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of its being; almost wholly under fiffound.* This 

 seems to be the only wholesome water in Rome; 

 and such as prefer ^ood water to (rood air, choose 

 to live in this quarter of" the city, notwithstanding 

 its low situation. Since then there remains but 

 one ancient aqueduct in Rome, it is less strange, i 

 that the aqueducts in the country have lain totally j 

 neglected ; and, as the expense in repairing them • 

 is too considerable for private persons, it has 

 obliged many to seek habitations in other parts. 

 It cannot be denied, that the principal towns in 

 the district are supplied with a sufficient quantity 

 of fountains ; but the thinly-scattered people, who 

 inhabit the miserable hovels in the country, are 

 destitute of this advantage ; they have, for the 

 most part, neither springs nor cisterns, nor even 

 wells ; but are obliged to fetch the water for all 

 uses whatever from stagnated pools, which occa- 

 sions such distempers as are common to places in 

 a similar situation. We may add to this, that the 

 cattle cannot subsist there during the summer, 

 without the utmost hazard ; and that it is usual 

 for them to die very fast in a dry winter; a mis- 

 fortune which befalls even the sheep, as the shep- 

 herds have assured me : and it is well known, 

 that, in harvest-time, the reapers frequently pay 

 more for water than l(.)r wine, as the former is so 

 scarce, and sometimes brought Irom a greater dis- ! 

 tance. Upon the whole, the want of good waier 

 will suggest naturally a reason for the desolated 

 state of the districts of Rome ; though it is cer- 

 tain, that this is chiefly to be attributed to the 

 abuse of the chamber of corn, which will be the 

 subject of a future paper. J. S. 



REMEDY FOR THE GLANDERS AND BLIND 

 STAGGERS IN HORSES. EFFECTUAL REME- 

 DV FOR WORMS IN CHILDREN. 



For tlie Fanners' Register. 



Madison co., Va., jfpril I7th, 1838. 

 Seeing in one of the numbers of the Farmers' | 

 Register an ^c^couii't of a fatal disease prevailing 

 among the horses in some of the lower countries, 

 which I suppose to be the glanders, or blind stag- 

 gers, fi-om the manner in which they are affected; 

 I am induced to communicate to my brother liirm- 

 ers, through your valuable paper, a remedy that 

 I have never known to fail, effecting a cure if 

 practiced in time. Whether the glanders, and 

 what is called blind staggers, is the same disease 

 or not, they are certainly nearly allied. The head 

 i.<5 the seat of the disease in both cases ; it com- 

 mences with violent inflammation of the head, 

 and soon matter forms in the glands between the 

 nostril and brain. The disease prevailed in this 

 neighborhood some twenty years ago. The first 

 horse I had ever seen with the disease belonged 

 to my fiither, who had lost several previous to the 

 one then sick ; the horse was then on his broad- 

 side, and was given up as a hopeless case. I had 

 heard that boring into the scull with a gimlet 

 would relieve them. I procured a large ten penny 

 gimlet, and just between the eves of the horse 1 

 bored in about three inches. This gave vent to 

 the matter which had formed in the glands, the 



*Minus injurise subjacent subterranea, nee gelicidis, 

 nee caloribus exposita. Frontin. 1. 1. §. 121. 



horse appeared to be relieved from pain, and by 

 introducing a probe for a day or two, the horse 

 was upon bis feet and feeding, and in a few weeks 

 was entirely restored, and was a serviceable horse 

 for some years. The next case was a riding horse 

 of my own. Such was the violence of the pain, 

 that he would thrust his head against the side of 

 the stable and bear with his weight tor a minute, 

 then stagger about until he became too weak to 

 stand. I then proceeded to bore with a ten-penny 

 gindet as described in the other case, and in a few 

 weeks the horse was well. 



Whilst I have my pen in my hand I will give 

 you another fact which may profit some of your 

 readers ; I took charge of my estate twenty-seven 

 years ago, having from that time until now from 

 thirty to sixty in family, and within that time have 

 not lost one child under twelve years (either black 

 or white) with the exception of one a few hours 

 after its birth, and I attribute it principally to the 

 Ibllowing remedy, which keeps them free from 

 worms : Take the fat of old bacon sliced and fried 

 in a pan, until the essence is all out of it, take out 

 the rind first, then put as much worm seed as is ne- 

 cessary (vulgarly called Jerusalem oak,) as much 

 sugar or molasses as will make it palitable, give 

 it three mornings in succession. The children 

 will eat it freely, some you will have to restrain 

 from eating too much. Incredible as it may ap- 

 pear, I have known as many as one hundred and 

 twenty or thirty large worms come from a child of 

 three or four years old. lusually give the medi- 

 cine spring and fall. I am satisfied that if the 

 above remedy was more practiced in families, that 

 it would be the means of preserving the lives of 

 many chddren, for if worms are not the imme- 

 diate cause of disease with children, they greatly 

 aggravate disease of any other character. 



J. F. C. 



EXPENSE AND NET POFITS OF M. AMANS CAR- 

 RIER'S WHITE MULBERRY PLANTATIONS. 



Kor the Farmers' Register. 



The readers of the Farmers' Register have 

 already had submitted to them translations of the 

 fourth, fifth, and sixth letters of M. Amans Car- 

 rier to M. Eonafous, which presented the highly 

 interesting details of his practical operations in 

 rearing silk-worm.s, and the estimates of expenses 

 and profits. There still remained another, the 

 seventh letter, concerning his mulbery planting, 

 and written in the same manner of minute detail, 

 the length of which forbids its being given here 

 in full ; and the more as the kind of iree treated of 

 ("the morus alba or white mulberry,) will never be 

 chosen for cultivation in this country, now that the 

 greatly superior value of the morus multicaulis is 

 so well established ; and consequently the post- 

 ponement of returns, no more than the heavy and 

 unusual labors of M. Carrier, will never have to be 

 encountered by any new beginner in this country. 

 But though the details of the experience of the 

 writer in mulberry culture, for this reason, would 

 convey but little instruction, as precepts or practi- 



