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THE farmers' cabinet. 



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Cholic IM Horses. 



Mr. Editor : — I herein send you a re- 

 ceipt for curing the cholic in horses. If you 

 think it worthy a place in your journal, you 

 will perhaps confer a service on some of 

 your readers, by givincp it publicity. A few 

 weeks ago, I was traveling into the country. 

 Before I had progressed many miles, my 

 horse showed evidently that he was laboring 

 under cholic. lie became quite loose in the 

 bowels, swelled, and was in great agony. 

 Fortunately I met with a wagonfr, whose 

 kindne.'ss relieved my beast from his illness, 

 and myself from, perhaps, a lor.g wtlk. [lis 

 remedy consisted in tyin<r upon the horse's 

 bit, a piece of tobacco. This being done he 

 told me I could proceed upon my journey ; 

 assured me, that the horse would get well 

 before I got one mile, and that he would not 

 be troubled again, while the tobacco re- 

 mained on the bit. I did as he directed, and 

 to my perfect astonishment my horse became 

 relieved as soon as he swallowed the saliva 

 created from the tobacco. L. B. S. 



Charleston, April, 12, 1836. 



We think our correspondent must besome- 

 what mistaken as to the effects of the tobacco. 

 We are opmion, that the tobacco, used upon 

 the bit, is a preventive of cholic, in its incip- 

 ient state; but once the cholic has been vio- 

 lent upon the animal, we are confident, that 

 a more active remedy must be used. In vio- 

 lent stages of cholic, we have seen tobacco 

 tea given with excellent effect. We have 

 heard of many receipts for this disease with 

 •which horses are so frequently plao-ued ; but 

 we venture to assert, that none will be found 

 more simple and sure, than the fi>l!owing : 

 Take of laudanum 6 or 7 table spoonful's — 

 of mustard, the larger portion of a bottle — 

 mi.K those in a pint of whiskey, or water, 

 and give the mi.\lure in a horn or bottle to 

 the horse. We have seen this dose applied 

 to horses which were so fur gone with cholic, 

 as to be perfectly cold and stiff. In one in- 

 stance, when the horse could not swallow, 

 the mixture was administered with an injec- 

 tion pipe, and the horse recovered in an hour 

 afterwards. When the severe pain has been 

 alleviated, a dose of oil should be given. 

 One pint will answer as a dose. — Editor 

 Southern Agriculturist. 



From the Genesee Farmer. 



Split Hoof in Hor^ics. 



A correspondent of the Doylestownlntelli 

 gencer, remarkinof on the great number of 

 horses that get split hoofs in consequence of 

 having been corked during the bad going 

 last season, says, " a number of expedients 

 were resorted to to cure the split. Some had 

 bands drawn round the hoof, but these were 



rather a clumsy affair, and in case the split 

 commenced on the top of the hoof the rem- 

 edy was completely ineffectual." After al- 

 luding to tiic inconvenience of keeping the 

 horse idle for four or five months, — the plan 

 adopted by some — the writer adds, " But I 

 have within a few days seen on expedient 

 which IS very simple and promises complete 

 success. I saw two horses which had their 

 hoofs split, from corkings received last win- 

 ter. They were kept steadily in a team, and 

 showed no signs of lameness. Some time 

 after the split in their feet, various expedients 

 having been tried without success, a black- 

 smith suggested boring the hoof in two 

 places, on each side of the opening, and then 

 passing nails through the holes and clinch- 

 ing them tightly. The owner of the horses 

 had the operation performed immediately; 

 and, although the horses had been used in 

 a heavy team for many weeks before the 

 time of my seeing them, their feet looked 

 well ; and I have no doubt that the horses 

 will not be again afilic'ed with lameness. If 

 the hoof should again incline to split, it will 

 be easy to insert a single nail." 



Kees. 



Some persons that keep Bees neglect to 

 take them up until some weeks after they 

 have been consuming the honey in the hive. 

 The bees cease to procure honey as fast as 

 they consume it earlier in the season than is 

 generally supposed. They lose after the 

 first of September unless they have access to 

 Buck-wheat that is in bloom. They will 

 not generally collect honey enough to sup- 

 port them in the two last weeks in August 

 unless the weather is very favorable to their 

 laboring, and the season is wet, so as to keep 

 a supply of honey in the flowers. We have 

 sometimes weighed hives every weekorfort- 

 night and have found that in a dry season the 

 hives were heaviest the last of July. A 

 hive that gained ten pounds a week in the 

 last of June and first of July, lost .S lbs. 

 from July 23, to Aug. 6th. During this fort- 

 night, the weather was as warm as it had been 



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any t)me m the season, but it was very dry, 

 and of course the flowers afforded but lit- 

 tle honey. If any person supposes that bees 

 will gain, at this season of the year, let him 

 weigh his hives every week, and he will 

 soon be convinced to the contrary, unless his 

 bees have unusually good pastures. — Yan- 

 kee Farmer. 



Beet Sugar in England. — Agriculturists in 

 England are beginning to turn their atten- 

 tion to the cultivation of beet-root, in conse- 

 quence of the success which is understood 

 to have attended the attempts to make siigitr 

 from it in France and elsewhere. 



