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SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. 
Hcation, if you deem it worth a place in your valuable 
journal. 
I would further remark that cattle, especially oxen, are 
frequently effected with what our farmers here call “Hol- 
low Tail,” or “Worm in the Tail,” which causes them to 
linger very much as though they had “Hollow Horn,” and 
most frequently these diseases accompany each other. 
The one is known by the horns becoming very cold and 
assuming a dead color, The other is known by the de- 
caying of the tail bone near the bush of the tail, and can 
be permanently cured by splitting the part lengthwise, 
and filling the vacant place with common salt and binding 
up with a strip of cloth , of sufficient strength. 
These two diseases of cattle, Messrs. Editors, are very 
common (or have been) in our State, and the remedies 
herein prescribed have never failed to cure them, as I have 
known; and if they go before the public through me, and 
should be in any degree beneficial to any one, then I am 
satisfied ; but if you deem them unworthy of notice, then 
you can place this sheet among your rubbish, and still I 
will be satisfied. Very respectfully yours, 
Jno. Randolph Harrison, Post Master. 
China Hill, Fla., Maij, 1855. 
HOLLOW HORN. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — I see in your April 
number of the Cultivator, an inquiry from a Haynesville 
subscriber, for the cause and remedy for the Hollow Horn 
in cattle. I have long thought, without ever having been 
fully confirmed in the opinion, that the Hollow Horn in 
cattle is caused from the freezing of the pith of the horn 
from being exposed, without shelter, to extreme cold 
weather. I do not know that I can give a remedy ; but if 
this be the cause I can give a preventive, which is worth 
more; and that is to shelter your cattle in winter. I am 
of the opinion that, in this Southern climate, if cattle are 
suffered to lie in the woods during the very cold weather, 
they will rarely if ever be troubled with the disease. I was 
once a Georgian myself and well know the practice there, 
as in many other old States, of penning cattle without shel- 
ter, in a small enclosure, and that frequently in the centre 
of an extensive farm, with no surrounding woods to pro- 
tect them from the cold, frosts and winds of winter. No 
wonder that cattle die with the Hollow Horn from such 
treatment. If I am correct, as to the cause, your Haynes- 
Tille subscriber will, perhaps, be better able to prescribe a 
remedy than myself; and if I am not correct, I will join 
him in the inquiry, hoping some of your numerous read- 
ers will give the true cause, remedy and preventive. I 
have not had a case of Hollow Horn for many years, and 
I always suffer my cattle, in the absence of a better shel- 
ter, to resort to the woods for protection in very cold 
weather. 
If my suggestions are worthy an insertion in your valu- 
able paper, you can publish them. 
Very respectfully, Chas. Cargile, 
A Subscriber. 
Terra Noar, Arlc., May, 1855. 
A NEW GRASS (MOHA DE H0NGRIE)-STUMP PULL- 
ING MACHINE, &C. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Enclosed you will 
find a gold dollar, for which send me Southern C'ldlivator. 
I am not much of a farmer, though I have been trying for 
the last 25 or 30 years to do something in that way. I 
am induced to take your paper to try and improve myself 
and keep up with the improvements and discoveries of 
the age, late as it is may be with me. If, in my inter- 
course with you, I should trouble you with inquiries to 
your annoyance, you can only decline to answer. 
I have some to make at present, and will commence 
with some grass seed, that I received from the Patent Office, 
“Moha de Hongrie,” panicum germanicura. The paper 
says it is a grass that resists drouth, and grows well on 
dry soils ; to be sown from May till July. I sowed the 
seed about the last of April ; there had been a very light 
shower a few days before ; the ground was fresh broken 
at the time of sowing. The seed came up in a few days ; 
it rained no more for nearly a month, or, perhaps, more. 
They came up very well, but the hot sun killed the most 
of them. They have been planted about 6 weeks, and 
what is alive is now heading at about a foot high. There 
has been little rain on them since they were sown ; they, 
however, have not stood the drouth as the paper said they 
would. My objeet is to know if you know any thing of 
the grass, and is it worth cultivating I and, if so, what is 
the mode of cultivating I or is it sown broadcast for grass 
plats '? 
I am informed that at the North they have a machine for 
pulling up stumps, with which (with a yoke of oxen and 
two men) the stumps can be removed from 2 to 3 acres 
per day. If you know of such a machine, will you please 
write me where they are to be had and at what cost h If 
we could remove the stumps from our fresh land at any 
reasonable cost, it should, by all means, be done ; for by 
the time the stumps rot out, the top soil and vegetable 
mould has all passed down the branches and creeks, and 
it is almost impossible to horizontalize land impeded by 
the stumps. 
I write this in great haste. If agreeable I have several 
other inquiries, about which I shall wish to avail myself 
of your experience. * 
Very respectfully, your obedient servant, 
J. W. M. 
MoMsfield, La., May, 1855. 
Remarks. — We have had inquiries respecting this grass 
(^Moha de Hongrie') from various sources, but we have no 
practical knowledge of it. Most plants of the genus Fani- 
fium are annuals, coarse, and of little value for grass. We 
have mislaid the address of the patentee of a new stump 
machine, but will publish it hereafter for the benefit of 
“J. W. M.” and others. — Eds. 
ICS HOUSES TOR PLANTERS. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — Can you inform me, 
through your columns, of the best mode of constructing 
an Ice House on the imost simple yet effectual plan for 
families living in the country, say large enough fcr half a 
dozen families'? ' Our summer^ are so warm, and, in many 
localities, the water is so bad, which renders ice almost 
indispensable. Inform me, if you please, the mode of con- 
stiuctioD ; the material used, and whether it is best to- 
build under or on top of the ground. 
A Subscriber. 
Jefferson County, June, 1855. 
Remarks. — You will find full directions for the construc- 
tion of cheap and efficient Ice Houses, in the September 
number, (1855) of our paper, page 293. If you have not' 
access to this number, and will so write us, we will send 
you the paper, or republish the article. — Eds. 
Saccharine Statistics.— New York produced in thr 
year 1850,10,357,484 pounds of maple sugar; Vermont 
produced 6,349,357 pounds, and Ohio, 4,588,109 pounds. 
Almost all this large quantity is manufactured by the 
rudest and most wasteful processes. The value of the 
yearly crop of maple sugar in New York is nearly one 
million dollars. 
