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AND HORTICULTURAL RKGISTER 



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BOTS. 



Til furriery, a kijul of worms very troiibloscMiie 

 ti) horses. Bols are tlio larvec or maggots uf a spe- 

 cies of gad-fly, which deposits its e<:<rg on the legs, 

 mane, or those parts of tlio hnrse that the animal 

 is apt to licli. The c^g is immcdiatoly hatched by 

 the wnrmtli and nmislure of the tongue, and the 

 little worm conveyed into the mouth, whence it 

 crawls down the ffl-5ophagii3 into the stomacli. It 

 adheres to the ciiticiilar coat of the stomach by 

 means of little hoolis, wilh which its [noulh is fur- 

 nished ; anil there it remains from the summer of 

 one year to the spring of the next, nourished by 

 Ihe nmcns of the stomach, or the food which it 

 contains. Then having attained its full size as a 

 maggot, it loosens its hold, .nnd is carried along the 

 intestines with the other contents of the stomach, 

 and cvitcuated with the fiBces. Before it drops, it 

 generally clings for a whiie to the verge of the 

 anus, and tickles and teases the horse to a very 

 great degree. Kxcept they exist in most unusual 

 numbers, b"ts do neither good nnr harm during 

 (heir residence in the stomach of the horse. It is 

 the habitation which nature has assigned to them ; 

 and the safety of so noble an animal as the horse 

 would not have been compromised for the sake of 

 a maggot and a fly. The best advice that can be 

 given, therefore, is to lot them alone, or at most to 

 be content with picking them ofl^ when they ap- 

 pear under Ihe tail. There are two good reasons 

 for this. Tlie first is, Inat there is not any inedi- 

 cine that wili e^pel them; the strongest and even 

 the most dangerous purgative is insufficient. The 

 -second reason is, that if Ihe hots are let alone, they 

 will, in due time, come all away without our help 

 or meddling. Green food, however, e.xpcls them 

 readily as does common salt jn the proportion of 

 two to four ounces to a quart of water. The most 

 simple and efficient remedy is a quart of milk, 

 mixed well with a quarter of a pound of honey or 

 brown sugar, given fasting. This is much better 

 than aloes. — Farmers' Encydop. 



REMEDY FUR IIOELOW MORN. 



.\ correspondent of the Eaton County Gazelle 

 gives Ihe following as an invariable cure for the 

 Hollow-horn. As lliis disease is quite prevalent 

 among cattle at this season of tlic year, the remedy 

 may he useful to many of our readers. 



Take a large table-sponnful of black pepper, 

 fine ; an ccjual quantity ot sail, and mi.\ with about 

 half a pint of sharp vinegar. Bore the horns on 

 the under side, and after the niatlcr contained in 

 the horns has discharged itself, plug the holes, and 

 bore again near the toj) of the horns, and pour in 

 the composition through a quill inserted in the 

 cork of the bottle containing it. 



A year ago, (says the writer,) I had an ax so 

 badly aflliclcd with the hollow-horn, Ihat when I 

 poured the preparation above mentioned into liis 

 Iiorns, it found a passage through liis head and ran 

 out of his nose upon tne ground. I repeated this 

 application two or three times a day, until the holes 

 of the tiorns were grown over inside, so that by in- 

 serting any thing sliarp, it was followed by fresh 

 blood. This treatment, (together with a plenty of 

 soot and salt given to the animal to e.xcite and reg- 

 ulate the appetite,) I believe will almost invariably 

 etfect a permanent cure. Try it. — Sekileil. 



THE MILLET CROP. 

 Farujers who are deficient in grass land, or an- 

 ticipate any scarcity of fodder, should remember 

 the di-ilress of the past winter, and sow a few acres 

 of millet. Tills is a very certain crop, and par- 

 ticularly valuable on account of the lateness of the 

 time for sowing, and the very short period it occu- 

 pies the ground. It should be sown from the 13th 

 to the 30th of June, in the same manner as oats, 

 on good foil, well ploughed and harrowed. From 

 half a hiishel to three pecks of seed is requisite 

 for an acre, when fodder is the chief object. It 

 can bo procured at the seed*stores for about $i .50 

 per bushel. The crop should be cut as soon as 

 the seed begins to turn yellow, which v/ill be about 

 the end of August or early in September. Cure 

 t the same as any other hay, and horses and cat- 

 tle will eat it as freely as timothy or clover. The 

 product is generally about three toni of fodder to 

 the acre; and, if thrashed, about twenty busljels 

 of seed. — jYeiv Genesee Far. 



GAPES IN CHICKENS. 



A writer in the Farmer's Cabniet says, positive- 

 ly, that the gapes in chickens, which cause so 

 many to die, are occasioned by worms in the wind, 

 pipe ; and that if the poulterer is pleased to take a 

 feather, strip the sides all off except a small tuft 

 at the end, dip this in spirits of turpentine, catch 

 the chicken, open its mouth and just touch this tur- 

 pentine to the mouth of the windpipe, which may 

 easily be seen at the top of the tongue and near 

 its roots, the worms will almost instantly die, and 

 the chicken as instantly recover. He says there 

 is no danger to the chicken from this course. — jV. 

 E. Ph wboy. 



We believe with the writer of the above, that it 

 is worms whicli occasion the gnpcs, and think that 

 the application of tlie spirits of turpentine would 

 prove etl'ectual ; but we deem it proper to add the 

 remedy which we have always found effectual. 

 Whenever we found our chickens laboring under 

 the disease, we gave them each a lenspoonful of a 

 strong solution of assafop.tida, which invariably 

 cured the disease, and as we supposed, by dislodg- 

 ing the worm, which we took it for granted, was 

 the cause of the disease. — ^mrr. Far. 



For ihe Skin. — One of the best cosmetics ever 

 used for softening and giving elasticity and smooth- 

 ness to the skin, is corn meal. A table-spounful 

 Tubbed on the hands and face while washing will 

 be sufficient to impart the most delightful softness 

 Itu the skin. — Jiiner. Far. 



TIME FOR CUTTING TIMBER. 

 Many persons finding that timber cut in the 

 spring is not durable, have been careful to cut at 

 a season as far from that as possible, and acting on 

 this principle, the fall or first of llie winter has 

 been fi.vcil upon as a good time for this purpose. 

 But su far as experiments liave been made, they 

 generally show that June is the best time for cut- 

 ting timber, provided the bark be taken off, and 

 this can be done conveniently at this season. In I 

 June, the sap is passing into tlie leaves, and after i 

 becoming elaborated into suitable juices for the 

 formation of wood, it is returning and forming a 

 new layer of wood between the wood and bark. 

 This sap causes a rapid decay of wood if the bark 

 remain on, but when the bark is taken ofi^, the 

 wood seasons very fast, and as the sap has been 

 constantly passing into the leaves, there will be 

 but little in the wood to cause its decay. . 



.\ " Jack-ulall-lrndes," "ho had used timber for 

 more than twenly years, for various purposes, which 

 had been cut at dilferent sensons, remarki'd ihnt 

 timber cut in June was harder, heavier, niid more 

 durable than that cut at tuiy other Hensoii. When 

 the tree is in ils str"iige>t vigor, the sap in ihiii 

 and rapidly passing through the wood, and if the 

 tree he then iiit and peeled, the sap will readily 

 escape through the pores of the wood. But in the 

 winter and spring, the sap contained in the Irco is 

 thick, having been prepared the previous year and 

 reserved to commence the new growth. This thich 

 sap will not so reodily escape, but leinains stag- ' 

 nant in the limber and becomes the principle of ils 

 destruction. 



A gentleman who had been coiisidernbly engag- 

 ed in ship. building, informed us thnt he had used 

 ill the same ves.^el, timber cut at dilfennt seasons, 

 and that cut in Juno was the most durable. Nu- 

 merous e.vperiinenis in cutting timbsr for ships and 

 other purposes, show the same result Host. Cult. 



VITALITY OF SEEDS. 



The length of time that seeds of some kinds 

 will retain their vitality, when excluded from li;;hl 

 and air, is very remarkable. We liclieve it is a 

 wellauthcnticated fact, thai grain found in ller- 

 ciilaneum, where it must have lain sn many centu- 

 ries, has germinated and produced a crop. It has 

 come within the personal observation of almost 

 every one familiar with the culture of the earth, 

 that small seeds will grow ul'icr having been buried 

 for very many years. 



A writer in a recent number of the Ploughman 

 speaks of it as a remarkable fact, and indeed as a. 

 new discovery, (hat peach stones would grow after 

 having lain in the ground two winters. We sup- 

 posed that every one who had cultivated peach 

 trees fnuii the stone, knew that a considerable por- 

 tion of the stones, frequently would not grow till 

 the second year, and some of them not till Ihe 

 third or fourth. We put some plum stones out in 

 1841, and very hw came up the next spring, but 

 this spring they have come up freelv. A friend 

 of ours tells us that he has known peach stones to 

 lie in the ground five years, and then grow. 



Frederick W. Paine, Esq., of this town, informs 

 us that he has recently plowed up a lot of land on 

 which there formerly was a peach orchard, but the 

 trees have been gone some 40 years or more. Since 

 the land was plowed, great numbers of peach trees 

 have sprung up, upon it. These must have come 

 from stones dropped there while the orchard was 

 in existence, as Ihe situation of the lot is such as 

 to preclude Ihe supposition that they may have 

 been deposited there more recently. 



In this Connection, we may state a circumstance 

 which occurred in a neighboring town. In dig- 

 ging a cellar for a house, the earth was thrown up- 

 on a small bed of asparagus, to the depth of three 

 or four feet, where it was suffered to remain. Of 

 course the asparagus did not appear the next 

 3[)ring. Some twenty years after, when it had be- 

 come almost forgotten, it again showed itself, hav- 

 ing been ihat long period of time in working its 

 way up through the superincumbent muss of earth 

 — H'orcesler Spy. 



Silk Dr. Charles Stuart, of Breckenbridge Co., 



Ky., has manufactured in his family during the 

 present season, .'iOO skeins of beautiful sewing 

 silk. 



