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SILK MANUAL, AND 



and an examination fully sustains its claim to pub- 

 lic patronage as a very convenient and valuable 

 puI)lication — one that every farmer and gardener 

 will find a very important and almost indispensa- 

 ble acquisition to tlie library. We know of no 

 American work on this subject that will coni|)are 

 with it in the variety and value of the informa- 

 tion, and in cheapness. 



JMr K. has taken the responsibility of sx large 

 edition, and we hope lie will be remunerated. 

 The book can be had in ti;is city at the seed store 

 in Barclay street, and probably at the others in 

 this city. 



On a future occasion we may probably give a 

 further notice. S. F. 



AORICULTURAIi ^VAREHOUSE, BOSTON. 



"Agriculture is the art of arts, without which 

 man must be a savage, and the world a wilder- 

 ness ;" therefore anything which tends to advance 

 n more perfect knowledge of this art, or to devel- 

 ope and distribute facilities Avhich simplify and 

 render it more productive, is of general utility. 



The Agricultural Warehouse, Boston, is an es- 

 tablishment extending from North Market street 

 to Anil street, containing four rooms, 90 feet by 

 40, and all filled with agricultural implements, 

 seeds, and various patented articles ; it is a com- 

 plete museum, in which is deposited every thing 

 that is new and useful to the cultivator, and which 

 every farmer ought to make it a point of visiting 

 whenever he happens to be in Boston. 



This establishment has had a great influence 

 ui)on the state of agriculture in New England, in 

 helping to eradicate what was considered the al- 

 most immovable prejudice of farmers in favor of 

 old customs, &c. Time was when you might as 

 well have undertaken to overturn Mount Wash- 

 ington, as to convince the fiirmer that this inven- 

 tion or that improvement was of real utility ; or 

 in fact that any improvement was necessary or 

 could be made upon existing methods: cultivators 

 considering the very ultima thule of good farm- 

 ing to be a strict adherence to what their fathers 

 practised and ]:)erformed ; beyond this it was im- 

 possible to go. But instead of the uncouth and 

 imperfect tools they used, their place is now sup- 

 plied by beautifully simple and easily operating 

 labor-saving implements, machines, &c. Among 

 the great variety of articles for sale at this estab- 

 lishment, many are found far superior in form and 

 eoostruction, and better adapted to the purposes 

 for which thoy are intended, than any which have 

 been in use in this country. Here is displayed 

 in every variety of form specimens of the invent- 

 ive genius of our countrymen ; and here is a grand 

 bank for the farmers, from which they may draw 

 deposites, without a check, of infinite value to 

 them. 



In this country, agriculture is still imperfect, 

 though much advanced, and we have yet to learn 

 some new practices, adopt sonie new improve- 

 ments, ac';ustom ourselves to read and to observe, 

 before we bring it to that state of perfection, 

 which it is caj)able of receiving. It is for the 

 Farmer's own interest to sustain establishments 

 which throw in their way every facility. 



It has been said that, " he who does most ad- 

 vance the great interests of agriculture, will justly, 

 hereafter be considered as his country's greatest 

 benefactor." Surely, then, the proprietors of this 

 excellent establishment, so happily adapted for the 

 Farm r's convenience, and which cost large ex- 

 penditures, and years of labor, to establish, on a 

 firm basis, will have no small claim to this dis- 

 tinction. — Boston Courier. 



Remarks on tlie Horn Distemper. 



Animals of the forest, guided by the principles 

 of instinct, regulated by the dictates of nature, and 

 uncontroled by man in their food, air, rest, and 

 exercise, are seldom affected by disease, while do- 

 mestic animals of all countries and climates, more 

 directly under the control and dominion of man, 

 are subject to a variety. There «ire but few in- 

 stances on record of prevailing diseases among the 

 different tribes of wild animals, while every ap- 

 propriate jieriodical informs us of diseases and 

 their remedies of the whole class of those more 

 iinmediately under the direction and government 

 of man. Having lately had a fine young cow of 

 the short horn Durham breed, afflicted with the 

 disease called Horn Distemper, and she Jiaving 

 thoroughly recovered, 1 thought it would not be 

 improper to offer for publication in your valuably 

 joiu-nal a few remarks on the disease, and my 

 method of treatment. It is evident this distem- 

 per aflects the internal substance of the horn, 

 usually called the pith, insensibly wastes it, and 

 eventually, if suffered to make its progress unmo- 

 lested, leaves the horu entirely hollow. The pith 

 is a porous, sjjongy bone, whose cells are covered 

 with an unctuous matter and filled \Yith numerous 

 small blood vessels, is overspread with a thin 

 membrane, ap])ears firmly united to the head, and 

 in a healthy animal cnmjiletely fills the horn, 

 which only serves as a sheath. In horn distem- 

 per this bone is partly, at others wholly wasted, 

 commencing at the extremity of the pith. The 

 usual symptoms are a general dulness of the coun- 

 tenance, a tardiness in moving, a formation about 

 he eyes of a yellow viscous matter, failure of ap- 

 petite, a desire to lie down, a giddiness and fre- 

 quent tossing of the head, often a stiffness of the 

 limbs is observable, and in cows the milk fails. 

 Let the other symptoms be what they may, there 

 is always a suddeu wasting of the flesh. The horn 



