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gorged vessels of the inflamed membrane. The 

 whitish or sometimes yellowish appearance, de- 

 pends upon the effusion of coagulated lymph 

 deposited during the acute stage of the disease. 

 Wnen the absorption of this does not progress 

 freely, and the eye fails to assume its accustomed 

 lustre and transparency, I blister a semicircle 

 below the eye, one and a half inches in diame- 

 ter, by applying daily with the point of the 

 finger, a mixture of three parts of the common 

 blistering preparation as obtained from the drug- 

 gists, and one part Venice turpentine. Some- 

 times the other membranes of the organ become 

 diseased from similar causes, to remedy which, 

 the foregoing treatment as detailed will be ap- 

 plicable. Care should be observed in not too 

 suddenly exposing the patient to a strong light, 

 high food, or active service. 



" Thus I have given you, as our Buckeyes 

 term the science, a chapter on ' horse-doctoring/ 

 and if you perceive any thing in it that will re- 

 pay you for the trouble, you are at liberty to 

 publish it, with the promise, if it meets your 

 approbation, of resuming the subject in some 

 future number. 



Andrew Campbell, M. D. 

 Middletown, Ohio, February, 1843." 



American Agriculturist. 



For the Southern Planter. 



Wood Lawn Farm, Orange, May 4, 1843. 



Messrs. Editors, — There is not a more palpa- 

 ble truism in all the pages of the Southern 

 Planter, than the following sentiment given in 

 your April number from a western paper : "After 

 the imagination is completely exhausted in eu- 

 logizing the various products of mother earth, 

 there is nothing to be compared to the old-fash- 

 ioned blue grass for permanent pasture." Now, 

 gentleman, as you have hoisted this flag, permit 

 a recent and humble patron to urge upon you 

 to nail it for a season to your editorial mast-head, 

 for if we can get this invaluable grass to take 

 permanent hold upon our soil, it will be worth 

 more to the agricultural interest of our division 

 of the Commonwealth, than all the theories of 

 agricultural chemistry, from professor " Liebig," 

 and the essays from Loudoun's encyclopoedia 

 put together. If we can get such a friend to 

 stick with us, either upon the virgin soil of our 

 protected forest when freed from its unprofitable 

 undergrowth, or upon our river bottoms, the tide 

 of emigration would soon cease to set its face 

 to the setting sun. It is worth the trial — then 

 to give you an earnest of the willingness with 

 which I will commence a little experiment upon 

 a tributary of the York, I will become (if you 

 can procure it) a purchaser of a half bushel 

 clean seed if they are "sound and fresh, pro- 

 vided it can be gotten under $1 a bushel, by the 



first of next January. I am emboldened to 

 make this experiment from the luxuriant turf of 

 it I find about my garden walks, as well as 

 other uncultivated spots about my farm. 



I agree with you, that the great defect in our 

 farming system " consists in too much tillage, and 

 too little pasturage," Then, gentlemen, fly the 

 blue grass flag, and get others to try its culture 

 too. 



Respectfully your obedient servant, 



P. Scales. 



We think we have done the State some ser- 

 vice if we have been the means of inducing 

 even one gentleman to make a fair experiment 

 with this valuable grass. We will do our best 

 to obtain the seed for Mr. Scales, and hope to 

 procure it for much less than ten dollars a bushel. 



ENGLISH AGRICULTURE. 



Whatever opinion we may form of Britain, 

 her pride, arrogance, insolence, presumption, va- 

 nity — faults, too, that will have to be amended 

 within ten years by the compulsory process of 

 a general alliance of nations against her — yet 

 we must all confess that her agriculture is the 

 most stupendous thing under heaven ! When 

 it is remembered that the crop of turnips 

 grown in Norfolk alone is greater than the value 

 of her trade with China; that the market price 

 of geese brought from the Lincolnshire fens is 

 more than her trade with Denmark; that you 

 shall see, as a common thing, a hundred acres 

 of turnips, or a hundred acres of beans, or thirty 

 acres of cabbage in a single field — a farm of 

 three hundred acres all mown, or a farm of the 

 same size, (three hundred acres) all in crops — 

 the live stock on a single farm worth $50,010 — 

 twenty horses emploj^ed on one farm every 

 working day in the j'ear, and by means of thrice 

 ploughing, (heavy clays,) turning nine hundred 

 acres in a single year — I say, when this is re- 

 membered, it will be seen that " great" as Bri- 

 tain is in every thing, the superlative degree of 

 greatness is in her agriculture — in her soil, na- 

 turally poor, but made rich by the application 

 of capital and unwearied assiduity, good sense 

 and enterprise. While in this country we fail 

 most from the want of capital, and from the cir- 

 cumstance that agriculture does not rank as an 

 emploj^ment with others (especially with tiade 

 it is not valued) as it ought to be. The Eng- 

 lish contend that it was never so valued in a 

 democratic country ; agriculture being, in their 

 estimation, substantially an aristocratic employ- 

 ment ; and it must be confessed that this is true 

 of England. To be wanting in the dignity 

 conferred by landed possessions, is to want that 

 which conducts to the highest offices and the 

 most exclusive society. The term country gen- 



