No. 7. Agi'icultural, Address. — Cure for a foundered horse. 



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understand, about three thousand dollars — 

 but this price, I am confident, would not be 

 thought extravagant by any good judge, af- 

 ter examining all its numerous advantages. 

 These are so great, that I should think few 

 Virginia farmers would long be without simi- 

 lar buildings, of suitable sizes for their re- 

 spective farms, if they would take the trou- 

 ble to make even a rough calculation of 

 what they annually lose, for the want of 

 them. But so little are we yet in the habit 

 of making any such calculations, that very 

 few, comparatively speaking, appear to be 

 aware, that to save from loss, is actually to 

 gain, and with as much certainty, too, as by 

 any other means." 



Again ; " during my short sojourn with 

 Dr. Thomson and his amiable family, I vis- 

 ited twice, the little establishment of Mr. 

 Wm. Webb, for making sugar from corn- 

 stalks. The operation commenced with san- 

 guine expectations of success on his part, 

 but unfortunately, the mill for grinding the 

 stalks, broke on the second day, and marred 

 the whole business. A sufficient trial, how- 

 ever, has been made to render it certain, that 

 very good sugar may be made from corn- 

 stalks, and at the rate, as Mr. Webb ap- 

 peared very confidently to believe, of 800 

 or 1000 lbs. to the acre, of well improved 

 land. The juice, as tested by the sacharome- 

 ter, is two-tenths stronger than the juice of 

 the Louisiana cane. This information I re- 

 ceived from a Mr. Morgan, a sugar planter 

 from that State, who hacl come to Wilming- 

 ton to witness Mr. Webb's experiment, and 

 left it with the determination to make the 

 trial next year on his own farm. He as- 

 cribed Mr. Webb's failure to the fixtures 

 being on too limited a scale, the whole hav- 

 ing cost only about $300; whereas, Mr. 

 Morgan thought it would require about $800 

 to purchase all that would be necessary, 

 including a much stronger mill than Mr. 

 Webb's, to carry through the experiment 

 fully and completely. Notwithstanding Mr. 

 Webb's failure, I feel very confident, from 

 what I have seen, that he will ultimately 

 succeed, and that a few years only will 

 elapse, before the making of sugar from 

 corn-stalks, will become common in every 

 State in the Union. I, myself, have seen 

 and tasted both the boiled juice and the 

 sugar. The first — when clarified — forms a 

 very rich, clear, fine coloured syrup, and the 

 latter cannot be told, either by the looks or 

 the taste, from good cane sugar." 



After leaving Delaware, he visited the Hor- 

 ticultural exhibition in Philadelphia, where 

 he learned " two facts in regard to grapes 

 and sweet potatoes, that are worth publish 

 ing; to wit: — that the first may be kept 



perfectly sound and sweet, until mid-winter, 

 by putting them into tight boxes or kegs, in 

 alternate layers, with bats of carded cotton 

 between them ; and that the latter can be 

 equally well preserved by putting them into 

 a warm, dry room, without any other cover- 

 ing. Some potatoes which had been thus 

 kept, I myself saw, on the 21st of Septem- 

 ber, just as good, to all appearance, as others 

 that were fresh dug, and the gentleman who 

 exhibited them, assured me that he grew 

 them last year, and had done nothing else 

 to preserve them." 



This distinguished "Virginia farmer," and 

 zealous friend of agriculture, closes his in- 

 teresting Address, with a forcible appeal on 

 behalf of general and universal education — 

 to all important — to none, more than to the 

 farmer. L. 



Cure for a Foundered horse. 



As soon as you find your horse is found- 

 ered, bleed him in tiie neck in proportion to 

 the greatness of the founder. In extreme 

 cases, you may bleed him as long as he can 

 stand up. Then draw his head up, as com- 

 mon in drenching, and with a spoon, put far 

 back on his tongue, strong salt, until you 

 get him to swallow one pint. Be careful 

 not to let him drink too much. Then anoint 

 around the edges of his hoofs with spirits of 

 turpentine, and your horse will be well in 

 one hour. 



A founder pervades every part of the sys- 

 tem of a horse. The fleams arrest it from 

 the blood : the salt arrests it from the sto- 

 mach and bowels ; and the spirits arrest it 

 from the feet and limbs. 



I once rode a hired horse 99 miles in two 

 days, returning him at night the second day; 

 and his owner would not have known that 

 he had been foundered if I had not told 

 him, and his founder was one of the deepest 

 kind. 



I once, in a travel of 700 miles, foundered 

 my horse three times, and I do not think that 

 my journey was retarded more than one day 

 by the misfortune, having, in all the cases, 

 observed and practised the above prescrip- 

 tion. I have known a foundered horse 

 turned in at night on green feed; in the 

 morning he would be well, having been 

 purged by the green feed. All founders 

 must be attended to immediately. — South- 

 westem Farmer. 



For cramp in the stomach. — Warm wa- 

 ter sweetened with molasses or brown sugar, 

 taken freely, will in many cases remove the 

 cramp in the stomach, when opium and other 

 remedies have failed. 



