1849 



THE UENESEE FARMEK. 



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iKtcrimxrii {Department 



Choked Cattle.- -Remedy* -Take any kind of 

 tube, say an elder or quill, and till it. with gun-pov der. 

 Open the mouth, hold out the tongue, pul the tube a - 

 far down as convenient, and Mom the powder from 

 the tube into the throat. It will relax (he pip 

 suffer the obstruction bo pass on. Try it. D. S. 

 BOFFINGTON. liinmanvillr, March, 1849. 



To Preserve a Horse from the Botts. — Take 

 of bees wax, mutton tallow, and BUgar, each 8 

 ounces, put it into one quart of warm milk, and beat 

 it until it all melts and mixes: then put the wh< 

 to a bottle, and just before the wax, &c, be;j 

 harden, give it to the horse. Two or three hours 

 afterwards give him physic. 



Another Method. — Give a horse occasionally a half 

 pint of hard wood ashes, mixed in his grain and 

 sprinkled, or given in his drink. This is an exellent 

 remedy. 



Another. — Give your horse salt freely — as that 

 will, in nine cases out of ten, preserve him from the 

 Botts. If he is attacked by them, give him a quart 

 of warm fish brine; and if the case be a bad one, 

 repeat the dose once an hour. For this purpose, save 

 your fish brine. — Fannei J s Receipt Book. 



Curk for the Spavin. — Take one pound of angle 

 worms, fry them well in a pound of butter, and after 

 it is cool add onegiil of spirits of turnentine. Take 

 one ounce Origanum Oil, (sold at the druggists',) 

 which mix in one gill of spirits of turpentine. 

 Every morning, rub the spavin with the angle worm 

 mixture, heated in a shovel over the fire. Every 

 evening rub the spavin with the origanum oil mix- 

 ture. By the time these are used you will begin to 

 see the horse improve. 



^ During the operation, it will often appear to make 

 him worse; but this must not be regarded a"s injurious. 

 It does not remove the lump, but the disease will be 

 extirpated. — lb. 



Beware of Ring Bone. — If colts stand on a plank or any 

 hord floor that is not vsiell littered, they will be subject to 

 the ring bone. When breeding horses, we left the floor of 

 the colt's stable of the soil over which they were built. If 

 this should be a deep loam, or of a clayey texture, then re- 

 move the soil about two feet deep, and replace it with sand, 

 or the finest gravel to be obtained. Colts should always be 

 let out to exercise in a yard, or open space, every day, during 

 the winter, when not particularly stormy : and in this yard 

 there should not be older horses, or any horned cattle which 

 can do them injury. Being very playful they arc more apt 

 to provoke attacks upon them than other animals. — American 

 Agricultural. 



Clipping Horses. — Observing a paragraph relative to 

 clipping horses, I beg to state that I have lately been 

 informed that the process injures the constitution of the horse 

 in the long run, causing the animal to 1 wear out sooner, not- 

 withstanding every enre may have been taken with him at 

 the time of the operation and subsequently; although it is 

 conceded that at the time of clipping, the horse is thereby 

 enabled to perform his work more easily, and also thrives 

 better. — Agricultural Gazette. 



Horse Skates. — A writer in the National Intelligencer 

 mention* the invention of Horse Skates, by means of which 

 in cold latitudes, an ordinary horse has been often known to 

 travel as far as 100 mils in .hree hours, without apparent 

 fatigue. A full set, (he says) of these marvellous skates, 

 bedecked in the Norwegian style, has been deposited in the 

 patent office. 



Spirit of tlje ftgrindteral Press. 



Carrots. — Aa I have been a grower and consumer of 

 iraome fen years (especiall] carrots.) I would, there- 

 ive what little information I can, oil derived from 

 nee. In the first place, I think there is no root ever 

 yet introduced that will produce so great an amount of tat- 

 u Ding properties per acre as the carrot. I believe there u no 

 emu or hay, or oilcake or linseed, that will fatten anj I 

 or bullock so soon and ao compl telj at the carrot given in 

 its raw state. Horses, however poor (if healthy), will get 

 fat in a few weeks with carrots only. No hay, no water 

 —in bet, they will not drink if yon fe< d entirely on carrots. 

 Now, aa to quantity, if yon wish only to Bitten let them eat 

 aa many as they like; but one bushel per day, with hay, 

 will keep your hones in good working order, without .urn! 

 and two bushels perday will ratten them while working with- 

 out any hay or corn. There is no fear of griping them, aa I 

 believe the carrot quite free from any propensity that will 

 produce that effect. I have two horses that an 

 iifn it carrots and liay. They have 40 lbs. of carrots w i 

 to them, ami about 8 lbs. of hay, and they thrive wonder- 

 fully upon it. I am such an advocate for carrot cultivation 

 that I should like to see every farmer with some acres every 

 year. I think also it is the most profitable crop to grow for 

 sale, for I believe it is quite possible to grow 50 tons to the 

 acre. Several gentlemen have told me they have 30 tons to 

 the acre this year. Perhaps we have not had so unpropitOUS 

 a year for a long time, not only the quantity and quality of 

 the carrot is great and good, but the mere cultivation is like 

 BUbaoiling the land, and it is always kind for any gram 

 it. 1 generally grow the white Belgian and Altringham, 

 but 1 think the short carrot called the "early horn" will grow 

 the greatest weight per acre. 



Richd. Webb, in Mark Lane Express. 

 We endorse the above views in full; and during the failure 

 and uncertainty of the potato crop we advise that more 

 atten be paid to the Carrot for milch cows, cattle and horses, 

 and the Parsnip for feeding and fattening hogs. — Bl). 



Salt as a Garden Manure. — I can strongly recommend 

 a dressing of this manure (except on very stiff land. ) To 

 grow asparagus and seakale in perfection, it is essential, and 

 I find a general improvement effected by its use in the bulk 

 and quality of our culinary crops; it also distroys snails and 

 other insects. For general crops, about 'i lb. to the square 

 yard will be sufficient ; this should be sprinkled evenly over 

 the ground when it is hare, and if dry, forked in immediately. 

 To the crops of seakale and asparagus twice this quantity 

 may be given ; it should be spread over the beds in winter, 

 or early spring, and either forked in at once or left to be dis- 

 solved by the rain. — Agricultural Gazette. 



Agricultural Education in Cuba. — Three of the 

 principal schools of Havana have instituted a new depart- 

 ment in which instructions are given in Chemistry as applied 

 to Agronomia, or cultivation of the various kinds of field 

 crops. — La Cronica. 



Patent Safety Bridle. — Mr. H. Seitz. of Marietta, 

 Lancaster county, Pa., is the inventor of a very ingenious 

 Bridle for which letters patent were recently granted, 

 whereby it is impossible for the most spirited horse to kick or 

 run away, and perfectly safe for a lady to drive or ride. — The 

 principle on which it is constructed is to hold the horse by 

 the application of a pulley around which the reins are made 

 to pass at the side of the horse's mouth, which enables the 

 rider to exert a great deal of lever power to control the mouth 

 of the animal, and to check him at any moment. 



Large Poultry. — At a show held in England, under the 

 direction of the late Earl Spencer, the following were the 

 dressed weights of some of the poultry exhibited: The best 

 turkey weighed twenty lbs. 4 oz. ; capon. 7 lbs. 1-1.1 oz.; 

 pullet, Gibs. 31 oz.; goose, 18 lbs. 2jS oz.; couple of duck, 15 

 lbs. 10 oz. 



How to Render Cloth, Sii ks. &c, Water Proof. — 

 Take one pound, each, of common alum, (sulphate of 

 alumius,) and sugar of lead, (acetate of lead,) and dissolve 

 them in six quarts of boiling water well mited by stirring. 

 When cold, the top portion of the mixture should be poured 

 oil' for use, as the sediment consists of sulphates of lead, pot- 

 ash, &.c. Any article of dress, no matter how slight the 

 fabric, if well saturated with this liquid, and allowed to dry 

 slowly, will bear the action of boiling water, and not permit 

 it to pass through it. 



