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znethod to keep the application to the place, is to make a 
band ; keep it on by folding a blanket sufficiently to keep 
from burning the hand, and with this hold the bag con- 
taining the mush ; keep it on some 20 to 30 minutes at 
the time. 
A piece of blue vitriol about the size of a partridge egg 
dissolved in 13^ pints of water, will cure founder, if given 
within 48 hours after the animal is foundered. W. 
New Prospect, Miss., May, 1855. 
DEVONS FOR THE SOUTH--WINTER PASTURE - 
RANDALL’S COTTON PLANTER, &C. 
Editor.s Southern Cultivator — A serious drouth has 
threatened the entire failure of crops of every description 
in this section of country, having had no rain from the 
13lh of March up to the 18th of May, (except a slight 
shower on the 14th of April) ; since which time we have 
had four or five fine rains — it has rained the greater part 
of the last 48 hours — but the w'heat crop pi'oves to be 
very fine; Oats, almost a total failure ; Corn and Cotton 
now look very promising, though the latter has only 
come up within the last ten days. 
As long as I have troubled you at all, will you please 
answer the following inquiries : 
Will the Devon Cattle thrive well in this climate 1 We 
have no fine cattle in this region. 
What is the best winter pasture for milch cows in our 
Southern climate "I 
What is the price of Randall’s Cotton Planter, (now in 
your advertising columns) and will it do what the Paten- 
tees claim for it "I Very respectfully, L. H. H. 
De Soto Co., Miss., May, 1855. 
Remarks. — The Devons are better adapted to the cli- 
mate of the South than any improved race of cattle that 
have ever been brought here. The best winter grass for 
pasturing cows is yet a mooted question — we dare not 
attempt to answer this question. We like Rye, Egyptian 
Oats, &c., very well. We have no practical knowledge of 
the value of Randall’s Cotton Planter, but believe it to be 
a good machine. Address the proprietors for terms, &c. 
— Eds. 
WARTS ON HORSES. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Seeing a number of 
the Southern Cultivator for December, 1853, when brother 
J. A. G., was the subscriber —we living together — I noticed 
on page 359 a plan for curing warts on horses, viz: — To 
use the actual cautery, in the form of a hot iron. Permit 
me, if you please, to suggest an improvement, as I think, 
which is to stick a pin into the wart and hold a lighted 
candle so as to have the head of the pin in the flame. As 
soon as the horse becomes unruly from the pain, let him off 
from the treatment until quieted, then go through the same 
process again, and again, and in a few weeks you will 
find the wart cured. 
The same treatment will cure the wart on persons. 
And should some prefer the poke root poultice to the | 
cautery by simply poulticing a wart for a few days, say 
three or four, with the pulverized roots of the poke, this 
will cure them without any annoyance, save an intolerable 
itching. Respectfully, J. L. G. 
Curamins, Ark., Alay, 1855. 
Beautiful Passage. — The following is from the pen of 
Walter Savage Landor The damps of autumn sink 
into the leaves and prepare them for lh6 necessity of the j 
fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, 
detached from our tenacity to life by the gentle pressure of 
urecorded sorrows.” 
HOLLOW HORN, AGAIN. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I see in your May 
and June numbers answers to my inquiry for informa- 
tion on hollow horn, and as my object was to draw a dis- 
cussion on the subject for my own benefit and the benefit 
of others, I will attempt a reply; and if it is taken in the 
same spirit in which I write it, I am sure it will do no 
harm, if no good. 
As I presumed, W. R. J. says it is the hollow belly, and 
nothing else. Well, if he thinks so, of course he has a right 
to think as he pleases; but, as for myself, I cannot think 
as I please, every time. I am compelled to think what 
the force of evidence brings to my mind, and I have seen 
enough to compel me to believe tl^at a fat cow or ox will 
take the hollow horn. That they will remain fat after they 
take it, or with the disease on them, we all know they will 
not. He says : “some two years ago one of my neighbors 
had a very fine fat cow down on the lift, and he bored her 
horns and poured salt and water in them.” Now, if the 
horn was not hollow I should like to know how he poured 
salt and water in them. Let him bore into a horn that is 
not diseased and see if he can pour water in to it. 
I pronounce that one case, at least, of a fat cow having 
the hollow horn, from his own testimony, and I give one 
now, almost a parallel case, from my own experience. But 
I shall get my yarn too long, so I will drop brother W. 
R. J., for fear he may think I am quarrelling with him, 
which is not the case — all for information. That the dis- 
ease may affect the head and other parts of the system I 
will readily admit. 
Brother “HoMesPUN” talks more reasonable on the sub- 
ject, but seems to think poverty has a great agency in the 
disease ; but as my object is not to quarrel, but to draw 
out information, we will let that drop. He says that ex- 
exposure to cold is one cause ; that is the general opinion, 
and I do not pretend to say yea nor nay. But I will give 
my mode, or practice, of treatment to my oxen. I have a 
large open shelter in my lot to feed my oxen under, with 
trough and rack, and I invariably give my oxen their 
peck of meal per day and fodder, shucks or pea vine hay 
sufficient to their fill, and they are nearly always in fine 
order until they become diseased, and I never have had a 
cow to have the disease, and I know cows in the neighbor- 
hood that were never under shelter nor ever fed through 
the winter ; and it appears that the cold would have as 
great an effect on their horns as it would on one that was 
well fed and in good order. A Subscriber. 
P. S. — I shall try brother “Homespun’s” remedies and 
give the public the result ; for I have four subjects to ex- 
periment on — out of five work steers, four of them are 
now laboring under the disease. 
Haneville, Ga., June, 1855. 
HOLLOW HORN-A CURE! 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I see in the April 
number of the Cultivator an Inquiry'^ by “A Subscriber” 
asking what will cure Hollow Horn in Oxen, and as I 
have not seen any reply to his inquiry, I have concluded 
to furnish him and all others interested the following 
simple but certain cure for that ailment, in oxen and cattle 
generally, viz : — Bore the horns into the hollow at about 
five or six inches distant from ^he head with a common 
size gimlet, and with a suitable syringe inject a solution of 
strong salt water, until the hollow is completely filled. 
Repeat this once only and a pennanent cure is effected. 
The hole should be made on the upper back part of the 
horn, so that the water could not escape. This is, indeed, 
a simple cure and doubtless is known to many farmers, 
but it is, positively, a certain cure for the Hollow Horn in 
Cattle, and if the inquiring “Subscriber” is not acquaint- 
ed with it, he ought to be ; hence I send it to you for pub- 
