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THE ILLmOIS FAKMEK. 



July 



Remedy for Boise and Blood Spavin. — Here- 

 with I send )'ou a recipe for a blistering ointment 

 •which I have tried with success both on blood 

 and bone spavinii, and many other ills that horse- 

 flesh is heir to. I have found it a very valuable 

 remedy, and one I would not be deprived of for a 

 great deal — it is perfectly safe, does not prevent 

 the growth of hair, nor require that the animal 

 should rest under its application. Pulverized can- 

 tharides 1 oz ; oil origanum 2 oz ; Venice turpen- 

 tine 4 oz ; oil sassafras 2 oz. Soalt well and ap- 

 ply freely on the spavin. One or two applications 

 will cause a sore, and it will be necessary to desist 

 until it heals, when the application must be re- 

 newed, and repeated until cure is effected. The 

 remedy is perfectly safe, and will be effectual if 

 persevered in. — Oor. Rural N. Yorker. 



About Sheep. — We find more Merino sheep up- 

 on hills than others ; and tliat is the place for 

 them. They are short nihblers and good little 

 climbers. A large sheep asscends a hill with more 

 difficulty, and has a larger mouth. Such a nheep, 

 like cattle, you want on a rich, level, or rolling 

 soil. Our prairies are fitted exactly for such a 

 sheep. But, then, the Merino will do equally well 

 here. For wool, let us again urge the Merino ; for 

 mutton, the long-wooled. The South Down is a 

 hardy sheep and an excellent nurse, which is an 

 excellent point. The Leicesters (we are now 

 speaking of the long-wooled) are more delicate. 

 The Oxfordshire seems to combine most of the de- 

 sirable qualities of this kind of sheep. It does 

 well for wool, well for mutton, and well for raising 

 lambs. It is the best for a general sheep, where 

 but one kind is kept. 



may bo used instead 

 all the pioperties of 



The Use of Lime. — Lime 

 of manure, as it has nearly 



manure. It is one of the most efflcieni aids the 

 farmer has. But it cannot always be used, because 

 it is not always found in the locality, and to trans- 

 port it from a distance, makes it costly. 



Let farmers, then, always bear in mind that 

 lime is a manure; and let tliem bear another thing 

 in mind, that lime has properties valuable to the 

 farmer which manure has not. Lime sweetens 

 your sour, wet soils ; it is an enemy to sorrel ; it 

 adds mealiness and sweetness to potntocs and 

 roots : it strengthens and brightens the straw of 

 your grain, which lodges the less in consequence ; 

 and it lasts for years without a lenewal. 



A hundred bushels of lime to the acre, on soil 

 that never has been limed, is the general rule. But 

 often much more is used, and oftener much less — 

 too little. 



Croup. — Dissolve half a teaspoonful of ipecac, 

 in half a tea cup of warm water. Sweeten it, and 

 give a half or a whole teaspoonful, according to 

 the age, until vomiting is produced; then give it 

 in smaller quantities, and less frequently. Wrap 

 up the child to promote perspiration, bathe the 

 throat with volatile liniment, or tobacco ointment. 

 The above will give relief in a short time, if taken 

 in season. Onion juice and molasses may be given 

 to vomit, but there should be no delay. It is 

 known by a peculiar whistling sound in the breath- 

 ing, and if neglected at all, proves fatal. 



Illegal Saxe or Game. — An interesting case 

 was before the New York Common Pleas Court a 

 few days since. It was that of Lawrence vs. Far- 

 rington. An appeal from a judgment of $120 ob- 

 tained against the defendant, a market man on 

 Broiidway, near Twentieth street, by the plaintiflF, 

 who is a member of the New York Sportsman's 

 Club, for exposing for sale two dozen quails con- 

 trary to law. 



The grounds of appeal were that the law for the 

 preservation of game, passed April 23, 1862, was 

 unconstitutional, as it creates a penalty for the 

 possession of merchandise ; also that it being 

 shown that the quails exposed for sale were killed 

 in Illinois, the penalty should not apply in this 

 State. 



The court held the law to be constitutional, it 

 being deemed necessary for the preservation of 

 birds to iiuiko the possession of them as well as the 

 killing, illegal, and that the defendant must show 

 that the birds were killed in Illinois at the time 

 when it was not illegal to kill them by the laws of 

 that State. 



Cutting and Curing Clover. — Clover ahould be 

 cut immediately after blossoming and before the 

 seed is formed. It should be cured in such a man- 

 ner as to lose as little of its foliage as possible, and 

 therefore cannot be treated exactly as the natural 

 grasses are. It should not be long exposed to the 

 scorching sun, but after being wilted and partially 

 dried, it should be forked up into cocks and left 

 to euro in this position. The fourth or fifth day, 

 when the weather is fair and warm, open and air 

 it an hour or two, and it will then be fit to cart to 

 the barn. 



Clover cured in this way without loss of its foli- 

 age, is better for milch cows and for sheep than 

 any other hay. It may also be fed_^'to horses that 

 are not hard worked, or to young stock, but it is 

 iiiost valuable for cows in milk. For other farm 

 stock it is worth from two-thirds to three-fourths 

 as much^s the best hay. — Manuel of Agriculture. 



Smoky Chimneys. — A correspondent of the "Lon- 

 don Builder" gives the following cure for a great 

 and common evil : 



"A smoky chimney and a scolding wife are two 

 of the worst evils of domestic life, says an old 

 proverb, and to obviate the first evil, ingenuity is 

 ever racking its brain. Hence, Regent street and 

 every part of the metropolis has its house tops 

 bristling with pipes, and deformed by cowls of 

 every conceivable variety. Now, I have built 

 many chimneys, in all possible situations, and 

 found one simple plan everywhere succeeded, the 

 secret being only to construct the throat of the 

 chimney, or the part just above the fire-place, so 

 small that man or boy can barely pass through it. 

 Immediately above the chimney should be enlarged 

 to double its width, like a purse, to the extent of 

 about two feet in height, and then diminish again 

 to the usual proportions. No chimney that I ever 

 constructed thus, smoked. 



Gigantic Australian Tree. — In a gorge on the 

 declivity of the Mount Wellington range, near To- 

 losso, about six miles from Hobart Town, a tree of 

 the blue gum species was found ,to be 84 feet in 

 circumference. 



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