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much better condition, and thus the health of 

 the community would be promoted. 



One great objection to some fruit preservers 

 has been the rapid decay of fruit on being ex- 

 posed to the air. Mr. C. F. Hovey exhibited a 

 collection of Hubbardston apples, taken from 

 Mr. Converse's fi-uit house in Maiden, six 

 weeks ago, and since kept in a counnon cellar, 

 as an evidence that the cold and dry atmos- 

 phere of the fruit houses, so thoroughly sus- 

 pends decay that fruit will keep for a long time 

 after being taken out of them. 



We understand that the company propose 

 to rent the building to farmers and market 

 men who deal in fruits, berries, vegetables, 

 fresh meats, fish, &c. 



ILLINOIS INDUSTRIAL UNIVERSITY. 

 The Board of Trustees had a two days and 

 a half session, at Champaign, commencing 

 May 7. From a report of its doings in the 

 Prairie Farmer, we learn that the Regent, Dr. 

 J. M. Gregory, made a report on the organiza- 

 tion, course of study, &c., which occuj^Ied 

 over two hours in reading ! It favors manual 

 labor, which the writer of the report in the 

 Farmer appears to disapprove ; it is silent as 

 to the admission of females, but as the law 

 makes no distinction, it is thought they may be 

 admitted as well as males ; it provides for in- 

 struction in nearly all branches except law, 

 medicine and theology ; for a regular course 

 of three years, and for instruction in optional 

 studies. The students are to wear a prescribed 

 uniform and be subject to a regular military 

 drill. The Board ordered the sale of 180,000 

 acres of the land scrijjt at not less than 50c 

 per acre ; leaving 200,000 on hand. Improve- 

 ments and alterations in the buildings and 

 grounds to the amount of $7000 were ordered. 

 The school is to be formally opened on the 

 first Monday of March, 1868, but it is hoped 

 that accommodations for some of the classes 

 will be provided by the first of October en- 

 suing. Executive and other committees wei-e 

 appointed, and the institution seems to be 

 fairly under way. 



Ringing Trees. — Mr. Joseph Davis, of 

 Baldwinsville, Mass., writes to us that the trees 

 which were made productive by this process, 

 have been planted about thirty years, and al- 

 though still thrifty and growing, never pro- 

 duced more than one peck of apples, and 



those so knurly and shriveled that he could not 

 tell what kind they were, until he girdled 

 them. After waiting thirty years for them to 

 bear fruit, Mr. Davis agrees with Mr. Baker 

 that, under the circumstances, the experiment 

 was not only "allowable'' but entirely justifica- 

 ble. 



COLIC IN HORSES. 



We are informed by a gentleman who has 

 given much attention to the diseases to which 

 horses are liable, that the following remedy is 

 a safe and effective one. It is certainly sim- 

 ple, and if administered with proper prudence, 

 we are not aware that it would do any harm to 

 the animal, if it did not effect a cure. We 

 give it the more readily because it is a remedy- 

 always at hand, namely : — 



Dissolve as much salt in a quart of pure 

 water as may be required thoroughly to satur- 

 ate the liquid, and drench the patient with one 

 half of it. If sjmptoms of relief are not no- 

 ticed in fifteen minutes or half an hour, give 

 the remainder. He states that this remedy has 

 proved entirely successful in very severe cases, 

 where other more complicated medicines had 

 failed. 



There are two kinds of colic, jftatulent colic, 

 and spasmodic colic. In the first, it is occa- 

 sioned by the enlargement of the intestines by 

 the food passing through the process of fer- 

 mentation, instead of digestion. Gases are 

 largely generated, and hence the distention 

 and pain. 



The s'pasmodic colic, which is accompanied 

 by more excruciating pains than the former, is 

 caused by a contraction of a portion of the 

 small intestines. In either case, to force down 

 various pungent and violent remedies is dan- 

 gerous and crue? 



Black Knot. — B. D. Walsh, Editor of 

 the Practical Entomologist, in stating that 

 black knot is nothing but an assemblage of 

 minute funguses, says that the kind that infest 

 the plum is a distinct species from that found 

 on the cherry, and he cites several instances 

 in proof, where trees of the plum were full of 

 the knot, while cherry trees standing within a 

 short distance were wholly unaffected, al- 

 though the spores were liable to be blown in 

 profusion from one tree to another. He also 

 states that the black knot on the chokecherry 

 and wild black cherry differs in species from 

 the knot which attacks the cultivated cherry. 

 — Country Gentleman. 



