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ers, but is not contagions. "With regard to a remedy., if the disease 

 is glanders, it is incurable. The animal or animals had better be 

 destroyed to prevent fui-ther contagion ; besides it is communicable 

 to the human subject, and is a deadly disease to the latter ; therefore, 

 the greater care is required by them in handling glandered horses. 

 If the cases are Ozena, a long course of tonic treatment with astring- 

 ent washes to the part, nourishing food and cleanliness are advised ; 

 but I think from description the disease is glanders." 



Mr. J, Morman, Dakota City, Nebraska, describes a disease among 

 the horses in his vicinity. He says they eat well, but are poor and 

 run at the nose, and have small ulcers in their nostrils. 



Mr. F. D. Curtis. — The disease is undoubtedly fern, and the sore 

 nostrils and running at the. nose the effects of it. Give laxative food ; 

 steam the nostrils, and swab them out with honey and borax. To 

 steam the nostrils, envelop the head in a covering of cloth, and con- 

 nect the same with a pail, in which put a handful of hay, and then 

 pour on scalding water. After treatment, keep the animal warm. 



FoKEST Tkees. 



Mr. J. Delano, Fair Haven, Mass., made certain inquiries, which 

 were answered as follows : 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — This farmer asks how much an acre of wood- 

 land is worth a year, about one-fourth pine and three-fourths oak, 

 three miles from market. Fie may calculate that it will take, on an 

 average, thirty years to grow fifty cords of ^\'ood on an acre, and so 

 base his estimates, considering this a liberal calculation, for on many 

 surfaces a cord a year is all that can be expected. But if some of the 

 trees are large and straight they attain a value for manufacturing 

 uses far beyond the figures for cord wood. I am glad the farmers on 

 poor soils in New England have begun to calculate on wood as a crop. 

 One-third of the open land of tliose States ought to go back to for- 

 est. If there had been any facilities, or safety in traveling west, or 

 if our lathers had known of the great superiority of westei-n soils, 

 they would never have cleared the original hemlocks and beeches 

 from those rocky hills. It was a mistake made in their ignorance of 

 the immense agricultural capacities of this continent ; and now that 

 all regions are open, it is well to let those granite soils yield the vigo- 

 rous forest growth of which they are so capable, and by which they 

 will yield a better return than from any cultivated crop. 



Mr. William Lawton. — William Penn, a thoughtful and good man 



