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Botts in Horses. — Canker in Pear Trees. 



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manure, and I am of opinion that notliing is 

 equal to it for bring-ing vegetation forward, 

 and securing early crops. 



It is manufactured in the town of Lodi, in 

 the county of Bergen, New Jersey, on the 

 branch of the Hackensack river, and can be 

 bought there for 40 cents per bushel ; or any 

 person wishing to become a stockholder in 

 the Company and obtain shares at §^100 each, 

 can receive 50 bushels of poudrette as a divi- 

 dend a year, to be paid half-yearly on the 

 15th of May and the 15th of September; ap- 

 plication to be made at 73 Cedar Street, New 

 York City. An old Subscriber. 



We inform our inquiring frientl that the same article 

 can also be obtained at ]20 Nassau Street, New York, 

 but we have had no opportunity of testing their com- 

 parative value. Ed. 



To the Editor of the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Botts in Horses. 



Sir, — At page 177 of the Cabinet for the 

 last year, I see slaked lime recommended for 

 the botts in horses, in portions of a table- 

 spoonful three times a week ; but in cases of 

 violent attack this remedy would be too slow 

 in its operations. 



A neighbour called on me with a horse 

 very much affected in this way, and requested 

 me to give him a teacup full of black pepper 

 and a pint of whiskey, which he administered, 

 but without effect, although he promised that 

 the horse would be relieved in a few minutes ; 

 he therefore determined to give him more 

 pepper and whiskey, but I remonstrated 

 against it, and strongly recommended a pint 

 of molasses, which he at length consented to 

 try; this relieved the horse almost instantly, 

 and in a few minutes he hitched him to his 

 wagon and drove off. 



In another case, a friend had given his 

 horse, while in the most excruciating pain 

 from this disorder, a gill of turpentine, and 

 afterwards black pepper and whiskey, declin- 

 ing to try the molasses, as he considered it 

 too simple a remedy ; the horse at length ap- 

 pearing in the last extremity, he consented 

 to administer the molasses; the effect was 

 almost instantaneous, and in ten minutes the 

 horse was feeding. Now I cannot otherwise 

 account for the sudden and effectual relief 

 obtained from the use of molasses in this dis- 

 order, otherwise than by supposing that so 

 soon as the molasses enters the stomach of 

 the horse, the botts quit their hold and feed 

 on it, and this gives the horse instant relief, 

 when a dose of oil would carry them away 

 and effect a permanent cure. Would some 

 of your readers try the remedy, and report 

 through the pages of the Cabinet the result, 

 stating also their opinions regarding this 

 view of the case. S. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Canker in Pear Trees. 



Mr. Editor, — I wish to inquire through 

 the medium of the Farmers' Cabinet, the 

 cause of the failure of the pear, commonly 

 known by the name of the butter-pear, and 

 to ascertain, if possible, a remedy for the de- 

 fect. This is the third year in succession, 

 that mine have been affected by a disease 

 that completely arrests their growth when 

 they have attained about one-fourth of their 

 proper size, the outside assuming a dark ap- 

 pearance, covered with numerous cracks or 

 fissures, about one-fourth of an inch in depth. 

 I know not how far the disease lias extended, 

 but in tills immediate neighbourhood I believe 

 that all the trees are similarly affected. Now 

 if you, or any of your readers, will be good 

 enough to enlighten us on this subject, they will 

 deserve the thanks of all lovers of good fruit, 

 and of none more than of Pomonus. 



Lionville, Chester County, Pa. 



There is an article on this subject, in the Quarterly 

 Journal of Agriculture, which is much to the purpose, 

 and from whence we copy the following remarlss. The 

 writer, Mr. Pearson, says— 



" Four years ago, I had one of the best 

 walls of peach and nectarine trees in the 

 country; they were the admiration of all 

 who saw them in the months of August and 

 September, when scarcely a portion of the 

 wall could be seen for healthy foliage and 

 fruit; but the canker and gum committed 

 sad destructipn amongst them, during the 

 cold and wet seasons of 1837 and 1838, so 

 that I determined to replant the upper part 

 of the wall, where the trees were nearly 

 dead, and which were the more exposed to 

 the north-east ; but upon removal, I found the 

 roots perfectly healthy, while the branches 

 were covered with one universal canker. I 

 found the border in which the trees were 

 planted four feet deep, of excellent strong 

 soil, but as I do not approve of too good a 

 soil in a cold climate, I made the new border 

 two feet deep only, with a stone-drain bot- 

 tom, and planted it, in 1839, with healthy 

 trees, which made a tolerable start, but the 

 gum and canker were not prevented, and 

 they suffered severely, the summer and au- 

 tumn being cold and wet: the present year 

 they have done better, but the summer has 

 been light, warm and dry. Various have 

 been the theories and various the nostrums 

 prescribed for the cure of this destructive 

 disease, yet I am compelled to differ from the 

 most plausible of them. 



That soil possesses considerable influence 

 over its products, no sensible man will doubt 

 or deny ; but that it is the sole or main cause 

 of canker, the following particulars will show 

 the contrary. Last spring I converted a pine- 



