THE SOUTHERN PLANTER. 



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remarked, it renders the necessary quan- 

 The remedy I ordered is not precisely 

 per se chemically ; but I am not certain 

 that the decomposition occurring (in the 

 animal's stomach,) when the different in- 

 gredients unite, may not be more benefi- 

 cial, or of some service ; at all events, it 

 has apparently answered an excellent pur- 

 pose. I herewith annex the formula I have 

 used, hoping it may be as beneficial to the 

 many, as it has been to the few : — 



Recipe. — Ferri Sulph. lb. j. (Copperas, 

 1 pound.) 



Potassae Nitrates, lb. j. (Saltpetre, 1 

 pound.) 



Zingiber Pulv. lb. ss. (Ginger \ pound.) 



Grind, or otherwise finely pulverize the 

 iron and potash, then add the ginger. 

 Give to each animal a teaspoonful every 

 day when bad, or once in two or three 

 days, if used as a preventative. 



I think it is rather better to give the 

 medicine in dry meal or bran, than to give 

 it in slop, although many have thus fed it. 

 It will be of little or no service to small 

 pigs, and probably of little benefit to 

 breeding sows, enciente, and possibly an 

 injury. 



While speaking of the benefits derived 

 from Sulph. Ferri and Nit. Potassae to 

 hogs, it may be of service to some of 

 your readers to know that equal parts of 

 those two substances, given in table- 

 spoonful doses, once per day, or once 

 every second day, to cattle afflicted with 

 the disease known as " hollow horn," are 

 of very great service in restoring them to 

 health. 



The disease is readily detected by open- 

 ing the animal's mouth and examining the 

 condition of the teeth. If the front teeth 

 are found to be loose, so as to be readily 

 moved back and forward — the outer end 

 of the teeth only — there need be no dis- 

 pute about the disease being that generally 

 known as " hollow horn," and the above 

 remedy will ordinarily restore the ani- 

 mal's appetite in three, four, or five days, 

 and put. it in a good condition for rapidly 

 improving. Yours respectfully," 



THOS. W. GORDON, M. D. 



P. S. — We have men among us who 

 think paying any attention to the lower 

 animals, decidedly out of taste, and per- 

 haps out of caste, for a physician. Those 

 men are usually called physicians, al- , 



though, in many instances, they have not 

 studied long enough to scarcely yet know 

 the names of the bones composing the 

 human skeleton. It is far beneath their 

 dignity to prescribe for any animal whose 

 capacity for knowledge is not fully equal 

 to their own ; and I am inclined to the be- 

 lief that the hogs, horses, and cattle, are 

 really gainers by the self-incumbent digni- 

 ty of such gentlemen, though bipeds may 

 suffer. They laugh at a prescription for a 

 hog; but my motive in life has been, and 

 is, to do all I can to ameliorate the condi- 

 tion of my fellow men, and when I can 

 save their property, never to neglect what 

 to me is a duty. Yours, 



GORDON. 



Mr. Everett's Eemarks on the Horse at 

 the late Springfield Fair. 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen : — 

 I believe one of the exploits of the distin- 

 guished person to whom my friend Ash- 

 mun has alluded, is to make the animals 

 that are submitted to him lie down and go 

 to sleep. [Applause and laughter.] I 

 hope, sir, that my speaking, whatever 

 other effect it might have, will not pro- 

 duce that. * * * # * 



Sir, it is perplexing, it is almost painful 

 to consider what high degrees of intellec- 

 tual and moral power are evinced by ani- 

 mals whom w r e profanely call brute beasts. 

 I suppose it was a reflection on these 

 noble qualities of the horse, intellectual 

 and moral, that led the wittiest, the bitter- 

 est, and, I am sorry to say, the filthiest of 

 the satirists of our language — I mean 

 Dean Swift — in that remarkable romance 

 of his, the most fascinating as the most 

 revolting of books, to represent the horse, 

 under that unpronounceable name which 

 he gives him, as the wiser, the more saga- 

 cious, the nobler animal, and to describe 

 the human race, under the disgusting 

 character of Yahoo, as an inferior order of 

 beings. I don't know, sir, but you will 

 rather think it beneath the dignity of the 

 occasion to allude to such a book as Gul- 

 liver's Travels, and yet it does contain, 

 among many most instructive remarks, 

 one of those passages into which the wis- 

 dom of ages is condensed in a single sen- 

 tence, and which is more often quoted, at 

 least part, of it, at all agricultural and rural 

 shows, than perhaps any other in the 



