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AND HORTICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



which can he so easily obtained in ours, is this: 



the calve=-, shortly after they are dropt, and when 

 they have altr.ined sufficient strength to run and 

 skip about, are shut up in a very dry and clean 

 pen, about nine or ten feet square, being of a size 

 sufficient to contain six or nine calves. A small 

 manger, suttioiently low to enable them to reach 

 the food placed iii it, must be fixed in the centre 

 of the pen ; in this manger their food, consisting 

 of ground Indian corn, (not sifted,) must be daily 

 put, not more than they can consume ; a small 

 bundle of fine hay tied up, and a lump of chalk 

 should be placed within their reach, the former 

 for them to nibble at, the latter for them to lick. 

 This occasions an increase of appetite in them for 

 their mother's milk, and contributes vastly to the 

 fattening of them; the confinement prevents them 

 from interrupting the increase of fat by the exer- 

 cise they would take in their playful gambols if let 

 loose. The chalk also has a tendency to correct 

 the acidity in their stomach, which frequently pro- 

 duces a looseness in their bowels very embarrassing 

 to the process. The cows are kept in stalls sepa- 

 rately, but not wholly confined, the calves are led 

 to them every morning and evening, and having 

 sucked their fill are replaced in their pens. The 

 calves are thus taught to suck any of the cows ; 

 this, however, is not necessary when the cows are 

 regularly fed, unless it is desired to have a calf of 

 extraordinary size, by permitting it to suck longer 

 than usual. The higher the cows are fed the bet- 

 ter, therefore good hay, pumpkins, and steamed ))o- 

 tatoes, should be furnished them with an unsparing 

 hand ; the nourishment of the potatoes is much im- 

 proved by mixing them with hay tea ; and where it 

 can be procured flaxseed jelly ; this being a scarce 

 article in this section of the country, may, perhaps, 

 be dispensed with, without any visible difi^erence. 

 In thus improving the quality and value of veal, 

 the old stock becomes of importance, for the pro- 

 jess in relation to the calves being effected in the 

 :ourse of from six to eight weeks, the butter which 

 :he cows afterwards yield, is of a beautiful yellow 

 :olor, firm texture, and remarkably rich, this is the 

 latural consequence of the feeding of the cows 

 luring the time of the fattening of the calves. 



Those who pursue the process we have above 

 letailcd, in order to make the veal white, in clear 

 veather, bleed the calves in the neck every third 

 lay, until their eyes indicate an approach to faint- 

 less; this must be done in the middle of the day. 

 rhis animal appears to be peculiarly subject to ple- 

 hora, therefore it should be moderately fed at first, 

 nd some blood taken from them, whenever there 

 ppears in them a loss of appetite. 



In fattening lambs, the ewes require considera- 

 te attention ; they should be fed upon a rye-patch 

 r turnip bed, or food of similar character. The 

 imbs, as fast as they are born and run alone, must 

 e shut up in a dark stall, the size of which must 

 orrespond w'nh the number of lambs to be attend- 

 d to ; a trough sufBciently low for them to eat 

 ■cm, must be placed in some convenient place 

 dthin the stall, which must be supplied daily with 

 idian corn-meal and bran ; within their reach 

 lUst be hung up a small wisp of fine hay. Ad- 

 linmg this stall there must be a larger apartment, 

 ito which the ewes are to be turned two or three 

 mes a day to suckle the lambs, and must be per- 

 dtted to remain with them all night. Early in 

 le morning, and before the ewes are turned out 

 • pasture, the lambs must be put in their darl? 

 all, in order to debar them from exercise ; and 



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having no other amusement but that of the glutton, 

 will nibble so much of (he hay, and eat so much 

 of the Iiulian corn-itieal, as to make them exces- 

 sively thirsty, by the time they are to be suckled 

 by the ewes, which will make them grow extra- 

 ordinary large and fat in a short time. 



There is considerable advantage derived from 

 this mode of treatment, in the lambs indiscrimin- 

 ately sucking the ewes, without reference particu- 

 larly to their own dams; because, when the lambs 

 grow and gain strength, they are able to consume 

 more milk than can be afforded by a single ewe, 

 particularly those that have more than one lamb. 

 Another advantage derived is, when all the lambs 

 of a ewe are killed off, she will continue to suckle 

 the rest as before, thus giving additional nourish- 

 ment to the surviving lambs. 



Tlie process, above detailed, is so simple in its 

 character, as to be within the reach of every one 

 disposed to make the experiment; one that will in- 

 sure both amusement and profit, and which may 

 safely be confided (under the eye of the master,) 

 to such negroes as could not do much in the field. 

 Our Island planters have a favorable offi)ortunity of 

 stocking our markets with the finest small meals, 

 almost without an exertion. The exhibition of 

 our markets in the summer months, shoidd display 

 the finest specimens of these articles, yet there is 

 scarcely a piece of meat of either of the above de- 

 scriptions brought to market at that season, that 

 may be compared with the inferior kinds of the 

 North. This is a reflection upon a land like ours, 

 abounding with luxuriant herbage and roots, and 

 speaks a language not to be misunderstand, that 

 there is a gross deficiency in the energy of our 

 planters and farmers in this branch of their agri- 

 cultural pursuits. s, 

 Charleston, Dec. 14, 1834. 



duces stranguary, when the dose must be dimin- 

 ished a little and continued until the disease is re- 

 moved. We have been recently informed of the 

 good effects of this mixture in a great number of 

 instances, and one very remarkable case has fallen 

 within our notice, in which the disease in its worst 

 form, vanished before it in a few weeks, allhough 

 the patient had been long using without advantag^e, 

 the usual and other most powerful remedies for 

 this _ troublesome and painftd mnku]y.— Boston 

 Medical and Suri^ical Journal. 



TOP DRESSING WITH DRT STRAWS. 



It is a general practice in this neighborhood to 

 apply the wheat-straw dry and unrotted, and often 

 fresh from the threshing machines, as a top-dress- 

 ing for the poorest parts of the clover land. It is 

 not laid so thick as to kill the grass, and aids its 

 growth and the fertility of the land so much, that 

 a load of straw used in this manner, is thought 

 much more beneficial than if it had been passed 

 through the farm-yard, in any of the usual pro- 

 cesses of making manure. On the farm described 

 in the report as Wm. H. Meriwether's, (since sold 

 to William L. Craven,) I saw a piece of land thus 

 covered with straw, from which oats, and evident- 

 ly a very good growth, had been lately reaped. 

 Yet this growth was caused by this dry top-dress- 

 ing applied after covering in the seed, and of 

 course late, on a spot so worn as to have been 

 otherwise very unproductive. This is certainly a 

 very cheap mode of applying the straw, independ- 

 ent of its alleged (and universally admitted) supe- 

 rior efficacy. — Farmer^s Register. 



IMPORTANT DISCOVERY. 



A surgeon of Gottengen has discovered a com- 

 plete antidote to ar.senic. It is pero.xyd (or the red 

 oxyd) of iron, twelve parts of which neutralize one 

 of oxyd of arsenic. Th6 following is the statement 

 as given : 



"The French papers state that a surgeon o( 

 Gottengen has just discovered that the peroxyd of 

 iron is a powerful antidote to arsenic. Twelve 

 parts of hydrate of peroxyd of iron are necessary 

 to iieutralize completely one part of oxyd of ar- 

 senic. It is pre|)ared by pouring nitric acid into 

 a very pure solution of the sulphate of iron, pre- 

 cipitated by ammoniac and well washed. Experi- 

 ments with this antidote have been tried upon 

 rabbits, and other animals, with complete success. 

 One advantage of it is, that no injury can be done 

 by too large a dose. In cases where large quanti- 

 ties of arsenic have been taken, it has been found 

 useful first to encourage vomiting." JY. Y. Star. 



From the Lang Island Star. 

 MISCELLiANEOUS. 



There is this difference between happiness and 

 wisdom— he that thinks himself the hiippiest man 

 really is so ; but he that thinks himself the wisest 

 is generally the greatest fool. — Lacon. 



A simile. 



CHRONIC RHEUMATISM, 



We are not ready to add to the number of the 

 remedies which have been prescribed for this pain- 

 ful disease, without a certainty that such addition 

 will be valuable in practice. Tiiis certainty we 

 are convinced will attend the remedy it is the ob- 

 ject of this article to bring before the profession. 

 It is a mixture of equal parts of the balsam of sul- 

 phur and spirit of turpentine. Six drops of this 

 mixture may be given morning and evening, and 

 the dose increased two drops a day until it pro- 1 scribed them." 



Like a long standing cup of tea, life 

 grows sweeter and sweeter toward the bottom, and 

 seems to be nothing Jess than syrup of sugar at 

 the last. — Hood. 



Health. A precious gem, which, like Aladdin's 

 lamp, is often bartered away for paltry gew-gaws 

 by those unconscious of its value. 



Offence and Punishment. A man who was im- 

 prisoned for marrying two wives, complained that 

 he had been severely dealt with for an offence 

 which carries its own punishment along with it. 



A countryman reading a newspaper in Randolph 

 (Tennesee), was asked why he did not subscribe 

 for it, as it was a good paper. — " Why yes," re- 

 plied the countryman, " I like it, it's right' fine, 

 but I thinks it's a leelle too costive." This is a new 

 name for a newspaper. 



Freedom. Dream not of freedom for the whole 

 while you enslave the parts ; the heart must be 

 the centre of the system, the blood next circulates 

 freely every where ; and in vast communities you 

 behold but a bloated and feeble giant, whose biiin 

 is imbecile, whose limbs are dead, and who jiays 

 in disease and weakness the pen.alty of transcend- 

 ing the paternal proportions of health and vigor. 



The Creator. «' AVho but the Omnipotent could 

 have formed the sqn, could have marked out its 

 destined course, suspended it without support in 

 the blue vault, saying, ' this be thy station and 

 this thy brilliant seal?' Could any power, save 

 that of the Eternal, have created the earth, the 

 moon, and all the planets .= These undeviatingly 

 perform their course within the orbits he has pre- 



