Above all, leave off all drugs; they do 
more harm than good in all cases. A dis¬ 
tressed stomach is often relieved by applying 
a heated earthen plate to the part. If per¬ 
sons would follow out this plan of living in 
their families, they would avoid nearly all 
diseases for both themselves and children. 
A great many things can lie said on this all- 
important subject, and my heart often aches 
for helpless children who are continually 
suffering and dying on the treatment of ig¬ 
norant parents.— Mrs. Olmstead, Erie Co., 
n. r. 
Persons in the first stages of dyspepsia 
need to be cautious about eating too hearty 
and improper food. But when the disease 
has advanced so far that all food taken 
causes a severe, pain in the stomach, patients 
refuse food of the simplest kind, for they 
have no appetite. The following prescrip¬ 
tion is from a physician :—Take equal parts 
of balsam eopaiva and liquid camphor; 
shake them well together before using; take 
from six to twelve drops before eating, three 
limes a day. Fir balsam will do if you can¬ 
not obtain the other.— Mrs. D., Jasper, iV. Y. 
daily discard whole uncooked grain, as 
corn, wheat, buckwheat, &c., until they are, 
at least, two months old, and then alternate 
with grain and Indian meal and shorts, or 
“ ships” mixed and well scalded. Their de¬ 
mand for flesh, in some shape, is so great 
that unless ground worms or fish can be 
furnished them, its place should lie supplied 
with meat. By observance of the above 
rules, I think success will attend almost any 
ngifittc Jjnfornmtion 
A NEW EDITION OF THE 
PRACTICAL SHEPHERD 
DYSPEPSIA REMEDIES, 
THE SWALLOW PIGEONS. 
A Complete Practical Treatise on the Breeding 
Management and Diseases of Sheep. 
By Hon. HENRY S. RANDALL, LL. D. f 
Author of " Sheep Husbandry in the South,” “ Fim 
IVool Sheep Husbandry 'firV., and Editor of 
■ the Sheep Husbandry Department of the 
In the Rural New-Yorker of June 29, 
I noticed a paragraph from an Oh io lady 
who is a sufferer from dyspepsia, desiring 
information as to the mode of getting cured 
We present the readers of the Rural 
New-Yorker this week, with a fine en¬ 
graving of another variety of German Toy 
pigeons, a few specimens of which were 
shown at the Exhibition of the Columba- 
rJaii Society of New York city last fall, at 
which time they attracted considerable at¬ 
tention and commendation. Mr. Brent, 
the eminent pigeon fancier of England, is a 
great admirer of this very pretty breed of 
birds, and gives the following description of 
them: 
“This beautiful variety of Toy pigeon is 
c.illed by the French Hirondette de mer, and 
l)v the Germans Die See Schwalben Tanbe, or 
for shortness simply Schwalben htnhen, 
which literally means Swallow pigeon ; but 
a* they derive their name from their marking, 
which resembles that of a small kind of sea¬ 
gull, called a Tern, though known to the 
French and Germans ns a Sea Swallow, it 
follows that the name Swallow pigeons, as 
commonly applied to them in this count ry, is 
inappropriate, and that the proper English 
nuine would he Tern or Gull pigeon. '1 lie 
Germans also designate them Feen Tauben 
(Fairy pigeons) and Nurnberger, or Farbcn 
FlugeUche. 
“Of all tlie Toy pigeons (I mean those I 
have classed ns such, in distinction from the 
fancy pigeons, which have many properties,) 
these are, with the exception of the Stlahian 
Spangled pigeons, the most worthy of the 
fancier’s notice, their decided and beautiful 
marking, and the contrast of their color, 
placing them in character above tlie gene¬ 
ral run of Toys. They are good breeders, 
about, the size of the Dovehoiisepigeon, and 
are equally light and active in their move¬ 
ments, though the feather footed varieties, 
which are most esteemed on the Continent, 
are not well adapted to provide their own 
living, owing to their short and heavily 
Fathered feet. There are of this sort of 
pigeon both turned-crowned and smooth- 
headed, as well as clean-footed and shod ; 
their necks are short; their heads, breasts 
ami backs broad ; 1 heir ground plumage is 
while; their marking consists of the scalp, 
wings, and the slippers in those that are 
shod I icing colored, which in the blue variety 
resembles the partit ion of color in Hie Tern, 
the bird before mentioned, from which they 
derive their name. 
“Their points of marking are as follows: 
First the bead; the upper mandible should 
be dark and the lower light; the scalp or 
top of the head in a line from the corners 
of the mouth across the eye, evenly marked, 
passing round to the back of the head dark, 
but in those that are turned-crowned the 
hood liiiisL lie perfectly white. Secondly, 
the wings of these should be wholly colored 
without any white feathers, but the epaulets 
or scapular feathers, which lie oil the hack, 
at the junction of the wings to the body, 
should be quite white, and as lliey overlay 
a part of the wing when closed, it necessa¬ 
rily appears narrow, which is considered a 
particular point. Thirdly, the feet, if shod, 
should he thickly covered with colored 
feathers from the heel or hock-joint to the 
toes ; but the bools, or as Cochin fanciers 
would style it, the vulture hock, must he 
white.” 
This excellent work (Bold heretofore only by sub¬ 
scription) is now placed 111 the bunds of the Trade, 
uml may be obtained of nil B“olcaollci'9. It in the 
most complete, critical and reliable book on Ameri¬ 
can Slump Husbandry over published in tills country, 
and should be ill the library of every shepherd In the 
land. Price $2. 
Opinion* of ilie Pro*** 
From lint Now Enjjlftiiil FuTHU*>, (lotion, 
Thr Practical Siikkmkmp in it wovIt that linn long been needod 
by our people. It ultoultl bu in the hand mill ImiiiiI of every person 
owning sheep. 
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Of the kind now bo ford the public. 
From the Maine Farmer. 
Tine Ilium of tin* author, lion. II. S. Hmniall, In ft guarantee of Its 
Completeness and reliability, 
From die New York Tribune. 
In this voluaoi the milliur him exhausted tho subject, and given nil 
that Is necessary f*»r any fieri: .or to know about selecting, bleeding 
and general liiaiiiigOiaont of tliuup, lit health or slckneas, \V© heartily 
Commend this work to all who wish for a sound and thorough treatise 
ou Sheep Husbandry. 
From the Ohio Farmer* 
The reputation or tho author—who ranks as tuk nuthOrlty in this 
country upon all that, pertains to the Invading ami management of 
sheep—will Induce a large mid centlmiod demand for “The Practical 
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HYGIENIC NOTES. 
To Cure Corn*. 
Please inform the person who asks 
through the Rural New-Yorker for a 
remedy for corns, that I have just cured 
one hy applying a plaster of common heal¬ 
ing salve. Wear constantly until a cure is 
effected. 
To Cure n Colon on the 11 a ml. 
Take sassafras hark—the inside hark— 
dry, and grate it fine and wet in a teacup 
with cold water for a poultice. Apply to 
the felon, and wet once in five minutes with 
cold water. This, followed up, will draw it 
to a head in twenty-four hours without any 
pain and without any injury to the hand. 
Use the bark of the root .— n. d. g. 
one who has a fancy for ducks, whether he 
can furnish them with an abundance of 
water (at the proper age) or not.—J. Y. B., 
Westmoreland, N. Y 
Preventive of Chicken Cholera. 
W. A. G. (place not given) writes us that 
his mode of preventing chicken cholera in 
his flock is as follows:—“ In the fall or win¬ 
ter sell or kill off all the cocks in the yard 
or on the farm, and get others that are not 
related. 1 have tried this method for years 
and have not lost a chicken hy cholera, 
while my neighbors have lost largely hy the 
disease. I think if breeders would try this 
experiment we should hear no more com¬ 
plaints about chicken cholera.” 
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BINDER FOR PERIODICALS 
scarce any one learns now to live uetore 
they have ruined their stomachs. In the 
first place, generally speaking, the wives of 
farmers are overworked. They don’t seem 
to think it possible to he good wives unless 
lliey do work themselves to death. Igno¬ 
rance establishes a rule which it is a disgrace 
to fall Short of, by way of—rich cookeries. 
After living about twenty-live or thirty 
years on rich pastries, rich gravies, tea and 
coffee, if a stomach then tails, I have my 
doubts about effecting a cure. 1 have no 
hopes of being cured myself, but I can be 
helped, and so can ollicra hy following my 
advice, which will frighten those who live 
to cat, half out of Ihcir wits. But here it. is, 
and if it does no good it shall not he because 
I made no effort. 
In the first place, never drink anything at. 
meals, nor for at least three hours after, and 
then something warm; but let it he some¬ 
thing besides store tea, coffee, or liquors of 
any kind. Milk and water, clear warm 
water is just as good, except people do not 
like the taste. In that case, add almost any 
kind of herb that is agreeable. Cold water 
will do if taken moderately, but usually dys¬ 
peptics can bear warm drinks better than 
cold. Next, discard all meat, and grease, 
except good tender beef or lamb broiled. 
Eat pork never; no pepper and very little 
salt. In extreme eases it is better to do 
without meat or grease of any kind; after 
awhile sweet cream and butter may betaken 
in moderation. Spices should never be used. 
All kinds of fruits and vegetables in the sea¬ 
son may he taken if properly cooked, but 
never more than two different kinds at a 
time. 
I have seen the time when I could not eat 
potatoes except they were pared anil par¬ 
boiled. Avoid all kinds of food that tend to 
cause wind. Avoid all bread, 'whether of 
bolted or unboiled flour, that is made light 
hy fermentation. Some people think if they 
eat Graham bread they have done a great 
thing; and if they suffer then, say the diet 
question is a humbug. They don't know 
enough to see that the bread is made unfit 
to eat, at once by this fermentation, which is 
simply a process of rotting, making it unfit 
for any stomach. 
The Proper Jlrend io Eat 
is the “gems.” I will give the process of 
making them, in case the lady should not 
know. Get coarse Graham flour, or rather, 
in the first place, go to the hardware store 
and get the “ gem ” irons, now kept by near¬ 
ly all hardware men. Then take the flour 
and mix to a stiff batter with sweet milk, 
and nothing else, and put them into the irons 
healed, and then into a very hoi oven. They 
must, hake in about twenty minutes; it they 
are doughy, they are either mixed too thin 
or not baked enough. Cracked wheat, cooked 
thoroughly* can be eaten with milk or cream, 
if the person can hear the milk. Sometimes 
the stomach is too feverish to hear milk ; in 
that case, of course, omit it. Oat meal, good, 
coarse and washed before cooking, is excel¬ 
lent. I used to cook it without washing, 
and found it bitter. I accidentally washed 
some the other day, and found it much better. 
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