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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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From the Amherst Cabinet. 



CATTLE SHOW, &c. 

 On Wednesday and Thursday last tlie Hillsbo- 

 rough Agricultural Society held its annual Cattle 

 Show and Fair at Francistown. The large con- 

 course of people which assembled on the occa- 

 sion manifested the deep and increasing inter- 

 est which they feel in these exhibitions. There 

 were even th^se present who have been loud 

 in decrying them as useless. 



On the first day, the pens appropriated for 

 the cattle were early filled with rare specimens 

 of improved breeds in all the branches of com- 

 petition for which premiums were offered by the 

 Society. The stock in general was excellent 

 in kind, and if not superior to that exhibited 

 last year, yet was such as to do honor to the 

 occasion, and credit to our farmers for their 

 continued enterprise and exertions to improve 

 their stock. The exhibition of Domestic Man- 

 ufactures was also a handsome display of the 

 ingenuity and persevering industry of our yeo- 

 manry, their faithful wives and worthy daugh- 

 ters ; being chiefly specimens of household in- 

 dustry, comprising many articles of excellent 

 fabric. And of the Butter and the Cheese, ev- 

 ery one had the indubitable evidence of gus- 

 tation, and if we can judge any thing from 

 the gesticulations of the participators and the 

 quantity consumed, they were both good. 01 

 these things, however, a more minute account 

 will be given hereafter. 



On Wednesday, after the usual preparatory 

 measures, the awarding committees proceeded 

 to examine the stock and manufactures, and to 

 make up the reports of their decision to be laid 

 before the Society. At 5 o'clock the Society 

 met for the choice of otTicers for the ensuing 

 year, and other business of the annual meeting. 

 After discussing the measures proposed, and 

 appointing committees to report thereon, an ad- 

 journment took place to eight o'clock next 

 morning, when the business was completed. 

 At 11 o'clock the Society formed in procession, 

 and proceeded to the ground appropriated tor 

 the Plough Match. Thirteen yoke of Oxen 

 were entered for this interesting competition. 

 The scene was a very animating one, and thous- 

 ands testified their deep interest in it, and ex- 

 pressed their joy by loud and reiterated accla- 

 mations. A description of this match and the 

 trial of strength of the oxen in drawing a dead 

 weight on the drag, will be given by the appro- 

 priate committee. After the ploughing match, 

 the Society returned in procession to the area 

 formed by the square of pens, where a table 

 was covered with the premium butter &, cheese, 

 a plenty of good bread, made of the finest of 

 the wheat that grows on our hills, and the best 

 of old orchard, on which they fared sumptuously. 

 Here they were honored with the company, as 

 guests, of His Excellency the Governor, wi'th a 

 great concourse of ladies, whose beauty, smiles 

 and appearance added brilliancy and animation 

 to the show. All together and with one ac- 

 cord demonstrated that thev were lovers of 

 bread and cheese and one another. After din- 

 ner the Society repaired to the meeting-house, 

 where an appropriate discourse was delivered 

 by the Presidei>t, the Reports of the awarding 

 committees presented and read, and the premi- 

 ums paid to the successful competitors. 



From the American Farmer. 

 BOTTS IN HORSES. 

 Dear Sin, 



I have read in the American Farmer, of the 

 15th instant, a communication on the subject of 

 botts in the stomach of horses, addressed " to 

 Mr. Lunday," referring to an extract from a 

 Lexington paper, purporting to be an eftectual 

 remedy for the botts, (that prescription 1 have 

 not seen, having mislaid that number,) signed 

 " A Subscriber" — I have made similar attempts 

 to destroy them, after dissecting the maw or 

 stomach of horses which have been killed by 

 bolts, but have discovered nothing will kill the 

 botts (which 1 tried) that would not kill the horse, 

 if given to destroy the botts while in the horse. 

 I have concluded the only way to save or cure 

 horses, when attacked by botts, is to extract or 

 make the horse discharge them — I have found 

 them troublesome to horses before they had ea- 

 ten into, or fastened on the maw or stomach ; 

 ndeed 1 have seen the botts collected in the 

 throat of the horse, in such lumps or quantities, 

 as to choke and kill the horse instantly ; which 

 will always be the case if relief is not given, 

 by inserting into the throat a mop, or the hand 

 of the groom to dislodge them, returning them 

 into the stomach, when they so collect in the 

 throat. The best and most effectual cure 1 

 have yet discovered, is to dislodge and bring 

 aieay the botts, which 1 have done, by drench- 

 ing the horse affected, with warm blood, say 

 one or two quarts, or more if it can be con- 

 veniently obtained, as there is no danger in 

 giving any quantity injuring the horse. As soon 

 as the dose thus given, reaches the botts in the 

 stomach, they will let go the maw or stomach 

 to feed on the Ulood thus given — which gives 

 the horse ins'ant relief, but of short continu- 

 ance if they are not speedily removed, which 

 must be done by cathartics, — Say Linseed Oil, 

 1 quart, or such quantity judiciously given as 

 will purge freely; keeping food, (except drinks, 

 or bran tea warm) from the horse until the op- 

 eration is over, during which gentle exercise 

 is advisable, when it will be found the botts will 

 be freely discharged in so healthy a state, that 

 aqua-fortis will be found scarcely sufficient to 

 kill them — I have daring the month when soft 

 corn (roasting ears) were to be had, given the 

 horse of them to eat plentifully in preference 

 to oil — they [lurge freel^', and the slime brings 

 the worm away forcibly. I have often tried 

 tiiis remedy after all efforts were suspended, and 

 have rarely known it fail, and never when first 

 used, or belore the bolt had eaten through the 

 stom-.ich. 1 was led to the experiment of giv- 

 ing blood, from the reflection that it was the 

 food of the bott, which they were in pursuit 

 of — to obtain it I always have recourse to one 

 or more of my healthy strong horses, as the 

 quantity desired may be. Though 1 have bled 

 in the neck, and used the blood of the horse af- 

 fected, (when no other horse was convenient) 

 without any hesitation, and I believe it will not 

 be found injurious to bleed horses occasionally 

 when in health, but rather beneficial to most 

 horses. 



I have known horses relieved when attacked 

 by botts in some instances, by killing the dung- 

 hill fowl and taking the entrails while warm 

 and cramming them into the stomach of the 

 horse, though I have not myself confidence in 

 its curing or relieving, where the botts have 



taken fast hold — to prevent botts, burn hickoi 

 wood into ashes and keep on hand tor use, gi' 

 ing once a week about one pint to each ho: 

 in his food ; if oats, wet and sprinkle the oati 

 the horse will eat them without objection, ant 

 1 think it, perhaps, the means of keeping hor 

 ses in health, where they would, without th( 

 ashes fed, have been diseased from other caus( 

 which your own investigation will, no doU 

 inform you they are subject to. 



I give you the trouble of reading this relu \^ 

 tanlly, leaving it for gentlemen of more leisu 

 and experience to attempt instruction or edi c 

 cation. NIMROD OWiNGS 



Fountain-Rock, Aug. 26, 1823. 



Our distant readers are warned that they mwif^ 

 have conlidence in what they see from the pi 

 of our correspondent above, in relation to t 

 noble animal, the horse. Mr. O. is known 

 possess a stock of horses, and to be one of t! 

 Iiest judges and masters of that useful animal 

 this country. — Edit. Am. Fa7: 



Fi'om the Old Colony Memorial. 



Sir- -I am by occupation a husbandman, 

 have always worked hard for a living. I pi 

 sess but few acres of land, endeavoring to ii 

 prove it to as much advantage as possible 

 on »vhich is a beautiful apple orchard, excei 

 ingly productive. I have also cherry, pes 

 peach and i)lum trees, which it has ever be( 

 my pleasure to cultivate, sparing no pains 

 labor about them. My garden too is the soul 

 of much profit, pleasure and satisfaction, pi 

 ducing me a great variety of fruits and rod 

 Watermelons and muskmeions 1 generally rai 

 in great profusion ; and 1 will venture to 

 no one takes more pleasure in feasting 

 friends and neighbors with those bounties 9! 

 Providence than 1 do, although they are procur- 

 ed not without much tug, and toil, and sweat 0; 

 the brow. Bui, notwithstanding I never ilenv 

 fruit to any one, who condescends to ask for it, 

 yet I am continually haunted and harassed b) 

 night plunderers and fruit stealers. And it has 

 become so serious a matter that 1 have Imil 

 thoughts sometimes of pulling up stakes, as wo 

 farmers say, though some call it a military term, 

 and removing to some distant country, where I 

 can be free from such molestations. Some, whl) 

 are strongly suspected of joining in this dis- 

 graceful business, have the re[)Utalion of rfr 

 spectable young gentlemen ; but, Sir, let me tell 

 them, that he, who skulks at midnight, lilce a 

 prowling wolf, through gardens and orchards, 

 iilching and destroying what the hand of indus- 

 try has labored hard both late and early to 

 bring to perfection, is, without any qualil'yiDg 

 epithet, a barbarian, a thief, and a robber ! Yeti 

 as much a robber as Michael Martin or ThuB- 

 derbolt ! 



One favorite pear tree [ have of inestimable 

 value; a true St. Germain, which was loadid 

 with fruit this season. — It was but the other 

 day, my wife being in the garden and castiDg 

 her eyes upon this beautiful tree, expressed her 

 astonishment at its wonderful productiveness. 

 " We must gather them carefully," said she, 

 " that they may keep the better. Our friends 

 in Boston must have some, and we must not for- 

 get our worthy parson, you know." " Aoi, 

 mamma," cried little William, " if the thieves 



