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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



May 



who, having made money by gardening, modestly 

 proceeds to "put down in tliis volume things that 

 he has learned from daily toil, and the wisdom of 

 others." So far as we can judge from a hasty ex- 

 amination of the book we think he has "put down" 

 a large amount of just that iidurmation which the 

 less experienced gardener daily needs in the three 

 depai-tments of tiie kitchen-garden, the market- 

 garden, and the field culture of root crops. 



We are sorry the book lias been published with 

 no alphabetical index. Without such an index, a 

 practical book is to us a most impracticable thing. 

 For instance, we wished to see what Mr. Quinn 

 had to say about "club-foot" and the new cabbage 

 worm. No allusion to either was found in his four 

 pages of "contents." We next try "cabbages, 

 page 72." We glance over each paragraph on this 

 page, on the next one, and so on, until after scanning 

 twenty pages we lind the old promise verified that 

 "those who seek shall find," for on page 93 the 

 Anthornyia brassica, an insect which causes the 

 "club-foot," is described, and on page 95 the Pieris 



rapce. 



Wallace's American Trotting Register, con- 

 taining all that is known of llio Tedigrees of Trotting 

 Horse's, their Ancestors anil Descendants. With a 

 Record of all published rerformauces in which a 

 Mile was Trotted or Paced in 2 :40 or less, from the 

 earliest Dates till the close of 1868. And a full Record 

 of the Performances of l^eo and 1870. (riving com- 

 plete Summaries of over 8ix Thousand Contests. 

 With an Introductory Essay on the true Origin of 

 the American Trotter. And a Set of Rules for the 

 Government of all Trials of Speed. By J.H.Wal- 

 lace, Compiler of Wallace's American Stud Book. 

 New York: C E. Woodward ; Boston: A. Williams 

 &Co. 1871. Large Octavo, 504 pages. Price $5. 

 We have not found, in our examination of this 

 volume, any reason to doubt that the author has 

 performed all that he promises in his title page — a 

 remark which, it will be seen by the foregoing 

 copy of that page, is a full compliment to Mr. 

 Wallace's work. Much space is gained by the 

 use of small type, and a condensed tabular form. 

 So much merit has l)ecn claimed for the "thorough- 

 bred" that we were not prepared for the remark by 

 Mr. Wallace that "In all my investigations of this 

 subject I do not now recall a single instance of any 

 respectable trotter having a clear and satisfactory 

 thoroughbred pedigree." Pie does not however 

 undervalue blood, and acknowledges that to a 

 single family or rather to a single individual of the 

 thorough! ireds wc are indebted for the trotter. 

 The volume contains seven illustrations of cele- 

 brated horses. 



The friends of fast horses manifest a liberality in 

 their specialty which it would be well for the 

 breeders and friends of horses for work to imitate. 



March 9, the Champlain "Valley Horticultural 

 Society was formed, eraljracing those parts of Ver- 

 mont, New York and Canada which border this 

 beautiful lake, and officers were elected. 



I'nuidi nt—\j. M. Hagar, Burlington, Vt. 



Viri' J'ffKuli Jits— W'm. H BaiUy, Plattsburg, N. Y. ; 

 Mr. Watson, Phillipsburg, P. Q., and Dr. A. T. Wood- 

 ward, Brandon, Vt. 



Recording Secretary— II. J. White, Shclbum, Vt. 



Corresponding Secretary — C. G. Pringle, Charlotte, 

 Vt. 



A Board of Trustees was also elected and a vote 

 passed to hold the fir.st exhibition at Burlington 

 some time early in the fall of this year. • 



Champlain Valley. — In addition to the ad- 

 vantages of a rich soil, the farmers and gardeners 

 who occupy land near the l)road lake enjoy a cli- 

 mate considerably modilied by this body of water, 

 both in respect to mildness and humidity. Con- 

 sidering its high latitude, the valley of Lake Cham- 

 plain is peculiarly favorable to horticulture and 

 fruit growing. At a meeting held in Burlington, 



OFFICERS OF AG'L SOCIETIES. 



North Franklin, Me., Farmers' Ci.vK—IYen., 

 Sewuvd Dill, Phillips; Sei:., Henry P. Dill, Pliillips. 



Washington CoiNTV, N. Y., Pren., Berry Long; 

 Cor. Sec, Milo Ingalsbe, South Hartford. 



PiioFiTABLE Faemixg. — Charlcs A. Sylvester, 

 Esq., the President of the Caledonia county, Vt., 

 Agricultural Society, bought a farm in Barnet six- 

 teen years ago for )^4000, having at that time a cap- 

 ital of .f 3000. He has recently sold his farm for 

 $(11,000, having at the same time over .'Ji>2400 worth 

 of personal property — so says a correspondent of 

 the Vermont Fanner. 



SHEEP IN IOWA. 



I keep a thousand sheep on my farm. I 

 am often asked if it pays to keep sheep. I 

 think it pays as well as any thing I keep. 

 The manure will pay alone. They will ma- 

 nure fifty acres well each }ear — twenty-five in 

 summer and the otb<-r half in winter. Now, 

 let us see if it will not pay. I calculate that 

 fifty acres manured will produce in ten year.s 

 one hundred or more bushels of corn ])er acre 

 more than if not manured. That would make 

 five thousand bushels in favor of manured 

 land. At 25 cts. per bushel, this would be 

 $2550. This may seem large to some. Re- 

 duce it one-half and it pays twenty-five dollars 

 an acre. 



Five acres on whicli I yarded my sheep are 

 rich enough to produce one thousand bushels 

 of beets per acre, a total of five thousand 

 bushels. One hundred acres of corn at fifty 

 bushels per acre would produce five tliousand 

 bushels. Feed this to two hundred and fifty 

 pigs, allowing twenty bushels each of corn and 

 beets to each pig, and you ought to have a 

 .'500-{)ound hog, worth at present prices, 

 $22.50, or for the two hundred and fifty hogs, 

 $5625.00. Give the sheep credit for one-half 

 of this, which will make $2812.50. This may 

 also appear large. Redtuie it one-half, which 

 will nuike $1406.50 in favor of the sheep. 



This is not all. I have two hundred fat 

 wethers worth five dollars each — or will be 

 next June, when I get the wool from them. 

 Now what is the total in favor of the sheep ? 

 Four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. 

 — J. 1). Kllsworth, Benninyton, Jotva, in 

 Iowa Homestead. 



