Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1866-12-08

produced most striking effects. Il
: some instances all disease was arrested
and large crop OF hops obtained from
vines which, to all appearance, would
: have produced a very small one with
out the top dressing; and he further re
{ marks that sit is very desirable tina
2 further trials with salts of ammonia,
top dressed at the period of growth
above referred to, 81 ould be made,
We see no reason why the hop lands
of Otsego, Madison and Oneida should
not produce a quality of hops fully
equal to those of Kent. They are good
fruit soils, and if there is any lack in
the flavor of the hop, there must be
some fault in culture or some inferiori-
ty of the plants in use.
CARROTS FOR HORSES. The Western
Rural recommends carrots as food for
horses, and from experience in the use
of them indorse the advice. [ find
that few of them given daily improve
the digestion, aud cause the horses to
have sleek and shining coat. Stewart,
In his work on "Stable Economy" says
that carrots give strength and endur-
ance to sound horses, and recovery and
health to such as are sick. When first
given they are diuretc and laxative, but
as the horses become accustomed to
| them these effects cease to be produced.
They form good substitute for grass,
aud an excellent Alternative for horses
out of condition. They are very bene-
fetal in all chronic diseases connected
with the breathing, and have a marked
influence on chronic cough and broken
wind. In combination with oats they
restore a worn-out horse much sooner
than oats alone. In diseases of the skin
they are peculiarly serviceable.-EqueS-
t,'iG1a, Chicago.
ACORN QUINsY AMONG HoGs-ITs CURE.
The Tubuque Times, of Wednesday
says there has been a number of cases
of disease among the hogs in that vicin-
ity. 1t makes its appearance in the
morning, the symptoms being a diff
Guilty in breathing, which increases IA
pidly, in two, three or four hours the
animal falls into n sort of fit, and dies
in short time The seat of the dis |
ease appears to be in the throat, which |
swells up and puts on an iDfiamed or
mortified appearance. Mr.. Hatch had |
some forty shOats runping in the tim |
Der about his residence, out of which |
he lost six in three days, when he began |
think i was high time that some |
remedy was applied. His son lost three |
or four, and other neighbors were losing |
some of their hogs in the same way.
The cause of the disease was un-
known. One neighbor, formerly a res
ident of Pennsylvania, stated that a !
similar disease was not, uncommon |
among hogs IN that country, when al |
lowed TO run in the timber; that it was |
supposed to originate from a too exclu- |
Sive diet of acorns, and was known as |
''acorn quinsy" This idea as to its |
cause seemed to be borne out to some |
extent by the fact that no hogs that !
were kept up in the pen were attacked |
with the disease.
Bat the question as to the cause of |
the disease, was of far less consequence |
than the cure, and this Mr.. Hatch was
so lucky as to find. il consists of a
mixture two-thirds tar and One-third |
lard; this was mixed with Indian neal
and the whole diluted with sufficient
milk to lure the palate of the hog.
Since the trial OF this remedy, some
time since, not hog has died of the
disease.
How DRIVING AFFECTS MEAT. When |
cattle are worried by being driven long
distances, the fat is the first to run off,
the fac particles mixed through the
flesh being the first to give way; the
kiiney-fat being solid and compact
Folds ont longer. A person accustom- |
Ell to the driving and Strengthening of
cattle eau detectEdriven or "driffed" cat
tie without handling them. Although
driven cattle may have considerable
kidney tallow, the meat may be as poor
as wood, as tough as leather, and as
blue as a milestone. Ii you see lot
of cattle with good shoulders and light
TANKS, you may rest assured that they
have been driven or worried in such a
a manner that they are unfit for slaugh
tering. Z Westera Rural