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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



AnjiL 



tended to lie conveyed by Mr. Browm. We have 



yet to fnKl in the iiiiirket a "superplioi^pluite," or 

 any otlar iiianuraetured fertilizer, tliat we would 

 liureliase lor farm eiuploymeut at any cost ap- 

 proaching that s^uiu. 



The above will show, we think, that our re- 

 marks are justified by the facts represented. 

 But our point was a still stronger one than we 

 had supposed it to be, for Dr. Nichols in- 

 forms us that "the ground bone, after being 

 used for decolorizing the syrup, is burnt over 

 again from once to six times, and then becomes 

 such an inert mass of tilth that no art of the 

 chemist can put life hito it !" 



In that condition, even if it had fertilizing 

 qualities, its horrible stench would make it 

 totally unfit for agricultural purposes. 



We have no doubt but the adulterations in 

 special manures are as gross as they are in the 

 milk that is diluted in cities, or the coUee, tea, 

 sugars, spices, and many other articles used in 

 families . 



MONTHLY" iraJW ENGLAND FARMER. 

 In a recent complimentary notice of this 

 publication, the '■'National Farmer and Hor- 

 iicuUural Registef'' says : "the title page says 

 volume 5, but it seems to us that its face seems 

 familiar for ten years back." We add, that 

 there are now nineteen volumes of royal oc- 

 tavo pages, and forming the best agricultural 

 library that can be found. Best, because dur- 

 ing the whole time of its publication it has 

 had hundreds of correspondents from among 

 the most enlightened and practical farmers, 

 and has also constantly laid before the reader 

 the important improvements in farm imple- 

 ments and machinery, and the best modes of 

 managing the farm in every respect. 



Each volume contains a full and clear index 

 . of the subjects which it contains, so that what- 

 ever has been said on its pages during the 

 nineteen years can be made at once available 

 by its index. Indeed, as a gentleman said to 

 us recently, who has received it during the 

 whole time of its publication, — "It is the book 

 of the town ; no matter what is to be done, if 

 there is any doubt as to the how to do it, 

 people come and borrow my Monthly Far- 

 Mi:i: ! The binding of the volume is ragged 

 , by ])erj)etual use." ^ 



This work is now in its twentieth year. It 



is distributed promptly on the first of each 



, month, is printed with new type, on strong, 



■> while paper, and is in the best possible form 



for convenience in reading or for preservation. 

 It contains nearly all the agricultural matter 

 of the ^Veekly Fai{MK11, and such accounts of 

 machines and implements and other articles as 

 relate to the farm and the fanner's home and 

 interests.. 



Volumes for ].s()7, 1868, 1869 and 1870, 

 bound elegantly and lettered in gilt, may be 

 had on ap})lication at this ollice. 



The paper quoted above, in speaking of the 

 Monthly, says, — "It deserves a wide circula- 

 tion, and we hope if any farmer who loves 

 piiet and coiitentment, wants something to 

 2)lease him, he will know where to find it." 



DISEASES COMMUNICATED BY MILK, 

 Tlic readiness with which milk aljsorbs odors is 

 well known to dairymen, who Hud that if they 

 would make good batter the milk must be kept 

 ill a l)uildiug or room by itself, and away trom 

 cooked food and cverytliing else that gives otf 

 odors of any kind. We find in the Utiea Herald 

 some of tlie facts stated in a lengtliy article pub- 

 lished in the Loudon Milk Journal in relation to 

 milk as a medium for tiie spread of contagious dis- 

 eases, particularly of typhoid and scarlet fevers, 

 small-pox, &c. In the town of Penrith, England, 

 a fever broke out in the autuii.n of 1857. The 

 cases were confined ahuost entirely to the families 

 supplied by a cer.ain milkman. The matter was 

 investigated liy Dr. Michael Taylor, who found 

 that the milkman kept only three cows, and sup- 

 plied fourteen families with milk. Seven of these 

 families were .attacked with fever, without expo- 

 sure from an}' discoveral)le source or any apparent 

 exciting cause. The milkman's family had this 

 fever. The mother, who was the nurse, milked 

 the cows. The milk was taken into the liitchen, 

 where the sick children lay, and measured out for 

 distribution to_thc customers. 



Another instance is related by Prof. Bell, in the 

 University of St. Andrews, where scarlet fever was 

 "clearly traceable to the use yf milk poisoned by 

 the desquamating cuticle given oil' from the hands 

 of infected persons who were employed to milk the 

 cows of a particular dairy." The wife of the far- 

 mer who supplied tiie milk had the disease. She 

 milked the cows. After a whde the boy, who also 

 milked and took it to town had tlie disease lightly, 

 and in due time "peeled," continuing all the time 

 to milk. "On making out a list of the houses in 

 which scarlet fever had showed itself in St. An- 

 drews, and asking the dairywoman for a list of tlie 

 liouscs which she supplied with milk, with one ex- 

 ception there was a perfect agreement in the lists. 

 In every house to which milk had been sent, scar- 

 let fever had occurred. The cases were twenty-six 

 in all." 



In July, 1870, Dr. Edward Ballard, Medical 

 Health OHiccr for Islington, traced an outbreak of 



