm they may save you the trouble of weigh- 

 ing or measuring or even harvesting much of their 

 food. 



EFFECT OF ASHES ON CATTLE. 



If your correspondent "Zen" (inNo. 52, "Vol. 48) 

 were to trace back the history of the cow he 

 speaks of, I think he would ascertain that at some 

 time wood ashes had been put on her back to kill 

 vermin, and allowed lo get wet. I have seen quite 

 a number of cattle wiih places on ditferent parts of 

 their backs similar to the one he speaks of, and 

 usually could trace them to this cause. On inquiring 

 the cause in the case of a very tine young heifer, 

 I saw in Waldo county, about two years ago, the 

 owner gave the same answer that others have, 



AGRICULTURAL ITEMS. 



— The farmers of Caledonia, County, Vt., have 

 formed a club and will hold weekly meeting dur- 

 ing the winter for discussion. 



— OfBeers of the Hampshire Co., Mass., Agri- 

 cultural Society have been elected as follows : — 

 President, Levi P. Warner, of Sunderland ; Secre- 

 tary and Treasurer, R. W. Stratton, of Amherst. 



— S. P. Miller, of Fayetteville, Vt., has a grade 

 Durham cow, from which he has made in seven 

 months, after selling 142 quarts of milk (large 

 measure,) and after using what milk and cream 

 was wanted in his own family of five persons, 311 

 pounds of butter. 



— The Germantown Telegraph says that the com- 

 mon blue pill of the apothecaries cures the chicken 

 cholera in Pennsylvania. Give each chicken when 

 seized with the disease a two-grain blue pill, and 

 if not out of danger by the following morning, an- 

 other—two pills almost universally effecting a cure ! 



— To remove foreign substances from the eye, 

 such as specks of dirt, eye-winkers, in fact any 

 thing, from a mote to a beam, you have only to 

 life the lid, and introduce a flax-seed beneath it. 

 The seed will make the circuit of the eye, and 

 fetch out the offending substance. 



— A New York sea captain having discovered, a 

 short time ago, several small islands in the Car- 

 ribbean sea upon which deposits of guano were 

 found, the Secretary of State has caused certifi- 

 cates of title and government protection to be is- 

 sured to his attorney. The islands are hcjived to 

 be very valuable by reason of the extensive guano 

 deposits. 



