Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-02-25
Agricultural.

HEAvEs.-It will perhaps be interesting to the
farmer and husbandman to know where the dis
ease OF heayes il, and what il is caused By
Diseases directly opposite in their nature are
often treated with the same melcines. horse
with heaves, inlI Imation of the lungs re-
quires very different treatment from one with
cOc, or worms. There is every " here ton great
d propensity 10 resort at once To active treat
ment and powerful medicines. without proper
regard To the disease, It's cause, the symptoms,
OF the rcmedy; forgetting perhaps never
haSin- learned thai there is in nature a restOra-
tive power, under favorable circumstances, aud
the gan object of all medicines and all treat
lit ut Is 10 assist nature.
lst. If ;he disease Was IN the lungs, it would
create inflammation. and have the same effect as
inflammation Ui the iun-s by cold. The horse
woild re weak aud topping, Without appetite,
ami really could not be4iTIyeu two lnIies at the
rate any person would naturally drive a horse.
| But heavy hurse ,an be drIven from eight TO
TIVE We miles within an hour. This positive
proof that II is not in The lungs.
2hd. Take Il he.,yJ hOI,e ;lnd tu him out TO
pasture forty eight hours and he will breathe
Z
The grss has not reached the lungs, stid il has
stopped Lie hard breathing bat If you will give
the hOrse cold 10 drink, he will cough.
Has the water touched the lungs No; but il
has toGcned the disease. THIS is another reason
Why II l. not III the lungs. DAINTY horse is
not Liable ~ heaTes, but hearty eater is liable
10 THIS disease from the amount Of food
that lie eats, but from the hogli-n way of eat
ing. There are Two pipes leading TO Tue
stomach and lungs; where they meet th=re Is
! throttle value. horse in eating course food
stretches his throttle then By Il hard drive aud
/ warming the horse. he takeo CO d in the wound
and it becomes running sore or caHceE--B By
/ turning the horse to grass, the jgice eleanses
| aud washes the wounI the grass being cool in
effect take- the iuaImaLion from tue disease,
| the swelling Is gone and the horse brcathrs tree
and easy as ever This is positive proof that
| it is not in The lungs. Then by feeding with
course aud dry nay, it ir:itates and cIeates in
hamitUa an4 cIuses the horse to breathe hard
! again.
| CUKE.-Tdke btlsam of fr, and balsam of
/ copavia, equal parts, add enough calcined mag
:
an egg. Give a ball night and morning for ten
/ or fifteen days, in the grain, wet with smart
! weed tea not very strong. Care should b.
/ taken about feeding for two weeks after gliding
| the medicine. Cut the feed, and wet the hay
| A little brown sugBr in The feed for Il few days
would be good. This is sure cure. l never
msde u failure in any case. | give this for the
/ benefit of hp uuh.. animal h. is IN oftar
ragged by useless remedies.-1frror aud For
/ mar.
! How LONG SHOULD Cows GO DRY This is
question OF considerable interest to dairymen, a
matter OF pecuniary profit or loss. With one
! who keeps ten cows it make a difference of ten
or fifteen dollars week whether they are DRY
+ or are giving u fair quantity of milk. OF course
! they should 20 dry for while. Cows ought not
( give milk all of the time and also have calves
/ Very few cows could be made To do this q de-
! sirable, but there are Some which will give milk
up to the time of caying. Yet il is at all de-
sirabe that they should do this. Il makes al
together too severe strain upon the system Of
cows and iDsures the production Of weak calves.
/ In order to Keep COW in good condition and en-
able her to bring forth good calf, think she
| should go dry two months. A COW that has a
good calf ard then gives fair quantity of milk
I for ten months in year, does al that ought 10
he required Of her. But the great majority of
| cows do not milk ten months, mIny of them 90
| dry four months, and think that the majority
of those which kept on farms average mt
least three months in Il year during which they
! I,,iva milk Nny III ia Of
making butter. 1t costs considerable to keep
| COW, and when she gives milk and is not lay
! ing flesh, she is not only unproductive but
also very expensive property II does not paw TO
keep cows which 90 dry four months or even
three. II is better TO fatten them and obtain
cows that will give milk ten months. They
must of course te well fed. Here is the Difficult
/ ty CT obtaining such COWS. OF course. such a
| change caun0t be made all at once. II must be
gradual. The habit of secreting milk may be
/ cultivated. and sometimes the change is rapid
And i may Be effected without great deal Of
trouble expense. When cows are sold, as
multitudes every veal, tho poorest ones should
ne disposed of and the brst ones retained. b.
taking the latter To thusoug h-bred bulls which
have descended from milking stock, and then
raising the hcifer calves, taking pains to develop
as much as p"ssible their milking qualities--es-
pecially to keep them in milk with the first calf
more than year-l much better class OF cows
will be obtained than now kept on American
farms, and the profits Of the fairy business will
be largely increased.
| How TO USE DEAD HoEsE.-A dead horse
, or other animal should be skinned, and roughly
cut up into many small pieces as possible
A plot Of ground few rods square should then
be plowed deeply, and the carcass thrown upon
| the soil in the centre of he plowed ground
Some freshly dry-slaeked lime should then be
scattered upon the heap, TO cover il tninly
but wholly. The loose earth is then heaped
over it, foot in depth, and the pile coyered with
| boards, so that dogs Cannot get ut the heap and
tear it up. II the least smell is perceived. more
earth should be thrown rpon The heap. In three
months. the heap may be dug over and turned
/ over with the pow and well mxel. Ine bones
! that cannot b. broken up should be taken from
/ the heap, and the tiue matter will be worth at
/ least $50 per ton to in che hill for corn.
/ The larger bones may be broken up and buried
/ the TOnLS of ,rr..r,. viu-s frttft tr,.ss