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THE farmers' cabinet. 



VOL. 1. 



Cure for Cattle swelled with green/ood. — 

 Give a dose of train oil, which, after repeated 

 trials, says the Farmer's Magazine, has been 

 found to prove successful. The quantity of 

 oil must vary according to the age and size 

 of the animal. For a grown up beast give a 

 pint, which must be administerad with a 

 bottle, taking care to rub the stomach well, in 

 order to make it go down. After receiving 

 this medicine it must be made to walk about, 

 until such time as the swelling begins to 

 subside. — Cidlivator. 



Management of Horses. 



The feeding of horses is a thing which for 

 the most part, is indiflerently attended to in 

 this country, and indeed the system of feeding 

 which has been adopted, is but ill calculated 

 to preserve these noble animals in full health 

 and unimpaired in strength and vigor of body. 

 With many planters and farmers, nothing but 

 corn and oats, in the whole grain, are doled 

 out from one end of the year to the other. — 

 Now these are each highly nutritious and 

 excellent substances, and well calculated to 

 sustain horses under long continued and la- 

 borious work, but then are they not too heat- 

 ing to the blood, and too difficnlt of digestion 

 to be given without change during the whole 

 year'! Would it not be better, putting the 

 saving out of question, to reduce those grains 

 to something like digestible substances? 

 Whether the horse be fed upon corn or oats, 

 in the whole grain, they necessarily void a 

 large portion of them in precisely the same 

 state in which they are received into his 

 stomach. This fact is too well established 

 to be denied at this late day, and hence it 

 follows that all portions of grains which are 

 eaten by the horse and not digested, serve 

 but to irritate the coat of his stomach, in- 

 flame his blood, and, by necessary conse- 

 quences, disease the wliols system. The 

 health of a man's family is very properly 

 said to be dependent as much upon his cook 

 as upon any other earthly agent, whether 

 referable to physical or atmospheric causes. 

 Writers upon human health invariably re- 

 commend plainness of diet, moderation of 

 eating, exercise, and general temperance, and 

 the substances commended to favor, are those 

 which afford the most bland nutrition, and 

 which are easiest of convertion into chyle. 

 If these recommendations hold good with 

 respect to human diet, we would ask are not 

 the same general laws of nature applicable 

 to the horse 1 If man lives luxuriantly and 

 feeds upon high seasoned and luscious food, 

 the chances are as ten to one against him that 

 he will get the gout, or some inflammatory 

 disease; and if he feeds upon substances 

 difficult of digestion, he is just as sure to be 

 visited with tliat worse than pestilent dis- 



temper — the dyspepsia. Ah ! but would yon 

 compare the horse to man 1 we think we 

 hear someone ask; and lest our motives may 

 be mistaken, we will take the liberty of re- 

 plying to the query in advance of itu being- 

 solemnly put on us. 



We do not compare the horse to the man, 

 but we hold it as of a truth which admits not 

 of contradiction, that all the alimentary sub- 

 stances, to be profitable to the stomach of 

 either man or horse, should be not only nu- 

 tritious and bland, but should be eaten in that 

 state in which it is best calculated to undergo 

 the digestive process. Mastication does 

 much to prepare the food of the horse for 

 that operation ; but the evidences which are 

 afforded by the substances voided by this 

 animal, incontestably show that it fails most 

 lamentably in the performance of this highly 

 necessary work. In England, where the 

 management of stock generally, and par- 

 ticularly of the horse, is reduced to a matter 

 of science, but few intelligent feeders think 

 of giving food to that animal in an uncrushed 

 state ; nor do they confine them to grain 

 feeding alone, and for the assigned reason, 

 that it is too heating. Potatoes and ruta baga 

 form a part of the feed of studs of most 

 English country gentlemen ; by which means 

 they keep their horses in better health ; the 

 occasional feeding with roots serving to open 

 their bowels, cool their blood, determine the 

 secretions to the surface, render the skin 

 loose, and the hair silky and healthy. We 

 have said, independently of the saving which 

 is thus effected, the other reasons are suffi- 

 cient to justify a resort to practice, and we 

 would ask are not the melioration with the 

 animal to which we have just alluded suffi- 

 cient of itself, to make it an object worthy 

 of every consideration! We think it is, and 

 should be rejoiced to find that our sugges- 

 tions were improved upon by American horse 

 owners, for we honestly believe that infinite 

 good both to the master and beast would in- 

 inevitably result from it. — Farmer and Gov 

 dener. 



TBirnep FJy. 



Mr. Editor, — Looking over an old news- 

 paper the other day, I noticed some experi- 

 ments tried on Turnep seed, to prevent the 

 destructive ravages of the Turnep Fly, or 

 Grub, which are sometimes very extensive. 

 The experimentalist stated that he discovered 

 that the leaves were eaten almost as soon as 

 the plants are up, so that the field was as 

 brown as before it was sown. He thought 

 at first that the insect might have proceeded 

 from other plants, or the hedges. Accord- 

 ingly he took some earth from his garden 

 and placed it in a box, sowed his turnep seed 

 in it, and covered it with §ilk gauze, so that 



