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inu.st starve. But I suppose it is not so inucli on 

 this ai:coiint as the turiiiii"; up the grounil and de- 

 stroying their coverts, wliicli allows the frost and 

 wet to alTi-ct them. S.\M'L D. MARTIN. 



Cotbyville, Ky., ^Jal■ch 13, li;4."i. 



BIIOOM-CORN HAY. 



A writer in the Southorn Planter says : 



For the last three yenrs, I Imve been in the liali- 

 it of sowin>,' the broom corn seed broadcast, ini-xed 

 with the common field peas, which lias made an 

 excellent hay, when properly cured. The sprinj/ 

 of 1842, tlirough the middle of my patch I sowed a 

 patch abont ten feet wide with Indian corn ; the 

 whole being nianaged'precisely in tlie same way, 

 and to my surprise, when ready to cnt, the broom 

 corn on each side of the Indian corn, looked lilic 

 two walls — the broom-corn about five feet high, 

 while the Indian did not much e.vceed two feel. 

 Of course it was all seeded very thick, and it must 

 be thick, or it will be too coarse for good liay. 

 So I conclude t at broom corn is much to be pre. 

 ferred. I have some of the hay on hand that is 

 now two years old. My practice is to house it. 

 My slock eat it readily. I try to sow it thick to 

 prevent the stalk being large. I esteem it best 

 when the stalks are about the size of large oat 

 stalks, and from three to four feet high; it should 

 be cut just after the broom or head makes its ap- 

 ipearance ; that which is cut in the forepart of the 

 day, should be shocked up after four o'clock ; it 

 meed not be spread the next day, but the day after 

 it may just be upset and opened ; at evening it 

 ishould be shocked up again, and if not too coarse, 

 in a few days it will be ready for the house. You 

 meed not fear rain while in the shocks. 



One word about the land and seed. Very rich 

 land is not so good ; as in such it will grow too 

 large in spite of you. I think one bushel of broom 

 >8eed and a half bushel of peas, clay-red or block- 

 eyed, will make it thick enough ; it may be sown 

 any time in May, upon land that water will not re- 

 main on long. Yours, J. Bi'NCH. 



Chuckatiuk, Va., Feb. 8, 1843. 



P. S. — I had like to have forgotten my cart- 

 wheel composition ; it is the best, black lead ex- 

 cepted, of anything I have ever used ; it is both 

 simple and cheap. I am now, and have been us- 

 ing it for some time : try it before you condenm it. 

 It is clean wood ashes mixed with any kind of com- 

 mon grease, or train-oil, if you please. J. B. 



Siickering Corn D. H. Datton, in the Southern 



Planter, says : 



" After a trial of five years, I have satisfied my- 

 self that irreparable injury is done the corn by 

 pulling off the suckers. I think that in conse- 

 quence of the wounds inflicted on the growing 

 plant, the crops of fodder and corn are both great- 

 ly diminished. I will cite one year's experience, 

 1S40. IMy corn was planted four and a half by 

 four feet, and two stalks allowed to remain in the 

 hill, in July, it was not unusual to see four suck- 

 ers on many stalks. I directed twenty rows through 

 the middle of the field to be suckered ; balance 

 left with all the suckers on: at gathering time, 

 very many of the suckers had each a full ear on 

 them, growing from the side of the stalk, many of 

 the parent stalks producing two large ears. The 

 suckered produced no more than the unsuckered 

 parent stalks : the latter furnished me an addition- 

 al quantity of both grain and fodder." 



UEMI'.DIES I'OR DISEASES OF CATTLE. 



Rcdwnlcr. — Bleed (says Youall,) first, and then 

 give a dose of 1 lb. of Epsmn salts, and 1-2 lb. do- 

 ses repeated every eight hours until the bowel..* 

 arc acted upon. In Hampshire they give 4 oz. 

 bole armoniuc and 2 oz. of spirits of turpentine in 

 a pint of gruel. 



BtarkwuUr is the concluding and commonly fa- 

 tal stage of rodwater. 



Clennsiiiir drink. — I oz. ol' bayborry powdered, 

 I oz. of briinstnno powdered, 1 oz. of cununin-sucd 

 powdered, 1 oz. of dinpente. Bnil these together 

 for ten minutes ; give when cold, in a gruel. 



Colic. — The best remedy is 1 pint of linseed oil 

 mixed with 1-2 oz. of laudanum. 



.t cordial is easily made by ] oz. • of caraway 

 seeds, 1 oz. of aniseeds, 1-4 oz. of ginger powder- 

 ed, 2 oz. of fenugreek seeds. Boil these in a pint 

 and a half of beer for ten minutes, and administer 

 when cold. 



Dinrrhten Give 1-2 oz. of powdered catechu, 



and 10 grs. of powdered opium, in a little gruel. 



Dystnitry. — The same as for diarrhcca. 



Fevfr. — Bleed ; and then if the bowels are con- 

 stipated, give 1-2 lb. of Epsom salts in three pints 

 of water daily, in gruel. 



Hoove or Hoven. — Use the clastic tube ; as a 

 prevention, let them be well supplied with common 

 salt, and restrained from rapid feeding when first 

 feeding upon rank grass or clover. 



J\Inns;e — 1-2 lb. of black brimstone, 1-4 pint of 

 turpentine, 1 pint of train oil. Mix thein together, 

 and rub the mixture well in over the affected parts. 



Milk fiver, or Garg;et. — 2 oz. of brimstone, I oz. 

 of diapente, 1 oz. of cummin-seed powdered, 1 oz. 

 of powdered nitre. Give this daily in a little gru- 

 el, and well rub the udder with a little goose- 

 grease. 



Murrain. — 1-2 lb. of salts, 2 oz. of bruised co- 

 riander seed, 1 oz. of gentian powder. Give these 

 in a little water. 



Poisons swallowed by oxen are commonly the 

 yew, the vater dropwort, and the common and the 

 water hemlock. 11-2 pint of linseed oil is the 

 best remedy. 



Purine, in poisonina; — either 1 lb. of salts in a 

 quart of water or gruel, or a pint to a pint and a 

 half of linseed oil. 



Sprains. — Embrocation: 8 oz. of sweet oil, 4 

 oz. spirits of hartshorn, 1-2 oz. oil of thyme. 



Sting of the Adder, or Sloioworm Apply imme- 

 diately to the part strong spirits of hartshorn ; for 

 sting of bees, apply chalk nr whitening mixed with 

 vinegar. 



Jl'orms. — Bots: give 1-2 lb. of Epsom salts, 

 with 2 oz. of coriander seed bruised in a quart of 

 water. 



Yillows. — 2 oz. of diapente, 2 oz. of cummin 

 seed powdered, 2 oi. of fenugreek powdered. 

 Boil these for ten minutes in a quart of water, and 

 give daily in a little gruel. — Johnson's Fanner's 

 Encyclopedia. 



Lime-water to kill JVorms. — To six quarts of 

 water add haJf a pound of caustic lime, and after 

 letting it stand a few minutes, commence watering 

 the ground infested by worms, and they will soon 

 bo seen rising to the surface, writhing about, and 

 will die in a few minutes, especially if a little 

 more of the lime-water is then sprinkled upon 

 them Amer. Agricull. 



I-'rciiii the .Michij-an I'liriin'r. 



PLANTING CORN. 



Mr Monre — In complinncc with your ii>il«lion 

 to corrospondcnis, I give niy views on the subject 

 of planting Inilian corn. 



I am aware of the multiplicity of opinions exist- 

 ing among farmers a.s to (he manner' of pluming. 

 Our population (of Michigan.) is composed of peo- 

 ple fnini dilfercnt States, and it is perfectly natural 

 for them to have predilection for tlio practice of 

 their nativity. 



As regards the distatice of the respective hills, 

 it ought not to be leas than four feel. If planted 

 closer, it shades the ground too much, which, in 

 this northern latitude, needs the warmth of the 

 sun. 



Some think, if they have a poor piece of land to 

 cultivate, they must plant closer than if it was 

 good. Now what we undcr.':tand by the term poor, 

 is a lack of material to cumbijie in a crop. And 

 the process of reasoning above alliidod to, amounts 

 to just this: if you have a given amount of corn, 

 which you wish to use in fattening a certain num- 

 ber of hogs, and it proves iiisuflicient, all you have 

 to do is to increase the number I 



About three years since, a man in this vicinity 

 planted three acres of corn on a light sandy soil, 

 three feet each way between the hills. Between 

 the rows, running east and west, he planted a row 

 of field beans. The corn grew very fast till the 

 time came when it should car. The result was, 

 tliat there was not an ear of corn on the whole 

 piece. The stalks and beans had so exhaUBted 

 the soil that there was nothing to form the car. 



The practice of planting pumpkins in the same 

 hill with corn, is not the best. What is gained in 

 the pumpkin is lost in the corn. Where there is 

 a thrifty pumpkin vine, there will he meagre ears 

 of corn. The farmer ought to he able to dis-crimi- 

 nate in such matters. 



Ridging, under some circumstances, may be 

 practiced to gond advantage — on land too wot, or 

 that too light. The first elevates the corn above 

 the water — the second concentrates the soil, un- 

 der and around the corn. But the ground should 

 be well plowed before ridging, and not after the 

 manner of some by throwing up a little loose dirt, 

 on a ridge of land as hard as a brick-bat. 



ELI WOODEN. 



Pulaski, Mich., May 8, 184.3. 



Trees. — It is a custom in Turkey, says Dr. 

 Walsh, to plant a ptaturnus orientalis (buttonwood 

 tree) on the birth of a son, and a cypress on the 

 death of one. Were this custom adopted in the 

 United Stales, it would give us, at the end of forty 

 years, about twenty millions of trees more than 

 we now have — a consideration of no mean impor- 

 tance to posterity. And were the trees planted 

 by the roadside, most of our public highways 

 would, at he end of that period, be converted into 

 delightful avenues. The road from Slrasburg to 

 Munich, a distance of 250 miles, is an avenue of 

 fruit trees. — Selected. 



The Norlhamplun Courier states that while a 

 fugitive slave was giving in liis " experience" at 

 an abolition meeting there, one of the audience 

 asked him if his master was a Christian. " No," 

 said he, "he was a member of Congress" ! This, of 

 course, produced a roar of laughter. 



