APPLE POMACE. §35 



vulgar opinion which ascribed this disorder to the second growth 

 of clover. 



Both the above plants have energetic properties. All the spe- 

 cies of the genus Euphorbia are strong drastics, and the Lobelia 

 injlata is little inferior to said genus in energy ; it has been useful- 

 ly employed in the cure of asthma and other disorders : it was one 

 of the hidian medical plants. They produce a slight salivation 

 even in man. 



Some other plants may have similiar salivating properties, but 

 the two above mentioned are the most common ; being found al- 

 most all over the United States. They are not uncommon in 

 Kentucky. 



By attending to this, it will be easy to prevent the disease : since 

 they are both annual plants, which may easily be destroyed in the 

 meadows, by pulling them up before they ripen their seeds. Should 

 they grow too thick, horses and cattle should not be allowed to 

 pasture where they grow, (when the weeds are in blossom,) and 

 burnt on the ground. 



Should the horses and cattle happen to eat them notwithstand- 

 ing, and be attacked with the salivation, they may be cured in a 

 single day by feeding them plentifully with cabbage leaves, which 

 appear to be an effectual antidote for this peculiar disorder. 



If no cabbages should be at hand, the leaves of turnips, radishes, 

 mustard, and such other plants of the cruciferous tribe, might pro- 

 bably answer equally as well. 



1 venture to hint that cabbages and the cruciferous plants might, 

 perhaps, become an efficacious remedy in the morbid salivation 

 brought on men by an excessive use of mercurial preparations, to- 

 bacco, &IC. It is by similar analogies that the materia medica is 

 often enlarged, and effectual remedies are discovered, or succeda- 

 neous palliatives adopted. 



It is my wish that these facts, conclusions, and hints, may be- 

 come useful, since the constant aim of science should be, to apply 

 its extensive resources to the practical benefit of our fellow beings. 

 And such, 1 trust, will always be the ultimate objects and results 

 of my pursuits. 



SAVE YOUR POMACE. 



It is customary, with many of our farmers, to throw the pomace 

 out by their cider-mills, year after year, there to collect in one 

 huge heap, or else to draw it out, and put it under some stone wall, 

 or in some bye-place, as they would a nuisance, which they are 

 glad to get rid of. Now, with due deference to older heads, we 

 pronounce this a wasteful and slovenly practice. " Why, what 

 in the world is it good for ?" say they ; " it is like a pile of cedar 

 chips, and has neither heart nor nourishment in it ; it's fit neither 

 for manure nor fodder." We know a person, who very carefully 



