226 THE FARMER'S AND ^ 



REMEDY FOR FILM IN THE EYE OF A BEAST. 



A correspondent of the " Yankee Farmer," suggests what 

 he considers a new remedy for a film, produced by a 

 blow, or other accidental causes of similar nature, viz : 

 spitting tobacco juice into the eye of the animal. He 

 remarks that he has seen it tried only twice, arid each 

 time with entire success ; and with very sensible caution 

 concludes, by saying, "the remedy requires to be more 

 fully established." We can assure our cautious friend, 

 that the remedy has been fully established down South 

 for years. The memories of our oldest tobacco-chewers, 

 reach not the antiquity of its discovery. We have often 

 seen tobacco juice spit in a horse's eye when weeping or 

 looking weak, and entire relief afforded. 



THE POLL EVIL. 



The poll-evil is generally the result of a bruise on the 

 top of the horse's head, which produces a mass of corrupt 

 flesh, that keeps continually increasing for months. For 

 a number of months we have known horses to be afflicted 

 with it before dying. They lose their appetite, become 

 excessively weak, and pine away, and die under its af- 

 fliction. 



TREATMENT. Cut open the pipe always found in the 

 sore, and put in a piece of saleratus. Two or three ap- 

 plications will cure. 



The " Southern Planter" says, that an old gentleman ot 

 the highest respectability, called at the office a few days 

 since, to say that he had an unfailing remedy in the little 

 evergreen, commonly called the ground ivy. The leaf 

 is gathered and dried before the fire until it can be pound- 

 ed, when a table-spoonful is mixed with an equal quantity 

 of slacked lime, and the swelling having been laid open 

 to the bone, the mixture is laid on the wound and kept in 



