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THE CULTIVATOR. 
that beet sugar can be made by any farmer, and that 
all the apparatus required for the production of a com¬ 
mon article, is a common cider press and kettle for boil¬ 
ing. Experience we doubt not will instruct in the clari¬ 
fying process; to hesitate, would be to libel American 
ingenuity and skill in surmounting obstacles. 
Diseases and Management of Sheep. 
Messrs. Editors—I have seen in your paper a re¬ 
quest made by Mr. Grant, for some remedy to cure cat¬ 
tle that have taken too freely of new corn. Taking it 
for granted that the digestive organs, stomach, Sec. of a 
sheep is like that of the ox, I will tell him what proved 
useful to my sheep under the same circumstances. My 
sheep had taken too freely of new corn, they became 
perfectly debilitated, violent purging ensued, and seve¬ 
ral of them died. One I found very low, it could not 
stand, and appeared to be blind. Three doses of tar 
and salt a day, say half a table spoonful of tar, and a 
little salt, repeated for two or three days cured it. 
In the management of sheep I find tar of great bene¬ 
fit. If placed in a situation that is easy of access, they 
will eat it very readily. I like to have the troughs well 
plastered with tar, and the salt thrown in, and they will 
use it freely at all seasons. I find that sheep in this 
section of the country require moist or green food in 
the winter, and the turnep crop is so precarious, that I 
was induced to try the winter radish; this I found to 
answer every good purpose; they grow large, and they 
are not apt to be troubled by the flea or bug. The 
sheep I found would eat them as well, and appeared as 
healthy as when fed on turneps. 
I observed a writer in your paper recommended lit¬ 
tering sheep pens with straw, feeding on oats and hay. 
The littering with straw I found to be injurious, the 
urine and manure of the sheep soon fermenting, and 
produced a suffocating heat and offensive odor; this 
was the cause of disease. Feeding on oats and hay 
produced costiveness and fever, and in the month of 
February they began to eat their wool. Hay is an ene¬ 
my to wool; you always find the manufacturer com¬ 
plaining of it. I prefer feeding on corn stalks and corn 
fodder, (the corn cut up by the roots and the husk left 
on the stocks,) the stock keeps the sheep from the 
ground, and the pen will not be hot or offensive. A 
hundred hills of corn and a bushel and a half of turneps 
or radishes, I found sufficient for 125 head of sheep at 
a time. I feed morning and evening, letting them run 
out through the middle of the day on my wheat, so as 
to destroy the insects that would otherwise harbor un¬ 
der its foliage and rise in the spring and destroy the 
grain, and to prevent the snow from suffocating it, as 
some of your correspondents complain. 
— A Virginian. 
Iloof Ail—Inquiry. 
Gentlemen —I have been troubled very much in the 
last twelve months with the disease among my cows, 
known by the name of hoof ail; and have tried every 
remedy x can hear of, to effect a cure, but without suc¬ 
cess. If you know of any certain cure, you will confer 
a favor on me, and perhaps on others, by giving it a 
place in your paper. R. L. WRIGHT. 
Wheatland, Va., 1840. 
We know no certain cure for the hoof ail, after the 
disease has fixed itself on the animal; and when the feet 
have suppurated, the instances of cure are so rare as to 
be hardly worth taking into account. Prevention seems 
the only course. When the disease shows itself the 
first appearances should be watched, and if the animal is 
thoroughly bled in the foot at that time before matter 
is formed, or the inflammation has progressed far, there 
is rarely much danger or trouble afterwards. But if 
the inflammation is not checked at once, and matter 
forms within the hoof, in nine cases out of ten the crea¬ 
ture had better be dead than alive, at least so far as we 
have seen that is the case. Blood may be drawn by 
paring the sole to the quick near the toe, or by cutting 
off the point with a chisel, until the blood flows. After 
bleeding, tar should be applied, and the foot kept dry for 
a few days. — 
Disease of Swine. 
“ Messrs. Editors — I wish you to draw the attention 
of some of your able correspondents, to a disease which 
prevails among swine in this part of Virginia, and is 
called among us an infection of the kidneys, or a weak¬ 
ness of the loins. Such is the weakness of the hinder 
parts of the animal thus affected, that they are unable 
to rise, or stand on their hind legs at all. There is a 
fine hog that is diseased in my neighborhood, and if 
you can point out a remedy you will not only much 
oblige you correspondent, but confer a favor on the pub¬ 
lic. J. M. HUDSON. 
“ Waylandsburg, Va., 1840.” 
With the disease here alluded to, we have had no ex¬ 
perience; but it is common in the western states, and is 
there attributed to the collection of worms in the intes¬ 
tines, of the kind called the kidney worm. The writer 
of the American Swine Breeder, after remarking that 
“large doses of arsenic” have sometimes effected a 
cure, but that its use is not to be recommended, adds : 
“ Probably the best remedy, is to drench the hog with 
tolerably strong portions of ley from wood ashes, mixed 
with tar. If this is not successful, from twenty to thirty 
grains of calomel may be resorted to, and should be 
given mixed with half a pound of meal dough.” 
By occasionally feeding pigs with sulphur, or wood 
ashes mixed with their food, this disease and others that 
attack swine would doubtless be prevented. If any of 
our subscribers can furnish a cure for this disease it 
shall have a place. . — 
Blooily Milk—Inquiry. 
“ Gentlemen —I should be glad to obtain a remedy 
for a disease in the udder of cows like the following: 
On Sunday evening I discovered that bloody milk was 
drawn from one teat, accompanied with a slight swell¬ 
ing behind it. On Monday morning one half of the ud¬ 
der was so badly swollen as to render it nearly impos¬ 
sible to milk the two teats affected; the other two teats 
remained unaffected. It has continued until this time, 
(Saturday;) there is no appearance of external injury; 
though I should state that some time previous to my 
purchasing her, three months since, she had had a back 
rib broken. M. R. GRISWOLD. 
11 Middletown, Ct., 1840.” 
Bloody milk may be occasioned by external injuries; 
by garget, in xvhich case it is usually combined Avith 
swelling, and the discharge of stringy matter; or by 
pressing the udder or teat in milking so unskilfully as 
to rupture some of the fine blood vessels Avithin, and 
cause the blood to be discharged Avith the milk. When 
it arises from garget, the best remedy Ave have knoAvn 
used, is to cut the scoke, or garget root, as it is some¬ 
times called, into fine pieces and feed a handful or Iavo 
to the cow Avith a mess of bran or cut vegetables. 
Where the bleeding arises from external injuries, or a 
rupture of vessels, Avashing the bag or udder, by pre¬ 
venting inflammation, will produce a good effect. Salt 
and water has been recommended for this purpose. 
Giving bloody milk is, however, at times a fault from 
Avhich a cow cannot be freed, and t&atpart of her udder 
must be lost, or the animal fed for the butcher. 
Mr. Kendall’s Cow Julia. 
We received a farther notice of this coav, intended to 
accompany the portrait published in our last paper, but 
as it came too late for that purpose, Ave give it an inser¬ 
tion in this place. Mr. Kendall says : “ The portrait, 
which is a most excellent likeness, Avas taken when the 
coav Avas in milk, giving six gallons per day of very rich 
milk, and of course she'Avas not in very high condition. 
She was descended from the importation of Sanders, 
Tegorden & Smith, Avho imported both long and short 
horns. Julia is three-fourths short horn and one-fourth 
long horn Durham, though her appearance Avould indi¬ 
cate that she Avas a thorough bred Short Horn. Her 
Aveight last fall was 1,600 pounds. By reference to her 
portrait, it Avill be seen that she takes on flesh at the 
most valuable points. She is very heavy in the hind 
quarters, broad in the loin, of great Avidth across the 
hips, straight on the back, splendid in the rib, small 
head and neck, and deep in the brisket, her legs small 
but tapering to her body. Julia takes on flesh more 
rapidly than any animal I ever kneiv; she has been 
running on grass with my stock, and has become so 
very fat that I have some fears of her breeding. By 
the application of the tape, Julia measures round girt 
seven feet two inches; round brisket and shoulders 
seven feet eleven inches ; round the arm two feet two 
inches; round leg beloAv the knee eight inches; round 
neck two feet eleven inches; cross the hips two feet; 
and from the center of horns to root of tail seven feet 
four inches; and is four feel nine inches high. In con¬ 
clusion I Avould remark that she has taken Five Silver 
Cups at different fairs in this state. P. S. I add the 
measure of Lady Washington, a yearling heifer: round 
girt six feet ; from center of horns to root of tail six 
feet three inches; round brisket and shoulders six feet 
six inches; round arm one foot nine inches ; leg seven 
and a half inches.” 
Great Crop of Com. 
Mr. W. W. Bridgman of BelchertoAvn, Mass, informs 
us that he has this year raised one hundred and sixty 
bushels of corn, Aveighing 41 lbs. 2 oz. per bushel, and 
twenty-four bushels of Rohan potatoes, on one acre of 
land. Of the culture of this crop, Mr. B. says—“The 
manner in Avhich I prepared my land for this abundant 
harvest, was as follows : I put on it 22 loads of long ma¬ 
nure, made in an unfloored stable. I planted the corn 
the first Aveek in May, and hoed it the first time the last 
Aveek of the same month, Avhen I found that the wire 
worm Avas making great ravages among it. I slaked a 
bushel of stone lime and put on the corn. In a few days 
I perceived that it had changed its color. In ten days, I 
put on six bushels of ashes, Avhich is all the process 
Avhich I pursued.” 
Milking.—M r. B. says farther, in ansiver to the in¬ 
quiry for a remedy for kicking coavs, that if the milker 
Avill keep his nails short, not one coav in a hundred Avill 
kick ; and that the use of an ointment made of linseed 
oil and Avhite lead twice, will cure cracked teats. 
To destroy the Striped Bug. 
Mr. Wm. Youngs of Lyons, informs us of a more fea¬ 
sible method of destroying the striped bug which infests 
melons, cucumbers, 8tc., than that described by Mr. 
Wilson in the last Cultivator. It is to place a turkey 
with her brood of young, in a coop in the garden, just 
as the plants appear aboA r e ground. The young ones 
Avill live on the bugs, Avhich they eat Avith great avidity; 
but the old one in the coop, must be fed her usual meals. 
The turkeys must, after destroying the bugs, be remo¬ 
ved from the garden before they become so old as to 
prey upon the setting fruit. 
Notre for tljc illontt). 
tCT 3 Subscribers and Agents should bear in mind, 
that at the close of the current vol., which termi¬ 
nates with the next No., all subscriptions, except 
those paid in advance for the next year, will cease; 
and that all those who wish to receive the next 
vol. of the Cultivator must renew their subscrip¬ 
tions. OCT" With this No. we send out Prospec¬ 
tuses for vol. 8, to all our Agents. There may, 
however, be some omissions ; and if any of our 
Agents fail to receive a Prospectus, we shall be 
glad to be informed, that copies may be sent. 
Trial of Plows. —The great trial of plows for the 
premiums of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, 
came off’ at Worcester, on the 14th October. Nine 
ploAvs, three of Avhich Avere from this State, Avere enter¬ 
ed for trial. “ There has never been,” says the Boston 
Cultivator, “ so important a trial of this most important 
implement of the farmer, since the country Avas settled, 
as the judges AA^ere very minute and exact in their exa¬ 
mination and inquiries, and measured not only the Avidth 
and depth of furroAV, but the power Avhich Avas required 
to moA r e fonvard the instruments. This Avas done by a 
Dynamometer Avhich measures exactly the strength re¬ 
quired in the draft.” The premium of $100, for the ploAV 
that Avill turn the sod over and lay it flat, Avas aAvarded 
to Prouty 8c Mears, Boston—and the premium of $75 
for the best ploAV to lay the sod on edge or obliquely, 
Avas arvarded to Charles Hoavard, Hingham, Mass. 
Large Calves. —Mr. Wm. Heyser, of Springdale, 
near Chambersburg, Pa. has furnished the Farmer’s 
Cabinet Avith the names, ages and Aveights of nine, full 
bred Short Horn calves, sired by his imported bull Co¬ 
lossus, and from cows selected from the fold of Mr. 
Whittaker, as folloAvs: 
Lady Franklin, at 19 days old,.250 lbs. 
Napoleon, 21 “ .....262 “ 
Flora, 9 Aveeks. ......450 “ 
Belina, 3 months.460 “ 
Dahlia, 11 “ ....880 “ 
Franklin Comet, 10 “ and 11 days... .936 “ 
Three calves at one hour old, weighed 115, 120, and 
125 lbs. A splendid lot truly, for one farm. 
Sales. — Wm. Weddle of Greece, near Rochester, re¬ 
cently sold to J. C. Hathaway of Farmington, “ Lady 
BoAver,” an imported Short Horn cow, Avith her bull 
calf, 7| months old, for $1,000. At a sale in Ontario, a 
Durham bull from Mr. W.’s stock, was sold for $580 ; 
and a coav Avith her two calves, for $890. 
Death. —The Rev. L. F. Clark, Editor of the Ten¬ 
nessee Farmer, and Professor of Chemistry^ and Natu¬ 
ral History in East Tennessee University, died at Knox¬ 
ville on the 25th of August, aged 40 years. The paper 
is continued by the publishers, J. C. Moses 8c Co. 
Large Sheep. —A Leicester buck Avas exhibited in 
Nashville, (Tenn.) August 19, by M. R. Cockrill, Esq. 
Avhich measured 4 feet 4 inches from ears to tail, 4 feet 
round the girth Avith the strap draAvn tight, 2 feet 8 inch¬ 
es in height, and 1 foot from brisket to the ground. 
Fine specimens of the Bakewellsand South DoAvns Avere 
at the same time exhibited by Maj. Clarkson. 
Weight of Grain. —The legislature of Indiana has 
passed a laiv fixing the Aveight of a bushel of Wheat at 
60 lbs.—Rye 56 lbs.—Corn 56 lbs.—Barley 48 lbs.—Oats 
33 lbs. 
Pigs. —Wm. Elliott of Sumner, (Tenn.) has two 
Berkshires, which Aveighed at four months, the boar 141 
lbs. and the soav 136 lbs. 
Ontario Ag. Society. —The officers of this Society, 
are, John Greig, Esq. President; Gideon Lee, Heman 
Chapin, Peter Mitchell, Lyman HaAves, Wm Otley, and 
Irving Metcalf, Vice Presidents; W. W. Gorham, Rec. 
Sec’y; Oliver Phelps, Cor. Sec’y; J. D. Bemis Treasu¬ 
rer ; and a committee of three for each tOAvn—embra¬ 
cing together a list of gentlemen abundantly qualified by 
their intelligence and their Avealth to make the Ontario 
Ag. Society, the first of its class in the Union. 
Sheep. —A correspondent inAvestern New-York Avish- 
es us to caution the farmers of that section, against sell¬ 
ing their sheep to the butchers at a low rate, in the ex¬ 
pectation that they Avill be able another season to re¬ 
plenish their flocks at a similarly low price. He says 
avooI is advancing, and that the demand for woolen 
goods is increasing. 
The Cultivator’s Almanac. —We are glad to see 
that this Avork for 1841, (the first number of which for 
1840, Avas issued last winter,) has already appeared. It 
is got up in good style, 124 pages duodecimo, and con¬ 
tains a great variety of agricultural knoAAffedge, appro¬ 
priately arranged under each month, by Mr. Buckmin¬ 
ster, the editor of the Boston Cultivator. It is a truly 
useful Avork, one Avhich we should rejoice to see take 
the place of the many worse than useless almanacs now 
issued from the press. 
Scratching Hens. —We never allow our hens to run 
in the garden, and they are taught from the egg, that 
the dinner pot would be as safe a place for scratching 
operations as the garden. But if hens will scratch, a 
doAvn-east farmer says the Avay to prevent it, is to tie the 
two outside toes of one foot together, over the middle 
one. This so narrows her understanding, that scratch¬ 
ing is impossible. 
