No. 1. 



Murrain. 



23. 



others: the care with which they are culti- 

 vated and the enormous crops which tliey 

 yield, will place them A. 1. in the insurance 

 of cattle and sheep, during the stormy season 

 of winter. It is by no means necessary to 

 cut the roots before they are fed to cattle and 

 sheep; they will soon find a way of relieviiifr 

 you from all that labor, nor is tiiere any fear 

 of chokinjr, wliich I have sometimes known 

 to take place, from the practice of cutting. 

 You have only to put their roots into the man- 

 gier, (clean of course,) and your labor ceases, 

 and your pleasure and satisfaction begin ; and 

 you may look forward to a " merry Christmas 

 and happy new year," wliich, how those who 

 starve tlieir outdoor family can enjoy, I can- 

 not conceive — 1« me there is nothing so truly 

 pitiable and woe-begone as the countenance 

 of a hungry, cold, and unsheltered animal ! 

 Tlie owner of such, seeing the ease witii 

 which large crops of roots might be raised, 

 and upon which the utmost reliance might 

 be placed — why, such an one ought not any 

 longer to be able to sleep comfortably on his 

 bed! P. W. 



28th July, 1838. 



lUurrain. 



At page 260 of the first volume of the Far- 

 mers' Cabinet we published a communication 

 from one of our intelligent Chester county 

 correspondents, on the cure of the Murrain 

 in cattle. We have heard it highly spoken 

 of by many farmers. It was republished in 

 the Tennessee Farmer, and it has been tried 

 in the west, with what efl^ect will appear 

 from the following communication, addressed 

 to the Editor of the paper referred to above. 

 The writer says : 



"I would thank you to re-publish as soon 

 as convenient the remedy for the cure of the 

 murrain, inserted in your paper some time 

 last year. Col. Burten and Mr. Lyttle in- 

 formed me a few days ago that it had been 

 satisfactorily tested and had proved effectual 

 in every instance. Mr. Lyttle had cured two 

 of his own cattle, and had thus saved by your 

 paper -^30 perhaps. 



In the course of about five years I have lost 

 upwards of .$400 worth of cattle. Indeed, sir, 

 such is the destruction of cattle with us by 

 that fatal pestilence that it is common for a 

 man to say if he can keep up his stock by the 

 natural increase, he is satisfied. I thought I 

 had tried all the remedies spoken of, (tor they 

 are various,) but all to no purpose. Air. Lyt- 

 tle has promised me a receipt which I hope 

 to procure in a few days. That simple re- 

 ceipt, if as effectual as now said and believed 

 to be, is worth one hundred years subscripton 



to your valuable paper. It sliould be inserted 

 at least once in six months lor the benefit of 

 new subscribers. 



Should I have occasion again to try the re» 

 ceipt, you shall hear the result. 



I am now giving my cattle sulphur plenti- 

 fully as a preventive. I have lost only one 

 since I commenced the sulphur the last tall. 



The people in this county say, that the 

 murrain is caused by the stubble cane — or in 

 their words, by the " wearing out of th(j 

 cane." What think you of this] My expe- 

 rience does not confirm the supposition. J 

 believe I have lost more than a comparative 

 number of cattle. Some try to account for il 

 by saying that mine are blooded cattle, ha\- 

 iug bought a number of such cattle in Rliddle 

 Tennessee, but my experience does not con- 

 firm that supposition; tor all die, whether irn* 

 ported or native. To conclude, air, I was 

 born afarincr and' ffrazicr and a despiser oj 

 the culture of cotton, though now a cotton 

 planter. Could your paper change or be in- 

 strumental in changing the aspect of our 

 country in the culture of our lands, I should 

 hail it thrice welcome and you the great ben/' 

 ef actor of the W. District. 



Yours truly, H, J. A. 



Toulon, Tenn., March 6tli, 1838. 



As the receipt may be new to many of our 

 readers we give it below. 



For the Farmers' Cabinet. 

 Murrain* 



Sir, — If the following remarks, relating to 

 a disease which is considered by a large por- 

 tion of the community as incurable, be view- 

 ed by you of sufficient importance to entitle 

 them to a place in your paper, when conve- 

 nient please publish them. 



There are two processes recommended for 

 the cure of the Murrain in cattle ; one of 

 them is to give the animal one pint of spirits 

 of turpentine, and in 24 hours afterwards, a 

 pint of olive oil or hour's lard ; in 48 hours af- 

 terward half a pint of turpentine, and in *24 

 hours after this, half a pint of olive oil or hog's 

 lard. 



The other is to give a pint of flaxseed oil, 

 and in 12 hours after two pounds of glauber 

 salts, followed immediately by repeated doses 

 of warm water, for ten or twelve hours. 



.Vo'e. — Perhaps all those conihined wnuM be still bet- 

 tf r, the quantity of each incredierit to he such as e.\. 

 pi^rience may dictate t as actiug more quickly on dif- 

 ferent parts of the system. It .seems tli; symptoms of 

 this disease are not generally discovered until within 

 a short time previous to tiie death of the animal, 

 which soon ensues, unless arrested by medical aid ; — 

 consequently such substances as tend to restorp the- 

 system to a healthy state tlie most rapidly, combined 

 with other substances, to prevent injury to the anU 

 nial, seems proper. A.. 



Chester county. Pa., Feb. 23, 1637. 



