1864. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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So long as our thanksgivings are fresh and con- 

 stant, so long will a pure patriotism burn in our 

 bosoms, and love of country kindle a national en- 

 thusiasm and a spirit to defend the blessings which 

 industry and integrity have secured. 



Let, then, sincere thanksgivings go hand in hand 

 with industrious and economical habits, with skill 

 and energy to overcome all obstacles, with wisdom 

 to devise and execute, and our country will stand 

 before the nations of the world with a power un- 

 equalled, and spread its benign influences to the 

 uttermost regions of the earth. 



ADMINISTERING CHLOROFORM TO A 

 HORSE. 



Dr. Dadd, of the Illinois Prairie Farmer, gives 

 the following account of Chloroforming a horse 

 which he was treating for "spasms of the bowels," 

 and which he finally cured, although this attack 

 was so violent that the animal would throw him- 

 self upon the floor and tumble about in the wild- 

 est manner, and would kick and strike with fury 

 if touched or nearly approached by any one. 



"There seemed to be little hope for the animal, 

 and fearing that he might either kill himself by 

 violence or injure thore in attendance, I concluded 

 to chloroform him, and thus put a slop to his 

 dangerous performances ; he had had the best of us 

 about long enough, and now it was for me to show 

 what science had in store for such otherwise un- 

 manageable cases. I procured a mixture com- 

 posed of four ounces of chloroform and the same 

 quantity of sulphuric ether ; next a sponge was 

 tied on to a broom-handle ; the latter enabled me 

 to chloroform at a safe distance. 



The patient did not seem to relish my mode of 

 practice, he fought me some, — tried to strike and 

 kick me, but he being temporarily blind I had the 

 advantage of him. It was soon evident that the 

 chloroform had begun to do its work ; he gradu- 

 ally settled himself on the floor and was soon com- 

 pletely etherised. As it is dangerous to keep a 

 horse under the full effects of chloroform any 

 great length of time, I now removed the sponge 

 and only applied it occasionally, slightly satura- 

 ted, so as to insure a sort of incomplete state of 

 insensibility. It was an encouraging sight to be- 

 hold the once powerful and fuiious animal, now 

 lying free from pain and deprived of the power to 

 injure himself or those in attendance ; and it is 

 also gratifying to know that science ministers to 

 the wants and necessities of the inferior as well as 

 the superior orders of creation. 



At the expiration of an hour, during which time 

 the animal was more or less under the anaesthetic 

 agent, he was allowed to rise ; he gave himself a 

 few shakes, seemed very much relieved, and much 

 more tranquil." 



Corn and Roots for Fattening Hogs. — 

 In feeding dry corn, to fattening hogs, I have 

 found the most beneficial results from giving one 

 or two feeds a day of roots, — turnips or sugar 

 beets. It serves them in the place of water, ren- 

 ders the corn less heating, and fed in this way a 

 bushel of roots are fully equivalent for fattening 

 to a bushel of corn fed alone. — Albany Cultivator. 



G LANDERS. 

 In an article in the Prairie Farmer, on the sub- 

 ject of glandered horses, Dr. Dadd cites the fol- 

 lowing cases of the disease being communicated 

 to the human system : 



"Within the last quarter two veterinary sur- 

 geons — one residing in Walworth, and the other 

 Wolverhampton — are reported as having died 

 from inoculation of glanders. This terrible dis- 

 ease is not often seen in Scotland, but very fre- 

 quently in England, and still more so in Ireland. 

 From the latter circumstance, the malady is often 

 found to be imported about the west coast of 

 Scotland. London has always been rather re- 

 nowned for the prevalence of glanders among 

 omnibus, cab and other horses. A very strict 

 supervision is maintained, and all glandered 

 horses are destroyed when discovered ; but never- 

 theless, we can state on good authority that the 

 omnibus horses of London have suffered very se- 

 verely from this disease, and do so still. The 

 partial measures adopted by companies are not 

 sufficient to eradicate it, and the "glandered night- 

 team" is not altogether a thing of the past. The 

 danger to human life is so great that we feel hap- 

 py to seize any opportunity to urge the adoption 

 of the most effectual measures for the suppression 

 of any practice which tends to prolong the life of 

 the glandered horse." — Vet. Jour. 



Another case as published in the Herald of Re- 

 form is as follows : 



"Mr. J. P. Burns, a grocer, in Baltimore, 

 died a horrid death in that city, a few days ago, 

 in consequence of poison communicated to his 

 system from a horse afflicted with glanders. Dur- 

 ing the administration of medicine, Mr. B. thrust 

 into the animal's mouth his hand, a finger of which 

 had been previously cut, and the flesh laid open. 

 Through this wound the virus was absorbed, and 

 mortification supervened. A surgeon was called 

 upon to amputate the deceased member. Per- 

 ceiving, however, that the poison had penetrated 

 ,to every portion of the unfortunate man's system, 

 he declined performing the operation, and stated 

 that no earthly skill could save his life. After 

 lingering in great agony, death closed the scene. 



Still Another. — Death of a Russian Lady 

 from Glanders. — The awful death of Madame 

 Palesikoff, one of the most charming amongst all 

 that bevy of charming Russian ledies, who some- 

 times gladden the winters of Paris, has created a 

 terrible shock amongst the circles she so lately 

 embellished by her presence. The unhappy lady 

 left Paris but a short time ago, on a summer tour 

 to Germany. While stepping from a door of the 

 opera house in Berlin, to gain her carriage, she ; 

 let fall one of her bracelets close to the pavement, i 

 Stooping to pick it up, she noticed at the time, ;i 

 laughingly, that "one of the horses belonging to 

 a carriage standing at hand, dropped his head so 

 close to her face, that he had touched her, and left 

 a moist kiss upon her cheek." In a few days the 

 unfortunate lady was taken ill with that most hor- 

 rible disease, glanders, and in a few days more 

 breathed her last, in spite of the attendance of 

 the first physicians in Berlin, and every resource 

 to be obtained by wealth, or by the ceaseless vig- 

 ilance of friends. — Court Journal. 



