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i^\)C iavmcr'0 iHont!)lij lUsitor. 



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Costiveiie.-js, tlie reverse nC ilie l^riner, is ciireil 

 liy aiviii^ ilicin Iwet root i-hi)|>|ie(l tiiio or hraii 

 iiiii) iViiter Willi ii lilili' lioiicy iiiixi'd. 



Veriiiiii iii.iy lie deslroyed liy tiiinijiuliiig the 

 roosts wiili liriiiistone. 



SimI) :iik1 iicli an; eured liy feedili;; lliuin with 

 moist lir.'iii. 



CrMiii|i is can-ieil liy cohl ami (lam|i. VVhi'n 

 ufflir-ieil. llii^ liinis shoiihl not he alloweil to roost 

 oot o)' iliiiHs, ami tlir? loost shoiihl ii« well si-- 

 ciireil and warm — roll llie legs ami leet with a 

 lillh? li-esii hiillcr. 



Ahsrcss tre(|iii'iilly cniiH'S upon tliP rnni|i, and 

 is <'an<eil iiv lie.it of lilood, or niijiid stoinai'li, 

 whieli eoiTn|its the mass of hlood. Open the 

 !iliscis<s and iiress out iIib milter. F-i?d them 

 vviih i-lio|i|M-il licet rout or leiliice, witli .some 

 lira:) mixed, iiioi.-.iened with Imiii'y or molasses 

 and wilier. 



Fowls should not he allowed to roost in very 

 lar|:e nmnhers to:;eilier, lint where preat (iiiaiiii- 

 ties lire raised, they shniild he kept in floeks of 

 not more than one Imndred. They should be 

 kept very cleanly. 



VVarmlh, with (Veedom from damp, is tlie 

 great secret in the care of fowls, '['heir food 

 should lie frei|iieiilly ehaivjed, and green food 

 ofien iiii.xeil wiili their meal, shorls or hran. In- 

 dian mi'.d and molasses and water will liiltcn 

 |)nultry faster lliaii any other liiod. Cinders 

 should be ,«i!ied I'or lliem to roll in, vvhicdi will 

 tree them from vermin, and they should never 

 be without a supply of clean water for drinkin:;. 

 Never "rive them Wiirm or hot food, which 

 causes theiri to become crop bound. Hemp and 

 bnck-vvheat, or wheat occasionally, are good 

 .siiimilants. 



So Mir iis (iiud is concerned, every farmer's 

 wife ihroughiiiit the country knous what is prop- 

 er. One great dauger arises from their verocity 

 of appi'tili; iiiihiciiig them to eat too much of 

 food too tiutiici:ins liir their delicate digestive 

 organs, whereby they become sickly, or w hat is 

 comnionly c.ilied crop bound. Simple as the 

 remedy for this evil may appear, it is souiewhal 

 difficult to put in practice where large numbers 

 are fed loijeiher. 



As regards atieniion to cleanliness, and lliiir 

 other ciHiiiiioii wants, such as regidaiily of feed- 

 ing, and an abiindant supply of pure water, 

 nothing need be said ; tliey can scarcely live, cer- 

 tainly not .flourish, without these necessary re- 

 quirements being strictly attended lo. 



I, nder, however, the best ariangemmt, aiul the 

 great' st precautions used again>t their various 

 ailmenls, ni.iiiy wi:l perish. It is a truth, how- 

 ever tli.it nbiiosi .'ill the diseases of poultry arise 

 from .'itmospheric causes. 



With resficct to medical trentrnetit, apjilied lo 

 the diseases of punltry, but little regarding its ef- 

 ficacy is known. The nostrums jind mode of 

 treatment adopted thronghoiit the country, to- 

 gether with the great part of what has been writ- 

 ten upon the subject, is a farrago of nonsense and 

 absurdity. If shelter, warmth, fond, iuid cleauli- 

 ne.ss, congenial to their habits, will not preserve 

 lliem in health, but little reliance can be |ilaccd 

 Upon medicine. 



Great care is necessary to ]irotect poultry 

 from the ravages of the skunk, the innskrat, the 

 lO.v, and other animals, who possess a taste so 

 refined tis to prefer chicken to coarser food. — 

 And to insure complete success on a large scale, 

 suitable buildings sIkmiIiI be provided. 



A close room, which should be made to p\- 

 dnde the wintry frosts, and also admit the balmy 

 breeze of summer, should be provided for the 

 iiiuchine.s, iiud should be kept as an ccciileohion 

 hall. From this hall passages should lead to 

 other rooms less tight and substantial, and many 

 of them provided sviih room.». As the birds 

 grow they should by degrees he moved along, 

 until after si.t weeks, or tliereaboi:is, they will 

 liave an open yard with roosting places under a 

 shed. Ill this manner, by keepiim them in fiocks 

 nf one or two hundred, and chanuing their roost- 

 ing places fre((uently, by keeping them clean, 

 &c., there will he no difficulty in raising any 

 number jier annum, provided no old fowls are 

 kept on the premises. With suitable cnnveni- 

 eiiees there will be less trouble in raising one 

 hundred thousand a year, than in raising one 

 Imndred wiibnut them. 



To a successful rearing, therefore, of a large 

 number of birds by artificial means, the oidy re- 



ipiired essentials are,a s'lflieient nnmberof these 

 machines; snit.ible hnildiiigs; w.-irmtli and pro- 

 tection iVoiii dampness ; proper tbod ; ami a care- 

 ful atieniion to cleanliness in all respects. An 

 e>tal)lishiuent so cmistrncjted aiirl so conducted 

 caniiot liiil to pay :m immense profit to its pro- 

 prietor. 



Tlie best food lor eliickeii-i initil three or four 

 days old is egL^s, either stale or fresh, boiled hard 

 and cut into vt;ry small pieces. After which, 

 meal w-et up, and hoiiiiny dry. As they grow 

 older, the feed should be varied, and they should 

 have uini(t or less green fooil, like lettuce, cab- 

 biige, endive, &c., choppeil fine, and mixed with 

 their meal ; and Ojipered milk and bonny-clab- 

 ber i.4 most excellent." Cold boiled pot.-iloes, 

 Iresh meat, crusts of bread soaked, and many 

 other things nsnally llirovvii to the pigs, are ex- 

 cellent and profitable foixl for ail kinds of galli- 

 naceous fowl. — MiikWs Treatise, on PoiLllry. 



Keep your best Stock. 



Many (armers are in the habit of selling their 

 best animals, as they will bring llie highest price. 

 A :;reater mistake eaiiiioi be made. A diffiireuce 

 of ten or twenty per cent, in the price of a single 

 animal, is a small aft'iir compared with this dif- 

 ti'renc-e in a whole herd. By keeping the very 

 best to propairate from, the H hole may be made 

 of equal excellence, and in the course of a few 

 years, numerous animals might be produced 

 having the excellent properties that now distin- 

 guish some few of the best. 



What should we say o( a (iirmer who hiis sev- 

 eral highly valuable varieties of potatoes, and 

 other kinds that are inliirior, and tor the sake of 

 ten cents extra a bushel, he sells for consumption 

 all his best varieties, and plants those that are 

 inferior, when in consequence of this imprudent 

 measure, his next cro|i will fall short twenty-five 

 per cent. Every one will condi-mn this course, 

 and few, if any, are so wanting in discretion as 

 lo pursue it ; yet many take a similar course in 

 selling their best animalis and proptigating from 

 the poor. 



For the purpose of work, beef, and the dairy, 

 there are probably no cattle superior to our native 

 breed, whereatteiuion has been given to improve 

 them, ihoiigh some improvement for certain piir- 

 (loses may be made by a cross with foreign 

 breeds, that excel in the qiialities desired. There 

 is a vast ilitTereuce in onr ctiule in sections 

 where mindi .■iiipnlion has been given to inqnove- 

 nients by selecting the best, when contrasted with 

 those where little or no attention has been paid 

 to the subject, and as a matter of course, the 

 best have been sold, or eaten up, because lliey 

 were the fattest. Every man that liiises slock 

 has it in bis posver to make inq.roveiiient, and 

 he should avail himself of till the advantages 

 .•iroimd him to tnru this power to the benefit of 

 himself and posterity. — Boston Cullivator. 



Ibitless bed, will get maiigy,and Jiiano-i/ pigs can - 

 not grow. Let nny one who has a mind to try 

 theexperimeiu, take two pigs of the same litter, 

 snlR'riiii! the one to run as above, and let the 

 other be well hotised, and well fed, and it will he 

 found iiiat the superior growth of the l.ilter will 

 pay (iir liie care bestowed upon him, wiih good 

 interest. Fiogs that are confined, and c;innoi get 

 to the earth, will freipieiitly he benefitted by hav- 

 ing a little (diarcoal, soft brickbats, or soft wood 

 thrown into them, and a trifling (pianliiy of brini- 

 Mtiiiie mixiil in their food oce.isioimlly, is tin ex- 

 cellent thing. The hog has the credit of being 

 a dirty (ellow — but we shoidd remember that he 

 likes to be dirty in his own way, ami tiir his own 

 pleasure: he neiiher [irefn's to live cold, nor in 

 filth — still h.'ss does be choose lo be half tvi\. Dr. 

 Franklin's man said the hog w.is the only gentle- 

 man in England, bec.iuse he alone was exonera- 

 ted iVom labor. If this be so, surely be ought to 

 he well fed ;ind well hon.sed in America. I en- 

 tirely believe that the same amount of food that 

 will barely carry a |;ig through the winter with 

 bad management, will with good, prudent treat- 

 ment, kei!p him growing, and in the spring you 

 have soi7iething to build upon, that will by and 

 by make you a solid jiorker, who will do credit to 

 your stye. Essex. 



J\/'ewark, JV. J. 



To DESTROY Lice on Catti-e. — Grease, fat, 

 laril, or any oily substance, if applied to neat 

 cattle iuft-sted W'iih pediciili, will have the desired 

 effi'ct; it must be applied by being well rubbed 

 into the hair on those parts where the vermin are 

 found, and repeated until they are destroyed. 

 Insects have no lungs, but hreiithe by spiracles 

 or minute holes in their bodies, and if these spi- 

 racles are clogged with grease or (lit, they become 

 suffocated ami din. Goose grease, hogs' fat, pot- 

 skimmings, will till answer the purpo,se,and may 

 be obtained in any liirtuer's liimily wiliiout co>t. 

 Tobacco, also, will kill these virtnen on cattle, by 

 its operation on them as poison. A simple in- 

 fusion of tobacco, applied warm and rubbed in- 

 to the neck or dew-la|is, or wherever found, so 

 as to completely wet the hairs, and repetited at 

 an interval of a few days, will destroy the nits 

 and lice in a short time and tit a cheap rate. The 

 curry-comb should be used after the application. 

 — Ex. Paper. 



A Fact for Farimers. — A writer in the Ten- 

 nessee Agriciilliiralist sttites, that chickens and 

 fiiwls fed with corn ground coarse, as for instance, 

 hominy, will never have the gapes. 



From lilt? r'tirinnr's Cabinet. 

 Warm Beds for Pigs. 

 To THE Editor. ^I very well remember a say- 

 ingof an old gentleman, an e.xcellent farmer, that 

 if you would make a hog profitable, you should 

 not let liim ever see a winter; and 1 think I litive 

 satisfied mysellj that spring pigs well kept and 

 nursed, are tar less ex|iensive, and yield more in 

 return tor their keep than those which are fifteen 

 or eighteen inonlhs old. But there is one thing 

 (piite certain ; if we prefer our store hogs to come 

 in the fall, we ought lo be careful (o keep them 

 throtiirh our long cohl winters, both warm and 

 dry. Every observtmt farmer knows that if his 

 cattle ai'e not sheltered from the cold weather 

 and storms, they will require much luoi'e tbod to 

 keep them in tolerable order, than if they are 

 kept warm .and comlbrtable. Just so it is with 

 pigs — if they tire suflered to run over yonr premi- 

 ses in the snow .ami sleet, w itli their legs and 

 smint as red as th'' gill of your goliler, without a 

 vvjirm and dry bed of clean straw to resort to 

 when they choose, they will not only, in all prob- 

 ability come out with mange in llie s|iring, hut 

 every grunt they give will convince you that all 



Cure for the Distemper i.v Cattle. — I can- 

 not resist giving a receipt fiir the tretitment of 

 beasts that may take the prevalent distenqier. It 

 showed itself' last winter in one of my yard stock, 

 by discharging abundant saliva from the mouth, 

 with sore and inflamed tongue and gums, no 

 ap|jetiie, confined bowel.*, and very hot boriKS. I 

 desired the bailiff' to give him one half-pint of 

 the spirits of turpentine, wiih one pint of linseed 

 oil, repealing the oil in iwenty-four hours, and 

 ag.aiii repealing it according to the state of tlie 

 evacnalions. At the end of twenty-four hours 

 more, the bowels not having been well moved, 

 I repeated both turpentine and oil. In two days 

 the lieast showed symptoms of amendment, and 

 in three or four took to his tbod tigain, anil did 

 perfectly well. .All the yard beasts and two of 

 the liitlening beasts have had it, and all h..ve 

 been treated in the same manner, with perfect 

 success. Little beside oatmeal gruel was given. 

 — Quarterly Journal of .Igricullure. 



Professor Leibi?. 



The following is an extract from a speech of 

 this flistinguished gentleinan, at a recent dinner 

 to which he was invited, in Glasgow, Scot- 

 land : — 



■• Practical experience possesses unquestiona- 

 ble value; but it is like a vessel, to which, in the 

 form of Science, the compass or the pilot is wjiiit- 

 ing ; it is a treasure which cannot be inherited. 

 Science enables us to bequeath this treasure to 

 our children, and it enables our children to in- 

 crease their store. Science teaches us to recog- 

 nize tlie food of plants, and the sources from 

 which it is derived. This knowledge alone makes 

 lis the true masters of the soil — the lords of our 

 capital. We can now see where we are guilty 

 of waste, antl where we are too sparing. The 

 great truth that animal manures are nothing else 

 but the ashes of the food produced from our 



the food they have devoured, has been thrown fields, consumed or burned in the bodies of meu 

 away; for shoats that have a cold, damp, com- 'and animals, has given the chief direction to all 



