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NEW ENGL.'VND FAK:MER. 



April 



good tools, implements and improved farm ma- 

 chinery, with ii fair sh^irc of tact, sl^ill and enter- 

 prise, aided by good health, one may become a suc- 

 cesstiil furnur, "and independent so far as freedom 

 from debt can nial?e a man so. Yet as every ex- 

 perienced man knows 'tis a slow road to v/ealth, 

 thougli sure to furnish a competency to the frugal 

 and "mdustrious, which perhaps is a condition 

 affording as mnch and perhaps more happiness 

 than many others in life. William Child. 



Fairlee, Vt., Jan., 1870. 



LUNG DISEASE IX COWS. 



Mr. \V. D. Hall, of New Ashford, Mass., has lost 

 two cows of some disease of tbe langs and one 

 that had the scours until she became so weak as 

 to fall forward on to her head, and he wishes to 

 know if such is the effect or symptoms of horn- 

 ail ? w. 



Remarks. — Cows, and other animals are liable 

 to have various diseases of the lungs. What par- 

 ticular one affected the two cows first mentioned, 

 we cannot tell, as the symptoms are not men- 

 tioned. But the one that had the sccoirs was 

 affected with acute inflammation of the mucous 

 or lining membrane of the intestines, and not with 

 Iiomail. 



EFFECT OF CHERRY LEAVES. 



The statement of Mr. Haskell, from which he 

 infers that cherry leaves are not poisonous, and 

 thao the only danger from cattle eating them arises 

 from their indigestibihty when wilted, seems to 

 me to show conckisively that they are poisonous. 

 Food is occasionally thrown from the stomach, 

 after remaining there forty-eight hours, in a per- 

 fect state, without having produced any such 

 fcymptoms as are witnessed in cases of "cherry 

 poisoning." The effects he mentioned, I ascribe 

 to poison — to some principle that destroyed the 

 vital action of the animal functions, — a result 

 never caused by healthy food remaining undigested 

 some eight or twelve hours in the stomach. Wilted 

 clover, red top, or herdsgrass produces no such 

 fatal effects ; why then should wilted cherry leaves, 

 unless they contain some injurious principle which 

 mav properly be called poison ? V. Baker. 



Brookfield, Vt., Jan. 21, 1870. 



CATTLE GNAWING BOARDS. 



I am not entirely satisfied with your reply to a 

 late inquiry for a remedy for this disease. I have 

 had cows do tne same, and my method is to give 

 one heaping tablespoonfiil of saltpetre. This has 

 cured them £t once. It is also good for garget in 

 cows ; lar better in my opinion than garget. 



Moses Huijtley. 



St. Johnsbury Centre, Vt., Feb, 14, 1870. 



Please request "A Reader" whose cattle have a 

 habit of gnawing boards, &c., to try feeding a few 

 quarts of rye or wheat bran, each, daily, and re- 

 port result through Farmer. G. 



Ashjleld, Mass., Feb. 15, 1870. 



CREEPING CLOVER. 



In the Farmer, some time last fall, I saw some 

 remarks upon this variety of clover. It appears 

 to be a new piaiit here as well as in Vermont and 

 Massachusetts. A field near my house had a 

 great deal of it this summer, and it attracted a 

 pood deal of attention. It grew very thick, and 

 made fine hay, and a heavy crop in spots where 

 led clover was killed out. Some farmers were of 

 lUe opinion that it was best to save seed and sow 



it, but I think none was threshed. I noticed it in 

 many fields in this neighborhood. Some feared it 

 would prove trouljlesome. hut; I do not think so. 

 Perhaps it mav not be as plentiful again in several 

 years. Time will tell. Granite. 



Bloomfield, C. IF., 1870. 



SWEET FLAG. 



I would say to "A. B." in Farmer of Feb. 12, 



that the only way to totally eradicate sweet flag 

 is to take off the entire surface of the land in 

 whicn it grows, haul it to a dry knoll and pile, 

 and after a while it will rot. I once knew a neigh- 

 bor to eradicate several large beds of it in a low 

 meadow in this way, and it has never shown itself 

 since. Care should be taken to get all the roots 

 off. M. C. Peck. 



Benson, Vt., Feb. 15, 1870. 



TO EXTERMINATE HEN LICE. 



A very easy and sure remedy for exterminating 

 vermm from hen houses is to take from five to ten 

 ceuLS worth otchloriJe of lime, which can be pro- 

 cured at any apothecary's store, and sprinkle it 

 over the roosts and about the house where the 

 lice are most likely to be found ; or make a wash 

 of it and wash the roosts. I have found ono 

 or two applications an effectual remedy. l. b. 



Winchendon, Mass., Jan. 11, 1870. 



WEST MILTON, VT., CHEESE FACTORY. 



The West Milton cheese factory was in opera- 

 tion five months, and received the milk of 300 to 

 500 cows; some of the patrons having brought 

 milk only during the warmest weather. Whole 

 amount of milk 1,335,717 pounds; amount of 

 cheese, 187,398^ pounds. It required 9| pounds 

 milk for a pound of cheese. Whole amount of 

 sales, .#22 386.95. The net average price per pound 

 was 14 3-10 cents. D. L. Field. 



GREAT YIELD OF BUTTER. 



Mr. Moses S. Saunders, of this town, owns a 

 three-year old heifer, — half Devon, half Jersey, — 

 from which in the present month of January, 

 were made four pounds of butter from twenty- 

 three quarts of milk. She has had but common 

 feed, viz: — fresh and salt hay, with one quart of 

 meal per dav. D. A. Reed. 



Rowley, Mass., Jan. 23, 1870. 



GREAT YIELD OF COMMON OATS. 



A single oat that germinated in my garden near 

 a bed of white beets, one of which weighed eight 

 pounds, produced 53 heads, three of the largest of 

 which contained 300 or more kernels each, — ^the to- 

 tal product, by patient count, amounting to 10,117 

 kernels, after rejecting those that were blighted. 



Marshfield, Vt., 1870. C. R. Hills. 



— At the winter meeting of the Windsor County, 

 Vt., Agricultural Society the first premium on best 

 acre of corn was awarded to N. Harlow, Hartland, 

 94^ bushels ; 2d, to J. Paddleford, Hartland, 88;^ 

 bushels; to Mr. P. also for best wheat, 27 l-12th 

 bushels ; 2a, S. Taylor, 2iJ bushels ; O. Paul, Poin- 

 fret. best oats, 93J bushels ; 2d, J. Paddlefurd 78^ 

 bushels; best rye, S. Taylor, Hartland, 28 3-5 

 bushels; N.Humphrey, Hartland, best potatoes, 

 324 bushels ; C. Whitman, Pomfret, best carrots, 

 36^ bushels on ten rods. 



