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follows, with the second plough, and throws the new layer 

 on the top of the old, and thus the work proceeds. The 

 Fall is the proper time tor performing the operation. 



TUMORS. Mr. Bartlet directs, that when these appear 

 on the poll, withers, under the jaws, or in the groins of 

 Horses, they should be forwarded by ripening poultices of 

 oatmeal boiled soft in milk, mixed with oil and lard, and 

 applied twice a day. till the matter is perceived to grow soft 

 and move under the fingers ; and then it should be let out 

 by a sufficiently lurge opening with the lancet Let the 

 opening be full as far as the matter extends. After cleans- 

 ing the sore, apply pledgiis of tow, spread with a salve, or 

 ointment, made of Venice turpentine, beeswax, oil of olives, 

 and yellow rosin ; and let these be administered twice a day, 

 if the discharge is great, till a proper digestion takes place, 

 when it should be changed for pledgits spread with the red 

 precipitate ointment, applied in the same manner. 



Should the sore not digest, but run a thin water, foment 

 it as ofcen as you dress it, and apply over the dressing a 

 strong beer-poultice, and continue this till the matter grows 

 thick and the sore florid. Should any proud flesh get into 

 the sore, wash it as often as you dress it with a solution of 

 blue-vitriol in water, or spinkle it with burnt-allum and 

 precipitate. If these should not prove sufficiently powerful, 

 apply caustics, by washing it with a solution of half an 

 ounce of corrosive sublimate in a pint of water. Where 

 the sore can be tightly compressed with a bandage, how- 

 ever, these funguses may be generally prevented. 



Tumors, caused by bruises, should, if necessary, be bath- 

 ed with hot vinegar or verjuice ; and then a flannel cloth 

 should be wraped round the part, if it can be done. If this 

 does not abate the swelling, especially if it be in either of 

 the legs, poultice it twice a day, after bathing it with wine- 

 lees, or beer-grounds and oatmeal, or with vinegar, oil, and 

 oatmeal, till the swelling abates; when, in order to disperse 

 it entirely, let it be bathed twice a day with a mixture of 

 two ounces of crude sal ammoniac in a quart of chamber- 

 He, having rags diped in this and laid on. 



Where the extravasated blood is not dispersed by these 

 means, let an opening be made in the skin, and let the 

 blood out, and then heal the wound. 



TURNIPS. There are two species of these; the com- 

 mon turnip, or brassica rafia* of which there are varieties; 

 and the cabbage-turnip, or brassica caulorafia. which is also 

 called the Swedish turnip, or ruta baga, They are each 

 generally considered in 'Greatbritain, and elsewhere, as 

 roots of the first importance, in point of profit, for field- 



