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lated at one inch for one foot. If the tree is planted too deep, it 

 will vegetate poorly, and must perish at length, without producing 

 but poor fruit. I shall never sell peach trees without giving these 

 directions to those persons who have confidence in nie. 



As to the cloque, it is produced by the interruption of the sap in 

 the cold nights of spring. It often appears that but one part of the 

 plantation is attacked, and only those trees which are in a current 

 of air. This disease is not very dangerous. It more frequently 

 kills the fruit ; and it is prudent to take them off, because the trt e, 

 suffering by the loss of a great part of the leaves, is under the ne- 

 cessity to recruit its strength. I have employed with success, the 

 remedy which I make use of to kill the ants and other small in- 

 sects, that take the substance from the leaves of the trees. If the 

 trees are thus taken care of, they will be thrifty the following year. 



[.;V. F. Farmer. 



FOOT ROT IN SHEEP. 



This is a disease affecting (as its name denotes) the feet of 

 Sheep. It appears to be endemical or atFecting all, or nearly the 

 whole of the flock at once. It consists in an extensive ulceration 

 of the foot, beginning generally, between the claws of the hoof and 

 extending into the sensible laminae ; which becoming canons — 

 discharges an acrid and highly foetid matter. Fungus flesh also 

 appears in the latter stages of the disease. Various causes have 

 been assigned for it, but none that are altogether satisfactory. By 

 some, it is thought to be caused, or brought on, by feeding in low 

 and damp situations. The animal pines away and seems to die of 

 debility, but never loses its appetite. It will often continue to 

 scramble upon its knees for food to the last. 



This formidable disease was comparatively little known in this 

 country before the introduction of the Saxony Sheep, and its rava- 

 ges have since been principally confined to them. Various re- 

 medies have been proposed for it, and we have been politely fa- 

 vored with one, which seems to be as efticacious as any. It has 

 appeared before in the New-England Farmer, and we are happy 

 in being able to bring forward so respectable testimony in regard 

 to its utility. 



For the Farmers' and Mechanics' Journal. 



Mr. Editor, 



S^r, — I enclose you a Recipe for making a wash for the cure 

 of the Foot Rot in Sheep. I have made use of it in the flock of 

 Sheep that 1 have, which have been very much diseased with that 



