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the ditch is of that nature; if so, the only 
remedy would he to uncover th» drain and fill 
with some permeable soil (gravel is the best) 
to the bottom of the muck. I would protest 
against the useof straw as a covering, although 
in hard soil it may do no harm for years, but 
it is likely to decay, and the particle* worked 
in, may stop the drain If coarse gravel is put 
over the tile, no other covering is needed. Tho 
mucky soil is very permeable, ami drains may 
l»e put a great distance apart in it. It is, how¬ 
ever, a difficult soil to bed the tiles in, because 
of its tendency to settle when the water is 
drawn off. It may posssibly he that tho cause 
is not what the inquirer suggests; there may 
bo a break in tho drain in one or more places, 
due to the tiles slipping sideways, in filling the 
drain, os they would be likely to do under a 
st raw covering. It may also be due to a de¬ 
fective grade line; the tile may la; higher than 
he supposes at some point near the outlet. The 
cause can soon be found, however, by digging 
holes to the drain in several places and pour¬ 
ing water in. If all poured in does not readily 
run out, there is trouble of the kind last sug¬ 
gested. 
A neat way to hold tile in place while filling 
tho ditch, is to use a pole or piece of tin pipe, 
about one rod long, and somewhat, smaller out¬ 
side, than the inside of the tile. Attach at the 
upper end a cord, by means of which it eau be 
pulled out. Leave this in the tile until the 
ditch is filled sufficiently to hold the tiles in 
place. Never throw earth from the top of a 
ditch on tiles that are not held in some way. 
WHEEZING IN A COW. 
./. G , Grand Rapids, Mich .—While my 
cow, after coming home, is waiting in the 
stable to be milked, she makes a wheezing 
noise ns If nfilieted with a severe cold; after 
she bus been milked it ceases. How should she 
be treated! 
Ans —There is no reason to suppose this 
wheezing noise to bo due to a cold. It is 
rather indicative of a thickening of the 
bronchial membranes from a chronic inflam¬ 
mation. or to a spasmodic action of the 
larnvx. The latter Ls the more probable, 
as it seems to occur after the excitement 
of coming home to bo milked. The only 
treatment is palliative; the trouble is 
probably incurable. Give one-dram doses of 
iodide of potassium for a week or two; let the 
cow be driveu very slowly; never over-feed 
her. Give a bran mash with salt in it and 
never drive her above a slow walk, on a full 
stomach. There is a probability that the heart 
maybe diseased, causing difficulty of breath, 
iug after exercise, in which case card must be 
taken t,o avoid active exertion, and keep the 
animal quiet. 
RENDERING SHEETING WATER-PROOF. 
./. M. .S'., Lakeland, Minn ,—Is there any oil 
preparation which, applied to common sheet¬ 
ing, will make it sufficiently water proof for 
covering large hay ricks, and how should it 
be applied! 
Ans —Any oil paint will render sheeting 
water-proof. The trouble is, that it also makes 
it liable, after a little time, to crack when 
bent or rolled up. Prepare the cloth as fol¬ 
lows; Put two bushels of bran into an ordina¬ 
ry tight barrel, and fill the latter with boiling 
water, stirring well so as to mix t he contents. 
Lot stand 12 hours, then press all the liquid 
out of the bran, straining it; to every four 
gallons add one pound of alum and one fourth 
pound of crude carbolic acid. Soak the bay 
covers in this for two hours, keeping it scald 
ing hot; wring out and dry. The gluten ob¬ 
tained from the bran will unite with the alum, 
forming an Insoluble compound,and every fiber 
of the cloth being covered and filled with this, 
it w ill shed water a good deal like a duck’s 
back: the mixture' and carbolic acid will also 
prevent it from molding or mildewiug. When 
the sheeting has been used, it should be thor¬ 
oughly dried and put away for another year. 
KAINIT AND MURIATE OF POTASH. 
B. F. P., St. Joe, Mich, —1. What is kainit 
and can 1 afford to pay $20 per ton for it? 2. 
W hat is muriate of potash, and how does it 
compare with kainit? Salt is worth here, de¬ 
livered, $0 per ton. 
ANS.—1. Kainit, or German potash salts, con¬ 
tains 20 pereent.of sulphate of potash or about 
13 per cent of actual potash, or 200 pounds 
to the ton, making the potash cost nearly 7.7 
cents per pound. A bushel of hard-wood 
ashes contains about 3.5 pounds of potash, and 
you can probably buy them at such a price 
that the potash will not cost over three cents 
per pound; but in the kainit there are about 
1.000 pound* of common salt to every ton, and 
that you sa> is worth $6 per ton, or $3 for this 
amount, so thepotash in kainit actually would 
cost about i>.2 cents, so that one cannot 
afford to buy it. 2. Muriate of potash guar¬ 
anteed 80 per cent., would cost here, in car- 
loads fcff.50 per ton, or $10 by the single 
ton. This would contain a little over 50 per 
ceut. of actual potash, or 1,000 pounds per 
ton, or 3.75 to 4 cents per pound, so that it is i 
much cheaper as a source of potash thau the 
kainit. 
SWEENY IN A HORSE. 
H,J. P ,, Unadilla, Neb ,— What is the rem¬ 
edy for sweeny in a horse? 
Ans.—T ho term sweeny is generally applied 
to a real or imaginary wasting of the muscles 
of the shoulder or tha crupper, and is usually 
reganled as a special disease, for the euro of 
which many cruel practices are iu vogue. 
Sweeny, however, or atrophy, or wasting of 
the horse’s limb, is generally one of the re¬ 
sults, not of a local ailment, but of chronic-dis¬ 
cuses of some other part of tho horse’s limb, 
such as a painful corn, navicular disease, ring¬ 
bone, contracted feet, spaviu, etc. If a cure 
of the real ailment is effected, tho so-called 
sweeny will either gradually disappear, or 
will yield to treatment; butif the real malady 
fmplcmentjs ami pa dun cry 
1/111L or myrrn ana ueuzoin be injected. 
Then it. should be covered with a pad of lint 
dipped in the tincture, and protected with a 
bandage. The limb should be used as little as 
possible at present. If it is swollen, bathe 
with warm water, if tho joint is opened, the 
wound should he covered with a pail dipped in 
the tincture, ami bound with a compress over 
the pad to exert a slight pressure. 
RANKING FAL1,-PLANTED TREES. 
M. D„ Leroy. N. F.—Last October I plaut- 
ed 125 peach trees on high land where no wa¬ 
ter could stand. In November 1 mulched each 
with two largo forkfuls of immure and four or 
five of dirt. In March I found ubout forty 
dead with the bark peeled off. What caused 
it ? 
ANSWERED BY W. C. BARRY. 
It is hard to give a positive answer from 
such indefinite data; the probability is the 
manure was piled close about the body and 
covered with dirt, thus causing It to ferment 
mid heat, and the heat, with the ammonia gen¬ 
erated, killed tho bark. Much the host way to 
treat fall-planted trees is to bank them well 
with clean soil, as that never heats or injures 
any tree and is all the protection needed. 
TREATMENT OF GARGET. 
./. M, S,, Long Pine, Neb, —One side of a 
cow’s udder is hard and looks swollen, and one 
teat gives little milk, and that little is yellow 
and thick, like cream. 
Ans.—T he trouble is garget. Thu udder 
must be emptied of all milk and thick matter. 
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work. Will dump easily Will rhlt easily. Will turn 
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Miscellaneous. 
A. If., Skcmmtelea, N. Y.— When my lambs 
are from three to four weeks old Ihoy appear 
stiff in thu lugs, lie on the knees, not being 
able to get up, and die within two or three 
days. How should they bo treated? 
Ans. —This trouble is duo to constitutional 
weakness aud is excited by several causes, a* 
teething, costiveness, or indigestion. Give two 
grains sub-nitrate of Wamufch and two grains of 
belladonna iu a small quantity of molasses 
arid sinear it on tho back of the tongue. 
When the lambs are down, nib the limbs with 
camphorated spirit, and also apply some of it 
along the spine. If it is necessary the lambs 
must lie hold to the owe to suck. 
J. T. O., Calvert, Texas, sends “grass” for 
name. 
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DISCUSSION, 
THE SEED DRILL REGULATOR 
O. J. C., Niagara Co., N. Y,—Several 
times during the past few weeks, iti answering 
correspondents, you have asserted that un¬ 
cooked potatoes were not suitable food for 
milch cows; that they imparted a very bad 
odor to the milk, and tho butter made there- 
variance with 
I have in years of a surplus 
! mi s uiun the mam ones. If the vines are quite 
small we would immediately cut them back 
quite close, and using tho best canes produced 
from the secondary buds, which will at once 
push, re-form the tops to suit us. Aside from 
the loss of fruit, the frost will prove of but 
little damage to a vineyard. 
MALIGNANT SORE THROAT IN COWS. 
J. G. L., Buchanan Co., Mo. — A swelling 
appeared on the outside of the lower jaws of 
five out of 20 cows, uud in some it extended as 
far back as the throat-latch, and in others to the 
shoulders, aud they died in from four to five 
days. What ailed them? Hogs, and even 
buzzards refused to touch the carcass of one. 
Ans. —The disease is malignaut sore throat, 
or pharyngeal anthrax. Death is caused by 
suffocation from the swelling of tho throat. 
It is very probable that the disease orginated 
iu these cattle from pasturing in a field where 
other animals had died and been buried; aud 
the dead cow will certainly poison the ground 
and the herbage around it, and cause a fresh 
outbreak at some future time. It was fortun¬ 
ate the hogs had the good sense to aviod such 
dangerous food, or they would have taken the 
disease aud died. This disease is more com¬ 
mon iu swine than iu cattle, but cattle will 
contract it from the poison spread as above 
mentioned. 
WOUND IN HORSE. 
“ SubscriberClarkesville, Neb. — What 
should be tho treatment of a colt that has 
been kicked on the thigh and hock joint, and 
the wounds discharge matter? 
Ans.—I f the swelling is on the joint, and the 
matter which escapes is clear and glaring, like 
from. This is completely at 
iny experience, i ' 
of potatoes, and when the price has been low, 
fed hundreds of bushels, and while Ikuow that 
they arc more nutritious if cooked before feed¬ 
ing. I have never had any customers complain 
of the butter; neither do I believe that, if fed 
in reasonable quantities, they impart uny bad 
qualities either to the butter or mil It. The fact 
is their feeding value for any stock, except for 
fattening hogs, is not sufficiently increased by 
cooking to pay for the trouble and expense, 
aud ordinary farmers have no conveniences 
for cooking them. I hope no one will be de¬ 
terred by anything that has been said in the 
F. C. from feeding from six to eight quarts 
daily to his cows, or to any other animal. It 
is much better than to let them rot, or to sell 
them at 10 cents per bushel. One thing, how¬ 
ever, remember, don’t feed the cows any that 
are decayed or partly so, as such will impart a 
bad flavor. 
ji_ /. KING’S HAY CARRIER 
Speaks lor Itself. 
I The many Farmers 
that nse them arc enthusiastic iu 
their praise. I sell direct to the 
farmers anil make tin- price very 
low. Send at once for circular ana 
price-list. Gko.W Kino. Marion.O. 
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