good quality, large size and fine appearance 
make them decidedly Hie beat market pota¬ 
toes yet brought out. Their yield was 400 
bushels per acre last year, on trench-plowed 
clover sod, and was the least affected by the 
bugs of any variety grown on the farm.” 
time to time and make an advance on the 
efforts to strain. Forcible resistance has 
been known to rupture the womb. Rupture 
of the womb is known by the sudden cessa¬ 
tion of all efforts on the part of the animal, 
rapid prostration, running down of the pulse, 
and decline of animal temperature, &c. 
“ As the womb gradually enters the pass¬ 
age, assistants should endeavor to afford aid 
by pressing in the organ round the arm of 
the operator, which must not he retracted 
until the organ is properly returned. If the 
throes are very powerful and danger of rup¬ 
ture is threatened, give:—Chloric ether, one 
ounce; laudanum, two ounces; ale or porter, 
(cold.) one pint; mix and repeat the dose in 
one hour if required. 
“ Return of the womb should he effected 
as quickly as possible after inversion, as 
there is great danger of strangulation occur* 
ing from pressure of the neck. If the parts 
are cold and purple, pulse small and feeble 
or approaching indistinctness, the womb 
must be amputated, or the animal cannot be 
saved. The flesh of cows after suffering 
from this affection is decidedly unfit for 
human food. 
“ Sometimes the womb is with difficulty 
prevented from falling out a second time. 
This may be prevented by use of the harness 
shown in tlie accompanying engraving. As 
soon as the womb is properly replaced and 
made secure, (if the last prescription given 
above h;is not been used,) give her the fol¬ 
lowing drink, which will be found excellent 
in removing those violent after-pains to 
which cattle in this state are liableChloric 
other, one ounce; extract of belladonna, two 
drachms; water, one pint; rub the extract 
with a portion of the water until it. forms a 
thick fluid; afterward add the remainder, 
and, lastly, the ether. Repeat, if necessary, 
in two hours.” 
few years, but will grow and thrive for many 
years upon the same plot. My advice to 
those desirous of experimenting a little as to 
the value of the artichoke for feeding to stock 
or swine, is to allot some part, of the farm 
possessing moderate fertility, where it is 
rather inaccessible for the proper cultivation 
of the cereal grains, and prepare the ground 
with some degree of care, and plant, and cul¬ 
tivate in the same method as potatoes. 
Harvest them cither iu the fall or spring, as 
the necessity of the case demands, and con¬ 
tinue on with their culture another year. If 
the soil shows signs of losing its fertility, or 
the crop begins to deteriorate, a quantity of 
the smaller tubers can be permitted to remain 
in the ground, or they can be sown broad¬ 
cast and harrowed in. After the young 
plants have attained the bight of a foot, 
they can be turned under and another crop 
planted. 
1 would not have the readers of the Rural 
New-Yorker infer that I am trying to 
create an artichoke lever, nor trying to 
sharpen an exceedingly dull ax. Let it be 
distinctly understood that 1 have no tubers 
or seed for sale. 1 would like to have the 
Rural’# readers plant a small plot and 
practically test their intrinsic value as com¬ 
pared with potatoes or any roots and then 
report the result. 
With me they can be prevented from 
spreading by simply cutting the stalks after 
they get to bo a foot or more high. They 
have been recommended for killing couch or 
quitch grass and no doubt they would be 
efficacious iu eliminating this grass, but it 
will be well to be cautious in this matter 
lest the cure be less endurable than the 
disease. In the Western and Central States 
I am inclined to think it would he an advis¬ 
able course of pursuit to raise them and turn 
the hogs into the field and let them do the 
harvesting.—O. It. D., Pittsfield, A. F.,1871. 
OTStmm 
PROFUSE STALING. 
SOWING OLD WHEAT. 
“Bo Inn,Esq.,” of Chautauqua Co-writ¬ 
ing on tliis subject iu Rural New-Yorker 
of April 1st , asserts that “ not one kernel out 
of five will grow when the seed is old.” 
This is not always the case. I have raised 
wheat for the last nineteen years, ami I think 
I have sowed more old than new wheat, in 
that time, and my old wheat has always 
grown well till last fall. One season 1 sowed 
part old and part new wheat, and the old 
wheat came up first and was the largest all 
the fall. The division between the old and 
the new seed could be plainly seen, even to a 
single drill mark. Both kinds of seed were 
of the same variety, sowed the same day, in 
the same Held, on the same quality of soil, 
aud the previous treatment of both parts of 
the field had been the same. When the crop 
was harvested both parts were alike so far as 
could be seen. 
Last summer was an exceptional season, 
and much wheat heated and was injured, 
even when stored in small quantities in farm¬ 
ers’ granaries, and I believe this to be the 
cause of the failure of old seed last year. 
Last fall one of my neighbors had some 
thirty or forty bushels of a choice variety of 
wheat that had been stored through the sum¬ 
mer in a small bin in his granary, and, ap¬ 
parently, it was uninjured. Three of us, of 
whom the owner of the wheat was one, de¬ 
termined to sow this old wheat; two sowed 
all old wheat, and the third sowed part old 
and part new. The result was that the old 
wheat came up about two-thirds or three- 
fourths as thickly on the ground as the new 
wheat. How the crop may he at harvest 
time remains to be seen. If the advocates 
of thin seeding are correct in their views, the 
crop from the old seed may be the best. 
My conclusion, from my own experience, 
is that in ordinary seasons it, is perfectly safe 
to sow old wheat, provided it was in good 
condition when threshed, and has not been 
stored through the summer in too large 
quantities.—T. Newton, J u., Henrietta, N. Y. 
I have a horse about ten years old, that 
manifests a desire to urinate frequently, and 
often does urinate eight to twelve times daily. 
The urine is generally high colored ; some¬ 
times h.as a creamy appearance,and invaria¬ 
bly the last half-pint contains a great deal of 
sediment. His general health seems good, 
but at times be gets lame in one or the other 
of his hind legs, (apparently as if strained,) 
which may last for a week or two, and even 
longer, at which time he is unfit for use, and 
is allowed rest. It may be that he will be 
lame for three or four weeks, after which lie 
is fit for use again, and may not show signs 
of lameness lor six months, but still urinates 
as freely as ever. Any one of your readers 
communicating a remedy through your pa¬ 
per that will benefit the horse, would confer 
a favor on the owner.— Subscriber, Cluster, 
Delaware- Co., Pa. 
Jennings recommends the following to 
check the too copious flow of urine, which 
be says is caused by the improper use of 
niter, saltpeter and other powerful diuretics, 
unwholesome food, etc. lie says cither of 
the following will be found sufficient ;—Uta 
uni , (bear’s whortleberry,) powdered, 2 oz.; 
oak bark, pulverized, 4 oz.; catechu, pulver¬ 
ized, 1 oz.; opium, pulverized, 2 drachms; 
mix with molasses or honey, and divide into 
six balls, giving one every day. Or flic fol¬ 
lowing:—Opium, pulverized, half an ounce; 
sulphate of iron, one ounce; gentian root, 
pulverized, on® ounce; mix with molasses, 
and divide into six balls, giving one each day. 
Harrowing Winter Grain. 
A writer in the Journal of the Farm 
recommends a practice which we know, by 
experience, to be an excellent one—that of 
harrowing winter grain iu spring as soon as 
the ground settles. It is a species of grain 
culture very little practiced, but produces 
excellent, results on heavy soils, baked by 
excess of wet weather and dried lt3 r winds 
and sun. This correspondent properly says 
that “ in all cases grass seed should be sown 
before harrowing; after harrowing, roll with 
a light roller. 
Bnarnr Beet Culture in England. 
Efforts are making in England to intro¬ 
duce sugar beet, culture ami sugar manu¬ 
facture. The Berks agriculturists have had 
a meeting to listen to Mr. de Mornay, who 
intends to erect a factory for the manufacture 
of sugar from the Silesian beet, root, on Ids 
estate at Crowmarsh, and is desirous for the 
farmers to grow him roots for this purpose 
at £1 per ton, which lie calculates would 
produce for the growers £17 4s. per acre in 
cash, and four Ions of pulp for feeding stuff, 
worth at least £4 more. 
While Toiisr.pll« Wheat, 
Mr. IT. Bowen of Orleans county, N. Y., 
writes the Commissioner of Agriculture as 
follows:—“ I herewith send you a sample of 
White Touzelle Wheat, from imported seed, 
furnished by you to the New York State 
Agricultural Society in the fall of 1809, while 
holding the fair at Elmira. The whole 
amount, one and three-fourths bushels, was 
drilled after barley, at the rate of a little over 
two bushels to the acre. The season was 
very bad here, but the yield was sixteen 
bushels. I received it rather late In 1869, so 
that it was not sown until the 21st day of 
September. It, is rather a short, fine straw, 
bald wheat, and I think it is well adapted to 
this climate, it being a little earlier than the 
Treadwell variety. I sowed fifteen bushels 
on Hie 1st day of September. It is now look¬ 
ing well.” 
NOTES FOR HORSEMEN. 
To Prevent Cows from 8ucl<ing Themselves. 
In several of your late issues have been 
figured and described several methods of 
preventing cows from drawing the milk 
from their own udders. Each of the several 
A Cull us on a Horse. 
L. T. B., Birchard villa, Pa., ivrites the 
Rural New-Yorker that lie would he 
obliged if any of its readers would tell him 
liow to remove a small bunch from Ids 
colt’s leg, which seems to be a callus. The 
colt got kicked last summer, the wound 
healed, but leaves a bunch. 
FIELD NOTES, 
Orchard Grass. 
R. S. Griffin will find answer to his 
questions on page 234 of Rural New- 
Yorker, April 15. The testimony favorable 
to this grass constantly accumulates. 
Sugar Beer Planting 
in Alvarado, Col., commenced early iu Feb¬ 
ruary, and March 25th many of the young 
sprouts were above ground. Last year the 
planting was not. commenced until the mid¬ 
dle of April. The early planting will be 
likely to result iu a crop of better quality, we 
thiuk. 
Sowing Grass (Seed in Minnesota. 
The North field (Minn.) Farmers’ Club 
reecommend “ five quarts of timothy, two 
quarts of clover, and one quart of orchard 
grass seed per acre. Wc recommend deep 
covering with a deep harrow. For timothy 
alone, we believe the surest time to seed is 
early in the fall. For moist soils we recom-' 
mend an admixture of red lop.” 
When to Plant Corn. 
A correspondent of the Prairie Farmer 
saj’s corn should never he planted when the 
ground is cold. If the thermometer has 
ranged from 70' to 80' for two days in suc¬ 
cession, he thinks it safe to plant in dry 
ground ; but when the thermometer stands 
below 60° be thinks com better out of than 
in the ground. 
Sowing Old Wheat. 
Your Jamestown,Chaut. Co., correspond¬ 
ent, in writing of his experience in sowing 
old wheat, says, “ that not one kernel out of 
live will grow when the seed is old." Last 
fall I drilled in a few acres of the Delhi 
variety, one year old, at ihc rate of about 
one and a-balf bushels to the acre, which 
grew well; have no cause to complain ol old 
seed.—S. A. Dewey, Wayne Co., N. Y. 
Corn and Cut-Worms. 
I am subsoiling an old meadow for corn, 
aud I wish to inquire of some of your read¬ 
ers if they know of any preparation applied 
to the seed that will prevent the cut-worm 
from attacking it. 1 noticed recently a 
card on a corn-planter here advising farmers 
to soak their feed iu common coal oil. Can 
any of your readers vouch for its efficacy.— 
ANew Subscriber. 
To Prevent Hovsch Kicking iu Stalls. 
Will you please inform me how to pre¬ 
vent my horses from kicking in the stalls? 
I have tried putting a pole across from oue 
partition to the other, above the hips, but 
without avail. —R. Warren Co., Pa. 
Tins is a had habit, and difficult to break 
up. In some instances we have known an 
Osage Orange, Honey Locust or Thorn, 
fastened against the side of the stall, for the 
animal to kick against, to convince the animal 
that it is hard to “ kick against the pricks,” 
and break the practice. Some horsemen 
attach a long and rather heavy piece of 
wood to a chain, and buckle it on above tlio 
hock, so that, it will reach half way down 
the leg. When the animal kicks, he gets 
about as sharp a blow as he gives, and 
desists. _ 
To Prevent n Horse Rolling in the Stall. 
I saw in the Rural NewY’oeker, dated 
April 8th, an inquiry how to prevent a liorsc 
from rolling in his stall. You told the cor¬ 
respondent to tie him so short that it could 
not.; but if the horse is as bent on rolling as 
one that I had, he will roll if tied with a 
common halter so short that he cannot get 
his head within two feet of the floor; but 
the horse cannot get up in that position. My 
remedy is:—Put a strap around the neck, 
tie another rope or strap into that and tic 
that in the middle of the stall directly over¬ 
head from where the horse’s head, would 
come when he lays down. You may tie it 
long enough so that the nose will reach the 
floor and, yet he cannot roll. If he cannot 
get the back of the head to the floor, or very 
close to it, he cannot roll.—E. K. Bowman, 
Crawford Co., Pa. 
JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE. 
The fact that the artichoke will produce 
a good crop under slipshod or no cultivation 
at all, should not debar it from general cul¬ 
tivation. The sterling value of ibis esculent 
tuber for feeding purposes is not fully known 
nor generally understood. Nearly every 
farm in this vicinity has a certain plot in the 
shaded fence corner or among the wild 
undergrowth in some place inaccessible to 
tlie cultivation of hoed crops deemed more 
valuable, where the artichokes have annually 
grown without notice, save in early spring, 
when we dig and prepare a few for Mu¬ 
table. The usual manner of preparing them 
for the table is to cleanly wash them and 
thinly slice them into strong vinegar, when 
they are ready for eating. 
Boussingault says, in his “ Rural Econ¬ 
omy," page 159, “ There arc few plants more 
hardy and so little nice about soil as the 
Jerusalem artichoke; it succeeds every¬ 
where, with the single, condition that the 
ground be not wet. The tubers are planted 
exactly as potatoes, and nearly at the same 
time; but this is a process that is performed 
but rarely, inasmuch ns ihc cultivation of 
Ihc heliauthus is incessant, lifting carried on 
for years in Hit-same place, anil after har¬ 
vest, in spite of every disposition to take up 
all the tubers, enough constantly escape de¬ 
tection to stock the land for the following 
year, so that the surface appears literally 
covered with the young plants on the return 
of spring, mid it is necessary to thin them 
by hoeing. The impossibility of taking 
away the whole of the tubers, and their 
power of resisting the hardest frosts of win¬ 
ter, is an obstacle almost insurmountable 
to the introduction of this plnut, ns one ele¬ 
ment of a regular rotation. Experience 
more and more confirms the propriety of 
setting aside a patch of land for the growth 
of this productive and very valuable root. 
Of all the plants that engage the lnisbmnl- 
man, the Jerusalem artichoke is that which 
produces the most at llie least expense of 
manure and manual labor.” He then directs 
the reader’s attention to an example where 
the artichoke had been produced for thirty- 
three successive years with success, while 
they had received no care or manure for a 
long time. 
This evinces that a high value is placed 
upon the artichoke in France, and the only se¬ 
rious hindrance against the adoption of it in 
rotation of the farm crops, is fear of ever be¬ 
ing able to eradicate it from the plot it once 
grew upon. That the artichoke can be sue- 
trbsntatt 
INVERSION* OF THE WOMB, 
Figure 1. 
plans described would undoubtedly be effec¬ 
tive in destroying the habit. But they all 
prevent the free action of the cow’s head, 
which I consider very important when the 
flies are most abundant. 
It is very common to hear farmers talk of 
a cow “ costing her wethers.” We remem¬ 
ber, when a boy, we used to hear such talk, 
but never knew what it meant. To-day we 
have the following from a correspondent of 
the Rural New-Yorker at Harmony, N. 
Y. He says: 
“ When a cow casts her wethers, to place 
them back, wash clean with milk and water, 
take fine ground black pepper, sift carefully 
over the part and carefully place hack. Be 
sure to turn the lower point. No cow will 
use means to dislodge it again.” 
We suppose (without knowing) that our 
correspondent is talking about the Inversion 
of the womb or “ the downfall of the calf- 
bag," as it is sometimes called. Clater 
gives the following directions for the treat¬ 
ment of the cow in such cases: “ Let the 
operator take away the placenta, cleansing it 
in the gentlest manner possible, lest an ef¬ 
fusion of blood take place and endanger llie 
life of the animal. Afterwards bathe and 
wash all the parts that hang down from the 
uterus with the following lotion: Take of 
rectified spirits of wine, eight ounces; cam¬ 
phor, sliced, one ounce ; dissolve the cam¬ 
phor in spirits, then add goulard water, four 
ounces, aud one quart of soft water. Mix 
altogether, and when used let it be made 
new-milk-warm. 
Figure 2. 
We have used with success, both where 
the milk was extracted from their owu, or 
another cow’s udder, a piece of leather, sup¬ 
porting sharp pointed nails, (See Fig. 1,) 
passing around the head about two inches 
above the nose, (See Fig. 2.) It is made 
similar to a common head halter, and an old 
one can be easily fixed to answer the pur¬ 
pose. The nails with large heads aud sharp 
points are driven through two or three thick¬ 
nesses of old leather, and this is fastened to 
the band passing round the nose, as shown 
in the engraving.—G. R. D., Merrimack Co., 
Central N. H. _ 
Cure for Hollow Horn. 
I sf.e iu Rural New-Yorker of March 
25, 1871, a cure for hollow horn, to-wil: 
Vinegar, pepper and salt. This may be a 
good remedy, lmt 1 think very harsh. 
Would Mr. -- like a decoction of the 
above poured in his ears? I Llduk not. 
The ear we all know is a very sensitive or¬ 
gan, and exceeding liable to be injured.if 
foreign substances be introduced therein. 
Here is my remedy :—Of each, ginger, pep¬ 
per and allspice (ground,) one tablespoonful, 
riven in a dough ball. Pull out the longue 
and put the ball in the mouth ami let go the 
tongue. Give once a day for three days, 
theu skip three, until nine doses have been 
given.— O. Newell. 
To Relieve n Choked Animal. 
A correspondent furnishes the Rural 
New-Yorker the following as his mode: 
When the animal is choked, take a loaded 
gun, slip up by the side of the animal, place 
the muzzle directly between the horns, about 
three inches forward of them, and discharge 
the piece. A sudden spring of the animal 
backward results, and the obstruction is re¬ 
moved. 
Why a Horse Carries his Tonono Out. 
In auswer to the Ohio correspondent, 1 
would say, the reason why a horse carries 
his tongue out of his mouth is because the 
tongue is over, instead of under the bit. I 
cured a mare of mine last year of this habit, 
by fixing a wire loop in the joint of hit, so 
as to run up into her mouth three and a-half 
to four inches, I also buckled a strap around 
her mouth close to the bit, so she could not 
open it wide enough to work her tongue 
over. I made a complete cure in three or 
four weeks, and now if the bit is placed un¬ 
der her tongue she will work until she gets 
il over. 
All horses carrying their tongues out of 
their mouths will he found to have them 
over the hit. Great care should be used the 
first few times a bridle is put on a colt to 
have the tongue under the bit.—R. R- Ma- 
comber, McLean Co., 111. 
A Kicking Mare. 
O. Newell writes the Rural New- 
Yorker that lie has a mare that kicks 
whenever she can get Ihc line under her tan. 
He wants a remedy. It is a pretty difficult 
vice to correct. We do not know how to 
go to work to do it. Such an animal should 
always be treated with the greatest gentie- 
“ As seen as the parts have been well wash¬ 
ed or fomented with this lotion the cow’s 
hind parts must be sufficiently raised aud the 
person’s hand well rubbed over with linseed 
oil. Then endeavor to find the middle part 
of the calf-bed (womb), and by the gentle 
pressure of the hand it may in general be 
replaced with ease and safety. 
“ Great caro is required in this operation. 
The closed fist is usually placed upon the 
central part of the womb aud pressed for¬ 
ward into the passage, avoiding the tendency 
to oppose, by forcible resistance, the throes 
of the animal. The operator must be satis¬ 
fied if he can maintain his position from 
