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VOL,. X. 



BOSTON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1831. 



NO. 19. 



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.PLANTING SEEDS OF FRUIT TREES. 

 R1NGI50NE IN HORHES. 

 Mr Fkssendeiv — Last year I put into tlie 

 ground, ill October, a quantity of peach-stones, 

 and various kiiidji of pluiu-stones ; and none of 

 them came up, owing, probalily, to tlit-ir not hav- 

 ing been properly managed. Will some of your 

 correspondents l)e so g-ood as to inform me, 

 through the medium of your paper, the proper 

 course to pursue in planting fruit seeds and stones .' 



I have a colt, one year old past, that has a 

 buncli on each liind foot, lialf way between the 

 joint and hoof Some per.-ons, in the vicinity say 

 they are ringbones, and otiiers that they are not. 

 Perhaps some of your readers may have known 

 a similar case, and can prescribe a remedy. I 

 also wish to be informed what are the first symp- 

 toms of ringbone in horses, and tlie best mode of 

 treatment. 



By replying to tliese inquiries you will very 

 much oblige a younof and inexperienced farmer. 



Maine,'Arov. 14, 1S31. M. 



Remarks bi/ the Editor. — We cannot |)retend to 

 say what was the cause, which prevented the veg- 

 etation of the stones of the fruits mentioned by 

 our correspondent. The season ndglit have been 

 too wet, or too dry, or the seeds might have be- 

 come too dry before they were planted, or mice 

 might have eaten them; which is said to have 

 been sometimes the c;ase when seeds are planted 

 in autumn, (an acrident which we believe may be 

 prevented by soaking seed in train oil, previous to 

 planting.) It is recommoinled by Dr Darwin to 

 plant tiie fruit together with the S9e<l of stone 

 fniiis, soon after tlie fruit is rip^, as its pulp 

 was designed by nature to nonrisii the young 

 seedling. 



Witli regard to the supposed ringbone, we will 

 give such descriptions of the disorder and its rem- 

 edies as we have at hand, without pretending to 

 any experimental knowledge of the subject. 



While's Treatise on Veterinary Medicine, vol. 

 iii. page 246, gives- the following notices of this 

 dieeaee. 



' The'bony excrescences on the pastern, which 

 constitute ringbone, are not always productive of 

 lameness; this happens only when they are so 

 situated as to interfere with the motion of the small 

 pastern or coffin joint. In the latter situation 

 they occasion more considerable lameness than in 

 the former. I have in several instances known 

 horses have ringbone on the hind jiastern, with- 

 out suffering the slightest inconvenience from 

 them, and the last I met with went through the 

 hunting season, without any appearance of lame- 

 ness. I liave found that the only chance that we 

 have of curing ringbone or the lameness arising 

 from it is a free application of the actual cautery 

 (searing with a hot iron) and blistering imme- 

 diately afterwards; and even this will not succeed 

 if the ossification (becoming like bone) has gone 

 so far as to fix the ends of the bone or glue them 

 as it were together, so that the motion of the 

 joint is completely lost. It is necessary, therefore 

 when a horse is observed to be lame from this 

 disease, to liave recourse at once to firing. I 



wouM ll 



y no means trust to a blister alone; for the latter wa 



IS not so often the case. Those sent 

 lliough It may .soiftetimes at a very early period, 1 selected from 167 distinct varieties and hoiie 

 succeed, there is even then a chance of the lame- j some of them will suit your climate I cannot 

 ness returning. When blistering is employed, it ; expect to do much, as there are so many who have 

 should always be repeated two or three times, ] more time to devote to this subject than I have • 

 washing off each blister about the third day afleriand it requires more time, and cate, to kcei. so 

 Its application, and keeping the part cool in the j many kin.ls separate till they are fit 'to use^ than 



those who have not tried it are aware of I think 



mterval with Goulard's lotion.' [Vinegar saturated 

 with white lead composes what is called Goulard's 

 Extract. Goulard's lotion is made by mixing one 

 ounce of said extract with one quart of water.] 



Mr Barnum, in the ' Farmer's Farrier' observes 

 that. 



' An ill shapen hoof is frequently the cause of 

 ririgbone ; such as a short upright hoof, which 

 Moes not sufficiently secure the articulation of the 

 cofiiu and pastern bones against injury are most lia- 

 ble to this disease. Lameness is frequently the first 

 intimation we have of the existence of ringbone, 

 which is at first generally neglected. It may be as- 

 certained by passing tlie hand down from the fet- 

 lock to the edge of the hoof, when you will feel 

 one or more bunches. It consists in the ossifica- 

 tion of the cartilage in front of the foot which ex- 

 tends in time to the lateral parts also. It most 

 •"requently happens in the fore-foot. 



REMEDY. 



' As a high heel usually accompanies the sliort 

 upright hoof the concussions of the foot may be 

 lessened by lowering the heel. Blistering is the 

 most effectual application at the first appearance 

 of.the disease. Firing in the more advanced 

 6t«^ will have a good effect. But when the 

 disease has been of long standing we doubt wheth- 

 er it can be. removed. 



PIE) T A T O E S . 



Mr j. B. RifssELi, — I have put on board the 

 sloop Merchant, Captain Burgess, a barrel of pota- 

 toes, which I hope will reach you safely. The 

 barrel contains the following varieties. 



No. 1. Early red, a good potato, but does not 

 yield very well. 



No. 2. Black, a very good jiotato, and yields 

 abundantly ; I think more than any I ever saw, 

 that were so good in quality ; the only objection 

 to them is their color ; I put more of them than 

 any of the others in the bbl. that you may try them 

 a few times. 



No. 3. Light red, very long ; these are not 

 very good except for baking. 1 selected them cliief- 

 Ir on account of the shape, as I never saw any- 

 tliiiig of the potato kind (except the sweet) like 

 tliem. 



No. 4. Early White, very good, yields about the 

 ssnie as the Early Red. 



No. 5. Blue, yields well and is a very good po- 

 tcto. 



No. 6. Large White — the same, 



I would observe that none of tliem are so good 

 as 1 have generally had them, last season being 

 "et and hot weather ; so that all fiotatoes that 

 grew near the river were struck with the rust, be- 

 bre they were full grown. 



I have founil since I came to this state that some 

 linds of potatoes which were very good here did 

 lot do well in Massachusetts ;and those that were 



that the black jiotalo will be valuable at least for 

 cattle, as they yield so abundantly, and the shape 

 is favorable for the cattle's ejiting and not so much 

 danger of choking them as round. The color is 

 no objection for this purpose and the quality of the 

 potato is nearly as essential to quadrupeds as bi- 

 peds. As they are, they are at your service, to do 

 what you think best with them ; if they should be 

 of any service to the community I shall be glad, 

 and if not I shall have the satisfaction of trying. 



To say anything of the value which your labors 

 are to the farming interests would be saying that 

 which every one knows, and which to you must be 

 trite, as you no doubt hear it every day. 

 I am, sii-, very re.spectfully, 

 Your obt. humble serv't, 



John Bennock. 



Oro no, Me. JVov.\S3l. 



(E?*Mi' Bennock has our thanks for his exer- 

 tions in disseminating new varieties of this valuable 

 root. The Potatoes are received and'we shall be 

 hippy to distribute them among such of our sub- 

 scribers as will apply for them. 



DOLICHOS SCTA or SOY BEAN PLANT. 



Having rectJived a few of these beans, described 

 by Mr Nuttall in the New England Farmer, vol. 

 viii. page 105, I planted eight . of them. They 

 yielded a wine pint of beans in the Autumn, 

 weighing 11| ounces ; 110 beans, taken promiscu- 

 ously, weighed half an ounce ; so that in this pro- 

 portion, my eight beans aflTorded me 2.530 or more 

 than 316 for one. I do not know whether they 

 have been yet introduced into domestic use as a 

 culinary pulse ; but, should their qualities be good 

 they cannot fail of being generally cultivated on 

 account of ti.eir great productiveness. Their steins 

 grow to the height of about two feet, and require 

 the support of a t'i;w sticks or brush. H. 



Millon,JVov. 1, 1831. 



' TOURS CELERY.' 

 Mr Fessenden — I observed a communication 

 in your last number respecting some plants, the 

 seeds of which, your correspondent received from 

 Paris, for Tours' Celery. I thought by your re- 

 marks, that you supposed them some variety of 

 Celery. At your request, however, I will give 

 yon, what I should think from reading the de- 

 scription, their true, or botanical name. I hava 

 now growing in my garden a plant which com- 

 pares exactly with those described. The seed 

 eceived from the Mass. Ilort. Society, in the 

 spring of 1830; they came from France with a 

 number of other packages. It is called the Car- 

 doon of Tours, Cynarea carduncidus, and is es- 

 teemed by the French an excellent vegetable. It 

 s cultivated in the same manner as Celery, and is 



not, fit for eating unless blanched. The stems 

 steemed with yoq did not do so well here, but 1 and leaves being lined with prickles, make them 



