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Title: The Farmers' cabinet, and American herd-book
Year: 1840 (1840s)
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Subjects: Agriculture -- Periodicals Agriculture -- United States Periodicals
Publisher: Philadelphia : Kimber & Sharpless
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
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the kind of corn removed, thatshould any incline to use the sled, they mayregulate the distance at which their poles, orshafts, are placed by the height of their corn,so that the ends of the stalks may not dragon the ground. Mine is simply two cedar poles, 17 feetlong, borne up and drawn precisely as shaftsto a cart, while the other ends, dressed a lit-tle rounding on the under side, slide upon theground; two sloats (which are but boardsspiked on) are fixed across the poles to keepthem at a proper distance apart, one of themat the distance of 4 feet from the end, theother at 10 feet, and having each of them twoinch auger-holes bored, in which are fixedfour pieces of laths as uprights to support thecorn as it is piled on the sled,—these uprightsor supports are the better fijr being set inwith a slight inclination backward, that toomuch weight may not be thrown on the horsesback. An article so simple that any smallfarmer like himself can make it, L. August 28, 184J. No. 2. Blossom. 57
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BLOSSOM. The Property of Samuel Canby, Esq. Mr.Canbt having politely furnished us with an account of tlie milking of his cow Blossom the present season,Mr. Woodfide was induced to take a second portait of her, conscious that he had not been able to do her justiceon a former occasion, when slie was nearly off her milk. She is here given as a perfect likeness, both in thedrawing and engraving; and our pages may now boast of faithful portraits of two of the most remarkable milk-ing C0W3 in the Union —Dairy Maid and Blossom.— Ed. To the Editor of the Farmers Cabinet. Dear Sir, — At your request, I send you a statement of my Durham cow Blossom, hermilking, &c. Unfortunately, her calving so late as she has, both last year and this, hasthrown the trial into warm weather, which is against her, particularly in the yield of butter,as, for want of a spring-house, we have to keep our milk in a cellar. You will perceive thereis a great gain over last year in the butter, more than the inc

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