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THE GENESEE FARMER. 



equivalentg, to enable him to decide at any given period in -what manner he can obtain the ele- 

 ments he requires, at the lowest price, whether by purchasing artificial food, or by direct manures. 

 J. B. Lawes. — Rothamsted, Herts, England. 



TABLE VII GmNG A StrMMAKT of some of the most important KEStrT.TS OBTATNTID IN FEEDING SnEEP. 



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Cure for Glanders. — I have lately discovered a remedy to cure the glanders in a horse ; I thought 

 it mio-ht be useful to others, and accordingly I send you the information: Some time in Ma}- last 

 a man drove up and fastened his horses by mine, and came into the store ; afterwards we both 

 went out, and I saw that one of his horses was sick. He said his horse had the glanders, and that 

 he thought would have died last night, it was so sick. I was offended because he had tied his 

 horses so near mine with a contageous disease, and said no more to him. Some days after this, the 

 matter being somewhat forgotten, I was passing near my horse ; he appeared to be sick ; I turned 

 and went up to him, and, sure enough, he was sick 1 his throat swollen to a terrible degree, so he 

 could hardly raise or lower his head more than an inch or two. Something must be done, for I 

 could not part with him any way at present. I tried one thing and another, but all to no purpose. 

 Now for a study. AVliat will do the thing ? Glanders; what are the glanders? Why, it is diseased 

 glands; the little vessels that bring the saliva to the mouth and throat are diseased — stopped up, 

 and must be opened. What will do it ? Tobacco will vomit, and may open them. I took a half 

 pound of fine cut tobacco and poured two quarts of warm water on it, and let it soak a few 

 minutes, and washed his throat and so on up to his ears, and down his thro.at to his legs, and between 

 his fore legs. It made him direful sick, and would have vomited if it had been possible for a horse 

 to vomit. In three hours I bathed him again, and the next morning again. The final effect was, 

 my horse could put his head to the ground after second time bathing, and after the third time 

 could feed as well as ever, and i-s well, and has done better ever since. William MoSuepard. — 

 North Sheffield, Ashtabula county, Ohio. 



Indian Corn. — The American Polytechnic Journal gives some extracts from a recent 

 German work on the culture of maize in Germany, which have much interested us. 

 After a history of the culture of maize in Europe, and a description of eight varieties 

 cultivated, it treats on the place of Indian corn in rotation of crops : 



" After clover, tobacco, beans, hemp, summer barley, Indian corn is always found to succeed 

 well. In the vicinity of Gratz, in Styria, the rotation of crop is, 1. Indian corn ; 2. Snmmer barley 

 with clover; 3. Clover; 4. Winter wheat or rye. lu the wlieat stubble, baekwheat. Others 

 again have rotations of six exchanges; 1. Indian corn manured ; 2. Barley or oats with clover; 3. 

 Clover ; 4. Wheat, stubble turnips with a light manuring ; 5. Beans or peas ; 6. Rye, and Buck- 

 wheat in the stubble. 



In the vicinity of Innspruck, in Tyrol, maize has been raised for thirty-si.^ years in succession 

 from the same field with continual success. 



This is rather contrary to the ingenious theories of the excrements of plants and the necessity of 

 rotation of crops. 



A ProfcBsor, D. Bohm, raised wheat for thirty years in the same field, and he had every year a 

 fine crop. To miuuiro often and to manure well is the key to this secret. 



Von Ludersdorf reeommonds potatoes as the best ])re|)nrat()ry crop for maize. 



Experiments have proved that the human excrements (Taffeh) arc the most elTectual for maize 



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