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limping, but in the trot, she was exceedingly 
lame, and in both paces, there was a rolling out¬ 
wards of the upper arm bone, as though it was 
luxated at the shoulder joint. The muscles cov¬ 
ering the outer surface of the shoulder blade 
were so much shrunk, that the middle ridge of 
the bone was particularly prominent, and the 
outer aspect of the shoulder altogether present¬ 
ed a flattened appearance, as compared with 
the opposite side. The case was evidently one 
of what is called “ shoulder slipand so pal¬ 
pably plain were all the symptoms of this affec¬ 
tion, that the wonder is how it could ever be 
mistaken for any other. The owner of the 
mare had remarked to the practitioner previ¬ 
ously in attendance, that he thought the shoul¬ 
der was the seat of lameness; the only reply 
was—“ No, Sir, it is only wasted for want of 
use.” This is not the first case in which we 
have seen shoulder slip, so called,entirely over¬ 
looked, and overlooked too by veterinary sur¬ 
geons, graduates, by-the-bye, of our southern 
veterinary school. The disease consists in the 
first place of rupture of the muscles outside the 
shoulder blade, and in subsequent absorption or 
wasting of these consequent on having their 
natural capabilities of contraction and tone de¬ 
stroyed. It is this loss of active and passive 
contractile power which muscles naturally pos¬ 
sess, that allows the head of the upper arm bone, 
(humerus,) to roll outward when weight comes 
upon it, and we consequently observed that 
this rotation outward, and attendant lameness, 
are always greatest when the horse, thus affect¬ 
ed, is going down hill. In the majority of 
cases of this kind, a cure may be effected by 
applying counter irritants repeatedly over the 
seat of disease, by continued rest, and a few 
weeks’ run at grass.— North-British Agricultu¬ 
rist. 
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BROWN CORN. 
After giving the Brown corn a fair trial for 
years, I can truly say I think it valuable as a 
partial, but not for a general crop in this latitude. 
Its most valuable quality here, is its early ma¬ 
turity. It ripens two or three weeks before 
other corn, and this is highly advantageous to our 
farmers here, for we now winter few but our 
breeding swine, and it becomes more and more 
the usage to fatten the spring pigs in the fall. 
For this purpose, the Brown corn comes in just 
at the right season to feed our pigs; it is con¬ 
sequently very desirable for every farmer to 
raise a small quantity of it for the purpose of 
early feeding. It also comes very early for 
soiling stock, if wanted to feed green. | 
As to its cultivation, it requires a warm, rich 
soil, and should be planted in hills one and a 
half feet apart, the rows two and a half feet 
apart, three stalks left in a hill. It will bear 
very close planting, and is all the better for it, 
and gives a much larger yield. If in drills, the 
stalks should stand within six inches of each 
other, and the drills be not over two and a half 
feet apart. Plant early in June. H. 
Poughkeepsie , N. Y. 
EXPERIMENTS IN OATS AND BARLEY. 
We wish our farmers would report more ex¬ 
periments for the agricultural press than, they 
are in the habit of doing. It would be much to 
their individual benefit, as well as that of our 
readers. 
We find in the Edinburg Journal of Agricul¬ 
ture for March, the details of an experiment by 
Mr. IShaw, with fourteen different varieties of 
oats. We would gladly quote the details of this 
experiment in full, but as we have not space in 
our journal, we must be contented with giving 
the results. 
The oats produced from 37 to 73 bushels per 
acre, weighing from 37 to 39£ pounds per bush¬ 
el. The product of straw was from 3,117 to 
3,500 pounds per acre. 
In the same journal, Mr. Sinclair Sutherland 
reports an experiment with eight different vari¬ 
eties of barley. The yield was from 54 to 86 
bushels of grain per acre, weighing from 48 to 
57i pounds per bushel, and from 3,234 to 5,684 
pounds of straw. 
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VALUE OF SEWERAGE WATER. 
By recent experiments made with great care, 
on the London sewerage waters, it has been 
found that good soils will combine with and re¬ 
tain the fertilising ingredients contained in 
their own weight of water. Professor Way’s 
estimate is, that the soil will do much more 
than this. Reckoning the soil at 10 inches of 
depth, it is computed that 1,000 tons, or 224,000 
gallons of sewerage water may be thrown upon 
the soil and drained through it, (by means of 
well-constructed subsoil drains,) and the absorb¬ 
ing power of the soil will strain out of the wa¬ 
ter and hold for the benefit of its future vege¬ 
table growth, all the fertile matter the water 
contains. By accurate analysis, this quantity 
of London sewerage water is found to contain 
about half a ton of ammonia, besides potash, 
phosphoric acid, and the whole class of organic 
manures, in their most desirable state for min¬ 
istering to vegetable growth—equivalent to an 
application of three tons of the best Peruvian 
guano to every acre. 
