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lar, and get their growth in the summer time in 
less than a month. Cold weather retards their 
growth, and those that are hatched in the iall re- 
main in a torpid state during the winter, and 
get their growth slowly in the spring, at which 
time they do us the principal damage in cutting 
oif the young corn and other young vegetables. 
Though they remain in a torpid state during the 
winter, they require food as soon as the weather 
gets warm in the spring, and if the vegetation 
has been all destroyed by fall or winter plough- 
ing, which is rarely the case, they must starve. 
But I suppose it is not so much on his account 
as the turning up the ground and destroying 
their coverts, which allows the Irost and wet to 
affect them. Sam’l. D. Martin. 
COLIC IN THE HORSE. 
There are few diseases more troublesome or 
dangerous to the horse than the colic; and it is 
usually in the winter that its appearance is 
most frequent. One of the best desciiptions of 
the disease and its mode of ireatment, is to be 
found in Steward’s Stable Economy, from which 
we have condensed the following: 
“The horse is usually attacked by the colic 
suddenly. In the stable, he paws the ground 
with his fore feet, lies down, rolls, sometimes 
quite over, lies on his back, but at times, when 
the distension of the belly is not great, will 
sometimes lie still for several minutes. When 
the distension is great, he neither lies or stands 
still a minute, but lies down and gets up inces- 
santly, strikes his belly with his hind feet, and 
looks wistfully at his flanks. When standing, 
he makes many and fruitless attempts to urinate, 
and the keeper or owner generally imagines 
there is something wrong with the water.” — 
Sometimes in the worst cases the swelling is 
very inconsiderable; but in all cases, as the dis- 
ease proceeds, the pain becomes more and more 
intense; the horse dashes himselt about with 
frightful violence; the perspiration runs off him 
in streams; his countenance betrays excessive 
agony, and his contortions are not suspended for 
a moment. 
Sometimes he is attacked on the road. “II 
his pace is fast, he should be stopped at once. 
To push him on beyond a walk, even for a short 
dislnnce, is certain death. The bowels are dis- 
laced, twisted and strangulated, partly by the 
istension, hut aided a great deal by the exer- 
tion, and no medicine will restore them to their 
proper position.” When death ensues, the bow- 
els are tound inflamed, twisted, and generally 
ruptured. 
in the treatment of colic, the first object is to 
arrest the fermentation that is the primary 
cause, and re-establish the digestive powers. — 
“In mild cases, a good domestic remedy, in com- 
mon use among old fashioned people, who have 
never heard of inflamed, spasmed or sti'angula- 
ted bowels, is whiskey and pepper, or gin and 
pepper. About half a tumbler of spirits, with 
a teaspoonlul of pepper, given in a quart of 
milk or warm watei, will often afferd immedi- 
ate relief. If the pain do not abate in fwenty or 
thirty minutes, repeat the dose. Four ounces 
of spirits of turpentine, with twice as much 
sweet oil, is much stronger; but il the horse is 
much averse to the medicine, turpentine is not 
always safe.” 
“There is, however, a better remedy, which 
should always be in readiness wherever several 
draft horses are kept. Take a quart of brandy, 
add to it four ounces of sweet spirits of nitre, 
and three ounces ot cloves. In eight days this 
mixture or tincture is ready for use; the cloves 
may still remain in the bottle, but they are not 
to be given. Set the bottle by, and label it dis- 
tinctly, “Colic Tincture,” The dose is six 
ounces, to be given in a quart of milk or warm 
water, every fifteen or twenty minutes, till the 
horse is cured. Keep his head straight and not 
too high when it is given. Do not pull out his 
longue, as some stupid people do when giving a 
drink. Give him room, and if he will not stand 
till the drink be given, watch him when down, 
and give it, though he be lying, whenever you 
can get him to take a mouthful; but give the 
dose as quickly as possible. After that, rub the 
body with a soft wisp, walk the horse about 
very slowly, or give him a good bed and room to 
roll. In eight cases out of nine, this treatment 
will succeed, provided the medicine be got down 
the horse’s throat before his bowels become in- 
flamed, or strangulated or burst. The delay of 
half an hour may be fatal. When the second 
dose does not produce the relief desired, the 
third may be of double or treble quantity. I 
have given a full quart in about an hour, but the 
horse was very ill.” 
Bottles are generally used for giving medi- 
cine to horses, but unless the neck is wound 
with twine, there is danger of the horse break- 
ing it with his teeth, and injuring himself with 
the pieces. A large horn, with a small point 
for insertion in the mouth, is preferred by many, 
as exempt from this danger . — Albany Cultivator _ 
Sweet Potatoes for Hogs. — It is general- 
ly admitted, that our sweet potatoes constitute 
an excellent article of food for hogs, and it is 
well knawn too, that few plants yield a greater 
amount of nutritious matter to the acre. Here- 
tofore, howe'^cr, planters havegenerally neglect- 
ed to avail themselves of the advantages of this 
crop for their stock. It is true, if the potatoes 
are to be dug and thrown to the hogs, the plan- 
ter loses much valuable labor from his crop, at 
a very important season. But this is not neces- 
sary; by making the potatoe patch long and 
narrow, (say a half or a fourth acre wide,) and 
a few hours labor once a week in running a 
cross fence, a stock of hogs may be kept fat 
from the first of August until the pea fields are 
open, with very little expense. For example, let 
him run a low fence across, so as to cut off a 
small portion of the patch and turn his hogs on 
this. While they are consuming the vines and 
roots on this portion, the potatoes in the other 
part are still growing undisturbed. When this 
portion has been eaten out entirely, let the plan- 
ter have his cross-fence moved up a little far- 
ther, and thus give his hogs access to a ffesh 
portion of the potato field. This plant, we 
think, commends itself to the attention of plan- 
ters on several accounts. The cheapness of the 
food; its being ready for use at an important sea- 
son for pushing forward young hogs, (and near- 
ly every Southern planter kills his hogs young,) 
the greater amount of pork it enables him to 
raise, and the less corn it requires in the fall to 
make his hogs fully fat. And we may add to 
these, that every hog is thus made to gather his 
own harvest. The cheapness of this article of 
food, (when the labor of harvesting is saved,) 
certainly cannot be questioned. For from two 
to four hundred bushels of roots, besides the 
vines, per acre, is no small amount of nutritious 
matter for the labor bestowed in culture. If 
any one needs to be convinced that August is 
an'important month for pushing forward hogs 
that are to be killed in the fall, let him try to fat- 
ten a very poor hog — he will eat more than his 
bacon will be worth. And, in fact, a year old 
that has been kept poor until the pea fields are 
open, wdll yield very little bacon. This plan 
enables the planter to keep his hogs fat and 
growing rapidly from the first of August until 
killing time. For by the time the potatoes are 
fully eaten out, the pea fields may be opened, 
and by the time they are done and the hogs con- 
fined ten days on com, to harden the fat, the 
weather will probably be cold enough to kill. 
And here another advantage is gained. For 
(he most successful curers of bacon we know, 
all agree that the earlier you can kill your hogs, 
the surer you are to have your bacon free from 
bugs in the summer. — Planter. 
To Kill Lice on Animals. — “Take the wa- 
ter in which potatoes have been boiled and rub 
it over the skin. The lice will die within two 
hours. I have used ten kinds of the strongest 
poisons to kill lice, all with effect, but none so 
perfect as this .” — Cerdral N, Y. Farmer. 
Horticulture, the attendant and embelli.sher 
of agriculture, which provides so many palata- 
ble and healthful additions to the substantial 
produce of the field, and correctors of the undue 
stimulus and acrimony of much animal food, 
merits all the fostering care which an uncor- 
rupted and yet educated and refined taste has 
ever extended to it. A well cultivated garden, 
in due alternation of vegetable, fruit and flovv'er, 
gives us poetry without its illusions — nature di- 
.vested of her ruggedness, and art of its con- 
straint — Dr. Bell. 
Cultivation op Silk. — We have been in- 
formed that East Baton Rouge is soon to become 
the seat of a regular silk plantation, whereby 
the most ample test will be given to the project 
of making this article one of the staples of the 
State. A gentleman named Vasseur, just ar- 
rived from France, has purchased lanu, and is 
making rapid arrangements to commence the 
business, in which he has the experience of 
many years . — Baton Rouge Gazette. 
As spring, with its cheering sunshine, and 
refreshing showers, reanimates to new life the 
growth of vegetation; so the soothing accents 
of love and sympathy restore to wonted bright- 
ness the heart desolated by grief; causing it to 
put forth the shoots of gratitude and jot". 
Pragments'of Time. 
A good temper, a good library, good health, 
and a good wife, are four choice blessings. 
AUGUSTA MARKET. 
Tuesday p. m.. May 9. 
Cotton — Our market continues animated, and 
sales to a considerable extent have been made 
during the week, at prices fully sustaining the 
advance we have heretofore reported, and the 
market closes firm. We quote 4f ® 7 cents as 
the extremes of the market. 
Exchange— The rate of Exchange continues 
at par on all points north and east of us. Cen- 
tral money 23 ^ cent discount; Alabama 20 ® 
25. No sales of other depreciated bills to re- 
port. 
CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. 
PAGE. 
Mr. Foote’s Prize Essay, continued 73 
Manufacture of Silk in the Auburn Prison; ) -c 
Glauber Salts for Hogs J ^ 
On the Alternation of Crops 76 
Faith and Works; Salt in Agriculture 77 
BommePs Manure. 78 
Our Issue; Correction; Recipe for killing) 
Catterpillars; Remedy for Inflammation in ( -g 
the Eye of the Horse, &c.; Culture of the ( ^ 
Sweet Potato; Punctuality; Cut Worms •• j 
Colic in Horses; Sweet Potatoes for Hogs; 5 
To kill Lice on Animals; Horticulture; > 80 
Cultivation of Silk; Augusta Market- • • - ) 
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