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NEW ENGLAND FAR:MER. 



^L\Y 



in Massacbusotts, I will give y«u an experience 

 of my own, in the hope it may be of some use. 



About five years ago, I had a herd of fifty cattle 

 attacked l>y a disease which destroyed fourteen in 

 about ten days. 



I found a description of the same symptoms in 

 the "Patholcgie Bovine" of M. Gelle. One in- 

 stance recorded by him occurred near Neufchatel 

 in 1830, and attacked the herds of one hundred 

 and one proprietors. He calls it contagious 

 pleuro-jmeuraonia. The animals had cough, fe- 

 ver and diarrhoea, ending with gangrene. The 

 treatment recommended is, to take four quarts of 

 blood from the diseased animal, and after the in- 

 terval of a day, to make another smaller bleeding. 

 Two pounds of glauber salts are to be dissolved in 

 a gallon of barley water, and a pint given in every 

 three hours. 



After using these remedies, I lost but a single 

 cow, which got wet in a shower during her conva- 

 lescence. 



The causes of the malady are insufficient venti- 

 lation of the cow stalls, high feeding and taking 

 cold. 



I immediately had my sheds well ventilated and 

 whitewashed, reduced the feed, and the disease 

 disappeared. L. 



For the Netc England Farmer. 

 SICK CATTLE AT IPSWICH. 



Me. Editor : — The reported disease among the 

 cattle at Ipswich, and which the Salem Register 

 has said was unfounded, has led me to make some 

 inquiries, and I have received from Mr. Lowe the 

 following statement, signed by himself and two of 

 his neighbors. Some points of importance were 

 omitted in his statement which I will give, viz : 

 the first cow, (as near as he can recollect,) was tak- 

 en January 10th, 18G0, was sick six days ; the ox 

 was talicn about a week after the cow died, and 

 from the time the ox died to the time the second 

 cow was taken was ten days, and from the time the 

 second cow died to the time the third cow was 

 taken, about four weeks ; they have all lived about 

 six days after being taken. 



Topsfield, April 4, 1860. N. W. Broavn. 



MU. LOWE'S STATEMENT. 



About the middle of January, 1860, Mr. Thom- 

 as Lowe, of Ipswich, had a cow taken sicli with 

 symptoms as follows : she moved about as though 

 she was trying to bring her weight on to her hind 

 legs, refused to eat or drink, would put her nose 

 on her side as though there was pain in her lungs, 

 breathed heavily, run some at the nose, and ap- 

 peared to have some cold, sweat very much at 

 times, and then would be hot and dry. She lingered 

 about six days and died. An ox was taken in the 

 same herd v/ith the same symptoms, and died ; 

 then the second cow was taken and died; then the 

 third cow was taken the same way and died. No 

 two were sick at the same time, and none appeared 

 to be swollen as from poison. It is believed and 

 feared, by some of the farmers in Ipswich, that 

 this disease may be the same as that prevailing at 

 North Brookfield, and they would like, if another 

 case appears, to have it investigated by the same 

 men that have visited those cases in Brookfield, 

 and if it appears to be the same disease, to have 



the same protection by the State, if there is any, 

 as is afi"orded the farmers in the Western part oi 

 the State. Some of the farmers will sign their 

 names below as witnesses of the above statement. 

 (Signed,) Thomas Lowe. 



Francis Brown. 

 Ipswich, April 4, 1860. Joseph Kinsman. 



Remarks. — Make your application to the Sec- 

 retary of the State Board of Agriculture, at Bos- 

 ton. 



For the New England Farmer. 



DISEASE AMONG HEZXTS— AKTIFIOIAIi 

 FERTILIZERS. 



I have lost four hens out of ten since last Oc- 

 tober by some disease of which I am ignorant, 

 and consequently could apply no remedy. They 

 were all attacked precisely in the same way, at 

 diff'erent times, with loss of the use of their legs, 

 drooping of their wings, falling over backward 

 when attemptnig to Avalk ; some of them lived 

 several weeks in this state, others died within less 

 than forty-eight hours after being taken. My hens 

 are of mixed breeds, generally hardy and good 

 layers, and are well fed on corn, oats, barley, boiled 

 potatoes, and occasionally on animal food, and 

 supplied with fresh water, and were protected 

 from bad weather by access to a comfortable barn 

 cellar, with a dry roosting-place attached to the 

 yard, where they are shut up a part of the year. I 

 shall feel under much obligation to any one who 

 may be able, through the columns of the monthly 

 Farmer, to give me information of the name oi 

 the disease, its cause and remedy, if any is known 

 to them. 



I am desirous of trying on a limited scale 

 "Mapes' Nitrogenized Superphosphate of Lime," 

 and the "Jarvis Island Guano," on corn land. If 

 any of your correspondents have tested either or 

 both of the articles, and will give their experience 

 of the quantity required for an acre, the manner 

 of applying it, and whether it would be safe to re- 

 ly on either alone to insure a good crop of corn 

 on grass land, broken up last fall, soil a clay 

 loam, naturally strong and favorable for good 

 crops, but so much exhausted by long cropping 

 for hay as not to produce more than one-half to 

 three-fourths of a ton to the acre, such informa- 

 tion will be very important, and confer a favor on , 

 many other farmers as well as myself. 



Still River, March 26, I860. L. B. H. 



Remarks. — We have used the Jarvis Island 

 guano with the most satisfactory results, by plac- 

 ing about a wine-glass full in each hill, and drop- 

 ping the corn directly upon it. We have never 

 used the superphosphate on corn. 



Cure for Ringbone. — I succeeded in remov- 

 ing the lameness of a ringbone, by making a bag 

 of strong linen cloth, about two inches broad, and 

 eight inches long, which I filled with copperas, 

 tied on the foot just above the ringbone, and wet 

 twice a day. Keep it on about four weeks. The 

 man that told me of this said he had cured sever- 

 al in tills way. — W. H. Chaffee, in Rural New- 

 Yorker. 



