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severing in this rei dy my horses recovered; 

 another remedy was recommended, viz. 



«« Dissolve 2 oui r.opperas and 2 ounces 



of alum in a pint of strong vinegar, swab the mouth 

 and tonguewith tlie lutiuli, until the disease is 

 I'emoved ; then dissolve honey and alum in vinegar 

 ami use il i is way to heal the tongue." 



Yours, A Subscriber. 



January 1 5 1 1 1 , 1 33 :. 



HORSES. 

 Mr. Fkssenden — Dear .Sir, Annexed I hand 

 .you an extract from th i (English) Farmers Series, 

 of the diseases of the l njgue of the horse. I think 



it the sat lisease that now affects that animal in 



some part- of it us and New Hampshire. 



Your obedt. servant, Enoch Silsby. 



Boston, 15 Jan. 1834. 



DISEASES OF THE TONGUE. FARMERS SERIES, 



HORSE, PACE 1 IT. 



The tongue is sometimes exposed to injury from 

 carelessness or violence in the act of drenching, or 

 administering a hall, being pressed against and cut 

 by the edges of the grinders. A little diluted tinc- 

 ture of myrrh, or alum, dissolved in water, or even 

 nature unassisted, will speedily heal the wound. 

 The horse will lute his tongue, — most frequently 

 in his sleep. If the injury is trifling, it requires 

 little care: but in some instances, a portion of the 

 tongue will be torn or nearly bitten oft', and the 

 assistance of a veterinary practitioner will be 

 needed. 



Bladders will sometimes appear along the under 

 side of the tongue, which will increase to a con- 

 siderable si/.e, and the tongue itself will he much 

 enlarged, and the animal will be unable to swallow, 

 and a great quantity of ropy saliva will drivel from 

 the mouth. This disease often exists without the 

 nature of it being suspected. It resembles what 

 is called the blain in the cow, which is a very seri- 

 ous complaint in that animal, frequently connected 

 with much fever, and terminating in suffocation. 

 If the mouth of the horse be opined, one large hlad- 

 •der, or a succession of bladders of a purple hue, 

 will be seen to extend along the whole of the un- 

 der side of the tongue. If they he lanced freely 

 and deeply, from end to end, the swelling will very 

 rapidly abate, and any little fever that remains may 

 be subdued by cooling medicine. 



The cause of this disease is not clearly known. 

 It may proceed perhaps, from indigestion, connec- 

 ted with a general tendency to inflammation. 



vermifuges, since I ascertain. .1 b r complaint. On 

 receiving your paper of the lltli, the day after its 

 publication, and when I was on the eve of depart- 

 ing on a journey of some hundred miles, I ordered 

 the first part of this prescription made use of, vi/.. 

 a pint of good molasses was intimately I 

 with 5 or 6 quarts of blood warm water and given 

 to the animal, which she drank with great a\ ii 

 and in an hour it was followed with .3 pints homi- 

 ny. With the prescription, after the words in the 

 (ith line " without medicine" 1 confess I did not 

 know the meaning of the author sufficiently well 

 to proceed ; anil made DO further application, ex- 

 cept directions to repeat the dose once or twice 

 during my absence. This remedy has apparently" 

 benefitted the good animal, but not removed the 

 cause of complaint. 



Your kind attention to the above request, will 

 much oblige your friend. 



Essex North. 



By the Editor. "We are apprehensive that 

 there is some misprint in the article alluded to, 

 either in our paper or the A*. Y. Farmer. We have 

 not preserved the copy which was taken from the 

 No. of September last, of the N. Y. Farmer. Mr. 

 Fleet would not only oblige our worthy correspon- 

 dent, but confer a favor which we should be hap- 

 py to reciprocate, by explaining any ambiguity re- 

 lating to the article alluded to. 



For the J\ T ew England Farmer. 



botts ix horses. 



Mr. Editor, — 



In the 3d column of page 170 of your valuable 

 paper of December 11th, No. 22, of the present 

 volume, is an article from the New-York -Farmer, 

 headed " Grubbs and Bolts," which is ambiguously 

 expressed, and the writer's meaning not readily to 

 be understood. Will not a request from you in 

 your excellent paper cause the editor of the New- 

 York Farmer to give a more connected, definite 

 and complete recipe for expelling these animals or 

 animalcules from the intestines of the horse. 



I have had a favorite brood mare afflicted with 

 worms some months, of about an inch to 2 inches 

 long, and an l-8th or more of an inch in diameter ; 

 of a single color, either of a pale red or white. 

 Many medicines have been ineffectually tried as 



For th-- .Y. i' - V.'r:i"hi r>nn-r. 

 WARMING HOUSES. 

 Mr. Editor, — 



It. is recommended in your valuable paper to 

 calk all cracks in the winter-keeping room with 

 cotton, when air sufficient enters to flare the blazi 

 of a candle. I am an advocate for a warm room 

 in winter, and was pleased to find you was recom- 

 mending its comforts to your numerous readers. 1 

 pursued your advice in calking all large cracks in 

 my keeping room with cotton, and subsequently 

 pasted strips of paper near the color of the paint 

 of the room half an inch wide over those and all 

 other cracks in the room too small to calk. I 

 also wedge my windows tight with small pine 

 wedges, and paste strips of paper over all the 

 cracks where there can be a possibility of admis- 

 sion of-extenial air. With these precautions, keep- 

 ing my doors well listed and shut, together with 

 burning anthracite coal day and night, we have 

 managed these few years past to keep some of the 

 rooms comfortable in Essex North. 



AGRICULTURAL REPORT. 



Boston, Jan. 11, 1834. 



The Committee of the Massachusetts Agricul- 

 tural Society " on Vegetable and Grain Crops," 

 respectfully submit the following Report. 



The number of Premiums which the Society 

 have, with the aid of the bounty of the government, 

 been able to offer on these crops in 1833, was 

 eighteen. Of this number five only have been 

 claimed, being for potatoes, common turnips, wheat, 

 barley, and rye. The Committee regret to be 

 obliged to state — much as they did the last year, 

 that for carrots, mangel wurtzel, ruta haga, pars- 

 nips, lite. — articles affording so grateful a change 

 in the feed of cattle and sheep during our long 

 winters, — not a single application has been made. 

 They are willing to believe, however, that although 

 our good husbandmen have omitted to claim pre- 



miums on those valuable products, they have not 

 neglected the raising of them. 



The Committee are pleased to find that such 

 crops as have been exhibited arc uncommonly fine 

 opes, ami tiny cheerfully award premiums which 

 the judicious cultivators ore so justly entitled to. 

 The kirn;-; of --oil and modes of management are 

 plainly set forth in the statements of tin claimants, 

 and the Committee n commend the publication of 

 those statements as a part of this report. — The pre- 

 mium proposed on wheat was stated to be "on 

 winter wheat," and Mr. Williams's was sown in 

 the spring, — hut as his crop was so good, and the 

 attempt the first, perhaps, that has been made here, 

 from the sei d brought from the Black Sea, the 

 Committee have been induced to recommend the 

 the payment of the premium, in the hope that it 

 may serve to encourage the raising of this kind of 

 wheat, and from a desire to reward so enlightened 

 and practical ;m agriculturist as Payson Wil- 

 liams, Esq. of Winn ster. County. — The same 

 gentleman, it will he seen by his letter, had this 

 season, 6.1.5 liusln Is of potatoes on one acre. 



The premiums recommended to he paid are - . — 



To Mr. William Carter of Fitchburg in the coun- 

 ty of Worcester, (the gentleman to whom was awar- 

 ded the premium last year, for a crop of 691 bush- 

 els of the same vegetable:) twenty dollars for his 

 crop of potatoes, being 677 bushels on ;m acre. 



To the same for his crop of bailey on one acre, 

 being 57 bushels, from five bushels of seed, twen- 

 ty dollars. 



To E. H. Derby, Esq. of Salem, for his fine crop 

 of common turnips, being 1730 bushels on about 24^ 

 acres, nearly 769 bushels to the acre — the quantity 

 of seed sown by drill, about l^lbs. — 20 dollars. 



To Payson Williams, Esq. of Fitchburg, twenty 

 dollars, for his great crop of Black Sea Wheat, be- 

 ing 55JJ- bushels on ;m acre from 2^ bushels of seed. 



To air. Richard Jaques of Newbury, in the Coun- 

 ty of Essex, twenty dollars, for his crop of winter 

 rye, sown among the corn, in August at the last 

 hoeing, and harvested the August following, 35^ 

 bushels on an acre, from one bushel of seed. 

 P. C. Brooks, 



for the Committee. 



THE SIZE AND STOCKING OP A FARM. 



If the cultivator be not in debt, and possess a 

 pair of horses or a yoke of oxen, two milch cows, 

 four young cattle from one to four years old, six 

 sheep, and rear as many hogs as are sufficient for 

 the use of bis family, be may, with this stock, 

 safely encounter twenty acres of cleared ground, 

 and practise soiling, uuited to convertible husband- 

 ry ; provided himself, with the aid of the workers 

 in his family, or those iie can readily hire, and has 

 money to pay, are sufficient to cultivate that quan- 

 tity of land properly : especially as his live stock 

 will increase with the increased fertility of the soil, 

 if he give proper attention to that interesting por- 

 tion of his management. Lorain. 



TOOTH-ACHE. 



A writer in the Middletown Sentinel states that 

 his teeth bad become loose and very painful from 

 a cold, and that they were made fast and entirely 

 relieved from pain by a mixture of equal quantities 

 of alum and salt, put on a cloth and applied to the 

 teeth. This mixture has been applied in many oth- 

 er cases with great success, and is perhaps as good 

 a remedy for the tooth-ache as any that is known. 



Greenfield Gazette. 



