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and cures easy. Put two able Hands to cutting with genu- 
ine Yankee Scythes, hung to real Yankee Snaths or 
Sneads, which may be purchased in any of the hardware 
houses of the city ; two boys behind them with rakes ; the 
ground being level, the grass can be cut close. As the 
swath is cut it will be piled in rows by the sythes, and it 
is the business of the boys to scatter it evenly over the 
ground as it is cut. It will cure in one day’s full sun. 
The boys should turn back late in evening and rake up in- 
to smooth round piles as large as they can make them. 
These piles will cure in heating somewhat during the 
night, and in such piles the grass will take several rains 
without much injury. That which is cut late in the 
evening may be left in win-rows during the night. Next 
morning throw down and scatter out the piles, or cocks, 
again, and after twelve commence hauling in. This re- 
quires two more hands to rake into piles convenient for 
the wagon ; the driver, with a pitch-fork, can throw 
them up ; a boy to tread it on the wagon, and one to rake 
up the scattering grass behind, will load expeditiously 
enough. 
The hay should be thrown into a house and not trod 
down for 24 hours ; a half gallon of salt scattered over 
each load will be of advantage. If the weather is good, the 
hay managed in this way, is safely cured and is very 
fragrant. 
The 10 acres can be cut down in four days by two 
hands and the entire crops saved and housed within one 
week by five hands, and he will find the field to yield over 
20,000 pounds of the choicest and sweetest of provender. 
I have made such hay, and I know it will do better than 
fodder. It would fullv satisfy you, too, Messrs. Editoi’s, 
to see the stock “piion” into it. Horses, mules, oxen or 
cows will quit eating corn fodder for such as has just been 
described. 
Now, if the 120 acres of corn will make plenty of fod- 
der for the plantation, the 10 acres, managed as above, 
will make a superabundance ; then the oat straw, rice 
straw, corn shucks and pea hulls, passed through a good 
straw cutter and judiciously managed with a millet patch, 
drilled corn patch, etc., will be found abundantly sufficient 
for all the stock need to be kept by a plantation of that 
size. Yea, there would be fodder provender to sell. More- 
over, the gain in weight to the corn crop by not slipping 
ojf the fodder would more than pay the rent of 10 acres 
and labor bestov/ed upon it. But if the fall is seasonable 
another crop of grass may be mown off before frost, or 
the lot will afford a rich fall pasture for the milch cows. 
There is now a great enquiry on foot for such grasses 
as are best adapted to the South This is good ; but dur- 
ing the progress of these inquiries and experiments let us 
not neglect our crop or crab grass. When cut at a pro- 
per time and cured right, no grass will excell it for hay. 
But some say: ‘T have triedit, and it won’t do for hay.” 
How have you tried I “Pulled it up in the fall after it was 
done seeding, when the stem was yellow and sere, tied it 
in little bundles as big as your arm, thrown it down on 
the ground and cured it until it was black or rusty !” 
Well, then, it wouldn’t do for hay, that’s true. Any one 
can calculate the difference between fodder stripping and 
hay saving from such data. Yours, R. 
Brooklyn t Ala,^ Sept., 1855. 
Some Potatoes. — Capt. John Bowen, of our District, 
has left at our office one or two singular specimens of the 
Sweet Potato, one of which measures three and a half feet 
in length and is attached to another measuring nearly 
three feet. Also, another, resembling the shape of a ser- 
pent, which if straightened out, would measure nearly 
three and a half feet. Three potatoes making nine feet. 
If these can be beat, bring on your specimens and let 
us see. — Camden {S. C.) Journal, Oct. 30. 
WHITE WORMS IN HORSES.-INQUIEY ANSWERED, 
Editors Southern Cultivator— In the August num- 
ber of the Cultivator, page 257, “Cupio,” inquires for a 
remedy “for worms of a whitish color.” I would have 
answered this sooner, but I was in hopes that the answer 
would have emanated from some other source, as there 
had been considerable said on botts, &c. I have seen 
these worms and have had horses troubled with them. I 
was informed several years ago by a horse and mule 
trader, that they are called ascarades. They are not con- 
sidered dangerous ; but in some of their symptoms, they 
are exceedingly annoying, and will, at times, reduce a 
horse in flesh very much within a short time. The prin- 
cipal symptom is an itching at the anus, not at all times 
felt with equal intensensity, but coming on by spells, 
which, from appearance, must be truly tormenting. The 
animal will frequently be seen rubbing himself to get rid 
of this annoyance. The part of the intestinal canal occu- 
pied by these worms is principally i\\Q rectum ; and it is 
here alone that the symptoms of its presence are made 
manifest. I will here recommmend the same remedy I 
made use of, and it is the common assafeetida gum ; cut it 
up fine in his corn (have the corn shelled); give him a 
large spoonful after it is cut up, mixed through the corn 
or oats. At first he may not eat it ; but if you limit his 
feed he will soon eat, and his appetite will also improve. 
He can also be drenched (if he will not eat it in his feed) 
with the tincture:— Take four large spoonfuls of the liquid; 
add one pint of milk-warm water. Give either once a 
day for three days in succession ; then omit three days, 
and then repeat the dose for three successive days again. 
By a treatment thus simple, I have known horses to be 
intirely relieved, the worms being successfully expelled. 
I will add another treatment. I have never made use 
of this, however, but have heard it spoken of and recom- 
mended. The torment of these worms, when concentrat- 
ed in great numbers at their favorite resort, the verge of 
the a7ius, has led to the use of the finger for their dislodge- 
ment. A finger, dipped in oil, thrust in, turned around 
and withdrawn, is said to have been used to the success- 
ful removal of them in a very short time. Neatsfoot oil, 
Ferrell’s Arabian Linament, or Henderson’s Linament are 
recommended. 
I will mention that there is another worm that very 
much resembles the ascarades (as I have been informed 
by the experienced traders and farriers) being equally 
slender, and three or four times its length, and is seldom 
seen. 1 have no remedy for those ; perhaps assafeetida 
would be sufficient. 
I may have described a wrong worm and prescribed a 
wrong remedy, but assafeetida is not injurious to a horse, 
and in general, not used sufficiently. B. 
Thomaseille, Ga.,Nov., 1855. 
WORMS IN EORSES-A CURE. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Take one part poplar 
bark, one of white ash bark and one of sweet shrub root 
bark; pulverize finely and give the horse one large table- 
spoonful twice a week in hominy. 
A Subscriber. 
Coffeevillc, Ala, 1855. 
It should be known that a small quantity of vine- 
gar will destroy any insect that may find its way into the 
stomach ; and a little salad oil will kill any insect that 
may enter in the ear. 
