SOLON ROBINSON, 1837 77 



Do you know what is meant by "Burr Oak?" The shell 

 of the acorn being fringed or burred, and highly prized 

 as feed for hogs. 



Yours, &c. Solon Robinson. 1 



Remedies and Recipes ; Circulation of Cultivator 



[Albany Cultivator, 4:132-33; Oct., 1837 2 ] 



Lake C H la August 29, 1837. 

 J. Buel, Esq. 3 — Dear Sir — I conceive it to be a duty 

 that each patron of the Cultivator owes, as much as pay- 

 ment for the amount of his subscription, to communicate 

 to you all such facts as he may deem important or bene- 

 ficial to his agricultural brethren, that therefrom you 

 may select such items as have not been, or that you may 

 deem useful to publish. With this view I send you the 

 following scraps: 



diseases of horses. 

 Thistelow and Poll Evil, both of which I have known 

 effectually cured, after breaking, by crowding a lump of 

 pearlash or salseratus into the sore. If the first applica- 

 tion is not effectual, repeat it. The patient should be 

 thoroughly physicked at the same time. 



dysentery, bloody flux, cholera morbus, etc. 

 If there is an "infallible remedy" in the world for any 

 complaint the human system is subject to, there is one 



1 The Conductor of the Cultivator added the following comment : 

 "Mr. Robinson will do us a particular service by sending us seed of 

 the potatoes and corn, as well as of the prairie flowers. The bur, 

 or overank oak, grows in most of the western states — is a beautiful 

 tree, and is distinguished as having the longest leaves, often 15 

 inches, and largest acorns, of any species of the oak." 



3 Reprinted in part in Franklin Farmer, Frankfort, Kentucky, 

 1:61 (October 21, 1837). 



* Jesse Buel, 1778-1839. As founder, editor, and conductor of the 

 Cultivator, Albany, New York, 1834-1839, he greatly influenced 

 contemporary thought. See Dictionary of American Biography, 

 3:238-39. 



