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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



a good cistern at, or near the house, there is a 

 feeling of safety and comfort, which one can 

 scarcely have without it, and these pleasurable 

 emotions are considerably heightened by the fact 

 that it is an economical arrangement for supply- 

 ing water. But the cistern has another recom- 

 mendation of more value than cither of these, 

 viz : It provides the women witli those indispen- 

 sable conveniences, without which we do not be- 

 lieve a good, genial temper and a pervading har- 

 mony can long exist in the household. Men build 

 their fine barns, purchase their mowing machines, 

 newly-modeled plows, &c., and too often leave 

 the women to go ten rods and draw water with an 

 old creaking sweep from a forty foot well, or al- 

 low them to chop the wood with which to cook 

 the breakfast, or keep the children warm. Noth- 

 ing tends more to good order and serenity of tem- 

 per in the house, and the comfort and economy 

 of all its affairs, than the existence of the number- 

 less and nameless little conveniences which ena- 

 ble each one to perform his or her part of the 

 household duties with facility and ease — and 

 among them all, none is more important than a 

 plenty of pure soft water, near at hand. 



FACTS FOR FAKMBB.S. 

 If you invest money in tools, and then leave 

 them exposed to the weather, it is the same as 

 loaning money to a spendthrift without security 

 — a dead loss in both cases. 



If you invest money in books, and never read 

 them, it is the same as putting your money into 

 a bank, but never drawing either principal or in- 

 terest. 



If you invest money in fine stock, and do not 

 feed and protect them, and properly care for them, 

 it is the same as dressing your wife in silk to do 

 kitchen work. 



If you invest your money in choice fruits, and 

 do not guard and give them a chance to grow and 

 prove their value, it is the same as putting a good 

 hand into the field with poor tools to work with. 

 If you invest your money in a good farm, and 

 do not cultivate it well, it is the same as marrying 

 a good wife, and so abusing and enslaving her as 

 to crush her energies and break her heart. 



If you invest your money in a fine house, and 

 do not so cultivate your mind and taste as to adorn 

 it with intelligence and refinement, it is as if you 

 were to wear broadcloth and a silk hat to mill. 



If you invest your money in fine clothes and 

 do not wear them with dignity and ease, it is as 

 if a plowman were to sit at a jeweler's table to 

 make and adjust hair springs. 



If you invest your money in strong drink, it is 

 the same as turning hungry hogs into a growing 

 corn field — ruin will follow in both cases. 



If you invest your money in every new wonder 

 that flaming circulars proclaim, it is the same as 

 buying tickets at a lottery office where there are 

 ten blanks to one prize. 



If you invest your money in the "last novel," 

 it is the same as employing a tailors dandy to dig 

 your potatoes. — Valley Farmer. 



For the New Ungland Farmer. 

 THOUGHTS SUGGESTED BY" THE N. B. 

 FAS.MER, SEPT., 1860. 



Page 394. — Colic in Horses. — In this article, 

 quoted from the Farmer's Advocate, there are two 

 or three things partly stated, and partly implied, 

 which are unquestionably erroneous, and quite 

 likely to lead some of the readers thereof into a 

 wrong, and perhaps a destructive course of treat- 

 ment. First of all, it is implied that all cases of 

 colic in the horse are of the same nature exactly, 

 or produced in the same way ; and secondly, it is 

 partly stated and partly implied that all cases of 

 colic may, or should be treated in the same way. 

 Now, it seems to require but a very little knowl- 

 edge or even common sense, as to such complaints, 

 to make one well assured that neither of these 

 opinions or medical dogmas is either sound or re- 

 liable. Then, too, almost every one who has much 

 experience with horses has met with positive 

 facts which are utterly at variance with these dog- 

 mas or opinions. Every such person has found 

 that some horses are much more liable to colic, 

 than others which have been fed and treated in 

 exactly the same way. In such animals, there 

 must be weakness or disease of the stomach, or 

 other digestive organs, which creates, or consti^ 

 tutes a predisposition to colicy attacks ; and such 

 attacks, when they do occur, ought to be consid- 

 ered and treated as much more dependent on 

 some disease or debility of the digestive organs, 

 than on the nature of the food or drink given to 

 these animals, or than on the mode in which they 

 may have been driven or managed. Such cases, 

 and some others which might be named, if treated 

 with discrimination, or good judgment, will be 

 treated differently from those more common cases 

 in Avhich the attack of colic is produced wholly by 

 the irritating or indigestible nature of the food or 

 drink Avhich may have been administered. But, 

 unfortunately, such discrimination is but rarely 

 to be met with, and it is because it would contrib- 

 ute to save animals from much unnecessary suf- 

 fering, and their owners from occasional losses of 

 valuable animals, that we have thought it worth 

 while to point out these two errors of the undis- 

 criminating, and to endeavor to leave the impres- 

 sion on the readers of this, that, to treat any dis- 

 ease correctly, intelligently, or successfully, the 

 producing cause or causes should always be as- 

 certained, if possible, and the mode of treatment 

 be modified by and adapted to the peculiarities of 

 the producing cause. 



Leaving these remarks of a general nature, as 

 germs of thought, to be developed and applied by 

 those qualified or habituated to such intellectual 

 operations, we will draw our observations to a 

 close by one remark of a particular nature. For 

 the reasons already specified, and for others which 

 seem not above the comprehension of plain com- 

 mon sense, the mode of treatment recommended 

 in the article under notice, cannot, by men of 

 sense, and should not by any one, be accepted as 

 applicable or likely to be useful in all cases. In 

 fact, there can be but a few cases of colic which 

 are exactly like the one mentioned in the article 

 under notice, and of course but a few in which the 

 like treatment would be applicable. Few horses 

 have that amount of fever accompanying colic, 

 which would make a wet bed-comforter steam like 



