diately by sulphuric acid, haviug first greased 
outside of the bunch to prevent the applica¬ 
tion from extending the sore it makes, A 
neighbor told me of this recipe —.hat he had 
noticed m the Rural New-Yorker years 
ago ; and had frequently used it to remove 
bunches, tumors, etc., with entire success. 1 
applied it last summer to a lump of a year 
and a half standing, on a horse’s nose, and it 
soon broke and passed away.” 
®hc Norseman 
seen what is necessary to be undertaken to 
commence the system. An early start in 
the fall is imperative. The stables must be 
remodeled and the manure tank and heap 
must be arranged. This is the key to the 
whole position, and if this is neglected defeat 
is certain. There must be means provided 
for saving the liquid manure, which should 
be drained into a tank in the barn-yard or 
into a cemented basin, where it may be ab¬ 
sorbed by the BOlid manure or by muck, saw¬ 
dust, or any other equivalent. The most 
complete economy in manure must prevail, 
both as to quantity and quality. Then there 
must be selected a piece of meadow of clover 
and timothy', if possible of, say two acres, 
PHYSICKING HORSES, 
FATTENING THE SOIL 
The Prairie Parmer says :—The giving of 
opening physic is necessary in several dis¬ 
eases. In all cases, if possible, the horse 
should he prepared by bran mashes, given 
for two or three nights, so as to make the 
bowels rather loose than otherwise, and thus 
allow the dose to act without undue forcing 
of the impacted feeces backwards. If physic 
is given without this softening process, the 
Btomach and bowels pour out a large secre- 
An agricultural 
An agricultural career on a good scale, 
carried out generally on the best practised 
systems adopted by the successful farmcis 
in tlie most enlightened districts in this or 
any other country, is one to be admired and 
brings honor and renown to the agricultur¬ 
ist. Management, in every respect, should 
be such as to make certain of not losing any 
of the fertility in the soil; and a thoroughly 
sound-minded farmer will endeavor to fetch 
up to the highest pitch of capability to pro¬ 
duce crops every field and every acre in 
his possession, A clever agriculturist under¬ 
stands the way to enrich his soil without 
wasting his crops to do it and without allow¬ 
ing his land to lie idle. While a certain 
class of men plow under clover, let half their 
meadow grass rot on the ground and cut up 
into chaff inferior fodder of various kinds 
and feed their cattle thereon in the winter, 
lie increases his herds and flocks, and when 
the price of hoof, mutton, &c. warrantB it, 
buys rich food, oil cake, <Ssc., making a profit 
on that, and by eating the clover and grass 
his smart (!) neighbors waste, and giving the 
food mentioned in addition, produces such a 
strong fertilizing manure that the land is en¬ 
riched to a state, of fatness which gives im¬ 
mense crops in return. 
Cattle and sheep, the latter especially, are 
necessary for successful forming ; the feed¬ 
ing of tlie land by the sheep and cows is of 
the utmost consequence; for fat land Is a 
necessity* to prosperity, while poor soil is 
ruination and starvation. It is this neglect 
to fatten the land which causes all the com¬ 
plaints wailed forth in priut; and the stop¬ 
ping of the pangs of hunger of fields which 
have received no meal for years, by giving 
them their own raw production to eat, such 
as plowing in clover or leaving crops of grass 
on meadows to rot, is something like keeping 
a herd of swine and allaying hunger and at¬ 
tempting to fatten them up by feeding with 
their produce of young pigs 1 Hive the swine 
abundance of everything to make them fruit¬ 
ful, and they will increase aud multiply be- 
y'ond the belief of those who have only been 
accustomed to the poverty' kind of animals, 
supplying funds in abundance by marketing 
the surplus. Get the land in such condition 
that it will increase and multiply its pro¬ 
duce, and the animals bred and fattened on 
the production will daily' and hourly feed 
the ground which has had its appetite sharp¬ 
ened by the withdrawal of the wherewith 
to grow the crop. The live stock fattens the 
land with solid and liquid food in a. direct 
manner, when grazing or otherwise consum¬ 
ing the crops on the soil where grown, and 
the return is in proportion to what there is 
supplied ; consequently, when oil cake or any 
other rich food is given in addition to what 
the soil brings forth, there is corresponding 
fatness and increase of produce, which ex¬ 
plain;- how some men prosper while others 
fail in trying to do so by extracting every¬ 
thing possible from everybody and every 
substance, regardless of the laws of nature 
and the common'sense so few pay any atten¬ 
tion to. A Working Farmer. 
FROM NORTH WINDHAM, CONN 
The first number of your valuable paper 
ordered has come to hand. In reading what 
your correspondents say to you from dillor- 
ent parts of the country, 1 am more than 
interested. I thought a description of this 
section might be interesting to some of your 
large number of subscribers. It seems 
strange to me that people will go to the fur 
West, and encounter almost every obstacle, 
and buy unimproved lands at such prices, 
when they can buy them here in old Connec¬ 
ticut, the land of steady habits, at least in 
this section, for $10 or $12 an acre, with new 
buildings and all the improvements, and good 
markets. Farms of a hundred acres can be 
bought in this locality for that money. We 
are on the line of the Boston and Erie Rail¬ 
road, the direct route from Boston to Now 
York. 
Corn raising in this section is not consid¬ 
ered profitable. Farmers generally agree we 
can buy it cheaper than we can raise the 
crop. Potatoes we can get from To cents to 
$1, and buy our corn for $1. We can sell hay 
for $25 to $30 per ton, and sometimes you can 
get a ton of meal for u ton of hay. Com is 
raised to a small extent, but its culture is 
rapidly being abandoned ; other crops pay 
better. Pole beans bring from $4 to $l» per 
bushel. With good luck you can raise 100 
bushels to the acre. Corn would not begin 
to pay like that. Strawberries are easily 
raised, and bring a good price. Winters, 
BITKItN ATA. 
tion of ilttid, which is forced back upon the 
rectum, and met by a solid obstacle, which 
it takes a long time to overcome, and during 
that interval the irritating purge is acting 
upon the lining membrane, and often pro¬ 
duces excessive inflammation of it. 
Purging physic should generally be given 
in the middle of the day, alter which the 
horse should remain in the stable, aud have 
chilled water as often as he will drink it, 
with bran mashes. By the next morning he 
will be ready to be walked out for an hour, 
which will set the bowels to act, if they have 
not already begun. It is usual to tie up the 
tail witji a tape or string, so as to keep it 
clean. The horse should be warmly clothed, 
and if the physic does not act with an hours’ 
walk, he may be gently trotted for a short 
distance, aud then taken home ; and, if still 
obstinate, he may be exercised again in the 
afternoon. As soon as the physic operates 
pretty freely, the horse is to be taken into 
his stable, aud not stirred out again, under 
any pretense whatever, forty-eight hours 
after it has “set,” or, in common language, 
stopped acting. 
When the purging has ceased, the mashes 
may be continued for twenty-four iioura, 
with a little oats added to them, and a mod¬ 
erate quantity of hay. The water, during 
the whole time, should be in small quanti¬ 
ties, and chilled ; aud the clothing should be 
rather wanner than usual, taking great care 
to avoid draughts of cold air. Every horse 
requires at least three days’ rest for a dose of 
physic, in order to avoid risk of mischief. 
The ingredients of which the phj'sic is com¬ 
posed, as well as the dose, will vary accord¬ 
ing to circumstances ; the nature of the ail¬ 
ment, the animal’s constitution, size, age, 
breed, temperament, &c., being taken into 
consideration. Mares near foaling should 
not be subjected to physic. 
LAKDIZABAI-A 
which will be sufficient to furnish the feed I 
for ten cows during June. These two acres, 
if in good heart and well top-dressed during 
the fall with fine manure, or 300 pounds of 
guano, will feed the ten cows a month on the 
first cutting alone. Then two acres will need 
to be plowed and subsoiled, if possible, and 
richly manured und sown by the first week 
in September, or as soon as may be, with 
rye. to be cut at soon as ready in April. 
Then three acres ought to be well manured, 
plowed and prepared, so that part of it may’ 
be sown to oats and peas as early us possible 
in the spring. 
This will close up the work to be done this 
fall, unless it be that something may be dene 
toward gutting a supply of water in the 
barn-vard for the stock, unless then- is near 
FROM ONE WHO WISHES TO EMIGRATE. 
1 see correspondence from Virginia and 
Tennessee; why can’t some of the readers 
of the Rural New-Yorker in Maryland let 
us hear about their section t I, for one, w -sk 
to change my locality for one in a milder cli- 
mute—either in the southern part of Mur) 
land or northern part of Virginiu, near some 
large town or village where there would be 
a good market for ail kinds of vegetables 
and small fruits—some place where it does 
not require a fortune to start with. Any 
one that feels interested no doubt wuud 
meet with many an application from men 
of means as well as those that are willing 
to work and wait. B - K ' s ' 
SOILING AND HOW TO START 
LIQUID EXCREMENT OF ANIMALS. 
A Pennsylvania farmer furnishes the N. 
Y. Tribune the following timely suggestions 
on this topic:—It has been shown that soil¬ 
ing enables the agriculturist to keep more 
stock iu proportion to the extent of his farm, 
and that the number may, with the best 
management, amount to one head per acre. 
This result is attained by increasing the pro¬ 
duce of the soil and prevent the least waste 
of that produce. It has further been shown 
that the fertility of the land thus used is in¬ 
creased year by year and its productive 
capacity brought up to a maximum. Also, 
that the produce of the cattle thus fed, 
whether it be milk, cheese, butter or beef, is 
largely increased. It is found, too, that these 
results ai'e brought about with (lie expendi¬ 
ture of less labor in proportion to the yield, 
as each acre yields for ti e same amount of 
standard work in plowing, harrowing, sow¬ 
ing and cultivating four or five times the 
produce commonly raised ; at the same time 
less money is sunk in land, or the money 
sunk therein yields a greatly increased rate 
of interest, for each acre yiulds the produce 
of four on the ordinary system. Lastly, it is 
on?? rarely that land is suitable for profitable 
pasturing; rich pasture land is scarce tu»d 
valuable, while any land may be adapted for 
a system of soiling, and may be brought up 
to its requirements. 
These things being true, it remains to be 
The Boston Journal of Chemistry very 
sensibly says : — How strangely we overlook 
the value of the liquid excrement of our ani¬ 
mals 1 A cow, under ordinary feeding, furn¬ 
ishes in a year 20,0110 pounds of solid excre¬ 
ment and about S,UU0 pounds of liquid. The 
comparative money value of the two is but 
slightly in favor of the solid. This state¬ 
ment has been verified as truth, over and 
over again. The urine of herbivorous ani¬ 
mals holds nearly all the secretions of the 
body which arc capable of producing the 
rich, nitrogenous compounds so essential as 
forcing or leaf-forming agents in the growth 
of plants. The solid holds the phosphoric 
acid, the lime aud magnesia which go to the 
seeds principally; hut the liquid, holding ni¬ 
trogen, potash and soda, is needed in form¬ 
ing the. stalk aud leaves. The two forms of 
plant, nutriment should never be separated 
or allowed to Vie wasted by neglect. The 
farmer who saves all the urine of his ani¬ 
mals, doubles his manural resources every 
year. _ 
Manure in the Hill.— W. B. W. asks if it 
is best to put fresh manure in the hill. He 
does not tell as what kind of manure he re¬ 
fers to, nor whether it is for corn, potatoes, 
cotton or wheat. Well composted manure— 
that is stable and barn yard manure that has 
been mixed with absorbents like muck, or 
leaf mold, or decayed wood, or pulverized 
charcoal or gypsum aud decomposed—is bet¬ 
ter than fresh manure. But if fresh manure 
of any sort is used in the hill it must be cov¬ 
ered well with soil before the seed is planted 
over it. 
NOTES AND queries. 
Inquiries About Nebraska 
Moses Stocking’s letter w the Rural ^ 
Yorker, dated Aug. 18 th, wherein h 
quite (\ specific ami detailed deseriptl 
sheen husbandry in. Nebraska. V ill 
mentioned nearly everything that worn 
of interest in relation to sheep bushM 
the Yankee proclivity that ever prea 
nates with us Wtern people, P r o“I^ ” 
innnire the price of unimproved lan-. 
•in v timber, school advantages, how far 
ail\ LUL ;' J ’ .- .nvlon I. at.nri final pi 
TO REMOVE A CALLUS, 
F. B., Plainville, Mich., writes to Rural 
New-Yorker “ I have a fine five-year-old 
colt that has injured herself by kicking in 
the stable, causing large bunches or call uses 
to form on t he injured part, disfiguring her 
very much, but not laming her at all. Can 
you or your readers tell me how to take them 
off without iujury to the animal ?” In re¬ 
sponse to a similar inquiry more than a year 
ago we published the following : 
We have just received from T. L., Scipio- 
ville, N. Y., the following :—“To remove a 
lump or callus, swelling, etc., apply, a time 
or two, butter of antimony, followed imme- 
