Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-20
BOTs IN HORSES.

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as far down as possible and he will be fit
for use in twenty-four hours.n
BOTS IN HORSES.
DR.. B. N. Washington, of Augusta,
Ga, in writing to the Southern Cult
GATOR, recommends the following as
sure cure for the bots, the most fatal dis
ease, perhaps, to which the horse is sub
ject: Strong sage tea, one quart, pulver-
lied alum, heaping teaspoonful and mo-
lasses Tor sugar., one teacupful. Sage
tea is said to be az fatal to the bot as aqua
fortis.
We have friend that owns s valuable
horse that has been troubled with the bots
for some years. His remedy is one tea
spoonful of cbloroform, mixed with
pint of whisky. 1t invariably gives re-
lief. He also occasionally uses sweet milk
and molasses, on the supposition that
the bet, preferrisg the sweetened milk,
will detach itself from the coats of the
stomach to feed upon the milk. he has
found both remedies valuable, but thinks
the chloroform ia more powerful in its sc-
ton and quicker in its effects, though
much more severe on the horse.
PLANTING TREES AND SRRUB-
BEf.Y ASOURCE OF PROFIT.
In the conclusion of former article
upon the subject of identifying and dec
Grating homesteada, and their surround
ings with trees, shrubbery, evergreen,
etc., we stated, aside from the moral, ele.
waiting, and refining influences it was cal
culated to inspire, that such care would
be to those who gave it the proper time
and attention source of pecuuiary profit.
We propose celebrating this idea little
farther. Sources of profit, as well as of
comfort, such time and labor unquestion-
ably are. This is a fact fixed as fate and
irrevocsbA as time. We wish to impress
it upon the minds of our friends
with the force of unalterable con-
victiop, it being a practical consideration
of the subject, presenting itself to the
sound judgment and common sense way
of thinking of every one. The ancients
understood this well. Hence along the
Appian Way, leading from the seven
hilled city, stretched out to the view st
tractive rows of trees, planted with taste
and cultivated with care and skill The
adjacent country through which rolled
the waters of the classic and turbid Ty-
Der, was dotted with villas, surrounded
by trees, planted by the owners, and de-
corated with vine and flower and shrub
berry. The Miiesian groves were sacred,
and out among groves the great philoso-
pher led the youths of Attica to teach
them the lessons and the truths that were
to mould, form and fashion their after
lives into channels and purposes of useful
ness and honor. 1t is singular fact
which history substitutes that the owners
Of these villas, the husbsndmen of vine
clad hills, where the olive grew and the
citron bloomed, had the highest estimates
placed upon their lands and could secure
lsbor, etc., at much less outlay. There
is nothing that SO much enhances the
value of farm or of lands as the tasteful
planting and cultivation of trees, shrub
berry, vines, flowers and evergreens. Go
past place with its wide-spreading acres
burning and blistering beneath the kisses
of hot summer sun; on a hilltop, off
the road, stands stately brick
house, pretentious in lis dimensions,
unrelieyed by a lawn, tree or
a flower; the very brick seem to
be of molten matter, binding to the eye.
You turn from 1t with feeling that the
place is haunted, or that its inmates are
afflicted and fostering with fever. Many
of our readers have seen just such unin-
viting places. You pass on little fur
ther. Here you see neat, unpretend
Ing, home like building. Trees wave
their cooling branches over the grassy
yard. Flowers bloom here, vines trail
there, and shrubbery is sprinkled all
about. Children are playing in the yard
and contentment dwells within. The
picture is pleasing and an inviting one.
Many of our readers have seen just
such places as this, too. While we
shun the blazing brick, with its
costly finish of art unadorned
and unrelieved by any of the beauties of
nature, we are tempted to loiter in the
shades of the latter AMI psrtake of The
socialities and refnements of the place,
Of which the surroundings afford such
unfailing indications. Divest the home
we have last described of its trees and
characterization, and set IL off to itself
and where is the abrasion? As we have
described it, it is home and is attract
i've and valuable; otherwise it would be q
mere house, and would in no sense, to
the man of taste and keen conception of
Iife's comforts and enjoyments, be at all
desirable. Il is the planting Of the trees
and the oTnamentation with shrubbery,
flowers, ETC., that gives it its in~
trinsic value. How cheap is this value
secured The labor is more of pleasure
than otherwise. The forests abound in
the very growths suited to the ornaments-
ton and decoration of homes, and Ns-
ture, with lavish lap and prodigal
hand, offers in profusion everything