New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-06-13
AMERICAN INSTITUTE FARMERS CLUB.


the country.
Judre Mr1os. Secretary read from the Revue Hor-
ticole plan of garden pot for making layers.
ALT il made in one side of the pot for the layer and
n socket in tie bottom Of the pot so as to fix 1t on
the stake at the proper hight by the side Of the plant
from which the layer is TO be struck.
The CHAIRMAN said he bad seen boxes fixed in the
same way that answered good purpose.
From The London Quarterly Rerier the Secretary
read on article on the adulereon of food 1t is dis
covered that ground coffee made in part Of oak and
mahogany saw dust. Mustard pepper, spice, &C., are
adulierated still worse. The red Of Cayenne pepper
il red lead Diseased meat OF cattle, horses, donkeys,
dogs cats il used IN saussge-nakng, Bread Is
mixed with plaster of Paris bone dust and other SUBJ
stances Green tea is coored with Prussan blue, gyp-
sum coperss, &c. Cbicory coffee Is tue cause OF
hI;ndpces Animals livers arc baked and ground ana
nyed with carrots horse chesnuts, rye and little OF
the coffee berry ard sold for the pure article. Alhost
everything that il used for food in London Is ahu
aeraied Many OF the diseases OF snun-ak S come
from deliberations, some of which are rank poison
The Gops. or PIP IN Chiekeas.-SoLoS ROBIN
sos-Ibold in nv hand letter from a gentleman at
Dr,csp's Falls. Ohio which gives some valuable in
t,mstou Cor the cure of troublesome disease in the
routrv wards. As it is so well written that can read
almost as well as though in good print, will do so, as
I, arpears 10 ne to contain Interesting matter:
take it for granted that few lines from stranger
ill receive decent treatment OF your hands provided
ii is not Oh the "geeabout system OF plougnnS, ana
ia not written in equal trucks"
Tn 'Tpy TRIBUNE of the 3Oth OF last month read of
the meeting of the "American Institute Farmers
"Cub held on the 29th, az which meeting you read
a letter from friend IN Westminster County N. L.,
in which he speaks of Gaps in chickens. That is
the suhiect wish to say something about. have tl
tbis Spng lost many young chickens with that dis
case but now feel perfectly easy on the subject.
can In fifteen minutes any chicken OF the gaps.
xafcb asta lepd IL abOut
being In the windpipe they are there and unless re-
moved will the death Of the chicken by craving
10 tho opening of the windpipe and suffocaung IT.
Your friend cannot force them docn into the crop or
stomach of the chicken because at the bottom OF the
windrpe the lungs are situated aud il Is by pressing
the thumb and finger too hard upon them which causes
the death of the chicken. He may XII the worms by
pressing his thumb and finger pretty closely on the
Rindpipe but he cannot remove them.
get stiff hair from horses tail, double 1t, tie a
knot about an inch from the doubled end and turn the
short part up against the long part or handle,
with fine cotton thread wrapped few times around
the hair ADORE the knot and tied secuely then cut OIL
the short part (which was turned and ted and leave
about an eighth OF an inch, which forms kind OF
hook 1t is with this cure my chickens of the Gapes
The handle should be about six seven inches long
for convenience IN handling.
NV mode of operating is this. take the chicken on
my knees have to hold steady, tor 1t kcAs
for the dear lfe take s head between the thumb and
fingers of the left hand and open Its mouth at the same
time its wndpipe will open; then insert the horsehar
hook which by whirling and gently drawing 1t out
with the other hand will bring out the worms. Some
times two or three Will be drawn out at once and on
tire sometimes they come out IN pieces Iney are tue
color of beef about inch long, and as thick AS
a common-sized pin. have taken as many as SIX out
of a chicken at one time.
Care must be taken 10 prevent the hook from going
too low down the wndpe for if it touches the lungs
imme date death TO the chicken Is the consequence
have inserted the hook IN some cases twenty tes oe-
fore rot all the worms out, and sometimes after a
tay or two hes passed if See the chicken has worms
vet catch 1t az ain and very soon relieve 1t OF the
gaps. ~. -. - -.
but nm let TO think il comes from the common method
of feeding and permitting the chickens to run IN the
wet grass Raw corn meal, sottened bread ana such
things being the handiest iced for them, Is ofener
given than any other and IN almost every brood more
or less die.
An esteemed friend and relation Of mine raises
c,eat many chickens, and until she adopted parucu-
sy way OF preparing their food she like others lost
sr,st inauy of them. This Spring she has lost none
nor have any of them had the gaps. She feeds them
corn bread made simply with water and very little
salt baked and fed 10 them cold. THIS Is by some
considered too much trouble; they feed corn meal,
paps ia the consequence, and tue morse mar nook Is
moi used death is the result.
Had l your Westchester friends address would
send him hook such as have described, as feel
lively interest in anything that VIII afford reoi 10 my
fayores among the feahered tribe. He speaks of his
Ieehoms as being the best for laying and by good
feeding they begin TO lay in February" do not
know what he calls good laying 1t his hens cease lay
ing TO 90 to Matching. have the shanghai breed,
and not one OF my hens quit laying during the inter-
nd as early as January OF them wanted to hatch
but as the weather too cold TO rase the chckens
did not allow them TO have their way. prevented
il by tying red rag to their tals ana LOT them run
That soon put the notion of setting out OF their heads
One other matter spoken of al the meeting referred
TO attracted my attention. lou In speaking VI the
insect which destroys wheat said N Is too early
"ior the clear winged wheat ny cocidomyia uiucl
~. IN Iuty md
"fanen and soft kernels" Are you not mistaken
about the time of its appearance Were Il to wat t
July or August il would have but few soft kernels to
Frey on That insect discovered In the wheat here
as early as the 2eh of May. Yesterday took two of
them from head of wheat and examined them through
magnify ing glass; and found them with yellow bodies,
shaped like wasp lsave the small waist white clear
legs and wings and very prominent red eyes. found
tese speak of under the outer husk tho one the beard
grows on and not in that part inciosing The kernel
No doubt but the grain II fully formed and
u of milk they will make their way TO the soft kernel,
which viii be in about eight or ten days in the field
was in | noticed very large number OF nies on the
whest heads busy about something, and some one sug-
costs that they may be the progenors OF mat insect
We call il here the red weevil, when Destroyer 'ae
crop in Ohio so extensively last year. The reason
why i. il seen SO early this year that every one was
looking carefully for It.
twas sympathy for the Shanghai tribe at large that
induced me TO address YOU ana WIN tne hVi1 sna'
Your friend in Wes,chester might be individually bene-
hied BY my experience with the "horse HAIR hook
If YOU can be the means Of giving him the iniorma
ton shall be very much gratIhed.
Another letter IRON 4. y Middebrook OF longhl,
Conn. gives the following rules for preventing chick
ems from having the gaps:
kcep Your chickens from the ground, either in coops
six or eight inches high In Clubhouse with
floor. have tired !, i've SIX years and never had
one have it while in coops. Before / adopted this
plan out of 60 chickens SO died with the pip in
season OF course they need gravel and you can cut
grass up fine for them; and meat viii be found most
81 them when four