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From the Boston Cultivator. Kentucky Farming. A recent letter from Lexington gives the following enticing picture of the Agriculture of Kentucky. The S ate law, which allows the debtor to point out to the sheriff what kind of property shall he taken on execution is a most capital idea? the legislature must have h id in mind the vankee's sale of a dozen fox skins, whicli 0 [the purchaser was to take "as they came jn course," but on putting the bargain in .writing tbe yaukce chose the pnrase, "the purchaser to lake thorn running." The *?heritFs of ?cptpcky, instead of the an. cieot return of *null ft boua^?no goods; must say, when wild hogs ^re shown them,4inullum catchmn." Hut whv should people need tosu? ;out executions in a State where all arc so rich and in depend nt? Extract from 'hr Lrt'rr. "Ifgeography and history had not placed the Eden of ihc primitive world in E?? era chines, you would have sworn this must have been its site. Nature has been lavish hero of her bounties in soil vegetation and climate. For 50 miles around, the land is of the richest alluvial earth, from 5 to 10 feet in depth, resting upon a ; stratum of limestone. Its surface, at a distance, appears like a vast plain hut enter- i ing it, the ground is found rolling like 1 he j long swelling uadulations of the ocean.? , ThiJ country, every acre of which is as rich i your garden spot,?is divided into ox- 1 tensive plantations of from 500 to 2000 j acres each, with its firm-house, and its | negro cabins clustering around it. placed in the centre, remote iroin the highway, surrounded by a grove, broad avenues lined with trees loadingtoit. Col. Clvy of Fayette County, has an estate containing upwards of 6000 acres, most of which is devoted to pasturage, and he sold in 1836,1 was informed, upwards of $30,000 worth of cuttle uj>on the hoof, a part of which were driven to the New York and Brighton markets. Manv districts in this rich grazing ooun c t c try present the anomalous condition of a country increasing rapidly in wealth and ^ advancing in improvements while decreasing id population. The reason of this singular state ofaflfiirs, is that the o .... small farmers are selling their circumscribed farms to the wealthy graziers, who are monopolizing the lands in their vicinity. This was peculiarly the course of events from 1836 to 183S, while beef and stock commanded exorbitant prices; the low prices of beef for a year or two past, have, however, arrested the tendency to accumulate the lands in a few large proprietors. Corn and rye fields are p'antcd and sown here for the purpose of feeding cat tie upon them, standing in the field. Rye is never gathered lor domestic use, and it strikes an eastern man as a most wasteful and improvident mode of farming, to turn A herd of cattle into a rich and ripened field of grain to feed upon and trample it under their feet, and when they had feasted and gorged themselves upon it for a few days, the swine are let in to gather up the scattered and mutilated remains of the harvest. The farmers in the vicinity of Lexington possess now the finest breed of cattle in the world. For many years large sums have been paid, and much care ami labor incurred by them to procure the best specimens of English stock. Agents have annually been sent to England to purchase, without regard to cost, the choicest bulls And cows of the most famous breeds.? These being transferred to the luxuriant pastures and genial clime of Kentucky, their offspring improve in all their characteristic points of excellence and surpass dheir progenitors in size and beauty. I saw yesterday, heifers three years old, that would weigh fifteen hundred pounds, and which were the most perfect models .of beauty; and their calves of this season, now four or five months old, would weigh down an ordinary cow of full growth, and these lusty fellows were hleating after thcii dams and tugging a* the teat like young sucklings, for here pows are not kept foi milk, but to raise calves, and no butter anc cheese are made upon these large stocl farms for the market. The rearing of horses and rnules is als< a source Qf great profit, pnd the echo i: awakened through the sylvan pastures bj the perpetual bray of the stultified ass, anc the neighing of the prancing bipod horse which, like the beeves, being kept princi pally for breeding, are seldom subjectei to the bit and harness, and in their wile h C11EIU vtmrnammemtawm freedom they start at the sound of strange footsteps, snuff'the air and bound off' in the unrestrained liberty of the untamed 1 prarie-horse. From twenty to fifty horses t are kept upon the large estates, and usually as many mules. A few days since, ' upon the rich bottoms of the Scioto, near i t_.._ t i . ,.r onn V/OIUUIOUS, 1 SHW upwurus Ui fjijyj grazing in one pasture, s In a country where pork is so important a staple of production, it would be suppos', cd that great care would he given to pro| cure the best brewed of swine; but the long snouted, lank and slab-sided race, seen i running wild in large herds through the o c n ' woods, exhibit an a tonisliing indifference in their owners to the improvement of this description of stock. Hut in the recent screwing times of money, this wild race of j pigs hare afforded a convenient and timeJ ly releif to many a distressed delinquent. J Hy the statutes of thisSvate, the debtor has the privilege of designating what articles of his property shall be sold under execution to satisfy a debt, and of late it has been the practice in the new counties, ! among those who seek cvciy means 'o esJ cape from the pressing demands rd the j Sheriff and constable, to point out the 1 herd of wild hogs in the woods. They being worth the amount of the execution. ; the limb of the law is obliged to ac<ept them, "but the thing is to catch cm.' If not taken, ihev return to the posses on i of the debtor. A friend of mine saw the same herd of swine offered as a satisfaction for execution five times in one week, and these had been borrowed of a neighbor for a few days, and were of the wildest sort, to evade the process of the law. Tiie ex cutions being returned nulla bono, the title of the pigs was transferred to their right ful owner. Hut n tew eastern gentlemen, ; residents in this State are now engaged ' in propagating a tarn t race, that will he . more amenable to the law. ! There is no class of men who eeiov n ; greater freedom from the.cares, nnxietic6 I a /d li</? fhan I lt/? nl*? nfnrj r?f ? CllUt l4ll/l/IC9 wi iiIV/ viiiiii mv/ |/mnivi.7 v/i ivi fertile region. Ti?oV are the princes of the land?free from debt, living in tlie enjoyment of princely incomes, and upon ( estates, some of which almost equal a j small German principality in a territory. Calvks iun.x.ni; with Cows. A writer in the Farmers' Cabinet says: J ?"Mv experience extends to many hundrcd cases, fur upon tne iiilis of S o la >J it is the universal practice to permit the calves to remain with their dams during ! the summer, but sucli are never .known or expected to make superior cows for the dairy, and for this reason. Depend upon it, to make a deep milker, the bag must be periodically distended, and those who suppose that to allow the calves to remain with their daius through the summer would he to the injury of the cows, have not come to that conclusion with "reason or evidence. Besides, does | not the writer in a measure admit the pos! siiiilitv of the case, when lie thinks it pos ! sible that the cows, under such treatment, might grow fat.'?as limy assuredly will? it is not often that cows, when kept to the pail, are troubled with this inconvenience." Lothian. Boston Jan. 10th. Farmers' Meet:no in the State JlorsK. On Thursday two or throe hundred farmers mot at seven o'clock in the evening in the Representatives' Hall for the purpose of diseussing subjects relating to their occu: pa!ion. The Commissioner of Agriculture opened the meeting and stated his object in obtaining leave to ocupy the Hall on one evening each week?it was for improvement in the theory and practice of I Agriculture. He moved that a President I pro tern, be appointed in order that a ComI mil tee of Arrangements might be chosen i to draft rules and prepare for the next meeting. Rev. Allen Putnam of Danvers was chosen President for the evening, and Hoj ? race Collaniore, Esq. of Pembroke was . appointed Clerk. A Committee of five I was then chosen to prepare rules, &c. The Commissioner then addressed the J audience and look a general view of the condition of cultivators of the earth indifferent regions and compared it with our i own?he thought wo had every reason to be satisfied with our own country and that New England was decidedly the best part of it?he then treated at some length of the importance of making farther im provements on our lands, and that lor this purpose it was of the utmost importance to cultivate our ininds?-and he was good i enough to entertain us for nearly an hour ingiving good advice and in pointing out , I the importance of mental and of agricul, j tural improvement. i l)r. Jackson was requested to give an , account of the corn crops which he saw i growing in New Hampshire on the islands I in the Winnepiseogcc lake?he confirmed r the statements which we have before giv{ en that several far mors there have raised r about one hundred and thirty bushels ol 1 corn to the acre. t The subject for discussion on the nexi Thursday evening, is, the various grasses > and the best modes of producing them 3 Adjourned to meet at seven P. M. oi f Thursday evening next, i j Cultivator. Sausage Making. j' Should you think our mode of making i sausages worth a place in your chapte ?> 'UMMHiSW i } 1 ^ v LW, SOU TH-CAliOLINA, on domestic ecomomy you can place it jthere. I We prepare cur sausage meat in the , usual way. Tuen instead of putting ' the meat in skins, prepared from the hogs' | entrails, we make hags of white clean {cottonor linen cloth, as large,say as a i man's arm, larger or smaller as may suit, ! and of convenient length, say about a j foot long, and put the sausage meat in ; these hags, and hang them up to dry. In ! this, we save much labor in preparing the ski is, and considerable in cooking; we slip off the hag from so much as is needed, and cut the sausage into slices of sufficient thickness for cooking. I much 1 prefer sausages put in bags to those put : in skins, as they keep more moist. Othj er.-:, for the same reason dislike them. Respectfully yours, CALVIN BUTLER, j P. S. Ripe cider berries make good I pics. Try them ladies. C. B. Albany Cultivator. Plymouth, (Conn.) Sept. 17,1840. DUTY OF FAKMKR : MTLKING AND FEEDJ ING MILCH COWS. | Editor of the Southern Cultivafoj: Sir?The value of Agricultural papers is I believe almost universally admitted to be a grCat, to any farming community in I which they are situated. At oli oyerl?*. i there arc none who can find any fault to i i the publications of such papers, and there are very few in modern days that pretend to : say they do 110 good. Thus much for caj vellcrs and set ptics who exist ever) where, land in regard to all things useful or im| portant. Tne Bible itself is doubted by some?rail-roa Is and turnpikes are stren, u Misiv opposed by many?improvements j in cctton machinery once produced riots | in Europe, and so it is generally with ull g od t tings?there ore almost always j some to object or to find fault. It is sayj ii.g much lor agricultural papers, therefore, ' to say that none are to be found who obijocl io their establishment?many are inj different, it is true, to their existence, but | mat number is daily diminishing, whilst , the great body of good farmers are becoming more and more attached to system, ami science, and improvement, the result 1 of lite instructive lessons of agricultural ! papers. The value of agricultural papers is great in many points of view of discussing these points, 1 will for the present rass tiiem over, and content myself by ci-1 ting mo fact, where such papers are most extensively circulated and read, there a- j griculture is almost certain to be found in tne highest slate of improvement. We all know that knowledge of all kinds is steadily progressing?that the sciences (especially those connected with agricuiture) are .infolding new truths connected with the ; laws of nature almost daily, and we know that all such new developments are col- ; lected as fast us they have an existence, and spread out in the columns of the periodicai press. The farmer, then, who reads a well conducted agricultural paper is sure to meet with every new and valuaole and suggestion or improvement connected with his avocation, whilst he who blunders blindly along without such means of instruction is certain to avail himself very slowly of any existing improvement, and remain in old errors which often cost iiiui more than the price of a dozen papers. But i aTu discussing what I merely intended 10 hint at and which in truth I suspect is already taken for granted by every well informed tarmer in the whole country. The next point, then, is, that agricultural papers must be sustained by the great I farming community?and how ? Why j to sustain them, they must be made in| teresting and useful. Patronage, merely, ; in so many dollars aud cents given to the publisher, will not sustain a paper long if nothing else be done. It must be tilled with interesting essays, valuable facts, solid information, and all that is useful in i the way of setting forth the best modes of : doing^ll things about all sorts of farms in I the country. Where, then, is all this I matter to come from ? You have frc! tpiently hinted, and I ana all other farmers | who wiil reflect a moment know, that it j must come in a great measure from far| mors themselves,?Who are so capable as farmers to furnish it ? But one may ask, if it is to come from the farmers, why have a papar at all ? If the farmers are to write j what the farmers are to read, why the necessity of writing and reading that which ! is known before it is read or written ? The answer is plain. Farmer A. may be in possession of one piece of agricultural information unknown to his neighbors? j farmer B. o {'another?farmer C. of another. Without a paper to publish these items of information in, each may live for years in ignorance of the other's knowledge?but I with a paper, the three fuels, if published, ! become common property, and are known 1 I to all. So it is with a community?a j commonwealth, or a nation of men. The ' ' A* ?i/\A/I/\Ha n r?/l U'ClforC 1 grCfllUJ lilt; lliiiinn;i ui irauum auu ninviu. f j the greater the number of new improve j nients made known to all; and the mort I rapid the advancement in the science ol >1 agriculture. It then becomes tho duty o\ ! every tar me* to do his share in ^ contrib * uting to the general fund of facts lookee ; for in a farmer's paper. Conscious of this duty, I took up my pen to write. I an i aware that there are many others in the i community more competent, and having 5 more leisure ; that in fact I shall not he a r ble to repute the reader for the space 1 * UBWMIBWMMIL WEDNESDAY, FJSBRUi -* * may occupy. But I determined that I wculd put off*my mite no longer, an 11 will add the wish that others may take up their pens in the same spirit. I will at present only assure you that my experience has satisfied me of the truth of the Saying, that u otie cow well I milked is worth two badly milked. u 1 had the past season two cows in milk, which furnished an abundance of milk for my family. Thej' however began to fail under tolerable feeding and some neglect, in stripping the milk, until the loss of milk was seriously felt; in fact, one of them was so nearly dried up that she was turned dry. Prompt attention was given to the other, the food was doubled, and instructions were given to strip her thoroughly at each milking. In two weeks she doubled it, and now gives nearly as much as the two did in the summer, when badly attended to. Let this fact go for what it is worth. It is worth much to all lovers of milk and butter. 11. worms in the linos of 9wine. The Medical and Surgical Journal of last week has an article on this subjeet which we copy below. Swine are often taken sick and die suddenly without an apparent cause. We have known a farm. er to lose twenty nan grown nogs witnout being able to discover a cause or a remedy fcrt he evil; though we much doubt whether worms in the lungs would cause suti'Jerl death. " A few days since, my lady brought in to my office four \>prms, which protruded themselves from a portion of the lungs of a swine which had been butchered three or four hours previous to the discovery,? She had cut a pice from the lower part of one of the lobes and thrown it upon the gridiron to broil for a favorite cut. As it became more than naturally heated, she saw them rising out of their cells, controrling themselves into every conceivable manner of figure. They were alive and in motion when I first saw them but ceased to move soon after. The largest measured two and a half inches in length ?the others, from one and a half to two inches. When viewed by the microscope, they resembled, except in size, the ascaris lumbrides, a9 described by Dr. Good (Study of Medicine, Vol. 1., p. 200.) I regret exceedingly, that being called away in haste, I did not preserve them, and that I had not an opportunity of examining the remaining part of the lungs. These worms were represented to me as coming from cells enlarged by their presence, the wall of which were hardened and thickened. The shoat from which the lungs were taken was eight or nine months old when killed, and fattened under uiyjown observation. It fatted well, and I never had supposed that it was in the least diseased. E.G.Wheeler. ] j Unionvllle Dec. 9, 1840.?Boston Cultivator. PEACHES. Frum the Kentucky Farmer. We are convinced of onu fact in social j and political economy that labor and some portion of shill are ingredients of every product of human hands and that \vc can have nothing without them. It is also our opinion based upon our limited knowledge, ahat good fruit, and least of all the kinds common with us peaches, are no exception to this general rule. In many districts where it once grew in perfection the peach is becoming almost extinct. But lovers of this delicious fruit may still have it in as groat perfection and abund ancc as they have ever had it heretofore, by proper attention to its cultivation. Fruit trees generally arc carelessly planj ted and worse attended to. The roots of ! the young tree are crammed into a hole 9 1 or I'd inches square, [in ground probbably approaching to density of a brick-bat, the j removed earth is replaced and the trees - - .. 1 1 arc lett, to trie consoling aumuimiuii, 4 root little hog or die,1 often receiving no further attention from the Uirmenlcr. Is i it strange that trees often fail under such | treatment ? Or that their fruit is inferior ? 1 It is as important that ground be prepared by proper manure and pulverization, for the reception of fruit trees, as for any crops of the farm and imporrant too that this treatment be continued to them. We have now in our mind an instance going j to show the truth of this assertion. EighI teen months since, a small orchard of ApI pie and Peach trees was planted. About the first of April, a heavy coat of long manure was spread over one half of the ground, which was ploughed and cultiva, ted in potatoes. This portion of the orchard was also cultivated last season, whilst the unmanured part has remained , idle. There is now a difference ot onethird if not one-half in the size of the trees on the two portions, and in the healthi, ness and thrift of their appearance. A very worthy and intelligent minister , in the southern part of this Slate, informs { us that he had last summer fulj bearing peach trees, producing fruit superior in > size und flavor to the parent fruit, that be. p ing the third year from the planting of the f seed. His process was to give the sect p ! from the first germination a clean bed ol j i well manured deeply cultivated soil and U 3 continue the soil ih that condition. These j are facts, let them prove what they may , The following paragraphs from the Wes , tern Farmer contain some queries pn sev ' j eral unsettled points in the cultivation o r ' the peach. - * 4 ?t#f> ' ? HvY 3, 1841. INFORMATION WANTED. PEACHES.I find it to be the prevailing opinion amongst many old farmers in Virginia and Kentukey, that where a p^ach-kernel, the produce of an original or unhudded tree, 19 planted, the produce is a peach closely resembling the parent fruit. On the other hand, where stocks are raised from the kernels of indifferent peaches, and upon these are budded the finest varieties, the kernels from the fruit of such trees, produce trees that sport very much, thep aches being almost always small and worthless. The inference from this is, that the stock so far overrules the bud as to cause the produce to partake almost of its own character. One intelligent and experienced fruit-grower of this city with whom I have recent/y conversed on the subject, states that the results of his own oxperienoe would induce him to believe that such is the case : yet he cannot be satisfied that it i9 so. He thinks with me, that if a kernel was planted, tha* grew on a tree, the stock of which was the growth of the kernel of a clingstone peach on, which was afterwards budded a free-stone, that the produce would he freestone peeches, and that the rule would hold good whether the stock grew from the kernel of an indifferent or of a fine peach, the cion or bud would still overrule it. The truth is, the peach, like every other cultivated fruit, sports, so that no reliance can be placed on a seedling. We consider it an ill-judged was of time and ground, to cultivate any hut trees, on which have been budded choice and well known fruit. Still we aro anxious to have information on the subject, from those who have been able to put it to the test of careful and judiciously conducted experiment. Our pages are open to the discussion of this and every other useful subject connected with farming and gardening. ?t. a. PLOUGHING. Farmers have been considerably divided in opinion on two points connected with ploughs, or rather with ploughing; one of these regarding the manner in which the furrow slice should he turned over; and the other, the depth to which land should be ploughed. Some have contended that the furrow slice should never he laid flat, but always in such an inclined position that the edge of one slice should just rest on the next one, leav. ing|under the edge so raised a vacancy nearly as deep as the thickness of the furrow slice. This,it is contended is advantageous, by hastening decomposition, and by allow, ing water to pass freely off without injury to young plants. Other farmers main tain as strenuously that the furrow slice should in all cases be laid perfectly flat, or reversed in such a manner that a Held af. ter ploughing should be as level as before, the plough simply reversing the surface ol the slice. In this, as in a majority ol . 1-1 : ~ coniroverieu puuus, um mucuuhw uiw observation leads us to conclude that both sides are partly right, and partly wrong, We have found that, if on lands strong and with a tenacious or impervious subsoil, which retained for some time what watei fell upon it, the furrow slice was slightly lapped, so as to leavcaspace below, young plants suffered less from a wet season, 01 an undue accumulation of water, than they would if the furrow slice was fully inverted, and the surface made smooth and even. On the contrary we have beer led to believe that on a light soil, one in, dining to be dry or porous, it was betttoj to invert the surface completely, and hj rolling, render the surface smooth, and it: particles as compact as possible. A sur lace so treated, will retain its moistun longer than if left in a state inore ioosc am friable, and the conduct power will be in creased by the particles being brough more closely in contact. Let the farmer then, whose subsoil is impermeable U water lay his furrows, as dipping as h< pleases; the more space below, the bctte for him; but on a light porous soil, lay thi surface flat, and make it as dense as it wcl can be. The benelit, wtucli cornprcssiuj sandy soils confers, is well understood ii Norfolk, in England, where the treadinj of the sheep in feeding the turnips in th' Held, is considered not the least beneficic part of the culture required for the produc tion of wheat. Nearly the same remarks may be af plied to the other controverted point, vi2 that which relates to the depth of plough ing. The propriety or impropriety of dee ploughing must be determined by the so itself; by its condition, in reference to supply of vegetable matter in the soil, an I the depth to which it has been forinerl ploughed. Where the stratum of fertil soil is thin, and the subsoil, no matter froj , what cause, incapable of promoting veg< tation, it is bad policy to bring this infe tile subsoil to (be surface, as a stratum 1 i which seeds are to germinate. And whei , the soil is permeable to the depth of twelv i or eighteen inches, or as low as|the ploug . can penetrate, and is filled with fertilizin ? materials, deposited by the processes < i nature, or by manure applied trf the su f face, in cultivation, then the plough ma ) run deep without fear of injury to the pr< i sent crop, and the certainty of benefit I . the future ones. We think the true met! . od of rendering any soil deep and fertil . is to plough no deeper, and bring up r f more of the fertile earth at a time to tl surface, than can be thoroughly correct! ? r' - . NUMBtiR 12. by manures, to be incorporated with it an t thus made friable sad productive.? At each successive ploughing, if this course is followed, the soil will be gradually deepened and rendered productive to any desired depth. Judge Powell rendered his soils fertile to the depth of fourteen inches, and where the roots of plants have this depth of good earth to range in and seek their food the farmer can hardly fail of securing first rate crops. Every part of a soil so prepared, is fit for the germination of seeds to the lowest depth to which the plough can reach; ami the more thorough the ploughing is given, the greater will be the surface exposed to the benefits of aeration, or the ameliorating influences of the at. mosphere. One of the greatest differences between the old and the new husbandry depends on this question of ploughing^ In the old mode, the plough was used year after year to the same depth, and the manure applied with reference to the crop solely, while the improvement of the soil w as wholly left out of sight. As a natural consequence, "there was no depth of soil," and when manure failed, the fertility of the land was gone, with scarcely a possibility of renovation under such a process. In the new husbandry, permanent improvement of the soil, by gradual manuring and deepening, is kept steadily in view; and hence the accumulation and use of ma* ,, L : i _jJ:.: i : * iiuius uasit'ucivcu an auuinuiiai iui|juim ance. The garden is usually far the most fertile part of the farm, and this is brouglit about by the gradual incorporation of manures with the subsoil raised at each successive ploughing, until the requisite depth aud fertility is gained. On lands long ploughed to a uniform depth, as they were under the old system, the pressure of the plough on the same surface, gradually formed an impenetratable stratum, thus forming a fatal obstruction to jhe roots of plants, where it did not naturally exist. In England, on soils inclining to clay, and which have been under the plough occasionally, or almost perpetually for the centuries, this impermeable pan is common and one of the most decided advantages found to result from the 1 subsoil plough, is the breaking up and de> molition of t-his artificial obstruction to the spread and depth of the roots of plants.? On the old cultivated fields of New Eng| land, the same difficulty exists more of les, and can be removed, and the soil rendered fertile by the same means so success abroad. The too frequent ploughing of land is not to be recommended in any case, and unless absolutely required to destroy foul weeds, it should receive no further moving than is requisite to fit it for a crop. The great mistake of Tull, was, that ploughing or pulverization would supersede the use of manuring. But experience shows, what indeed philosophy inculcates, that beyond a certain point, ploughing is injuri ous; aud that, though essential benefits I are derived to the soil from the action of > atmospheric agents, manuring in some - form, is indispensable to successful farm. I ing. It my be said that an applicalipn of > manure should take place every time land is either ploughed or cropped. On land r that has been brought to a high state of > fertility, the decomposition of rich sward " will usually prove a sufficient dressing for 1 a single crop ; but for a repetition or rota' tion of crops, manures cannot be withheld 1 without a certain deterioration of the soil, ' and a probable lessening of the crop; Ploughing and manuring must go together, r and without this combination, each will r be found defective and incapable of prods ucing such results as arc certain to ensue when both separate processes are skillfully J united. We are therefore disposod to 1 consider every decided improvement in the plough, as a Jure judication of progress t in agriculture ; a proof that another step . in iho cnrmriimi sind dissioation of anci> > ent error has been g.-.ined ; and the way e opened and the means provided for still r further and more important advances? * Albany Cultivator. ir ? ON* THE USE OF OPIUM IN BRONCHITIS 1 * " rr IN THE IIOBSE. D B BV W. RUSH, V. 8. Mr. , of Harlcston, in April, 1039, brought home from one of the large Yorkshire horse fairs a six-year old black (* mare, worth thirty-five guineas. She " was dieted, groomed, (fee. secumdum ar. p 1cm, and excepting a thickening of the ii legs, she was, in six or seveu days fit for a show. On the morning of the market d day she was introduced to the show 4 1 * _ ? J _1 ?- - aU/%/4 iifif k 4 y siaDlcs, anci s'.ie w?u? urcutmu nuu wivn le never-failing specific for swelled legs, <fcc. n viz. 4 oz. pulv. resinae in water ! Two 3- hours afterwards I was called in. r* The mare would not feed; the cars n were cold, and her whole frame chilly.? e She had coughed several times, but not violently; her pulse was about 60, and feeble. No mention was made of the J drench, as the owner did not imagine it r had caused any harm. Iler ears were y well-pulled, the extremities rubbed and 3. bandaged with flannel, the body clothed, to a fever baUadministered, and the diet rei stricted to mashes. e, A.t four p. m. I was hastily summoned iQ to a attend my patient, when I found her affected with rigor3, the breathing quick b(* and evincing pain in the effort, the pulse