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whey. Europeans rejoice over the rich, sweet American l)utter, 

 while we are so unaccountably stupid as to be satisfied with the 

 buttermilk. Our farmers dig and delve, and rake and scrape 

 their grain fields, meadows and pastures, to get phosphatic ferti- 

 lizers to send to Europe to produce big crops of turnips, and then 

 grumble and denounce their own land as ijood for nothinof be- 

 cause their turnips refuse to grow as they do in eastern countries. 

 The truth on this point is, American farmers must save and apply 

 more manure to their impoverished land; especially must they 

 save bones for growing a crop of turnips. As soon as we can pro- 

 duce a bountiful crop of turnips we can grow wheat. Wheat and 

 turnips in England go hand in hand. 



Remedy for the Garget. 



Mr. Henry A. D wight, Northampton, Mass., inquired if the 

 Club could inform him of a radical cure for the garget? And can 

 the milk of a cow nearly dry, in consequence of distemper, be 

 restored except by parturition? 



Mrs. Wordeu, wife of a dairyman in Otsego county, N. Y., 

 said her husband was accustomed to give pieces of " scoke root" 

 to cows having the garget in the udder. 



Mr. S. Edwards Todd said that the garget proceeds from differ- 

 ent causes. Consequently a different remedy is necessary in each 

 case. When a cow has the p^arget soon after she has come in, the 

 remedy suggested by Mrs. Worden is a good one. A piece of 

 "scoke root," or poke root, as large as a person's two first fin- 

 gers, sliced thin, and mingled Avith the feed, will be sufficient for 

 one dose in a day. But when garget in the udder proceeds from 

 the kick, with a big boot, of some ill-natured milker, or from the 

 udder's having been hooked or bruised by some other animal, 

 repeated bathing with cold water and manipulating with the hand, 

 will be the most effectual remedy. It is almost impossible to 

 restore the milk of a cow to a full and al)undant flow after she has 

 become partly dry by disease, until after she has dropped another 

 calf. 



Trichina. 



Dr. Rufus King Brown delivered an address on the Trichinas 

 which was very instructive. The following are the points made 

 in the doctor's discourse: 



Trichinm or Death by Flesh Worm. — The accounts of disease 

 and death by this malady are true, but have not been correctly 



