THE BUBAL WEW-YOBKEB. 
S77 
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INFLAMMATION of the bowels in a mare. 
.S', ft, ft,, Mulkeytown, III. —My mare was 
in good health when put OQ clover in a wheat 
stubble, hut she got sick and died in '-24 hours. 
* i treated her for colic and hots, and after 
death found some hots, but not enough to kill 
her. About throe feet of the intestines were 
dark red and rotten. What ailed her; aud 
what should have been the treatment i 
Ans.— Judging from the few symptoms 
given, it was probably acute inflammation of 
the bowels, brought on by the exclusive feed¬ 
ing on clover. In severe cases about all 
that can be done is to quiet the bowels by 
opiates (sulphate of morphin',one to two grains, 
injected under the skin, or opium one to two 
drains given at the mouth;, and let nature 
take its course. Apply cloths, wrung out of 
hot water, to the abdomen, and rub tho limbs 
with mustard or turpontine. Give frequent 
injections of warm water, Iu mild cases a 
fluid laxative (olive or castor oil one pint) may 
lie given at the outset. In case of improve¬ 
ment and a return of the appetite, the diet 
for several day* should be quite laxative, 
consisting of thin bran mushes, oatmeal or lin¬ 
seed gruels,roots,etc. I f tho bowels have not yet 
moved, give half a pint of oil or from three to 
four ounces of Glauber salts once or twice 
daily until they move freely. 
UTILIZING MUCK. 
A. ./. ft., Belmont, Miss .—I have four acres 
of wet muck, four feet deep, no leaf mold in 
it; very black And spongy; will it pay to 
mix lime with it for corn or grain ? 2 Will it 
pay to mix lime with cotton seed for manure ? 
3. Can pine straw or needles be rnado into a 
good manure? 4. Who is a reliable nursery¬ 
man near Nashville, Tenn. ? 
Anh.—F rom your description, we think that 
tho bod is more peat than muck, and probably 
not worth much for manure. Better try a 
few loads. Dig it now, and expose it to the 
air till next Spring. Try a few loads by piling 
it up, and in so doing, put one bushel of 
lime to 30 of the muck, or peat, and iu two 
months from now fork it over once. 2. We 
think the lime would be quite likely to drive 
off the nitrogen. We should prefer land 
plaster, or even a small quantity of that muck, 
or peat, or even good, rich soil. 3. Pino 
straw, or leaves, would have very little effect, 
except to loosen the luud, were it heavy clay. 
Their manorial value is not enough to pay for 
handling. 4. T. G. Gartland; The Commer¬ 
cial Nursery; C. N. Stillwell, Nashville. 
SOILING, COWS, ETC. 
K M. ft., Mexico, N, Y. —1. Can 1 seed a 
field to Red Clover this month for hog pasture, 
and have it pass the Winter safely by cover¬ 
ing it with straw? 3. How should I provide 
for feeding cows in the yard next Summer 
after June 30? 
Ans —1. The mulching of straw would pro¬ 
tect tho clover and successfully carry it over 
Winter. 2. Sow some corn quite early, and 
at intervals of a month, in rows three feet 
a[w>rt, giving good cultivation as long as you 
can get a horse through tho row. Keep the 
cows in stables, darkened during the day- 
tiino, aud allow them to run in yards at night. 
Feed mown clover,till tho corn is largo enough, 
which can be obtained fresh aud pr en by cut¬ 
ting the ground several times over. Give all 
they will oat up clean three times each day. 
evaporating corn. 
T. L., Danbury, Ct. —How should I pre¬ 
pare corn for evaporating, and how can I 
make a home-made evaporator without in¬ 
fringing any patent? 
Ans.—C orn is prepared by being taken as 
soon as husked, put into steam boxes, and 
steamed at high pressure for about 15 or 20 
minutes. This cooks the corn and makes it 
much less liable to fermentation. It is then 
cut from the cob by some sort of machine 
(wo ,-howed one recently iu tbe Rural), and it 
should be spread at once on trays aud passed 
into a strong heat aud dried rapidly, as it is 
injured very speedily by exposure to air. 
Without cuts, we can hardly give direction 
sopluin that one can be built. In the Fair 
Number for 1883, Page 552, we gave cuts and 
directions for building a good one. 
Miscellaneous. 
J. H.. Turkey' Cove, N. C .— 1. What is a 
good way to make apple (cider) vinegar; and 
al90 to make cider keep well—somewhat like 
Mott’s? 2. Will sweet apples make good cider 
and vinegar? 3. What do you think of 
Bakin, Cnrtnor & Go's reoeipe for making a 
home-made fertilizer; they want $10.50 for 
the formula? 
Ass.—1. Vinegar is made from cider by the 
action of the oxygen of the air on the sugar of 
the cider, changing it to acetic acid, and this 
is hastened by a moderately warm tempera¬ 
ture. The barrels should he placed in a 
chamber, or other warm room, and a large 
portion of the cider should lie drawn out and 
poured back into tho barrel occasionally, so 
as to mix it with the air as much as possible. 
If a little vinegar is put Into the cider when 
partly soured, it will materially assist the 
transformation. The preparation of ‘'Mott’s’’ 
cider consists in filtering through perfectly 
pure sand when partially fermented. To do 
the thing properly requires a good deal of ex¬ 
perience, and it must be done on a large scale. 
2. Yes, sweet apples makes good cider, though, 
as a rule, they do not contain as large a per¬ 
centage of sugar as the sour sorts, and there¬ 
fore do not make quite as rich eider. 3. We 
know nothing of tho formula; but wo would 
not give 10 cents for it, and would wager 
twice that amount that both it and the vender 
are humbugs. 
S. \f. ft., Port Crane, Can, —1. How can a 
dirt floor, t.o a box stall—soil, sandy loam— be 
constructed so as to run tho urine into a cis¬ 
tern? 2. Will it pay to build a cistern for tho 
manure from one horse ami QUO cow, to be 
dissolved in water, and to bo used on a small 
garden? 
Ans.— 1. The only way such a soil could be 
made urine-tight, would be by the use of 
water lime or cement, and coal tar. Tho bot¬ 
tom could be inclined to a trough, which 
should lead to the cistern. 2. It would hardly 
pay; certainly not i f the liquid contents needed 
to be carried far. The better way would bo to 
use plenty of litter under the animals, and 
compost their droppings, including the urine, 
inixiug them together, tho whole being 
incorporated with a goodly portion of tho 
sandy loam. 
T. S., Boulder, Col. —1. Cabbages here are 
covered with small, greenish oggs, which 
hatch, small, green flies; what are they, and 
how can I get rid of them? 3. VV hat is the 
feeding value of ground barley, ns compared 
with oats, for horses, and how should it be 
fed? 
Ans. —1. It is the Cabbage Aphis, aud can 
easily be destroyed by sprinkling the cab¬ 
bages with kerosene emulsion, mado either 
with soap or milk. 2. There is such a large 
proportion of husk in oats, that barley is 
much more nutritious. Dr. VVolll’ puts their 
values at 44 to 95; that is, 44 pounds of bar¬ 
ley. are worth as much as 95 pounds of outs. 
Mix the ground barley with cut hay, or si raw, 
slightly moistened. 
G. A, ft., Enterprise, N. Y .—1, What is 
tho inclosed plant, and would it in jurasheep? 
2, Should asparagus be cut in the Full or Au¬ 
tumn—when the seed is ripe or while it is still 
unripe? 
Ans. —1, It is Solanum Dulcamara, Bitter¬ 
sweet. Grows chiefly in moist and waste 
grounds. Tbe berries are said to be poisonous. 
2 Fall ami Autumn urosynonyms. It is never 
cut except for table use; the seed balls may 
be removed before they scatter the seed; but 
even this is not necessary. 
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