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thirty miles, to his farm iu the south part of Medina County. They 

 soon began to sicken, and our correspondent has obtained from Mr. 

 Chamberlain and forwarded the following statement of the disease and 

 treatment. 



Out of the 37, 30 were affected, and 15 died. The others are now doing well. Symp- 

 toms : The cattle look dull iu the eyes, have hot horns, are weak in the liind parts, 

 always want to lie down, try to get aa near water as possible, their urine highly colored, 

 their breath heavy, and they seem to be in great pain. Those that were worst had no 

 movement of the bowels. If a movement could be effected when they were not too 

 far gone, they got well. They were at times a little cross in temper. The medicine 

 given was salts and ginger. It did good work. 



Products in Southern Tennessee. — A correspondent in Marion 

 County, which lies on the border of North Carolina, just west of Chatta- 

 nooga, is authority for the following statement: A neighbor of his 

 "cow-penned" oue-fourth of an acre of mountain land for one year. 

 He then planted it with Eusset potatoes, and between the potato-hills 

 planted corn. The returns were, 200 bushels of potatoes and 15 bushels 

 of corn; that is at the rate of 800 bushels of potatoes and 60 bushels 

 of corn to the acre. 



The same correspondent sends to the Department a specimen of wild 

 grass, together with its seed, which proves to be Sorghum nutans, very 

 common on western prairies. He states: " It grows on very poor soil, 

 from C to 8 feet high, and it makes very good hay, which cattle and 

 horses eat with a relish. It is up earlier in the spring and withers later 

 in the fall than almost any other of the native grasses." 



Eamie in California. — Experiments made by Dr. Drury in growing 

 ramie the present season in Kern County have been quite successful. 

 He had produced plants 7 to 10 feet in height, and in sufficient quan- 

 tity to plant, as he intends, 40 acres the coining season. It is claimed 

 that the hitherto-existing impracticability of separating the fiber from 

 the stalk has now been overcome by the invention of a machine which 

 does it effectually, and at the rate of 1,400 pounds of cleaned and 

 dressed fiber per day. 



