Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1867-09-20

to the New York Farmers Club, Mr. j l..
Humphrey, of New Bedford, gives the follow
ing account of the management b. which his
cows are exempt from caked bag, ami other
diseases which sffiict the daries
- never had any trouble in that direction
no matter how fat tie may be at the
time of calVing keep the best COWS that
| get, and find it the most profitable for
NV purpose to have them calye only once III
eighteen months. | feed modera tely grain
generally oats and corn mixed, with the
addition of roots during the winter-so that
my COWS. though they may milk down thin
during the first six eight months, Will
always come up again IN flesh before dry
them Off never let them 20 dry more than
two months three is better If t OtcIrs ia
summer. and ] always take away the graz in
as they are dry and sometimes before,
/ if too much inclined t. milk. For two OF
three weeks before calying keep them on
spare but laxative diet-it in winter early
cut hay or corn fodder and hay with Il few
roots but straw. After ealving give one
pound OF Epson salts and few hours after
IL warn bran mash-scalding the bran with
boiling wdtcr-commencing to feed little
/ hay in twelve hours from calvins, and grad
uaIly increasing to full feed after twoor three
day No. Since have ga. sa@6!sfb but th What would
readily yield to few applications Of hot wa
| ter followed Dy dfv running
FArrESlNG FowLs-All summer lou. the
farm er and his family have fused with the
poultry; the young chickens and turkeys
need care in the long rain storms, and protec-
tion against nocturnal depredators. Just as
they are fully grown and out of danger the
shrewd huckster makes his appearance. buys,
fattens, and prepares them for market and
| pockets the profit for his smartness.
obviously the farmer had better ftten his
! fowls and send them market himself. He
can do it with less trouble, preha ps, than he
imagines Feed literally at all times. 80 az
to keep them growing thrifty, but about
twenty days before being slaughtered feed
them lii this way make coop for one doz
en- fowls more should not be put together
The coop should be three feet long. two wide
and two and hat high. Make the sides of
| bars, and about three inches apart, and the
top of board. Place this i'll ii comfortable
room. elevated two feet from the floor, in the
! barn or poultry house. where the cold winds
will be kept away, and where the light will
be dim. Attach feeding trougbs all around
the outside. Commence feeding very light,
giving little but water the first dav. Then
| feed regularly three or four meals per day
! with the richest food, a oat meal mixed with
milk, boiled barley corn. Observe the ut
most cleanliness, and give supply OF fresh
water. In twenty days the poultry should
he killed. and for such the farmer would find
plenty of greedy buyers. willing to pay the
I highest price -Ruraf Neic YORKER.
rnl HARVEST OF IsG7-rhe grain and
! other staples of the country being now fairly
harvested and the yield known, the following
statement. compiled by an accurate observer
may be of interest showing the relative
\
/ the various staples.
I Illinois, according to tins report. j. Iunch
! the largest producer OF Indian corn more
/ than One-sixth Of the whole crop OF the
country being grown there. and also the
largest producer Of oats. yielding more than
20 per cent. OF the whole and of hav more
than ~ per cent. Pennsylvania takes the
lead in tine production of rye. giving near
One-thrd Of the product of the whole conn
try, and in buckwheat over - per cent. New
Jersey produces more rye than any other
state, according 10 population. New York
takes the lead III the production Of barley
about 40 per cent. of the whole product being
raised here. Virginia takes the lead in tobac-
co her crop is about 80 per cent of the
whole. New York Pennsylvania and New
Jersey together produce two thirds Of all the
rye. New York stands the tenth state in the
production OF Indian corn being exceeded hv
Illinois, Indiana. Ohio, Iowa, Tennessee Penn
sylvania. Virginia. Kentucky and Missouri
In wheat New York is exceeded by Illinois,
Wisconsin, Michigan and iowa. Illinois
alone has ia corn about ) 200 900 acres in
whea', 2, 1876 600 acres in rye, 345, 900
acres in oats, sS3 900 acres in barley, 4 :
900 acres.
The southern staples, cotton, rice and su gar
cannot, Of course, enter into this estimate
but the statistics of these crops for this year
are, considering all things, exceedingly favor
able. Altogether the harvest of 1867 is one
of the most bounttul ever gathered in this
country.
( PtTTISG Up BUTTsR.-An extensive dairy
men of New York State says