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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[July, 
Kicking, Jumping, and Running Cattle. 
Horses, cows and other cattle may be perfect- 
ly controlled from kicldiig and jumping by the 
arrangement -which -we figure. A description 
is sent to the Afjrkulturist by Wait M. Myers, 
of Oneida Co., N. Y., who has found it a sure 
remedy for the excentricities named. AVe figure 
it as applied io a cow, but tliesame arrangement 
may be put upon a horse ; and it interferes ■with 
no desirable motion. A stout strap I'l^ inches 
wide goes around the neck, and is connected by 
a still stronger one, 3 inches or more in width, 
to a small pulley under the brisket, through 
which a rope is rove, each end of which is 
made fust to fetters, or to hobble-straps above 
the fetlock. A girt strap simply holds up the 
pulley. " When tlie animal stands square on 
her feet," says Mr. M,, "the rope must be \>\\\- 
led taut ; and when all is riglit, she can walk or 
trot as well as ever, but she cannot kick with 
one foot, nor with both, nor can she jump over 
a fence three feet high to save her life." 
It is obvious also, that an animal in this 
harness cannot run, for both hind feet cannot 
be moved backward at the same time. This 
contrivance is not new, but has long been used 
for breaking colts and controlling their action. 
Such things, however, except in cases of in- 
veterate and obstinate kickers, or runners, do 
more harm than good. If a colt can be in- 
fluenced by kindness and so broken, ha makes a 
much better horse than one controlled liy main 
force. This affair will not prevent that kind of 
kicking wliich knocks over the milk-pail, but 
only that most disagreeable and dangerous kick- 
ing back and sideways which some cows do. 
¥ig 1.— SECTION LENGTUWISE THE blALI 
Plan for Horse Stall. 
Mr. A. W. Darrow, a Maine former, sends to 
the Agriculturist the following, which he has 
in use, and recommends from his experience : 
"I enclose a sketch of a horse stall, which I 
have used in my stable for the last six months. 
The plan is original witli me. It is not patent- 
ed, and I hope the public will not appreciate it 
less on that account. [The following refer- 
ences to the diagrams will enable the plan to be 
readily . understood, especially if the reader 
will apply a scale of one-quarter of an inch 
to the foot.— ^, B, C, feed box ; D, grate ; E, 
platform; F, hinges attaching grate frame to 
lilatfonn ; H H, grate sujiports ; K, frame in 
wliich the grate bars are set ; M, M, sides of 
stall ; JV, head of stall ; 0, end-bars of grate im- 
movably attached to K, K, and forming part of 
the grate frame; P, position of grate when ele- 
vated to remove the droppings.] The grate has 
2-iuch bars and 2-incli spans, and the bars are 6 
inches deep, and 6 iuches space is belwen them 
and the floor. The droppings go through tlie 
grate, leaving it dry and clean. I have had 
hardly a stain to remove from my horse since 
using it, and no litter has been used. The bars 
being but two inches apart are as easy to the 
hoof as a plain floor. The droppings ma}' be 
drawn from beneath b_v a hoe or sci-aper, or the 
grate may be raised, as indicated in Fig. 1. I 
keep muck under the grate, and think I can 
better save both liquid and solid manure than 
SEEN FKOM ABOVE. 
3. CROSS SECTION. 
by bedding in the common way. It requires 
several days for the droppings to fill up the 
space beneath the grate. Hence the muck may 
be well saturated before removal." 
Chicken Medicine. 
It is very distressing to see our fiirm yard de- 
pendents suffering under any form of disease, 
and much more so when we see one after anoth- 
er droop and pine and die, while we are pow- 
erless to alleviate or remove the malady. In re- 
gard to the larger animals we can, in a measure, 
compare their symptoms with our own when 
we are sick. We have the pulse, the secretions 
and excretions, the warmth, moisture or dr}'ness 
of the skin, the breathing, and the various 
modes the terrestrial m.ammals have for showing 
acute suffering or dull disorder. With birds, 
however, the case is very different — they ilroop, 
hide themselves in dark corners, or in the bush- 
es, go through to us meaningless and rather fun- 
ny motions, walk sideways, twitch their heads 
one side, fall off their perches, grow lean, swell 
up about the e3'es or head, gape, sneeze, t.ake 
cramps — and so on — and as a general rule, no 
body can tell either the seat or nature of the 
disorder, any more than what will cure it. The 
importance of the poultry interest, and the daily 
increasing value of the stock in this countrj', 
leads us to call especial attention to this subject, 
so that poultry fanciers and breeders may com- 
pare notes and learn something about the dis- 
eases of poultry and their treatment. Whoever 
will contribute to our stock of knowledge, will 
place both editors and readers under obligations 
to him. Let the behavior of the fowls and all 
the symptoms be closely watched, as well as the 
effects of the treatment; observe also the char- 
acter of the soil, if wet, dry, clay or gravelly, and 
other surroundings. The disease described by 
a lady of Cambridge, Mass., in the following 
letter— for want of a better name we may call 
Vertigo. — " Being a great lover of a poultry 
3'ard, and having for many years kept hens, I 
have been troubled and grieved on seeing some 
of my best layers sicken and die, without being 
able to save them. Last summer, finding a ben 
that was perfectly well the day before, walking 
round and round, her head twitching, heart 
beating violently, skin hot, I thought I would 
try a new remedy, viz.: paregoric, of which 
I took a teaspoonful, a half teaspoonful of sul- 
phur, half teaspoonful of ludijin meal, and 
about four teaspoonfuls of water. I then put 
her in a basket of hay. Three times a day I 
gave her a little paregoric and water. The sul- 
phur operated on the bowels, and the ben was 
well in a few days. In November, I liad two' 
hens taken in the same way, their heads twitch- 
ing, hot, and drawn nearly over the back, I 
doctored them in the same wa}', and they got 
perfectly Avcll." 
The Pip.— Mr. D. S. Kimball, J]-., of Bergen 
Co., N. J., writes concerning this and other ail- 
ments: — " I have cured a great many chickens 
of the pip in the following way : The pip being 
caused by a small dark swelling on the tongue 
near the roots, and sometimes on the roots, I 
take a knife and remove the swelling, and rub 
on a little butter mixed with ground black pep-' 
per. I give them no greasy food, and keep those 
attacked entirely away from all the others, as I 
regard the disease very contagious. 
^'Lameness of fowls without any apparent 
cause, is often occasioned by the caking of the oil 
sack. This is shown by a hard crust on the top.* 
In such a case, wash the ujiper part of the rump 
witli warm water and castile soap. In case of 
"Loss of feathers, give fowls no warm food at all 
until thej' commence to cover again with down,' 
and be very careful in their feed until recovered.' 
"Hen Lice. — Seeing Kerosene recommended 
for the prevention of lice in fowls, I would say 
that the oil is good if sufficiently pure, but as it 
is not pure in one case out of fifty, it is often 
very injurious. I have found that the only pre- 
ventives not Injurious, and all that is needed to 
raise and keep fowls both clean and health}' are, 
first, and most important, have the hennery both 
light, clean, and warm. Do not overstock with 
roosters, as it tends to keep all weakly and lia- 
ble to disease. Give them plenty of good, sharp, 
clean gravel, warm food (not too warm), with a 
little animal food mixed v.-ith it occasion.ally, 
at all times fresh pure water, and lastly give 
them clean sassafras poles for their roosts." 
Charles Embrey, of Washington Co., Md., 
writes on the same subject : — " During the last 
summer my poultry and poultry-house seemed 
to swarm with vermin (hen lice) ; I lost several 
sitting hens in consequence. I tried as remedies, 
whitewash, sprinkling of lime, smoke, etc., to 
little or no purjiose, and concluded to try brim- 
stone. I got a stick or roll of about half a pound, 
drove the fowls out of the housc,burned the brim- 
stone, smoking the premises well. The experi- 
ment proved a success, I have had no trouble 
with vermin since; all seemed to disappear both 
from the fowls and the house." 
SxLMUL.'iNTS have often a very good effect on 
fowls. Cayenne pepper and jiepper corns, both 
are valuable mixed with their food, but ale and 
other malt liquor, or spirits, even undiluted, 
administered upon stale bread, have often a 
wonderfully good effect upon dumpish torpid 
birds, and upon those with colds, etc. Ale is 
best ; and may be given alone in severe cases. 
