The New England farmer . lt, it has no name, As well each workman knows. Ye sons of toil who wield the hoe, Or daily speed ihc plough,Or elsewhere hoe lifes painful row, Wiih sweat upon the brow, Toil on I say, theres one grand thought. Which should encourage you ;Good health and btrtngth cannot be bought, So let u« hoe it ibrough. —H. K. Fisher, in Jmerican Farmer. Ayrshires eor the Southwest.—A ladyof great intelligence, and of much experiencewith improved cattle, writes to a frienu of theSouth Land, as follows : After an experience oftwenty years, the J?/rs/a>es have proved to bethe only
The New England farmer . lt, it has no name, As well each workman knows. Ye sons of toil who wield the hoe, Or daily speed ihc plough,Or elsewhere hoe lifes painful row, Wiih sweat upon the brow, Toil on I say, theres one grand thought. Which should encourage you ;Good health and btrtngth cannot be bought, So let u« hoe it ibrough. —H. K. Fisher, in Jmerican Farmer. Ayrshires eor the Southwest.—A ladyof great intelligence, and of much experiencewith improved cattle, writes to a frienu of theSouth Land, as follows : After an experience oftwenty years, the J?/rs/a>es have proved to bethe only cows able to stand the severity of aSouthern summer. The Durham and Devonstock are both liable to fevers, and conse-quently to a great decrease of milk; but theAyrshire thrive perfectly even upon the com-mon pasturage of the country. The Devonwhen mixed with the Ayrshire, make very fineoxen. But for milking purposes, the Ayr-shire exceed all others, becoming as hardy asthe Creole cows. 1870. NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 257. BONE MANURE. ONG as bones havebeen used as a fer-tilizer, their effectand operation arenot well understoodby farmers. It hasbeen supposed thatthe nutritive prop-erties of bones,•when applied tothe soil, are rapidlyexhausted. This,however, appearsnot to be the England, where the actual value of manu-res is estimated on the basis of experiments,and where exactness is observed in analyses,it has been ascertained that the mineral con-stituents of the bone—particularly the phos-phates—are discoverable in the soil for yearsafter bone manure has been applied, even whentae ground has been cropped with vegetablessupposed, or rather known, to appropriatethis manure in what may be termed excessivequantities. As there are still many who are not willingto grant much efficacy to bone manure, and asit has been sharply criticised on several recentoccasions, it is well to present something onthe other side of the question, and we, there-fore, give below the chief
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