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given twice in the day has been found the 
most effective. Hypo-sulphite of soda is also 
a valuable medicine in the earliest stages of 
the disease and as a preventive when it makes 
its appearance in a herd. It is given in doses 
of two drams for a calf and four drams for a 
yearling. It should be given daily for 10 days 
or two weeks. The disease prevails in the 
Fall and the Spring when the pasture is un¬ 
wholesome and unnutritious, and in low, 
damp places infested with the injurious organ¬ 
isms mentioned. There is another kind of 
murrain known as "dry murrain” in which the 
maniplies, or third, stomach is filled with dry, 
undigested food. The symptoms of this dis¬ 
ease are a loss of appetile, diarrhea, followed 
by costiveness, with dry, hard, slimy dung 
in small round cakes; sleepiness, staring eyes 
and the head turned and lying on the flank; 
afterwards the animal walks on as if blind, 
running against walls, fences or other ob 
stacles, bellowing, until it drops and dies For 
this form.of murrain, which is acute indiges¬ 
tion, a pint or a quart of linseed oil should be 
given as soon as the diarrhea—which is black 
and offensive—is perceived. After that some 
linseed meal and bran slop with a dose of hy- 
ploeulphite of soda should be given once a day. 
“BREAKING” NEW LAND, 
O. O, W., N, Y. City —My son, who is on a 
racnhe in Dakota, wants to learn the Rural’s 
opinion with regard to the following method 
of “ breaking” new ground: First, run a fur¬ 
row all around with a breaking plow; then 
go through the same furrow and throw the 
oose soil on top, and throw the uext furrow 
on the bottom and soil on top of that, and so 
on; he thinks he could raise better crops by 
this method, and thinks the sod would rot 
just as well. The sod is six inches thick and 
the soil five feet deep. 
Ans.—T his method was tried with very good 
results several years ago on the Western prai¬ 
ries by using two plows in the same furrow,one 
following the other. 
-A-N8.—1. We do not exactly know. Many 
complained that the wrong kind of corn was 
sent to them. In such cases we sent the other 
kind. In other cases through mistakes it ap¬ 
pears both kinds were sent to some. The im¬ 
mense amount of labor attached to our seed 
distributions is known only to those who have 
to superintend the work. Do the best we 
may, mistakes—and many of them—occur. 
It is intended this year to do the work at the 
Rural Experiment Grounds near River Edge, 
Bergen Co , N. J. so that it may be directed 
by those who are most interested in it. 3. On 
one only of coarse. 3. In this matter, the 
judges will consider all influencing data as 
impartially as may be. We much desire to 
award the premiums according to merit. 
S. C., Oriskany, N. Y.—l, How does the 
Rural raise such big crops of potatoes? 2, 
Which is the better way to plant potatoes—cut 
a large one in to four parts and plant a piece in a 
hill, or put one small piece with a single eye? 3, 
What is the best depth to plant them in sandy 
soil? 4, What is the best fertilizer for potatoes? 
•5, What is the best tome to plant grape cuttings? 
1. By planting in good soil and giving 
good care and cultivation. 2. We do not 
know. Many experiments have been made 
and reports conflict. For large potatoes we 
prefer two eyes to a piece, the pieces one foot 
apart, the rows three feet apart. 3. We say 
four to five inches. 4. Co 
fertilizer as put up by Map 
Forrester and others. 5. 1 
them in the Fall, compacts 
them and covering lightl' 
litter of some kind. 
F. J., Uniontown, Pa. 
“ We tried the ‘ACME’ 
Pulverizing Hari'ow, Clod 
Crusher and Leveler on 
Bermuda sod plowed last 
February , when it was 
very wet, and eonserpient- 
ly it was in the roughest 
possible condition when 
the Harrow was placed 
upon it, it having become 
sun-bahed and almost as 
hard as bricks. By pass¬ 
ing the '‘ACME” over it 
three times it left the 
land smooth and level 
and pulverized very fine.” 
(See page 828,this paper.) 
GREAT SAVING FOR FARMERS 
-“*• -*** c ni&ntown, Pcl .—My friend says 
here are no such things as flesh-eating trees 
or plants, but I have freqently seen accounts 
of a tree that would crush and absorb a human 
victim offered to it as a sacrifice, what does 
the Rural say about the matter. 
Ans.—T here are a few plants, like Venus’s 
Fly-trap — Dionsea musoipula — that catch 
small insects and which have been called by 
Darwin carnivorous plants. That is the most 
of the “flash-eating trees.” The man-eating 
tree of Borneo, to which you refer, is a myth- 
one of those traveler’s tales which pleased our 
forefathers, but which modern investigation 
has disproved. Sorry not to be able to con¬ 
firm your opinion. 
C. A. B. Lime Hill, Pa .—Are the following 
plants easily raised from seed: 1, Wistaria; 
honeysuckle; 3, clematis; 4, Lilium pul- 
cheilum and L. tenuifolium? 
n Ans.— 1 and 3 are easily raised from seed. 
°> ^ he seeds of clematis require sometimes a 
year or more to sprout. 4, It is difficult to 
raise these .lilies without a greenhouse. 
B. L., Millville, N, J, —Where can the seed 
of Golden Heart well Celery be procured ? 
Ans.—O f Thorburn & Co., 17 John Street, 
New ’i ork. It is the best celery by far we 
have ever tried. The Rural has no further 
interest in this or in other seeds or plants after 
we have disseminated them. They are then 
the property of all who choose to sell them. 
F. B. S., Palermo, N. Y., sends specimen of 
muck and asks what is its quality. 
From test3 which we have applied 
we should say it is of excellent quality_near¬ 
ly as good as pure decayed leaf-mold. 
S.S.M., West Elmira, V. Y .—How should ver¬ 
benas and caladiums be kept during Winter? 
Ans. For the verbenas any sunny window 
wifi answer. For the caladiums a greenhouse 
temperature and moisture will be required. 
-R. Laniyan, Calumet .—We cannot acres 
tate growth. S. In the Spring. 
BLOODY MILK. 
M. E. J., Proctorville, Ohio .—One of my 
cows dropped her first calf eight weeks ago, 
and about three weeks since she began to give 
bloody milk from one of her teats. At first 
the milk was bloody only when it had nearly 
all been drawn, but all of it is bloody now. 
What is the cause and a remedy ? 
Ans. —Bloody milk is caused by defective 
secretion and congestion of the glands, which, 
being gorged with blood, secrete blood instead 
of milk. It may be constitutional, and when 
it occurs with a first calf it is apt to be contin¬ 
uous and difficult to cure. The only effective 
treatment is to reduce the fe*ed, giving only a 
bran mash and no corn meal, and with it two 
ounces of Epsom salts and four drams of salt¬ 
peter daily for several days. Bathe the udder 
with cold water after milking. Keep the cow 
quiet and take care that no weeds or coarse 
herbage are eaten. 
TO SWEETEN A MEAT BARREL. 
Subscriber, No address .—How can an oak 
meat barrel be made sweet; the meat taken 
from it was not quite right, probably owing 
to impure salt. 
Ans —Dry the barrel and put a pailful of 
dry pine shavings into it, and set them on fire 
so as to char the inside of the barrel. Let the 
whole inside be well charred. Then rinse it 
well with clean water and scrub it with a 
stiff broom. The barrel will then be sweet 
enough for use. It was not impure salt that 
(Weymouth's Patent.) 
The sod was thus laid 
in the bottom of the furrow and covered with 
three inches of loose soil. It was found that 
wheat could be sown directly after the break¬ 
ing by following this plan. It is a question of 
cost, chiefly, and whether or not this plan 
would cost less or be more convenient than 
that usually followed, in which “back-setting” 
follows the “ breaking.” As to the advantage 
in regard to the erop grown, for corn there 
would be no doubt that this method would do 
better than for wheat. Wheat requires de¬ 
cayed sod, and will not do so well with raw 
vegetable matter about its roots. This is a 
question, however, which must be tested be¬ 
fore one can speak positively as to the results. 
If the plan is tried we should be glad to hear 
how it turns out. 
ANGLE-WORMS, ETC. 
D. W. H., Exeter, III. —1. What willrid my 
flower-beds of angle-worms? 2. What will 
keep out of my flower-pots the little fly that 
produce? small white worms, and how can 
these be got rid of? 
Ans. —1. Angle-worms or earth worms are 
generally regarded as beneficial for the rea¬ 
son that they make the earth more porous and 
fit decaying vegetable matter for plant use. 
Their usual food is decaying vegetable sub¬ 
stances, such as they find in the soil, or 
leaves found on the surface. They will, how¬ 
ever, feed on green leaves of plants freshly 
transplanted and somewhat wilted, or upon 
young plants just coming up. Their burrows 
are so deep in the ground that it will be diffi¬ 
cult to apply anything to the ground this 
Fall that will drive them away. Dr. Fitch 
recommends sprinkling ashes or Balt on the 
ground among plants that are disturbed by 
them. We should recommend mixing soot pret¬ 
ty freely with the soil, as that is distasteful to 
most insects. 2. If the little white worms are 
young angle-worms, strong 6oap-suds poured 
freely on the soil will cause them to come to 
the surface when they may be killed. This 
will probably be effectual if they are the lar- 
vce of some fly or beetle. These small flies 
are easily killed by the Persian insect powder, 
to be had now of almost any druggist. 
KAJNIT, ETC. 
J. M. J., Cleveland, N. Y .—What is kaiuit, 
and where does it come from; and what are 
muriate and sulphate of potash composed of ? 
Ans. —Kainit is the name of what are known 
as German potash salts, which come from the 
Stassfurt salt works in Prussia, as a by¬ 
product or waste substance. These consist of 
muriate aud sulphates of potash of various 
grades, although the latter are usually in¬ 
cluded in the term kainit. These salts are 
composed as follows: high-grade muriate of 
potash, 60 to 53 per cent, of potash with 13 to 
10 per cent, of common salt; there are some 
lower grades of this potash salt which contain 
a larger proportion of impurity. Sulphate of 
potash, high grade, contains 30 to 85 per cent, 
of potash, 5 to 20 per cent, of sulphate of soda 
and some free sulphuric acid; low grade con¬ 
tains from 9 to 25 per cent, of potash, 4% to 5 
per cent, of chloride of magnesia and 14 to 
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