Vol. XI.-No. 14. 



AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



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flouncin? abniit on tlie ground until past midnight 

 of the 14th, when he exi>ired. 



In tlie niornins ofthe 15th my 9d horse refused 

 to eat his oats. The night before he eat six quarts, 

 with a small handful of salt, and cleared his cratch 

 ofliav: I harnessed him into my gig and drove 

 bim a sliort distance to a watering place and offer- 

 ed him water, which he readily offered to drink, 

 l)ut could swallow only in small quantities, the 

 remaiiulor running from the nose. Ilmmediately 

 returned home with him, called on my neighbors, 

 one of whom is a farrier, who administered a short 

 time after s(utie aloes for physic, heing obliged to 

 be absent myself. They found the horse so ex- 

 ceedingly distressed in attempting to get down 

 the aloes, and the sweat flowing so copiously and 

 dropping so freely from him in various places, 

 they desisted, and did not put down but half pre- 

 pared, which was four ounces. He was soon af- 

 ter this bled. At two o'clock, P. M. I returned 

 home, four hours after taking him out of the har- 

 ness, and found he was scarcely able to stand up- 

 on his feet — respiration was now hurried, and he 

 was much distressed at every breath. One pint of 

 linseed oil, and three wine glasses of spirits tur- 

 pentine was put down, a part of which he ejected 

 from the stomach. Various things were tried 

 with a view to evacuate the bowels, such as saler- 

 ajtus with milk and molasses ; strong decoction of 

 tobacco, and spirits turpentine, was used for in- 

 jections, and repealed, together with a repetition 

 of the linseed oil and turjicntine, but all to no pur- 

 pose ; be stood upon his feet until within an hour 

 of bis death, and died at 1 o'clock, P. JM. the 16th 

 inst., l(i hours after the harness was taken from 

 liim. 



The post-mortem examination of the first that 

 died showed the stomach, liver and bowels to be 

 in good condition, only one hot found. On open- 

 ing the chest the lungs were found in a high state 

 of inifanuiiation, as was the wind-pipe and throat, 

 and the greatest engorgement of the blood vessels 

 of the lungs I ever witnessed in man or beast be- 

 fore. A coaguluin of blood was found in the sub- 

 stance of one hing as large as a pullet's egg ; and 

 the air cells full of frothy nuicus — this dissection 

 took place fifteen hours after death. 



The other horse was examined six hours after 

 death, and the discoveries were similar to the first, 

 except the lungs were not so greatly engorged 

 with blood, and no extravasation but deposits of 

 lymph in various places in the substance of the 

 lungs. 



The horses had been fed about ten days previ- 

 ous to their first being sick, upon old potatoes, 

 very thickly covered with sprouts, some of them 

 rotten, and considerably dirty, about IJ pecks per 

 day. The first bad not eaten any for two ilays 

 previous to being sick, and the other not for five 

 days. They had also been fed for ten or twelve 

 weeks previous to eating potatoes, on rye two 

 years old, a little musty, and corn of the first qual- 

 ity, ground together, equal parts from four to six 

 quarts [)er day, generally wet up with water. 

 These horses had been accustomed to labor in a 

 gig each one every alternate day. 



My barn stands upon a gentle acclivity, under- 

 neath of which is my stable, the grountl of the 

 upper end reaching nearly to the cill. In very 

 wet weather water runs in so as to cover two 

 floors, and reaching nearly to the others. After 

 the frost was out of the ground last spring, I dug 



and drained my stable, since which there has been 

 but little water standing under the stable floors. 

 The manure made is deposited behind the horses 

 in the stable, and the deposit from the family is 

 with the horse manure, mingled with it, the ne- 

 cessary being above. Underneath these floors are 

 considerable quantities of decaying vegetable mat- 

 ter, and in the stable is this fermenting pile of ma- 

 niue. J. B. M'GREGOIIY. 



P. S. — The first horse had gin and molasses, 

 pepper, camphor, and laudanum given pretty lib- 

 erally. All the medicine given both horses ap- 

 peared to distress tbein very much, and I think 

 instead of being of any benefit, hurried the termi- 

 nation of their lives. 



Not professing to be skilful in Fairiery, we should be 

 glad to receive, and would tliankfuily publish any re- 

 inailis from correspondents acquainted with diseases of 

 the above description and their remedies. — Ed. N. E. F 



From the Family Directory — By J. and R. Bronsun. 



MADDER RED ON WOOLLEN. 



To dye one pound of yarn or flannel, it will 

 require the following articles: 



Three ounces of alum, 1 ounce cream of tartar, 

 8 ounces of madder, i an ounce of stone lime. 



Use the same proportions to dye any number of 

 pounds. 



1. Prepare a brass or copper kettle with about 

 five gallons of water ; bring the liquor to a scald- 

 ing heat, then add 3 ounces of alum that is poiuul- 

 ed, and one ounce cream of tartar ; then bring the 

 liquor to a boil and put in the woollen and boil it 

 for two hours. It is then taken out, aired and 

 rinsed, and the liquor emptied away. 



2. Now prepare the kettle with as much water 

 as before, and add to it 8 ounces of good madder, 

 which should be broken up fine, and well mixed 

 in the water before you put in the woolleu. When 

 you have warmed the dye as hot as you can bear 

 the hand in it, then enter the woollen and let it 

 remain in the dye for one hour, during which 

 time the dye must not boil, but only remain at a 

 scalding heat, observing to stir about the woolleu 

 constantly while in the dye. 



.3. When the woollen has been in one hour, it 

 is to be taken out, aired and rinsed. 



4. Add to the dye half a pint of clear lime wa- 

 ter, which is made by slackingaboiit half an ounce 

 of lime to powder; then add water to it, and when 

 settled, pour the clear part into the dye and mix it 

 well. Now put in your woollen, and stir it about 

 for ten minutes, the dye being only at a scalding 

 heat. It is then to be taken out and rinsed im- 

 mediately. 



N. 15. — Should you wish the red very bright, 

 add about a quarter of an ounce or nearly half a 

 table spoonful of the aqua fortis composition at 

 the time of putting in the madder. 



To Preserve Common Watermelon Rinds. — The 

 following receipt was obtained from the ladies of 

 the family of Charles A. Barnitz, Esq. of York, 

 Penn. 



" Scrape all the soft from the inside, and the 

 dark green from the outside ; cut it in any form 

 you fancy, and throw it into cold water until you 

 boil some alum water, into which put it, and let 

 it boil two hours and a half; then put it into cold 

 water again, and boil some strong ginger tea ; in 

 which it must be boiled two hours and a half ; 

 then put it into cold water till your syrup, (which 



must be pound for pound) is made and strained, 

 then lay in the rind, boil it two hours and a half, 

 or longer, if the green is not Ijaudsome. Put it 

 into glasses the next day. — Am, Farmer. 



Seed Wheat. — Mr J. Lake, of Greece, Monroe 

 Co. N. Y., advertises from 800 to 1000 bushels of 

 White Bald Indiana Wheat, which he considers 

 the best sort now in use. The growth is similar 

 to the old kind of red chafl^, but fills much bettr. 

 Some farmers are acquiring a reputation, and con- 

 sequently an income, for a superior breed of sheep, 

 others for that of cattle ; some are known for their 

 success in rearing fine horses ; others as having 

 much improved l)reeds of swine ; some again, by 

 great pains, obtain excellent grain, which sells for 

 a good price, and others originate superior varie- 

 ties of fruit. IIuw wide is the field before the en- 

 terprising and thoughtful farmer! — JV. Y. Farmer. 



Many of oiu- readers may correct mistaken ideas 

 relating to diet, from the following report to the 

 Minister of the Interior in France, by Percy and 

 Vauquelin, on the relative proportions, per cent of 

 nutritious properties in difterent articles of food. 

 Turnips and greens, 8 per ct. 



Carrots, 14 " 



Potatoes, 25 " 



Butcher's meat, 35 " 



Bread, 80 « 



Broad Beans 89 " 



Peas 93 « 



Lentils, a kind of half peas, 94 " 



\_JVewport Herald. 



Eitgtish Herring are again in our river, after 

 an absence of several years. They are now tak- 

 en plentifnlly a few miles below this place, we 

 imderstaud, ami are very fat. It is remarked by 

 some of our oiilcst Fishermen, that these fish are 

 found to penetrate farther up our salt water rivers 

 and bays, during cold and unproductive seasons ; 

 a circumstance that would lead the philanthropist 

 to admire the uijiversal beneneficence of Provi- 

 dence in supplying from one element, the annual 

 deficiency of another — Wiscasset Laborer's Jour. 



Jerusahm Artichoke. — On most of our farms 

 there are gullies and other spots, inaccessible to 

 the plough. If these are planted with the Jerusa- 

 lem Artichoke, and suffered to remain unmolest- 

 ed for three years, they will furnish for many 

 years after, a good range for store bogs in winter. 

 The rooting of the bogs will serve to spread, and 

 not to eradicate them, as the smallest piece will 

 grow, and the summer season will recruit them 

 or many years. — jY. Y. Farmer. 



Legible Writing. — Some persons write legibyl, 

 excepting their own names ; yet names are the 

 parts of a writing which ought to be most plainly 

 written. Names, like the arithmetical digits, are 

 not to be determined by the context, in the man- 

 ner that other obscure words may be discovered. 



Lavater said a man could be known by his, 

 hand writing ; and an inherent fondness for airs, 

 is often exhibited in the Jlourishes of a signature 

 which though hard to counterfeit, is harder to read. 

 An aflectation of fbscurity is one of the least tol- 

 erable kinds. — Gen. Farmer. 



Blore hearts pine away in secret anguish, for 

 unkindness in those who should be their comfort- 

 ers, than for any other calamity in life. 



