SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
47 
Bi.ACK TONGUE IN CATTEE. 
As the danger of a recurrence of this very troublesome 
and fatal disease is not yet over, we append the following 
from the American Veterinary Journal — most excellent 
authority: 
“The cause of this malignant disease does not seem to 
have been yet ascertained, though by many it is aitri 
buted to the rust, which, in various parts of the Southern 
States, as elsewhere, has affected the grain crops, and it 
is said in some pi ices the grass also. The cattle are at- 
tacked by a stiffness, and walk as though foundered; 
white froth is discharged in large quantities from the 
mouth — they can eat nothing, fall away rapidly, and the 
tongue and gums become dreadfully swollen and turn 
black, and death speedily releases them from their 
agony.” 
“The rapid progress which usually attends this dreadful 
epizootic, calls for prompt and energetic treatment. It is 
evidently a congestive disease, and very apt to run into 
typhoid stage and end in suddden death. The moment 
an animal is suspected to be the subject of this malady, 
he should be drenched with table salt, twelve ounces; 
warm water, one quart; to which add tincture of capsi- 
cum, two ounces This medicine will act as a powerful 
antiseptic and stimulating; tonic, thus preserving the 
animal tissues against putrescence, and at the same time 
it relieves the venous congestion. If, on applying the 
hand to any part of the body, a crackling sound is elicit 
ed, the-animal is then said to be emphysematous ; v;hich 
signifies an accumlation of gas beneath the skin ; the 
patient should then be immediately drenched with two 
ounces of pyroligneous acid, twenty-eight drops of pure 
oil of sassafras, linseed tea, one quart Mix the oil with 
the latter, then add the acid After having drenched the 
animal, apply a portion of the following to the tumefac- 
tions, or emphysematous region: 
Take of Soft Soap four ounces, 
Oil of Sassafras halfan ounce. 
Dissolve the sassafras in two ounces of alcohol. 
Tincture of Capsicum two ounces. 
Tincture of Peruvian bark one pint. 
Mix, and rub the external surface with a portion of the 
same. 
The swollen tongue should be frequently covered with 
fine salt, and the moment there appears any improvement, 
tonic medicine should be given. One ounce of fluid ex- 
tract of camomile flowers may be given, twice daily. 
This remedy will give tone to the system and restore the 
appetite.” 
Southern Wool ! — Horses, &c. — Mr. Mark R. Cock- 
rill, a celebrated farmer and wool-grower of Tennessee, 
believing that a soft climate will produce a more soft and 
perfect wool than the far-famed German province, Silesia, 
proposes to select five sheep from his flock — three ewes 
and two bucks— and show for S2,000a side, against any 
five sheep selected from from one flock, ewes and bucks 
as above. All the world are requested to compete, mak- 
ing as many enterics as they may think proper. The 
premium to be awarded to the party who has three sheep 
out of the five that have the most soft and fine filire of 
wool. Entries to be made with the Secretary of the Ten- 
nessee State Agricultural Bureau on or before the 20th 
day of April next, but the exhibition to take place on the 
Nashville track, on the second Monday in May, 1860 
Mr. Cockrill also proposes to compete with two blood 
horses, for S2 000, against all the trotting stock in the 
world, the animal travelling the greatest di&tance in two 
hours to take the prize. Camels and dromedaries are re- 
quested to compete in this trial. 
FOUNDER AND SWEENEY. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I have seen several 
remedies recommended in* the for Founder in 
Horses, but nothing to equal the following, which has not 
failed in one case since I have commenced using it, which 
is some ten years since. I send it for you to do with it 
as you please : 
Bleed the horse in the neck freely; pulverise a' piece of 
alum the size of a hen egg and dissolve it in a bottle of 
warm water and give as a drench, and if necessary you 
may use the horse immediately, and he will gradually im- 
prove, so that in a short time you will not know that the 
horse was foundered. 
The Sweeney can be cured by bathing the shoulder 
once a day for three days in the Oil of Spike, say 1 1-2 
tabiespoonful at a time, driven in by holding a warm oven- 
lid near. Yours respectfully, G. F. T.^ 
Chullahoma, Miss., 1858. 
‘«RICE CORN” — SORGHO SYRUP, BRANDY, &Co 
Editors Southern Cultivator— Enclosed, I send you 
a few seed of what is here called “Rice Corn.” If you 
should recognize it as an old acquaintance, please inform 
me whether it be good for forage. In case it should prove 
a stranger to you, I will give you what little information 1 
possess in regard to it. Some time ago, I saw some 
growing in a garden near this place, and never having 
seen any before, went in to examine it. The stalk, blades 
and head at a distance resemble the Chinese Sugar 
Cane. There is very little juiee, however, in the stalk, 
and judging from the taste, very little saccharine matter 
in the juice. It was sown very thick in the drill, and the 
stalks averaged about ten feet in height. It is very pro- 
lific of seed, yielding, I should think, twice as much as 
Chinese Sugar Cane on land of the same fertility. When 
a stalk is cut or broken, young sprouts grow off luxuri- 
antly, which, witn the fact that it grows well when sown 
thick, renders it probable that it is valuable for littering 
stock. 
I had hoped to see something in the last CuUivoIor in 
regard to your experience with the Hungarian Grass, but 
i was disappointed. Do let us know whether it wdll pro- 
duce seven or eight tons, or half that amount otgoodfor-^ 
age per acre, on good land in the South. 
To day our County Fair closed The exhibition was 
fine in every particular, excepting Machinery and Farm- 
ing utensils. We are behind the times in regard to plows, 
and 1 reckon I will have to get up a club of subscribers to 
the Cullxvatin in order to induce our people to adopt the 
Horse hoe and other iinprovements. 
A barrel of Chinese Sugar Cane syrup was on exhibition 
equally as good as sugar-house molasses. I have hereto- 
tore considered the syrup and sugar of the cane a humbug ; 
but the former is certainly no humbug. The exhibitor 
stated that he made eight barrels at a cost ol 15 cents per 
gal. I think he sold that barrel at 40 or 45c. per gal. He 
aho exhibited some very strong brandy made from the 
syrup. 
I am glad that you have arrived at the conclusion that 
your paper is worthy a covering — an opinion which I en- 
tertained and expressed some time ago. Theta. 
Payettville, N. C., 1858. 
[The seeds sent are of that variety of Millet known a& 
‘'Chicken Corn,” or “Chocolate Corn” — by no means ae 
valuable as Sorgho for forage. We have not given the 
Hungarian Grass a fair trial. See the opinion of an ex- 
perienced friend, elsewhere in present number, and letUB 
hear from you again. — Eds.] 
