AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
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so as to be ready to act promptly and with¬ 
out confusion, in any case of emergency. 
Asphyxia is the result of suspended res¬ 
piration, and the proper remedy is the im¬ 
mediate restoration of respiration. 
The supine position that is lying in the 
back, is an impediment to restoring the res¬ 
piration artificially, because, in this position 
of the body, the tongue falls back upon and 
closes the glottis. To remedy this, place 
the body at once with the face downward, 
which will throw the tongue forward and 
relieve the glottis, while the pressure of the 
body upon the chest and abdomen will pro¬ 
duce expiration. As soon as the body is 
thus placed, turn it gently upon one side, 
which will relieve the lungs from the pres¬ 
sure first produced, this together with the 
motion will induce inspiration. We throw 
into a tabular form the directions for treat¬ 
ing a person asphyxiated by drowning : 
A. GENERAL ARRANGEMENTS. 
I. With all speed send for medical aid, 
and for hartshota, snuff, articles of dry 
clothing, blankets, &c. 
II. Take the patient to a spot in the open 
air, exposing the face and chest to the breeze, 
except in too cold weather. 
B. TO EXCITE RESPIRATION. 
III. Place the patient gently upon the 
face to allow any water to run from the 
mouth. 
IV. Raise the patient to a sitting posture 
and endeavor to excite respiration : by snuff, 
hartshorn, or similar excitants applied to the 
nostrils ; by irrigating the throat with a 
feather or the finger; by dashing hot and 
cold water, alternately, upon the face and 
chest. If there be no success with these, 
lose no time, but 
C. IMITATE RESPIRATION. 
V. Replace the patient upon the face 
with the arms under the head; then turn the 
body gradually but completely upon the 
side, and a little more, and then again upon 
the face, and when this is done, apply pre- 
sure upon the back and ribs ; remove the 
pressure and again turn the body upon the 
side and proceed as before. Repeat these 
measures gently and deliberately, but effec¬ 
tively and permanently, sixteen times a 
minute only. 
D. TO INDUCE CIRCULATION OF BLOOD AND 
WARMTH. 
VI. Continuing the above measures as 
may be necessary, rub all the limbs and 
trunk upwards, (that is in the direction the 
blood flows in the veins). This rubbing is 
to be done with the warm hands, making 
firm pressure.. Replace the wet clothing by 
such dry covering as can be most readily 
procured. 
We will also add, do not be readily dis¬ 
couraged, (remember that time seems long 
on such occasions,) but continue the above 
remedies for at least an hour by the clock. 
—(Ed. 
Never let yourself be meanly betrayed into 
an admiration of a person of high rank, or 
fortune, whom you would despise if he 
were your equal in station. 
A Steam Plow wanted on the Prairies.— 
As yet we hear of little progress towards 
securing that great desideratum, a steam 
plow. The premium of $5,000 offered by 
the English Royal Agricultural Society fail¬ 
ed to bring forth a successful implement. It 
is now proposed to offer a still more mag¬ 
nificent prize in this country. 
Mr. Bronson Murray, a large Illinois farm¬ 
er, offers to be one of a hundred persons to 
raise Fifty Thousand Dollars, to be given as 
a premium “ to the inventor of a perfected 
steam plow suited to farm use, and capable 
of performing the labor at an expense in 
money not greater than the average cost of 
performing the same work under the present 
system.”— [Ed. 
LARGE JERSEY COW CABBAGE. 
BRASSICA OLERACEA, VAR. ARBORESCENS. 
To the Editor of the American Agriculturist • 
I would be obliged if any reader of the 
Agriculturist, has any knowledge (from ex¬ 
perience) of the value of the above variety 
of Cabbage, when grown and used in the 
feeding of cows and hogs—as from an arti¬ 
cle on the subject in an old Loudon’s Horti¬ 
cultural Magazine, it is stated that a few 
rods or perches of land in the above plant, 
was found sufficient to keep several cows 
through the season of growing, and that 
they are grown extensively in the Island of 
Jersey and in France, where the plant will 
attain the height of six to eight feet. It 
throws out large branching leaves, which 
are constantly plucked as they are large 
enough—when others succeed them—are 
very fast growers and yield an immense 
quantity of fodder, suitable for stall feeding 
or soiling cows. G. D. 
LOG HOUSES. 
A correspondent of the Boston Journal, 
writing from Minnesota Territory, gives the 
following description of a superior style of 
log houses which may interest persons go¬ 
ing West: Nothing is less attractive in ap¬ 
pearance than an ordinary log house, the 
logs being tumbled together as fast as pos¬ 
sible, and then plastered over with mud. But 
give to a Swede the making of a house from 
logs, and he turns out one which makes it 
very doubtful to me whether it is not really 
the best house that can be made of 
wood. The reason of such a difference is, 
that in their country, as they tell me, their 
houses of wood are never constructed in any 
other manner. With a few simple tools, 
principally the ax, they hew down the logs 
to a thickness of about five inches (making 
of them in fact, a sort of plank) and then 
joint, pin, and fit them together with a nice¬ 
ty which our best carpenters would find it 
hard to equal, and which makes them as 
impervious to wind and cold as the walls of 
a well caulked ship. In the way of rural 
architecture, this is something we do not 
read of, but it is nevertheless as comfort¬ 
able as it is unique, and in appearance even 
is behind no other way of putting wood to¬ 
gether that I have seen. 
STATE AGRICULT URAL E XHIBITIONS 1850. 
Name. Where Held. Date. 
Kentucky, Ag. & Mech. Lexington.Sept. 9—12 
Vermont,.Burlington. “ 9—12 
New-Jersey,.Newark. “ 10—1-2 
Canada East,.Three Rivers. “ 16—J8 
Indiana.Indianapolis. “ 20—25 
Ohio,.Cleveland. “ 23—26 
Canada West.Kingston. “ 23—20 
Am. Bornological Society Rochester. “ 24— 
Illinois.Alton.. “ 30 Oct. 3 
Michigan.Detroit. “ 30 “ 3 
New-York.Watertown. “30 “ 3 
Pennsylvania.Pittsburgh. “30 “ 3 
Kentucky.Paris. “30 “4 
California.San Jose.Oct. 7—10 
Connecticut.New-llaven. “ 7—10 
National Ag. Show.Philadelphia. “ 7—10 
North Kentucky.Florence. “ 7—11 
Wisconsin.Milwaukie. “ 8—10 
Iowa.Muscatine. “ 8—10 
New-Hampshire.Concord. “ 8—10 
North Carolina.Raleigh. “ 14—17 
Georgia. .Atalanta.“ 20—23 
Maryland.Baltimore. “21—24 
Maine.Portland.“ 28—30 
Virginia,.Richmond.Oct. 28—Nov. 1 
Alabama.Montgomery.Nov. 11—14 
South Carolina.Columbia. “ 11—14 
COUNTY SHOWS EOR 1856. 
Madison, 
Onondaga, 
Rensselaer, 
Jefferson, 
Oswego, 
Cayuga, 
Cattaraugus, 
Washington, 
Essex, 
St. Lawrence, 
Albany, 
Wayne, 
Oneida, 
Tioga, 
Delaware, 
Franklin, 
Monroe, 
Ontario, 
Queens, 
Orleans, 
Rockland, 
Schuyler, 
Seneca, 
Hamilton, 
Brown, 
Trumbull, 
Geauga, 
Conneaut, 
Medina, 
Meigs, 
Clermont, 
Ashtabula, 
Portage, 
Geauga, (Indep 
Butler, 
Knox, 
Lawrence, 
Hardin, 
Monroe, 
Putnam, 
Miami, 
Jefferson, 
Huron, 
Belmont, 
Drake, 
Sandusky, 
Muskingum, 
Delaware, 
Richland, 
Erie, 
Clark, 
Lake, 
Morgan, 
Greene, 
Stark, 
Holmes, 
Cuyahoga, 
Mahoning, 
Warren, 
Montgomery, 
Licking, 
Ottaway, 
Harrison, 
Preble, 
Summit, 
Loraine. 
Champagne, 
Washington, 
Guernsey, 
Hancock, 
Columbiana, 
Morrow, 
Clinton, 
Logan, 
Pickaway, 
Noble, 
Tuscarawas, 
Seneca, 
Carroll, 
Fairfield, 
Mercer 
Salem, 
Monmouth, 
Burlington, 
Cumberland, 
Somerset, 
NEW-YORK. 
Morrisville. 
Syracuse.. 
Lansingburg ... 
Watertown. 
Mexico. 
Little Valley .. 
Union Vidage . 
Elizabethtown. 
Canton.. 
Albany. 
Lyons. 
Rome. 
.Sept. 
8—10 
10-12 
16-18 
17—18 
17—18 
17—19 
17—19 
17— 18 
18— 19 
18—19 
23—25 
23—25 
23— 25 
24— 25 
Walton. 
ll 
24-25 
Malone.. 
U 
24—26 
Rochester. 
it 
24-26 
Canandaigua. 
... . “ 
24—26 
Hempstead.. 
25— 
Albion. 
25—26 
New-City. 
8- 9 
Watkins. 
(( 
8— 9 
Waterloo...... 
8—1U 
OHIO. 
Carthage. 
. 9-12 
Georgetown. 
9—12 
W arren. 
. . . . “ 
10—12 
Burton.. 
a 
10—12 
Conneaut. 
11—12 
Medina. 
it 
15—17 
Pomerov. 
. “ 
16—17 
Olive Branch. 
a 
16—19 
Jefferson. 
u 
17—18 
Ravenna. 
. li 
17—18 
tjClaridon. 
17—19 
Hamilton. 
17—19 
Mount Vernon. 
u 
18—19 
Ironton .. 
u 
18—19 
Kenton. 
u 
23—25 
Woodsfield. 
n 
26—27 
Kalida. 
. 1— 2 
Troy. 
.... “ 
1— 3 
Steubenville. 
a 
1— 3 
Olena. 
.... “ 
1— 3 
St. Clairsville. 
a 
1— 3 
Greenville. 
a 
1— 3 
Fremont. 
. il 
I- 3 
Zanesville. 
a 
1— 3 
Delaware. 
,.. . u 
1— 3 
Mansfield. 
a 
1— 3 
Huron. 
a 
1— 3 
Springfield. 
1— 3 
Painesville. 
1— 3 
McConnellsville... 
a 
1— 3 
Xenia.. 
1— 3 
Massillon. “ 1— 3 
Millersburg. “ 2— 3 
Cleveland. “ 7— 9 
Canfield. “ 7— 9 
Lebanon...'.. “ 7—9 
Dayton. “ 7— 9 
Newark. “ 8— 9 
Port Clinton . “ 8— 9 
Cadiz. “ 6—10 
Eaton. “ 8—10 
Akron. “ 8—10 
Elyria. “ 8—10 
Urbana. “ 8—10 
Marietta. “ 8—10 
Cambridge. “ 9—10 
Finley. “ 9-10 
New Lisbon. “ 9—11 
Mount Gilead. “ 9—11 
Wilmington. “ 10—11 
Bellefontaine. “ 14—16 
Circleville. “ 15—17 
Sarahsville. “ 16—18 
Canal Dover. “ 16—18 
Tiffin. “ 22—24 
Carrollton. “ 28—30 
CONNECTICUT. 
Norwalk.Sept. 23—26 
NEW-JERSEY 
Hightstown.Sept. 17—18 
Salem. “ 18 
Freehold. “ 24—25 
Mount Holly.Sept. 30—Oct. 1 
Bridgeton... Oct. 1— 
Somerville... “ 1— 2 
