CURE FOR A FOUNDERED HORSE. 
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CURE FOR A FOUNDERED HORSE. 
Heat a tubful of water to the boiling point, 
and bathe the legs from the fetlocks up, as hot 
as it can be applied. If rubbed downwards, it 
will take off the hair, if the water is used as hot 
as will be beneficial. Now wrap the foundered 
leg in a thick blanket, well bound on, and sat¬ 
urate it with hot water, being careful to wet 
it from the bottom upwards. In two hours, repeat 
the operation, and continue until the swelling 
is removed. 
A good purge for the horse during the appli¬ 
cation will be sage tea, made strong, molasses, 
and melted lard, each one pint. If the founder 
is very bad, bleed in the neck. You need not 
fear scalding the hair off, if you follow direc¬ 
tions. This is worth the price of the Agricul¬ 
turist a dozen years. 
NEW FLAN OF G-ROWING- CELERY. 
Mr. John Roberts, 34 Eastcheap, London, has 
lately published a pamphlet, containing a new 
method of growing celery, with his patent 
socket tiles, which is represented by the follow¬ 
ing cut:— 
_ 
Roberts’ Plan of Growing Celery.—Fig. 2, 
A, represents two rows of celery in the trench 
before the sockets are used, with' the horizontal 
tube placed between them for the purpose of 
watering. 
B , shows two similar rows with the sockets 
placed round each head of celery prior to earth¬ 
ing against them. 
C, shows the celery earthed up, as it appears 
in autumn, previous to harvesting, or covering 
up for winter use. 
Watering Crops.— Never irrigate grain nor 
any other arable crop, except lucern, unless it 
be while plants are growing, in the greatest 
droughts. 
ECONOMY OF USING MULES. 
It is still a mooted question which is the 
most economical for plantation purposes in this 
country, the mule or horse. Many use both, 
some use only mules and wont have a horse for 
ordinary work upon the place, while others will 
not have a mule; but as I stick to the latter, I 
propose to give some of my reasons for the 
preference, and a neighbor of mine who is al¬ 
together in favor of horses, has promised to an¬ 
swer me through the same medium, if you see 
proper to publish this communication. 
According to my experience, in which I am 
backed by “ Old Joe,” who was an old man as 
long ago as I can remember, and for many years 
head man of my father’s, mules live twice as 
long as horses at the same kind of work. We 
have mules now upon this plantation that have 
worked thirty years; that is, from three years to 
thirty-three or thirty-four, if I can depend upon 
the same authority above quoted, as he says 
they were bought the year I was born. Cer¬ 
tainly there is one which has been called Old 
Joe’s mule ever since I can remember anything; 
and he is a serviceable old fellow yet. He and 
his old driver, now as free 
as his mule or his master, 
have both grown grey togeth¬ 
er; and it is sometimes a 
question with Mrs. W., when 
she looks upon the old man 
mounted in his car with 
three or four of our children, 
which he has the most affec¬ 
tion for, his old mule or his 
young n asters. But to pro¬ 
ceed with my argument. 
instances are known of 
mules living sixty years, but 
that is probably as unusual 
as for a hr.se to reach the age of thirty. 1 am 
satisfied tney average twice the age of horses. 
Mules are not so liable to disease as horses; 
as trie great annual loss of horses all over the 
country will fully prove. I have been told the 
death of horses, in the city of New York, is so 
frequent, that many persons are procuring 
mules, and that some of the owners of omnibus 
lines have it in contemplation to substitute 
mules. How is it? 
Mules rarely go blind, which cannot be said 
of horses. I was in Baltimore last summer, and 
it appeared to me that almost half the horses in 
the streets had lost their sight. The hearing of 
a mule is much more acute than that of a horse 
and from this fact, and that they see better 
