PRICK SIX CENTH, 
*«.«a PER YEAR. 
[Enterod according to Act of Oongraw. in the year in-;., hy the Bwfftl Pnbll »tun B Company, in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.! 
applied for bojjding purposes, since the filled 
hags or boxes need merely be held in place 
by n framework ; while being very thick they 
would form a protection, in ease of being 
used for dwellings, against variations of 
temperature. Such walla, besides, would be 
fireproof. It is also suggested that for Can you, or some of your readers, give 
lowering heavy weights or even entire build- cause, preventive and cure for foot-rot or 
ings, which, by a change of street levels, fouls in cattle i Are cattle that had foot-rot 
have become located too high above the ' as *' season more liable to have It next sum¬ 
mer than if they had not had it ?—c. vv. v, v. 
Wk have no personal acquaintance with 
this disease in cattle. Youatt seems to at¬ 
tribute the cause to hard, irritating sub¬ 
stances which insinuate themselves between 
the claws and becoming fixed there, and 
wounding the claws on one or both [sides, 
cause pain, inflammation and finally lame¬ 
ness, When the animal i3 discovered to be 
suffering lie recommends a careful examina¬ 
tion and the removal of any foreign sub¬ 
stance, the washing the wound clean and a 
pledget of tow dipped in balsam or covered 
with some healing ointment introduced be¬ 
tween the claws and there confined by means 
of a roller. He says it is true that foul in the 
loot is most prevalent in low, marshy coun¬ 
tries ; but the hoof Is then softened, macerat¬ 
ed by its continual Immersion in moisture 
and rendered unable to resist the accidents 
to which it is occasionally exposed. 
TC the examiner fails to discover the seat 
of the mischief, Youatt recommends en¬ 
veloping the foot iu a linseed poultice, which 
will soften the parts arid cause the horn to 
bo a little more yielding and will abate the in¬ 
flammation ; if if should be pure Inllan math n 
without previous mechanical injury, that 
will hasten the process of suppuration and 
the mutter will more quickly, and with less 
destruction to the neighboring parts, find its 
way to the. coronet. As soon as it does so 
the soft projecting ret} or black spot should 
be opened and a probe be introduced into 
the opening and the sinuses carefully ascer¬ 
tained and every portion of detached horn 
removed from above them and the healthy 
horn around thinned and smoothed. It will 
always in these Oases be prudent to admin¬ 
ister a dose of F.psotu salts. 
The character of the surface exposed 
should now be considered. If, the matter 
having been all evacuated, the wound or 
wounds have a tolerable healthy appearance, 
a light application of butyr of antimony, and 
that repeated daily, will soon induce a se¬ 
cretion of new horn ; but if there be a por¬ 
tion of the surface that looks black or spongy, 
or the edges of which are separated from 
the parts around, here was, probably, the 
original seat of the injury—the life of that 
portion hus been destroyed and it must be 
removed ; it must slough out. A poultice of 
linseed meal, with a fourth part of common 
turpentine, must bo put on, changed twice in 
the day uud continued until suppuration is 
complete. A light application of butyr 
should then follow, or in favorable eases, a 
pledget soaked in balsam should be placed on 
the. wound, bound tightly down and daily 
renewed. The removal of every portion of 
detached horn, dryness, firm but equable 
pressure on the part and moderate stimulus 
of the exposed surface, are the principles 
which will carry the practitioner through 
every case of foul iu the foot. 
It would seem from Youatt that the 
allowing cattle to run on the same pastures 
two successive seasons, need not necessarily 
produce this trouble, since ho credits its 
origin entirely to mechanical injury to the 
foot—except that if they feed constantly on 
moist ground, the hoofs are so softened a3 to 
render them more liable to such injury. 
FARM AND CARRIAGE BARN. 
There are many farmers owning farms of 
from fifty to eighty acres, who often feel the 
need of a carriage barn yet do not feel able 
to build one in addition to their other farm 
buildings. To such it is believed this design 
of a farm and carriage barn combined will 
be acceptable. The size of the in^dfllWn Is 
.‘10 by 111); corner posts fifteen feet high ; the 
liutcr containing the stables and storeroom 
is I t by (18, with corner posts nine feet high. 
The shed containing the pig-pen and hen¬ 
house is 8 by 32. and eight feet high. The 
grain and water buckets in the horse stables 
are filled through sliding doors opening 
from the feed-room. The hay-racks should 
be of iron and filled from the mow over the 
carriage-room. The granary has capacity 
for three hundred bushels of grain ; and the 
whole barn storage-room sufficient for a 
farm of sixty acres. 
The following is the descriptive reference 
to the cut:— A, threshing and entrance floor, 
16 by 30 ; B, carriage-room, 22 by 24 ; C, 
mow, 18 by 22 ; I), horse stables, 15 by 22 ; E, 
feed-room, 7 by 12 ; F, stairs, with pump (•) 
under them ; <1, harness Closet; h, h, h, h, 
hay racks in horae stables ; i, 1, i, 1, grain and 
water buckets ; T, store-room, 15 by 21 ; K, 
tool closet ; I., work bench ; M, passage way, 
4 by fill; N, granary, 8 by 22; 0, cow stables, 
15 by 20 ; p, p, p, p, mangers ; 11, pig-pen ; 
S, sleeping-rooxu ,’ f, feed-trough ; II, hen¬ 
nery ; v, feed-box ; W, perches to hennery. 
FOOT-ROT OR FOULS IN CATTLE 
CURIOUS PROPERTIES OF SAND 
PljyYJNr ore P'A. 16 M ANi) 
a canvas bag, and subjected to a slight com¬ 
pression, it forms a mass capable of resisting 
a pressure of fully 60 tons without breaking 
or even straining the envelope. The sand, 
however, remains perfectly divisible, so that 
if a small hole be made in the box or bag it 
will flow slowly and with such little force 
that oven a small piece of paper pasted over 
the opening will check the flow, even with 
the 60 tons weight upon it.. M. Beaude- 
moulin, a Frenchman, who discovered this 
singular fact se veral years ago, has recently 
suggested several possible applications to 
which he thinks it may be put ; the practica¬ 
bility of which, however, may be considered 
quite problematical. He thinks it might be 
PAINT FOR SHINGLE ROOFS. 
A correspondent of the N. E. Farmer has 
this to say about the subject which may 
prove profitable to some of the readers of 
the Rural New Yorker In regard to 
shingles, I have seen the liighest cost, shaved 
pine fail in ten years ; and 1 expect the 
cheapest, sappy, sawed pine will lust that 
length of time. Roofs are so expensive to 
keep in repair, it behooves every man who 
has had experience with them to contribute 
what he can for the general good on this all 
important subject. 
Iu the future 1 intend to lay low-priced 
shingles,—say from $2.75 to 84 per thousand— 
and paint them with a coat of tar and as- 
phallurn, say one barrel coal tar, costing 
83 ; 10 lbs asphaltnm, at fie, 30 cents ; 10 lbs. 
ground slate, at lc, It) cents ; 2 gallons dead 
oil, at 25c, 50 Cents, which should be added 
after the other has been wetted and thorough¬ 
ly mixed. 
I consider the above mixture as good as 
anything that can be put on to shingles, us it 
will thoroughly keep the water out, and if 
dry they will not rot under the lap, nor will 
the nads rust, and I know of no reason why 
they will not last as long as I shall want 
shingles. The mixture should be put on hot, 
in a dry day, and upon a dry roof. 
It has been asked by some, why not paint 
shingles before laying t J answer, because 
the sulphur in the tar would rust the nails. 
Book-cases. — In book-cases, wardrobes, 
and all similar articles, the space between 
three feet and seven feet from the ground is 
all that ought to be Appropriated to shelves, 
us it is only between these points that a per¬ 
son can conveniently reach anything. All 
above and below these points, if used at all, 
should be cupboards for articles not in gen¬ 
eral use by the family. — London A grieul 
tural Magazine. 
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