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are eaten by something, I know not what. I have never 
been able to find it, day or night, and know it only by its 
ruinous effects. 
Is there any means to prevent rose bushes and pome- 
granate trees from throwing up suckers I 
How can the Paradise Apple be best propagated 1 What 
would you do with a valuable plum or apple tree which 
does not grow thriftily, but has no apparent disease and is 
in a good soil 
I have been attempting to train an apple tree to a trel- 
lise, but the boughs which I have tied down for this pur- 
pose 7i‘ill not grow at their extremity, and will throw up 
shoots at every bud, which after innumerable rubbings 
and pinchings persevere with indomitable pertinacity in 
growing upwards. What can I do with it 1 
Quaro. 
Selma, Ala., Sept., 1855. 
Remarks. — The case of our correspondent is a hard one, 
indeed — almost hopeless, it appears to us. Perhaps our 
friend, R. B., of Rome, Ga., may be able to prescribe an 
effectual dose for the maurauding herds Quaro complains 
of. Will R. B. give us his camphor- water remedy, or 
other suggestions 1 
Downing says the following mixture will destroy the 
wooly aphis: — Three-quarters (%) of an ounce of sulphur- 
ic acid, mixed with seven and a half ounces (1)^ oz.) of 
water. It should be rubbed into the parts of the tree af- 
fected, by means of a piece of rag, tied to a stick, the 
operator taking care not to let it touch his hands or clothes. 
A strong decoction of Aloes, it is said, will also drive 
away almost every variety of insect. These, with the 
forthcoming recipes of R. B,,and the salt, ashes, ley, soot, 
snuff, tobacco- water, guano-water, &c., of Quaro ought 
to kill off some of them. Let them be tried, at all events. 
Paradise stocks, fi3r the apple, may be obtained from all 
large Nurseries — propagate the Paradise by layers. We 
do not know any method of preventing the Rose and 
Pomegranate from suckering — it seems to be natural to 
most varieties of these plants. Dig in around your Plum 
or Apple tree a mixture of lime, ashes, muck and stable 
manure, and then mulch it with forest leaves or straw. If 
that does not make it grow, it should be ‘'cut down and 
cast into the fire.” We see no reason for training trees to 
trellices or espaliers, in this climate. Let them grow as 
standards, branching out near the ground. — Eds. 
MURRAIN IN CATTLE-A REMEDY. 
Editors Southern Cultivator — For several years I 
have been a reader of the Southern Cultivator, I will say 
that I have, from no other source, received so much valu- 
able information as I have from the pages of the Cultivator. 
But upon the subject of Murrain in Cattle, I have never 
found a remedy or a preventive. This is a malady that 
kills our cattle by scores annually, and if a remedy can be 
found it will be of great value. I do not know that I have 
a remedy, but I believe so, I will give it for the benefit of 
all that may have Murrain amongst their stock, who may 
wish to try it. And if their efforts are attended with alike 
success they will never regret it. When you first discover 
the animal is attacked, which is not difficult to determine, 
lose no time in preparing a drench. The drench is one 
quart of the juice of Jamestown weed, and one teaspoonful 
of saltpetre. This is enough for a grown cow or ox— for 
small cattle X K quantity is sufficient. If adminis- 
tered in time, 9 out of 10 will get well. 
I see that much is said about the Hollow Horn in Cattle. 
I think some of the remedies much worse than the disease. 
For instance, the plan of boring a gimlet or augur hole in 
the horn of a cow is a great evil, and a dangerous 
practice. I am of the opinion, Messrs. Editors, that all 
the cases of hollow horn that occur are caused by exposure 
to the rains and sleets of winter and early spring, 
and for the want of plenty of food — they have the hollow 
belly, and henoe the hollow horn necessarily ensues, as 
well as the hollow tail. If the following rules are observed, 
the hollow horn will never be found: 
1st, Let no man keep a greater number of cattle than 
he can keep in good order during the winter and spring, 
say until the middle of April. 
2d. protect them from the rains and cold winds, 
3d. Cover their horns well with tar every two weeks, 
and my experience is that the hollow horn never makes a 
victim of any of my cattle. But I do not wonder, Messrs. 
Editors, that men’s stock die with hollow horm, hollow 
tail, &c., when they have nothing to eat but a few shuche 
thrown out in the mud — no stables. The woider with 
me is that they do not all die of hollow belly, hollow horn, 
and hollow tail. I know one man that has 27 milch cows 
and does not get as much milk and butter as 4 good cows 
will yield, properly attended to, because they are all of 
the limber tail stock. Respectfully yours, &c. 
L. G. W. 
Top of the Hill, Sept., 1855. 
Remarks, — We would advise a little caution in the use 
of our correspondent’s remedy. The Jamestown or ‘*Jim- 
son” weed {Datura Stromionium — “thorn apple”) is a 
powerful poison, and a quart of the juice seems to us any- 
thing but a homcepathic dose. It will, probably “either 
kill or cure,” and may be tried in extreme cases, com- 
mencing with half of the above dose. — Eds. 
THE LAMPAS IN HORSES. 
A Correspondent of the New York Spirit of the 
Times inquires as to the burning for the Lampas, and 
whether that is the only cure for it. With the hope that 
we may perhaps save one horse from the unnecessary 
and terrible torture of the burning iron, we undertake to 
reply : 
Burning for the Lampas is as good and humane a reme- 
dy as is suffocation between two feather beds for hydro- 
phobia— both have been practiced by the ignorant, and 
both are effectual. The horse, to be sure, survives the 
infliction, while the feather-bed patient is bound to die. 
But both of these barbarous remedies('?) have long been 
discarded by civilized and intelligent men. 
We have occasionally had cases of this complaint in our 
stable, and have always attributed it to over-feeding. But 
in no single case, however bad, within our knowledge and 
experience, has it resisted a course of bran mashes, con' 
tinned for a day or two ; with the addition, in one or two 
instances, of a purgative of salts or aloes. (The first 
thought of our farm hands always was, to take the animal 
to the blacksmith’s to be burned.) 
Youatt says: “The bars occasionally swell and rise to 
a level with and even beyond the edge of the teeth. They 
are very sore, and the horse feeds badly on account of the' 
pain he suffers from the pressure of the food on them. 
This is called the Lampas. It may arise from inflamma- 
tion of the gums, propagated to the bars, when the horse 
is shedding his teeth— and young horses are more subject 
to it than others — or from some slight febrile tendency in 
