IitniJ ©jpartment 
LETTERS FROM THE SOUTH 
From Halifax Co., N. C. 
In the Rural New-Yorker, May 0, is 
an article headed, “ Northern men are not 
wanted in the South." It was written byjt 
gentleman in Maryland, and whatever his 
experience may ho, and whatever the char¬ 
acter and culture of the people there, the 
statements are too broad and too sweeping 
to be applied to a whole country. Such 
statements are not calculated to do good and 
advance the best, interests of humanity or 
business. That i may not he misunderstood, ' 
1 will hero state that I am by birth aJersey- 
m m, Unit I was with my government in its 
great struggle heart and soul, and trust I 
ever shall be, aud always belonged to the 
Republican party, and am the same to-day 
as I ever was, so far as my politics are con¬ 
cerned; and yet my experience here in 
North Carolina is the very reverse from that 
of the gentleman from Maryland. 
Last winter wc purchased a plantation of 
live hundred and fifty acres of land in Hali¬ 
fax County, near the border of Warren 
County, and since 1 have been here I have 
mingled freely with the people, and so far 1 
have received nothing but kindness and 
friendship at their hands. They visit om- 
family, and we theirs, and nothing like the 
cold shoulder has ever been given ns. 1 only 
speak for this section of the county in which 
I live; the other part of it I know nothing 
of personally, save what I read in the 
papers. As to the country, I have traveled 
nearly all over the South, aud so far as so¬ 
ciety is concerned, climate, soil and health, 
1 know of no part of the world where per¬ 
sons can settle to a better advantage than 
here. Land is cheap, naturally good, and 
all that is needed is capital, labor, knowl¬ 
edge of farming, patience and common sense, 
to guarantee success. 
Do the people here desire persons from the 
North to settle with them ? To this I answer 
Yes. The plantations here are large, and 
thousands of acres of land are for sale, and 
can lie purchased at a very cheap rate. We 
must remember one thing in coming South, 
and that is, a man must be a man and not a 
poltroon, to succeed. I know of no people 
more anxious to know how to improve their 
lands and liud out what is best for them to 
do in order to reach a different state of 
things and a higher state of cultivation of 
the soil. The hands of the people are tied 
for the want of available capital. To secure 
this they want in part to sell their lands. 
A word to Northern men in coming South, 
If you were a Union man during the war, 
don’t deny it when you get down here, and 
the people will trust you—I mean the edu¬ 
cated and better classes. If you were a 
Democrat, don’t tell them how you sympa¬ 
thized with them, for it is all lost and they 
care nothing for it. What they want is the 
country to lie tilled up with good men, and 
not sycophants — men who have building 
power, and not mere sentiment. If you 
want to do good, full in with the people, and 
strive to the best of your ability to aid the 
cause of God and man in good faith. I am 
a member oi'the Baptist Church, and attend 
their meetings and am received kindly by 
them. 1 feel no restraint in speaking my 
mind freely on all subjects that relate to the 
cause of CniusT, and the best interests of 
men, black or white. As to the integrity of 
the people, 111 nd them here equal to New 
Jersey, so fur as my dealings go with them. 
I could write on many subjects (if I had the 
time and you the space to publish my letters) 
of interest to the people; but 1 must cease 
by saying men are wanted in this part of 
North Carolina from the North.—J. E. Rue, 
Halifax Co., A r . C. 
1 know that this gentleman is on the best of 
terms with his neighbors, though a Repub¬ 
lican, and who speak very highly of him 
and his enterprise in introducing new im¬ 
plements and improved style of farming. I 
know I went some fifteen miles to get clover 
seed of him, and cheerfully paid him $9 pci- 
bushel, when I could have got it within two 
miles of home for $8.50, simply because his 
neighbors told me I could depend on the 
purity of seed and good weight. 
There are many men in the North who 
own small farms and have large families, and 
who could sell their land for enough to buy 
a home for lluanselves aud all their children, 
of a Much better soil, in an equally healthy 
and milder climate, and who arc desirous of 
doing so but are deterred for fear of social 
ostracism. Now 1 know that such is not 
the case in this portion of Missouri; and I 
can furnish plenty of references in New York 
as to the truth of what 1 may say; or I will 
give to any one who will inquire the names 
and address of many who have settled here 
from the North, and they can easily write to 
them and learn the truth. 
Some persons settle in the South who soon 
make themselves obnoxious by thrusting 
their opinions in the face of their neighbors, 
or by affiliating with the negroes, putting 
themselves on asocial level with them. Oth¬ 
ers smool lily and blandly pave the way to 
position and favor, and are at the same time 
writing to some Northern paper, giving dole¬ 
ful accounts of their social position and de¬ 
nounce the people as ignorant, as unfaithful 
to their word, as selfish and brutish, aud ad¬ 
dicted to a thousand other social vices. We 
jhave just here a case in point. A certain Pro¬ 
fessor came to the city of-in an adjoin¬ 
ing county and was placed in charge of the 
common schools. All his assistants were 
ladies from the North; all wfire well pleased ; 
everything wasmoving along smoothly; had 
some five hundred while anil two hundred 
black children in separate schools under his 
charge. 
The editor of one of our county papers— 
an old Southern-horn Democrat—paid the 
school a visit, ami in the next issue of his 
paper spoke in the highest terms of the 
school, of the professor, and his assistants. 
Wlial was their astonishment, and indigna¬ 
tion when a few days afterwards a paper 
was forwarded from New Hampshire in 
which the Professor had spoken in the most 
outrageous terms of the society and treat¬ 
ment of Northern men here, which was per¬ 
fectly astounding to all who read it. It was 
evidently a sensational art icle and never in¬ 
tended to be read^Jiere. Of course this put 
a stop to bis social intercourse with the 
Southern people, and will probably displace 
him. 
I will not attempt to deny any of the 
assertions in the article alluded to at the 
commencement of this, because 1 know 
nothing of his case. But I will say that he 
has cast, his lot among a singular people. 
People who are so tenacious of their inter¬ 
ests that they will lie and cheat and yet, will 
not sell their lands to Northern people or 
their potatoes at home, but prefer to haul 
them twenty-sic miles and take one-third less, 
and use tools a century old. Surely such 
are not the general characteristics of the 
Southern people. The Missourians sell their 
potatoes at the nearest market, and their 
lands to any one Wiu> will pay their price; 
use the latest improved tools; sleep up 
stairs or down as best suits their fancy; con¬ 
sider their word as good as anybody’s, and 
are anxious to divide up their large farms 
with any good, honest people, let them come 
from where they may. — H. L. Brown, 
Fayette, Mo. 
irrbsimttu 
From Missouri. 
“ ARE NORTHERN MEN WANTED IN THE SOUTH?" 
In the Rural New-Yorker of May G, 
there is an article under the above caption, 
purporting to have been written by a resi¬ 
dent of Maryland. He represents the con¬ 
dition of affairs so differently from what it 
is here, that 1 feel impelled to give the state 
of the case, more especially as he leaves 
the impression that his is the condition of 
the. whole South. This county (Howard) is 
in Central Missouri, aud is not only one of 
the finest and richest portions of the State, 
if not of the entire West, but peopled by 
those who, prior to the war, held many 
slaves, and who would be supposed to feel 
as unfriendly towards the North as any 
others. 1 could give the names of many, 
from Ohio, who have bought land hare, and 
who express themselves more than satisfied 
with their neighbors, and say they never 
lived in a community where they were bet¬ 
ter treated. 
One geutlemau from Jefferson Co., Ohio, 
some four or live years ago, bought a farm 
in a wealthy neighborhood, and settled 
with those who had been large slaveholders, 
who were ultra Southern, and stood as high, 
socially, as any people in the county. Now, 
“CHARBON.’’ 
What is it? In your issue of June 24th 
you copy a half-column from a Philadelphia 
paper, bearing the paternity of a horse doc¬ 
tor of that ilk, which criticises the use of the 
word “ charbon," but fails to afford more 
evidence of any knowledge of the disease 
than could be gathered from a French dic¬ 
tionary. Were there a profession of veteri¬ 
nary surgery in the United States, or a half- 
dozen “ professors’’ that were more than 
mere quacks, the diseases of farm animals 
would not remain the mysteries they now 
attributing the disease to ticks, to travel, to 
trivialties of every imaginable sort. 
So with pleuro-pneumonia. The Practi¬ 
cal Farmer once admitted veterinary corres¬ 
pondence, indorsing it as from a high pro¬ 
fessional and scientific source, which sought 
to establish ibe identity of Philadelphia 
pleuro-pneumonia with British rinderpest! 
Thus do these quacks muddle the pathology 
of all these diseases of domestic animals. 
Why do they not tell us what 11 charbon 
is, rather than display ignorance of report¬ 
ed facts in saying that 11 the disease which 
the Commissioner (of Agriculture) denomi¬ 
nates ‘ charbon ’ is not a disease of this 
country?” Allow me to give you a few 
facts illustrating the occasional prevalence 
of this disease in the Southwestern States, 
where its invariable designation is Charbon, 
the common name of several forms of an¬ 
thrax in France, the ancestral home of the 
Louisiana creoles. 
In the spring of 1868, a correspondent 
wrote that two hundred and fifty mules and 
horses had died of this disease the previous 
summer, in Desha Co., Ark. His statement 
_r>f symptoms averred that “theanimal was 
attacked in the neck, and the first evidence 
of it was the appearance of a swelling on each 
side of the throat, something like wind-galls; 
the swelling gradually extended hack to the 
shoulders, and then appeared to concentrate in 
the heart, killing the animal very suddenly." 
I do not vouch for the accuracy of this diag¬ 
nosis, or the potency of the remedy, which 
looks a little empirical—the boiling juice o! 
the poison oak applied outwardly, by which 
it was claimed that one animal was saved. 
In April, 1869, official reporta certified to 
“the loss of one-twentieth of the cattle of 
Washington county, Miss., from ‘charbon’” 
during the previous season ; ami it was esti¬ 
mated that thirty to forty per cent, of the 
mules died from the same cause, and many 
of the horses, In Yazoo county, losses of 
cattle and mules and horses were heavy, es¬ 
pecially in the swamp districts, where tliree- 
fmii'ihs of the homes and mules died. In 
Holmes county the diseased prevailed among 
llie same kinds of stock to an alarming ex¬ 
tent. If was estimated that twelve per cent, 
of all the horses and mules died. Our cor¬ 
respondent thinks he saved two of his ani¬ 
mate by doses of a tincture of muriate of iron. 
In Desha, Ark., a few cases occurred, hut 
less than in former years. In Phillips Co., 
Ark., us reported, were also “ many cases of 
charbon or 1 equine erysipelas.’ ” In Sensas 
Parish, La., oceumed “ isolated cases ?if char¬ 
bon, nearly all fatal,” In tbe spring of 1870 
it was only mentioned in Tangipahoa, La.; 
aud iu the cattle returns of April, 1871, it 
was stiid that “malignant pustule, or char¬ 
bon, carried off’twelve mules on one planta¬ 
tion” in St. Mary’s Palish, La. 
With all this array of evidence, a pro¬ 
fessed veterinarian declares that “ charbon is 
not, a disease of this country,” and patters 
over a silly criticism of the name by which 
alone the people know it and report it. 
If there is anything more indefinite and 
unsatisfactory than the farmer’s description 
of symptoms of diseases in animals, it is the 
names popularly applied to those diseases. 
Charbon is defined in French dictionaries as 
anthrax, and Dunoltson’s medical diction¬ 
ary gives a similar definition. Anthrax is 
common in England, hut. evidently it is not 
of this type. The “ Nanbeau Coun complct 
If Agriculture" published in Paris fifty-two 
years ago, describes the inflammatory tumors 
of charbon as quick to degenerate into the. 
worst of abscesses or into gangrene. It 
slates that cattle are more exposed to its 
attacks than horses; but in the charbon of 
the Southwest horses arc more liable to 
attack than cattle, and mules far more liable 
than horses. Several varieties ol charbon 
are described, differing greatly in symptoms. 
If some of our astute veterinarians should 
give an efficient remedy for this disease, ox- 
even find out precisely what it is, he would 
accomplish an important end of veterinary 
being, and do more to prove his right to 
professional existence than in quibbling 
about a name. J. R. Dodge. 
Washington, D. C., 1871. 
for two or three weeks, and occasionally find out that they have got a large sized 
afterwards. We made our bean meal in a new elephant on their shoulders, and that instead 
coffee mill, from common white beans.— b. 
A Grade Devon Heifer. 
of accomplishing their object; they lose the 
whole lot. 
How do we know but that, young queens 
Geo. H. McDermott, Westfield, Ohio, need exercise for full development; and for 
lias a heifer three years old the 15th of last the want of it ft failure in having them fer- 
Septembcr, which dropped her second calf tilized in confinement will he the conse- 
Nov. 23d, 1870, and gave an average of quence? In our opinion, it is best to allow 
NOTES FOR HERDSMEN. 
thirty-one pounds of milk per day up to young queens to rim with the workers until 
June 1st (189 days), or an aggregate of 5,859 four days old, when the queen bees and all 
pounds of milk. Breed, grade Devon.—z. can be confined until the queen is ready to 
- be put into a fertilizer, or she could he 
Cn Ives Scouring. caught and put into a queen cage until six 
8)- M. Thomas asks wluit will prevent 0 ,. sevcn qaya old, when there would be 
Less than three years ago the country was 
in a panic over the Texas cattle lever, and 
no veterinarian could allay the public anx¬ 
iety or describe the characteristics of the 
malady, though itis a native climatic disease, 
which has been observed for a century. I 
had officially gathered statistics of it, and 
Ihe fuels were so sharply defined and natu¬ 
rally classified, that I had no difficulty in 
describing in advance of many official in¬ 
vestigations, its marked and somewhat 
anomalous peculiarities, precisely as after¬ 
wards established by professional authority. 
Yet all this time the horse doctors were 
either mum as oysters or garrulous as geese, 
t'nlvex Seoiirimr. 
calves from scouring. One great cause ot prospects of success. L. C. Waite, 
calves scouring is exposure in spring to cold „ 
rains and in filthy and small yards in which 
they are kept. Young calves need shelter IranTSPttT'TtT 
more than adult animals—ah el ter from both x. Ut U l Ilia 11. 
storm and sun. And they should have fresh, __a__ 
sweet pasture. They make a small yard 
foul quickly, and should be changed fre- RINGBONE, 
quenliy. _ . rAnnMpnvnFVT writes:—“ Wlmt 
RINGBONE. 
To PrtfMl a Cow Siiekimr Herself. 
A correspondent writes“ What is 
ringbone, cause, effect, cure? One of our 
My experience has taught me to take two j i0rses j s afflicted. Tell me in that paper of 
oxhmvs, saw off one three inches shorter yours, and don’t preface it with ‘ it can be 
titan the other; fasten them together with found in Rural such a date,’ &c, because I 
two pins on each side, one foot, long, six ], avc no fj] e 0 f them if I ought to have.” 
inches apart, and two cross-pins under the Our correspondent certainly “ ought to 
neck to hold it on; the forward cross-pin i lftve ” a file of the Rural New Yorker 
eleven inches below the bend of the how, Percival says there are three causes for 
and just above the lower side-pins; ihe hind ringbone—4i credit ary, structural and iuci- 
pin three inches below the side-pins, and denial, Solivsell says “ The ringbone is 
fourtceu inches below the bend—these pins sometimes hereditary ; though it is usually 
being thirteen or fourteen inches long. A occasioned by a strain in curvetting, bound- 
head should be on one end, and a key-hole ; n g ) turns, and violent galloping or racing. 
in the other. This yoke cau be put on or He believes form us well ns breed has to do 
taken off easily, and the cow will never j n the production of ringbone, and that a 
suck herself when she has it on. It will not “coarse or half-bred fleshy, or bony-legged 
hinder lier from grazing nor doing well.— horse, with short and upright pasterns, is 
8. MuRPny, Lewis County, N. 7. the ordinary subject of disease." He says 
-♦♦♦- ringbone is but a species of exostosis—a 
inquiries for H**rii«m«*n.- Joun W., Essex,Cof- bonv tumor, which ill one situation consti- 
loo Co., Kan., asks for u remedy for the. black tlltCE ringbone, in another splint, in another 
leg In calves. Many of our Western readers . ° . . „„ii • • 
lmve hail experience and can answer this ques- spavin, yet the three differ as well in tlie.r 
tion better Hum we can.—A correspondent at origin as in their effects. 
Oswego,N.Y., writes “Canyon fell mewImLis Dr. Dadd, in his “ Modern Horse Doc- 
tha matter wUti my cow’d teat? To all appear- |, 0 r ” says—“It has been discovered that 
imcrs, ft perfectly well; but whoever I at- ’ . „ for this malady 
tempt to milk it, she raises her foot, acting ns il lwlua " - y • . 
tempt to milk it, she raises her loot, act I Off us u 
it. pained her badly. The cow Is young, gentle 
otherwise, and a good milker."- How Cun I pre- 
(ringbonc) more than there is for spavin ; if 
we cun relieve the horse from Inmeness, Hint 
\ent my calves sucking uuuli other alter feeding i 8 all that can be expected of US; but even 
<■.(II. O V J .4 . .......... t, .1 I L. 
tlunri milk? I tin d it is u detriment* to i fll , 
them to do so.—B. I have a cow that tor the ll| en Uie dl * eaac ,s ,,,lL eured-aii ejesoie 
lust year has occasionally given bud milk some- stiff remains, and perhaps a Stitt joint 
times blopdy and sometimes stringy. She gives And he adds:—“III all classes of early dis¬ 
bud milk about one week and then good milk 
for three or four weeks; and so it goes the year 
round. Ctuinot you or your experienced readers 
toil me what to do?—A. S. G. 
In j|prarran. 
NEW BEES AGAIN. 
My friend, “Ignoramus," in the Rural 
ease of this character cooling lotions, cold 
water bandages, fomentations,light diet and 
rest are the means calculated to clo good 
Iu chronic cases Ave use acetate of cantliari- 
des, applied daily, until the parts appear 
hot and tender; avc then substitute cold 
water bandages and repeat the process if 
necessary.” lie says, “ the usual fomenta¬ 
tions are composed of warm water, infusion 
of poppies, hops and lobelia. They must 
be perseveringly applied, or they are of 
New-Yorker of June 24, says lie is “ Not Iff tie use, 
surprised that my friend is so unacquainted McClure, in his “ Diseases of the Anteri- 
with the habits of bees as to honestly think Horse," says of Hie treatment ot ringbone: 
lie had a new swarm of bees issue on the “If it is of recent origin and the horse, is 
7th of Aprilhe thinks the swarm was an young, much may be done in the way of a 
“ April fool.” I think I wrta fooled by the cure, by first removing all heat and inflam- 
bees ; but the way my friend treats the sub- mation with cold water cloths wrapped 
jeer reminds me of two bulls owned by two around the parts for three days, taking diem 
neighbors living opposite sides of a river, off at night. At the end of that time get 
across which was a bridge; ihe two bulls one drachm of the bin-iodide of mercury, 
got out one day and met on the bridge for a mix with one ounce ot lard, and apply one- 
fjghi. One getting the start, pushed t lie half of the salve by rubbing it in well fm 
other off into the water; ihe other looked ten minutes. Tie. up the horse’s head for a 
at him a moment, then begun to paw, bel- few hours, and the next day wash off with 
low, and back up until over the other side soap and warm water, daily anointing tll ° 
he went into the water. Now, I think I parts with lard or oil for a week; then np- 
am like the first bull that was butted off, ply the remaiuiler of the salve iu the same 
and our friend is like the second bull that way, and proceed as before. In old mil¬ 
foil off, or lam like Horace Greeley’s mate, not much can be done with ringbone, 
onion seed, “ trying to come up or like a as tbe bones of old animals contain so much 
young sapling in a big wood, and I don’t earthy (lime) matter that nothing can act 
think I’ll ever amount to much until some upon it.” 
of the big trees come down. 
I had intended to make an explanation 
through the Rural, as I had to many, in 
conversation about the matter. After tak- 
NOTES FOR HORSEMEN. 
Weaver’s Rinpbonc Remedy. 
S. C. Weaver wrote ihe Rural New- 
Iilee on Calves—Remedy. 
Tell Henry B. Welles to grease his 
calves Avilh lard, whey butter, cheap linseed 
oil, or any other soft grease, aud the lice will 
give iu. A little sulphur fed to them in meal 
is good.—x. x. 
tied to write to our common menu, me ^ haye ^ tffinge; nothing 
Rural about tlie mailer, and it was, un- p wm Mr. Weaver he 
doubtedly ? a mistake. - n - . ]jow ]ie ma Ue the salve, 
I have said I am satisfied those bees came ^ hQW oft(m ]ie J applte d it to the loot; and 
my place; but 1 dare not say M e all he ^ lUe horae when applying 
kuoAv” they did, for the spring was very 
early, the wood and gardens Avere full of 
flowers, bees in the country had had the 
maple sap to work on, and the 7tli of April 
Avas one of the hottest days of the season, 
the salve ? &c. —D. A. Caldwell. 
Cow with Sore Tents. 
G. F. C. has a cow Avilh sore teats. They 
swell badly; asks for a remedy. We have 
found frequent bathing in cold Avater and 
drying thoroughly with a cloth, and anoint¬ 
ing with fresh butter a remedy. Care 
should be taken in milking not to irritate 
more than is necessary. 
About Glanders. 
Will vou, or some of your readers, be 
kind as to tell me how to prevent a hor?c 
and bees at our place, sheltered from the takjn th(j g]allde rs. Mine has been with a 
o.nnl lake winds, hail been busily at work for and if he should take 
cool lake Avinds, had been busily at work fi 
four weeks previously. 
Chautauqua Co., N. Y. Austin B. Culver. 
FERTILIZING QUEENS. 
mule that had them, and if he should tale 
them what must I do for l.im? I would also 
be glad to know how to cleanse a stable 
after a mule has had the glanders. Is tW* 
any danger of a horse tailing the glaiiucis 
before they commence running at the nose 
iu any are in doubt about their queens nude before she 
becoming fertile, they can easily prove the " - , to-., rr Thomason. 
Remedy lev Garsrei. 
Iodide of potassium is said to be a good 
remedy; one-quarter of an ounce may be 
dissolved and given in bran mash every day. 
We think that Ave thoroughly cured a cow 
by giving a teacup of beau meal every day 
commenced running — Wm. T. Thomason. 
matter by clipping the wings of the queen; J B ’ tLat 
or, better still, confining her with all the i V eterinarians ge i 3 p rev ent 
bees until she begins to lay. Those that go glanders is a contagious dtaM T ^ ^ 
to work and raise a large batch of queens m it, the animal ■ftould be deaIIi 
nurseries and expect to have them fertilized groomed, and if stabled, kept . 
by tbe wholesale, need not be surprised to well ventilated one. We know 
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