nefit of improved stock, and partly, to Mr. Gray not 
having offered for sale the class of animals most sought 
after. Yearling hulls and two year old heifers, are 
what the farmers in this country seem most to run upon 
for breeding from, a fact Mr. Gray and others raising 
stock for this kind of sale, would do well to keep n 
mind. A Correspondent. New Brunswick, Aug. 
Heaves in Horses. 
Messrs. Eds. —If you or your subscribers, know a 
cure or preventive for heaves in horses, please state so 
in some number. David Stewart. Strabane , G. W. 
Heaves { broken-wind of the English,) is a disease 
caused by poor, innutritions and dusty or musty food, 
working hard on a full stomach, irregular feeding and 
working, &c., superadded to a hereditary predisposition. 
The prevention, is good and nourishing food, plenty of 
oats regularly given, water in moderate quantities at 
a time, green food and especially carrots, and avoid¬ 
ing hard work with a distended stomach. 
There is no cure for the heaves. 
But its symptons may be mitigated, and the disease 
in a great measure suspended, by the same treatment 
as for its prevention, just stated, and especially by al¬ 
ways cutting the animal's fodder and giving it wet, 
with meed, and never more than a small pail of water 
at a time ,• at the same time taking care that he can¬ 
not eat his beddirfg - , by giving him a short halter. 
Giving ginger only affords temporary relief. 
If our correspondent will turn to p. 105 of the first 
volume of the Country Gentleman, he will there find a 
humorous and instructive article from the pen of 
Henry F. French, entitled “How I bought a horse, 
and how he had the heaves,” which will afford some 
valuable hints on this subject. 
Farmers should Save their own Clover Seed- 
[The following practical directions on saving the 
seed of elover,—a crop on which the fertile condition 
of the farm, and the growth of fine crops of wheat, 
next to manuring, most depends,—are worthy of the 
attention of our readers at the present time, when the 
period of ripening the seed is approaching ] 
The quantity of clover seed sown the present season 
in Kentucky is probably greater than in any former 
year. The quantify reported in the daily papers, as 
received by the steamboats at this port, between the 
months of November and April, is 11,800 bushels 
This it is presumed, will hardly equal one-quarter of 
the amount that has found its way into the State at 
other points, so that we may safely estimate the entire 
receipts of elover seed into Kentucky at 50,000 bushels, 
which, at an average price of $5.25 per bushel, amounts 
to the sum of $262,500. This seed is ehiefiy the pro¬ 
duct of Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, but by far 
the largest portion is from Ohio. 
From the Patent Office report for the year 1851, we 
learn that the quantity of clover seed saved in Ohio in 
that year exceeded 100,000 bushels, which, at the av¬ 
erage market price, brought a return to the farmers of 
that State of over half a million of dollars. 
The estimate of the entire annual crop of clover 
seed for the seed-growing States of the Union is set 
down at 1,000,000 bushels—worth over $5,000,000. 
With proper machinery for gathering and cleaning 
the seed, it is one of the most profitable crops grown- 
Indeed the labor of harvesting and cleaning consti¬ 
tutes the whole cost of production, as clover necessarily 
enters into the system of rotation of the crops of every 
good farmer, and in securing the seed by the most im¬ 
proved methods nothing is removed from the land but 
the heads of the plant, leaving all that remains to en¬ 
rich the soil. 
The spring growth may be either cut and cured for 
hay. or it may be pastured by cattle; the second growth 
of the season being the most productive of seed. All 
that is required for saving and preparing the seed for 
market is a Seed Harvester and Huller. One of the 
most complete and effectual clover and timothy seed 
harvesters has been invented and patented by J A. 
Wagener, of New York. This machine consists of a sim¬ 
ple frame or box mounted on wheels, in front of which 
is a cylinder, set with spiral knives, acting in concert 
with curved spring teeth, in combination with a straight 
knife which forms a perfect shear, and severs the heads 
from the stalk, which are at the same time discharged 
into the box, the cylinder being guarded by an adjus¬ 
table guard plate, allowing the heads, and the heads 
only, to pass to the cylinder, leaving the stalks on the 
field. The teeth being made to spring and vibrate, not 
a particle of clover, however stalky and thick, can pos¬ 
sibly escape being cut, or allow the teeth to become 
clogged. This machine is so constructed that it can be 
made adjustable to the height of clover and timothy. 
With the aid of one horse and a boy, this machine 
will harvest twelve acres per day. 
Of Clover Hullers there is a great variety, more or 
less perfect in their operation, which can be procured 
at a cost of from $30 to $100. Some of the cheaper 
ones, however, are inefficient and such as we would 
not advise our farmers to procure. Crawford’s patent 
Clover Huller, now extensively used in Ohio, is proba- 
bty as good as anj^. 
When but a small quantity of seed is required to be 
hulled, farmers sometines use the ordinary threshing 
machine. In doing so they nearly close the front of 
the feeding space with a board, leaving only a small 
opening sufficiently large to crowd in the chaff. The 
back side is also closed, except an opening at the oppo¬ 
site corner from that left for feeding. The spikes in 
the cylinder, being set spirally, force the seed from one 
side of the concave to the place of discharge on the 
other, thus removing the hull. This operation, how¬ 
ever requires to be repeated several times, in order to 
thoroughly separate the hull from all the seed. 
When a farmer wishes to save seed only for his own 
sowing, it is not essential that it be cleaned, as it will 
vegetate equally well when sown in the chaff, Every 
farmer may gather what seed he wishes to sow by a 
cheap and simple machine, which with the use of a 
few tools may be easily constructed, as follows: Make 
a box. say three feet wide, four feet long, and one foot 
deep, with the forward end left out. This should be 
placed on runners, about nine inches wide forming a 
kind of sled; teeth made of hard wood, about fifteen 
inches long, one inch thick and one inch wide at the 
top and half an inch wide on the under side. These 
should be placed a^out a quarter of an inch apart 
forming a kind of comb by which the heads are gath¬ 
ered. 
A field of clover properly managed will yield from 
H to 3 bushels of clover seed per acre. At an ave¬ 
rage of 2 bushels per acre, 20 bushels and upward may 
be gathered in a day with the improved seed gather¬ 
ers, and much more than that quantity can be hulled 
and cleaned with the same, of the best machines. 
In many of the clover-growing States, a very profit¬ 
able business is carried on by persons providing them¬ 
selves with seed harvesters and hullers and traveling 
from farm to farm and gathering and cleaning the seed 
on shares, giving the farmer one-third to one-half the 
crop .—Louisville Journal. 
