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WOOLLETT’S 
VILLAS AND COTTAGES; 
OR, 
HOMES FOK ALL. 
A BOOK FOR THE PEOPLE. 
Showing Plans, Elevations and Views of twelve Villas and 
ten Cottages, being a Collection of Dwellings suited 
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Continued from p. 247. 
Tumors os* Abscesses on tlie Jaw. 
—“ J. F. Z.,” Spencer Brook, Minn. The probable cause 
of this disease is a scrofulous condition of the animal. Its 
seat is the jaw-bone, and to establish a cure, if that is 
possible, the affected bone must be cut away. Sometimes 
the whole jaw must be removed, which of course would 
render the animal useless. The flesh of a scrofulous an¬ 
imal is not fit for food. 
Mieep iu Oregon.—“G.,” Jackson Co., 
Oregon, sends the following weights of some of his 
Cotswold ram lambs, as follows: one dropped March 1st, 
weighed at four days old, 18 lbs ; one at birth. March 5th, 
weighed 134 lbs., and one at birth, March 25th, weighed 
14 lbs. Weighed again on April 1st, No. 1 had increased 
to 48 lbs., and No. 2 to 40 lbs. These lambs and the ewes 
had only pasture and some wheat hay in February. 
Wliy a Cow makes little Butter.— 
“ J. L. L. M.,” Berks Co., Pa. To feed a cow five quarts 
of “corn chop ” a day will tend to reduce her milk and 
fatten her. It is too heavy feeding. Three quarts a day 
of mixed corn and bran ground together, with cut hay 
and fodder, ought to he sufficient for an ordinary cow. 
To feed too much corn-meal will sometimes dry up a cow. 
Treatment for Garget.— “A. Q. M.,” 
Longmont. The proper treatment for a cow suffering 
from garget would be to give her 8 ounces of Epsom 
salts, and when this has operated, to give her half an 
ounce of sulphur, mixed in a bran slop once a day, 
until the heat and hardness of the udder have disappear¬ 
ed. During this treatment the udder should be bathed 
with cold water, to which a little of ammonia water 
has been added. The bathing should be done twice a 
day, and should be accompanied with gentle rubbing and 
kneading for half an hour. When a cow produces a dead 
calf, the probability is that she is suffering from some 
disease of which this is an effect, but not a symptom. To 
say what should be done is not possible without knowing 
how she is otherwise affected. 
Crude Petroleum. — “ D. B.,” Cham¬ 
paign, Ill. In consequence of so many enquiries for 
crude petroleum, we repeat what was stated over a year 
ago, that it can be procured by the barrel of Mr. Geo. M. 
Lyons, Titusville, Pa. 
_ 
Tlie Tedder for Clover.—“W. J. O.,” 
Wartrace, Tenn. Tlie opinion that the tedder is not a- 
dapted for clover-hay should at least be modified. If the 
clover is cut late, and tedded when nearly dry, ranch of 
the leaf will be wasted; but now that the greater value 
of early cut clover is so well known, and the fashion of 
starting the tedder as soon as the clover is cut, is com¬ 
mon, this machine may be of advantage if used with 
care and judgment. There is a difference in tedders ; 
those that have a more violent action than others should 
be avoided for use in clover. 
Blade Lantbs. — “ D. W. L.,” Amelia Co., 
Yo. Occasionally a black lamb will be dropped iu a flock 
of pure Southdowns. It is probably a reversion, as it is 
called by breeders, to the original type from which the 
black legs and faces have been derived. It may be more 
strange still that a black or a spotted lamb should appear 
in a flock of pure Leicesters, but that has happened. 
This sporting, or accidental variety of color, in pure bred 
animals, is something we cannot account for. Among 
our western buffaloes or bisons, which ought to he a 
pure breed if there is any such, there are white indi¬ 
viduals occasionally seen. 
Plowing' Corn.—“ S. E. H.,” Chester, N. 
J. We do not advise using the plow in cultivating corn, 
but on tlie contrary the use of the cultivator or horse- 
hoe, which only disturbs the surface and keeps it flat. If 
we were to use a plow at all, we should first turn a fur¬ 
row from the row, and afterwards turn it back again. 
A nse los* Tocusts.—A new and impor¬ 
tant use for locusts has been discovered by a French 
physician, which has been so favorably considered by 
the French government, that large quantities of these 
insects have been procured in Algeria, and shipped in. 
barrels in a prepared condition to Brittany for use. The 
