Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-11-28
THE EPIZ0OFlO.

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newly DEAD of the prevailing disease, were
put through course Of inspection at Gin
cinnatf few days ago, and it was found
that the membranous lining Of the larynx
or wind-pipe, top and trachea were badly
infamed, and morbidly dark in color. The
trachea or wind-pipe was thiczly coated
with sliny mIcIs, streAksd and stained
with unhealthy blood. There vas also in
flammation of the paFenehyma CHE mass of
lung-matter), also Of the pleura pulmonalis
and pleura costalig. In the cavity Of the
chest large amount Of water was found,
= water which comes from blood in
state of coagulation or separation
from the red part, and which pro-
duces dropsy O. the chest (hydro-
thorax). This gathered water causes that
labored breathing, because Of the want Of
space left for the lungs wherein to expand,
thereby depriving them of enough air,
which, consequently, for want Of oxygen,
become charged with the deadly csrbOnic
acid gas; the whole system thence be-
comes charged with poison, ending In de-
lirium and death. The Inflammation is
not confined alone to the breathing organs,
but the heart, liver, spleen, snd, in some
instances, the entire alimentary canal is
involved. Dropsy of the heart (bydro-
pericNdium) is often found in horses dead
OF this disease. Ia the specimen examined
the heart wSs found to be in habby state,
of an ashen color, instead OF bright red.
The blood, under the microscope, shows
little difference from that of blood taken
from horse dead Of typhoid pneumonia.
CORN As AN A MEXICAN STAPLE.
In good seasons we raise something over
one thousand million bushels of corn ia
the United States and allowing as high an
average as twenty bushels per acre, more
than fifty million acres are planted to this
crop. In the South and West very little
pains is taken to prevent the washing of
corn ground, when the crop Is growing, OF
for several years after, if allowed 10 rest.
This is great error in farming. At the
last working of corn, iHe tooth harrow
should be used to make the soil dne, clean
and level, to prevent water running between
the rows. Instead of permitting the ground
to lie naked, or grow up in weeds, it should
be seeded ct once with clover and grass seed
in the standing corn. The new crop will
not grow to do any harm before the corn is
ripe; while the fall growth shelter the 9TH
erwise nskedness Of recently-tilled land,
prevent surface washing, and recuperate
the depleted soil. All know, or at least
ought to know, that clover is renOvating
plant, and that nearly all corn ground needs
some amendment. rars E
By running fifty niIllon acres, more or
less, in corn every year, with much washing
and little or no restitution, We most GER
tainly fill cur country with sorry-looking
Id fields. The intelligence and good sense
every farmer should condemn this prac-
tice, and try to change it for the better. A
great deal OF Southern land is planted in
corn which is too poor 10 produce more
than from seven to ten bus sis to the acre.
What is to be done with such ground, to
double its fruitfulness? We answer, let it
rest in clover aud Herds grass, with one or
two hundred pounds Of gypsum to the acre.
Plant much less surface in corn aud cotton,
and manure that.
We have SO many fields in the South that
require. additional fertility that, instead
of doing our best to make corn
and cotton at once, We should do our
very best to raise the raw mAter1-
ais out Of which these great staples arg
formed. To perform al the work on
field III It ought to give harvest Of thirty
or forty bushels of corn per acre, and gath
era little crop of less than ten bushels, may
be honest farming, but it is not wise farm
ing. Some Of the essential elements used
~ Gssurs In forming corn are lacking in