Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-06-17
Cure for Horse DIstemper.

A correspondent of the Country Gen.
tleman relieved valuable marc by treat
ing her according to the following plan:
The following is the course taken with
my mare, successfully, at the instance of
q man who had been employed during the
war in the government hospital for horses,
and who had, he said, never seen it faIl
when thoroughly tried The marc was
placed in a warm but well ventilated
stable; was fed with warm mashes of
grain, and was daily fumigsted for three
days. She began to he better, TO gain
strength, TO drink and to eat, and was able
to work with moderation. For some two
months she was under the effects of the
disease, but seldom noticeably; still when
any signs of it appeared she was given q
bran mash fed hot, and was fumigated.
In order TO fumigGte her, large spoon
full of tar, q saltspoonful of flour of sui
phur, and three or four small feathers
were placed in an iron pan, and held
under her nose, then q live coal was
dropped into the mess; and q smoke arose
horrible to smell, but very efficscious.
AS general thing she would expel from
her nostrils in a few minutes after the
smoking, viscid mass, and seem much
revived
| am so well convinced of the propriety
of this treatment, that l. am prepared to
recommend bran nsshes hot as feed and
the above fumigation as cure for dis
temper.
Plaster as n Fertilizer.
A correspondent of the New York Tri-
Gune writes that about Thirty years ago
his father had three acres IN clover.
About half was fresh looking, rank aud
large; the other half was short, tawny-
yellow, with dead and punctured leaves.
lie could not remember any treatment of
the land that could have made the differ
encc; but sfterward recollected that three
years previously, he had corn there when
having twe-thirds of a barrel of plaster
left, he put it on as far it would reach,
and then three years after sowing, it more
than doubled the yield of clover. Subse-
quently the adjoining field was in clover,
and in a growing time in the month of
June, standing on knoll about two hun
dred yards distant, every row where the
corn had been plastered five years before
could be distinctly traced. This proves
that this cheapest of all fertilizers, is the
most permanent in its effects upon the
soil
According to his observation, plaster
does little or no good before rain comes
to dissolve it, or act on it in some way.
When he was boy, working on his
fathers farm, there was six acre field
of corn. This field had seldom been ma
nured. They put on $500 pounds of
PLASTER, an old negro and the writer being
employed to apply it to the corn. They
worked until o'clock in the afternoon,
when there came on heavy shower. Next
day the job was finished. This was
early in the week. On Sunday the part
of the corn that had been plastered be-
fore the shower, had turned dark green,
while the part that was finished after the
shower was yellow and unaffected; but
as there were soon more showers, the
whole became an equally good crop. lie
mentions this last TO show the mistaken
idea that plaster is best in dry weather,
on the theory of its attracting moisture.