60 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Jan. 



eggs is best ; but if that be not at hand, milk, 

 or wheat flour mixed in water may be used. 



Morphia or Morphine. — See Opium. 



Muriatic Acid or Uvdrochloric Acid. 



Symptoms. — Burning in the throat and 

 fitromach, thirst, a hot and dry skin, a red and 

 glazt:d tongue, black lips, vomiting of blood 

 mixed with yellow matter, cold sweats, delir- 

 ium and death. 



Treatment — Administer magnesia or soda, 

 mixed in water, and follow with flaxseed tea, 

 or other mucilaginous drinks. 



Nitre — Sal N itre — Saltpetre — Nitrate 

 OF Potash — See Potash. 



NiTKic Acid — Aquafortis. — Symptoms 

 and treatment like Muriatic Acid. 



Nightshade. — See Belladonna. 



Nux Vomica. — This is the common name 

 for the seeds of the Strychnos nux vomica, a 

 moderate sized tree found in the East Indies. 

 It is a powerful narcotic and irritant. Sym- 

 toms and treatment like Aconite. 



Opiuji — This is a powerful narcotic poison 

 extracted from the poppy — {Papaver somnif- 

 erum.) 



Symptoms. — Drowsiness, stupor and per- 

 fect insensibility or delirium, followed by pro- 

 found sleep, a pallid countenance, deep snor- 

 inji or stentorous breathing, cold sweats, a 

 slow, full pulse, a cold and livid skin, a sus- 

 pension of all the secretions, except that of 

 perspiration, sometimes convulsions, particu- 

 larly in children. 



Treatment. — The stomach must be evacu- 

 ated as speedily as possible. Use a stomach 

 pump if one is at hand ; if not, administer an 

 emetic of white vitriol (sulphate of zinc) or 

 of ground mustard seed. Affusions of cold 

 water upon the head, chest and tpine, may be 

 employed with advantage ; also, flagellation, 

 or whipping the extremities with small rods 

 for the purpose of arousing the patient from 

 his stnpor. The best liquid that can be given 

 is a Btrong decoction of coffee. 



[to be concluded.] 



TIME FOR COWS TO COME IN. 



A cow that drops her calf in April is of 

 more profit than one that comes in earlier in 

 the year, with the same care and feed. If 

 your cows drop their calves in February, or 

 the first part of March, you will have to feed 

 largely with grain, roots, &c., the rest of the 



feeding season, and you will make an article 

 of butter which must be sold immediately, as 

 you cannot keep spring butter, nor can you 

 make butter as cheaply with the mercury at 

 zero or below, as when 30° to 60° above. By 

 the first of June, whether you have fed extra 

 or not, your cows will fall off in quantity and 

 quality of milk, and you will have a small 

 yield of butter through the be&t of the season ; 

 when, if they had come in six or eight weeks 

 later, they would have gone out to grass 

 heavy and strong, and capable of giving the 

 largest quantity and the best quality of but- 

 ter. 



By the first of October your cows will be 

 nearly or quite dry, when if they had dropped 

 their calves in April, you would have found 

 that October was the most profitable month of 

 the season. And further, you will find this 

 month and the next, the best to feed grain to 

 cows. 



All cows in a herd should drop their calves 

 as near the same time a? possible. If one 

 should drop her calf after jou have com- 

 menced to pack and put away butter, do not 

 put her milk with the rest tor two weeks or 

 more, as it is impossible to keep butter made 

 from it, and it will damage the rest. This is 

 one very common source of an occasional bad 

 tub of butter. — /. E. HoUistcr, in Montpe- 

 lier, Vt., Watctiman. 



Potash from Wool. — One of the most< 

 interesting among recent scientific applications 

 is the method of extracting potash from the 

 yolk of wool fleeces, which from this source 

 for some time past has been obtained in great 

 purity. It is computed that if all the fleeces 

 of all the sheep of France, estimated at 47,- 

 000,000, were subjected to the new treatment, 

 France, would derive from this source alone 

 all the potash she requires in the arts, enough to 

 make about 12,000 tons of commercial car- 

 bonate of potash, convertible into 17.500 

 tons ofsaltpetre, which would charge 1,870,000- 

 000 cartridges. So that the inoffensive sheep, 

 the emblem of peace, can be made to supply 

 the chief muniment of war. The obvious lesson 

 from these facts, to the sheep farmer, is to 

 wash his fleeces at home in such a manner 

 that the wash water so rich in potash, may 

 be distributed upon the land as liquid ma- 

 nure. — American Artizan. 



