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returning to the heart, has a kind of up hill work to 
perform, hence it accumulates in the veins. Now, 
although we observe alarming symptoms in black¬ 
leg, it is no more a disease of the legs, than it is of 
impaired digestion, absorption, secretionj and cir¬ 
culation, for the whole functions are involved, and 
the cure of black-leg is the cure of all other mala¬ 
dies. 
There is no particular treatment for black-leg, 
other than we have already alluded to, viz., to im¬ 
part healthy action to the whole animal system, and 
to remove the direct cause. If the animal has been 
over-fed with a view of fattening, reduce the quanti¬ 
ty of food, give mucilage of slippery-elm, and rub 
the leg with tincture of capsicum. 
Our advice to farmers is, let your animals have 
their meals at regular hours, in sufficient quantity, 
(and not a particle more;) if they waste it, put less 
before them each time, until they eat the quantity 
given, without waste; let them have good beds of 
straw on which to rest their limbs; do not permit 
them to breath the emanations that arise from the 
dung and urine; keep them clean, and avoid undue 
exposure. Finally, govern them in a spirit of kind¬ 
ness and mercy, and there will be little foothold for 
disease. G. H. Dadd. Boston , Jan. 1850. 
Blind Teeth in Horses. 
Eds. Cultivator —Some two or three years 
since, I did myself the pleasure of giving you my 
experience on the subject of Wolf or Blind Teeth; 
since which time no actual case has occurred under 
my observation till lately. I now send you enclosed 
a Wolf tooth, extracted from the upper jaw of a 
horse of mine, immediately m front of the grinders. 
I had observed a considerable degree of inflamma¬ 
tion in the eye of this horse, and a thin film was 
gradually forming, which threatened its destruction. 
I tried various remedies in vain, when I discovered 
the Wolf tooth, situated as above described, which 
being extracted, the eye rapidly recovered, and is 
now entirely well. 
As the existence of these teeth, and their effect 
upon the eye of the horse has been doubted by sci¬ 
entific men, I send ymu the tooth and state the facts, 
leaving it for science to say what is the connection 
between the cause and the effect. Wm. Little. 
Carbon as food for plants. —Mr. J. W. Rogers 
says he was refused the gold medal offered, a few 
years since by a public body in Ireland, because he 
had set forth that carbon, given to the roots of plants, 
would invigorate them. He observes—•' This was 
then deemed a fallacy, but I am happy to say, any one 
may now allege the same without being laughed at. 
At that period, a popular chemist had set it down 
1 that all plants depended upon the atmosphere for the 
carbon they contained/ but the leading chemical writer 
of the present day says very differently. Brande 
states, in the 6th edition, published 1S48, that ‘ al¬ 
though the accumulation of decaying matter which 
chemists call humus performs an important part in 
vegetable nutrition, it is not by its direct absorption 
and assimilation, but by its influence as a source of 
carbonic acid, which is partly taken up by the juices 
of the roots, and partly evolved into the atmosphere, 
so that plants, independent of their leaves, can thus 
receive carbonic aeid. ,, 
The idle man is the devil’s hireling, whose livery 
is rags, whoso diet and wages are famine and dis¬ 
grace. 
He is a fool who makes his doctor his heir. 
Business Notices. 
Our Premiums. 
It should be remembered that competition for the following list of 
Premiums, payable in Books, or in Implements or Seeds from the 
Albany Ag. Warehouse, is open till the 20th of March next, viz : 
1. To the one who shall send us the largest number of subscribers 
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In addition to the above, a copy of Thomas’ “ American Fruit 
Culturist. price one dollar—a very valuable work just published— 
to every agent who sends us Fifteen subscribers and $10, and who 
does not obtain one of the above prizes. 
The American Fruit Culturist. 
This work has been sent by mail, only to such Agents as have re¬ 
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work, who have said nothing about its being sent; and we have ta¬ 
ken it for granted that they intended to procure more subscribers, 
aud to be competitors for a higher prize. We therefore give notice 
that the work will be sent by mail only where specially requested, 
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The postage on the work is only 2l£ cents, to any post office in the 
United States. - 
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stance, when a Postmaster sends us $2 for two copies, he will be en¬ 
titled to five more copies for $3, making 7 copies for $5. So when 
an Agent sends $5 for 7 copies, he will be entitled to 8 more copies 
for the second $5. making 15 copies for $10. 
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he will be entitled to any additional copies he may order at the rate 
of $2 for three copies. - 
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In answer to several inquiries, we repeat the statement so often 
made, that The Cultivator, when sent without cover, is subject to 
newspaper postage only —that is, one cent within the State, and l£ 
cents if out of the state, and over 100 miles from Albany. Thi& 
question has been several times settled by the different Postmaster 
Generals. For Certificate of this, see Cult, for 1848, page 97. 
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AND JOURNAL OF RURAL ART AND RURAL TASTE. 
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We notice that many Postmasters, who are Agents for The Cul¬ 
tivator, pay the postage on their letters to us. It will be seen by the 
following letter from Hon. F. H. Warren, Assistant Postmaster 
General, that they are entitled to the privilege of franking their re¬ 
mittances: Post Office Department. 1 
Appointment Office, Dec. 31,1849. j 
Sir—The Postmaster General, after careful consideration of the 
question as to the right of Postmasters that have the privilege of 
franking, to frank letters to publishers of newspapers covering mon¬ 
ey for subscriptions or the names of subscribers, has decided, that 
when the Postmaster is Agent for the publisher, he has the power to 
frank such letters, and his Agency will be presumed from the fact 
that he franks them. As no Postmaster has any authority to frank 
these communications bat when he is such an Agent, it is proper U> 
regard him as acting in that capacity when he so conducts, until in¬ 
formation is received to the contrary. In doing this business, the 
Postmaster must be regarded as entirely the Agent of the publisher,, 
and not of the Department. FITZ HENRY WARREN. 
