£74 



THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



a bag 2^ feet lon^, and large enough to admit 

 part of the horse"s head; a tliong of leatlier or 

 rope fastened to the bag 2oes over the head hke 

 a headstall; the wash must not be too hot as the 

 horse could not hear the sieam, much less too 

 cold, or it would have no etlect. When alter a 

 certain time it is partly cooled, take of! the bag, 

 and begin often the same operation again during 

 the day, observing to take the bag off to let the 

 horse snort out the matter, if he is so inclined, 

 and put it on again if still warm enough. 



If the tumor under the lower jaw opens of 

 itself, it should be rubbed wiih the lollowing oint- 

 ment ; beat one or two yellows ol eggs with 

 epirits of turpentine, and put some ol it on a 

 bunch of tow, held last by a sort of coveri'ng or 

 bandage to keep the cold from the sore ; it is ne- 

 cessary to observe that any open sore or wound 

 ehould be covered to exclude the external air and 

 all kinds of insects. This dressing must be done 

 every day exactly. When the horse is cured, 

 he must be purged once or twice in order to carry 

 off the remains of any venemous matter. Care 

 must be taken to water the horse out of a bucket, 

 if during his sickness he could not stoop his head 

 to drink as usual ; as he is ftverijh, the want of 

 water would increase his sickness and his sulfier- 

 ings. During the horse's sickness, he must be 

 dieted in the lollowing manner: cut straw and 

 bran; his drink, mullen or flax-seed tea, with a 

 handful of bran, sometimes a little salt given 

 milk-warm; if the weather be cold, a sick horse 

 ought to be covered, if possible, or at least shel- 

 tered from the cold. 



Grass Ibunder or melted fat is an inflammntion 

 of the inner soft membrane of the bowels, lined 

 with a mucous substance that lubricates them in 

 that disease and looks like melted fat ; it is most 

 common in summer after too much latigue and 

 over feeding, or too strong a physic ; it is the 

 dysentery of horses; the animal dungs with 

 eflJort, and the excretions are mixed or covered 

 with a sort of jelly, and sometimes slightly 

 bloody — the animal is very thirsty, looks towards 

 his sides which beat violently ; loses his appetite, 

 grows poor, and may lose his life if not cured in 

 time. As soon as the disorder is known, the 

 best remedy is injections of mullen, bran or flax- 

 seed ; very little hay, no grain. Bran and wa- 

 ter—injections and drinks of slippery elm, if the 

 first injection could not be procured. Boiled 

 barley mixed with honey in small quantity, makes 

 a cooling diet and is used with success. 



I am with esteem, yours, M. Mentelle. 



ON SALT AS A PREVENTIVE OF DISEASE IN 

 HORSES, CATTLE AND SHEEP. 



From the London Farmers' Magazine. 



My Stock having escaped the prevailing epide- 

 mic that has been general in this neighborhood 

 for the last six months, not a single case havin" 

 occurred among a considerable quantity of horses, 

 cattle and sheep, although grazing infields adjoin- 

 ing to where diseased stock was depastured, sepa- 

 rated by hedges only, and also adjoining a turn- 

 pike-road where stock affected with the complaint 

 were constantly travelling ; I shall therelbre give 

 lo the public ray impression ol' the reasons I con- 



ceive that exemption is owing lo, hoping that 

 others may benefit from the same practice, should 

 my opinion jirove correct. 



The practice alluded to is, to place plenty of 

 salt within reach of every species of stock, so that 

 they may at all times have it in their power to 

 gratify their appetite for this condiment, of which 

 they are very Ibnd, and consume some quantity, 

 par:icularly stock that have been accustomed to 

 It, for on putting them into a fret^h pasture or 

 yard where there is no salt, on returning to the 

 field or place where they had been used lo find it, 

 (even after some time has elapsed) they will im- 

 mediately make for the spot in search of it. 



I am aware that salt is strongly reconmiended 

 by many writers on agriculture, but is not eo 

 generally used as it deserves; one reason may be, 

 the difficulty of keeping up a supply where it is 

 exposed to the atmosphere, as in damp weather it 

 dissolves quickly, and often requires to be renewed. 



The best salt for stock (which I make use of) 

 is called at the works, pickings : it is in flat pieces, 

 varying from one inch to two and a half inches 

 in thickness, extremely hard and pure; it is an 

 incrustation from the brine adhering to the bot- 

 tom of the /^fnx or boiler, in which the brine is 

 evaporated, requiring great labor to separate it 

 from the pan with sharp mattocks ; it is usually 

 ground between rollers by steam-power, and is 

 then called agricultural salt, and is used to a con- 

 siderable extent on the light blowing sands for 

 turnips and clover. 



These cakes or pickings will remain undissolved 

 when exposed to the weather lor a length of time 

 from its hardness and fineness of the grain, which 

 gives it the appearance of marble when licked by 

 the stock. The best way is to place it in small 

 stone-troughs, in conspicuous parts of the fields, 

 also in the yards, stable-mangers and leeding- 

 stalls. The price I give for it at Droitwich, is 

 five-shillings per ton, which quantity will supply 

 a great stock lor many months. 



I think it right to add, that the situation of my 

 farm is high and exposed to the winds, the pas- 

 tures being large and open ; this may, in some 

 degree, secure the stock from infection ; but, as 

 1 have stated before, they were contiguous to a 

 public road, and also to inlected stock ; f can, 

 therefore, only account for my perlect exemption 

 from the disease in the liberal use of salt. 



Richard Smith. 

 Upper Hill Farm, near Droitwich, Worcestershire, 



COTTON CULTURE IN INDIA. 



From tlie American Farmer. 



It is stated, as a statistical fact to be relied on, 

 that in Great Britain there are three millions of 

 people who owe their means of support to labor 

 bestowed in some form, on cotton produced in the 

 United States. Seeing this, it is argued that any 

 great irregularity or failure in the price or supply, 

 could not lail to produce serious agitation if not 

 convulsion in that island : — and hence is inferred 

 the constant anxiety on the part of that govern- 

 ment, to put an end, as far as possible, to all de- 

 pendence for the raw material on the productive 

 capacities of any people not under its own domi- 

 nioD. Natural as may appear such a desire to 



