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wagon wheels, revolve with them. Geer from the axle 

 direct into the cylinder. Have a revolving band on the 

 centre of the axle, to which the coupling rod can be at- 

 tached, and then the whole of the sowing apparatus can 

 be attached to a common wagon, and not cost over $20. 

 If the present machine is patented, my improvement is 

 not; so all creation may use it if they like. There is no 

 doubt, in my mind, about the feasibility of the alteration. 



Colic in Horses. — The recipe is very good,^ but the dif- 

 ficulty is to know whether the complaint is colic. I have 

 seen a good many horses die with a complaint that ap- 

 peared like colic, which no medicine on earth could cure 

 after the horse showed symptoms similar to colic. The 

 directions for prevention are therefore the most valuable 

 of the two.^ 



The Superior Corn Bread, found at Bement's Hotel, I 

 have eaten there, and endorse "good;" but I have eaten 

 the superior of it made in a southern negro cabin, with 

 meal and water only, thoroughly worked into stiff dough 

 and palatably salted, then laid between two cabbage 

 leaves and buried like a potato to roast in the hot embers 

 of a wood fire. Such corn bread is good — cheap — easily 

 made — but never grind the meal fine. This is where the 

 English will fail — they talk of "flour of Indian corn;" 

 that spoils it most surely. 



Succotash. — All right Mr. Farmer and Gardener. Hope 

 all your readers have got the pork, and will follow your 

 plain directions to cook this excellent dish, which is often 

 spoilt in making 



Adulteration of Milk. — There is but one way that I can 

 see which will be likely to secure us pure milk in the city 

 of New York; and that is, by establishing an extensive 

 milk company under the surveillance of the police, sub- 



^ It prescribed "a strong decoction of soot tea, to which add half 

 a pint of whisky ... if relief is not obtained in a few minutes, 

 give an injection of soap suds, with a gill of strong decoction of 

 tobacco, and a little salt added." American Agriculturist, 5:277. 



* The preventive called for lime, salt, ashes, or salt water used in 

 the food. Ibid. 



