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THE CULTIVATOR. 
July, 
account commences on the first of April, 1848, with 
thirty-three hens and two cocks, and is asTollows: 
Poultry establishment, Dr. 
To 35 fowls, at 37£ cents each,.$13 12|- 
22 f bushels of corn,. 13 93 
Labor fixing hen-house,. 50 
Total expense, excluding labor of feeding,.... $27 55j 
Cr. 
By 2966 eggs,.$31 23 
47 chickens,. 7 67£ 
4 fowls used during the season,. 1 16 
31 fowls on hand, at 37£ cents each,. 11 62j 
Total receipt for the.year,.$51 69 
Deduct expenses,. 27 55£ 
Leaving a balance of. $24 13 j 
On the 20th of May I shut them up in a shed ad¬ 
joining the barn, letting them out an hour or two be¬ 
fore sundown, each day, the principal object being to 
prevent their destroying a piece of corn near by. Af¬ 
ter the corn was out of danger, let them out at noon, 
that they might have more time to ramble round the 
farm, and pick up insects,—considering it necessary 
that they should have an abundance of animal food of. 
some kind to ensure their laying well. The feed was 
all corn, at an average price of a little more than 60 
cents per bushel. Most of the eggs were sold for about 
$1 per hundred. In July, there were some sold for 13 
and 14 cents per dozen, and those sold in September 
and after, averaged about 14 cents. The chickens did 
unusually well,—not having lost more than half a doz¬ 
en during the season; they were sold during the months 
of July and August, at from 30 to 33 cents per pair. 
James H. Ball. Nassau, May 14, 1849. 
$l)e tktmnarg department. 
Cure for Heaves. 
Mr. Philo Adams, of Huron, Ohio, sends us the fol¬ 
lowing recipe for heaves in horses, which he says he 
has tried with the best effect; 
In the first place, keep your horse on wet or chopped 
feed until the medicine takes effect, which from the 
time it was given will not be over two weeks, at the 
longest. Take one and a-half gills of angle or fish 
worms; wash them clean; drain the water from them, 
and put them in some vessel that can be covered tight. 
Put on the worms spirits of turpentine enough to kill 
them. Let them stand twenty-four hours; then put 
them in a bag, and tie them on the bits. Keep them in 
the horse's mouth, exeept when you want him to eat, 
till the contents of the bag have been swallowed. If 
the horse is not cured, or nearly so, in eight or ten 
days, give him another similar dose, which I think will 
effect an entire cure. 
Important to Dairymen. 
Eds. Cultivator —The experience of many a dai¬ 
rymen has taught him the necessity of a remedy for that 
obstinate disease, usually denominated “ Horn-ail ”— 
the symptoms and remedy of the disease are as fol¬ 
lows : 
Symptoms .—Cold horns, sudden falling off in quanti¬ 
ty of milk; general appearance drooping; dull eyes, &c. 
Remedy .—6 spoonsfull soot, 
1 u black pepper, ground. 
1 u ginger, 
1 “ salt, 
3 eggs. 
All well stirred together; add sufficient meal to make 
it convenient to handle in balls; draw out the tongue 
with one hand, and pass down one ball as far as prac¬ 
ticable—let go the tongue, and hold up the nose till it 
is swallowed. In like manner give the rest. 
The above dose repeat three or four mornings, and it 
will effect a cure. 
The horns should have nothing done to them. 
Should the above appear to the editors, of any avail 
to their numerous readers, they are at liberty to publish. 
It has saved me many valuable cows. M. S. Bailey. 
Bouckville , Madison County , 1849. 
P. S. Cows hard to milk, may be rendered easy by 
squeezing the teat full of milk, and passing up a pen¬ 
knife blade three-fourths of an inch. 
Neurotomy. 
A question has arisen how far aliorse that has under* 
gone the operation of the division of the nerve of the 
leg, and has recovered from the lameness with which 
he was before affected, and stands bis work well, may 
be considered sound. In our opinion, there cannot be a 
doubt about the matter. Does the operation of neuro¬ 
tomy render a horse as capable of work as he was be¬ 
fore he became affected with the disease on account of 
which, and to relieve him from the torture of which, the 
nerve was divided ? Is the operation of neurotomy so 
invariably followed by capability, and continued capa¬ 
bility of ordinary and even extraordinary work, that 
they may readily be considered as cause and effect ? 
The most strenuous defenders of the nerve operation 
cannot affirm this. They can only say that they par¬ 
tially succeed in almost every fair case,—that they per¬ 
fectly succeed in the majority of cases; but they cannot 
deny that the horse will batter and bruise that foot, 
when he has lost sensation in it, which should have been 
tenderly used; that even the hoof will sometimes be 
lost, after operations performed with the greatest judg¬ 
ment ; that the lameness will sometimes return after 
the animal has gone sound, one, two or three years; 
and that, after all, there is a little unpleasantness in the 
action of the horse, from the peculiar manner in which 
the foot meets the ground when its feeling is destroyed; 
and that the horse is more liable to accidents, for he 
will travel on without warning his rider of the evil, af¬ 
ter a piece of glass has penetrated his foot, or a stone 
has insinuated itself between the sole and the shoe; and 
thus irreparable mischief will be done, before the cause 
of it can possibly be detected. A horse on whom this 
operation has been performed may be improved—may 
cease to be lame, may go well for many years; but 
there is no certainty of his continuing to do so, and he 
is unsound.— Youatt. 
Warts. 
These are tumors of variable size, arising first from 
the cuticle, and afterwards connected with the true 
skin by means of the vessels which supply the growth 
of the tumors. They are found sometimes on the eye¬ 
lids, on various parts of the skin, and on the prepuce. 
They must be removed by an operation. If the root 
be very small, it may be snipped asunder with a pair 
of scissors, close to the skin, and the root touched with 
the lunar caustic. If the pedicle or stem be somewhat 
larger, a ligature of waxed silk may be passed firmly 
round it, and tightened every day. The source of nu¬ 
triment being thus cut off, the tumor will, in a few 
days, die and drop off. If they are large or in conside¬ 
rable clusters, it will be necessary to cast the horse, to 
cut them off close to the skin, and sear the root with a 
red-hot iron. Unless these precautions are used, the 
warts will speedily sprout again.— Youatt. 
Hoe cabbages while the dew is on, and make bay 
while the sun shines 
