tgO Miscellaneous, 



moisten the spot with water, aud to rinse it afterwards ill 

 water also. 



Remedies against the Epidemy in Cattle. — 'It has been 

 long known that nettles form an excellent food for cattle, 

 and that they increase the milk of cows. This plant is also 

 an excellent remedy against epidemical diseases^ which 

 are frequently the effect of bad food in the stable. In 

 Sweden the salutary effects of nettles are particularly con- 

 spicuous, where they are administered to the horned cattle 

 regularly every spring in great quantities, 



M. Scheidlin, botanist to the court of Wirtemberg, has 

 proved by a multitude of experiments that Angelica (Ange- 

 lica satis^a hortensis, Linn,) is an excellent preservative 

 against cattle epidemics. EJe bruized the roots of this plant, 

 and gave a handful to each cow, morning, noon, and night, 

 along with its ordinary food. Cows ate it greedily, and 

 were not attacked with the disease. He also mixed it with 

 the water they drank. 



The leaves and roots of Angelica dried and reduced into 

 powder, and strewed over bread, or other food, have the 

 same virtues. This root grows spontaneously in shady and 

 humid places, and it may be planted with good effect in 

 case of need. 



Mastic for resisting the Action of Fire and IVaier.^-^Thc 

 following directions are given in the foreign journals, for 

 preparing a composition of this description { — Take half a 

 pint of milk, mix with it an equal quantity of vinegar, so 

 as to coagulate the milk ; separate the curds from the whey, 

 mix ihe latter wiih the whites of four or five eggs, after having 

 beat them well up. The mixture of these two substances 

 being complete, add quick-lime to them which has been 

 passed through a sieve ; make the whole into a thick paste 

 to be of the consistency of putty, when you use it. 



If this mastic is carefully applied to broken bodies or to 

 fissuresof any kind, and dried properly afterwards, it resists 

 water and fire. M. Skogo, a merchant of Carlskrona, 

 closed a hr^ crack in the bottom of a large iron cauldon, m 



which 



