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,AND GARDENER 'SJOURNAL 



Iinled this eeaaon for the piirpoee of falling pork, 

 "aruiere using them inslead of corn, 

 is good, what little there is; the farmers of late 

 most entirely abandoned growing this crop, os 

 cloth can be purchased a great deal cheaper than 

 '. and manufacture flax. 

 'cichcat. — Considerable has been sowed, and has 

 tearance now of being a fair crop, unless inju- 

 the frost. 



\ng Wheat has not done very well here this sea- 

 wing no doubt to the excessive hot weather; 

 er some fields look very well; but to take the crop 

 eral, it will be a very poor one this year. Ma- 

 his quarter, for an experiment, have sown the 

 inson winter wheat in the spring; and the result 

 ley hod first rate spring wheat; better by a con- 

 ile, than either the Italian or Siberian spring 

 As I have not tried the e.Tperiment, I cannot 

 give you a true statement of the time of sowing; 

 er, I should think somewhere about the first or 

 of March, would be early enough to try the 

 iient. 



ss is gaod, save on wet lands; the rains in the 

 s of May and June, were very injurious to that 

 and. Upon high land I never have known 

 I bslieve, to take the vicinity together, there 

 !en more grass cut this season, from the same 

 r of acres, than has been in several years past. 

 ts of all kinds, look fine, and the prospect is 

 f a very great yield. There are however, but 

 mers that grow roots very extensively. 

 t is not as plenty as the farmers anticipated 

 the trees were in bloom. However, there will 

 ugh for our own consumption. In fact. Sirs, 

 hing of en earthly nature looks very promising, 

 ught can hinder us irom enjoying every thing 

 ing ta our peace, comfort, and happiness. 

 Respectfully Yours, 



W. S. TUPPER. 

 th Venice, Ontario co., N. Y. Sept. 1840. 



Cure for Biog Done. 



s following IS the postscript to a communication 

 chard Grass, which may be found in another 



SRS. Editors — For an answer to Mr. Burnet's 

 ' for a cure for Ring Bone, I would refer you to 

 munication of mine in the 5th volume of the 

 ator. Suffice it to say that I often operated up- 

 ses and colts, and never failed to prevent lame- 

 om Ring Bone, unless the hoof had become so 

 ;ed as of itself to make and keep the horse lame. 



Yours &c,, ZECHAEIAH CONE. 

 leia, September, 1840. 



e following ia tbo communication referred to.— 



Care for Ring Boue. 



Editor, — Are we not individually called upon, 

 wo become acquainted with any knowledge 

 by a more extended ditfusion will promote the 

 it and welfare of those around us, to make 

 !i the same to the public T 



ling this to be a duty, I would direct the atlen- 

 f all gentlemen who are raising horses to that 

 ising complaint, viz. the ring-bone. 

 ring in the early part of my life paid considera- 

 ention to the raising of horses, but finding them 

 t to so many complaints, and especially that of 

 ig bone, I was much discouraged in the enter- 

 and was led to ascertain, if possible, the causes 

 t complaint, and if any remedy could be found, 

 all the information that I could obtain from dif- 

 autbors on the subject, and from my own exper- 

 al knowledge of the complaint, I was led to con- 

 that there were various causes for the complaint 

 Icnlts which are kept confined in a stable, and 

 or cleaned off daily, are more liable to be affect- i 

 ih ring-bones, than those that aro kept on the 



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ground or on floors well littered. Low keeping, by 

 weakening the joints, has a tendency to produce them. 

 In young horses they are generally occasioned by 

 sprains, which are made by being rode or drove too 

 hard, running in the pasture, or leaping fences. 



After hearing the above statement as to the causes, 

 the reader may with propriety inquire, what compo- 

 ses the ling-bono, and whence does it originate ? In 

 answer to this inquiry — I have found it to be compo- 

 sed of the synovia or juices of the ankle or fetlock 

 joint, which* by some of the forementioned causes, is 

 made to flow or leak from the joint, and is at first col- 

 lected into a small sack in the back part of the fetlock 

 joint ; from thence it is conveyed by two small tubes 

 to each side of the foot, where it gradually forms the 

 callous or ring-bone. 



For the last thirty years I have been in the habit of 

 successfully performing an operation, which prevents 

 the ring-bone from increasing in size, and if not lame 

 previous to the operation, the animal never alter be- 

 comes lame in consequence of the ring-bone ; but if 

 lame before the operation is performed, a period of 

 from one to twelve months is required for their recov. 

 ery, much depending on the length of time which 

 they have been lame. 



The operation is performed in the following man- 

 ner. I first shear oH'the fetlock, then make an inci- 

 sion through the skin and extract the sack above men- 

 tioned, at the same time taking care to destroy the 

 communication from the joint to the ring-bone. 



If the aforesaid operation is performed skilfully, the 

 horse is as fit for use in one week as before. 



ZECHARIAH CONE. 



Hebron, Conn., March26, 1838. 



Keimirks. — Dr. Willich says, where the tumefied 

 part is distinctly perceivable round the pastern, with- 

 out affecting the coffin joint, it is easily cured, but if 

 the swelling be of long continuance, and has become 

 hard, it may require both " blistering and firing," i. e. 

 searing with a hot iron — Extend a mild blister over 

 the cauterized part Cultiratur. 



Another. 



Messrs. Editors — In answer to the inquiry of Joel 

 P. Burnett, relative to a Ring Bjne on his horse, I 

 would reply, that if a Ring Bine is observed in its in 

 cipient state, a blister is usually of service ; but if of 

 longstanding and large, the actual cautery is also ne- 

 cessary. If the disease has proceeded so far as to cause 

 a stiff joint, there is no chance for recovery. 



A SUBSCRIBER. 



Split Rock, U. v., September, 1840. 



Another. 



Messrs. Thomas &. Bateham — I observed in your 

 last paper an inquiry for a cure for Ring Bone on hor- 

 ses. 

 Take one ounce Sweet Oil, 

 One " Oil of Spikes, 

 One " Oil of Stones, 

 One " Oil of Vitriol, 

 One " Aquafortis ; 

 Put the first three into an iron or earthern vesse! ; then 

 pour the others in slowly, stirring it constantly, (oth 

 erwise it will foam over, ) until it is well mixed. Rub 

 the composition on the Ring Bone three successive 

 mornings, then omit three, and repeat it three more ; 

 so on for three times or nine applications, and it will 

 in mpst cases effect a cure. The horse should not be 

 used for some time, nor exposed to wot. 



The above recipe will also cure spavins and wind 

 galls. D. WILSON, P. M. 



River Slyz, Ohio. 



Preserving Winter Apples. 



Wo believe the secret of preserving winter apples, 

 depends greatly upon doing erery thing well, as well 

 as upon the mode. 



As preserving them in barrels, ie genoratiy found 

 most convenient; a few suggestions under this head 

 may not be mjacjceptable. 



The fruit should remain on the trees as long as safety 

 will permit— generaliy till near the close of the month 

 — when it should be very carefully picked by hand, 

 by means of convenient ladders, and as carpfully tajj 



'n baskets. Rotting generally commences at bruises ; 

 great care should therefore be taken that the fruit 

 docs not receive the least contusion. They are to be 

 carefully laid in the barrels, very gently shaken down, 

 and when the head is put in, it should press upon 

 them sufficiently to prevent all rattling when the bar- 

 rels arc removed. This pressure never injures them 

 nor causes them to rot, if the barrels are not openo 

 before the apples are needed for use. A layer of straw 

 is found to do more injury than good. The barrels 

 should then be placed on the north side of a building, 

 or the coolest place to be obtained, protected from 

 rain by boards, until the approach of very severe wea- 

 ther, when they are removed to the cellar, where they 

 should remain undisturbed until needed for use. The 

 cooler apples can be kept without freezing, the les, 

 liable are they to decay. * 



t'olorof Cows--Inquiry. 



Mkssrs. Editors — You are probably aware that a 

 deep red color is considered the best for milch cows. 

 Now, do you think that the color has any effect on the 

 quality of cows ? A few remarks on this subject by 

 those who can throw any light upon it, may intured 



more than ONE OF YOUR REA UERS. 



Warming Houses. 



There is much popular ignorance prevailing on the 

 subject of warming houses both among the English 

 and Anglo Americans. One would have thought 

 that the experiments of such men as Franklin ond 

 Rumfoi-d would have dispelled the illusions about peo- 

 ple being more liable to catch cold when a regular and 

 uniform heat is kept up in their apartments, than 

 when these are traversed by currents from doors, win- 

 dows, and every crevice, ail rushing towards an open 

 fire. But prejudices are hard to be overcome — the 

 more 8oindeed,the more beneficial theirabandonment. 

 It we were reodily made hardier, and acquired exemp- 

 tion from the complaints eo common in our variable 

 climate, during the autumn, winterandspring months, 

 by the common practice of using open fires, — single 

 windows and doors, we might give up the comfort of 

 the opposition plan; but no such good follows our ex- 

 posure: no frame, however vigorous, is exempt from 

 the aeaoults of streams of cold air in our houses, — This 

 is not however, a matter of theory, or to be argued 

 from individual experience. — National usage, in iho 

 coldest climates in Europe, is decisive on this point. — 

 The Russian Finlanders, and Swedes of oil classes, 

 are not ashamed to keep up nearly a summer heat in 

 their houses during the winter months — they have no 

 fears of being colled etTcminale. On the contrary, al- 

 lege that in sallying out fr..ni their bouses into the ex- 

 ternal frosty air, they are oble to bear and even enjoy 

 this kind of exposure, or oir bath, the better from their 

 previous warmth — precisely for the some reason that a 

 person with a vigorous circulation of the blood and hot 

 skin, is better enabled to hear the shock of a cold bath. 

 In the opposite circumstances, of immersion in cold 

 air or cold water, when a person is chilly ana with 

 pale sUiii, as when coming out from a cold room and 

 imperfectly clad, he will siifter greatly, and be less able 

 to resist the secondary and morbid eft'ecls of cold. — 

 Rumford declares that, notwithstanding his fiist pre- 

 judices against stove heat, he found from on experi- 

 ence of twelve year's residence in Germany, not only 

 that warm rooms were more comfortable in winter, 

 but certainly tended to the preservation of health. — 

 Journal of Health. 



Seed of the Wild Kice."-('Zi:onia<i}i(aWM.j 

 There was considerable inquiry, last spring, in dif- 

 ferent agricultural papers, for seed of the Wild Rice. 

 We have succeeded in obtaining some of this seed, 

 ond shall be happy to distribute it to such friends as de- 

 sire to experiment with it. 



Some sportsmen of this city sent to Canada ond ob- 

 tained several bushels of this teed, to sow on the bays 

 and marshes near Lake Ontario, to raise food for wild 

 ducks and geese, and attract game to this vicinity. 



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