NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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EMERIES SEED-SOWER AND CORN-PLANTER. 



This sccd-sower is adapted to hand or horse power ; 

 and the sowing apparatus can be so arranged as to 

 adapt it to the sowing of large or small seeds. It drops 

 the seed at any desirable distances, and the changes 

 are made with the greatest ease and expedition. As 

 the gearing is of cast iron, it is regular, uniform, and 

 durable. Seeds may be dropped in hills, or strewed 

 along in a drill. 



The first premiums of the N. Y. State Agricultural 

 Society, of the Mass. Charitable Mechanics' Associa- 

 tion, and of the American Institute, have been 

 awarded to this sower ; also the first premiums of 

 several county societies. 



As the seed-sower is in use at the most busy 

 season, it is of great value in point of economy, not 

 only making a saving of labor by despatch, but aid- 

 ing the farmer, in urgent cases, to do his work at the 

 proper time, which is a very important matter. Be- 

 sides the saving of labor and despatch, which this 

 simple implement aids in accomplishing, it drops the 

 seeds more uniformly than it can be done by hand, 

 tliercby saving seed, and giving a better chance for a 

 good crop. 



The great objection to root crops is the expense of 

 cultivation ; yet so much labor is saved by sowing 

 with a machine, that this process is a mere trifie. 



For the Ncto England Farmer. 

 DISEASES OF ANIMALS. 



Mr. Com;. Dear Sir : I observe, in the X. E. Farm- 

 er of March 30, a notice of a communication recom- 

 mending " three grains of corrosive sublimate, and 

 three grains of red procipitutc, as a dose for a horse 

 afHi'ted with horse-ail," stating that " a horse recov- 

 ered after taking two doses." 



Your own remarks, viz., that " there may be cases 

 in which horses have a constitution sufficiently strong 

 to witlistand both disease and the effects of unfavor- 

 able medicines," are true, and it affords me much 

 ]>lcasurc to welcome you into the ranks of the re- 

 formers. I have no doubt that the community will 

 find it to their interest to sustain your valuable 

 journal, in the event of your continuing to sustain 

 the non-poison principles. 



The blood-letting and poisonous systems of the 

 allopaths have caused great destruction, as many of 

 our farmers, from dear-bought experience, arc ready to 

 testify ; they demand, and will have, a safer system 

 of veterinary medicine — one that shall cine the ail- 

 ments of their domestic animals, without entailing 

 misery and degeneration, through the medium of the 

 fleam, firing-iron, soalding mixtures, corrosive sub- 



limate, red precipitate, and a host of other destruc- 

 tive agents. They (the allopaths) conclude that " f/(,s- 

 ease is an unnatural condition," and must be met by 

 an unnatural agent; that " corrosive sublimate will 

 destroy life, therefore it must be used to cure." It 

 appears to me that a man does not require more than 

 an ordinary share of common sense to perceive that 

 if " disease is an unnatural condition," it must bo 

 met by a natural remedy ; one that shall not inter- 

 rupt the harmony of the vital machinery, when it 

 has free and universal action throughout the whole 

 animal organization. 



Again, red precipitate is a powerful depressor of 

 the vital power ; the chemico-vital action of the 

 stomach can never assimilate it, except to act patho- 

 logically ; it is still red precipitate, and always leaves 

 unmistakable evidences of its encroachments on the 

 mucous surfaces. 



The theory of making one disease to cure another, 

 as heretofore taught and practised, is just as absurd 

 as knocking a horse's brains out to make him stand 

 still, or bleeding him to death with the vain hope 

 of saving life — a theory that cannot stand the test of 

 common sense. This theory has led to the use of 

 deadly agents, all of which occupy a high rank in 

 the materia medica of the allopathic school. 



If there is any necessity to do violence to the ani- 

 mal organization in curing disease, then there is 

 some justifiable ground for using the above agents ; 

 but if there is not, let every man relinciuish the use 

 of agents that have hitherto proved destructive, and 

 resort to those that cooperate with, and not war 

 against, the vitality of the animal economy. The 

 mistaken idea that fever and inflammation ai'c disease, 

 and that all diseases are under the control of the 

 above, and other more or loss destructive agents, has 

 led to the universal use of " sricntijic remedies ; " rem- 

 edies that are calculated to kill, instead of cure. 

 Yours with respect, 



GEO. n. DADD, M. D. 



Boston, Ajtril 3, 1850. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



"We have a number of communications on hand, 

 which will appear in our next. That of Mr. IIol- 

 brook was rather late for this number, but we have 

 given it a place near the close, as it is on a subject 

 which is now before the farmers for action. We 

 would call particular attention to it, as it shows how 

 a great saving may be made in the cultivation of the 

 carrot crop, which is among the most valuable of 

 roots ; and an objection to its cultivation is, that it 

 requires more labor than other root crops. 



