SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
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“ LADY BURKE.” “ SIR ROBERT.” 
BERKSHIRES, 
THE PROPERTY OF L. G. MORRIS, MOUNT FORDHAM, N. Y. 
“Sir Robert” was winner of the 1st prize in his class, as large breed, at the New York State Show, in 1854. 
*‘Lady Burke” was on exhibition, with ten pigs, and received commendation from the Committee. The Berkshire 
Swine, such as I hare imported, are as large a breed as this or any country should desire; possessing great length, 
and rotundity of body; very prolific, and a skin and hair well calculated to stand any climate; very hardy, and easy 
keepers, and will weigh when matured (in proportion to keep) from 400 to 600 pounds. L G. Morris. 
MEDICAL USE OF SALT. 
In many cases of disordered stomach, a teaspoonful of 
salt is a certain cure. In the violent internal aching, 
termed cholic, take a teaspoonful of salt and a pint of cold 
water — drink it and go to bed — it is one of the speediest 
remedies known. The same will revive a person almost 
■dead from receiving a very heavy fall, &c. 
In an appoplectic fit, no time should be lost in pouring 
down salt and water, if sufficient sensibility remains to 
allow swallowing ; if not, the head must be sponged with 
cold water until the sense return, wffien salt will complete- 
ly restore the patient from the lethargy. 
In a fit, the feet should be placed in warm water, with 
mustard added, and the legs briskly rubbed, all bandages 
removed from thfe neck, and a cool apartment procured if 
possible. In many cases of severe bleeding at the lungs, 
and when other remedies failed, Dr. Rush found that two 
teaspoonsful of salt completely stayed the blood. 
In case of a bite from a mad dog, wash the part with 
strong brine for an hour, then bind on some salt with a 
rag. 
In toothache, warm salt and watei- held to the part, and | 
renewed two or three times, will relieve in most cases. If 
the gums be afifected, wash the mouth with brine; if the 
teeth be covered with tartar, wash them twice a day with 
salt and water. 
In swelled neck, wash the part with brine, and drink it 
twice a day until cured. 
Salt will expel worms, if used in food at a moderate de- 
gree, and aids digestion ; but salt meat is injurious if used 
much . — Scientific American. 
Never half do anything ; you may thus lose more 
in one day than a month can restore. 
MS. PASLLN’S COMPOST. 
Mr. Horace Parlin, of Massachusetts, made the fol- 
lowing statement, in December, to the State Society, of 
his mode of manufacturing manure : 
“In making my statement, it may be well to give the 
construction of my stable and manure shed. My manure 
shed is 46 by 16 feet, covering the heaps from the stable 
windows, and also a space before the stable door 12 feet 
wide. The bottom of the shed and the whole cattle yard 
is clay, watertight. My lean-to floor is in the usual form, 
a double floor where the cattle stand, with a space behind 
them lower by the thickness of the second floor. My cat- 
tle are stabled every night, summer as well aswdnter. 
“The material used is muck, dug a year before using 
and decomposed v/ith lime slaked in brine strong as can 
be made, four bushels lime to a cord of muck. A quan- 
tity of this muck is thrown behind the cattle at niglit to 
take up the urine, and throu n out in the morning with 
their manure. About once a week we shovel these heaps 
to the back of the shed and rover it with muck, when it 
heats and in a short time is fully prepared for use. If it 
remains too long in the heap it will fire-fang. 
“I have also a space under my stable floor about three 
feet deep, which we fill with muck and exchange it once 
a year. The urine I consider of equal value with the solid 
excrement. 
“By this method I made, from two oxen and three cows, 
forty-five loads of about thirty- five bushels each, from 
about the first of June to the first of November, of compost 
equal, I think, to stable manure.” 
Often inspect your stock and keep a sharp look ou t 
for disease and accidents. 
