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to heal. Charcoal and brewers' yeast are good cleansa^ 

 of putrid sores, and ulcers, and are worthy of more exten- 

 sive use. 



Cheuopodiuin Authelmiuticum. — Wormseed. An 

 excellent remedy for worm^ in dogs. Drop from two to 

 five drops of the oil in a little soup, or give from ten to 

 twenty grains of the bruised seed, for four successive 

 nights, and then follow with a dose of castor-oil. 



Chlorine Gas. — Chlorine gas is prepared by pouring 

 hydrochloric acid on the black oxide of manganese, also 

 by heating sulphuric acid with common salt and the man- 

 ganese. 



Use. This gas is a disinfectant, and for this purpose 

 it is made and used as follows : Take an ounce or so 

 (depending upon the size of the place to be disinfected) 

 of black oxide of manganese, and hydrochloric acid of 

 sufficient quantity, carry them to the place where they are 

 to be used, pour the one into the other, and close the doors, 

 having first removed all the animals out of the place. A 

 spirit lamp, placed under the bottom of the vessel holding 

 the materials, will insure a greater volume of gas. (See 

 Disinfectants.) 



Chlorine, when sufficiently and properly used, is consi- 

 dered to be of great advantage in arresting the ravages 

 of glanders, farcy, and other distempers in the horse, of 

 pleuro-pnenmonia and contagious typhus in cattle, and 

 small-pox in sheep. It is to be hoped that farmers gene- 

 rally will provide themselves with proper apparatus for 

 this purpose. It will not cost above three dollars, and 

 consists of a small lamp with a stand so formed that a 

 small glass bottle, commonly called a Florence flask, can 

 8it right above the blaze of the lamp, while from its wid« 



