1870. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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FKENCH'S PATENT CULTIVATOR. 



The increased attention lately paid to dairy- 

 ing, which at the present time is assuming 

 somewhat the type of an agricultural fever, 

 has naturally suggested inquiries for better 

 milk producing feed. Dry hay, especially 

 that which stood till the seed was thoroughly 

 ripened, or pasture feed which has turned 

 white from old age or August drought, is not 

 quite juicy enough for factory cows, or for 

 gilt edged butter, and many farmers are think- 

 ing about raising a patch of roots, if not for the 

 daily food, at least for an occasional change 

 of diet for their animals. The remarks made 

 by Mr. Henry Lane, of Cornwall, Vt., in his 

 address at the meeting of the dairymen of 

 that State, about raising beets for cattle and 

 pigs, eeem to have been read with much inter- 

 est by many farmers. But the labor and the 

 bother of raising roots, is the great objection 

 which we fast-horse Yankees urge against 

 their cultivation. To obviate this objection 

 the inventors have been racking their brains 

 to devise ploughs, cultivators, seed sowers, 

 and-so-forth, which they assure us will make 

 a rough field as mellow as a garden, and help 

 us' to raise a ton of beets with as little back- 

 ache as a ton of hay. 



One of these newly invented implements is 

 daguerreotyped above. The patentee, Hon. 

 Henry F. French, lives in Concord, Mass., and 

 notwithstanding the proverb that a prophet 

 has no honor in his own country, he has put 

 his cultivator into the hands of his neighbors, 

 who after using it one season speak well of it. 



A statement signed by John B. Moore, Minot 

 Pratt, Abiel H. Wheeler, Simon Brown and 

 Frederick G. Pratt — names familiar to the 

 readers of the Farmer — closes with the re- 

 mark that "It saves much of the hand labor, 

 and therefore much of the expense of cultiva- 

 tion of the root crops, small fruits and vege- 

 tables." The above cuts show so well the 

 peculiarities of the implement that we need 

 only say that it is a light horse cultivator or 

 harrow, the teeth are steel-pointed, one inch 

 square, about ten long and set cornerwise. 

 Further information is given in an advertise- 

 ment in another column. 



ABORTION AMONG CO"WS. 



Cheese factories originated in central New 

 York, and there the system has been perfected. 

 Little Falls, one of its villages, has become 

 the great cheese market of the country. 

 Cows have been selected, managed and fed 

 for the greatest possible production of milk. 



Massachusetts is full of cities and large man- 

 ufacturing towns, which afford a capital mar- 

 ket for milk. Hence many of her farmers 

 have made the raising of milk the great object 

 of farm management. Everything else has 

 been made secondary or subservient to this. 

 Few cattle arc raised, and cows are selected 

 with reference to the abundance of milk which 

 high feeding and special management could 

 stimulate them to produce. 



Chester county, Pennsylvania, famous for 

 its choice butter and pure milk, is near the 



