The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1858-02-18
Commercial Advertiser.



rainy seasons.
2. Twice or thrice a week, pepper, sh .llots
>hives or garlic, should be mixed up with thei,
sod.
g. A small lump of assafoetida should be placed
sthe pan in which their water is given them to
INK.
A. Whenever they manifest disease, by the
coping of the wings, any other outward
n, of i'll health, little assafetida broken into
Ill Jumps, should be mixed with their food.
4. Chickens which are kept from the dunghill
III lie young, seldom have the gapes therefore il
lid be the object of those who have the charge
hem 80 to con6ne the hens as to preclude
IL young from the range of barn or stable
rds
5. Should any of the chickens have the gapes,
up small portions of assafetida, rhubarb,
d pepper in fresh butter, and give each chick
as much of the mixture as will lie upon one
If the bowl of a small teaspoon.
Z. For the pip, the following treatment is ju-
ous-Take of the indurated covering on the
At of the tongue, and give twice day for two
three days, piece of garlic, the size of a pea
garlic cannot be obtained, onion, shallot, or
hives, will answer; but if neither of these be
convenient, two grains of black pepper, to be
given in butter, will answer.
3. For the snuff1es, the same remedies as for
the gapes will be found highly curative; but in
addition TO them, it viii be necessary to melt a
little assafe.ida in fresh butter, rub the chicken
about the nostris, taking care to clean them out
9. Grown-up ducks sometimes taken off
rapidly by convulsions; in such case, four drops,
ofrhubarb and four grains of cayenne pepper,
mixed in fresh butter, sh3p1d be administered.
Last year we lost several by tn isease and this
year the same symptoms manifest themselves
among them but we arrested the malady without
losing single duck, by dose of the above medi-
cine to such as were i'll One of the ducks was
at the time paralysed, but was thus saved.
POINTS IN A Coon HoRsE.-In purchasing
good horse. sight, wind feet and limbs must be
the uppermost objects of inquiry; for nine horses
out of ten are defective in one of these particsa
lars First, then, examine his eyes, and do tz29
before he comes out of the stable that they
are perfectly clear and transparent, and that the
pupils apples of the eye exactly alike in
sze and color. Next examine his pipes; if good
and sound, on being nipped in the gullet, he will
utter sound like that from bellows but if his
lungs touched and he is broken winded, he
will give vent to a dry, husky, short cough look
20 his limbs also, and in passing your hands down
ais legs, if you find any unnatural protuberance,
or pudiness, or if feeling first one leg then the
other, you discover any difference between them,
disease, more or less. is present; he may not be
lame, but he is not clean upon his legs. IF he is
broad and full between the eyes, he may be de-
pended horse of good sense, and capable
IF being trained to almost anything. If you
want gentle horse, get one with more less
white upon him many suppose that the parti-
colJred horses belonging to circuses, shows. &C.,
are selected for their oddty but it is on account
Of their docility and genteness in fact, the more
kindly You treat horses. the better you will be
treated By them in return.-Smrit of the Times.
EFFECTS OF CHARCOAL FLowERs.-The fol-
lowing extract fail to be interesting to the
botanist and chemist, as well as to every lady
who has rose-bush in her garden, a flower
pot in her parlor. 1t is from the Paris Horticul-
tural Review. The experiments described were
L - ID l. l. -.
year ago I made bargain for a rose-bush of
magnificent growth and full buds. waited for
them to blow, and expected roses worthy of such |
plant, and of the praise bestowed upon it by |
the vender. At length, when it bloomed, all my |
hopes were blasted. The flowers were of faded |
color, and discovered that had only mid |
ding multiaora, stale-colored enough. there
fore resolved to sacrifice it to some experiments |
which had in View My attention had been
elptiyated with the effect of charcoal, stated |
tae earth in which nv rosebud was, about half |
an inch deep with pulverized charcoal. Some /
dIys after WAS ast0nished to see the rose which
bLSomed OF as fine lively color could
wish -
MrLK AND BUrTER-ADvANTaGEs AND QUALITY.
How many quarts of milk will produce pound
of butter Is a question the answer OF which de-
pends very much upon circumstances. ss Some
things may be done as well as others,'' as Mr..
Fiummer said when he cast his electoral vote for
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uiuch MIX 'ne nls' yesi ai'e. s as s1e VII
We s11r AZ 'S III ~
make as much butter the second as the first year,
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moua IS .ro ;srsn. ,,;IE;ng, 70 oh.a;
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