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horges for producing a smooth coal. They are 

 quite useless /or either purpose, at least as they are 

 given, only one or two al a time. IT ihey are to 

 (io any good the horse would need a dozen ol' them 

 or tliereat)oii:s, I should think. One or two, how- 

 ever, can have no good ell'ect. The egg i? chip- 

 ped, starred as they call it, all round, and given 

 raw, like a ball. 



Several, many horses have been lost by the egg 

 sticking in the throat, and producing sufTocation. 

 If eggs must be given, let them be liroken and 

 mixed with a mash, or boiled hai'd and added to 

 the corn. But I see no need lor them in any 

 shape. 



Milk. — In this country, milk is not used as an 

 article ol'lood lor grown up horses. Occasionully 

 it is given to stallions in the covering season. A 

 mash is made ol'milk, bran, and oil-cid-:e, ground ; 

 and in Ayrshire, whey is li-equenily given to stal- 

 lions as a drink. It is supposed to be "amatory 

 food." The Arabs, in traversing the Desert are 

 said to give iheir horses camels' milk wlien Ibrage 

 Jails. Major Denhatn, speaking of some bores 

 he met with among the Tiiioos, says — " two of 

 them were very handsome, though small ; and on 

 remarking their extreme liitness, I was not a litile 

 surprised to learn that they were led entirely on 

 camel's milk, corn bein<; too scarce and valuable 

 an article lor the Tibous to spare them. 'J'hey 

 drink it both sweet and sour; and animals in 

 higher condition 1 scarcely ever saw."* 



Mares' Milk. — For the first six months of the 

 young horse's life, his principal (bod is mare's 

 rnilk. He begins to eat much sooner, but lew are 

 entirely weaned belbre this lime. Farm mares 

 are usually put to gentle work two or three weeks 

 after parturiiion. Her work should be moderate 

 and her diet subslaniial. She is olten treated as 

 if work could have no influence on the milk. When 

 she has much to do, the milk is neiiher irood nor 

 abundant, and the foal is half-starved. Tlie foal 

 is sometimes permitted to Ibllow his dam to the 

 field, where be may occasionally suckle her. This 

 renders the Ibal lamiliar, and at an early age recon- 

 .cileshim to sutijection,and it prevents engorgement 

 nf the udder. Bad weather, or the nature of the 

 mare's work, may forbid the practice. When the 

 mare comes home, the foal is put to suck her. In 

 some places, the milk is previously stripped on 

 the ground, and the udder baihed with cold water, 

 or vinegar and water. This is not necessary, it 

 is supposed that the milk is injured and pernicious 

 when the mare is over-heated ; but, in the first 

 place, her work should never be so severe as to 

 over-heat her ; and, in the second, the milk is no! 

 apparently altered when she is. Hard work will 

 diminish the quantity of milk, and render it less 

 nutritious, but it will do no more. It' the Ibal be 

 withheld till the udder be gorged and distended, a 

 little inflammation will take place, and the milk will 

 < be bad. In such case it is proper to draw off a 

 portion before the Ibal is put to it ; and it may also 

 he proper to bathe the udder with cold water. But 

 to empty it or to bathe it merely because the mare 

 Jias been perspiring, is absurd; and to neglect both 

 mare and Ibal till the udder needs such treatment 

 betrays very bad management. 



* Denham's Travels in Africa. 



THE HOLLOW HORN. — A FAIR OFFER. 



From the Wayne Sentinel. 



Within a few days we have heard several farm- 

 ers Irom the surrounding country complain that 

 their cattle have the hollow born. We have had 

 a liitle experience in the management of cattle, 

 and know something about ibis " hollow born." 

 and we are satisfied that it is nothing more nor 

 less than an aitendant, a sort of hanger-on, of that 

 worsi ol" all diseases among cattle, the hollow 

 belly. We know men who have cattle that during 

 the whole winier have been exposed to the '' piti- 

 less pellings" ofthe storms, vvitha snowdrift or an 

 ice cake lor a bed, and with nothing but a scanty 

 pittance of jirairie hay or musty straw lor Ibod, an<l 

 who now wonder that their caiile have the lioilow 

 horn ! The v/onder should lie that they have any 

 caMie liviiiix. 



We will nud<e the Ibllowing proposals to all 

 those owning cattle. Keep them under shelier 

 (luring the storms and cold weaiher ol'next winter. 

 A hovel, built ofloiis and covered with coarse hay 

 or straw, standing in a dry place, is sufficient lor 

 this. Salt them twice a week regularly; give 

 them a sufficiency of wholesome provender, ami 

 water at all limes, and each of them a mess of po- 

 tatoes or turnips al least two or three times a week. 

 Keep your working cattle shod, ami it you work 

 them hard, leed and nurse them accordingly. Do 

 not beat them ; never let them stand in the cold 

 longer than is absolutely necessary; particulaily 

 when you drive them to lown with a load ol'iirain 

 or wood, or lor any other purpose ; do not let them 

 stand in the street hungry and shiverinir, hour 

 afier hour, while you are in a grocery drinking and 

 caiousiiiiT. Follow these directions liiirly, accord- 

 ing to their true intent arui meaning, and in the 

 spring we will enirage to pay lor all ihe damage 

 you have sustained by the " hollow horn." 



HELIAKTHUS, OR SUN-FLOWER PLAJXT. 



From the Madisoiiiaa. 



We presume that it is not generally known that 

 this plant, which is often regarded as a worse than 

 useless cumberer of the ground, is cultivated ex- 

 tensively in some parts ol' the Untied States, and 

 turned to a very valuable account in a variety of 

 ways. The versatility of its powers, so to speak, 

 are even greater than the morusmuliicaulis. We 

 have belbre us a letter lion) a firm in Pennsylva- 

 nia which gives us some interesting facts, which 

 we think are worthy of publicity. 



The oil derived from the sun-flowerseed is pret- 

 ty well known. Its excellence for fancy painting 

 and druggist use is said to be confirmed, and we 

 are even told that it is ecjual, if not superior to al- 

 mond or olive oil for table use. One acre of 

 ground will produce from forty to fifty bushels of 

 seed, and sometimes much more. Good seed will 

 produce a gallon of oil to the bushel, and the oil 

 has been sold at ^1 50 per gallon when flaxseed 

 oil stood at 00 cents. The refuse after the oil ia 

 expressed, is said to be a valuable food for cattle. 



The leaf is manufactured into cigars of a mild 

 pleasant flavor, possessing, as it is said, powerful 

 pectoral properties, highly commended by physi- 

 cians in many diseases ofthe chest. The leaves. 



