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THE ILLINOIS FARMER. 



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Shipmenit of fiigh-fired Stock to the United 

 Statei. 



We fin d the following announcement in 

 the Liverpool Mercary of Oct. 3: — 



Yesteniay, a collection of horses, &c., of 

 the choicest English breeds, was shipped at 

 this port for the United States in the ship 

 Baltic, C&vpt. Zerega, lying in the Bramley 

 Moore dock. The horses, numbering twelre 

 include two celebrated racers well known in 

 the sporting world, namely, Mickey Free 

 and Bonny Scotland, the latter brother to 

 Black Bonny ; a handsome Cleveland bay, a 

 Clydesdale draught horse and a small colt, 

 called Sir Tatton Sykes; the latter had it 

 remained in this country, would have been 

 entered for the Derby next year. There 

 was also a thorough-bred mare from the 

 stud of Sir Tatton Sykes, besides four 

 French horses of the most approved kind 

 for draught purposes. The horse Bonny 

 Scotland wai shipped by Mr. Bell, of the 

 Adelphi stables, for Capt. Cornish of New 

 York. Mr. Bell also forwarded a fine two 

 year old bull, called Defender, purchased 

 from R. C. Lowndes, Esq. of ^icehouse, 

 West Derby. Tlie bull is consigned to J. 

 J. Williams Esq. of Florida, United States. 

 All the animals, except those sent by Mr. 

 Bell, were selected and purchased in Eng- 

 land and France by Mr. Fullington, agent 

 to the Darby Plains importing company, 

 an association in America having for its 

 object the selection of prize cattle to be 

 employed in improving the breed of Ameri- 

 can stock. In the task of selection, Mr. 

 Fullington was assisted by Mr. Guy. Af- 

 ter :rei4ching New York, the cattle will be 

 forwarded immediately to the State ot Ohio 

 and offered for sale. The stock altogether 

 is of great value, some of the horsea being 

 valued as high as 1,000 guineas. Every 

 care has necessarily been taken to secure 

 the safe arrival of the stock at the port of 

 destination. The arrangements forthis pur- 

 pose, as well as for the shipment generally 

 have been under the direction of Mr. Bell 

 of the Adelphi stables, who has so frequent- 

 ly undertaken consignments of a similar 



kind intrusted to his charge. 



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Wolf Teeth and Hooks in Horses. 



BY PJIOF. CHARLES M. WOOD, V. S. 



Mr. Editor: — The Editors of certain 

 newspapers, in various parts of the country, 

 are accustomed to publish, occasionally, 

 recipes in their papers for the cure of dis- 

 eases in animals. Ib almost every case, such 



publications tend to do more hftrm than 

 good; for diseases are liable to be mistaken, 

 and a remedy for one disease may prove 

 the reverse for another. Bat sapposing 

 the disease to be accurately ascertained, in 

 too many instances the remedy proposed is 

 worse than the disease. 



These remarks have been proposed from 

 reading a recent number of the "Country 

 Gentleman." It was a reply to a com- 

 munication on "Wolf Teeth" in the mouths 

 of horses. The writer relates a case of 

 disease of the eye of a favorite yoang mare, 

 which, he says, cansed total blindness. He 

 luckily met with a person who informed him 

 that the cause was "wolf teeth;" and npoa 

 examination of the mouth of the animal, he 

 actually found a tooth adhering to the first 

 grinder on the side of the mouth opposite to 

 the eye affected. This excrescence was re- 

 moved with an iron bar and a kammer in a 

 moment, without any apparent pain to the 

 animal; and soon after the operation, (as he 

 says,) the eye became apparently cured. 

 But in a short time it showed strong signs 

 of the old difficulty. As no more wolf teeth 

 could be discovered in the mouth, the a»- 

 imal was thought to be doomed, so far as 

 all seeing was concerned. But seeking ad- 

 vice from a man skilled in all kinds of cases 

 to which horse flesh is liable, he pronomnced 

 it to be a heok! — not hook and eye; bat a 

 hook in the eye. This he called a fleshy 

 substance on the inside of the eyelid, tipped 

 witk a hard point, which scratcTies the eye- 

 ball, causing irritation, film, and consequent 

 blindness. We are then told, that this 

 "hoax" (for such it really is,) is more dif- 

 ficult to 136 removed than the extracting of 

 the woof toeth with a crow bar and ham- 

 mer. Next comes the mode ©f securing the 

 animal; and great caution is said to be 

 necessary to prevent the animal from start- 

 ing, as it might cause the operator's keife to 

 wound and ruin the eye. Then the animal 

 is made fast to a hole ia the side of a barn 

 — the head, covered with a blanket, sheald 

 be held firmly inside the barn by two men. 

 Then coaes the operation. The finger is 

 put between the hook and the eye-ball — the 

 hook resting upon the finger-nail — then, 

 with a small, keen blade, the hook is cat 

 oat as Bear the root as possible. The eye 

 thus wounded, he says, will be sore; and 

 we should think that there could be no 

 doubt of it. 



The animal, (as it appears,) had been 

 "hoaxed" three times, at intervals of from 

 six months to a year; yet, the writer is of 

 the opinion that one thorough operation 



