1870. 



NEW ENGLAND FAR]MER. 



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price at $2.50. The vines, if harvested before 

 frost, are valuable as cattle fodder. 



The peanut is successfully raised in the tide wa- 

 ter district of Maryland, also in Delaware and 

 the southern part of New Jersey and Illinois, but 

 how far north its culture may be extended to ad- 

 vantage is a question that must be determined by 

 trial. 



XENTILS. 



Are there any lentils in America ? I have sent 

 for two seed catalogues, and to Washington twice, 

 without learning anything. Who, this side of the 

 Atlantic Ocean, nas any ? Newton Wright. 



Lyndonville, Vt., March 17, 1870. 



Remaeks. — Do not know. Those who do will 

 be kind enough to enlighten our interested in- 

 quirer. Darlington, in his "Weeds and Useful 

 Plants," thinks the lentil is cultivated in the old 

 world chiefly as food for stock — both herbage and 

 seeds serving that purpose. The plant is some- 

 times seen in gardens here. When lentils are 

 properly cooked, they are a tolerable substitute 

 for beans, are much prized as food by the Mexi- 

 cans, and form the basis of the "Linsen soup" of 

 the Germans. 



GROUND FLOOR FOR A HORSE. 



I have a horse that is sometimes troubled with 

 tender feet. I lately removed him from his plank 

 floor stall to one where he stands on the ground. Is 

 not the ground the best floor for the health of the 

 feet and ipgs of horses ? Johx. 



Franklin, Mass., April, 1870. 



Remarks. — Undoubtedly it is. It is more labor 

 to keep horses clean that stand on the ground, but 

 their feet will keep in better condition if the 

 ground is kept in order, which you will probably 

 find it some trouble to do. 



BLIND STAGGERS OR BLACK TOOTH. 



In answer to P. Wilson of Bpcket, Mass., I 

 would say that in the fitU of 1868 I had four 

 shotes which became entirely blind, and could not 

 walk without frequently falling down. They con- 

 tinued to grow worse for several days, and got so 

 bad that they could not stand. Up to this 

 time nothing had been done for them. I then 

 took a common pair of pinchers and pulled two 

 black teeth from each mouth. They all got well 

 and made fine hogs. e. r. 



Fitchburg, April 11, 1870. 



cows SUCKING THEMSELVES. 



A correspondent inquires for a remedy to pre- 

 vent a cow from sucking herself. If he will take 

 a pair of bridle bits, put them in the cow's mouth 

 just the same as though she were a horse, and let 

 her wear them there, it will not prevent her from 

 eating, but will entirely stop her from drawing 

 her milk. Splitting the tongue is barbarous, and 

 will do no good. T. L. Hart. 



West Cornwall, Conn,, April, 1870. 



— The Directors of the Sacramento Valley Beet 

 Sugar Association have determined to enter large- 

 ly this year into the manufacture of sugar there- 

 from. 



PKESIDBNT "W. S. CIiAIlK. 



The Massachusetts Agricultural College, of which 

 this gentleman is President, proposes to educate 

 farmers' boys. It is, then, no idle curiosity that 

 prompts inquiries as to the qualifications and fit- 

 ness of him to whom the instruction of the stu- 

 dents and the management of the institution «have 

 been entrusted. The influence of the head man in 

 all associations is a well acknowledged fact. Un- 

 der the leadership of one man, a campaign fails ; 

 when commanded by another ofiicer a campaign, 

 by the same soldiers, is crowned with success. 

 The same is true of commercial, manufacturing, 

 financial and educational movements. We believe, 

 therefore, that the following abstract of a bio- 

 graphical sketch of Mr. Clark, published in the 

 Amherst Record, will prove interesting to many of 

 our readers in Massachusetts and elsewhere : — 



Mr. Clark was born in Ashfieid, Mass., in 1826; 

 graduated at Amherst College in 1843, $700 in 

 debt, which he paid, with interest, by teaching in 

 East Hampton Seminary. He adopted the science 

 of geology as a specialty ; worked two years on 

 the cabinets connected with Amherst College; 

 and was appointed mineralogist to the geologi- 

 cal survey of Vermont. To "fini-h his education" 

 he went to Europe and after pursuing a two years' 

 course at the University of Gottengen, and gradu- 

 ating at that institution, he swung his knapsack 

 and made a tour through Switzerland, France, &c., 

 mostly ou foot, visiting the Universities on his 

 way, and having interviews with Humboldt, Liebig, 

 and other men of scientific note ; paying his re- 

 spects, also, to Vesuvius, in 1857, when that vol- 

 cano was in an unusually excited state, and as- 

 cending the mountain when it was considered so 

 dangerous that it was with difliculty that he could 

 induce a professional guide to accompany him. 

 After returning home, he was appointed Professor 

 of Chemistry in Amherst College. 



When the war broke out he drilled the students 

 at Amherst, and in August, 1861, went to Annapo- 

 lis as Major of the 21st Massachusetts Regiment. 

 Thence he went to North Carolina withBurnside's 

 expedition. In 1862 his regiment participated in 

 eight battles — Roanoke Island, Newbern, Camden, 

 Bull Run, Chantilly, South Mountain, Antietam, 

 and Fredericksburg. After the battle of Roanoke 

 Island he was appointed Lieut. Col. At the battle 

 of Newbern he made a gallant charge upon a bat- 

 tery of six guns, one of which, an eight-pound 

 brass piece, they captured, he being the first one to 

 mount the gun. As a compliment to this bravery, 

 Gen. Burnside made him a present of the piece. 

 It was sent to Amherst College, and is now to be 

 seen in the library building, with the names of 

 the men who fell, engraved upon it. He was now 

 appointed the Colonel of the regiment. During 

 this eventful period, his men disappeared on the 

 battle field like magic, and on the second day of 

 the battle of Antietam, only seventy-five efiective 

 men remained of the regiment. Soon after they 



