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contained in his letter about underdraining. I wish 
he had stated whether he used all sole tile, or part 
horse shoe tile. Also whether he leaves an air hole at 
the upper end of each drain, by filling up with small 
stones to the top of the ground. I should like to know 
whether that is absolutely necessary or not. e. m. 
Blindness. —Is there any remedy for blindness in 
a young horse, occasioned by cataract 1 J. P. 
Norton’s Melon Apple.—Aaron Norton of Clif¬ 
ton Mills, Ivy., is informed that scions of this apple 
may be procured of any of the Rochester nurserymen, 
(as for instance, H. E. Hooker & Co.,) by enclosing a 
few postage stamps. 
Disease in Calves.—I have a neighbor who has a 
disorder among his calves which I do not understand. 
Their legs swell up to their ankles, and they lose the 
use of their legs. Their appetite remains good. Their 
legs are cold. After remaining so for a while, they die. 
I cut one of their tails; the blood started freely and 
looked good. If any of your subscribers could tell the 
name of the disease and the cure, they will do me a 
favor. D. P. Jewett , N. Y. 
Barberry Seed. —You express a wish to have the 
Barberry plant tested for hedges. Last year I plant¬ 
ed seeds enough for about twenty rods of hedge, and 
to my disappointment, not more than one out of twenty 
came up. I planted them about the first of May, an 
inch deep, and then sifted some rotten chip manure, and 
sprinkled it about half an inch thick over them. If 
you can tell me through your paper of any method 
that will insure the seed to vegetate, you will confer a 
favor, (as I have about a quart of the berries,) on your 
subscriber. Thomas Lawrence. Olena, Ohio. [The 
difficulty was undoubtedly their dryness —from keep¬ 
ing so long before planting. If the seeds are well ri¬ 
pened ; washed from their pulp late in autumn or early 
winter; and then mixed with sand and planted or 
treated as apple seeds, cherry stones, &c., we have 
never found them difficult to start. If the above is not 
the reason of the failure, it must be from some cause 
of which we are not informed. It may be that the 
seed now on hand are already too dry ; but they may¬ 
be immediately mixed with moist sand, exposed till 
spring, and then tried.] 
Eggs.— G. W. W. Eggs can be sent by express 
without injury. For those who have them for sale, see 
advertisements. 
£j!^“ J. T. P., Bristol, Tenn., is informed that the 
subscriber is the writer of the article on the Culture of 
the Onion in your last volume. John II. Vail. Ches¬ 
ter, Orange Co., N. Y. 
Pine Sawdust. —I have been in the practice of haul¬ 
ing into my barn-yard, whenever it gets too mirey, 
sawdust, principally pine and cedar, to make walks 
about through it; and I expected the sawdust would 
be good manure in the spring; but I was somewhat 
startled a few days ago in reading one of your papers, 
which says—-“It is true the public have been caution¬ 
ed against using Pine sawdust.” Now is there any¬ 
thing hurtful in the article, and if so, what shall I do 
with all my manure that has it in 1 I have also kept 
my hog-pen dry with sawdust, and was thinking of 
making arrangements to save all the sawdust that we 
made with our up and down and circular saws. A New 
Subscriber. [Will some of our readers who live in 
pine regions, please give us the result of their expe¬ 
rience ? In the meantime we may add that Mr. Pren¬ 
tice of Mount Hope, has used hundreds of loads of pine 
sawdust and shavings for bedding his cattle and ab¬ 
sorbing the liquid manure, without ever having disco¬ 
vered any injury from their use.] 
How to Improve the Stream of Milk. —I notice 
on page 56, present vol. Co. Gent., P. McC. inquires 
how he can make his heifer give a larger stream of 
milk. I have had cows that milked hard and gave a 
small stream of milk, and have remedied it as follows : 
Grasp the teat tightly around before she has been 
milked, leaving the lower end as full of milk as it will 
hold without running out; take a small sharp penknife 
and run it into the orifice of the teat, say a quarter of 
an inch ; then try and see if she milks any easier ; if 
not, run the blade in say three-eighths or half an inch 
—your own judgment will tell you how much yo>i 
should cut. As a general thing, the blood will not run. 
Should you have occasion to cut more than one side 
of the teat, you should turn the knife just half around 
and that will give you a flat stream. This may answer 
for your cow ; at any rate, you can try it on one teat. 
W. Alleghany Co, N. Y. 
Bi-sulphate of Lime. —You will oblige me by in¬ 
forming me how I can procure some bi-sulphate of lime, 
mentioned on the 405th page of the Patent Office Re¬ 
port of 1849, which I think would be of great benefit 
in making sugar from Sorghum. H. c. m. 
Reapers. —Will some of your subscribers give me 
their experience with the various reapers now in use— 
the cheapest and best used, and w’hose patent is best 
adapted to an uneven or hilly surface—where to be 
procured, and at what jarice 1 J. H. G. Bagdad , 
Tenn. 
Stump Machine. —Can you give me any information 
of a good stump machine, where it can be had, and at 
what price 1 S. M. Foulks. Henrysville, Ky. 
Jumping Ox. —I see an article in the Cultivator, 
Feb., 1858, p. 63, as regards jumping oxen, and what 
is the best preventive. I think I can answer the ques¬ 
tion in a few words satisfactorily. I have tried the 
plan ihis fall, and it worked well—that is, take the ox, 
put him in a good stable, and make him fast with a 
good rope. Feed him all the corn meal he can eat for 
three months, and carry him what water he wants three 
times a day. The first time you let him out of the sta¬ 
ble, take him to the slaughter-house, and let the butch¬ 
er have him for what he will fetch. By so doing you 
will get rid of the ox, and well paid for your trouble. 
C. S. G. Brooklyn , 0. 
Just say to R. N., Randolph, Vt., (in the Co. Gent., 
Vol. XI, No. 1,) to bleed in the leg. r. j. b. 
Culture of the Locust. 
Messrs. Editors. —You can tell S. L. S., Guilford 
Center, Vt., to scald his locust seed in April, and plant 
in drills thick. Take up the following spring, and cut 
oflf the tap roots, and plant out in rows 4 or 5 feet 
apart and 1 foot in the row, and cultivate until large 
enough to set out. He will find on taking up his trees, 
three or five years afterwards, that they will have roots 
much like the apple tree taken from the nursery—all 
small and very numerous ; just the reverse of what 
they would have been had they stood where the seed 
was planted. Cut all the limbs and part of the top off, 
when set for permanent growth. W. H. W. 
