Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1868-11-17

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demned to amputation, may be retain
ed with confidence of cure. Since the
antiseptic treatment has been brought
into full operation and wounds and
assesses no longer poison the atmos-
phere with putrid exhalations, my
wards have completely changed their
character; O that during the last
nine months not single instance OF
pyemia, hospital gangrene or erysip-
elias has occurred"
APPLICATION To AGRICULTURE.
The application of carbolic acid 10
the purposes of agriculture wilt read
ily be seen. Its uses are so varied
and numerous that they cannot all be
mentioned in one short article. In the
treatment of wounds and sores upon
all our animals it will be invaluable.
How often it occurs that wound In
hot weather cannot be cured because
it becomes purified and fly blown,
when gangrene supervenes and the
animal is lost. Carbolic acid will cor
rect all this; will keep the wound IN
healthy state and enable nature to
heal it. Aud where putridlty has com
menced. this acid will AT once destroy
the odors, and the germs OF decOmp0-
sitiOn, and will purify ulcers. II naS
beer applied in England with eminent
success TO scab and toot-rOt In sheep.
1t is a much safer application than
that general Y used. The scab
is cured by dipping the sheep, for
minute or less, in water containing
one-fftieth or sixtieth part of carbolic
acid. This is done after the sheep is
shorn. The pure acid is not used for
this purpose, but a cheaper prepare
ton. The toot-rot is treated with
mixture of acid and greasy substance
capable of forming a plaster, which is
made to adhere to the animals foot
for two or three days, preventing the
contact of air, aud allowing time for
the application to have its effect. But
for large flock more expeditions
method must be used, by placing the
fluid mixture in a trough and the sheep
made to pass through it slowly. This
is much better than the blue vitriol APP
plication, as it destroys the germs of
disease. 1t would probably be good
remedy also for catarrh or snuffies in
sheep.
When cattle aud horses are washed
with a weak solution of carbolic acid
they cease to be annoyed by flies. AT
excellent salve may be made by ad,
ding ten per cent. of this acid to but
ter or of other fatty matters for such
purpose. The use of it seems to have
become extensive in Europe, aud We
think it must soon be introduced into
general use in this country. 1t i:
much safer than such ahtiseptic as ar
senious acid and corrosive sublimate
as carbolic acid can only be used fOl
a good purpose, while the others are
dangerous and may be used crimi
nally. The farmer will see how i'm
pOrtant it may be in connection will
large dairies, where 100 cows are con
fined in a single stable, aad also tC
the sheep feeder where large flock;
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soon be manufactured so cheap tina
it may be freely used by every farmer
; E. W. s.. IN Rural NeaU Yorker.
: BOTs AGAIN.-A recent cOmmuni
= cation in the New England Farmer
c asserting that bots do kill horses, ha
5 brought the question afrcsh before tn
S public. The testimony of Youat
J. Spooner, Stewart and Dadd-proie;
sional men, is against the death thee
q ry from bots. 1t is asserted by thes
C that bots do not feed upon the stOn
s. ach, but upon the chy Inc or pulp Torn
r ed of the food eaten, and never tur
h upon the former till it is so disease
d as to indicate the immediate death o
s. the horse. 1t is then the bot seeks
IS secure an avenue of escape, by TASTE
D. ing upon and perfOrating the walls Q
d his natural prisou-the stomach. |
% this be the true theory, as it wouI
b seem to be from the preponderanC
ot of professional authority in its fave
b the practice of dragging horses #
a bots, ought to cease, especially as tt
Iy bot is not killed by the operation, al
but rarely dislodged by it. AS an /
f. dication of the tenacity with whi'
# the bot clings to life, Mayhem cites
@ instance in which portion of Il
re stomach, covered with bots, was cor
"a ed up in spirits of wine for two yeal
no without killing them.
III FARMERS IN EUROPE AND AMERIC
= George William Curtis, in la
U.s. agricultural address, remarked:
" said the story of the farmer, the a.
u ual farm laborer, is a hard, sad ia
Go England is a garden, English agrlc
* ture is a fine art. But nine hundr
10 years ago in England, the farm lab'
er was a slave, aud to-day he is
OIL most,ignorant and wretched man up
fu that island" The contrast in Il
III country was then given: We pa
DO through a nation of small proprieto
or ool.ivotins ,hcir own land managl
ur their own town, county, state and
ne tional affairs; the happiest and M
Use prosperous farming population in
eli world, who are free themselves, a
Its the great bulwark of freedom uE
Us, this continent"
nd
,ts RHEUMATISM.-What is the mat
,as with my mare? She raised a C
IN. last year, has not been i'll good C
ara dition since the colt was weaned,
I have worked her some until q sh