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Hom-ail—laming Potatoes—Large Hog, &c* 
Horn-ail, by Joseph Feihrer. — As this dis¬ 
ease is of an inflammatory character, the ap¬ 
plication of spirits of turpentine and the like, 
which produce inflammation, is entirely wrong. 
When the animal is observed to be suffering 
from this disorder, one or two quarts of blood, 
according to the size of the animal, are to be 
drawn immediately from a neck vein. Then 
two table-spoonfuls of the following powder are 
to be given three times every day, the powder 
being previously dissolved in a pint of lukewarm 
water; this to be continued until the animal re¬ 
covers : Glauber salts, six ounces; cream of 
tartar, two ounces; purified saltpetre, two oun¬ 
ces ; powdered root of althse, one ounce and a 
half. 
It is necessary besides, to rub the animal fre¬ 
quently during the disease, principally on the 
back. * But if the animal should be costive, 
either of the following clysters is to be given: 
Take a handful of chamomile flowers, two 
handsful of flax-seed; boil them in two quarts 
of water, strain them, and add eight ounces of 
linseed oil, and three table-spoonsful of common 
salt. This clyster is to be applied by means of 
a syringe. 
Should these articles not be at hand, take one 
quart of wheat bran, pour two quarts of boiling 
water on it, strain, and add eight ounces of flax¬ 
seed oil and two ounces of common salt. This 
clyster is to be lukewarm when applied to the 
rectum or straight gut, by the means of a syr¬ 
inge or a fit funnel.— Far. Cab. 
Raising Potatoes by the use of Lime. 
The only two cases in which potatoes were not a 
failure here, were where lime had been exten¬ 
sively used. It is supposed it retained the mois¬ 
ture besides serving other useful purposes to the 
crop in question. The two farmers who used it 
had each a thousand bushels of potatoes, where 
their neighbors with as good prospects, except 
the lime, had only five hundred bushels each. 
The kind of soil to which the lime was ap¬ 
plied is not mentioned, but according to our re¬ 
collection a considerable part of the land in this 
district has a dry deep soil of the color of a pale 
brick, with a slight mixture of gravel, but with 
neither rock, solid clay, or hard pan of any 
kind near the surface. 
It is certainly the case that potatoes manured 
with a mixture of stable manure, and of kelp 
or rockweed which had begun to putrefy, will 
withstand a drought which considerably dimin¬ 
ishes the crop manured with nothing but stable 
dung.— Colo. Far. 
Large Hog. —Mr. Jameson, of Cornish, Me.j 
March 24, 1842, killed a pig 22 months and 12 
days old which weighed alive 1010 pounds. 
Dressed he weighed 905 lbs—without the caul, 
that weighed thirty-eight and a half pounds. 
Making his whole weight 943 1-2 pounds—a 
loss of only 66 1-2 pounds. He was a cross of 
the Berkshire on other breeds—girted seven feet, 
and was five feet and about ten inches in length. 
His keeping till September last, was not high 
or expensive. Six bushels of potatoes and two 
of meal, with weeds and the spare milk of three 
cows, lasted him and two breeding sows of the 
same age, two weeks. The potatoes were boiled, 
mashed up in a large tub, the meal added and 
water enough put in to make it quite thin. In 
addition to this feed night and morning since 
September, he has also three quarts of corn at 
noon.— Gen. Far. 
New Variety of Rice. —A French resi¬ 
dent at Jehat in Mongolia, has lately sent to 
Europe a variety of rice which is supposed, 
will prove a great acquirement to southern lati¬ 
tudes. Rice usually requires a moist soil and 
irrigation. The specimen from Mongolia grows 
in a dry soil and is cultivated like our common 
grains.—[Eds. Am. Agt. 
Preserving Eggs. —One bushel of quick-lime, thir¬ 
ty-two ounces of salt, eight ounces of cream of tar¬ 
tar. Mix the whole together, with as much water as 
will reduce the composition to such a consistency that 
an egg, when put into it, will swim.”— Eng. paper. 
To wash Blade Worsted or Woollen Hose .—If new, 
soak all night; then wash in hot suds with beef’s 
gall, a tablespoonful to half a pail of water. Rinse 
till no color comes out. Then stretch on stocking 
frames, or iron them when damp on the wrong side. 
ADVERTISEMENTS. 
THE FAST TROTTING 
HORSE BELLFOIINDER, 
Will stand at Middletown, Butler Co., Ohio, this year at $8 
for the season. He is a bright blood bay, with black legs, mane 
and tail; is 16 hands high, and weighs 1200 lbs. He has proved 
himself a first rate stock horse, some of his colts having sold 
near N. York for $1000. He has trotted his mile in 2 min. 45 
sec., and is every way a sound and desirable horse, his colts 
being equally adapted to the road and heavy farm work. Ad¬ 
dress Dr. ANDREW CAMPBELL as above._ 
R. II. HENHRXCIASOIY, 
MIDDLETOWN, BUTLER COUNTY, OHIO, 
Is now prepared to fill orders for thorough-bred Berkshire 
Pigs, from the late imported boars Windsor Castle, Earl Craves 
and Sultan, and twenty choice sows purchased of A. B. Allen, 
a part of his recent importation. Pigs in pairs from this supe¬ 
rior stock will be furnished substantially caged and delivered 
on the canal at Middletown, or on board steamboat at Cincin¬ 
nati, from $30 to $50 according to age and quality. Orders ac¬ 
companied with cash, will always secure the preference. 
ALSO—Pigs bred from the superb boar Kenilworth, of a stock 
of the largest and finest kinds of white hogs in England, also 
imported by Mr. Allen last October, crossed on the splendid 
large white Miami hogs of this country. The Miamis have been 
long noted for their large sizes. Animals of this breed have oc¬ 
casionally come up to the enormous weights of 1200 and 1400 
lbs, and it is believed that the cross of Kenilworth on them, will 
easily attain the weights of 700 to 1000 lbs at 18 months and two 
years old, if well fatted. Tigs of this cross $25 per pair caged 
and delivered as above.—Refer to the editors of this paper. 
M. L. SULLIVANT, of COLUMBUS, Ohio, has for sale Short 
Horn Cattle, Mules, Leicester Sheep, and Berkshire Tigs, 
