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and clubs of farmers, was landed in Richmond 

 and sent off into the country without passing 

 through the hands of our merchants. Com- 

 puting the whole together, it is supposed that 

 3000 tons were received at Richmond during 

 the twelve months. 



We have no report from the office at Pe- 

 tersburg—Thomas S. Pleasants, Inspector. — 

 We should be happy to hear from our friends 

 of the "South side" generally upon that and 

 other subjects. 



CURE FOR A FOUNDERED HORSE. 



Some three years since, I had the mis- 

 fortune to founder a valuable horse. It 

 was a corn founder of the worst kind — so 

 much so that he could not take a step. — 

 Having had but little experience in horse 

 flesh, I called in some neighbors, and they 

 pronounced him incurable, and advised me 

 to knock him in the head, as the speediest 

 cure. I could not bear the thought of giv- 

 ing up so valuable and faithful an animal, 

 and as the last, resource, I applied to my 

 "Book Farming," In an old number of 

 the American Farmer, I found the following 

 recipe for foundered horses and although 

 my faith was weak, I immediately applied 

 the remedy with entire success: 



"Have a tub of water as near boiling 

 hot as possible, and commence bathing his 

 legs, beginning at the fetlock and go up, 

 for if the hot water is applied above it the 

 hair will be taken off. When the leg 

 which is foundered has been well bathed, 

 wrap it in woollen blankets, and tie the 

 blanket on carefully, and then saturate the 

 blanket with hot water, beginning at the 

 bottom and go up. Repeat the hot water 

 once in two hours, until the swelling begins 

 to go down. Give the horse a ] urge of 

 sage tea, molasses and melted lard, say a 

 pint of each; and should it be a bad case 

 bleed him in the neck." 



As mine was a bad case, I followed all 

 the directions implicitly, notwithstanding 

 the oft repeated assertions of the man that 

 applied the water, that the hair would all 

 be taken off, I had the satisfaction to see 

 my horse speedily recover. 



This invaluable remedy I might have 

 never given to the public, had not the same 

 been again foundered and again cured by 

 the same simple remedy. But for the 

 American Farmer I should have lost my 

 horse. 



WHITENESS IN FLOUR. 



We extract the following from a letter pub- 

 lished in the Alabama Planter. The writer, 

 having enumerated and described many of the 

 diseases of wheat, speaks thus of the injury 

 caused to flour by improper management of 

 the wheat: f This deficiency of whiteness, and 

 peculiar fishy-like smell, are very apt to tell 

 the intending purchaser the black origin of 

 this defect has been from wheat diseased with 

 smut. There is no cure for this after the grain 

 is ground into flour. As flour, it is seen and 

 detested by every body, for every body sees it. 

 and if eaten when made into bread, certainly 

 proves unwholesome." 



RICHMOND AND FREDERICKSBURG 

 DEPOT. 



It will be remembered that the old depot of 

 the Richmond and Fredericksburg Rail Road 

 Company was burned last December, and with 

 it several thousand bushels of wheat, &c. — 

 The occurrence of the fire, as is known, did 

 not interrupt transportation or delay the de- 

 parture of a single train. Since the fire the 

 depot has been rebuilt, and is now of more 

 thorough construction, and to all intents and 

 purposes fire-proof. The losses by the fire 

 have, we understand, been adjusted, and the 

 arrangements now in force will render a simi- 

 lar casualty the next thing to an impossibility. 



IMPROVED STOCK. 



In our advertising columns will be found an 

 advertisement from Mr. Aaron Clement, re- 

 siding in Cedar Street, above Ninth, Philadel- 

 phia, offering his services to the purchasers of 

 improved stock. Mr. C.'s references in this 

 community are men of undoubted character 

 and judgment. 



And whilst on this subject, we take occasion 

 to inform such of our friends as may be in 

 want of an improved breed of hogs that they 

 can obtain some of the " Bedford" stock at 

 General Richardson's farm, near this city. — 

 This is the stock originally bred with so much 

 care and such success at Woburn Abbey. — 

 They would take a premium over anything 

 exhibited in Baltimore last fall. 



