1839] 



FARMERS' REGISTER. 



755 



ately, again in March, and again immediately be- 

 fore planting 7 Shall I plonch it twice, and 

 when ? Or shall I plough only once, and when 7 

 Shall I use the cultivator and harrow, and when? 

 The ground is already well pulverized, and Ironi 

 this time till April, a considerable flock ol' sheep 

 will be on it.* 



Oat pasture tVc, hy W. Young. — It was this 

 writing of Mr. Youuir, which first started nie to 

 making experiments on oats, and I am pleased to 

 see the putilication in the Retrisier, this being suf- 

 ficient evidence of the editor's approval. I know 

 thar the editor will excuse me Ibr the following 

 correction, October Nn., j)age 5S3, for '• it is to be 

 expected, &c.,'' read, "it is not tn be expeded, 

 &c." See Memoirs Phil. Agr. Soc, page 194, 

 vol. ii. 



Judge Peters says in unqualified terms, that the 

 oat crop is a great exhauster. { wish I were half 

 so good a firmer as Judge Peters, but with due 

 deference to his belter judgment, 1 beo; leave of 

 his honored ashes to say, that oats on clay is an 

 improver, until by oats, the clay is made sulficienl- 

 ly porous Ibr the production of other crops. 



Beets. — This year, I cultivated three-lburths of 

 an acre of ground, on the top of a high mountain, 

 in beets, which produced about 420 bushels They 

 were sowed quite late in consequence of which, 

 and the then drought, they were not over half 

 thick enough ; and the after drought must have 

 reduced the production at least 50 per centum. 

 "Thus, it is found that I made at the rale of 560 

 bushels to the acre, but under favorable circum- 

 stances, I would have made nine or ten hundred 

 bushels. They were on black virgin soil. The 

 greater portion was white sugar beet, second, man- 

 gel wurtzel, third, yellow sugar beet. The white 

 was best, yellow second, mangel wurtzel sorry; 

 which inferiority in the last mentioned 1 attribute 

 wholly to deception in seed. They are intended 

 for hogs, and are now secured. The patch being 

 some two or more miles from any residence, 1 

 much dreaded their destruction by wild animals, 

 but they were not touched. 



I again solicit the editor's attention and re- 

 marks on my intended corn crop, or any, or all this 

 liasty scrawl. Mountaineer. 



Amherst, Nov. Wth, 1839 — Snow storm from 

 •east. 



BOTS IN HORSES. MURRAIN JN CATTLE. 



From the American Farmer. 



It is the duty of every person who has any ex- 

 perience in ihe treatment of diseases in that no- 

 ble and useful animal, the horse, to communicate 

 it to the public. 



It was my province a few years since to have 

 much to do with that noble animal, and of course 

 among the number in my possession, I would find 

 a number that would be diseased, and very often 

 my skill and experience would be taxed to find a 

 remedy for some of the diseases to which they 

 would be very often subject. 



* There are too many circumstances involved in the 

 case submitted, and some of them too imperfectly 

 known, for us to presume to offer any opinion, or an- 

 swer to the above questions. — Ed. 



The most formidable disease to which this noble 

 and useful animal is addicted, and there is none 

 more alarming in its attacks, is Ihe bots. 



I had consulied the hiiihest authorities in the 

 veterinar}- art Ibr the treatment of litis disease, 

 and faithfully used the remedies laid down, with- 

 out any benefit. I was induced from inieiest, 

 and also f)r the very high rejfard which thai no- 

 ble animal, the horse, held in my estimaiion. to 

 use every expedient in my possession, to cure this 

 formidable disease. I had another motive — I had 

 lost several very fine horses by this disease, which 

 induced me to use and try every experiment 

 which my ingenuity could invent, to arrest this 

 disease Smoni; my horses, and prevent if possi- 

 ble, its recurrence amoriir them. 



I am sati.-fied, and feel convinced, that ( will 

 offer to the public, an infallible remedy for the bots. 



Some six years since, I purchased a very fine 

 horse, but had the appearance of laboring under 

 some disease. I commenced a course of treat- 

 ment, which I thought would relieve him, and 

 which I had pursued in the treatment of some 

 other horses which had the appearance of being 

 diseased in a similar manner to the above men- 

 tioned horse, with decided relief; but in this case 

 all my remedies failed of their desired effect. 



I was induced to try the use of lime in the 

 treatment of his case, as I was confident he was 

 filled with grubs or bots, as he had discharged 

 several. I commenced by giving him a table- 

 spoonful of slaked lime three times per week, in 

 bread mashes. After pursuintr this course near 

 two weeks, the bots began to pass oli' in quanti- 

 ties varying from 10 to 20, which he would expel 

 during the night, from his intestines. In the 

 meantime his appetite began to improve, and in 

 six weeks he was one of the finest looking geld- 

 ings I ever saw. From that day to this, I have 

 kept up the use of lime among my horses, wiih 

 decided benefit. As an evidence of its good ef- 

 fects, [ have not lost a horse since 1 began lo use it. 



A large number of the bois which he would 

 expel from his intestines, had the appearance of 

 being dead. I was induced from this tiict, to put 

 some of them in a strong solution ol" lime-waier, 

 as I had frequently put them in spirits of turpen- 

 tine, without producing any effect on them ; but 

 all those that I put into lime were perfectly dead 

 in eight and Ibrly hours. 



Lime is a certain preventive in keeping cattle 

 from taking the murrain. As an evidence of this 

 fact, I have used it among my caitle three times 

 per week, mixed with salt, Ibr three or four years. 

 In that time, I have not lost a single cow, or steer, 

 or ox, by this disease; in the meantime, f-ome of 

 my neighbors have nearly lost all the cattle they 

 owned. 



I will give you a stronger case than the one 

 above mentioned. One of my neitrlibors who 

 lost all his cattle, had a neighbor living within 

 two hundred vards of him, who had several cattle 

 which ran daily with those that died, and his cat- 

 tle all escaped. He informed me he made it an 

 invariable rule to give his cattle salt and lime 

 every morning. 



I have no doubt it is a sure and infallible reme- 

 dy for bots in horses, and a preventive of murrain 

 among cattle. J. W. J. 



Red House, N. C, Nov. 16 th 1839. 



