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NEW METHOD OF CURING TETANUS. 
will always re-appear. His preference of particular species will 
only extend somewhat to limit the number of others; but he will 
get rid of them altogether only by the perfect devastation of 
the forest. Every tree which the soil of the forest suits, being 
equally the production of nature, will assert its right to existence. 
Some will produce apples, and others nuts, or acorns, or berries; 
but all of them are equally dear to the soil, and he must labour 
hard effectually to cross her affections. 
If, then, trees yielding fruit or nourishment, exist almost by ne¬ 
cessity, in our forests, the pasturage of the hog there is a kind of 
natural function; while, at the same time, this animal destroys 
a vast quantity of insects and other beings injurious to the woods. 
It will not be contested, that the feeding of the hog in the 
forest {le Glandage), under the conditions and restrictions im¬ 
posed by law, is the source of considerable emolument to the 
forester. The extent of it, in different localities, is an article of 
political economy that deserves separate consideration. 
In the district of Bar-sur-Seine the glandage has been sup¬ 
pressed during some years. The forests have not improved, 
but the foresters have suffered. Their herds of swine have dimi¬ 
nished more than one-half; and, instead of sending their surplus 
pigs to the neighbouring towns, they have been compelled to have 
recourse to them for the supply of their own wants. 
Aimale% de I’Agric. Franc. Janvier. 
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A New and Certain Method of Curing Tetanus. 
A FARRIER, residing in the neighbourhood of St. Mawes, 
having a case of tetanus under his care, and finding that every 
means that he had employed had failed to unloose the jaws of 
his patient, as a last resource, tied a strong cord to the lower 
jaw of the horse, and fixing it firmly in a blacksmith’s vice, fired 
off a gun immediately over the animal’s head. The poor suffer¬ 
ing animal, as might be expected, was thrown into violent 
spasms and convulsions; he started back, away followed vice, 
bench, and, tools; and, the next minute, he lay dead in the smithy. 
The jaws becoming relaxed in consequence of the death of the 
horse, it was sagely remarked by the operator, that he had cured 
the disease; but that the animal not possessing sufficient strength 
to undergo the operation, had died under it, w hich would not have 
been the case if had recourse to it sooner. 
