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THE CRANBERRY RAKE. 



This is a small, neat, simple implement, that 

 costs but a trifle ; yet it is important as a labor-saving 

 tool. One man, with this cheap contrivance, will do 

 as much as several men without it. In some other 

 departments of labor, hundreds of dollars are ex- 

 pended to accomplish so desirable a purpose in saving 

 time and despatching business. 



We have various accounts of how much a man 

 will do in gathering cranberries with a rake, and 

 some groat stories, which nobody believes, excepting 

 those who do great things themselves. A good 

 hand, with a good chance, will gather about twenty 

 bushels per day, with a rake. Who, then, would 

 gather this fruit by the tedious process of hand- 

 picking, when a valuable implement can be had that 

 will save several times its cost every day it is used ? 



POTATO ROT. 



We have various accounts as to this disease. Some 

 farmers say that it is very destructive, others that it 

 is very light, or has not made its appearance at all. 

 Most persons of whom we have made inquiries have 

 seen but very little of it ; and it probably exists only 

 to a small extent. We have examined several kinds 

 of our own, both on dry and M'et land, and we have 

 seen no rot in them, not even in the Stockbridge, 

 which is far more liable to the disease than any 

 other variety. Yet, as we have dug only a few for 

 our own use, we have not yet had a good opportunity 

 to judge. 



In most cases, Chenangoes and other tender kinds 

 that have been dug on rather wet land, and stood in 

 market over night, are considerably affected. Most 

 of the potatoes in this state and farther south, in 

 New England, wore planted early, and they became 

 ripe, and vegetation generally ceased before there 

 was any weather that tended to promote the rot ; 

 therefore they wiU be less liable to be affected than 

 those that were growing after the rot appeared. 



We have not supposed that the rot had disappeared, 

 or was passing away, as has been the opinion of 



many, as it did not appear as early as usual this 

 season, but that the malady would prevail again, 

 whenever there was suitable weather to promote it. 

 In the last of August, and early in this month, there 

 wore a few days of warm weather, and alternations 

 of showers and sunshine, and hot days and cool 

 nights, which promoted the rot. So we have had 

 but very little weather during the season, that tended 

 much to produce the rot. The weather is now, 

 (September 10th,) and for several days past has been, 

 cool and bright, and will probably check the disease. 

 We would not have our readers infer, from what 

 we have said, that we regard the state of the weather 

 the main cause of rot, as we consider the principal 

 cause atmospheric, and the weather a secondary or 

 predisposing cause, the same as stimulating manures, 

 wet land, a tender kind, &c. 



IDENTITY OF GLANDERS IN MAN AND 

 HORSE. 



When the Eleventh Hussars were last quartered in 

 Dublin, our surgeon, in conjunction Avith some of 

 the most eminent medical men in that city, attended 

 a policeman at one of the hospitals, who died of the 

 glanders. The unfortunate man, it is supposed, took 

 the infection from druiking out of a bucket which 

 had been used by a glandered horse. Three days 

 before this man died, a horse was purchased, and was 

 inoculated with the matter from the man. The horse 

 showed all the symptoms of acute glanders, of which 

 he died. The man also died. Drawings were taken 

 by an eminent artist of portions of the lungs of the 

 man, and also of those of the horse, which showed 

 the most perfect similarity in the tubercles. Draw- 

 ings were also made of the Schneiderian membrane 

 of the man and the horse, showing the identity of 

 the ulceration. The man was also shown as he lay 

 dead, with the appearance of the pustules over the 

 body; these pustules appeared to have a very marked 

 difference from those in other diseases, having a 

 white areole instead of a red. 



This case excited great attention at the time, and 

 our surgeon was requested to attend at Chatham 

 with the drawings, which were carefully copied and 

 deposited in the Medical Museum. — The London 

 Veterinarian, 



