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These cattle were turned into the fields from the woods, 

 while the peas were fresh and green, and in a day or two 

 after, he was told that one of the herd was dead. He 

 rode out directly to examine, and found two more dead, 

 having- dropped down suddenly, and without showing any 

 symptoms of disease; and on opening them while still 

 warm, he found no signs of inflammation. They were all 

 very fat. The only signs of being affected by this mys- 

 terious cause of death, as he subsequently observed, was 

 in the discharge of dung, which had a dark grumous ap- 

 pearance, more like blue clay mixed with dirty water and 

 very soft. On being turned out into the woods again, 

 they became healthy until some weeks after, when on be- 

 ing admitted to the field were again attacked, and several 

 died. The same result followed the same course at a 

 later period, when the peavines had all been killed by 

 frost. 



Hogs, that are affected by eating peas, show sickness 

 before dying and on being opened present the same ap- 

 pearance as when dying of kidney worm, and a thick, 

 glutinous matter stops the neck of the bladder. Mr. Wat- 

 son cures hogs, when seen in time, by feeding large quan- 

 tities of warm, greasy slop, very salt. To prevent their 

 being affected, they should be fed liberally with corn, and 

 well salted, both before turning into pea fields, and while 

 they are in. 



One of the good results of making good channels of 

 communication between town and country, is seen along 

 the Vicksburg and Jackson Railroad. The cutting and 

 sending wood to the river for 15 or 20 miles back is found 

 more profitable than a cotton crop. Dr. E. H. Bryon, at 

 whose place I spent a night in Havre^ county, has found 

 this particularly so. And as the banks of the Mississippi 

 are becoming rapidly denuded of their forest growth, the 

 time is near when wood from the interior lands will have 

 to be sent in to supply the almost inconceivable enormous 

 consumption by steamboats, and sugar making. Wood 



* Warren or Hinds County must have been intended here. 



