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ficial, the other was cut through the upper part 
of the neck quite down to the spinous processes 
of the bones of the neck, and then extending 
downwards and forwards nearly eight inches, 
severing several large muscles. I saw the ani¬ 
mal soon after, and had him brought up to dress 
his wounds. 
At this time, although there had been much 
blood lost, there were no bleeding vessels. I 
proceeded to take several stitches, about tvito 
inches from each other, by which means I drew 
the edges together. I then put on some super¬ 
ficial dressings, and tied the horse with his head 
up, by means of a short halter. In the evening, 
on visiting the horse, I found him very much 
exhausted from the loss of blood. The wound 
was completely filled with a large clot, and 
there was a small stream of florid, arterial blood 
flowing from it. I immediately cut away the 
stitches and cleansed the wound, and soon found 
the artery near the spine. I endeavored to take 
it up and tie it, but it was too deeply situated; 
so, with a small, artery forceps, I siezed the 
vessel, and pinched and twisted it until it no 
longer bled. I then stitched the wound again, 
shaved the hair oflj and drew the edges together 
with strips of adhesive plaster. After a few 
days, the stitches gave way, and the motion of 
the horse’s head and neck drew the lips of the 
wound somewhat apart; but the healing process 
went on very favorably. The parts were washed, 
and raw cotton, dipped in powdered rosin, was 
laid in the wound, and then the whole was 
dusted over with rye flour. In the latter part 
of the treatment, granulations, or proud flesh, 
were burned off with lunar caustic whenever 
they were seen to arise above the surrounding 
skin. The horse is now perfectly recovered. F. 
New Mode of Raising Wheat. —An experiment 
has been tried in Iowa, and recorded in the 
Prairie Farmer, by J. A. Rosseau, where two 
bushels of wheat and one of oats were mixed 
and sown together in the fall, on one acre. The 
oats shot up rapidly, and were, of course, cut 
down by the frost. They however furnished a 
warm covering for the earth, and when the snow 
fell among the thick stalks and leaves, they kept 
it from blowing away. This covering prevented 
the winter-killing of the wheat, and the oats 
yielded a rich top-dressing for the crop the 
following spring. The result was—an abundant 
crop, while land precisely similar along side of 
it, and treated in the same manner, with the 
exception of omitting the oats, was utterly worth¬ 
less. Will some of our readers try this experi¬ 
ment the coming season, and give us an account 
of the results ? 
Disease in Swine.— A breeding sow was turned 
off to fatten. A few days after, she was noticed to 
stand with her head down, and to be breathing 
with great distress, but yet, without any percepti¬ 
ble sound. This continued for a day or two, when, 
supposing she was laboring under an attack of 
inflammation of the lungs, I cut off her tail, from 
which she bled freely. This was followed by 
immediate relief, and in a day or two she was 
quite well. * F. 
FELE : S MERVEILLE STRAWBERRY. 
Will our foreign botanists never learn that 
we have three distinct kinds of strawberry 
plants, and that cultivation never changes their 
character ? Staminate, hermaphrodite, and pis- 
tiiate. The first, perfect in male organs, but de¬ 
fective in female organs. These are always bar¬ 
ren. Hermaphrodite, always perfect in male, 
and partially perfect in female. A portion of 
the blossoms have both organs perfect, and bear 
perfect fruit. A portion, partially perfect in 
female organs only, bearing berries defectively 
formed; and a portion of the blossoms wholly 
defective in female organs, and bear no fruit. 
The productiveness of this class varies with the 
soil, climate, and season ; but will never average 
one third of a crop of perfect fruit. 
The pistilates are defective in male organs, 
and separate from ail others, will ■ never 
bear a perfect fruit. In the vicinity of sta- 
minates or hermaphrodites, unless so closely 
crowded together that they cannot be im¬ 
pregnated, not one blossom will fail to pro¬ 
duce a perfect fruit, unless killed by a late 
frost. I presume one staminate will impreg¬ 
nate twenty pistilates. The latter is the only 
kind worthy of cultivation for a crop, and 
will bear four times the quantity the her¬ 
maphrodites; and the average of the fruit is 
much larger. 
In raising from seed, an occasional plant 
is produced with most of the blossoms per¬ 
fect, or nearly perfect, in both organs, and 
a portion entirely destitute of male organs, 
but perfect in the female; and these blossoms, 
of course, bear perfect fruit. The Eberlin seed¬ 
ling, of Mr. Eberlin of this state, and the Eng¬ 
lish Duke of Kent, are the only plants I have 
met of this character, except one, among some 
2,000 seedlings that I raised a few years since. 
Even some of our best horticulturists, who do 
not give particular attention to the plant, sup¬ 
pose that pistilates, in running, change their 
sexual character. This is never true. Stamin- 
ates, having no fruit to bear, make ten new 
plants where the pistilates often makes but 
one, especially in the season of fruiting. A 
chance staminate seedling may come up, and 
drive all the pistilates out of the bed, before it is 
observed. 
In setting out new beds, I should plant four 
beds of pistilates, and then a single row of 
hermaphrodites, then eight beds of pistilates, and 
continue this rule. I leave staminates suffi¬ 
ciently near for impregnation by wind and 
insects, if the pistilates be not crowded too close 
together. A late writer speaks of an abundant 
crop, where his plants were in a compact mass. 
Common sense will contradict this. Two thirds 
of the blossoms could not be reached by insects. 
Plants should be from 6 to 9 inches from each 
other, depending on the richness of the soil, and 
growth of the plant. Pele’s Merveille will, I 
feel confident, be found to be hermaphrodite, 
and unworthy of cultivation, unless it be as a 
mere impregnates The writer appears ignorant 
of the sexual character of the plant, and is silent 
on the subject. No better evidence is wanted 
