proceedings of the farmers' club. 37 



Opium Poppy. 



Mr. A. 1!. Mills, :Mi.Mlrl.iiry, Vt., says that " the socd rlistrilmt<Ml l.y J. 

 Stork, Cow iitryvillo, dt) not pidduce the oiiimn poppy, but most bciiutitul 

 llowcrs, wliil<' the Teal opium poppy ilower has no beauty. Tlie seed ciip- 

 sule of the hitter is as liir<>;e as a good sized hen's eg<^. The two plants 

 are as uidike as crab apples and pound sweetinj^^s." The Club will proba- 

 bly be able to distribute seed next year, as some seed sent by Mr. Mills — 

 all he had — has hvvu planted by one of the members. 



Mr. Wfii. K. I'rince. — The opium {loppy, about which imiuiries are mad(;, 

 is not a handsome flowering sort. The flower is white, single, not large, 

 but tlie seed bulb is larger than the double-flowering sort. The seed can 

 lie obtained at seed-stores, or at apothecaries' shops, where the heads are 

 kept for sale for medicinal purposes. 



Apple Trees for Fence-posts. 



Mr. 0. W. Stebbens, N. Y., writes as follows : "As an item of useful 

 information, I will describe a fence of which apple-trees serve as posts, 

 which has been perfected by Mr. Foy of the Chatauqua County Nurseries. 

 A board fence is made in the usual manner, except that the boards are 

 miiled to light pieces of cheap timber in place of posts, and being set upon 

 Hat stones, the whole is fastened by means of hooks and staples. This 

 makes not only a strong and durable fence, but also a profitable one, as we 

 may reasonably expect each post to furnish five or ten bushels of apples in 

 a season." 



Cure for Scratches in Horses. 



Gardner Griffith, Iowa City, says: "This disease may be speedily and 

 thoroiighly cured by shaving closely, but not so closely as to draw the 

 blood, the warty bunches on the. inside of the legs called castors I think. 

 I have tried it with perfect success after failing to effect a cure by the use 

 of the usual remedies. I make no claims to horse philosophy, but will sug- 

 gest that these castors serve as an outlet for matter necessary to be dis- 

 charged, and whtfii their pores become closed, as they probably do some- 

 times in muddy travt-lling, tliis matter seeking an outlet causes tliose'cracks 

 about the hoof called the scratches." 



Mr. W. 8. Carpenter stated that white-footed horses are much more liable 

 to this disease than black ones. 



Potato Experiment. 



Mr. .1. W. lieland, Baltimore, Vt., makes the following statement : "In 

 1862 I put some potatoes on a plot of grass ground, covering them with 

 mulch to the depth of three or four inches, and they grew and produced 

 bulbs to the size of hen's eggs, and about as white. In 1863 I planted 

 them in the centre of a potato patch, and the result was, at digging time, 

 tho.se <lo5cribed above produced potatoes perfectly sound and good, wliile 

 others in the same neighborhood were badly affected with rot. As the 

 experiment is very easy of trial, I would reccominend to the farmers to try 



