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in this matter on the side of the gentleman who just addressed us. 

 His last remark, particularly, must come home to the good sense of 

 most observers. 



Prof, J. A. Whitney. — A cure is very difhcult, but not impossible. 

 Bots are quick in their attack. Their victim has symptoms like 

 colic, and is likely to be dispatched in short meter. There are two 

 remedies, well known and worth trying, provided you are in a hurry 

 about it, namely, milk and molasses ; and, second, a strong decoction 

 of Avhite oak bark. However, it is best to use the ounce of preven- 

 tion. If you feed a horse four or five quarts of potatoes twice or 

 three times a week, he will.be kept out of danger. Experiments 

 show that the pulp of raw potato kills the hot worm ; hence, a good 

 feed of this tuber is often a cure, always a preventive. 



Mr. A. S. Fuller. — It is well to go to the prime conditions. Keep 

 the animal clean. Wash his fore legs frequently, and thus dislodge 

 the enemy before he is taken into the stomach. 



Country Seat of Wm. S. Carpenter. 

 Mr. S, E. Todd. — Our member, Mr, Carpenter, has been reproached 

 as a " sidewalk farmer." A short time since I visited his place, and 

 take great pleasure in saying that Mr. Carpenter's farm is located in 

 Westchester county, some thirty miles from the metropolis. It 

 embraces about thirty acres. The surface was originally rough and 

 rocky, but the soil was good, and capable of producing any kind of 

 fruit and field crops. Mr. Carpenter spends much of his time here 

 in this city ; but he is on his farm often enough to supervise and 

 give personal attention to the numerous things that require timely 

 care ; and few matters can be said to have been neglected. He has 

 expended a great amount of money in procuring almost an endless 

 variety of fruits, farm implements of the latest inventions, fowls, and 

 other animals of the choicest and most approved breeds. He has 

 now growing the largest number of foreign and rare trees that I have 

 ever met with on the grounds of any private citizen. The weeping 

 beech, the weeping larch, and a large number of rare and curious 

 trees have been procured from Europe, at a great expense of care and 

 money, besides rhododendrons almost innumerable. On his grounds 

 there are over a thousand thrifty pear trees, all of the choicest varie- 

 ties, and every kind of apple tree, the fruit of which is worth culti- 

 vating. And, what is remarkable, this sidewalk farmer has the name 

 of every kind of fruit and tree at his tongue's end. It is never 



