AMERICAN AG-RIGULTURIST. 
[July, 
Kicking, Jumping, and Running Cattle. 
Horses, cows and other cattle may be perfect¬ 
ly controlled from kicking and jumping by the 
arrangement which we figure. A description 
is sent to the Agriculturist by Wait M. Myers, 
of Oneida Co., N. Y., who lias found it a sure 
remedy for the excentricities named. We figure 
it as applied to a cow, but the same arrangement 
may he put upon a horse; and it interferes with 
no desirable motion. A stout sti'ap 1 '[2 inches 
wide goes around the neck, and is connected by 
a still stronger one, 2 inches or more in width, 
to a small pulley under the brisket, through 
which a rope is rove, each end of which is 
made fast to fetters, or to hobble-straps above 
the fetlock. A girt strap simply holds up the 
pulleJ^ “When the animal stands square on 
her feet,” says Mr. M., “the rope must be pul¬ 
led taut; and when all is right, she can walk or 
trot as well as ever, but she cannot kick with 
one foot, nor with both, nor can she jump over 
a fence three feet high to save her life.” 
It is obvious also, that an animal in this 
harness cannot run, for both hind feet cannot 
he moved backward at the same time. This 
contrivance is not new, hut has long been used 
for breaking colts and controlling their action. 
Such things, however, except in cases of in¬ 
veterate and obstinate kickers, or runners, do 
more harm than good. If a colt can be in¬ 
fluenced by kindness and so broken, he makes a 
much better horse than one controlled by main 
force. This affair will not prevent that kind of 
kicking which knocks over the milk-pail, but 
only that most disagreeable and dangerous kick¬ 
ing back and sideways which some cows do. 
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Fig 1.— SECTION LENGTHWISE THE STALL 
Plaa for Horse Stall. 
Mr. A. W. Harrow, a Maine farmer, sends to 
the Agriculturist the following, which he has 
in use, and recommends from his experience : 
“I enclose a sketch of a horse stall, which I 
have used in my stable for the last six months. 
The plan is original with me. It is not patent¬ 
ed^ and I hope the public will not appreciate it 
less on that account. [The following refer¬ 
ences to the diagrams will enable tlie plan to be 
readily understood, especially if the reader 
will apply a scale of one-quarter of an inch 
to the foot.—A, J5, (7, feed box; H, grate; E, 
platform; F, hinges attaching grate frame to 
platform; II II, grate supports; K, frame in 
which the grate bars are set; M, M, sides of 
stall; W, head of stall; 0, end-bars of grate im¬ 
movably attached to K, K, and forming part of 
the grate frame; P, position of grate when ele¬ 
vated to remove the droppings.] The grate has 
2-inch bars and 2-inch spans, and the bars are 6 
inches deep, and 6 inches space is betwen them 
and the floor. The droppings go through the 
grate, leaving it dry and clean. I have had 
hardly a stain to remove from my horse since 
using it, and no litter has been used. The bars 
being but two inches apart are as easy to the 
hoof as a plain floor. The droppings may be 
drawn from beneath by a hoe or scraper, or the 
grate may be raised, as indicated in Fig. 1. I 
keep muck under the grate, and think I can 
better save both liquid and solid manure than 
by bedding in the common way. It requires 
several days for the droppings to fill up the 
space beneath the grate. Hence the muck may 
be well saturated before removal.” 
Chicken Medicine. 
It is very distressing to see our farm yard de¬ 
pendents suffering under any form of disease, 
and much more so when we see one after anoth¬ 
er droop and pine and die, while we are pow¬ 
erless to alleviate or remove the malady. In re¬ 
gard to the larger animals Ave can, in a measure, 
compare their symptoms Avith our OAvn Avhen 
Ave are sick. We have the pulse, the secretions 
and excretions, the Avarmth, moisture or dryness 
of the skin, the breathing, and the various 
modes the terrestrial mammals have for shoAving 
acute suffering or dull disorder. With birds, 
hoAvever, the case is very different—they droop, 
hide themselves in dark corners, or in the bush¬ 
es, go through to us meaningless and rather fun¬ 
ny motions, Avalk sideways, twitch their heads 
one side, fall off their perches, grow lean, SAvell 
up about the eyes or head, gape, sneeze, take 
cramps—and so on—and as a general rule, no 
body can tell either the seat or nature of the 
disorder, any more than Avhat Avill cure it. The 
importance of the poultry interest, and the daily 
increasing value of the stock in this country, 
leads us to call especial attention to this subject, 
so that poultry fanciers and breeders may com¬ 
pare notes and learn something about the dis¬ 
eases of poultry and their treatment. Whoever 
Avill contribute to our stock of knoAvledgc, Avill 
place both editors and readers under obligations 
to him. Let the behavior of the foAvls and all 
the symptoms be closely Avatched, asAvell as the 
effects of the treatment; observe also the char¬ 
acter of the soil, if wet, dry, clay or gravelly, and 
other surroundings. The disease described by 
a lady of Cambridge, Mass., in the following 
letter—for Avant of a better name Ave may call 
Vertigo. —“Being a great lover of a poultry 
yard, and having for many years kept hens, I 
have been troubled and grieved on seeing some 
of my best lajmrs sicken and die, Avithout being 
able to save them. Last summer, finding a hen 
that was perfectly Avell the day before, walking 
round and round, her head tAvitching, heart 
beating A'iolently, skin hot, I thought I AA’Ould 
try a neiv remedy, viz.: paregoric, of Avhich 
I took a teaspoonful, a half teaspoonful of sul-| 
phur, half teaspoonful of Indian meal, and 
about four teaspoonfuls of water. I then put 
her in a basket of hay. Three times a day I 
gave her a little paregoric and water, s. The sul-^ 
phur operated on the bowels, and the hen was 
well in a feAV days. In November, I had two' 
hens taken in the same way, their heads tAvitch- 
iug, hot, and drawn nearly over the back, I 
doctored them in the same Avay, aud^tkey got 
perfectly Avell.” 
The Pip. —Mr. D. S. Kimball, Jr., of Bergen 
Co., N. J., Avrites concerning this and other ail¬ 
ments ;—“ I have cured a great many chickens 
of the pip in the following waj'-: The pqi being 
caused by a small dark SAvelling on the tongue 
near the roots, and sometimes on the roots, I 
take a knife and remove the SAvelling, and rub 
on a little butter mixed Avith ground black pep-j 
per. I give them no greasy food, and keep those, 
attacked entirely aAvay from all the others, as I 
regard the disease very contagious. 
^'■Lameness of folds without any apparent 
cause, is often occasioned by the caking of the oil 
sack. This is shoAvn bj'’ a hard crust on the top.' 
In such a case, Avash the upper part of the rump 
Avith Avarm Avater and castile soap. In case of 
“Loss of feathers, give fowls noAvarm food at all 
until they commence to coAmr again Avith doAvn,' 
and be very careful in their feed until recovered.| 
“Hen Lice. —Seeing Kerosene recommended 
for the prevention of lice in foAvls, I Avould say 
that the oil is good if sufficiently pure, but as it 
is not pure in one case out of fifty, it is often 
very injurious. I have found that the only pre¬ 
ventives not injurious, and all that is needed to 
raise and keep foAvlsboth clean and healthy are, 
first, and most important, have the henneiy both 
light, clean, and w'arm. Do not overstock Avith 
roosters, as it tends to keep all weakly and lia¬ 
ble to disease. Give them plenty of good, shaiqi* 
clean gravel, Avarm food (not too warm), Avith a 
little animal food mixed Avith it occasionalljq- 
at all times fresh pure Avater, and lastly give 
them clean sassafras iioles for their roosts.” 
Charles Embrey, of Washington Co., Md., 
writes on the same subject:—“ During the last 
summer my poultry and poultry-house seemed 
to swarm Avith vermin (hen lice); I lost several 
sitting hens in consequence. I tried as remedies, 
whiteAvash, sprinkling of lime, smoke, etc., to 
little or no purpose, and concluded to try brim¬ 
stone. I got a stick or roll of about half a pound, 
drove the foAvls out of the house,burued the brim¬ 
stone, smoking the premises Avell. The experi¬ 
ment proA^ed a success, I have had no trouble 
with vermin since; all seemed to disappear both 
from the foAvls and the house.” 
Stimulants have often a very good effect on 
fowls. Cayenne pepper and pepper corns, both 
are valuable mixed Avith their food, but ale and 
other malt liquor, or spirits, even undiluted, 
administered upon stale bread, have often a 
wonderfully good effect upon dumpish torpid 
birds, and upon those AA’ith colds, etc. Ale is 
best; and may be given alone in severe cases. 
