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The following are some of the things not generally ap- 
preciated about a house : 
1. The benefit of thorough drainage and . water snp- 
ply. 
2. The benefit of good heating and ventilation. 
3. The benefits of proper color .; — Correspondence of The 
BvUder. 
HOME MADE GUANO. 
By a communication in the American (Baltimore) 
Farmer, vre learn that Mr. Thomas D. Rotch, a gentle- 
man from Scotland, but who claims American descent — 
his father being a New Bedford man, and his mother from 
Nantucket— has secured in this country a patent for the 
manufacture of a manure by a treatment of the bloodand 
offal of ani.mals with sulphuric acids or other acids, or 
with copperas or other salts. Statements are made of the 
effects of this manure in England, that represent it as far 
superior to the best guano. A company for its manufac- 
ture has been organized in Philadelphia, and it is proposed 
to establish three others, — one in Baltimore, one in New 
York, and another in Boston. The patent in England 
was secured by a jNIr. Oldham, who sold it to a company 
for fifty thousand dollars, and a “royalty” of tw’o Engltsh 
shillings per ton upon all the manure thus made. That 
was a pretty tall price, but we have no reason to doubt its 
correctness. Mr. Rotch fixes the price of his manure at 
S45 per ton of 2000 lbs. 
We have long thought, and have often said, that some- 
thing ought to be done to prevent the waste of fertilizing 
matter in our cities. We hope Mr. Rotch will meet with 
such success as to incite the skill and ingenuity of others 
to devise means by which the very life-blood of our farms 
may be returned to enrich our hungry soils, instead of 
breeding disease and death in our cities, by being suffered 
to pollute the air and water by v/hich they are surroun- 
ded. 
Mr. Rotch asserts that the manufacture of any manure 
in which blood and sulphuric acid are used “ renders the 
sellers, the consumers a.ndi the manufacturers equally liable 
Jot damages.'' 
We think that no patent ought to authorize so broad a 
claim as the above, which we give in Mr. R.'sovrn words 
and italics. — N. E Farmer. 
Extract of a letter from Count de Gouremj. 
IIEMEDA'— CATTEE EUNG DISEA.SE8 
(Piieiiinoaia.) 
Paris, January 3d, 1S5T. 
CoL. Johnson, Corresponding Secretary of the Agricul- 
tural Society of the State of New York ; 
I made the past summer, my accustomed agricultural 
journey ; this is the l8ih, and every one of them occu- 
pied four months. This year I travelled all over Germa- 
ny, and went as far as Brumen, Moravia. I was pres- 
ent at the meeting of the German Agricultural Society, at 
Prague, when neaily LJOO members were present ; it waa 
the 18th meeting, every year in a different city ; this year 
the meeting outnumbered all its predecessors. I learned 
there much which 1 did not know before, and among oth- 
er things, that the remedy to prevent the disastrous lung 
disease (Pneumonia) among cattle, v.’as coming more 
j and more into use. This remedy, consisting in innocu- 
I lation, was discovered by Dr. Willems, of Hasset, in Bel- 
gium. He inserts at the end cf the tail some matter ot 
the affected lungs of a sick cow or ox, being in ths second 
stage of the disease. Jhis remedy is now made use of 
by almost all cattle breeders, and still more by the gra- 
ziers, of the whr>le continent ; but it seems that they have 
not yet adopted it in f n^iiaiid ; for in the month of June 
last, Dr iSimons of the Veterinarian School in London, 
d spoke against this remedy, at the meeting of the Royal 
I Agricultural Society. The governments of Holland and 
Belgium have presented Dr. Willems with the cross of 
; their order. He is making quite a business out of it; and 
[of many thousands of cows and oxen innnoculaled, the 
j mortality has been only a half of one per cent. I have 
'conversed wdth a great many farmers and graziers, in 
I Germany, Holland. Belgium and France, who keep from 
j 50 to 500 cows and oxen, and all .speak with great com- 
! mendaiion of Dr, Willem’s discovery. — Journal of Ae: 
I So. of N. Y. ■ ' ' 
, CLT-WORMS-=THE WEATHER.' 
j Editors Southern Cultivator— In the Janq.&ry No. 
; of your popular journal I noticed an article from the pen 
of your correspondent “H.,” of Yazoo City, Miss., in re- 
lation to Cut- worms, Rust, Rot, &c., and asking for- the 
experience of others on those subjects. 
Having suffered severely for the last two or three years 
from the effects of that destructive insect, the cut- worm, 
; has induced me to watch closely its habits, and endeavor 
i to discover, if possible, some mode by which I could get 
I rid of its certain voracious attacks on my young cotton in 
i the spring; and after much research and investigation . 
1 have finely come to the follov/ing conclusions : 
j That the only certain way to prevent the cut- worm from 
collecting in such numerous quantities, is to pull up every 
j cotton or corn stalk and all the weeds and trash that may 
! be on the land and burn them completely, for I have 
come to the belief that the egg of the insect producing that 
worm is deposited therein and hybernates there, and when 
these stalks and trash are beaten down and plowed in 
early in the season, are thrown together by the plow, and 
my'riads of the young insects are soon produced, ready to 
I overwhelm the young plants as soon as they make their 
i appearance. 
j 1 have alway-s been a strong advocate for plowing in 
i everything that was on the land when I commenced 
j cleaning up, and still think that it is of great advantage t€ 
I do so on our poor and worn out lands, but he who follows 
the plan will always be troubled by cut-worms. In proof 
of this, I will state that I have a neighbor who is in favor of 
the English mode of preparing land to plant, that is; by 
raking and burning everything off clean, and he is rarely 
ever troubled by cut-worms, except on his sweet potato 
patches where he plows in his vines. I, on the contrary, 
have always plowed in everythhing, and have had any 
quantity of worms in my fields. This season, however, I 
have adopted my- neighbor's plan, on a portion of my 
place and can perceive a vast difference in favor cf his 
.'plan. 
j [ would also recommend late plowing on old land as 
: a preventive — not to ridge up until the cotton should be 
; planted. 
In reply to “H 's’’ inquiry as to staying the ravages of 
^ the cot-worm after they are on us, 1 would remark that 
j the only way that I have discovered, is his mode, i. 
by close and diligent worming every morning until the 
i sun becomes sufficiently warm to drive them deep into 
j the earth. 
While on the subject of cut-worms, I will here state a 
fact that has come under my own observation within the 
i last week in my field, and, if necessary, can produce the 
j certificate of my overbcer to the effect, that he having dis- 
; covered a stalk of young cotton lately cut by a worm, 
j made search at the root oi the plant and found a very 
lage cut-worm, which he pierced with the blade of his 
knife, and fiom the body ot which a number (probably 
as many as twenty) ot small living maggots or wcni^ 
came forth. A few minutes after making this discovery, I 
happened to go into the field; he related to me what he 
had seen and conducted me to the spot where he had d& 
