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■which persons had died from cholera, after 

 having the cottages well washed and cleaned 

 with carbolic acid, and in no case were any 

 persons attacked with the disease. 



Prof. Chandelon stated, that cut of 135 

 nurses employed upon cholera patients — where 

 two thousand patients died — only one nurse 

 died, but they were washed over, and their 

 clothes sprinkled with carbolic acid. 



It has, also, a wonderful efficacy in most of 

 the painful diseases to which llesh is heir. But 

 it is to its uses on the farm that we intended 

 to call the attention of the reader. 



Mr. Goodale says it is safe to assert that for 

 lice, ticks, and other vermin infesting domes- 

 tic animals, and for their cutaneous diseases, 

 sores, ulcers, and the like, its equal for safety 

 and efficiency has not before been found. Its 

 applications and uses in a sanitary point of 

 view are more important and numerous than 

 those of any other known substance whatever. 



The purest carbolic acid requires about 

 twenty times Its weight of water to dissolve it. 

 When thus made a mudi furilier dilution will 

 be needed for most purposes. Mr. Goodale 

 found a weak solution efiFyctive in immediately 

 arresting mildew on grape vines ?.nd on other 

 plants : it also destroyed plant lice. 



It Is also adapted to many ocher purposes, 

 one of which is as soap, prepared as follows : 

 slice a quantity of bar soap, set it over the 

 fire In a suitable vessel, after having aided 

 first water enough to liquify It by siirring and 

 warming to less than boiling heat, then take It 

 oil and mix thoroughly for each pound cf soap 

 employed, from a quarter of an ounce to a 

 whole ounce of carbolic acid, according as it 

 Is desired to have it mild or strong. When 

 cool, the soap may be cut into cakes and laid 

 by for use. 



This recipe we find in Mr. Goodale's report, 

 and along with it he handed us several cakes 

 cf soap, made up of diffdrent degrees of 

 str> ngth. This soap has been in constant use 

 for washing the hands for three months, and 

 has a cleansing power that we have not found 

 in any other soap. 



— To make a white wash that will not rub off, 

 the Boston Journal of Chemistry says mix up half 

 a pailful of lime and water ; take half a pint of 

 flour and make a starch of it, and pour it into the 

 white wash while hot. Stir it well and apply as 

 usual. 



For the Kew England Farmer, 

 SCIEirCB AS APPLIED TO AQKICUL- 

 TUSB, 



Our lands are "running out," and must be 

 renovated. Animal manures are not the only 

 fertilizers within our reach, although they con- 

 tain all the elements that enter into the com- 

 position of plants in a highly organized condi- 

 tion. Certainly the earth and the atmosphere 

 contain all these elements of vegetable life, 

 requiring only composition and organization 

 to make them available. 



After animal manure, wood ashes is un- 

 doubtedly the greatest organization of vege- 

 table food In combination; but neither folid 

 nor liquid particles contain the life-giving 

 power of vegetation, any more than of human 

 organization. No plant is a living being, 

 however organized, until God "breathes into' 

 it the breath cf life," when it becomes a liv- 

 ing plant. Composed of the same materials 

 as man and beast, it becomes food for his 

 growth and maturity. The composition and 

 assimilation of these elements ; the relations 

 of the vegetable to the mineral kingdom; 

 [heir organization and disorganization ; the 

 wonderful power and influence th » atmosphere 

 has upon all these relat ions, is the science of 

 agriculture, and are principles in vegetable phy- 

 siology which every tiller of the soil should 

 carefully study and studiously observe." 



IMan or plant when excluded from the at- 

 mosphere becomes entirely destitute of all 

 vital action — life. Out of this fact, as con- 

 nected with agriculture, grows the grand prin- 

 ciple of pulverizing the soil. 



Experience here introduces another branch 

 of science — drainage. Draw out from the 

 subsoil the cold water, and pulverize the sur- 

 face tintly, and you have laid a permanent 

 and lasting foundation for succesbful agricul- 

 ture. This cold, acid water in the subsoil is 

 Injurious to veg^'table life until it has been 

 brought under the influence of the atmosphere. 

 This pulverizing, draining, trenching the son 

 is no new thing. It was taught and practiced 

 in Rome two thousand years ago. When 

 Professor Mapes was turning agriculture up 

 side down with his theory of soil analyses, he 

 was practicing "deep trenching" in his pear 

 orchards, which led to a success that dazzled 

 his own eyes and led a confiding community 

 astray in the ways of a false theory. 



In finely pulverized soils the air penetrates 

 every particle, imparting carbonic acid which 

 dissolves and organizes crude minerals into 

 life giving food, v/hich is drawn by capillary 

 attraction into every tissue of the growing 

 plant, and is crystalized into vegetable leaf 

 and woody fibre by light and heat. Water 

 also contains carbonic acid, and this being a 

 solvent of mineral substances, detaches and 

 sets at liberty carbonates and phosphates that 

 rise to the surface and produce vapors or dews, 

 when coming in contact with the atmosphere, 



