REMEDY FOR COLIC IN HORSES-NEW VARIETIES OF POTATOES FROM SEEDS. 27 ? 
REMEDY FOR COLIC IN HORSES. 
One of your subscribers Laving been so unfortu¬ 
nate as to lose several of his mules by the colic, 
desires, through your useful publication, to ob¬ 
tain some information on the subject. I will in¬ 
form him of my treatment in such cases, which 
has always proved successful. As soon as the 
animal is attacked, prepare a strong decoction of 
soot tea, to which add half a pint o£ whisky; 
pour down the throat with bottle or horn ; and if 
relief is not obtained in a few minutes, give an 
injection of soap suds, with a gill of strong 
decoction of tobacco, and a little salt added—and if 
this does not give relief, and an operation is not 
produced from the bowels, repeat the injection. 
My general practice is, to have placed m the 
cutting and feed-house, a small box of lime, one of 
ashes, and one of salt, or a barrel of salt and water, 
which is much better; the oats and fodder are always 
passed through the straw-cutter, and before fed to 
the animal a small quantity of the pickle is poured 
on, with the addition of a large spoonful of the ashes 
and lime. This is added once or twice a week 
during the spring and fall. As soon as I can pro¬ 
cure a mill for grinding the cob and corn, I shall 
apply the mixture to that feed which is more pre¬ 
ferable. I have pursued this course for the last six 
or eight years, with success, and can recommend it 
to my brother farmers as practical, and not theoreti¬ 
cal, as book-farming and knowledge are so often as¬ 
serted to be by prejudiced and anti-improving farmers. 
Washington, N. C., June , 184*6. J. B. M. 
NEW VARIETIES OF POTATOES FROM 
SEEDS. 
In autumn, soon after the appearance of the first 
heavy frosts, let the potato balls or apples be 
gathered, macerated in water, the seeds separated 
from the pulp, and placed in some convenient place 
in the shade, to dry; after which they may be 
packed up in an ak-tight box or bottle, and kept 
until required for use. As few of the early sorts 
produce blossoms, in order to produce seeds from 
them, deprive the plant of its tubers as they appear, 
and keep the runners from which they proceed 
above ground, by not earthing up the plant, and 
blossoms and seeds will soon appear. About the 
first of March, let them be sown in a hot-bed, in 
lines six inches apart, a quarter of an inch deep, 
and very thin. When water is necessary, sprinkle 
it between the lines, but avoid wetting the plants, 
as that would injure them, taking care to give them 
a little fresh air before they are watered. As the 
plants increase in size, rich earth carefully put be¬ 
tween the lines will add fresh vigor to them; but 
the tops of the plants must not be covered by the 
mouldings, which should occasionally be repeated 
until they are fit for transplanting. To prepare 
them for this, about the first of May, they must be 
lentifully refreshed with air; and, two hours 
efore removing them, they must be copiously wa¬ 
tered all over , and the glasses covered with mats, to 
prevent the sun, if shining at the time, from 
scorching the plants. Let each plant be taken up 
carefully, with a ball of earth attached to it, and 
plant them in trenches, after the manner of culti¬ 
vating celery, only with this diiference, the distance 
from plant to plant, in the lines, must be eighteen 
inches; and if the sun should, be shining out strong 
at the time of planting, a flower-pot or any other 
convenient article may be placed over each, to pre¬ 
vent flagging; for, with all care exercised in tak¬ 
ing them up, a good many of the fibres will be 
broken. After the plants have established them¬ 
selves, remove the pot, and earth up occasionally, 
as long as the space between them will admit of it. 
The best manure employed in the operation is a 
mixture of fine turf and rotten horse-dung. 
In plants produced from the seeds of the same 
hall, no two stems will, in all respects, possess the 
same qualities; yet, many of the tubers will have 
so near a resemblance to each other, that, when 
they are mixed together, they cannot be distin¬ 
guished by the eye, though it may happen that one 
variety will be four times as prolific as the other, 
or may be much better in other respects. The 
tubers raised from the seeds of the same ball, are 
also prodigiously diversified in regard to color , 
being black, red, white, green, yellow, pink, &c.; 
to shape, as round, knobbed, and varied in all pro¬ 
portions; to size, some of them being no larger the 
first year than peas, while others exceed the size of 
a pullet’s egg; to earliness , some of them complet¬ 
ing their growth in July, while others will not put 
forth their blossoms before October; to productive¬ 
ness, .some yielding more than two hundred, while 
others will give only three or four; to spreading 
under ground, some running out to a great distance, 
others growing quite near to the stem, some de¬ 
scending deep into the earth, while others will rise 
to the surface; to quality, some being tough and 
watery, some dry and mealy, some very pleasing to 
the taste, and others will not be palatable a*t all; 
and as to steins, some will carry a single stalk, like 
a rod, others an immense profusion of them, some 
being very luxurious, while others will be extreme¬ 
ly dwarfish. In short, what is very remarkable., 
no sort of connection will be found to exist be¬ 
tween any two peculiarities. Few plants which 
may resemble each other above ground, will often 
be found extremely dissimilar below the surface; 
while two tubers that apparently resemble each 
other, will sometimes be so different in quality, 
when tried for eating, that one -will perhaps be 
among the best, and the other among the worst of 
the parcel. Hence the benefit that may be derived 
by a cautious selection from seedlings is obvious, 
as well as the evil consequences that may accom¬ 
pany a careless procedure in this respect. B. 
Superior Corn Bread —In stopping at Bemenf s 
American Hotel in Albany, a few weeks since, Ido 
not know when I relished any food better than I 
did some excellent corn bread, which I found on 
his breakfast table. I was so well pleased with the 
article, as well as with the general character of his 
house, that I begged of him to furnish me with a 
recipe for making it, which is as follows:— 
Take 3 quarts of milk, a little sour, 7 eggs, 
2 ounces of butter, 1 teaspoonful of salagratus, and 
mix with Indian meal, to the consistency of a thick 
batter, and bake with a strong heat. The pans 
used for baking are of tin, 8 inches in diameter, 14 - 
inches deep, and a little bevelled. The above is 
sufficient for seven loaves. A Traveller 
