No. 3. 



Hollow Horn — The Heedless Farmer. 



37 



tion, and thus continued during the season, 

 until tlie branch is completely surrounded, 

 and a small ring or circle of bark removed. 

 At a suitable time for transplanting, the 

 branch may be cut entirely olli and treated 

 afterwards as young trees usually are when 

 transplanted ; the sides of the box surround- 

 ing the earth and roots are removed previous- 

 ly to transplanting. Dry gourds, with holes 

 formed in them while green, answer in the 

 place of boxes. 



Peach and other trees, where a hard strong 

 bark is desirable, may be produced in tliis 

 manner to advantage; also thorns for live 

 fences, where the value of the plant is in 

 proportion to the number of thorns upon it ; 

 another advantage arises from the sliort space 

 of time required to produce an orchard, or 

 shade trees. The branches that would other- 

 wise require to be cut away to preserve the 

 proper form of the parent tree, might be se- 

 lected to a considerable extent for this pur- 

 pose. Sugar Maple and many other trees, 

 are now in great demand, with which tlie 

 above method is certainly worth a trial. 



P. 

 2nd August, ]f>37. 



We have received another communication 

 from " A Farmer," in relation to the contro- 

 very heretofore carried on in our columns 

 between "Observer" and "A Subscriber." 

 We give belov/ all tliat part of the commu- 

 nication that relates to the point in dispute — 

 and we are satisfied that our correspondent 

 will see the propriety of our omitting all that 

 had not a direct bearing on the subject. The 

 controversy has already run through several 

 numbers; we now wish to collect all the 

 fads regarding the disease, and dispose of it 

 a,s speedily as possible. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



Hollow Sloru. 



Hollow horn (understood as the name of a 

 disease,) is nothing more nor less than an in- 

 flammation of the horn ; it may exist without 

 the horns being hollow, just in the same way 

 that the yellow fever may exist without any 

 yellow symptoms being observable. The 

 name of the disease is the name of its effect ; 

 but says Observer, " horns are always hol- 

 low." This assertion might be as correctly 

 made in relation to any other substance what- 

 ever ; the pith of the horn is porous, and so 

 is every thing else — a sound horn is certainly 

 not a hollow one, in the common acceptation 

 of the term. 



Early in the investigation, Observer con- 

 gratulated himself on having completely over- 



turned the " whole boring system ;" subse- 

 quent observations, however, convinced him 

 that boring was sometimes advisable, and in 

 this latter conclusion, he is correct. I would 

 not recommend the remedy for every com- 

 plaint which may happen to be called the 

 hollow horn ; the " hollow gut,'''' lor instance, 

 (to use a vulgar expression,) is best treated 

 in the manner proposed in your last paper, 

 by a " Montgomery County Farmer." We 

 are told that the disease is unknown in Eng- 

 land ; be tJiis as it may, tiie remedy is well 

 known there, and appears to be often in re- 

 quest. Dr. Cooper, an Englishman, a Phi- 

 losopher, and one of the most accurate ob- 

 servers, in his remarks upon the disease, 

 considers it the effect of cold in animals, in- 

 sufficiently fed. He recommends the usual 

 remedy. 



A Farmer. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 



TIic Heedless Farmer. 



The reader has long since been apprised 

 of the fact that farming has become a science, 

 worthy the attention of the most noted men 

 in the present age. Some have labored in- 

 geniously to bring it to perfection, and many 

 have occupied themselves in writing on it. 

 Every intelligent person will readily admit 

 that the study thereof^ is in all cases, in- 

 teresting — and causes him with emotion to 

 repeat that well known sentence, "how 

 wonderful are the works of nature." But the 

 heedless farmer cares not to concern himself 

 about the pleasure it affords, nor the substan- 

 tial enjoyments accruing fruma practical anl 

 scientific knowledge ol that which so in- 

 timately concerns his welfare. 



Brother farmer, let us pa«s by iiis habita- 

 tion, and place the scrutinizing eye thereon, 

 and see if we cannot learn a lesson that will 

 be of advantage to us in time to come. Al- 

 though it is possible for us to wander from 

 the path of prudence into the the ways of 

 selfishness, so far as to have too exalted opin- 

 ion of ourselves, we nevertheless trust in 

 some degree to the information derived from 

 agricultural v/orks. If the heedless farmer 

 would settle his mind down into sober ami 

 serious reflection, he would soon become a 

 genuine and honorable husbandman. Neither 

 could it any longer be said by the passer by, 

 that every thing around him assumed adingy 

 appearance, he would no longer be regarded 

 as a century behind the times, he would keep 

 pace with the improvements of the age — 

 and by all intelligent farmers, whose favora- 

 ble opinion is worth possessing, be highly 

 commended for his reformation. A poor 

 idea, indeed, is it for a farmer to say he can- 

 not find time to do "tliis thing or that," but 



