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THE FARMERS' REGISTER. 



in boiling water, and wet your lime with the blue 

 water. Have it the consistence of white- wash, 

 and put it on in the same way. 



A BRILLIANT STUCCO WHITE-WASH. 



From the Genesee Farmer. 



Many have probably often heard of the bril- 

 liant and lasting white-wash upon the east end of 

 the President's house at VVasliington city. The 

 following is the recipe for making it: 



" Take clean lumps of well burnt lime, say five 

 or six quarts, slack the same wiih hot water in a 

 tub, covered, to keep in the steam, pass it in the 

 fluid (brra through a fine sieve, add one Iburih of 

 a pound of whiting or burnt alum, pulverized — 

 one pound of good sugar, three pints of rice flour 

 made into a thin and well boiled paste, and one 

 pound of clean glue, dissolved by first soaking it 

 well, and then putting it into a sm.ali kettle, which 

 should again be put into a larger one fi!!ed with 

 water, and placed over a slow fire. Add five gal- 

 lons of hot water, the whole mixture. 



" This wash is applied, where particular neat- 

 ness is required, with a painter's brush. It must 

 be put on while warm, if upon the outside of the 

 building — if within doors, cold. It will retain its 

 brilliancy for many years. There is nothing of 

 ilie kind that will compare with it. About one 

 pint of this mixture will cover a square yard upon 

 the outside of a house, if properly applied. If a 

 larger quantity than five gallons is wanted the 

 same proportions must be observed in preparing. 

 Coloring matter may be added to give it any re' 

 quired shade." 



NKW EDITION OP LIEBIG's ORGANIC CHE- 

 MISTRV. 



[The following letterfrom Prof. Webster, though 

 not sent to us for publication, will best serve to 

 announce what he wishes. We shall be gratified 

 if he can be aided as he desires.— Ed. F. R.] 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Register. 



Cambridge, Mass., Sept. Sd, 1841, 

 1 am greatly obliged to you lor your politeness 

 in forwarding the numbers of the Register and 

 the Essay on Calcareous Manures. I have read 

 them with great interest, and have been much 

 struck by many of your remarks on Liebig's 

 views. 



The publisher has requested me to attend to 

 the publication of a second edition immediately, 

 as he has orders for many copies. I should prefer 

 delaying, until I hear from Liebig, in reply to the 

 communication I have made to him ; but the call 

 for the work is such, that the publisher will not 

 wait. I expect however to receive matter in time 

 for insertion in the appendix. 



Any results of the application of Liebig's prin- 

 ciples which you can furnish me with, will be re- 

 ceived with thanks; my only object in causing 

 the work to be published here, being to have it in 

 the hands of those who will put the principle to 



practical test, and to aid in advancing our agri- 

 culture. 



Should you see fit to insert a short notice 

 that a second edition is in press, and that the com- 

 munication of any results, li-om persons who have 

 engaged in any experimental operations, are 

 much desired by me, you will perhaps increase the 

 usefulness of the work. They may be addressed 

 to Mr. John Owen, University Bock Store, 

 Cambridge, Mass. 1 am, very respectfully, yours, 

 &c. J. W, Webster. 



CHARCOAL FOR DISEASED LUKGS IN HOGS. 



From the Franltlin Farmer. 



3fr. Editor : — As the rearing and fattening of 

 hogs has become a business of great importance 

 to the west, and especially to our own corn grow- 

 ing state ; and as new and terrible diseases have 

 made their appearance within the last ^&w years, 

 among that class of our domestic animals, I, as 

 a common sufierer with my brother farmers, have 

 been trying to ascertain the cause of, and remedy 

 for, the one which I have suffered the most by, 

 and which I shall call your attention more par- 

 ticularly to. It is admitted I believe by patholo- 

 gists, that diseases may and do change their 

 type in the same latitude, and become more and 

 more malignant as the population becomes more 

 dense and the country becomes older; thus our 

 own intermittent has degenerated into the more 

 deadly typhous fever; thus that which we once 

 called quinsy or swelling of the throat in swine, 

 has now assumed a more malignant type, and 

 requires a diflierent treatment ; the cause is the 

 same, but the effect is not always instantaneous 

 or accompanied by the same symptoms or results. 

 I think it may be safely assumed that most of the 

 diseases, if not all, that hogs are liable to, are 

 produced by sudden traneitions from heat to cold ; 

 and as they do not, like most other animals, per- 

 spire through the pores of the skin over the whole 

 surface of the body, but through small orifices on 

 the legs and throat, vv^hich are constantly liable 

 to obstruction, and especially in the winter season, 

 when the animals in large numbers bed together, 

 producing great heat and free perspiration for a 

 short time, but from the restiveness of their na- 

 ture they are often changing the position first 

 assumed, all tending to clot the mediums of re- 

 spiration, and thus lay the foundation of disease 

 and death, by alternating between heat and cold 

 through the winter. Ordinarily the weak of the 

 herd are the first to die. This may be chargea- 

 ble to their inability to change positions, subject- 

 ing them to the crushing weight of the whole 

 number in the bed ; or to their long subjection 

 to the great heat engendered by the common 

 mass, until they are called to partake of the 

 morning food. This, as we have stated, formerly 

 produced enlargement of the glands of^ the ani- 

 mal's neck, which often ended in inflammation and 

 death. Now, the same cause produces a very 

 different eflfect, and although it is still strangula- 

 tion, yet the inflammation falls with its whole 

 weight upon the lungs, and if both tubes of that 

 organ are affected, death instantly ensues; if 

 only one, the animal may live a long time, but 

 never recovers unless the remedy that I shall pre- 



