neb. or paunch, is found filled with dry food 
in lumps or masses, and the coats are in¬ 
flamed. The third stomach is found hard and 
dry, with the food firmly packed between the 
folds. It is in this stomach that the most vio- 
leut inflammation is found. Death usually 
occurs in a few hours, and no treatment seems 
of any avail. Indeed, it is difficult to reach 
the seat of the disorder excepting at the very 
first stages of it, and to meet the needs of the 
case very close watching is necsssary to dis¬ 
cover the first symptoms. The herd should 
be visited twice a day, and any animal found 
sick should be immediately treated. 
The most effective remedies are soothing 
purgatives, rather than those of a drastic na¬ 
ture. Linseed oil is the best, and a copious 
dose, one quart at least, should be given 
the first thing. After that mucilaginous 
drink should be given freely; linseed meal in¬ 
fusion, oatmeal gmrl, or eveu boiled-bran 
gruel, should be given, by the drenching born, 
if necessary, and very freely. This softens the 
mass of food, and wheu the pauuch is flooded 
there is more ebauee of the medicine passing 
to the third stomach and producing a cure. 
All that is needed is to soften the dried mass 
between the folds of the stomach and remove 
this source of irritation, as well as to soothe 
the inflammation. Two-dram doses of Do¬ 
ver’s powder may be given with the oil, and 
one-dram doses of belladonna may fie given 
with the gruel as a sedative to mitigate the 
pain. All the water that will lie drank should 
be given, and frequent injections of very thin 
linseed tea will be useful. If an animal be¬ 
comes frantic it should be secured where it 
can do no mischief to itself or others, and 
cold water should be dashed over the head. 
As a preventive, when circumstances do not 
permit avoidance of the causes, a daily dose 
of two ounces of Glauber or Epsom salts, with 
oue ounce of common salt, may be given in 
linseed meal, of which one quart per head 
daily would be very beneficial. Water should 
be supplied freely, and if distant from the 
pasture the cattle should be driven to it at 
least once a day. As a matter of precaution, 
all dead carcases should be buried and not 
left in streams where the cattle drink, nor 
left for swine to feed upon. Another pre- 
.aution that may operate in the future is to 
pickle the seed corn, as is done with wheat, for 
the purpose of destroying the tendency to 
smut in the next crop. Tbis pickle is a solu¬ 
tion of four ounces of blue vitriol in a gallon 
of water for each bushel of seed. 
Bergen Co., N. J. H. stkwart. 
and color, but instead of being covered with 
prickles it had strong hairsand was of a better 
quality. 
To procure new crosses of a better quality 
he planted some of the best English varieties 
in a circle round it, allowing the bees to con¬ 
tinue the good work they had begun, by in- 
tennirgling the pollen of the two varieties. 
Prom the seeds of the English nothing very 
particular was raised, nor was there anything 
that looked like a cross from the wild; but 
from the seeds of the wild hybrid he raised 
many v arieties of all colors, some of them of 
great excellence, partaking in general of the 
fruit, oblong, pale red, hairy,and fine-flavored. 
No. 7 (fig. 27), a hybrid seedling, is similar 
to No. 26 in many respects. Its shoots are 
more prickly and the berry is larger, rounder, 
more hairy, a darker red, aud hardly of so 
good a flavor: but the vine is more product¬ 
ive. Both sell well in the market aud make 
excellent preserves, with a slight peculiar fla¬ 
vor of the wild. 
No. 9 (fig. 27), a hybrid seedling, is the only 
one that partakes of the habit of growth of 
the English, being a spreading habit. The 
fruit is also of finer quality, round, bright 
red, hairy and of delicious flavor. 
which we hope to be able to make favorable 
reports in due time. He has also sent us 
plants of several of his seedling lilacs and of 
a weeping cherry, to which we shall have oc-’ 
casion to refer. 
MELON NOTES. 
CLEM AULDON. 
The article on melons by Gen. Cassius M. 
Clay, in a lateVtuRAL, prompts me to offer a 
few suggestions: 
1 have always bad a friendly feeling 
toward this “delicious beverage'’ ever since 
I was a boy, aud helped to “raise” 
melons by moonlight. I believe, as a 
general thing, melon raising does not 
receive from the farmer the kindly at¬ 
tention which it deserves. If grown simply 
for the family, the melon is a most satisfying 
fruit, and well repays generous treatment. 
We can well afford the time and trouble re¬ 
quired to raise a few hills, for the enjoyment 
of eating them. If cultivated by the gar¬ 
dener. or truck farmer, the best varieties and 
especially the first early will usually find a 
good market. 
The General's remarks, I think, are mislead¬ 
ing in regard to the Ice-rind. He says: “I 
have had the Boss for two years, and I find it 
a first-class melon, but inferior, ou the whole, 
to the Ice-rind of Landretb, sometimes known 
as the Ice-cream Melon.” It seems unfortu¬ 
nate that in the nomenclature of new fruits, 
disseminators cannot hit upon distinctive 
names which cannot be confounded with 
those of some other varieties. The lee-rind 
and the Ice-cream are two different melons. 
Landreth's Icing or Ice-rind Watermelon is 
cultivated for market quite generally in this 
vicinity, and is here known hy the name of 
Icing. There are two types—the light and the 
dark. As here grown, it is of the oval shape, 
slightly flattened at the poles, some specimens 
inclining to the oblong, and having pink-col¬ 
ored flesh with whffe seeds. The light Icing 
is not exactly white or cream-colored, but it is 
a very pale green and slightly mottled, or 
rather having wavy stripes of a varying 
shade, lhe Ice-cream is a long, slim melon, 
darker than the Icing, and mostly a solid 
green. Some specimens are marbled with 
light-colored spots. These two varieties may 
have originally sprung from the same stock, 
as the quality and color of the flesh are about 
the same in each: but the great distinction is 
in the shape and the color of the rind. N 
mistaking them on that score. 
This year 1 had 200 hills each of the 
Odella and the (light) Icing growing side by 
side, trying io determine the point of earli¬ 
ness. It was hardly a satisfactory test; but, 
giving each the same cultivation, the Odella 
was a few days ahead (less than a week), 
while the Icings were a lit'le more uuiform in 
size, and averaged larger. 1 also had the Boss 
and Ice-cream plauted at a different time. 
The Boss is more nearly the shape of the Ice¬ 
cream, but it is of a darker color, being almost 
a black green. It also has a redder-colored 
flesh aud a dark seed. With us the flesh of the 
Icing sometimes cracks badly, so that there 
are large hollo w spaces inside. VV ith our coo 1 
nights and hot days (during which the mer¬ 
cury usually reaches 90 to 100 deg. in the 
shade,) there is a big difference in tempera¬ 
ture between the upper and under side of a 
large melon at midday. 1 have thought that 
a melon the shape of 
the Ice - cream which 
\ could heat this more 
'J. evenly, would be less 
liable to crack than the 
Icing, though I do not 
know that there is any¬ 
thing in this idea. 
gga From this season’s ex- 
-r|p perienee I should say 
that, for the truck far- 
l trier, the Ice-cream is a 
J,- ^ - " : - r < V better melon than the 
Icing. Its shape is bet- 
jp ter for shipping. And the 
X V Boss (if as productive) is 
superior to the Ice-cream, 
for it has a beautiful scar¬ 
let flesh; while the Ice¬ 
cream is pale. The Boss 
also has dark seed instead 
of w hite. This gives it 
a richer appearance. 
Pueblo Co , Col. 
• u r*SYjmxrX 
From a Photograph—Fig. 26. 
The crosses between the English and Hough¬ 
ton Seedling are much nearer allied to the 
English than to the Houghton in the habit of 
growth, size and quality of fruit. 
No. HI (fig. 27i was raised from a seed of the 
Houghtou. The vine is a more upright 
grower, aud bears much larger berries than 
the “ Smith's Improved.' Fruit smooth, pale 
whitish green, very large and solid, of excel¬ 
lent flavor; keeps a long time after it is ripe, 
either on the bush nr gathered, without be¬ 
coming soft or spoiling. It is an enormous 
bearer, aud decidedly the best market berry 
yet raised. Owing to its more solid flesh it 
makes a richer and better preserve than others. 
NEW SEEDLING GOOSEBERRIES, 
Weeping Gooseberry. 
characteristic grow th ot the parent, but much 
larger aud finer. A number of the best of 
them were lost ou removal to his present 
grounds. 
No. 26. a hybrid weeping gooseberry, is pe¬ 
culiar and different from all the others. In 
its stroug, upright growth it is like the others, 
but when shortened in when four or five feet 
high, the young side branches, instead of 
growing upward, like the others, weep down 
to the ground, where the poiut of the shoot 
takes root. For two years it has borne fruit 
which is of a medium size, round, hairy, and 
of a dull reddish color. It is of fair though 
not first quality, but quite salable, being 
English horticulturists have paid a great 
deal of attention to the cultivation of the 
gooseberry, and several of the nurserymen’s 
catalogues mention several hundred varieties. 
These have nil sprung from the foreign Ribes 
Grossularia, which is really inferior, in its 
wild state, to several of our own native va¬ 
rieties. Comparatively little attention has 
been paid in this country to the improvement 
of our native kinds, while the foreign varie¬ 
ties mildew so badly, both iu leaf and berry, 
that, except iu a few sections, or under the 
most favorable conditions, there is no use iu 
trying to raise them. We have lately received 
a number of seedlings from Mr. James Dou- 
gall, of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, who, we 
are glad to know, has succeeded, by self and 
eros^Breeding cultivation, in producing a 
number of varieties, which, we hope, may 
furnish fruit as large as English gooseberries, 
while free from mildew. These wo have had 
drawn and engraved, from photographs, as 
shown in figure 26 aud figure 27. 
The berries are of two distinct strains, or 
classes. Some of them are crosses betweeu 
the English gooseberry and the Houghtou 
Seedling; the others are hybrids between the 
wild prickly gooseberry and the English. 
Some years ago, having a large assortment 
of the best varieties of English gooseberries, 
the greater part of which mildewed, or were 
otherwise unsuitable, Mr. Dougall sowed then- 
seeds, thinking he might raise some better 
suited to his climate. Among the seedliugs 
one grew totally different from the rest, its 
young shoots attaining a hight of three to 
four feet the first year". As it strongly re¬ 
sembled the wild prickly gooseberry, several 
of which grew iu a ravine near by on his 
grounds, he supposed ii to be a seedling of 
this sort. The second year it seuc up perfectly 
straight shoots, live feet in hight; the third 
year it fruited, when it proved to be an acci¬ 
dental hybrid from a seed of the English, 
probably fertilized by pollen from the wild, 
carried by beos It differed from the wild by 
blossoming at the same time as the English, 
the wild being a week or more later in flow¬ 
ering. The fruit was of about the same size 
r . -rtc- y ; J 
NtrrreKAtk. 
eberriks. From a Photograph—Fig. 27. 
i-- No. 3 (fig. 27) is from a seed of the English 
crossed with the Houghton, aud, like the 
ie other, it is more nearly allied to the former 
6 both iu its habit of growth and the quality- of 
d its fruit. It is of good size, smooth, green, a 
’t great bearer, aud very desirable as a profit- 
P able market berry. 
u Mr. Dougall has sent us flne specimens of 
d many of these new gooseberries, respecting 
SWEET PEAS. 
Among out-door climbing plants, the sweet 
pea (Fig. 28i takes a prominent place as a gen¬ 
eral favorite among lovers of flowers; and 
surely it should be a favorite, for but few 
garden plants are hardier, and none sweeter 
or more beautiful than this enterprising 
climber. If planted early iu Spring, even 
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