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NEW ENGLAITO FARMER. 



Dec. 



vertisement. I looked and was lost! Twelve 

 dollars of my hard earnings went in exchange for 

 six bushels of oats bearing a striking resemblance 

 to hedge-hogs' quills. I sowed them in due season, 

 and watched the development of the crop with 

 much interest, and I must say that I was disap- 

 pointed with them in every way. They smutted 

 badly, the tremendous yield per acre was dwarfed 

 down almost to the "teens," and common oats, 

 sowed side by side, same soil and cultivation, did 

 just as well, if not better. But after all, I do take 

 a sort of grim satisfaction at times in viewing my 

 bin of oats. Their peculiarly sharp and rakish 

 appearance invests them with a sort of personality 

 that one must admire. However, I rate them as 

 the Peter Funks of the vegetable kingdom, and 

 moralize on the gullibility of the human race. 



Such is my experience with Norway oats, and 

 allow me to add, that my experiments with early 

 "Early Rose" potatoes have turned out in about 

 the same way, and so No. Two's have multiplied 

 more in name than reality. Centke Bit. 



Bristol, Vt., Oct. 8, 1870. 



P. S.— Since writing the above, a sympathizing 

 friend, who sells oats of a tawny hue, tells me I 

 have been cheated, and didn't get the simon pure 

 Bamsdell Norway oats; he recommends that I 

 buy seed of him and try my luck once more. I 

 have the matter under consideration ( ?) c. b. 



PREPARING TUBS FOR BUTTER. 



Will some butter-maker tell me how to prepare 

 my tubs so that my butter will not taste of the 

 wood ? I scald my tubs, let them stand till cold, 

 then empty and fill with brine and let them stand a 

 few days. Before packing the butter, I pour out 

 the brine and rub the tub thoroughly inside with 

 salt, with which is mixed a little saltpetre. My 

 butter seems nice when packed, but after a few 

 weeks, tastes of the tub. Is there no way to 

 remedy it ? If there is, jvbat is it ? Learner. 



Waitsfield, Vt., Sept. 12, 1870. 



LAMOILLE cheese FACTORY. 



The Lamoille Valley Cheese Factory of West 

 Milton, Vt., received in June 351,167 pounds milk, 

 mating 34,921 pounds cheese. Amount of sales 

 for month at the factory $4516.40. Also received 

 in month of July, 329,807 pounds milk, making 

 32,066 pounds cheese; amount of sales for the 

 month at the factory $4244.81. Whole amount of 

 sales for months of May, June and July, #12,- 

 242.01. They have now on hand about 800 cheese 

 of August and September's make. 



D. L. Field, Ag't. 



West Milton, Oct. 4, 1870. 



AQRICULTUBAL ITEMS. 



— Mr. Jonathan Green, on Moultonborongh 

 Neck, N. H., has a hog, that in the last six years 

 raised 108 pigs, and these pigs have been sold for 

 not less than $4 each or $432.00 in all. 



— A correspondent of the Maine Farmer says, 

 "Were the average product of hay per acre in 

 Maine one ton, we should enjoy a higher state of 

 farming than we now do. Far too many farmers 

 get from one-fourth to one-half ton per acre." 



— A correspondent of the Mural World says that 

 by placing any of the larger seeds and grains on 

 a hot pan or griddle, if the vitality is perfect, the 

 grain will pop or crack open with more or less 

 noise. Where the vitality is lost, it lies immora- 

 ble in the vessel. 



The London Field gives a list of stallions, fa- 

 mous as winners of running races, but who proved 

 failures or, at the most, only moderately success- 

 ful in the stud. It says no one of the double win- 

 ners of the Derby and St. Leger, has ever pro- 

 duced a winner of either race. 



—Trees draw up from the depths of the earth, 

 and that without the subsoil plough, moistnre that, 

 charged with animal or other impurities, would 

 otherwise appear in miasmatic exhalations; the 

 moisture oxygenized by vegetable action is lib- 

 erated into the air free from taint, and fit for hu- 

 man lungs. Trees present in their myriad leaves 

 an immense evaporating surface, and the influence 

 they exert on climate is greater than is commonly 

 supposed. 



—The single discovery of coal-oil not only in- 

 troduced a new business, which has rapidly grown 

 to large proportions, but has given rise to more 

 than a thousand inventions, over three hundred of 

 which have been patented for lamps to burn it in. 

 Many new and useful chemicals have also been 

 produced from it. Cochineal, which was formerly 

 employed in dyeing the various shades of crimson 

 and scarlet, is now almost superseded by aniline, 

 a new product from coal-oil, which gives every 

 shade of purple, every variety of blue, and all the 

 gradations of scarlet and crimson. 



