1870. 



NEW ENGLAND FAR:VIER. 



193 



the morning yoa will notice a yellowisb matter in 

 the corner of the eye or just below on the face, 

 and sometimes about the mouth. The movements 

 of the cow are like those of an old person troubled 

 with the rheumatism, and the appetite is poor, 

 with dull eyes. If at pasture, the animal will be 

 found alone In the woods, or near some wet place 

 or water in the shade, and now for the first time 

 many will begin to suspect that the animal is un- 

 well, and in two or three days they will have a 

 hide to sell. If examined after death, the gall will 

 be found very much enlarged, and filled with a 

 thick, dark colored matter and the liver increased 

 In size, and so rotten that it will be difficult to take 

 it out without breaking it. 



As a remedy, in the first stages, I should give 

 half a common saucerful of 60ot taken from a 

 chimney wirh an open fire-place, powdered fine, 

 and mixed with shorts or meal, if they will eat it; 

 if not, mix it with water and pour it down ; also 

 one tablespoonful of sulphur. If a creature gets 

 as far along as the one described in the Farmer, 

 I should in the first place give one pint of hog's 

 lard, then half a saucerful pulverized soot dissolved 

 in warm water, then one half pint of New Rum 

 or whiskey, and then a tablespoonful of cayenne 

 pepper. Give the aV)ove medicines as fast as they 

 can be prepared. Then take a few quarts of beef 

 brine, and with a woolen cloth rub the animal 

 smartly about the back, and loins, and legs. 

 Some spirits and cayenne added to this will make 

 it better. Put her feet under her and change sides 

 frequently, for the convenience of rubbing her. 

 Give from a gill to a half pint of spirits every 

 half hour for two hours and rub smartly ; do the 

 work faithfully and get up a perspiration. Be 

 ready, if the animal makes an effort to rise, to as- 

 sist her. You might as well pour medicine into a 

 hollow log, as to give it to a dumb beast that is 

 down, iimbs stiff and cold, circulation slow and 

 morbid. If you are lucky enough to get the ani- 

 mal on her feet, follow up the soot at the rate of 

 two or three tablespoonfuls, wirh one tablespoon- 

 ful of sulphur a day, until the animal becomes 

 well enough to eat; then powder up the soot and 

 H'ix it with the sulphur in meal or shorts for a 

 number of days." 



This liver complaint comes on slowly; in some 

 cases it exists for months, and the cure is propor- 

 tionately slow. Wm. Swett. 



South Paris, Me., Feb., 1870. 



PREMirM BUTTER. 



The first and second premiums offered by the 

 Orleans County, Vt., Agricultural Society were 

 awarded to Thomas I3aker, of Barton, of whose 

 Dutch cattle and farm buildings some account was 

 published in the Farmer in 18G8. (Monthly, 

 page 332.) The following is his statement of his 

 method of making butter. 



I milk twentv-four cows. This season they 

 were turned into the mowing fields the lOh of 

 September, and their food was mostly clover. 

 This butter was made the week ending September 

 18. The cream is skimmed when the milk has set 

 thirty-six hours ; we churn three times a week, 

 but ihe cream is not churned the day it is taken 

 off. When the butter comes it is washed until the 

 water is not colored by milk ; then the butter is 

 taken out of the churn and put in a butter worker 

 and the salt worked in — one ounce to a pound, 

 using A^hton salt — then pack immediately in 

 spruce tubs holding fifty pounds each, prepared 

 for use by soakingtheni wiih warm waterin which 

 a spoonful of saleratus is dissolved for two hours ; 

 then the water is turned ofi' and the inside surface 

 sVrmkled with salt, when the tub is ready to re- 

 ceive the butter, which is packed as solid as pos- 

 sible. 



The tub that took the second premium was not 

 packed immediately, but was set aside twenty-four 

 hours, then worked again. This is our practice, if 

 butter comes soft. 



In summer the cows are milked as regularly as 

 possible at 5 o'clock A. M., and 5 P. M. They are 

 driven carefully to and from the pasture. They 

 are fed salt every Monday and Friday. 



Irasburg, Vt., Feb., 1870. Z. E. Jameson. 



PURE BRAHMA8 AND MUSCOVY DUCKS. 



Below, please find my yearly account of poultry. 

 You will see that I can mnke it profitable without 

 charging $2 or ®6 per doz., as I see some of my 

 townsmen advertise in your worthy paper. 



Stock Jan. 1,IS69. Dr. 



38 Fowls at 75c, $2S.60; 13 Ducbe at 



75c, 9 75 $3S 25 



4 Guinea Fowls, $2.00; 20ChickenB, 6 OU, 8.00 



$46.25 



Cost of Food. 



42 bushels corn, $46.60; 29 bushels 



oats, $24.26 $70 85 



2t bush, meal, $25 95; 24 bush. C. 



corn, $25 95 51 90 



36 bush, aborts, 14 45; 2 bneb. barley, 



$3.00 17.43 



221 fb? scraps, $3 66 ; sqaashes, $2.60 . 6 10 

 C. pepper, 50c; sulphur, 74c, rat, exter- 



miiiato'-,25c 1 49 



34 doz. and 8 hens' egets set,' at 395 . . 13 51 

 18 doz, and 8 ducks' eggs set, at 49c . . 9.16 



$170.61 



Other Expenses. 



W. brush, 37c ; nails 35c ; labor on coop, 



14.12 14 84 



Painting and glazing windows, .... 3 23 



Dressing poultry, 5 60 



$23.57 



$24.'.33 

 Stock Jan. 1, 1870. Cr. 



32 fowls, at 75c, $24 00; 12 ducks, at 75e 



$9.00 $33 00 



118 chicks sold, $71.24; 144 ducks 



$98.43 167 67 



171 doz and 2 hens eggs, $67.45 ; 16 doz. 



and 3 ducks egga, $7.50 74.90 



28 bb's manure, $29 75; fea'hers $1. 30.75 

 62 doz. and 3 htns' eggs ueed in the 



family at 39c ....•••... 2t 28 



5 doz. ana 7 duck eggs at 49c .... 2 70 



$3.3^.30 



Expenses, 240.33 



Profit $92 67 



Eggs and poultry used in the house I charge the 

 same as those sold to be marketed. I have now 

 two broods of chickens, — 19 — hatched February 

 12th and 1.5'h inst. John Buffington. 



Salem, Mass., Feb., 1870. 



patent manures and meadow muck. 



While sitting by the stove reading the Farmer, 

 I see that a man wrote very favorably of meadow 

 muck. Sir, I have farmed for twenty years, and I 

 have tried muck in every form without seeing 

 any benefit from its use. I worked for a man one 

 season that had "muck on the brain. " He wanted 

 me to try an experiment on corn with manure, 

 and with muck. I did so. I planted half an acre 

 with n anurc and half an acre with two-third.s 

 muck and one-third manure. The.result was that 

 fiom the half acre that I manured I gut my corn ; 

 while from the half acre with the muck I got 

 nothing. 



I think that all the patent manures are good for 

 nothing. If a man who has no other income than 

 his farm, buys these patent manure.^, he will soon 

 run his farm and himself into the ground. 



A neighbor of mine goes in for muck and glue- 



