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1. Before replenishing an empty granary or loft, the floor should be well scoured with 

 hot water and soft soap, or lees, if practicable ; if not, it must be well brushed with a 

 fine stift' broom, to clean out the chinks or fissures between the boards. The roof, and 

 beams should be whitewashed, as well as the walls, with lime-water used as hot as pos- 

 sible ; and these operations would have greater effect if performed in the winter months. 

 Sprinkling the floor with salt dissolved in strong vinegar has been recommended, and 

 might be very serviceable. 



2. In granaries already stored, where the caterpillars are at work, whatever method 

 for their destruction is resorted to, by heat, ventilation, or otherwise, it must be employed 

 during the summer, from the end of May to the end of August, occasionally a month 

 earlier or later, as during the winter these larva3 are not to be found among the grain 

 heaps ; they retire in the autumn to conceal themselves in fissures and cracks in the 

 floors and walls, to form their cocoons. 



3d. The moths themselves may be destroyed in spring by burning lamps or gas lights 

 in dark granaries ; they being attracted by the flame, fly into it, and are sufficiently 

 injured to prevent their doing further mischief; and at the same season the grain should 

 be frequently turned over to destroy the eggs and disturb the young larvse. All cracks 

 and broken places in the walls and roof should be stopped with plaster of Paris, or 

 cement, and the apertures for ventilation should be covered with a wire gauze. 



Kiln-drying, at about 112° Fahrenheit, will kill the larvse when they are feeding. 

 Cold currents of air, introduced by small windows near the floor, thus keeping up an 

 artificial cold atmosphere, are very eft'ectual. Burning sulphur, and creating sulphuric 

 acid in a close apartment, will kill the moths. 



A small heap of grain left undisturbed, frequently turning over the rest, is a sure and 

 simple plan of catching the larvre, where they can easily be destroyed by pouring on 

 boiling water. 



When diseased grain is used for seed, it should be sown deef) to prevent the moths 

 from escaping through the soil. It is also desirable to cut the grain in good season, for 

 if it is suffered to remain too long in the field the moths are enabled to lay their eggs 

 in the ears, and are thus introduced into the barn. 



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Cure fob Glanders. — In the August number of the Farmer, for the present year, is a dangerous 

 note published, entitled " Cure for Glanders." I, as .a veterinarian, solicit space in your colums to 

 discuss the subject ; and while I endeavor to do so, I shall quote frotn Peroivall, Youatt, and other 

 authors of less note. From the statement of the case, I am convinced that it was strangles (instead 

 of glanders), which I believe, from my own observation, to be contagions. According to the above 

 authors, the strangles are often confounded with glanders ; and yet they do not believe it is infec- 

 tious, although thej furnish no proof to the contrary. I never knew a horse to take such an acute 

 form of glanders as that described in the text, nor does it agree with Mr. Touatt's description. 



Mr. "Williams says the glanders are always attended with a swelling of the kernels, or glands, 

 under the jaws; but in every other respect the horse is healthy and sound, till the disease has con- 

 tinued a long time. "We shall find that Mr. McS. not only erred in the kind of disease, but also in 

 the location of glanders. He says: ""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." Mr. Youatt says it 

 is inflammation, whether specific or common, of the lining membrane of the nose, possibly for 

 months, and even for years, confined to that membrane, and even to a portion of it; the health and 

 the usefulness of the animal not being in the slightest degree impaired. Then, from some unknown 

 cause, not a new but a more intense action is set up; the inflammation more speedily runs its course, 

 and the membrane becomes ulcerated ; the inflammation spreads on either side down the septum, 

 and the ulceration at length assumes that peculiar chanorous form which characterizes inflammation 

 of the absorbents. Even when the discharge becomes gluey, and some time after chancres have 

 appeared, the horse is apparently welL But I admit that in some cases it terminates more speedily 

 than in others. 



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