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THE CULTIVATOR. 
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grist and plaster mill; and a machine and carpenter’s 
shop. Twenty-four feet of the building is three sto¬ 
ries high and the residue two stories. The lower story 
is cut into the side of a hill, and is co-occupied by the 
engine, boiler, cross cut, circular saw, and planing 
mill. 
The second story is appropriated to the saw mill, 
grist mill, and other machinery to be driven by steam, 
and the third story will be occupied as a machine and 
carpenter’s shop. A row of shafting will extend 
through the whole building, with drums or pulleys of 
various sizes to suit the speed necessary for the diffe¬ 
rent machines, and a shaft will also be extended into 
the large cow house, and barn, to drive threshing ma¬ 
chines, rOot, corn-stalk, straw and bay cutters, and by 
this means save the necessity of the horse power I pro¬ 
pose to erect in the centre of the barn. # The exhaust 
pipe of the engine will pass through a large steam 
chest, where food may be steamed for stock. A steam 
engine of sufficient power threshes grain much better 
than a horse power, because regular speed may be kept 
up, regardless of slight obstructions; but with horse 
power, if the straw gets tangled or any slight obstruc¬ 
tion passes into the thresher, the impetus of the ma¬ 
chine is diminished, and consequently more or less 
grain is left in the straw until the machine again re¬ 
gains its regular speed. Chas. B. Calvert. 
Scratches in Horses. 
opening medicine, feeding on bran for several days, 
and giving tonics. The old diet must be carefully 
avoided, as no cure can be affected so long as the food 
is given which caused the disease. Some horses have 
got completely well by turning them into a bare old 
pasture. —— 
Gas-tar for Wounds and Sores. 
A' writer in the Mark Lane Express of July 3, says 
that all having the care of sheep, will find the above 
article very useful for sore heads, or cuts with the 
shears, or any raw place whatever. It may be put on 
with a brush in the same way as paint. It may be 
rubbed over two or three times, so as to have a coat¬ 
ing thick enough to exclude air and flies. Underneath 
this artificial scab, the wound usually heals rapidly. 
Mr. Mixon, who recommends gas-tar for wounds and 
sores in Sheep, (why not also in sores on horses, cat¬ 
tle &c.?) says that it is better than pitch, tar, black 
brimstone, or anything that he had ever tried. It is 
also useful to mark with. 
. Degeneracy from Breeding in-and-in. 
Messrs Editors —I beg leave to send you another 
remedy for scratches in horses. I apply a plaster of 
All-healing Ointment. This ointment is composed of 
8 parts by weight of oxygen, and 1 of hydrogen. But 
you need n’t take the trouble to compound it, for our 
kind Creator has provided it at our hands in unlimited 
abundance. It is deeply to be regretted that its heal¬ 
ing properties are so little known. It is a better ap¬ 
plication than man has ever invented or ever will in¬ 
vent for healing human as well as brute maladies both 
internal and external. But it is so simple and natural 
that men can’t, have faith in it. Every thing must 
have some art and mystery about it to obtain favor. 
Try this AU-healing Ointment, gentlemen. It is cheap 
and easily applied. I have tried it and it works like 
a charm. C. N. B. 
The free use of our correspondent’s prescription [ira- 
ter we suppose] will at least promote cleanliness in men 
and animals, while doctors disagree as to its further 
effect in the removal of disease. 
Staggers in Horses. 
Sometimes horses are taken with stiffness in their 
limbs to such an extent as to cause them to sway and 
stagger about just like a drunken man. They do not 
seem to suffer any pain ; they do not groan nor breathe 
quick ; their ears and legs are neither cold nor hot, 
and neither dung nor urine show anything wrong. 
This disease is ascribed to a sympathetic derangement 
of the brain, depending on disorder of the stomach, 
occasioned by feeding for some time on indigestible 
food, such as rape, rye-grass, or ripe grass seed of any 
kind. The disease is almost entirely confined to the 
time of year when ripe grasses are most freely eaten. 
Several horses on one farm, have been affected at once. 
comes on, sometimes gradually and sometimes sud¬ 
denly. The treatment consists in giving a dose of 
Xhe fact that animals of all kinds become degene¬ 
rate from breeding from two parents between which- 
there is affinity of blood, is one that is pretty well 
known. It is not always however attended to in prac¬ 
tice, else we would not have witnessed the degenerate 
lambs which we have seen this spring. Through 
thoughtlessness or carelessness a neighboring flock of 
ewes was sired by the same buck which had been with 
them before for two seasons. He sired, therefore, his 
own lambs, and perhaps, his lambs’ lambs. The owner 
knew beiter and intended to have procured a change 
of bucks ; but in some way the result above stated 
happened. The result was a number of very weakly 
and deformed and idiot-looking lambs. Some were 
so weak in the hind legs that they could not support 
their own weight; and some had their hind legs twist 
outwards when they attempted to walk. One lived 
several days, but breathed quick and short all the time, 
and had to be assisted about nursing. One was coarse 
wooled almost as a water-dog, and looked very stupid 
and idiotic. Such results seem worthy of being put 
on record as a warning against like carelessness or 
neglect in others. 
Lice on Cattle or Horses. 
Messrs. Editors —I have tried snuff, and snuff 
and lard melted together, leached ashes, fine sand, &c. 
but I think the most effectual remedy is to take one 
pound of tobacco, (injured or refuse stems will do,) to 
three grown animals, and cover the tobacco with wa¬ 
ter, and let it stand forty-eight hours in a warm room 
in winter, or in the sunshine in summer; then wet Hie 
animal thoroughly ; then again in five or six days, and 
the vermin will be scarce. 
Horses often learn to be unruly by rubbing the fences 
down while lousy. 
It has been said that tobacco will sicken an animal, 
but I have not seen any injurious effects from its use; 
if it did sicken a little,, it would still be better to kill 
the lice. 
Perhaps the reason why tobacco juice is more effec¬ 
tual than some of the other articles mentioned, is that 
it can be more thoroughly applied to every part, and 
no vermin can'escape. W. Oswego. 
