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ened with a stick, so as to prevent circula¬ 
tion. 
If the dog is known to be mad, the bitten 
flesh should be unhesitatingly removed with 
the knife, and the surface of the fresh wound 
afterwards destroyed with a hot iron. These 
are the only means worthy of confidence, 
and an energetic and timely use of them has 
been proved to be certain in preventing this 
horrible disease. 
The scar is said to become swollen and 
tender just before madness takes place ; and 
it is no w a practice very well settled to cut it 
out at any time before disease occurs, if 
there should be just cause of apprehension. 
If the wound for any reason can not be 
treated in so summary a manner, we must 
resort to continued washings, to suction with 
a cupping glass, or junk bottle from which 
hot water has been emptied, or with a tobac¬ 
co-pipe, and the after application of caustic 
or hot iron. It is not safe to cleanse such 
a wound with the mouth, as cases are on 
record where the disease has been taken in 
this way. Finally, a poultice of flax-seed or 
bread and milk should be applied. The 
whole of this treatment is equally as appli¬ 
cable to animals as men. 
We have been thus explicit, as life often 
depends on prompt action to prevent absorp¬ 
tion of the poisonous saliva, and there is no 
time to consult books or run for a doctor. 
For the American Agriculturist, 
RUNNET FOR SCOURS. 
I learn from your paper of the 26th July, 
that you wish something more explicit rela¬ 
tive to runnet for the scours in cattle and 
sheep ; and I will give you all that I know 
on the subject. In the fall of 1837, I dis¬ 
covered that several of my lambs had the 
scours. They were from six to seven months 
old. I had about 150, and the disease pre¬ 
vailed among them till some 30 of them 
died. I tried several kinds of medicine, 
without deriving much benefit, until a friend 
advised me to give them runnet, saying that 
he had had a two year old steer that came 
near dying, and after giving him those things 
that he considered the most powerful as¬ 
tringents for some two or three weeks, a 
friend had recommended runnet, and he had 
given him a pint once in 12 hours ; two or 
three doses effecting a final cure. My wife 
, being a cheese-maker had it on hand. I took 
it in the same state she used it for cheese, 
and gave four table-spoonfuls to each lamb, 
and my flock was restored to health in a few 
days. Not one more died. The second 
dose was given to but very few, and I have 
used no other medicine for scours in my 
cattle or sheep from that day to this. I give 
six table-spoonfuls to an old sheep, and have 
never known it to fail. I wait 24 hours be¬ 
fore I give the second dose to a sheep; but 
the first dose generally cures. On some, 
however, when dying with old age, and in 
the last stage of their illness, the runnet has 
had no effect. As to the strength of the ar¬ 
ticle, I am not able to give you any further 
information than that it is what the cheese- 
maker calls good runnet to set a curd for 
•heese. I keep it by me the year round, 
though I seldom need it except fall and spring, 
when my sheep are eating frozen grass. 
Burdett, Schuyler Co., N. Y. Reed Burritt. 
For the American Agriculturist 
PRESERVING TOMATOES. 
In your last number, you ask for a receipt 
for “an effectual, economical method of pre¬ 
serving ripe tomatoes for winter use.” 
The most effectual method is to cook them 
thoroughly, and put in air-tight cans. When 
wanted for the table, heat them and season 
to the taste. 
A more economical method is, after cook¬ 
ing, put them in glass bottles ; set the bot¬ 
tles in water, and allow it to heat gradually, 
in order to expel the air; cook and seal them 
and kepp in a cool place. 
The following is an excellent method of 
preparing them, to be eaten as a salad: 
Place in a deep stone jar a layer of ripe to¬ 
matoes ; sprinkle over them a little sal! and 
ground mustard, then a layer of sliced 
onions. Continue this till the jar is full; 
then pour over them strong cold vinegar suf¬ 
ficient to cover them. 
I would recommend the receipt “ for pick¬ 
ling green tomatoes published in a number 
of your paper, nearly a year since, as being 
super-excellent as a pickle. 
I can recommend each of these modes of 
preserving tomatoes, having proved them 
myself, or seen them practised by others. 
To Preserve Sweet Corn. —Allow the 
kernel to assume its rich, saccharine, pulpy 
state; do not pluck too soon—then the ker¬ 
nel is watery ; defer not too long—it will be 
too hard and dry. When plucked at the right 
point of growth, boil on the ear till fit for the 
table ; remove from the cob with a table- 
knife, and spread out thin on a sheet, in a 
good sunny exposure ; a scaffold of clean 
bright boards is desirable ; stir frequently 
for one or two days ; keep from the dew 
and rain, and when well-dried hang up in 
bags in a dry place. It will be almost as 
good as when served up in the regular sea¬ 
son, if care is observed in dressing. It 
should stand in water over night, and be 
boiled gently until soft and plump, and served 
up according to taste. It is a palatable arti¬ 
cle, exceedingly nutritious, and serves to en¬ 
rich the table during those months in which 
the good housewife is put to her wits’ end to 
know what vegetable beyond the potato, 
shall adorn her table. 
Salt for the Gooseberry Caterpillar.' 
Observing in your last that soot has been used 
against this destroyer alone, and mixed with 
lime and with ashes, I was surprised not to 
find it also used with salt, which has been 
found one of the best mixtures with soot; 
but salt alone, or with lime, or with gas li¬ 
quor, or soda ash alone, which will not smut 
the fruit, are all effective soil vermin killers. 
Gooseberry bushes, with their depth of root, 
would probably bear 10 cwt. of salt per acre, 
spread over the ground of the fly, and wa¬ 
tered with diluted gas liquor (1 to 5 or 6 
water) enough to carry it gradually down 2 
inches. This done now and again, when th e 
first flies begin to appear, would probably so 
pickle the cocoon as to kill the fly, if not the 
larva, the leafy fertilizing quality of the ara- 
moniacal liquor counteracting the hindering 
reaction of the salt on vegetation, while 
both cooperating in the destruction of ver¬ 
min, might supersede the necessity of dig¬ 
ging away and burning the soil.—J. Pri- 
deaux, in Agricultural Gazette. 
Advices from Malaga announce the re¬ 
appearance of the Vine Mildew. In 1853 it 
attacked the Muscatels or Raisin Grapes to 
such an extent, that in the case of one of the 
great growers there, only 14,000 boxes could 
be sent to the English market instead of 
20,000, the usual quantity from his vineyards. 
In 1854 it left the Muscatels, or nearly so, 
and attacked the wine grapes. We now 
learn that it has once more seized the Mus¬ 
catels as well as others. What is very cu¬ 
rious, the bunches of grapes which touch 
the earth are free, those alone being attacked 
which appear on the higher branches. Of 
course, therefore, the trellised vines have 
suffeic;d most. Another remarkable fact is 
announced, namely, that the mildew now 
attacks the grapes, leaving the foliage sound 
and healthy, whereas it formerly attacked 
the leaves first, and the grapes at a later 
period. 
Crops in Ireland. —The appearance of the 
crops in Ireland is most gratifying ; the Po¬ 
tatoes are luxuriant, and hitherto there has 
not perhaps been half a dozen well authenti¬ 
cated instances of disease ; there is, how-. 
ever, a report, not that l know resting on 
any good authority, that without any sign of 
disease in the leaf or stem the tuber has 
been found seriously affected. A very large 
quantity is planted this year, and as the dis¬ 
ease ever makes its first and partial appear¬ 
ances, which it has not yet done, at the least 
a month before it becomes generally de¬ 
structive, we may reckon on the crop ap¬ 
proaching, pretty near maturity before the 
pest shall sweep over the whole land; it 
happened in 1847 (I think) that the crop was 
so far matured before it was struck by dis¬ 
ease that the consequent withering was sup¬ 
posed by the sanguine to be the natural ef¬ 
fects of its age, and they fondly hoped that 
the disease had disappeared, forgetting that 
it was unobserved in 1845 till after the Po¬ 
tatoes were dug, when they rotted away rap¬ 
idly in the house and the pit. And this year, 
from foregone experience, ought to be one 
of late attack; every alternate year has 
been so from the first notice of it. We may 
therefore reckon on an abundance of this 
valuable esculent. And as the Oat crop 
promises largely, Ireland may be expected 
to contribute a good share to the general 
food fund. Turnips also promise well, though 
the early sowings suffered much from the 
fly. The meadows, which are always late 
with us, have so benefitted by the early sum¬ 
mer rain that I think they will be on the 
heavy side.—J. M. G., in Agricultural Ga¬ 
zette. 
Foot Rot in Sheep. —To every 100 sheep, 
give half a pound of sulphur, mixed in their 
salt, twice a week. Get Blue Vitriol and 
dissolve as strong as possible, in hot cider, 
or vinegar. Pare the foot until the diseased 
part is all pared away, even if it takes the 
entire foot, and dip the feet of the whole 
flock, sound ones and all, in this liquid, twice 
a week, until the trouble is removed. In 
about three weeks after you commence 
doctoring your sheep, select from the flock 
such as you trust are well, and put them 
into a clean pasture by themselves, and con¬ 
tinue dipping their feet the same as the 
diseased’ones. Foot rot is very contagious, 
and sound sheep will get it by going into a 
pasture where diseased sheep have been, 
months after they have been removed. It is 
caused by wet pastures,-»“(Mj 0 Farmer. 
