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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, 
half raw meat eaters run great risks from 
parasitic diseases. No animal is absolutely 
free from invisible animalculm. Tape worms 
come from just such abuses of the stomach. 
It can’t be very pleasant to the raw-meatman 
to reflect tbat there is every possibility of his 
blood being populated by living organisms, 
which are developing to his final undoing. 
Preparing French Hams —In the Book 
of the Pig, it is said that in preparing French 
bams, the leg of pork is well pared with a 
knife, after which the skin is pricked 
with care, so as not to damage it, but to assist 
the brine in penetrating to the center. The 
brine consists of 11 pounds of salt, about 10 
ounces of pepper, and two ounces of salt¬ 
peter; with this the entire surface of the 
ham is rubbed. It is then placed in the 
salting-pan, and covered with the dry mixture, 
the outside of the ham being at the top. At 
the end of eight or ten hours it is bound with 
a thread in order to compress it, and boiled 
in lightly-made brine', to which thyme, cloves, 
bay leaves, and basil are added. It is after¬ 
wards again soaked in brine, and, when it 
has remained from 15 to 20 days, it is removed 
from the salting vessel and placed under a 
press from 10 to 12 hours to more perfectly 
drain. It is then suspended in a smoking- 
room until fit to eat. 
Covering the Wilson Blackberry.— 
Writing to the Michigan Farmer, our re¬ 
spected friend, T. T. Lyon, says that the 
apparent tendency, among the growers of 
blackberries for market, seems mainly to be 
in the direction of sacrificing everything 
else to secure hardiness, since even slight 
winter-killing of the tips is liable to seriously 
diminish the crop of fruit. Aware of this 
tendency, Mr. Lyon was surprised to see, 
during a visit to Berrien County, Mich., In 
August last, notwithstanding the severity of 
the previous Winter, extensive plantations of 
the old Wilson Blackberry, one of the tender- 
est of varieties, loaded w ith enormous crops 
of beautiful fruit. On inquiry he learned 
that the canes had been laid down and cov¬ 
ered, and thus carried through the Winter 
unharmed; and he was assured that this had 
been done extensively and at a cost not ex¬ 
ceeding $1.60 to ?1.75 per acre—the spreading, 
low habit of this variety rendering the 
operation comparatively easy. Although the 
Wilson is not a berry of high quality, its very 
large size, and bright appearance, render it 
very attractive in the market; besides which 
it has the merit of ripening the crop within a 
very short period; so that comparatively 
few pickings suffice to harvest the crop. 
Hammond's Slug Shot. —The Rural 
New-Yorker sent a box of Hammond’s Slug 
Shot to the New York Experiment Station 
for analysis. Here is the report: “A pack¬ 
age of this insecticide was sent us for trial. 
We found its claims fairly well sustained as a 
destroyer of insects. The indications are, 
however, that it is no more or less than Lon¬ 
don-purple mixed with a very large propor¬ 
tion of gas or slaked lime If this is so, the 
claims that it is not injurious to the human 
family or to the stock are entirely unwar¬ 
rantable, and the price at which it is sold, 
though apparently very low, is many times 
the value of the ingredients.” 
GOSSIP. 
Plant nut-bearing trees along the roadside, 
is the good advice of the Orchard and Gar¬ 
den...... 
Geo. W. Campbell, of Ohio, writes as 
followstoMr. J.T. Lovett:* 1 The Kieffer blights 
worse than anything else I have grown, and 
is as tender in Winter as a peach tree. Last 
Winter killed all mine; and i am glad of it. 
I would not give the thing room if anybody 
would plant me an orchard of it for nothing I 
For years to come there will be wailing and 
profanity among the victims who have in 
vested in the Kieffer.” Mr. Lovett in the 
tenderness of his heart and with profound 
pity exclaims: “Poor, poor Kieffer!” If 
there are any victims among the older 
readers of the Rural New-Yorker, it is 
certainly no fault of ours.... 
Mr. Lovett speaks of the Kilbourn or 
Canada Ii on-clad as the hardiest good peach 
known .. 
The editor of Fruit and Garden has positive 
proof that the Champion Quince and Meech’s 
Prolific are entirely distinct. He mentions in 
proof that the Champion is hard to propagate 
from cuttings, while the Meech grows almost 
as easily as a willow. 
The Kansas Farmer says that the Hereford 
victories at Chicago caused brilliant and loud 
smiles to protrude from the faces of those in¬ 
terested in this particular breed of stock—a 
combination of electric light and brass band 
probably... 
The Iowa Homestead well says that the 
man who wishes to breed Short horns that 
weigh from 1,600 to 1,800 pounds, must have 
smooth land, free from bogs and sloughs. He 
can put Jerseys, Ayrshires, Devons or scrubs 
on his rough lands, but he had better keep bis 
Short-horns or Herefords off them. 
Of the various kinds of oats tested in 1884. 
the N. Y. Ag. Ex. Station reports more 
favorably upon the following than on the 
others, viz , White Eureka, White Probsteier, 
Sehcenen, Golden Prize, Board of Trade, 
Black Tartarian, White Novelty, White 
Russian and White Zealand... 
We are told that to get the full flavor of 
butter, the bread upon which it is spread 
should be inserted in the mouth buttered side 
down. How will this answer as a test for 
oleomargarine?...,. 
The Breeders’ Journal advises farmers to 
look out for their hogs when they begin to 
cough. This cough is a signal for many a 
fatal disease....... 
A writer in London Live Stock Journal 
obtained from nine Brown Leghorn hens in 
II months, 1,215 eggs, or an average of 1S5 
per hen. The reasons he ascribes for such 
good results are: hardy birds; cleaning of 
roosting house every morning, and nests every 
week, also white washing house throughout 
twice in the period; a field to run in; hot 
meal and house scraps early in the morning; 
ordinary mixed whole corn, at night before 
roosting. He finds the Leghorns hardy and 
good table food . 
RURAL SPECIAL REPORTS. 
Kansas. 
Abeline, Dickinson Co.—Wheat averaged 
about seven bushels of very inferior stuff; 
worth from 15 cents to 45 cents per bushel. 
Oats averaged about 55 bushels; average 20 
cents per bushel. Hay a large crop and low 
in price, $2 per tou in stack. Corn will av¬ 
erage about 35 bushels per acre, and Is selling 
at 20 cents. Hog cholera has been and is now 
raging in this county, as well as in almost 
every other county in this section. It seems 
to be worse along the river bottoms. I live 
three miles from a river, and I have not had a 
sick hog in seven years. I never allow a 
mud hole for hogs to wallow in and give them 
all the fresh well water they want. This is 
my preventive medicine. My herd consists 
of Chester Whites, Jersey Reds, Poland 
Chinas and Berkshlres—in all 100 head. 
G. B. w. o. 
Michigan. 
Jackson, Dec. 7.—The Rural corn grew all 
right, but was too late. Peas did very well. 
Tomatoes not as good as last year. I raised 
about 50 bushels of the Blush Potatoes from 
the one received two years ago. They rotted 
the least of any grown around here, and are 
the best we have to use now. I persuaded a 
market gardener to take one-half bushel to 
plant last Spring; he says they are the only 
good potatoes he has, and that he ought to 
have planted all I had to spare. Success to 
the R. N.-Y! O. D. p. 
Missouri. 
Eldon, Miller Co., Dec. 2.—Farmers cer¬ 
tainly can have no excuse for not being well 
along with work, as the Fall has been an ex¬ 
ceptionally good one for farm work, although 
rather dry for wheat and newly sown grass. 
Farmers are seeding more of their land to 
grass with the Intention of devoting more 
interest to stock. The corn crop did not come 
up to expectations; in many fields it is light, 
soft or chaffy, and in consequence corn, con¬ 
sidering the prices of other farm products, is 
high, retailing at 40 to 50 ceuts per bushel. 
Wheat sella at 75 cents; Irish potatoes, 40; 
sweet, 60; apples, 50 cents; hay, $8 per tou, 
delivered. Hogs are low, the very best selling 
at three cents gross. Stock is all healthy and 
in good, thriving condition. N. j. s. 
Montana Territory. 
Bozeman, Gallatin Co.—The Rural peas 
and beans did well. The Johnson Grass 
didn’t show. In this part of the range wheat 
is from 50 cents to 80 cents a bushel; oats, 80 
cents to $ 1 00 per cwt ; barley, ?1 10 per cwt.; 
potatoes, 40 cents to 50 ceuts per cwt. d. r. h. 
New York. 
Rushford, Allegany Co., Dec. 1st,—The 
Prince of Wales Pea proved very productive 
and of excellent quality. Carter’s Stratagem 
quite productive, with prodigious pods, fine 
quality. I never saw 10 large peas in a pod 
before; a good many pods had nine. Flage¬ 
olet Beans moderately productive. Cooked 
some when dry and found them rich and ex¬ 
cellent, the best I ever ate. mcd. g. 
Oregon. 
Springfield, Lane Co., Nov. 28.— No frost 
yet to kill tender vegetables, and tomatoes 
still bearing; volunteer crops of potatoes a foot 
high. Squash vines still green; plenty of 
rain; farmers plowing and sowing wheat. 
For this section, none of the Rural Corn has 
yet proved valuable—none early enough to 
ripen well. Frosts do not sill the corn here, 
but warm rains ia the Fall cause it to rot if 
not ready to gather. The Stratagem Pea is 
the best of the lot sent out so far. The John¬ 
son Grass did not grow. Fruit of all kinds 
plentiful. Thousands of bushels of plums and 
apples were left on the ground to rot. Apples 
still hanging on the trees. j. s. c. 
Pennsylvania. 
Auburn, Susquehanna Co., Dec. 7.— Times 
dull and money very scarce With fairly 
good crops, farmers can hardly raise money 
enough to pay taxes. But few cash sales are 
being made and those at low prices. Outside 
figures are: Old corn, 54 cents; oats, 82; buck¬ 
wheat, 50; wheat, $1; potatoes. So cents; apples, 
30; light pork, 4}£ cents per pound; heavy 
can hardly be given away; pigs, ten weeks 
old and fleshy, sell for *1 50 each. Last 
week beef was carted from here to Scranton, 
a distance of 35 miles, and sold for three 
cents. The season’s clip of wool sold at 25 
cents for washed. April lambs were kept un¬ 
til the last of September and sold for $2.50. 
Very few of our dealers are haudling any 
butter. Many of the small dairies are being 
bartered for goods at the stores. Veal calves 
have sold readily the entire season and at pay¬ 
ing prices. Winter grain was light through 
out the entire township; grass about the 
average; corn generally poor, with the light¬ 
est crop of ools we have had for years. Buck¬ 
wheat very good; 20,000 bushels have already 
been ground and shipped by the two milling 
companies of Meshoffen, our nearest station 
on the L. V. R. R., to which will probably be 
added from 5,000 to 10,000 by the last of the 
month. Potatoes proved a good crop, while 
the crop of apples exceeded anything we have 
known in years But a small percentage of 
the cross bred corn ripened. It is of no value 
here. Tomatoes good. The peas and beans 
will be further tested another season. I wish 
the Rural tho success it so richly deserves. 
G. W. B. 
Tennessee, 
Green Brier, Robertson Co.—The Rural 
Peas were all good; the beans were fine, and 
after they were dry 1 planted one and raised 
107, which got ripe as a second crop. The 
corn is very good; the Garden Treasures 
were nice. Crops very good. H. G. 
Texas. 
Senior, Bexar Co., November 29.—Farmers 
in Western Texas have finished gathering 
cotton. We made half a bale to the acre, 
which is considered an average crop: worth 
eight cents in San Antonio. Corn a large 
crop; selling at 40 cents. Some very cold 
weather; very little rain. Lately I made 
a trip to the Gulf at Aransas Pass, 160 miles 
from here: 32 miles nor.h of tbat place 1 
entered a pasture and never got outside a 
fence clear down to the coast. I saw tens of 
thousands of healthy, fat cattle, which, with 
the land, are owned by a few men. I was 
told that San Patricio County ha9 hardly in¬ 
habitants enough for couuty officials and a 
jury. The land is as fine as I ever saw and 
thousands of farms could be made ou it. San 
Antonio capitalists are building a railroad to 
Aransas Pass,and I guess the country through 
which it runs will soon be settled, f. u.w. 
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INDIGESTION OR IMPACTION OF THIRD STOM¬ 
ACH IN A COW. 
C. M. P., Sandy Hook, Conn, and F M., 
Ladoga , Iiul .—I bad a cow that had the run 
of the orchard all Summer. The trees bore 
heavily. One evening the cow gave only one- 
half her usual milking. I looked her over 
and saw nothing unusual in her manner. 1 
gave her some hay, and she ate it heartily. 
This eased my rniud about her. Tho next 
morning I heard her lowing strangely and 
found her standing by the manure bin with her 
nose resting on the manure. She took no no 
tice of her usual mess. I gave her salt fish, 
thinking she had lost her cud. Towards noon 
I found her lying dowu, w ith her boad going 
upward and backward, trembling violently, 
and there was a quick grinding motion of her 
month. Towards night she was apparently 
easy, and neighbors thought her recovery sure. 
After sunset I found her in fearful agony. She 
had left the position she had during the day, 
and was found in a mud puddle. She bellowed 
constantly and splashed the mud about her. 
She was drawn out on terra frrma and died 
shortly after. She was in good condition, not 
fat, and had always been a healthy cow. What 
was the matter, and wbat should have been 
done when I discovered that she was sick? 
ANSWERED BY F. L. KILBORNE, B. V. S. 
The cow was suffering from acute indiges¬ 
tion or impaction of one of the divisions of the 
stomach, most likely the part commonly 
called the third stomach. Another name for 
the ailment is murrian, which is popularly 
used to designate any mdigestion or impaction 
in ruminants. The more common causes are a 
sudden change of diet, as from green to dry 
or dry to green; feeding too exclusively od any 
dry, coarse, or over-ripened, indigestible 
fodder, and on fodder containing ergot, smut, 
rust or other fungoid growth. An insufficient 
supply of good drinklDg water is another 
common cause. Trivial causes that would 
produce injurious effects on an animal that is 
run down, with weakened digestive powers, 
would produce no ill effects ou an animal with 
a strong, vigorous constitution. Hence the 
desirability of keeping the animals in as per¬ 
fect health as possible that they may be the 
better able to withstand these unfavorable 
changes and circumstances. 
When first discovered, the cow should have 
received a strong purgative with some 
aromatic stimulant—one to two pounds of 
Glauber salts, according to the size of the 
animal, with two or three ounces of ginger— 
followed by all the water she would drink, 
given in moderate quantities at frequent 
intervals. A dish of common salt placed 
where the animal could lick it at leisure, 
would be beneficial in making her more t hirsty 
and also by favoring digestion. Luke-warm 
water injections every few hours would have 
been advantageous by favoring an early action 
of the bowels. If the purgative does not act 
in 15 or 18 hours, another dose may be given 
and the injections continued: but a third dose 
should rarely be given. Examine carefully 
the right side of the animal over the region of 
the stomachs, by pressure by the closed fiat, 
and if a region of tenderness is found, apply 
an active blister of mustard and turpentine. 
After the bowels have moved freely, confine 
for some time to a laxative diet of roots, 
mashes, slops, or green food, with free access 
to pure water and salt. Where an animal re¬ 
mains out of condition, a course of tonics will 
be advisable, oroue ounce each of powdered 
cinchona bark, gentian, and ginger twice 
daily. Do not again make the mistake of giv¬ 
ing any such useless remedy as salt fish or any 
artificial cud, with the mistaken idea that the 
cow has lost her cud, and that it can be sup¬ 
plied in that way. An animal ceases to 
ruminate—loses the cud—because the general 
system or some part of it is diseased or out of 
order, and as soon as the difficulty is removed 
and the system again in proper condition, the 
cud will always return without auy Useless 
interference. Treat the disease properly, and 
the cud will take care of itself. 
WIND BROKEN: BONE SPAVIN. 
F. L. K., Nunda, N. I’.—1. What is a cure 
for a wind broken colt? 2. A remedy for 
bone spavin? 
ANSWERED BY F. L. KILBORNE, B. V. S. 
1. A wind-broken horse is very much in the 
condition of a person with dyspepsia: while 
a temporary relief may be quite easily ob¬ 
tained. a permanent euro is very difficult. 
With a proper regimen some recent cases of 
young animals are greatly benefited or even 
nearly or quite cured, although such animals 
will always be more susceptible to the causes 
that leud to produce heaves than animals' 
tbat never have been affected. For a colt the 
proper course during the Winter would be to 
keep in a cleau, dry, airy stable ou a laxative 
diet of roots or potatoes with corn fodder, If 
available. Feed very little clean Timothy 
hay, or, preferably, clean straw with a more 
liberal allowance of grain and no hay. Dusty 
or musty fodder of any kind should be 
avoided. Water is to be given in moderate 
quantities and often. If the roots do not 
keep the bowels easy, add daily to the feed 
two ounces of Glauber salts. During the 
Summer the pasture Is the best and most ra¬ 
tional place for the colt. 2. The treatment 
for tone spavin is essentially the same as for 
any bone disease. In general, fomentations 
or other soothing applications are applied for 
a few days, and the animal is kept on a laxa¬ 
tive diet. If no bony growth has been 
formed, this may be all the treatment that 
will be necessary. But where, as is usually 
the case, bony deposits have already been 
formed, repeated active blistering or, prefer¬ 
ably, firing with the hot iron, becomes ad- 
