1870. 



NEW ENGLAND FAEiMER. 



333 



This is one of the laws of our being. Each one 

 must do his o'vn thinking and his own choosing. 

 Editors or agricultural colleges cannot relieve him 

 of this labor and responsibility. The experience of 

 others may furnish hints, but not rules for us. The 

 Almighty might have saved us the responl^ibility of 

 our manhood. In every emergency, our duty might 

 have been written on the blue arch, or on the in- 

 tervening cloud, but it is not, and never will be. 



At the request of the writer of the foregoing in- 

 quiries, we withhold the initials of his name, 

 though we think the request an unwise one. 



HOESE-TAiL — Equisetum arvense. 

 The inquiry of our correspondent who enclosed 

 a specimen of a plant which he finds in his hay is 

 answered by W. S. Clark, Esq., President of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, to whom it 

 was forwarded, as follows : — "The plant enclosed 

 in your favor of the 18th instant is Equisetum 

 arvense, and is known, in different sections, by the 

 various names mentioned by your correspondent. 

 It is believed to be poisonous or at least injurious 

 to horses." 



BAISING CALVES. 



As I raise a few calves each year I will state my 

 method of doing so. First I select calves from my 

 best cows, which by the way, are full-blooded Dur- 

 hams and grades. I feed them about six quarts of 

 milk right from the cow for one week. I then give 

 them skim milk until they are a month old. I 

 then give them sour milk, six or seven quarts, un- 

 til they are five or six months old. I think it is 

 better to warm the milk for them rather than to 

 give it to them cold. I prefer keeping them in the 

 barn during hot weather, giving them what hay 

 and water they want, together with one quart each 

 of oat meal. A Young Farmer. 



Williston, Vt., Apr. 18, 1870. 



MILK. ANB BUTTER FROM NATIVE COWS. 



Having read many accounts of your fancy 

 breeds of dairy cows, I venture to send a state- 

 ment of the New Hampshire native breed. Dur- 

 ing the past wmter I have milked two farrow cows 

 and one which calved January 25, from which I 

 have sold eighteen quarts of milk a week, used 

 one quart daily in the family, and churned twenty 

 pounds of butter once in two weeks. j. m. w. 



Eilhboro' Centre, N. H., April 18, 1870. 



EGGS OUT OF PLACE. 



If the gentleman that finds eggs out of place in 

 his hen house will remove the straw and hay to 

 the pigs and in the place of it cover the earth or 

 floor with sawdust; allow no straw about except 

 for nests ; arrange for his hens to fly to the upper 

 nests, and give them all the corn they have on the 

 cob to pick off as they will, thus giving them ex- 

 ercise, he will soon find eggs in place, or if out of 

 place, where they can be found. Mrs. L. F. 



Franklin County, Vt., 1870. 



PROTECTION AGAINST CROWS. 



I am one of those who have spoken ill of the 

 crow for his depredations in the corn field. I tried 

 to keep him out in various ways, especially by 

 lining the field, without success. Lines and im- 

 ages did not, in my case, seem to impress him with 

 any of that salutary fear which I desired to excite, 



notwithstanding some of my neighbors found the 

 lines alone, a perfect protection By f.nd by some 

 one told me that the line should he put around the 

 field htfore the corn came up. I tried the pLin with 

 ihis improvimcnt, and have always found it a 

 perfect success. I think for the la~t half djzen 

 years I have not had a hill of corn pulled up by 

 crows, if the lines were in place b fore the corn 

 appeared. Let others who have suffered try it. 

 I think they will, with me, cease to curse the 

 crows. M. p. 



Concord, Mass., May 13, 1870. 



THE "OIiD" NEW ENGLAND FABMEH. 



While examining the private library of Andrew 

 S. Fuller, the veteran horticulturist, the editor of 

 the Ricral New Yorker found an article credited 

 to the "New England Farmer" in a book printed 

 in 1806. Now, as the present New England 

 Farmer claims to have been established in 1822, 

 the Inquiry is made "What was that New England 

 Farmer, published as early as 1806 ? Who edited 

 and published it, where was it printed, when and 

 by whom was it established, and when did it cease 

 to exist ?" 



In reply to these questions, we may say that the 

 "New England Farmer," to which the article 

 alluded to was credited, was a book of some 400 

 pages, of which the following is the title page : — 



The New Englatjd Farmer; or Georeical Die- 

 tioiiary : coLtiilniog a compendious Accour.t of the 

 Ways and Mtthods in wh ch the most important 

 Art of Husbandly, in all its various branches, is or 

 may b 5, practised to the greatest advattaae ia th's 

 country. By Bamuel Deane, D. D , Fellow of the 

 American Acad< my of Arts and Scitnces, 

 "Frigoribus parto agricolae plerumque fruuntur, 

 Miutuaque Inter se Jteti convivia cm ant; 

 Invitat genlalij hyems, curaeque reaolvit.'' — Virgil, 

 Printed at Worcester, Massachusetta, by Isaiah 

 Thomas, sold at his Bookstore in Worcester, and by 

 him and company in Boston. MDCCXC. 



The dedication, which is spread over a full page, 



runs thus: — 



To the Honourable James Bowdoin, E?q., L. L. D., 

 President of the American Academy of Arts and Sci- 

 ences, &c., &c., &c., the following work is inscribed 

 by his much obliged and meat oberiii nf humble ser- 

 vant. The Author. Portland, Massachusetts, 1790. 



The partiality of the author for the classical por- 

 tion of the title of his book is shown by the fact 

 that on the back of the volume the words 

 "New England Farmer" are omitted, and the gilt 

 letters indicate simply : — "Deane's Georgical 

 Dictionary." 



In consequence of "the rapid sale of the book, 

 arising from the general acceptance it has ob- 

 tained," a revised and improved edition was pub- 

 lished, at Worcester, In 1797, in which "Vice Presi- 

 dent of Bowdoin College," was added to the pre- 

 vious honorary litleof the author. In September, 

 1822, a third edition was published in Boston by 

 Wells & Lilly, one month after the commencement 

 of the publication of the New England Farmer 

 in newspaper form. 



We thank brother Moore for calling our atten- 

 tion to this old book, as we have looked over its 

 pages with interest. It was published soon after 

 the smoke of the Revolutionary war had cleared 



