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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
SAND IN HORSES’ INTESTINES. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Can you or some kind 
subscriber propose, through the columns of your journal, 
a certain remedy for horses aiFected with sand in their 
intestines'? We often lose horses thus affected. Various 
remedies have been recommended, but I cannot say that 
apiorse has, as yet, been saved by them. After death I 
have examined several, and generally found in them the 
sand so compact that it was difficult to crumble it— in one 
instance after the death of a horse (poney) I saw a cake 
of sand 10 by 16 inches in diameter and almost as hard as 
a brick. 
I have saved two horses by drenching with salts and oil, 
but believe the sand in them was not compact. The 
symptoms that I have observed are as follows : The horse 
at first, few days, a loss of appetite and dullness, after- 
wards frequent attempts to evacuate, with little or no 
success, before a final change; he frequently and sud- 
denly drops down on his bended legs and belly, groans, 
rolls, and apparently relieved if he can remain lying on 
his back, then follows considerable swelling of the legs 
and nostrils. 
A horse thus affected is often considered as being 
troubled with bots ; but horses seldom die here with bots. 
Very respectfully, 
St. Johns. 
St. Augustine^ Fla.^ June, 1859. 
PRIVY ARRANGEMENTS — “NIGHT SOIE.” 
Near most human habitations a nuisance is tolerated, 
because it is deemed necessary, which, however, with a 
little pains, and at a trifling expense, might be avoided. 
As this is not an attractive subject, I will state, as brief- 
ly as possible, my own method, and commend it to those 
who have not adopted a better one. 
The building is, of course, located in the back yard ; 
the rear standing Jlush with the fence that encloses the 
garden. Instead of digging and stoning up a pit or vault, 
raise the frame and a wall, a foot or eighteen inches from 
ground; or cneaper still, place it on square blocks at the 
corners, so as to side down to the ground on the three 
sides next to your yard, and if more space is desired un- 
der the floor, dig away the earth a few inches before plac- 
ng the building on the foundation. 
Next, construct of plank, a box of the depth of a foot or 
more, the corners halved and spiked together with large 
nails, or otherwise strongly made, and of dimensions to 
occupy the space beneath the floor. This box is mounted 
on four cast iron wheels or castors, two or three inches in 
diameter, which, with the proper fastenings, you will pro- 
cure at a few shillings cost at the hardware store. For 
this to run on, lay down a couple of planks, extending 
out a few feet in the rear of the building, on which nail a 
strip of board outside the wheels to keep them from run- 
ning off the track. The car furnished in this manner is 
easily drawn out, and pushed back to its place as occasion 
requires. 
From some neighboring marsh or pond hole, when dry 
and light, draw a few loads of muck, or, for lack of this, 
any other earth, and pile in a heap near where the box is 
to be drawn out. Cover the bottom of t he box with dry 
muck or earth, and your arrangement is complete, more 
convenient than a deep pit, and at less expense. 
As often as necessary draw out the dirt car, shove the 
contents on an Irish dirt barrow, wheel it off to a con- 
venient place for a compost heap, dump it down ; always 
using sufficient earth, lime, plaster, or something of the 
kind to keep everything covered that would be offensive 
to sight or smell. This, by the bye, should be one of the 
chores to be attended to, and not neglected, and if not un- 
reasonably neglected, can be done by man or boy in five 
minutes time. 
By this simple method a nuisance, often intolerable, is 
not only got rid of, but turned to valuable account. 
M., 
[in Country Gentleman. 
FISH — THEIR CUETIVATION, &c. 
“Law sakes alive,” says some Mrs. Partington, “here’s 
a man that’s going to tell us how to plant and raise fish in 
our gardens ^snike other truck.” No, good woman, I 
shall jiot tell you all this, yet I will tell hundreds and 
thousands of you how to raise your own fish. Cultivation 
means something more than plowing, harrowing and hoe- 
ing, and may well be applied to the raising of fish, and, 
perhaps, I cannot better instruct you in this art, than by 
describing what I lately saw right here in South Caro- 
lina. 
During my late visit to Sumter, I was shown all over 
the plantation of my friend Freeman Koyt, Esq., and here 
I met with a perfect model of a domestic fish-pond. Mr. 
Hoyt told me that the little stream of water running 
through his place, was the main thing that sold him the 
land. The branch ran through a low place of such a 
form, as to enable him, by a dam of some fifty yards 
long, to construct a pond of 700 feet in length, by 150 in 
width, with a depth varying from the shores, to 12 or 15 
feet in the centre. This gives him a pond of over 2 1-2 
acres where he could raise nothing else. One year ago, 
in the spring, he deposited in this pond eight good sized 
trout, and near three hundred thousand eggs, with a large 
amount of smaller sized fish, for the trout to feed upon, 
and he now has the water literally swarming with the 
finny tribe. His trout are now one year old, and I 
caught one while there that was over seven inches. Mr. 
Hoyt will not catch his trout until next year, and then I 
think he will almost be able to supply the town of Sumter- 
ville with fish. The water running from his dam passes 
through a sieve so that the fish cannot escape from the 
pond. A little below the dam is built a small two- story 
house, the lower story for bathing, while in the upper 
one is kept all the apparatus necessary for cultivating, 
feeding and taking the fish. All this convenience has 
been gotten up with a trifling expense, and will be, in the 
future, a large source of pleasure and profit to Mr. Hoyt 
and his family, and a perfect blessing to his neighborhood. 
We all eat too much flesh in this country, and should en- 
deavor to substitute, for some of it, more fish and fowl. 
There are hundreds of places in this State where just as 
good a pond as the one I have told of, could be built, and 
the owners not only well supplied with good fish right 
from the water, but they could derive a good revenue from 
their neighbors by selling them the proceeds of their pond. 
A learned doctor of England once said, “that a long life in 
this world merely learned a man how to live.” I wonder 
how many lives it would take in South Carolina, to learn 
the people to live up to the privileges, that nature has be- 
stowed upon them. Everything must succumb to cotton, 
if we eat nothing but hog and hominy. Will no other 
money pass but what is made by cotton, and must the 
country be thus sacrificed % Those that have the means 
and facilities must answer. H * * *, 
[in Lawrenceville (S. C.) Herald. 
Texas Wool. — A traveller from Texas publishes a let- 
ter in the Mobile {Ala.') Mercury, in which he says that 
the steamer in which he took passage down Red river had 
94 bales of wool, weighing 300 pounds each, and that the 
wool from the clip of one sheep farmer for the past year 
sold for S16,000. He says that the town of Jefferson, on 
Caddo Lake, sold, last year, between 4,000 and 5,000 
bales of wool, and expects, this year, to sell more. 
