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be seen there, unless it comes from a seed. Be 
thorough, complete death comes from absolute 
certainty that every thistle is kept down. 
HBAVKS IX HORSES, ETC. 
J, G ., Gaylord, Mich. —1. What are the 
cause and remedy for heaves in horses' 3. 
What is a good work on keeping stock, raising 
calves, and treating their diseases? 
Ans.— Heaves is a disease of the respiratory 
organs, confined chiefly to mature horses, and 
limited almost entirely to places where clover 
hay is used. It is unknown on the Plains, ex¬ 
cept in horses brought from the East and al¬ 
ready affected by it. The change of food, 
however, soon removes the effects of the dis¬ 
order, except when the animal is hard driven. 
At first, the cause of the ailment is probably 
mechanical; but improper food, etc , doubt¬ 
less soon affect the lungs, so as to produce the 
symptoms known as heaves. The chief causes 
of the malady are feeding on dusty or musty 
hay and grain, and on food of a bulky 
character. One form of it is sometimes caus¬ 
ed by a hard gallop or other severe exertion, 
after a full meal. Prevention is the only 
means of avoiding constant trouble from the 
ailment, for from lls very nature there can be 
no permanent cure for it; although it may be 
considerably eased and relieved by suitable 
feeding, yet the trouble will return on the first 
provocation. The moans of prevention sug¬ 
gest themselves when once the causes are 
known. Avoid dusty food of all kinds and 
musty hay or grain, or breeding from diseased 
horses, for the disease is readily inherited. To 
alleviate the trouble, the food should bo nutri¬ 
tious, but given in condensed form, a little at 
a time but often, and regularly, say. four or 
five times a day. Oats, beaus, wheat straw, 
chaff, turnips or carrots, with a little hard- 
stalked hay free from dust, and moistened, 
together with clean, cured corn stalks, have 
all proved satisfactory; but the feed should be 
chiefly grain and grass in Summer, and grain 
and roots in Winter. Water should be given 
sparingly. Arsenic in small doses is a favor¬ 
ite remedy with dealers; as in nearly all cases 
it effects a temporary cure more or less com¬ 
plete, it enables them to palm off an un¬ 
sound as a healthy animal. They usually 
begin with throe grains a day, increasing to 
five in it week, and continue for three or four 
weeks, giving from 10 to 12 grains dally to¬ 
wards the end. As the appetite is morbidly 
ravenous, leading tho affected animul to eat 
litter, etc., tho bedding should l>e removed by 
day, aud the horse be muzzled by night. A 
lump of rock salt at oue end of tho manger 
and a chunk of chalk at the other, have proved 
beneficial. 2. Amorican Cattle, by L. F. 
Allen, $8.50, to bo had through the American 
News Co., N. Y. 
EARLV IMPORTATIONS OF FRENCH HORSES, 
ETC. 
U. P li., Bishop Creek, Cal.— 1. When and 
by whom was the first Percheron horse im¬ 
ported into the United States. 2. What is the 
altitude of St. Louis above the sea level, and 
how far is it from salt water l 
Axs.—1. The Canadian horso is certainly a 
descendant of tho French Percheron, Per- 
cheron-Normau, or Norman horse, for in this 
country all these three names aregiven to the 
same breed. The early French settlers i u Can¬ 
ada-East imported horses from Normandy, and 
bred them for niuny generations entirely un¬ 
mixed, and even to-day the agricultural horses 
of Lower Canada, though stunted in size by 
the cold climate and the hard usage to which 
they have for generations been subjected, are 
evidently of the same race. There is no re¬ 
cord of the first importation of these horses 
made into Canada, but it was probably sev¬ 
eral hundred years ago; and there can be no 
doubt that some of them were brought into 
the old British Colonies, aud afterwards, when 
these became the United States, the importa¬ 
tions continued, for down to the preaeut day 
Canadian horse* have for generations been 
imported into this country. The fb-st direct 
importation from France to the. United States, 
however, was made by Mr. Edward Harris, 
of Moore&town, New Jersey, who imported 
one Norman, Percheron-Norman, or Pereher- 
ou stallion aud two mares in 1839—the first 
full-bloods ever brought directly to this 
ing her eyes both proved nearly blind. She 
eats well, and gives a good mess of milk, aud 
were it not for her blindness would now bo all 
right. When she dropped her calf iu early 
Spring,there was trouble with the after birth. 
How should she be treated ? 
Ans. —This cow is evidently suffering from 
blood-poisoning by retention and absorption 
of the after birth, and should be treated as 
follows: Give l 1 ^ pound of Epsom salts, and 
when that, has operated, or in two days, begin 
daily doses of one ounce of hyposulphite of 
sola, and coutinue for one month. Put a lump 
of alum on the stove, and when it is burned to 
a dry, white powder, use it as follows; put a 
large pinch of it in a quill or tube, and puff it 
into the eye; it will cause a discharge, and 
encourage absorption of the film, and proba¬ 
bly restore the sight. Do this every evening; 
fit a shade on the horns to protect the eyes 
from thelight; or keep the cowin a darkened 
stable for a week or 10 days, and feed her cut 
grass with bran slop, but no meal. 
SORE FEET IN COWS. 
E. MeM., Darlington .—Some time ago one 
of the feet of a cow of mine became swollen, 
so that the toes stood apart with deep cracks 
between them. All the other cows are now 
getting similarly affected. There is some 
swampy land in the pasture; what is the cause 
of the trouble, and what is a remedy for it? 
An 8.—This trouble is caused by the wet pas¬ 
ture. If a person were to work barefooted in 
wet mud for a few days, he would soon under¬ 
stand why the feet of cows which pasture iu 
wet, swampv grouud, or are kept in wet, 
muddy yards, should bo sore. There can be 
no cure while the cause exists, and some time 
will be required to heal the feet and get rid 
of the inflammation. The treatment should 
be to wash tho feet and break up all the scales 
that may have fortuod. Then apply an oint¬ 
ment made as follows: one pound of lard and 
four ounces of resin molted together; add half 
a pint of turpentine and two ounces of acetate 
of copper (verdigris) in flue powder; mix when 
hot, and stir until cool. Apply to the sore feet, 
aud then bind them with bandages for protec¬ 
tion. Two weeks will be required to effect a 
cure. 
cow FOX. 
C. Ft., ML Pleasant, La, —1. What will cure 
small, fiat sores, the size of a finger nail, in a 
cow’s teats l 2. Can a cow’s “heats’’ be de¬ 
pended on every 21 days, after the first nine 
Miscellaneous. 
W. C. R., Bardolph, III— What are the 
cabbage worms specimens of which are in¬ 
closed ? 2. What is the best way to kill the 
little striped squash bug? 3. What manure 
is best for strawberries, and when should it 
be applied ? 
Ans,—1. The worms had dried up aud dis¬ 
appeared when tho box was opened. Try 
spraying the plants with the kerosene emul¬ 
sion through a spraying pump or bellows. 2. 
We have used for the striped beetle this sea¬ 
son plaster aud Paris-green, in the proportion 
of one of the latter to 125 of the former, thor¬ 
oughly mixed. S. There is nothing better 
than old farm manure. To this it. would be 
well to add at the rate of 600 pounds to the 
acre (or more), of raw bone flour. It should 
be applied a mouth before preparing the laud. 
J. C. 0,, Somerset, Ky., sends grass seeds 
for name. 
Ans. —One is Velvet Grass (Holcus lanatus)- 
just about as mean a grass as grows, and a 
horrible pest iu lawns; tho other is Quack 
'—Tritioum repens, 
and pasture grass, 
frmplcmetttjs ami Parhinmj 
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Grass, or Creeping Wheat 
This is both a good lawn i 
though often hard to get rid of. 
II. A. O,, Eaton, N. Y., sends some potato 
beetles infested with parasites, and asks 
whether the lutter are well known to ento¬ 
mologists. 
Ans. —Yes. The parasito is the common 
American Uropoda (Uropoda Americana. 
Riley), a mito which is well kuown to live 
upon the Colorado Potato Beetle. It is figured 
and described iu Riley's “Potato Pests.” and 
also in his Missouri Entomological Reports. In 
some localities it has appeared in great num¬ 
bers, completely covering tho beetles and de¬ 
stroying so many of them us to aid materially 
iu saving the crop. 
Dr. J. \V., Molinette, Ont., Can .—What is a 
remedy for tho small black fly that infests 
young turnips and cabbages? 
Ans. —Dust tho young plants as soon as up, 
iu the morning while wot with dew, with a 
mixture of two parts of hard wood ashes, one 
part of plaster, and one part of bone dust, put¬ 
ting on ft liberal supply. This will both keep 
the fly at a distance, aud stimulate a rapid 
growth of young plants into rough leaf, when 
they aro comparatively safe. 
C. C. G. M., Spring Hill, Kan .—Why do the 
leaves of my Brugmausia suavooleus curl and 
look unnatural ? 
Ans.— If your plant is in a pot turn it out, 
shako away most of the earth from its roots, 
and plant it out in your gurden in rich, mel¬ 
low soil. Give it lots of water duriug dry 
summer weather, and lift and repot it next 
September or October. 
J. L. It., Cadiz, N. Y .—Where can I get a 
mole trap suitable for a small flower bed? 
Ans. —There are two traps made, either of 
which will please you—one by Young & El¬ 
liott, 18 Cortlandt St., N. Y.; the other by 
H. W. Hales, Ridgewood, N. J. It would be 
well to solid for circulars and judge for your¬ 
self. 
W. II. W., Winnesheik, Iowa.—Is the in¬ 
closed grass Quack ? What kind of hay does 
it make? How can it be eradicated? 
Ans. —Yes, it is Quack—Tritioum repens. 
It makes bay of the first quality, if cut when 
nearly in bloom. We have raised our heaviest 
crops of corn upon a Quack sod. It would be 
well to apply a surface fertilizer and harrow 
it in. 
J. S., Raleigh, IV. Va,, and several others. 
See elsewhere iu this Department for Heaves 
in Horses. 
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slvoly hullt. and hamlaoiupitt Itakoi In the market. 
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try. 2. The average hight ol' St. Louis above 
the sea level is about 470 feet. The city is 
built ou three terraces, the first rising gently 
from the river for about a mile to 17th Street, 
where the elevation is 150 feet above the 
stream; the ground then gently declines to 
25th Street, aud again falls to Wilson’s Hill, 
four miles from the river. The nearest salt 
(sea; water to St. Louis Ls the head of Mobile 
Bay, 475 miles, a trifle east of south. 
BLOOD-POISONING IN A COW. 
H. V. P, Bird Island, Minn.— A cow of mine 
having been left out one night, caught a severe 
cold, and had a fever for a few days. Her 
kidneys, also, seemed to be affected. Her eyes, 
too, became swollen, and ran water. I ap¬ 
plied salt water to them and raw potato poul¬ 
tices. The swelling disappeared, but on open- 
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