CURE FOR A BELLOWSED HORSE. 
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CURE FOR A BELLOWSED HORSE. 
Some few weeks since, being overtaken by a 
severe thunder storm on my way home, I took 
refuge under a shelter where were assembled 
several gentlemen, from the same cause. One 
of the gentlemen, a stranger to me at the time, 
thus accosted me. 
“Why do you not cure your horse of the 
bellows?” 
“ For the very reason that I cannot,” I replied. 
“Well, stranger,” said he, “when I am at 
home I cure all such cases, and warrant them, 
at $10 a head; but as I am a long way from 
home, and your horse is a valuable one, I will 
tell you how to cure him effectually in a few 
days. In the first place/’ says he, “ give your 
horse salt in his water, for three mornings in 
succession; after that, pound up a piece of blue- 
stone about the size of a chinquapin, and mix 
with wet meal; give him the same quantity for 
ten consecutive mornings, feeding him rather 
lightly for ten days, and if he is not a well horse 
at the end of ten days, I’ll give you my head.” 
I have tried the remedy, and it has wrought a 
perfect cure, and now give it to the readers of 
the Enquirer, that they may save their horses 
and their ten dollars too. 
The above, clipped from one of our ex¬ 
changes, is undoubtedly a very valuable reme¬ 
dy for a very bad disease, provided any body 
knows what it is. We’ll be “ blowed,” if we do, 
and we have consulted every book in our libra¬ 
ry that says anything about horses, and we are 
still ignorant. 
“ Pound up a piece of bluestone.” What is that ? 
We suppose some men know the medicine; but 
how big is a chinquapin ? What portion of our 
readers know it is a nut about the size of a piece 
of chalk, and a very small piece at that ? But 
what is a “ bellowsed horse ”? Will somebody 
give some definite information about the size of 
a chinquapin ? 
WHENCE COMES THE NITROGEN THAT IS APPRO¬ 
PRIATED BY PLANTS? 
It has been a current opinion among vegeta¬ 
ble physiologists, that nitrogen, or azote, which 
constitutes a small proportion of every plant, is 
obtained only from the soil, or the manures 
which are added to it. The rationale by which 
this conclusion was reached was never very 
satisfactory to our own minds, and we are glad 
to perceive it has at last become equally un¬ 
satisfactory to others. Mr. G. Ville, of France, 
has quite recently communicated a series of ex¬ 
periments on vegetation, in which he thinks he 
has clearly demonstrated, “ that the azote of the 
atmosphere, so far from being an inactive ele¬ 
ment, has a very important share in the nutri¬ 
tion of vegetation.” As Mr. Ville is a gentle¬ 
man of talent and acquirements, and has devoted 
three years of unremitting attention to this sub¬ 
ject, his conclusions are entitled to attention. 
It has always been conceded, that carbon, 
(as carbonic acid,) is largely absorbed from 
the atmosphere by growing plants, while it has 
been as stoutly denied that its nitrogen conduces 
in the remotest degree to their growth and de¬ 
velopment. Yet, even if limited to its nutritive 
capabilities, only when in a state of combina¬ 
tion, as ammonia, the exceedingly minute portion 
existing in the air, may, when brought to it by 
this constantly-moving fluid, during the entire 
period of the growth of the plant, contribute 
largely to its support. We have as yet seen 
only the announcement, not the details, of this 
alleged discovery, and we hope to be able to 
speak more fully on this interesting subject 
hereafter. 
INSECTS DESTRUCTIVE TO PEACH TREES. 
Among other things which blight the pros¬ 
pects of peach growers is a small green grass¬ 
hopper, that lives upon the leaves, eating small 
round holes, from August until the first heavy 
frost. They commence a cricket-like noise 
soon after sunset, and continue through the 
night. 
The female punctures the young bark with a 
sting, like a locust, and deposits a small trans¬ 
parent egg of an oblong shape, and closes the 
orifice with a kind of gum from her mouth. 
These eggs hatch out in April, leaving a hole 
from which the peach gum exudes, and a small 
dead spot under the bark. The grub is a small 
white worm, somewhat resembling the common 
peach worm, only much smaller. Is it possible 
this can be the cause of the yellows in peach 
trees? It is a subject worthy of investiga¬ 
tion. 
Imported Berkshire Pigs.— We were shown 
a few days since, a boar and sow of this favor¬ 
ite breed, which have been imported by Mr. C. 
W. Simmons, of Yonkers. They are from the 
celebrated stock of G. Hayter, Esq., M. P., of 
Tulscot Farm, Berks, and are very fine speci¬ 
mens of the breed, and will doubtless do mucii 
to improve the species in this neighborhood. 
They are probably the only imported Berk- 
shires in the country. Mr. S. can be found by 
addressing him at William’s Bridge, Westches¬ 
ter county, N. Y. 
