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TBE ILLINOIS PABMEE. 



THE GRAZIER 



Chareo&l for Slieep. 

 One of the best medicines for human be- 

 ings, is finely pulverized fresh charcoal, kept 

 corked in a close vial or jar ; one half of a 

 tea-spoonful mixed with five times its balk 

 of water, forming an agreeable and excel- 

 lent remedy for almost any kind of deranged 

 stomach, and in larger doses constituting a 

 very mild and perfectly safe laxative. 

 There is no doubt that the same remedy 

 would often prove of great service to domes- 

 tic animals. Although we have never seen 

 it tried, we confidently predict that halt a 

 pint to a pint of powdered charcoal, mixed 

 with two to four quarts of water, would 

 prove an admirable remedy for hoven in 

 cattle. We observe that a correspondent 

 of a late paper has used charcoal mixed 

 with salt for his sheep, with the best results; 

 he had found them to suffer much on west 

 pastures, until he made use of this remedy, 

 after which they immediately presented a 

 more healthful appearance. 



Care for tne "Stretches." 



Messrs. Tucker & Son: 



Since we have had the care of a flock of 

 Merino sheep, we have, during the winter 

 season, lost some of the best specimens of 

 the flock by this disease; and after using 

 most of the medicines recommended have 

 thought »he disease incurable. This winter 

 we were induced to make trial of ungroand 

 mustard seed in connection with castor oil. 

 We gave a tablespoouful of the seed, with a 

 little more than that quantity of oil well 

 mixed together, and in an hour or two the 

 animals were chewing their cud, and were 

 soon well. I informed a skillful sheep 

 breeder in this neighborhood, who had at 

 the time two desperate cases on hand. Tlie 

 mustard seed and oil was given with com- 

 plete success. The disease should be at- 

 tended to in its first stages; and in order to 

 be able to do this, the person who feeds the 

 flock should remain a while after feeding-, to 

 ascertain if any are off their feed, and show- 

 injc signs of sickness. We communicate 

 this matter to the "Cultivator," thinking it 

 may be opportunely for another winter, if 

 not this. CHARLES COLBY. 



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Hogs.— ^s was stated in the Courier yester- 

 day, the market for hogs for packing is flat, 

 with no buyers at any price with, in fact, no 

 price ofi'lered ThoMC who contracted some time 

 ago, will lose heavily, as cr.ntracts f(ir over 25,- 

 000 bogn were made here at 6.i to 6^ cents. — 

 Ziouiaville Courier, 14ik, 



AGRICULTURAL. 



Whiat and Chkss — Tb« following report 

 is relation to the examiBation of the proofs of- 

 fered by Mr. Davison, has been made by the 

 committee; and it wii> be seen tiiat tbe commit- 

 tee have decided to make a trial which it is 

 hoped will result in a satisfactory decision oo this 

 long agitated question. 



BooHESTSB, Aug. 24th, 1867. 

 B. P. JoHNioif, Esq.: 



The cenmittee appointed to make an examin- 

 ation of the proofs ot the traosmatation of 

 wheat into chess, have failed to fiud any abso- 

 lute or reliable facts to sustain that presamption; 

 and, ahbough the exhibitor, Samuel Davison, 

 Esq., of Greece, Monroe county, is a man in 

 whom all confidence can be placed, and the 

 proofs resting upon bis representation of the 

 manner by which it was produced, and an ex- 

 pectation of finding the attaebment of the 

 original wheat kereeT to the chesa sUi-a, which 

 was an entire failure, as the tarinaceous portion 

 of the berry was entirely decomposed, leaving 

 only the chaff and bran wholly unattached. 

 The roots of the chess ii no casa was attached 

 to the wheat stems or roots. 



The committee, consisting of Prof. Dewey, of 

 Rochester, John J. Thomas, of Union springs, 

 Cayuga county, and L B. Langworthy, of 

 (ireece, Monroe county, have resolved to in- 

 stitute the most stnngest tests of this mnch 

 mooted subject; each individual to have an ex- 

 ptriment in charge, and to follow the directions 

 ot Mr. Duvison after preparing the earth in the 

 following manner: 



A water tight box, 12 to 18 inches square 6 

 inches deep, is to be (iiled with any good loamy 

 wheat soil wliieti lias been boiled with water 

 one hour, to destruv all vegetable vitality, when 

 a given cumber of wheat grains are to be plant- 

 ed after some matherautical diagram, known 

 only to the person trying the experiment, to 

 guard against any possible outside interference 

 by introjlucing 1 he seeds of ches?. After whif-b 

 they are to follow, implicitly, the directions of 

 of the proposer and report to the State Society. 

 (.'. DEWEY, 

 J. J. 1 HOMAS, 

 L. B. LANGWORTHY. 



Stram Plows — It is interesting at this sea- 

 son o."" Agricultural Fairs to notice what they are 

 doing abroac in the way of agricultural pro- 

 gre.«s; and we have, therefore, engraved a pic- 

 ture of the trial of Boydell s steam plow, which 

 has lately taken place in Lincbliishire, England. 



It consists of a locomotive with wheels not 

 fashioned for a groove, but adapted for lerel 

 or unevrn ground, and capable of being steered 

 with the same .facility as a boat. Mr. Boydell's 

 men drove it down the road near Louth as 

 ea ily as one might rfrive a cart, and made a 

 sharp turn into the fSfld on which their exper- 

 iments took place. 



To this •'steam-horse," as it seens to be 

 usually called, three double-breasted wheol 

 plows were yoked, and worked 



