No. 2. Smallpox in a Cow. — Value of Employment. — Ploughs, SfC. 47 



sheep; but the inferior kinds of browse, 

 grass, or hay, with a due proportion of pota- 

 toes, or other succulent roots, are preferred 

 to rich pasture and farinaceous grains. Too 

 liberal an allowance of rich and stimulating 

 food to an animal extremely abstemious, and 

 habituated to live on coarse and light herb- 

 age, and that in small quantities, cannot be 

 regarded otherwise tiian injurious. — Ameri- 

 can Agriculturist. 



Smallpox in a Cow. 



The possibility of communicating any of 

 the diseases to which man is incident, to the 

 lower animals, would not meet with much 

 favour from medical philosophers. However, 

 a gentleman of close observation, who re- 

 sides in Iowa, has favoured us with the fol- 

 lowing circumstances. 



" The enclosed [a crust] is the scab from 

 a yearling calf that has had the smallpox. 

 That disease broke out in a family residing 

 about twelve miles from Burlington, some 

 five weeks ago. They all had it, and two 

 of its members died. A cow and a calf were 

 in the habit of coming round the door of the 

 house — drank the water in which the family 

 washed, smelt the clothes that were cast off 

 by the sick and thrown out, and also inhaled 

 the infection and took it. Our physicians 

 held a consultation over them two days ago, 

 and pronounced it to be the genuine small- 

 po.x. They were not informed of the fact 

 until it was so late that they could hardly 

 tell whether the scabs were primary or se- 

 condary. [The specimen is evidently of the 

 latter kind.] There were some two hundred 

 pustules on the calf, about the head and legs, 

 and more on the'cow. Some thirty persons 

 were vaccinated with a scab from this 

 source, in this town, but sufficient time has 

 not elapsed to develope its true character." 



At Rainsford Island, in Boston harbour, 

 where cases of smallpox abounded for half a 

 century, when not permitted to exist any- 

 where in the city, no way could be devised 

 by which the matter from the most virulent 

 form of smallpox, would show any effects 

 whatever on cows, oxen, dogs, cats, or 

 horses. — Boston Medical Journal. 



Value of Employment. 



We take the following from a speech not long since 

 made by Daniel Webster, in the Senate of the United 

 States.— Ed. 



"Sir, — I say it is employment that makes 

 the people happy. This great truth ought 

 never to be forgotten ; it ought to be placed 

 upon the title-page of every book on politi- 

 cal economy intended for America, and such 



countries as America. It ought to be placed 

 in every farmer's almanac. It ought to head 

 the columns of every farmer's magazine and 

 mechanic's magazine. , It should be pro- 

 claimed everywhere, notwithstanding what 

 we hear of the usefulness — and I admit the 

 high usefulness — of cheap food, notwith- 

 standing that, the great truth should be pro- 

 claimed everywhere; should be made into a 

 proverb, if it could, that where there is tcork 

 for the hands of men, there will be work for 

 their teeth. Where there is employment 

 there will be bread ; and in a country like 

 our own, above all others, will this truth 

 hold good; a country like ours, where, with 

 a great deal of spirit and activity among the 

 masses, if they can find employment, there 

 is always great willingness for labour. If 

 they can obtain fair compensation for their 

 labour, they will have good houses, good 

 clothing, good food, and the means of edu- 

 cating their families; and if they have good 

 houses and good clothing, and good food, and 

 means of educating their children from their 

 labour, that labour will be cheerful, and they 

 will be a contented and a happy people." 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Ploughs and Ploughing. 



Mr. Editor: — 



Although I have no desire to resuscitate 

 the controversy on the subject of the "Corn 

 Breeder," yet I have thought that friend 

 Stapler* might, perhaps, be glad to learn, 

 that the present season affords an opportu- 

 nity to set the vexed question to rest, by 

 comparing the work performed by the Moore 

 and Prouty ploughs, on lands almost adjoin- 

 ing each other, on the public road leading 

 from Wilmington to Newcastle and Dela- 

 ware city ; Bryan Jackson being at this time 

 engaged in turning under a heavy crop of 

 clover with the Centre-draught, while 

 Chauncy P. Holcomb is performing the 

 same operation in a field in the immediate 

 vicinity with the Moore plough. It is there- 

 fore only requisite for us to examine the 

 present state of the work, and watch the 

 progress of the growing crops to maturity, 

 noting their comparative yield at harvest; 

 and we shall then be able to form a correct 

 estimate of the value of these rival ploughs 

 in the hands of these masters in the art of 

 husbandry. 



But it must be confessed that present ap- 

 pearances are very dissimilar; for while the 

 Prouty plough breaks up the furrow-slice 

 and carries it so high and over, as that a 

 furrow of six inches in depth, when turned 

 will measure eleven inches deep of tho- 



* See last volume of Cabinet, page 183. 



