oil. XSII.no. 37. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 



291 



tcr lurned on tliem, immediately adding cold wa- Irub this well on with a stick. If a sheep is very 

 , until tlie hand can renmin in it withnut incon- bnd, and the foot festering or gangrenous, take the 

 lience : let it sn;ik twnlve hmirs ; then put tlio ' yolk of two e^rga, mix with one or two oz. guru 

 d in a basket to drain; hang the basket up ;' torpenline, and stir them till they mako a Bulve. 

 it remain a week ; if not planted then, it will I I'ut on the salve afli>r you have applied the first 

 necessary to turn it into another basket, that j prescription, and ti« it on with a rag or piece ot 



top seed, now getting dry, should be at the leather. 

 toni. They may be kept this way some weeks 

 hout injury, if the weather is cool : when they 

 rill to sprout, they should be planted. 

 ?or .'quashes, melons, Lima and Soba beans, &.C., 

 sually prepare a compost the autumn previous, 

 ,sisling of vault manure, sandy loam, or sand 

 11 the sea-shore, from beds of ditches, ponds, or 

 ipiiigs (if roadside; to this I add old stable ma- 

 e, wilh.iut stint: in spring, add pigeon dung 

 I unleached wood ashes, sufficient of each to av- 

 gca quart of the former and two quarts of the 

 er to each hill. About the middle of May, I 

 pare a hole four feet at least in diamfter and 18 

 hes to two feet deep; into this I put my com- 

 t, on a hot, sunny day, mixing equal quantities 

 he soil taken from the hole, if suitable, if not, I 



the necessary quantity of sand, or sandy loam, 

 cin" on top about four inches of rich soil, to 

 nt the seed in. The compost should be shov- 

 !d over two or three times in a warm sun, be. 

 5 mixing in the hole. Six to eight feet apart 



melons and pole beans, and 10 to 1.5 feet for 

 ashes, are suitable distances. A good number 

 ieed.s should be planted in each hill, that the 

 <ly plants may be pulled up, leaving not more 

 n two healthy plants of melons and squashes in 

 h hill, after they begin to run. Unless the sea- 

 , is unusually forward, the last week in May is 

 te early enough to plant squashes, melons, Lima 

 Seba beans, &c. 



Very respectfully, your ob't serv't, 



JOSL^H LOVETT, 2d. 

 Beverly, March 3, 1844. 



(iy=The specimens of beautiful melons and gar- 

 a vegetables of all kinds, exhibited by Mr Lov- 



at tlie Horticultural rooms the last season, is a 

 ficient proof (to those who saw them,) of the im- 

 rtance and value of his mode of thoroughly pre- 

 ring and warming his land before planting seed. 

 Ed! 



The last resort for foot rot is butter of anti- 

 mony, and a few minutes after, apply white lead 

 freely. 



Cure for If'ilhers Coming; Down — Wash them 

 with milk and water before returning thein — or 

 or boil a qts. milk with a good deal of lard, and 

 wash them often while putting up. 



To Make a Sheep own a Lamb — Milk all over 

 the lamb and under its tail, anil rub it on well ; 

 then tie up the ewe head and body. 



Another. — Rub the liver and light and contents 

 of the stomach of the dead lamb over the new 

 lamb, and put the skin of the dead lamb to the 

 adopted one. 



Cure for Stretches. — Sheep sometimes stretch 

 out their noses on the ground and around by their 

 side, as if in severe pain. This is frequently occa- 

 sioned by an involution of a part of the intestine 

 within another, called, when occurring in the hu- 

 man subject, intersusceptio. Immediate relief is 

 afforded when this last is the cause, by lifting up 

 the animal by the hind legs, and shaking it a few 

 times, when the pain disappears. 



All the above are furnished us by a friend who 

 has long been practically engaged in rearing sheep. 

 — Jlmer. Agricult. 



REMEDIES FOR DISEASES OF SHEEP. 

 Cure for Hoven. — Take 1-4 lb. of lard, 1 pint of 

 Ik ; boll both down to a pint, mixing them well 

 ;ether. Give half of this immediately at blood 

 at, and the remainder soon after. 

 Jinulher.—Gwe 1 gill of urine, with as much 

 It as it will dissolve. 



Hoven arises from eating an excess of wet clo- 

 r. This should be avoided by keeping the ani- 

 il's from clover fields which are drenched with 

 in or heavy dews, especially when particularly 

 ngry. 



Cure for Scah.—To 1 lb. tobacco, add 12 qts. of 

 7 from wood-ashes, of suitable strength for wash- 

 g, and 4 qts. of urine. To this mixture add a 

 cond, of 1 gill high wine, 1-4 oz. camphor, 1-4 

 . Spanish brown, and 1-2 gill spirits of lurpen- 



SUBSOIL PLOWING. 



We are highly gratified to observe an increased 

 attention to subsoil plowing, for we consider, if it 

 could be generally introduced among us, it would 

 be found one of the greatest agricultural impwve- 

 ments of the age. 



Five years ago, we had a piece of land contain- 

 ing 2 1-4 acres of a hard clay soil, which, with the 

 best management we could bestow upon it, yield- 

 ed less than 150 bushels of potatoes to the acre, 

 while parsnips, carrots, or any long roots, it would 

 scarcely grow. We had just heard of Mr Smith's 

 subsoil plow in Scotland, and determined upon an 

 experiment. We had no plow of this description, 

 nor could we then obtain one ; we arcordingly 

 look the mould-board off from a large, strong road 

 plow, and used the point of the share alone for 

 subsoiling. We plowed the land in the fall of the I 

 year, by taking a common plow and one yoke of 

 cattle, and turning over a surface furrow six inches 

 deep. We then followed directly after this in the 

 same furrow, with three yoke of cattle attached to 

 the road plow, stirring the soil eight inches deeper, 

 making fourteen in all. This we then bountifully 

 limed, and the next spring as bountifully manured 

 and planted it with roots, and the following autumn 

 obtained over 1100 bushels of sugar-beet to the 

 acre from it, and other crops in proportion. — Ibiil. 



Best Cow in the Country.— C. P. Holcomb, Esq., 



. Hpanisn orowu, ai.u x-^ g... =p..... - r - of New Castle, Delaware, has a Devon cow, called 



le. The application to be made to the sore, and j „ Lajy_" which produced 19 lbs. of butter in a sin- 

 has never been known to fail. | pie week, last year, and averaged 14 lbs. 9 oz, for 

 Cure for Foot iJof.-Pare the foot well and | 12 weeks. " Lady" was awarded the first premium 

 Cure Jor ^o"' /'»'• wine-cla.s at the Show of the Newcastle Agricultural Society. 



nTf s' 1 3^ im a^pJec': of b^i: vL.ol The account of her yield of milk and butter, was 



e size of M walnut dissolved in a little urine ;, kept with great exactness by the dairy woman. 



"THt: COMMON SCHOOL JOURNAL." 



To llie Editor of the New liiiglaiid Karmer : 



Sir — As the farmers of our Common wealth are 

 a.s much interested as any other class of the people 

 in the great cause of education, and its most effi- 

 cient promoter — our Common Schools — and as they 

 have the [luwer in their own hands to aid this cause 

 by legislative enactments, if so disposed,— I beg 

 leave through your columns to leeommend to their 

 favor the proposition introduced into the jiresent 

 Legislature, to furnish each school district in the 

 State a copy of the " Common Schonl Jourjial"—a. 

 semi-monthly publication, devoted to the cause of 

 eilucation. Its aim is to improve the teachers of 

 our Common Schools, as teachers, and to promote 

 the welfare of the youth of the Commonwealth, in 

 all respects depending on knowledge. Its editor, 

 Hon. Horace .Manh, the talented and efficient 

 Secretary of the Board of Education— (than whom 

 no man in the whole counlry is belter qualified to 

 conduct such a work)— is so generally known and 

 his abilities so generally acknowledged, that it is 

 totally unnecessary for me to attempt a |ianegyric 

 on his merits as an advocate of the interests of our 

 Common Schools, and the cause of general educa- 

 tion. Suffice it to say, the " Journal" is most ably 

 conducted— filled with facts and suggestions of mo- 

 mentous interest to both the teachers and the 

 taught,- and belter calculated than any other edu- 

 cational periodical in New England, to diminish 

 ignorance and its attendant evils, and to promote 

 the welfare of our youth. With such high claims 

 to popular favor, this valuable publication should 

 have an extensiya circulation ; but it is understood 

 this is not the e^se ; and in order to have its bene- 

 ficial influence more widely diffused, and bring it to 

 bear where it can ett'cct the most good, the propo- 

 sition above referred to has been introduced. 



Farmers who have a voice in the Legislature, 

 give it your support, and it will be successful. The 

 propriety of the measure is unquestionable : New 

 York has adopted one precisely similar ;— and as 

 to the cost— the dollars and cents involved-— what 

 a trivial matter is this, weighed against the interests 

 of your children. Scout the idea that the measure 

 would be more expensive than useful : it would 

 not be. Your sons may derive benefit from this 

 work which it is proposed to bring to their free ac- 

 cess, of a value that dollars and cents are inade- 

 quate to express. Let the project, then, not fiiil for 

 want of your sii|i|iort. 



The measure in consideration appears to me 

 alike worthy and judicious,— and though 1 have 

 not the remotest interest in the success of it, other 

 than a share of that interest which we should all 

 have in the education and morals of the rising gen- 

 eration, 1 would urge your approval of the project, 

 as an efficient means of promoting the cau.^ie of 

 education— dear alike to allof us— and of exalting 

 the character and extending the benefits of our 

 Common Schools— " the people's colleges"— and, 

 next to parental influence, the best securities of 

 private virtue and public inorals. 



Howabd. 



What sculpture is to a block of marble, educa- 

 tion is to a human soul— Mdison. 



