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VOLUME VI CHER AW, SOUTH-CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1841.
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From the Kentucky Farmer.
stiictukes on the animated creation.
Man.?Of all animals, man is certainly
the most prone to ferocity; it may be ac*
counted for as being both carniverous and
fragivorous, which puts all the other ani*
malt of the creation, fit for food, under
^ hi# control, in order to satisfy his real
wants or to gratify his more luxurious appetites.
Unlike the other animals, man
noon acquires the habit of destroying for
the mere pleasure of doing it, with epicurean
luxury in his own way. The wild
hunter, after all his wants are supplied,
will kill buffaloes merely for the tongues
or to eat their marrow and haunch, and
abandon the rest to the birds and wolves,
who, if they reflect at all, learn to look
upon man as a powerful auxiliary to their
prowling warfare. Not content with
their own resources, and conscious of his
inferior powers, men has associated some
of the animal creation to his destructive
wants and pleasures, and made their
natural cruelty, if they had any, subservient
to his own will, or if they have none,
they are taught to acquire it. The way
in which their services are too often required,
is too well known to be dwelt
upon. We shall only observe that the
eight beautiful old grey horses, who had
so long dragged Queen Charlotte of England,
were immediately after her death !
"shot for the hounds." Man, left to
himself, can seldom improve his good propensities,
and the absolute decree has
said. 44 it it not good for man to be alone;"
by this it is not understood that he shall
confine himself to the society of men only,
for nothing can be worse for men
then their owo exclusive society. Civiliration
haa wisely encouraged the social
intercourse of both sexes to soften the asperitv
of man's temper, and to bring out
his better faculties. But even the excess
of civilization is to be dreaded, inasmuch
as it gives rise to new wants, and of course
to an inordinate thirst for riches, the at.
tainment of which can seldom be accom^
pliahed without crime, or at least without
relinquishing the moral and virtuous principles
so necessary for the duration of
empires, or true domestic happiness.?
Over.civilisation has a pernicious influence
on the female sex. Women often
speculate on matrimony with as much
keenness as the male stock-jobber on pub.
lie funds, with what auccess is best known
to themselves; and it is truly for that class
that marriage is become an awful lottery
of many blanks to a prize. When the
state of morality becomes so low, selfish- ,
nets increases ?n proportion and celibacy ;
i? encouraged, at least in large towns; but |
farmers and other useful men want wives !
to add to their comforts and share in their ;
prosperity. In vain does a manoeuvring
mother produce all her fashionable daughters
to the markets of fashion: men do not
want them; they are a dead stock, too often
seen to be of any value.
Domestic education alone can retard
and counteract these ovils, and there it is !
that the influence of good mothers is and
ought to be felt; in vain shall we pay for
the best education abroad. We may acquire
a complete knowledge of the classics,
the modern languages, and all the dec's, of
learning. If at home sons and daughters
are neglected as to the fundamental principtes
of honesty, self-denial, modesty
and moderation, no professor can give
them. There is no state so low in society
that eannot afford that kind of domestie
instruction to their children; and
mothers are best to watch over and punish
the bed dispositions of their children.?
As to the mode of instruction for mothers
even of the less informed class, those
who speak in pub'ic might retrench some
part of their sermons, exhortations, or
polities, to expatiate upon the real duties
of mankind, address themselves to the
understanding of mothers, and explain
their obligations towards their children,
and the high importance of parental examples
on the future welfare and re.
pectabilitv of their offspring. A few
welUplaced lectures from the teachers
themselvs upon that which constitutes the
social virtues of man, provided thev were
short, and well adapted to the comprehension
of their hearers, wouid certainly have
a good effect, as many circumstances
may prevent a man from being learned,
but none will excuse him for being a
rogue or a vicious being.
It is thought, generally, that man being
endowed with reason, is more easily improved
than animals; a perfect study of
both might iaJuce a philosopher to doubt
this assertion. If reason does much for
man, his passions but too often counteract
that faculty of which we are so proud.-?
As to what we call instinct of animals, it
seems to be but another sort of reason,
adapted to the wants of beasts, and even
so far susceptible of improvement as to be
no longer the blind impulses of nature,
but in some degree joined to the faculty
of memory and reflection; those powers
increasing in proportion with the acquired
wants of the animal.
The Horse. ?If I chose him as best
calculated to support my assertions, it is
not without reasons, having had more
opportunities than most men to observe
him. A horse, six years old, had been
purchased in this town by a French circus
rider, who spoke no Eoglish in teaching
his horses; the animal had beon used
all his life to the English sounds; he must
therefore have learned to receive the impression
of the French sounds, and not
only of the sounds, but of their meaning,
so different from the English. In one
month the horse obeyed all his master's
! commands in that language so new to
him; even if we suppose that the lash
helped this quickness in learning, where
is the child, of the best abilities, that
j could be taught in so short a time, taking
even the relative proportion between the
comparative age of man and horse.
I do not wish to lower man's reason
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below tne oruie; an i wish iu ciiauinu lay
that it was possible for the Supreme Being
to endow many animals with more understanding
than we generally suppose.
That a colt should follow his mother in
the woods is the impulse of nature, but
has she taught him to find his way home
through the wilderness, when later, his
rider himself is bewildered? Leaving the
beaten track, he swims rivers, climbs
mountains, and reaches his home by the
straightest and shortest way, which he
never travelled before. The learned
man takes out his compass, the Indian
looks at the bark of trees ; what had the
horse to direct him? If "instinct" alone
can do this, how far inferior is it to the
reason of man ? A horse of mine ran of!
in the night from a place whore he had
never been before, 20 miles from home,
which he reached the next day at 12 o'clock,
having gone over steep hills in the
most direct and shortest way, where hi*
tracks were seen. I owned another
horse later, who staid in a yard, the bars
bf which were near his stable; when he
wanted to go out, he would take down
two or three bars with his teeth, and
jump over the rest, most often go to the
well, where two buckets go alternately up
and down. When there was no water
in the trough, he would seize the rope
with his teeth, and endeavor to draw the
bucket, or at least to make enough noise
to bring somebody to get water for him,
then he would let go the rope and neigh
on seeing the person. In order to secure
the bars, I put a strong peg and a
twine on the upper one, but he soon
fonnd that by pulling the twine he could
take out the peg, and went over as before.
I then put a gate with a falling
latch, hut he ovcrcume that new difficulty,
and ojiening with his head the gate
for histuo companions, who seemed to
watch his operations, he let them out,
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and went last, the gate shutting almost
upon his hind legs.
He was an excellent and safe gig horse;
when harnessed, he would invariably turn
his head, and look attentively who was
going lo ride; his look said as plainly
as looks could do, I must go according to
your temper; ii it was myself he went
fast, if it was any other member of the
family he would consult his own leisure ;
if any part of his harness was loose or
broke, he would stop short, and if urged
to go on, after going a few steps, he would
stop again, which after having observed
the horse's intentions, some of us would
alight, and find either a buckle, or some
other part of the harness amiss, that
might have become dangerous if it had
been left unmended.
All mv remarks, however imperfect, on
the animal part of the creation, proves to
me that we ought to treat them differently
if we wish to profit more effectually by
their services. How many horses are
lost by the brutality of their masters, or
their keepers ? Men and horses brought
up gently, are certainly easier to lead and
drive when grown up. The Arab keeps
his horse in the same tent with his children,
who sleep even in his legs. Let a
horse run even in the field, & man or bov
wants to catch him, he runs, because
threats and blows awa?t him when caught,
but a woman by going more gently, i?
apt to catch him, by inspiring him with
more confidence.
Jlfarshalc Sax urging his horse to leap
a ravine, was surprised to see him back,
a cannon ball crossed the ravine, aftei
which fhe horse leaped over without any
more urging. It was ascertained that
the marshale would have been killed had
his horse obeyed the spur. His mastei
rewarded shat sesvice by assigning him
a pension during his life. Who can explain
those assemblies ofcrowsand black
birds that come to a particular spot to
| consult on what they had best do to find
' their food ! Who is Dot forced to ad
mire the different propensities of Ike dog,
his fidelity, his almost human intelligence,
his devoted love to his master whom he
saves from drowning or being killed, at
the risk of his own life, and for what re.
ward/ Not ei en the hope of any ! One
of my dogs that had been taught nothing
of the kind, had laid down several hours
at some distance from the house, he
would not come when called ; at last, on
going to him, I saw him lying upon a
leather throat.latch, left there by the
black boy; when I took it up the dog
came home joyfully.
An elephant had been deceived by a
painter who wanted to draw his portrait
with the mouth open; the painter, after
having thrown apples in his mouth several
times, at last made only the gesture,
which the elephant resented by filling his
trunk with dirty water, he blew it in a
torrent upon the painter's paper, and
spoilt his drawing; this we may call "in.
stinct but it is certainly of a very superior
kind.
A very large volume might be filled
with proofs that what we call the instinct
of animals is not as blind a faculty as we
are pleased to believe; and the author of
the creation has extended its limits and
capabilities of improvement in proportion
to their wants either in relation to their j
utility to themselves or to man. Let us
treat them with kindness which will
give full scope to their natural abilities.
W. MENTELLE.
thk usb of limb.
Messrs. Editors?Although the agriculturists
of the other great divisions of
the earth, have availed themselves for
centuries, (Pliny informs us that lime was
used as a manure by the Romans, the
Gauls and the Britons in his time,) of the
extraordinary virtues of this mineral, to
improve the soil or prevent exhaustion,
and it is now being applied lavishly by the
very best farmers of our country, with
, incalculable advantage on every variety
of soils, yet the mass of the people of the
United States, are obstinate skeptics with
regard to its fertilizing properties. We
admit some8gricultural districts continue I
very productive without any application '
of lime; but these soils all, either are
found to contain a due proportion of carbonate
of lime, or they are plentifully
supplied by their owners with animal manures,
which contain the necessary alkaline
substances for vegetation ; however,
the, addition of lime, still would produce
wonderful efifects eventually. Lime being
an essential constituent of the pabulbum
of plants, noneperhap9 requiring in
their organization a larger proportion of
lime thr.n wheat; without lime being
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contained in the son, giiuen, an iiupui >a..>
component property in the grain of wheat,
cannot be formed ; hence the necessity of
supplying soils which have been exhausted,
or have been in their natural formation
destitute of carbonate of lime, It is
just as necessary as to furnish fowls with
lime and silex, in the absence of which
their eggs would be laid without shells.
Why then, is it, that the fanners of New
England, and indeed many in this and
other States, cannot grow wheat on soils
now, which yielded golden harvests to their
original pioneers ? The reason is plain
and incontrovertible; the farmers have
exhausted their soils of the necessary constituents
of wheat, and especially lime?
So let thern supply the defective material
at any reasonable expense, and their
lands will produce as formerly. Eventually
the farmes's success and prosperity
will almost hinge on the regnlar and judicious
application of lime, or other alkalies,
in its absence.?Cultivator,
making pork.
Messrs. Editors?I am favored occasionally
with an opportunity of looking
over different agricultural journals, and in
a late number of the Boston Cultivator,
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I noticed abatement oa lauemng nogs,
part of which I copy for your paper, ad[
ding some remarks, and a little of my experience
in the same business. The statement
is by Mr. Smith, of Duxbury, Mass.
44 I killed two hogs, one sow, and six
pigs which the sow raised; their weights
were, the two hogs 631, and 566 lbs., the
sow 509, the six pigs 1,200 lbs. Total
1 2,906 pounds.
" They have eat 250 bushels of corn a
60 cts. $150 ; and 200 bushels of vegeta'
bles at 30 cents, making in the whole I
i $210.
44 My manner of feeding them was as
t follows: From the first day of September
r to the first day of March, their
> breakfast was raw potatoes; their
dinner raw -turneps, beets or
| carrots; their supper one quart of corn j
each. The first day of March I tilted 1
their trough with corn and water, and
kept it so until the day I killed them. I
) had a warm place for them to sleep in ;
1 and a yard where 1 make my manure 86
by 20 feet, with a.stone bottom, and have !
now in it, which I have made this summer,
' 125 horse loads. I care not what the
I breed of a hog is, if they will eat well,
and we do our part, and give them plenty
i of corn."
Now for my evperience. Last year I j
, fe 1 six :hogs, about 18 months old. They
i had the run of pasture, and the slops of{
I the kitchen in the summer, and were part
up for feeding the middle of September.'
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To feed them, I put io my hog house 160
bushels of potatoes, and 250 bushels of
apples. These were cooked io a steamer
containing about 15 bushels, and the proportions
used were about equal. AH the
grain I fed them was not equal in value to
five bushel, of corn. They were killed
the first of December : Lightest 345, hea,
viest 430, average 375, total weight 2,250
lbs. Mr. Smith does not say what his
pork was worth, perhaps $4, perbas $ 8
percwt. If the first, it was worth $116,.!
24 if the last, $232,48. At the same
rates mine would have been worth $90
or $180. Now for the expense of feeding.
My potatoes were worth eighteen cents
per bushel, my apples perhaps 10 cts.,
certainly not more ; making for both potatoes
and apples, a value of Dol. 42;
call the grain Do). 3, and the value of the
whole food is Dol. 45. Forty-five from
two hundred and ten, would leave one
hundred and sixty.five as the differences in
the cost of feeding the two lots ; comparatively
the operation would stand as
follows:
No. Tola! Cost of Valno
ofpigt. weight, feeding. at $4 or $8
Mr. Smith'*, 9 29 6 $210 $116 24 233.48
M me, 6 2256 45 90 180
Difference. 3 656 $161 $26.24 52.48
Thus it appears that at the least price
Afr. Smith lost in feeding Dol. 82,78 and
nt the highest gained only Dol. 22, 48;
while at the lowest rate mine exceeded
the cost of feeding Do). 45, and at the
highbst Dol. 135. It must be remembered,
however, that the value of tho hogs,
and the labor of feeding is omitted in all
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these estimates, and should oe aeaucicu
to ascertain the true profit or loss of the
feeding.
I cannot agree with Mr. Smith that the
breed of hogs is of no consequence so long
as thero is corn enough. I am satisfied
by experience that there is a difference
among our swine (excluding the pet
breeds of Berkshire and China,) so great,
that at the same age, the same quantity of
food will make 50 per cent more pork in
one breed than in another. I have been
led to believe that the criterion of value in
a hog, was, not in the quantity of food he
could eat, but in the flesh the food would
make. I am sure my brother farmers
must love raising corn better than I do
valuable as the crop is, if they prefer feeding
pigs a year on the grain unbroken,
and the roots raw, to using one-half the
quantity of corn so required, when ground
and mixed with the same roots, or a larger
quantity steamed. In my opinion cooking
food for animals is one of the greatest
improvements in modern husbandry, and
feeding grain as was done by Mr. S. a
downright waste; and I am glad to perceive,
by his comments on 3/r. Smith's
letter, that Mr. Buckminister is of the
same opinion.
In one thing the statement of Mr. S.
has my most cordial assent; and that is
in the value of hog manure, and the propriety
of increasing it as much as possible.
Pigs are excellent workers at that business,
if the proper materials are provided.
I have a yard like Mr. S., but without
his stone bottom. Into this, straw, weeds,
and muck, are put as wanted, or as moat
convenient, and are thoroughly incorporated
with the manure and urine by treading
and rooting. These materials absorb
and retain the parts that would be most
likely to escape and the whole mass applied
to a corn or root crop in the spring,
will give an increased crop in many cases
equivalent to half the ordinary product,
>~<J nu..lv H?frnvincr theexoense of feed
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ing.
An Onondaga Farmer.
to destroy moth.
A friend of our from Muskinghain
township requests us to state that the
following very simple expedient for de.
stroying moths, those troublesome in.
sects which often make such havoc
among honey bees. In the evening,
when the moths begin to fly about, he
I placed saucers or bowls filled with boiled
cider, around his hives, and some morn,
ings the whole surface of the fluid would
be covered with these bee tormenters.?
They appeared not to have troubled the
bees at all, but to have collected on the
cider. This expedient he says he has
tried and found to succeed well.
Zanesville Gaz.
wheat.
Messrs. P. A. & S. Small, of York,
I Pa. have addressed to the editors of the
I A tho Crt\ paio # ixrc
"A'Wtl *!?*> ivi>un uig ||UI9| icinuii.
to a species of wheat grown by them,
which they dfcem worthy the attention
of agriculturists
i "We noticed in the American* of25th
J'.Ine, some remarks on several specimen*
, of white wheat cut from the fields of Mr,
Joseph Pearson, near Baltimore. We
presume they are the produce of the see<i
got from us last season. The large grain
wheat, (call it what you please) is ol
foreign origin, brought to this country
about five years ago. A small quantity
was sown by a gentleman of this town
but it did not succeed very well, having
frozen out. It appeared aa though il
could not stand a hard winter. Thinking
| it worth a trial, however, we procurec
i some seed and have been successful iq jU
| cultivation ever since, and are of the
opinion that it has now become acclima.
ted. We have no hesitation in saying
that it will produce as much to the acre
as any other wheat we evfr saw, with
perhaps the exception of the Genessee,
which is also a very handsome, white
sort, with a red chaff. The heads of this
latter are remarkable for their size, being
nearly twice the length of the generality
of wheat grown in this region. As we
have never heard of its cultivation here,
tofore, we think it well to state how it
was brought forward, which was in the
following manner. About 4 years ago
we sowed an excellent sort of wheat,
which we obtained from Mr. Stanley, of
your city, which he called Genessee.?
When we were cutting it, our late father,
a short time before his death, noticed some
heads which were remarkable for their
size and beauty. We accordingly selec.
ted as many as produced a few quarts of
grain, and we sowed this and its produce
from time to time, and find that it has
not degenerated. In this way we think
we have succeeded in introducing, if not
producing, a species of wheat which is
worth the attention of agriculturists. As
it regards the quality for bread of the
above two kinds, the large grain?or
mountain wheat, if you please?is the
best we ever ground in our millls. We
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obtained nan a ousnei ui lllc IBIIIUua
Rock wheat last season, and sowed it in
the same field with the Mountain and
Genessee?and although it is guod it
bears no comparison with either of the
others."
PREPARATION OP HAXS IN KSNTtJCKT.
Messrs. Gaylord and Tucker?There
have been published many modes of cu?
ring bacon; and in the cases in which
these have been the result of experience
they may all be successful, and entitled
to the confidence of the public. Some
perhaps, are more simple, less laborious
and more uniformly safe thun others.?
The following mode has stood the test o
thirty .-five years' experience without i
single failure?of twenty .seven years n
Spottsylvania county, Virginia, and o
eight in Kentucky, where 1 now reside
I can, therefore recommend it as a saf<
and certain mode of making sound, swee
bacon. The salt used in Virginia wa
Liverpool blown salt; in Kentucky th<
Kanhawa and Goose creek. The ashe
from hickory or the sugar maple.
I will now begin at the beginning, an<
describe the whole process minutely, pre
mising however, that to have good bacor
we must have good pork, neatly dressei
or cleaned. It is important that thi
hogs should bo killed in proper weather
by which I mean that the weather shoulc
be such that the hogs, hung up after the}
are cleaned, should not be only cold U
the touch, but feel stiff, not frozen, afte
hanging up till the animal heat is out. j
always kill on one day, and cut out am
salt up the next. If the weather i9 quit*
cold after they are stiff, I put the hogs ii
the cellar that they may not freeze ; i
the weather is moderately cool, I let then
hang up in the air all night. The cut
ting out is the next operation. Thi
need not be described further than to sa]
that the back bone or chine should h
taken out, as also the spare ribs from th<
shoulders, and the mouse pieces and shor
ribs or griskins from the middlings. Ni
acute angles should be left to shoulder
or hams. In salting up in Virginia,
put all the meat, except the heads, jowls
chines, and smaller pieces, into poxoderin^
*iih? (water tiaht half-hocsheads.^ Il
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Kentu ky I have used large troughs, tei
feet long three or four feet wide i t thi
top, made of the Liriodendron tulipfera o
poplar tree. These are mucn the mos
conveneient for packing the meat in, am
1 are easily caulked if they should crack s<
as to leak. The salting tray or box ii
which the meat is salted, piece hy piece
and from which each piece, as it is salted
is to be transferred to the powdering tul
1 or trough, must be placed just so near th<
i trough, that the ir.m standing betweei
i can transfer 'die piece from one to th<
other easily, and without wasting the sal
as they are lifted from the salting bo
into the trough. The salter stands oi
the offside of the salting box. Silt th
i hams first, the shoulders next, and th
' middlings last, which may be piled up tw
> feet above the top of the trougn or tub.i
The joints will thus in a short time b
> immersed in brine.
Measure into your salting tray, fou
i measures of salt, (a peck measure I liav
1 found most convenient,) and one measur
? of clean dry sifted ashes; mix and in
' corporate thorn well. The salter takes
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' ham into the tray, rubs tnesKin sioe ww
> this composition and tho raw hock endi
F turns it over and packs the composition o
' salt and ashes on the fleshy side till it is a
' least three quarters of an inch deep a'
i over it, and as much on the interior lowe
: part of the ham, which is covered wit
I the skin, as will lay on it. The man wh
; stands ready to transfer the pieces a
I they t^ltedj ta|fps up the piece an
\ deport js it qapfully lyitqput di$pfocin
> ihi composition, with tfye skip side dowi
; the ^ottom pf the trough. Each W(
ceeding bam is thas deposited side by
side, so as to leave the least possible space
unoccupied. When the bottom is all
covered, see that every visible pdrt of
this layer of meat is covered with the
composition of salt and ashes* Then be*
gin another layer, every piece being coved
on the upper or fleshy side three qmr*
ters of an inch thick with the composi*
tion. When your trough is filled ef?B
full in this way with the joints, salt the
middlings with salt only without the
ashes, and pile them upon the joints ee that
the liquified salt may pass from them
into the trough. Heads, jowls, back*
bones, dec., receive salt only, and should *
not be put in the trough with the large
pieces. Much slighter salting will pre* *
serve them if they are salted upon loose
boards, so that the bloody brine from
them can pass off. The joints and middlings
are to remain in and above the
trough without being rehandled, resulted
or disturbed in any way till they are hang
up to be smoked. If the hogs weighed
not more than 150 pounds, the joints need
not remain longer than five weeks in the
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piCKie ; ii utc) ?wi v. ? ?r
six or seven weeks is not too long. It is
better that they should stay in too long
rather than too short a time. In tbrea
weeks, jowls, &c. may be hung up.*?
Taking out of pickle and preparation for
hanging up to smoke is thus performed:
Scrape off the undissolved salt, aod if
i you had put on as much as directed, there
will be a considable quantity on all the
pieces not immersed in the brine. This
salt and she brine is all saved; the brunt
i boiled down and the composition given to
stock, especially to hogs. Wash every
i piece in lukewarm water, and with a
> rough towel clean off salt and ashes. *
I Put the strings in to hang up. In Vir.
t ginia I used for strings white oak splits,
in Kentucky hempen strings. Set the
pieces up edgewise that they may drain
f and dry. Every piece is then to be dip*
i ped into the mrat paint, and hung op b?
) smoke. The meat paint is made of
f warm, not hot, water and very fine ash*
. es, stirred together till they are of the
i consistence of thick paint. When tha
t pieces are dipped in this, they receive a
s coating which protects them from tha fly,
e prevents dripping, and tends to lessen all
s external injurious .nfluences. Hang op.
while the pieces are yet moist with the
i paint, and smoke them well. Tn this way
I have cured from six to eight thousand
1 pounds of bacon every ysar, for twentyi
s :ven years in Virginia, and eight in
i Kentucky.
, I use at least three bushels of salt'to
1 1,200 pounds of meat. This may be
f thought extravagant but it insures socj
cess, and none of it lost. For what is left
r is all fed to the stock, and being mixed
1 with ashes, I believe has a tendency to
i promote their health more than salt
9 alone.
i Should you desire it, I wilt, at some
f future time, give you our mode of drying
i up lard, which is not exactly that in'
common use.
- I.
i Vorv truly, your oDcaienr serv i,
r JOHN LEWIS.
5 Llangollen, Ky.. March, 15 1641.
5 Cultivator.
t ?
:> Curr of Lock.Jaw ix a Mark.?0#.
? ing to the adoption of a remedy suggested
I in the Hereford Journal, a valuable mare,
t the properly ot Mr. S.anbury, of L dow,
7 was recently effectually saved from death
j by lock jaw, produced by mal treatment
1 for sand.crack. We give the de'ad of
3 the circumstance in the words of the own*
er of the animal:-?w In consequence of
one of the tendons being injured by a
smith, lock-ja w was cau seS: the beet advice
was procured, but it proved of no avail,
3 the mare gradually suox day by day for up*
I wards of a fortnight, and ray distreae at
* seeing, a creature, which bad been my
1, companion for years, suffer so much, hi*
ft duced me at last to give directions that
e sho should be shot. I left home ui the
n morning, and mentioned the circurastan*
e ces to a friend wno is a subscriber to the
K Hereford Jouri.a , and. to my surprise,
x he pointeJ out a case of a cure of lock*
jaw, mentioned in an old number of tho
" ? ?? Monu minnrr>s did not elapse be*
* 1^1^ i 1'4 u ta j
e fore I was on my road home to countere
r&and the order for the destruction of the
0 animal, and the proposed remedy was
~ immediately put in of>cration. Between
e two and three hogsheads of water was
thrown upon her spine and repeatedly* I
ir thonght she must sink under it, but pare
severing, I at last perceived her akin as it
e were to creep uport her; this over,
she was well wrapped up in blankets, and,
a by kind treatment and diligent attention
h to her, with nourishing diet , and gruel,
^ she recovered, and has since been as well
r asevjrshe was. * The owner of the animal
ii? tk*r (Ha cilsk should
j is naurauv huaiuuo ?
|. be made known for the benefit of the
public, and because be thinks this is a
'r striking proof of the utility of the hints
? frequently given in newspapers.
0 Horses.?To form a proper idea of this
* noble and generous creature we ought to
d see him in his nativewilde, untamed and
g undisciplined by man. Wild horses am
i, found i n several pert? of the old continent
>. gad in (the warm climates of h&im.
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J J . 1. M