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and he hoped it would result in a reform. All the hospitals, all 

 sick persons, and all having the charge of children, are deeply- 

 interested in this question. 



Mr. N. C. Meeker said the difficulty partly lay a great way ofl'. 

 Farmers themselves know all about it. It is almost impossible 

 to get good flour or good wheat in the W^est from the large mer- 

 chant mills, not because they do not make good flour, but because 

 they have great inducements to ship it elsewhare, and to turn the 

 farmer ofl" with flour and shorts. If one takes his wheat to a poor 

 little water mill, or where they do a small business and know little 

 about milling, he will be almost certain to get flour of the first 

 quality. The trouble is that Boston and Massachusetts folks are 

 too sharp for New- York folks. They have inspectors who will not 

 pass bad flour; then their buyers go out west, particularly to St. 

 Louis and Cincinnati, and make engagements for first-class white 

 wheat flour — they pay for it, and they get it. So extensive and 

 shrewd are their operations, that the people of the West are about 

 as bad ofl' as the people of this city. 



Worms in Horses. 



A Young farmer writes from Danbury, Conn., "I have a horse 

 troubled with worms. They are about two inches long. Will 

 you iilform me the best remedy for them? I have tried all I can 

 hear of thoroughly; but without eflicacy." 



Mr. S. Edwards Todd replied that calomel is sometimes given 

 as a vermifuge. But it should never be administered except by 

 an experienced veterinarian; and even then it is a dangerous med- 

 icine. Sometimes a dose of physic will remove the long white 

 worms. In some instances, a worm ball is given the horse, con- 

 sisting of two drachms of emetic tartar, with a scruple of gino-er 

 made into a ball with linseed meal and treacle, or molasses, which 

 should be given every morning, half an hour before the horse is 

 fed. Sometimes an injection of a quart of warm linseed oil will 

 be found efficacious. An ounce of aloes dissolved in warm water, 

 used as an injection, is also efiectual. 



P. T. Quinn said he has fed common brown sugar with excel- 

 lent eflfect for worms. 



Growing Acorns. 



Mr. W. R. Price, Flushing, L. I., having presented to the Club 

 two species of the Quercus Cerris for distribution, writes: " There 

 is no difficulty whatever in making acorns grow." He says: "Put 



