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erably by them in making a choice. If pastures 

 are rich and extensive, they are adapted to large 

 cattle, such as Shoit-horns, but if pastures are 

 rocky, subject somewhat to drought, and not very 

 rich, some smaller and perhaps more hardy breed 

 will do better upon them, — such as the Ayrshiies. 

 Then other things must be considered. What are 

 cows wanted for, — to supply milk for the dairy or 

 for the milkman's cart.' If for making butter for 

 the family, merely, the Jersey would be preferred 

 ?iy most persons, as the quality of the milk i3 very 

 rich. 



BURSAL SWELLING. 



I have a valuable cow that has a large bunch on 

 the knee of the fire leg. It came this winter, is 

 quite soft, but does not appear sore. The cow is 

 not lame. There are a number of such cases in 

 this section. I can tind no one that docs anything 

 for them. Can I g'-t any information through 

 your paper? J. H. Bourne. 



Groton Centre, Mass., 1869. 



Remarks. — This is a bursal swelling. There 

 are certain little bags called bursaj connected with 

 the membrane lining the cavities of joints, whose 

 ofl3ce it is to secrete a fluid for lubricating the 

 surfaces of the joints. These bursa; are ofien in- 

 jured by blows, or more generally by the animal 

 falling and strikirg the edges of the joints upon 

 some hard substance, as the headof a nail, a stone 

 or the sharp corner of a timber. Inflammation 

 follows, and a large quaniity of fluid is secreted, 

 which collects and enlarges the bag, forming the 

 tumors referred to. A neighbor of ours has had 

 several such cases. He opens them at the most 

 depending part and presses out the fluid, and they 

 have always done well. He has sometimes opened 

 ihe same tumors more than once. The opening 

 should be followed by a compress and bandage, 

 carefully applied, 



MANAGEMENT OF COWS AND OTHER STOCK. 



As considerable has been said of the manage- 

 ment of kicking cows I will give the result of my 

 e.xpeiience in the matti r, the prac:ical char.icti'r ot 

 which may De iuftrrcd Ir. mi the tact that in 181S, 

 at the ai;e of nine years, I commenced my apprtn- 

 ticeship by lieing "put out" to work on a jarm, 

 and from tl;at time until i was twenty-fine years 

 of age i was employed on a farm wiicre dairies 

 werektpcto gieater or'le^s extent. Since com- 

 menc tig bu-iuess for myself I have kept cows 

 varjini? in number up to forty a year. Conse- 

 quently I have bought, sold, raised and trained a 

 great many. I have always found gentle usage 

 the bes-t method to make tliem stand still to be 

 milked or to do anyttiing eUe I expect of them. 

 Wy cattle, sheep, and horses will come to meet me 

 in the pasture or field, after I have had them a 

 short time. If 1 have one that has been abused 

 and is afVaid, I take something in my pocket to 

 entice It t.. iue, and in a shoit time it wril become 

 Xkiiux: iiud kiud as others. Sometmies, when I have 

 been in a hurry and out of patience, I have tied 

 up a cow and given l.cr blows, but in nearly 

 every case it was wrong, and I was sorry 1 had 

 done it. I never have used ropes or chains or 

 harsh means to accomplish milking. I have done 

 it by using the cows well. You can have almost 

 any animal kind and do your bidding by kind 



treatment, and without striking or kicking, or 

 scolding. There are occasional exceptions. I 

 have had cows that I could not make kind and 

 gentle by good usage. But instead of attempting 

 to "break them" by rough handling I soon sell or 

 make beef of them. 1 hold ihat all beasts that do 

 our labor must obey our commands, but they can 

 be made to do it in almost all cases by using them 

 well. The o.x is the noblest animal we have. 

 With what a hearty good will he labors, when 

 properly used. I have been often pained to see 

 him abused. If you are raising calves for the 

 daily, learn them when young to lie gentle. Han- 

 dle them carefully ; make them like you and they 

 never will forget it. When a heifer has her first 

 calf is the time to form her habits. On such oc- 

 casions they are sometimes wild and half crazed. 

 At that time in particular be gentle, kind and 

 soothing to them. Every farmer should so treat 

 his stock that they will seek rather than shun his 

 company. I find it very convenient when I go 

 inso the pasture for my horse for him to meet me 

 half way. o. Foster. 



Tunbridge, V(., March, 1869. 



REMEDY FOR WORMS IN HORSES, &C. 



We noticed in the Farmer, issued Jan. 2, 1869, 

 an article under the caption of "Remedy for Intes- 

 tinal Worms," taken fiom the Boston Journal of 

 Chemistry, stating on the authority of "Mr. E. C. 

 Ilaserickof Lake Village, N. H.," how they may 

 he cured, and having a horse at that time very 

 badly atlectcd by them, we immediately deter- 

 mined to try the remedy as therein prescribed. 

 The next day we applied the lard as directed, and 

 the very next succeeding day, took the animal out 

 t ) use on the road. To our surprise, on seeing the 

 animal dung, not one live worm was to be seen, 

 but one or lu'o dead on the inside of sphincter; 

 whereas, before the application of the lard, we no- 

 ticed on seeing the animal dung, the internal orifice 

 was literally covered witii them, so far as visible, 

 and also great numbers in the lajces. We contin- 

 ued this process one week, as directed, and pro- 

 nounce the anini I cured, as we suppose. Now if 

 this theory should prove to be correct, then indeed 

 it will be no longer a theory, but a matter of fact, 

 and facts are stubiiorn things. This is but a single 

 trial with me, and may need further confirmation; 

 but if It siiould j>re/ve to be a remedy, as it seems 

 liktly it may, for intestinal worms in horses, and 

 ilso in the human species, as stated in the article 

 referred to, it inu'-t be considered as a rciy simple 

 and etflcient one for a trouble at once extremely 

 annoying if not serious, and therefore we do con- 

 sider it our duty to make the facts as above stated 

 known to the public, as desired in the article re- 

 ferred to. JoxA. Farnham. 



South Uxbridge, Mass., March 12, 1869. 



SINGULAR disease OF A PIG. — CANKER WORM. 



I purchased a pair of pigs in Manchester, N. H., 

 last tail ; sold the sow and kept the boar. Late in 

 the fall and early in the winter my pig did not eat 

 well, had the scours, and grew poor. After a time 

 I succeeded in getting him so that he eat raw tur- 

 nips. But althougti kept in a clean pen, with a 

 dry bed of India wheat hulls and shavings, he be 

 came covered with a bl ick scab or scurf, carried 

 his head on one side much of the time, and acted 

 as though his ears itched, or head ached. I 

 washed him with soap suds and occasionally but- 

 termilk, and serubbed him with a cob all over, 

 not forgetting the issues, with apparently good 

 ctTect, but all at once he refused all food and in 

 four days died, having lived till March 3. Af>the 

 time of his death his body was purple nearly all 

 over. During the winter his breathing was like a 



