NEW ENGLAND FARMER, 



August 15, 1832. 



" The cause of salivation has been too long 

 t.oiight in the different wectls which spring up 

 among the clover in various soils. I have, how- 

 ever, been in the habit of sowing the seed of this 

 plant plentifully. The clover of consequence 

 stood thick on tiie ground. This introduced much 

 shade, which together with the frequent use of 

 the scythe, had so far destroyed weeds, that i 

 some places, few, if any were to be found : still, 

 the second and third crop clover mowed from 

 those places, were equally injurious to cattle and 

 horses. 



"This disease is checked by the first white 

 frost that is seen to cover the grass in the fall. 

 If the frosts succeed each other tolerably quick, it, 

 with the Hessian fly, and all flies disappear. I 

 have seen a heavy white frost put an immediate 

 stop to every appearance of salivation among 

 horses and cattle. When this however, was not 

 followed by other frosts, slabbering soon recom- 

 menced, and continued till it was again checked 

 by the same cause. May we not infer, from this, 

 that if the farmer deferred cutting his second crop 

 clover until frost checked the slabbering among 

 his cattle, that all the grass mowed until saliva- 

 tion again commenced would make valuable hay ? 

 Until now, however, I have never tliought of this, 

 although I have often observed that cattle and 

 horses grazed on second crop clover, gathered 

 flesh as fast as any other second crop grass, 

 after white frost puts a stop to salivation. 



"Horses and cattle gather but little flesh when 

 grazed on red clover, during the season for saliva- 

 lion. Cows immediately fail in their milk. The 

 butter made while slabbering continues is gener- 

 ally bad, and some cattle and horses fall away 

 greatly even in luxuriant pastures of this grass." 



Abel Seymour, in a communication originally 

 published in the American Farmer, and republish- 

 ed in the New England Farmer, vol. ii. p. 19, at- 

 tributes the cause of salivation in stock to their 

 feeding on grass covered w-ith a blue mould or 

 fungus. And he says in substance that an atten- 



curring at all in many places, where horses are 

 (lastured almo.st altogether on clover." A botani- 

 cal description of the Euphoibia is given in the 

 N. E. Farmer, vol. ii. p. 78. 



Dr William Baldwin, of Wilmington, Delaware, 

 in the same article says, " Dr Barton informed me 

 that he believed several vegetables bad a similar 

 eflTect with the Euphorbia in producing slavers ; 

 and that he had known this disagreeable disease 

 ])roduced by dry clover, which he sujiposed to be 

 in a diseased state." 



It appears then that the cause or causes of this 

 deleterious effect are not ascertained to any de- 

 gree of certainty, and we think the topic deserv- 

 ing and admitting of further elucidation. 



will destroy white weed. Other writers state that i 

 plaster of Paris will extirpate this nuisance, but 

 with regard to the manner and quantity of its ap- 

 plication for that purpose, we liave seen no direc- 

 tions. 



Mr E. W. Raring of Cayuga, Claiborne Co. 

 Miss, wishes for information rel.ative to the ar- 

 ticle of Pindars, by some called ground nuts, by 

 some Goober Peas, &c. What quantity nearly is 

 sold in Boston, &c. " Our soil and climatet" ne 

 continues, " are well adapted to the growth of this 

 article, and I am wishing to learn if it will do to 

 ship." 



We find the following notices of this article in 

 the last American edition of Willich's Domestic 

 Encyclopedia. 



" Ground Xuts or Ground Peas, the .irrackis 

 Hypo^alos .'Imerieaniis of Ray, a plant cultivated 

 in the West Indies by the negroes. When in 

 flower, it inclines towards the earth, into which 

 the pointal enters, and extends to a certain depth, 

 where the seed vessel and fruit are formed, so that 

 the latter attains maturity under ground. As large 

 crops of this vegetable are produced on lightiandy 

 land, of little value, it may be advantageously cul- 

 tivated on such soils. 



"The seeds or fruit, when bruise<l and express- 

 ed through canvas bags, afford a pure, clear 

 and savory oil, which will admit of being kept for 

 a considerable time without becoming rancid or 

 equiring any particular care, even during the heat 



of summer. As one bushel of the seeds when ex 

 five observer may frequently perceive streaks of i pressed, yields a gallon of pure oil without, and a 

 blue mould on the grass, and by reviewing it more much larger quantity, though of inferior quality, 

 closely with a magnifying glass, he can distinguish with the aid of heat, they deserve to be more gen- 

 two complete rows of mushrooms or fungi, one on erally known and imported." 



each edge of the spear grass; and cattle and horses, j We should be much gratified by the receipt of 

 by swallowing these excrescences with their j information relative to this as well as the other ob- 



DISEASE m HORSES' EYES. 



Mr D. B. Richards, of South East, N. Y. writes 

 as Ibllows : "A disease of horses I have lately be- 

 ouie acquainted with, which I do not recollect 

 seeing described in any publication. It is called 

 the hooks in the eye. The fore jiart of the eye 

 brow is contracted, and by standing before the 

 horse and making a motion with the hand, the 

 hor.ie draws a white skin from the for" part of the 

 eye, nearly over the whole ball. Should you pub- 

 lish something respecting said disease, iierhaps 

 some one might be benefitted." 



Not professing to be an adept in veterinary sci- 

 ence, we should be under great obligations to any 

 friend, or other public spirited gentleman, who 

 would give us information on the above mention- 

 ed topic. — Editor. 



Early Jlpples. — We have been favored with 

 three different specimens of summer apples, fully 

 matured antl of prime excellence. They are styled 

 Early Harvest, Parson's Red Streak, and Staat Ap- 

 ple. They ivere from the Orchard of Gorham Par- 

 s, Esq. whose laudable efforts to iniroducc and 

 inf|>rnve articles of culture deserve the gratitude oi 

 a community benefitted by such efforts. 



iMASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETY. 



SATDBDir, August 11, 1832. 



, Fruits Exhibited. — Peaches from Eben. Breed, 

 Esq. of Charlestown, of an uncommonly large 

 size, weighing nearly nine ounces, of a delicious 

 rich llavor and melting. Apples from the Hon. H. 

 A. S. Dearborn, Roshury ; beautiful large White 

 Spring fruit, the tree from Philadelphia. 



S. A. SHURTLEFF. 



food, become afilicled with the disease alluded to. 

 Some have thought the disorder caused by the 

 webs of spiders; some that it was caused by a 

 poisonous plant called lobelia, or Indian tobacco. 

 Lovett Peters, Esq. whose conuuunication on this 

 subject was published in the N. E. Farmer, 

 vol. ii. p. 58, was of opinion that "the slavers 

 of horses is caused by their eating a kind of grass 

 of second growtli, making its appearance in the 

 fore part of July, much resembling oats, which 

 comes up in the fall, after the crop has been taken 

 off the ground." 



In the second volume of Memoirii of the Phil- 

 adelphia Agricultural Society, (pages 350 to 3.58) 

 are published two communications, "On the Sal- 

 ivary Defluxions in Hoises." Mr Abraham Per- 

 lee was the author of one of tliese communica- 

 tions, and Mr William Baldwin the other. Mr 

 Perlee attributed the disorder to a plant called 

 spotted spurge, Euphorbia maculata. This wri- 

 ter was of opinion that the evil was not produced 

 by clover, and assigns as a reason for such belief, 

 "its not having occurred for many years after clo 



jects of inquiry mentioned above. 



WHITE WEED. 



Our respected and venerable correspondent, 

 Samuel Preston, of Stockport, Fenn. wishes us 

 "to make inquiry, and to publish some account 

 how to destroy the pernicious weed, called White 

 Daisy or Buck's Eye." Wc are ha))py to comply 

 as far as it is in our power with this request. 



We believe the pernicious weed, alluded to by 

 by Mr Preston is a plant, termed by botanists 

 Chrysanthemum lencanthemum. It has quite an as- 

 sortment of common or vulgar names, among 

 which are white weed. May weed, ox eye, &c, 

 besides its more poetical appellation of Daisy. 



Mr Deane observed that "the daisy and rag 

 weed are conquered by a plentiful manuring of 

 the ground ; for where tlie land is rich they are 

 found not to flourish. Pasturing the Land with 

 sheep is said to be fatal to the daisy and to the 

 crow foot. But the most effectual way to destroy 

 these weeds, is to break up the land, and employ 



it in tillage." The Farmer's Assistant assures us 

 ver had been extensively cultivated, and not oc- ' that top dressings of composts suitable to the soil 



A lirodigious Switzerland sheej), exhibited at 

 the Lincoln Fair, caused an extraordinary sensa- 

 tion among the farmers, few of whom ever dream- 

 ed of seeing a sheep of the enormous weight of 

 402 lbs., standing 5 feet in height, and being 7 ft. 

 in length ! This sheep was yeaned on the moun- 

 tains of Stvitzerland, and is now three years old. 

 It has been publicly exhibited to the most distin- 

 guished naturalists in Europe, and at the Tuile- 

 ries in Paris, before the royal family of France. 

 It has produced annually 35 lbs. of wool, and is 

 carried in a caravan to fairs, as au extraordinary 

 curiosity. — English paper. 



Foul Casks cleansed. — Butter tubs and other 

 vessels which have become foul by use, can be 

 easily cleansed by filling them tvith any kind of 

 meal or bran and water, and permitted to stand 

 till fermentation lakes place — casks which have 

 from any cause become filthy and musty, may be 

 cleansed in this way. And inasmuch as this mix- 

 ture, after having performed this operation, be- 

 comes more suitable food for swine, than before, 

 there is no expense attending it. — Mass. Spy. 



" Cure for a Burn. — Scrape the inside of a po- 

 tato ; nii.x sweet oil and turpentine so as to make 

 poultice of the mixture, and apply it to the burn 

 immediately, and it will extract the heat." 



