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When the cow is but slightly attacked, we have cut 

 holes in potatoes and inserted bits of this root, and 

 then given them to her for a lunch. This is the easier 

 mode of administration, and generally a.nswers a good 

 purpose. 



A writer in a late number of the Maine Farmer recom- 

 mends saltpetre for this disease. He says he gave a 

 pretty strong dose, something like two ounces, and in 

 less than twelve hours her milk was restored good as 

 ever. This cow had been so subject to the disease 

 through the summer as to be nearly useless. He sug- 

 gests the propriety of mixing a little saltpetre with the 

 salt given weekly, or oftener, to cows, but has some 

 doubts whether it may not prove injurious to the blood. 



Now we call on our medical gentlemen, of whom 

 we have a very goodly number for patrons — thanks 

 to their liberality — to give us an opinion whether salt- 

 petre, in small quantities, wi-ll be likely to prove inju- 

 rious to neat stock. 



This question is of vital importance to all who keep 

 cows ; and who, in the country, does not keep them ? 

 If saltpetre shall be found a complete remedy for the 

 disease, it can be very readily administered by any one. 



THE HARROW. 



For old fields of all kinds we prefer the square 

 harrow. Many make use of the triangular or crotch 

 harrow for all kinds of land. In new ground, full of 

 stumps, the triangular harrows may be best, but in old 

 fields they are very objectionable. The moving 

 power raises from the earth the forward teeth, and 

 leaves the centre nearly untouched ; but the centre 

 should ahvays be the most throughly harrowed, be- 

 cause the edge is harrowed twice by the lapping on of 

 the instrument* 



