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turpentine applied to the hollow of the head at the root of the 

 horns once or twice. Keeping cattle fat is not always a preven- 

 tive. I had a cow wintered over in high condition ; first of June 

 she came in, was fat, and gave a large iness of milk, and yet she 

 had the hollow horn severel}'. I cured her by the above treat- 

 ment in ten da^'S. 



Tape Worm. 



Dr. P. J. Becker, Auburn, N. Y., April 2, 1867 : Some six or 

 eight weeks ago in reading the debates of the Farmer's Club, I 

 came across a statement from a phj'sician, stating that pumpkin 

 seeds were a cure for tape-worm, and knowing that Mr. J. EUiot, 

 a druggist in this city, had a little sou afflicted with this terrible 

 scourge (he having occasionally passed small parts of it), I sent it 

 to him. On Saturday last (March 30), having succeeded in pro- 

 curing some pumpkin seed, he peeled, mashed them into a mass of 

 some two ounces, and gave them to his boy. After two or three 

 hours, gave a good dose of castor oil, and in the course of five 

 hours from the time he began taking the seeds, he discharged a com- 

 plete tape- worm with head and all its parts, twelve feet in length. 



The boy, Avho is in his seventh year, has been pining away for 

 months, and his parents had begun to despair of his living, but 

 now hope brightens every prospect. 



Adjourned. 



, Apnl 16, 1867. 



Mr. Nathan C. Ely in the chair; Mr. John W. Chambers, Sec'y. 



Distribution of Flower Seeds. 



The Secretary stated that Mr. Norman Wiard, the celebrated 

 engineer and manufacturer of cannon, seeing the great number of 

 letters asking for flower seeds, purchased $10 worth at a cele- 

 brated seed store, and presented them to the club for distribution. 



Mrs. Susan G. Briggs, Crum Elbow, Dutchess Co., N. Y., also 

 has sent a large quantity of flower seeds for the same purpose. 

 They were done up in packages and beautifully labeled. Within 

 the last five days, the secretary received 700 letters from 19 

 difierent States. These seeds generally are sent to new locations, 

 to ornament homes which otherwise would be cheerless. 



Campbell & Labaw's Truck Springs. 

 Mr. W. S. Carpenter, from the committee on Campbell & Labaw's 

 Truck Springs, reported that they witnessed a practical trial of a 



