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whisp, he was shortly restored to his feet, and 
"by adding a double quantity of blankets, the 
perspiration started very freely. I then admin¬ 
istered half a pound of glauber salts, and left 
him in care of the hostler for the night. On 
going to the stable in the morning, I found my 
horse no different in appearance from one just 
off from a long, but not a hard journey. I 
took him to the smiths, had the shoes replaced, 
and that day rode him to my farm, (two miles 
distant,) and back again. That was the last of the 
founders. I now keep the same horse, and he is 
perfectly sound and a very valuble beast 
For the chronic or chest founders, I should 
recommend the blanket sweat. This can be 
effected by wrapping the shoulders, or the part 
affected, in blankets very thick and warm, and 
by moving him until he perspires freely. On 
removing the blankets shower copiously with 
cold water. B. Webster. 
Portsmouth ,, N. H. 
CULTIVATE FRUIT. 
We are surprised at the apathy of our citi¬ 
zens to the cultivation of fruit. Nine' tenths of 
the intelligent, industrious, pains-taking, and 
economical people, who will busy themselves 
twelve or fifteen hours a day in their ordinary 
pursuits, will entirely neglect providing them¬ 
selves and their families with this luxury, though 
they may have ample grounds for the purpose, 
every way fitted for producing it in profusion. 
We call it a luxury, but it is more properly 
one of the necessaries of life; and for the want 
of it, persons frequently become diseased, or con¬ 
tinue so, if disease is induced from other causes, 
when the free use of seasonable, well-ripened 
fruit would have restored them atone fiftieth part 
the expense incurred by apothecaries’ and doc¬ 
tors’ bills. Who ever heard of an ailing family, 
whether adults or children, who indulged freely 
in wholesome fruits, and abstained from the 
made-up dishes of the pastry and other cooks ? 
But it is not as a corrective or medicine only, 
that we deem fruit invaluable as an article of 
diet. It has a direct money value, estimable in 
dollars and cents, for the amount it contributes 
as food to the support of the human system. 
This is conclusively proved, both theoretically 
and practically; for accurate analysis has 
shown that cultivated fruits contain large pro¬ 
portions of nutritive matter, and experience 
equally proves that when fruit enters largely 
into the diet of the family, a corresponding dim¬ 
inution of other food is always apparent. As 
profit, then, is directly concerned in the cultiva¬ 
tion of good fruit, we hope we may command 
the favorable attention of our readers for a mo¬ 
ment while advocating its increased cultivation. 
Many residences in the city, and nearly all in 
the country, have yards or grounds sufficiently 
extensive to admit of the cultivation of some 
choice fruit trees; and where they are too limit¬ 
ed for these, a few well-selected grape vines 
can seldom want suitable earth for rooting, or a 
favorable wall for climbing with its profuse 
branches. The yards even of the densely built 
city of New York, if well planted and culti¬ 
vated with vines, would yield no inconsidera¬ 
ble proportion of the grapes required by its citi¬ 
zens. Yet, how few tables in this city, and evert 
in the country, are supplied with this delicious 
fruit from their ample surroundings. 
We know a half acre of cultivated raspber¬ 
ries, (the genuine red Antwerp,) that produced 
in a single season, what sold for $1,400 in the 
New-York market. Yet, how seldom do people 
have a plate of this fine fruit of their own rais¬ 
ing, to treat a friend with. 
The strawberry is one of the most wholesome, 
as it is one of the most delicious of fruits, and a 
patch of four rods square, if judiciously selected 
and nicely cultivated, would yield an abundance 
for a large family; yet, not one household out 
of every hundred in the Union, is supplied with 
any except such as they buy or gather from the 
untitled meadows. 
The cherry is a hardy tree, a prolific bear¬ 
er, and a most delicious fruit, if the finer varie¬ 
ties be selected; and the tree is decidedly orna¬ 
mental withal; yet, numberless families get no 
cherries worth eating, save what they beg or 
buy at extravagant prices. 
The pear, the peach, and the plum, are 
abundant bearers, and the richness of flavor of 
their best varieties are not surpassed by any 
that grow either within or without the tropics. 
They have of late been subjected to their respec¬ 
tive scourging diseases of blight, the yellows, and 
the curculio; but a moderate share of attention 
to their proper treatment and remedies, will re¬ 
move each, and afford an ample return to such 
as will give a small part of their time to culti¬ 
vating them. 
If objection be still made to the nice and dis¬ 
criminating attention required by the foregoing 
fruits, what possible excuse can our indolents 
frame for the neglect of that hardy, self-sustain¬ 
ing, universally acceptable fruit, the apple? 
This, the king of American fruits, will grow ev¬ 
erywhere, produce abundantly, and of the 
choicest flavor, provided, only, that a suitable 
