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The antidote for Paris green poison is hydrated sesquioxyde of iron. 

 Nearly every druggist keeps it always on hand. If it cannot be bought, 

 it may be prepared thus : Dissolve copperas in hot water, keep warm, 

 and add nitric acid until the solution becomes yellow. Then pour in 

 ammonia water, common hartshorn, or a solution of carbonate of 

 ammonia, until a brown precipitate falls. Keep this precipitate moist, 

 and in a tightly corked bottle. A few spoonfulls taken soon after even 

 a bad case of poisoning with Paris green or arsenic is a perfect remedy. 

 Every farmer who uses Paris green for the bugs should keep this 

 medicine alwaj-s in his house. 



Mr. C. V. Kiley — What the professor has said about this beetle is 

 true. The poison of Paris green takes hold of some people worse 

 than others. I have been mixing it and sending it out for weeks, 

 but none of the men who handle it complain of its effects. It may 

 be mixed with ten or twenty times its bulk of plaster or wood ashes 

 or common flour, and a very little sifted on each hill will do the work. 

 The army of invasion is marching east. I hear of some in western 

 Pennsylvania. It will be on the Susquehanna and the Delaware in a 

 year or two. Forewarned is forearmed. Let farmers buy ten pounds 

 of this bright green powder while it is cheap, and keep it on some 

 top shelf in a tin case.^ If the destroyer comes, you can slay him in 

 one day's battle ; if he does not come, you can mix your Paris green 

 in oil and give your window-blinds a fresh coating. 



The Ped Cattle of New England. 



Mr. Jesse Harrington, Medina, Ohio — I am an old man, and have 

 had from boyhood some experience in the care of and the different 

 breeds of cows. I was born and brought up in west Vermont, where 

 the red cattle of New England and the parti-colored cattle of the 

 Dutch of the Hudson and Hoosic valleys came in contact, and the 

 dairymen soon found that the Dutch cows were far the best ; and why 

 should they not be, as, when the Knickerbockers and Van Twillers 

 brought them to New Netherland, they brought them from the best 

 dairy country in Europe, and they have since been highly improved, 

 as it mattered not whether a cow was brown, white-faced, limebarked 

 or brindled ; if she gave a good mess of good milk, and was gentle, 

 she was kept and bred from. After trying the large, improved breed, 

 I learned some things. One was, that two of the improved breed 

 would eat as much as three of the natives ; and that two of the natives 

 would give as much milk as three of the improved. Mr. Willard, in 

 his remarks before the Utica Dairymen's Convention, in deploring the 



