10 FACT NUMBER ONE. 



by the help of the dew is rendered quite conspicuous during 

 the morning hours ; but more recently, it has been said, the 

 Slobbers are caused by the Spur found on the wire or wild 

 Indian Grass, which is said to be a native of the country. 



But all these, and in fact all else, if else has even been 

 stated, were mere conjectures, or what the Yankees call 

 ■' guess-ioork." Every thing known as to the real cause of 

 the complaint, was altogether blind uncertainty, up to the 

 period of the month of August, eighteen hundred and 

 thirty-eight. At that time a farmer by the name of John 

 Forman, one of the early settlers in Onondaga Hollow, 

 West New- York, had a highly valuable and favorite cow 

 come to her milk, or rather was to have come to it, but when 

 delivered of her calf, she had no milk whatever, nor had she 

 any udder to hold the milky secretions. 



The wonder was great and pretty general ; and no little 

 solicitude was felt for the animal, and the preservation of the 

 little stranger, who prompted by instinct, acted as one labor- 

 ing under the weight of Nature's left-hand cuff. 



The farmer concluded there must be a cause for a pheno- 

 menon so singular and unexpected, and sat himself down to 

 investigate the matter. Upon a little enquiry, he found six 

 cases of a similar character in his own neighborhood, and 

 therefore concluded the occurrence was not so very strange 

 as he at first supposed. However, he pursued the enquiry 

 with his own cow, and after close examination found the 

 beast affected very much as man is, after being freely dosed 

 with mercury. 



He turned from his cow to his horse, then staggering under 



