LADIES' DEPARTMENT. ON PRUDENCE AND DECORUM. (Continued from p. 21.) people to part with their money; while the old and when much of her time is spent in visiting and adage, "Take care of pence, the pounds will take company, what but anarchy and confusion at home care of themselves," is either not remembered at must be the consequence? If we could but see the A WHISPER TO A NEWLY-MARRIED PAIR. all, or, if it does occur to the mind, is allowed to inside of some fashionable houses, how much would have but little influence. surprise and reflection be excited! The mistress Be extremely regular as to bills, payments, &c. perhaps at the theatre or a card-party; servants You cannot think how much trouble may be avoid- drunken, extravagant, criminal; children receiving I cannot express the great dissatisfaction I feel at ed by regular weekly payments. It is sometimes their very first impressions from the oaths and imhearing married women laugh at and ridicule ladies very difficult to ascertain the correctness of a bill proper conversation of these servants! Here, meat who are advanced in life, and still remain singlewhen allowed to lie over even for a month, and the perishing which might have fed the hungry; there, females who probably in every respect are decidedly delay constantly subjects you to imposition. garments mouldering which might have clothed the superior to the lady who treats them with contempt, Much, indeed, will attention to order and regu-naked: in one place, filth and nastiness concealed; and who perhaps remain single merely because they larity contribute to the comfort of your husband. in another, valuable furniture tossed about without possess more delicacy of mind, and are not so easi-Men particularly love neatness, tidiness, and me- decency and without care. No fortune can answer ly pleased in the choice of a husband. Various are thod: any thing soiled or out of place discomposes such immoderate expenses; no comfort can consist the causes which may occur to keep a woman sin- them; and a littered room will often make them with so much disorder. A good woman looketh gle: duty, prudence, and, not unfrequently, con- peevish.-Meals should always be ready at a stated well to the ways of her household, and all her famistancy to a beloved object; while a swarm of misses, hour: a little decision and firmness will soon make ly are clothed in scarlet. (Prov. xxxi.) strangers to sentiment, to delicacy, and to good your servants punctual. Rise early; give your orsense, merely from their eagerness to become wives, ders early; breakfast early; be ready to sit down to clasp the chain of Hymen, and inconsiderately link your work-table early. Doing much before twelve themselves in the same moment to matrimony and o'clock gives you a command of the day, and gets Let me entreat, gentle lady, that your dress may misery, in the form of some petit maitre or antiqua- you through it with ease. But, adieu to all this or- be expressive of delicacy and purity of mind. Beder and regularity, if you are fond of lying in bed! hold a woman in the attire of a harlot! exclaimed the Some wives, in order to display their own supe-Eight hours sleep," say our physicians, "are quite wise man on beholding an indecorous dress. And riority to their husbands, are very fond of lessening enough:" and the woman who prefers her pillow to surely when a woman appears in public with a bare and undervaluing the merit of other wives: be above the numerous advantages which early rising pro- bosom, exposure of figure, perhaps with rouged such a paltry artifice; it is both ungenerous and un- duces, would not, I fear, have strength of mind to cheeks, it cannot be acting too severely to adopt the principled. perform more important duties. An hour rescued same language, and cry out in disgust, 'Behold a ted beau. Chapter V. ON DRESS. Should you, gentle lady, be in the decline of life, from sleep does wonders, and your health is much woman in the attire of a harlot! What! a wife, a moallow me to bring to your recollection the emphati- benefitted by it. How long wilt thou sleep, O slugther, in such a dress! O all ye feelings of virtue cal address of St. Paul to aged women, where he gard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a and propriety, rescue our matrons from the decharges them to teach the young women to be so- little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the gradation! Would they but reflect for a moment. ber, to love their husbands, to love their children, hands to sleep: so shall thy poverty come as one "could women in general," as Mrs. H. More says, to be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedi- that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. "know what was their real interest, could they ent to their own husbands, that the word of God be (Prov. vi. 9-11.) guess with what a charm even the appearance of not blasphemed. (Tit. ii. 4, 5.)-When the apostle "Do not defer till to-morrow what may as well modesty invests its possessor, they would dress despeaks of keeping at home, he seems impressed be done to-day," says the old proverb. If you have corously from mere self-love if not from principle. with the calm, unobtrusive retirement of that do- a letter to write, why not do it to-day as well as to- The designing would assume modesty as an artifice; mestic sphere which Providence and nature have morrow? If you have a visit to pay, why not do it the coquette would adopt it as an allurement, the assigned to women. Strongly, indeed, does he seem to-day as well as to-morrow? &c. &c. "To-morrow, pure as her appropriate attraction; and the voluptuinfluenced by it when he says, She that liveth in believe me," says a most useful writer of the pre-ous as the most infallible art of seduction." pleasure is dead while she liveth. (1 Tim. v. 6.) Chapter IV. ON DOMESTIC ECONOMY. sent day, "comes loaded with duties of its own. And There is not an hour in the day in which a man so when it does arrive, we always feel pleased at not much likes to see his wife dressed with neatness, as having it encumbered with the business of yester- when she leaves her bed-room, and sits down to day." breakfast. At any other moment, vanity stimulates I would recommend every woman, if possible, on Few things please a man more than seeing his her efforts at the toilette, for she expects to see and her marriage, to get some yearly allowance, though wife notable and clever in the management of her to be seen; but at this retired and early hour, it is ever so trifling, settled on her. Believe me, the lit-household. A knowledge of cookery, as well as for the very sake of cleanliness, for the very sake of tle unavoidable demands on her husband's purse, to every other branch in housekeeping, is indispensa- pleasing her husbaud, that she appears thus neat which a wife is so frequently compelled to have re-ble in a female; and a wife should always endeavour and nice. Some one says, "A woman should never course, is very apt to create bickering and discord; to support with equal applause the character of the appear untidily or badly dressed, when in the preand that at the very moment perhaps when all is lady and the housewife. "I tell you, my good madam," sence of her husband." While he was your lover, peace and harmony between them: and when once says a humorous character, "when your husband what a sad piece of business if he caught you dressgood humour is put out of its way, it is not such a comes home hungry at five o'clock, he won't look ed to disadvantage!" dear, there he is, and my very easy matter, rely on it, to bring it back again very pleasant at being put off with music, senti- hair all in papers; and this frightful unbecoming to its old course. ment, and poetry, instead of a comfortable dinner. cap! I had no idea he would have been here so earConscientiously manage your husband's property, Bless my stars! I have known some ladies, wholy; let me off to my toilette!" But now that he is and shun every approach to extravagance. The could play a fine tol lol on the piano, talk with you your husband, "Dear me, what consequence? My domestic economy of a family is (as an admired all day long about poetry and history, and gabble object is gained; my efforts to win him, and all my writer remarks) entirely a woman's province, and Italian and French like a monkey; and yet if the little manoeuvres to captivate, have been successful, furnishes a variety of subjects both for good sense husband of one of them asked for a beefsteak for and it is very hard if a woman is to pass her life in and good taste. The want of economy has involved dinner, mercy me! she doesn't know whether it endeavouring to please her husband!" I remember thousands in misery; and in those houses where should be roasted or fried, or if he wished for a ve- greatly admiring a lady who lived among the mounextravagance is predominant, little is beheld but nison pasty, the accomplished lady is equally igno-tains, and scarcely saw any one but her husband. disorder and confusion. Their families are, in gene-rant whether paste be made with butter or mutton She was rather a plain woman; and yet when she ral, as dissipated and thoughtless as themselves. suet! I can't abide such balderdash!" sat to breakfast each morning, and all the day long. Harmony and decorum, with their inseparable com- A woman should endeavour to wield her needle, her extreme neatness and attention to the nicepanions peace and happiness, are guests that find and to manage her scissars, with dexterity and cle-ness of her appearance, made her quite an agreeawithin such walls neither residence nor repose. verness. This is the peculiar province of a female; ble object; and her husband loved her, and would In regard to money matters, some wives seem to great comfort and economy are derived from it; and look at her with more pleasure than at a pretty wothink that all is gain which they can get in any a man is always pleased at seeing his wife thus em- man dressed soiled and untidily: for believe me, way from their husbands; without ever considering ployed. Solomon in describing an excellent woman, those things (though your husband appears not to that the state of his purse is a matter of equal con- makes her particularly expert at her distaff and spin-notice them, nor perhaps is he himself conscious of dle. And all Homer's lovely matrons— the cause) strongly possess the power of pleasing Particularly avoid every thing like extravagance. or displeasing. I really think a great deal of money is frequently "Deck'd with the freshest tints of beauty's bloom, expended in buying things which, after a while, we Bend o'er the distaff, or direct the loom." find we could have very well done without. The "A woman's greatest praise does certainly conpleasure of getting a great bargain often induces sist in the order and management of her family; sequence to both. I have a great dislike to see a woman's dress exceed the expense which I know her husband can afford. fine laces and silks and a scanty purse are ill-matched associates. When I hear a woman of small for tune say her pelisse or lace cap cost a large sum, I white. When the fresh root, which is about the REMARKABLE STAG HUNT. THE FARMER. BALTIMORE, FRIDAY, APRIL 14, 1826. PRICES CURRENT. ARTICLES. BEEF, Baltimore Prime, bbl. Havana,. COTTON, Louisiana, &c. An advance of 1 cent Shad, trimmed, lb. bbl. 2 50 bush 75 FLOUR, Superfine, city, bbl. 4 00 4 25 5 00 6 00 444 Susquehanna, superfi. 4 25 FLAX, GUNPOWDER, Balti.. 25 lb 5 00 5, 50 bush 68 70 I will now conclude this subject with the apos- After I had the tetter for nearly twenty years on my hand, and had used dollars worth of cele- The subscriber, is prepared to receive orders for the brated tetter ointment, which took off the skin, manufacture in this city, of the above machines, upon repeatedly, without effecting a cure, a friend ad- an extensive scale. He has introduced into the Gins made by him all the late valuable improvements, parti-] vised me to take some Blood Root, (called also cularly those of Dr. R. Nutt, of the State of MississipRed Root, Indian Paint, &c.) slice it in vinegar, pi; and by the style and durability of the workmanship, and afterward wash the place affected with the li- hopes to merit extensive patronage. The Gins will be quid. I suppose the vinegar extracted the strength packed in boxes, and forwarded to any town in the Unitout of the root, for in a few days the dry scurf was ed States. WM. TORREY, Jr. removed, and my diseased hand appeared as whole as the other. I could scarcely believe that a perfect cure was so speedily accomplished by this simple remedy; but as nearly two years have passed Essay on the Culture of Tobacco, by J. S. Williamswithout the least appearance of its return, I need On the Cultivation of Mangel Wurzel, Beets, Parsnips, no longer doubt the fact, and for the benefit of and Carrots, by Robert Sinclair-On Diseases and Acothers, I wish the value of the Red Root to be more cidents of Farmers; continued-On the Cultivation of generally known. Madder-Prospect of Crops-Treatise on the Growth "It grows about a foot high in rich woodland, the Farina of Fruit Trees-Annual Report of the New and Culture of the Gooseberry-Culture of Hops-On and flowers in April. The leaf is roundish and York Canal Commissioners-Whisper to a Newly mardeeply indented, somewhat like the white oak leaves ried Pair, continued-Cure for Tetter or Ring Worm-{ stems naked, supporting single flowers, blossoms Remarkable Stag Hunt-Advertisement-Editorial. CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER. Barley, Clover Seed, Red . ton 215 LEATHER, Soal, best, 672 426 2 220 120 130 lb. 61 74 24 45 26 lb. 61 9 1 27 1 31 NAVAL STORES, Tar, bbl. Liverpool Blown lb.. 9 00 9 50 7 75 9 50 10. 11 00 50 1.00 19 22 20 23 No. 5.-VOL. 8. DEAR SIR, AGRICULTURE. PRIZING TOBACCO. AMERICAN FARMER.-BALTIMORE, APRIL 21, 1826. Highlands, Elk Ridge, March, 1826. 33 tion, that those who may consider the advantages lumber; and the grain cradle, which so greatly ecoof sufficient consequence, may avail themselves of it nomizes the labour of the American farmer, is still if they think proper. The value of this method is unknown to the British husbandman. considerably enhanced by having two prize levers The first mention I find of the Hainault scythe is connected with one post, in the centre, so that two in Dr. Radcliff's Flanders. It has subsequently Having last year made an improvement in the hogsheads can be packing at the same time; when been figured and recommended in British agriculmethod of prizing tobacco by levers, which not the hands employed at this work can always be tural works. And it has been recommended also only facilitates the operation greatly, but dispenses engaged at one or the other. As I have not an op- as a modern improvement here; where it has been with a vast deal of labour with blocks, &c., I take portunity of drawing it to a scale, I must give you in use for centuries. Dr. Radcliff, and after him the liberty to send you a sketch of it for publica- a rough draft of it. the British and American publishers, has given a description and figure of the Flemish mouldebart, which the reader cannot have failed to observe, is a mere modification of the scraper extensively used upon our canals and roads a While on the subject of implements of husbandry, I cannot omit to speak in high commendation of Robert Sinclair's cultivator, one of which I have had in use several years. It is particularly useful in light soils. The tines are better calculated to pulverize the soil than those of any other model I have seen. It is used to advantage in dressing corn, and particularly root crops, such as mangel wurzel, ruta baga, turnips, &c. It is of great benefit in cultivating cabbages, and I know of no implement so useful in a nursery. It may be used superficially, or, by repeating its operation, driven to the depth of six inches or more. It requires the power of a single horse. This cultivator is susceptible, I think, of two improvements. It might have A. The post; B. the lever; C. the hogshead; D. the for to shift it to the hogshead on the opposite side, central bull, and the wings made to expand or centre sill of the platform; E. an iron sword one without having to draw up the sword. The false contract, according to the distance between the inch thick, four inches wide and four feet long, per- head should be at least 14 inches oak, with a flat rows in which it is to operate. The other improveforated with inch holes at half an inch apart; F. a piece of iron, a little dished in the centre, laid on ment is, to construct the extreme tines so that they When may be elevated or shortened at pleasure, to work frame made of tough wood about three inches it, to receive the blunt point of the sword. square, consisting of two pieces, tenanted together the lever is raised for prizing, an iron pin must be upon the sides of ridges or hills. This implement, at G., one end entering a mortice in the post at H., placed in one of the holes of the sword immediate- with the aid of the drill barrow, greatly reduces the the other end with a mortice to fit on a tenant ly under the lever; after it is prized down to a hori- labour of cultivating mangel wurzel and turnips. made on the end of the centre sill at I. There is zontal line, another iron pin is to be inserted in one A man, with the drill barrow, will put in five acres a mortice cut in the centre of the upper piece of of the holes in the sword, directly under the mor- of these in a day, at regular distances. Neither this frame and also through the lever immediately tice in the frame, which secures the pressure made the plough nor the harrow can be employed to adover it, of just sufficient width to admit the sliding until the lever is again drawn up and another prize vantage in cultivating these crops, especially while The cultivator is exactly of the sword. The length of the mortice in the made, when the frame pin is again placed close the plants are small. J. BUEL. lever must be adapted to the movement of the under the mortice. The prizing is thus continued suited for this purpose. sword and the lever, according as the latter is until the tobacco is sufficiently pressed, when the brought upon a diagonal or horizontal line, so as hands leave it to settle, and go to work on the other to admit the sword to stand perpendicular, when hogshead. I am aware of the great difficulty in making the the lever is prized down. It should be particularly remembered that the explanation sufficiently intelligible, and must leave lever ought never to be prized below a horizontal such parts of it as cannot be minutely described, to line. When the lever is raised up for a prize, the the discernment of the reader; or will take pleasure mortice should be cut so as to allow the upper end in showing mine to any person who may wish to Yours, respectfully, of the sword to project forward from the post, and see it. in advance of a perpendicular line a few inches. J. S. WILLIAMS. The mortice (if it may be so termed,) in the P. S. The under part of the mortice in the lever frame, is cut forward of the centre, and then en- should be shod with an iron plate of inch thicktirely through the piece to the mortice in the post. ness, and to fit close to the mortice, (to prevent its The object of this is to allow the frame to be re- being cut by the pin,) and a little indented on each moved when it is necessary to fill up the hogshead, side, to confine the pin to one place. THE HAINAULT SCYTHE. DEAR Sir, MERINO SHEEP. Steubenville, March 3d, 1826. At your request I send you the following statenient of our flock of Merinoes. In the summer of 1821, my brother and myself purchased of Wm. R. Dickinson, Esq., 100 Merino ewes for $1500, and one buck for $25. The following is the amount of sales of wool since that time: 1822,.. 500 lbs. wool-$365.35-average 73 cts. 1823,.. 720 do. 535.80 do. 74 do. 604.70 do. 67 1824,.. 902 1825, 1180 do. 754.75 do. 64 $2260.60 750.00 Rams sold in the seve- $3010.60 more expeditiously, than the former. But as it is difficult to acquire the expert use of it, the scythe is [From an esteemed friend, (not a practical agri- gradually getting out of use, and is seldom seen but culturist,) we received a number of the Northern among the Dutch population. The cradle has suWhig, an Irish paper, containing an engraving of perseded it for light grain; and our labourers have what in England is called the Hainault Scythe-in become so expert with the latter, that it is used French Flanders called Piquet, or petite faulx, even for our heaviest grain, where it is not lodged. (small scythe.) Under an impression that the im- If any of your farmers, therefore, wish to be in- The flock at present consists of about 400 sheep, plement was not unknown in the neighbourhood of structed in the use of the Hainault scythe, they the wool of which, at the next shearing, will prothe upper Hudson river, we sent the paper to Judge need not, like the Scotch farmers, send to Flanders duce upwards of $1000; and at a very low valuation Buel, for his inspection and remarks-which, with for teachers, as we can furnish them at less ex- we consider it worth $6000, and in fact could sell it observations on some other subjects, like every pense. for much more, by dividing it into parcels. You will thing from his pen, are worthy of attention.] I have seen it somewhere stated, that Judge Pe- observe a considerable difference in the average DEAR SIR, March 18, 1826. ters once sent two grain cradles to a friend in Great price in the two first and the two last years, which I have examined the draft of your Hainault Britain, and that a Yankee was found to demon- is caused by a change in the prices of wool at the Scythe, and find it the same as the Dutch Scythe strate the economy of their use in the grain har- manufactory of B. Wells & Co. In 1822-3, there which was introduced by the first settlers along the vest. Their merits, as labour-saving machines, was no grade termed prime, and all full blood, or banks of the Hudson, which is still in use by their were fully acceded; but yet this very circumstance No. 1, sold for 80 cents. In 1824-5, the wool sorters descendants, and is sold in our shops. caused a mutiny among the labourers, lest they made a new grade, which they called prime, or The scythe is an improvement on the sickle, for should be thrown out of employ by its introduction, No. 1, and sold for 80 cents; and full blood, or No. 2, heavy or lodged grain, as it cuts equally clean, and and these implements were thrown by as useless for 60 cents. I explain this, lest you might suppose No. 5.-VOL. 8. DISEASE OF PIGS. our flock was deteriorating-which would be just of the growth of corn. When planted late in the reverse of the fact; for it is admitted by the March or early in April, its roots extend to a consiwool staplers that it is yearly improving. derable distance under ground, before it appears ESTEEMED Friend, Our flock would have been considerably larger at above; and hence is derived one of the advantages I observe; in your last number, an inquiry for a present than it is, had we permitted our young ewes of early planting. As the blades unfold and pro- remedy for the violent purging to which newly weanto have taken the buck at the usual age; but we kept gress in height, the roots will not only keep pace ed pigs, or shoats, are subject. them from the buck until the fall after they were with, but actually outstrip the growth of the top, I believe the cause is generally owing to giving two years of age, with an idea of increasing their and, as some assert, will under favourable circum- them too much slop or swill at once-they should size. This I send for your own eye, and not for stances, grow to the same length of the stock and have little given at a time, and oftener than three publication, unless you may think it will be of ser- tassel, when the grain is fully ripe. The seed times a day, five or six times I have my young pigs vice to the wool-growing cause. should never be planted less than two inches deep. fed with skim milk, having wheat bran stirred in it, For whoever takes the pains to examine, will find and never give them as much at once as they can that every stalk of corn, when it has arrived at the Yours, with esteem, JOHN M'DOWELL. me. 3, or 1, 4, or 4, . 5, or 1,. 6, or common, 394 lbs. at 80 cts. per lb. 424 66 60 66 66 22 height of four or five inches, always takes fresh eat; with this feed and treatment I never see them themselves, and of course the corn will become MERS. Observations on the means of preventing and reliev- [Continued from p. 27.] The 15 lbs. of No. 4, and 6 lbs. of No. 5, are from 3 coarse wethers, which we accidentally got. All our wool averaged, in 1824-5, 67 and 64 cts. Our fleeces admit that this plant requires careful and repeated ON DISEASES AND ACCIDENTS OF FARaveraged the same years 44 and 44 lbs., the lightness culture, and that it should be planted at a convenient of which is owing to a great part of our sheep not be-distance. The plan of drilling, and cultivating the corn with the plough or harrow, only one way, may ing full grown, and the chief of the remainder being breeding ewes. As to our having made use of Sax-answer on land where silex or sand predominates, on bucks, the "Connecticutt Farmer" has mistaken when the soil consists of a deep, black, porous or I stated (if I recollect correctly,) that our spongy loam. But I take it to be an undoubted flock was descended from Spanish ewes and Saxon axiom, in agriculture, that corn should be always bucks, which would have been precisely correct, if cultivated with the plough and harrow both ways, I had said a Saxon buck. A Mr. Muller imported on all soils where argil, or clay, predominates. But Bites of Snakes-Tie a string above the bitten a Saxon buck of a very superior form and quality, such is the inveteracy of custom, and the pride of from whom he was purchased by a Mr. Caldwell, of opinion, that some are blind and obstinate, in spite part, and suck the wound. There is not the least danger in so doing, unless the lips be sore; spit out New Jersey, a gentleman of profound skill and of experience. The most usual and approved distance is from and rinse the mouth with water. Then use some great taste in Merinoes, for the sum of $1000. He was called Columbus. Mr. Dickinson purchased four and an half to five feet each way. This is of the following remedies, all of which have been the foundation of his flock from Mr. Caldwell-perhaps the best in good land, or where manure found successful: 1. Apply ley of wood ashes, or a solution of among which he got three ram lambs out by Colum-can be applied. But in our tired and exhausted soils, which cannot be assisted with manure, the potash in water, to the bitten part; and give diluted bus, one of which was the original ram we pur above distance one way, and two and an half feet ley, or ten grains of potash in a cup of water, every chased from Mr. Dickinson, and from which all our the other, with only one stalk in a hill, will prove half hour. 2. Mr. Mayrant, of South Carolina, relates the of course, be the same. Care should also be taken, cases of two negroes cured, by giving Cayenne P. S. I have just seen Mr. Dickinson, after my to have the rows, the narrow distance, sufficiently pepper and whiskey. In one, the dose was one letter was sealed, and have opened it to inform you straight to admit the plough and harrow between tea-spoonful, in a glass of whiskey. The three first what he says as to the origin of Columbus. In a them. It would be well for some to make an expe- doses were thrown up; the fourth remained, and conversation he had with Mr. Muller, (or, as he was riment of the above plan on a small scale, by which after more than a quart of whiskey had been taken, better known in this country, the Baron de Basse, they can test its efficacy. respecting Merino sheep, he informed him that he had brought with him to this country from Saxony, Columbus and his mother, and sold them to Mr. Caldwell; that as there was no particular predilection for Saxony sheep at that time over Spanish, Mr. Dickinson never thought of mentioning the subject to Mr. Caldwell when he saw him afterwards; but he has now written to him to vouch for the authenticity of the Baron's statement, of which you shall hear in due time. Mr. Dickinson says, of his own knowledge, Columbus weighed 160 lbs. and his fleece 12 lbs., and would be what is called now J. M.D. a pick lock fleece. the man spoke. This great quantity was taken in two hours. In the course of the night three quarts were used, but he supposes that one may have been lost in pouring it down his throat. The next day he gave every hour, spirit of ammonia, and also whiskey and water, with very nourishing food. In another case, he cured a person after giving a quart of whiskey, with red pepper, in ten or twelve hours. DISEASE OF PIGS. Answer to Inquiry in No. 3. Cook or boil all food for pigs when weaned young. Corn meal, as a general food, is best; but even this in its first use, should be mixed with a little chop rye and a small portion of shorts, to corrects its 3. Mr. Williams extols the spirit of ammonia in fermenting qualities; and always season the mess the bites of venomous snakes in the East Indies. with a due quantity of salt. This article, so seldom The dose is from thirty to forty drops every ten thought of for hogs, is as essential to their health as minutes in water, until relief be obtained. The to any other species. Milk is a valuable food, and medicine is also to be applied to the wound. answers well to mix with the meal, but should be Dr. Ramsay, of Charleston, S. C. published the case of a person who was cured by large doses of brandy and opium. [From the Easton Gazette.] 4. So many cases in the United States have ocThe first rule which every farmer ought to be curred of the efficacy of olive oil, in the cure of governed by, is to study and understand the nature the bites of venomous snakes, that it can be confiof the vegetable he intends to deposit in the earth, and the laws by which it is governed in its progress An excellent and cheap food for fattening Hogs.dently recommended. It is to be applied to the bitten part, and taken internally, without limitation to maturity: for every species of the vegetable king- Take one part of corn meal, and two parts pumpdom is governed by certain peculiar and immutable kins; mix and boil together, seasoned with salt: let laws, which were attached to each, by our all-wise this be their common food until twelve or fifteen Creator, from which none can be forced to deviate, days before killing, when feed on coarse dry meal, seasoned. W. without danger of dissolution. I shall now proceed to give a succinct history April 10th, 1826. * Dr. Brickell, of Savannah. To sheath the acrimony of the ley or potash, it should be diluted with infusion of flaxseed, or gum arabic water. + Med. Recorder, vol. 6, p. 619. as to dose; sucking of the wound, and a ligature disease is essential to clear the bowels of bile, which until medical aid be called, is to put a piece of foldabove it, should never be neglected.* forms with great rapidity, and when collected in ed cloth on the part, and to apply a bandage; or if Stings of Insects.-The pain from the stings of the stomach, causes a return of fever. For this the wound be small, to press the thumb and finger wasps, bees and hornets, is quickly relieved by rub-purpose, three or four grains of calomel should be firmly upon the bleeding vessel, and sit still, if the bing the part with olive oil, or cold ley. The sting given at night, and a dose of epsom salts early in wound be in the foot, until a carriage is procured should be extracted, if possible. Common salt, the morning, every other day. When the fever to convey the person home. All medicines to stop moistened, and applied to the part, has been re- continues obstinate, after the loss of blood and a the blood flowing from a large vessel are useless. commended from experience, and in a case where thorough evacuation of the bowels, with great heat As every person employed with an axe, is liable to a person had been stung on the inside of the throat and dryness of the skin, the body should be spong- this accident, no one should go alone into the woods by a wasp, the alarming symptoms were instantly ed with cool water and vinegar, which will often to cut timber. relieved by swallowing repeated strong doses of "break a fever," that would otherwise prove very Inflamed Veins.-These are sometimes caused by salt and water. In some cases of severe attack, a tedious. Should the fever still continue, no time is a dull or rusty lancet being used to bleed. The a fever was excited, attended with considerable to be lost in causing a slight salivation, by giving disease is noticed here, from having seen the state swelling in the part. In such the loss of a few three grains of calomel every two hours. The fe of the lancets sometimes used by country bleeders, ounces of blood will give instant relief; then apply ver will cease as soon as the mercury takes effect. and because those who employ them are not aware the oil. It has been recently said, that chalk scrap- Relapses are to be guarded against by avoiding ex- of the danger attending the operation. It also has ed on the part, will give immediate ease. It is im-posure to bad weather; by occasional purging, and been brought on by using the arm freely the same portant to know that if a hive of bees should settle caution in indulging a returning appetite. Much day a vein was opened in it. Two deaths have ocon a person, there will be no danger of being stung, may be done by persons living in sickly countries, curred from this cause in Philadelphia. Medical if he can preserve so much presence of mind as to or in times of a prevailing epidemic fever, to pre- men ought to be employed to bleed in the country. remain quiet for a short time, when the bees may vent disease, by taking a dose of Peruvian bark The remedies are, purging, rest, and low diet. Dr. be gently brushed off, or taken off by one accus- every morning, or by eating breakfast before going Physick applies a blister over the inflamed vein. tomed to handle them, and put into a hive. out; avoiding wet feet, checks to perspiration, night Bleeding at the Nose.-This is sometimes an effort The bites of spiders are often highly poisonous, air, especially during sleep, and a blazing sun. of the system to relieve a too great fulness in the and several cases have been mentioned of death Fever and Ague.-Is the epidemic disease of a head, and unless it proceed to such an extent as to being occasioned by them. If the oil does not suc- marshy country or district; but it is often produced induce weakness, should not be stopped. In some ceed, apply pounded plantain leaf to the part, and by exposure to draughts of air when the body is young persons it occurs so frequently, as to become take a few spoonsful of the juice of the leaves. heated, and in a state of perspiration. The proper very troublesome. When necessary to check the This remedy was announced a few years since in a mode of treatment is an emetic about three hours flow of blood, snuffing up cold water will often southern paper, as having succeeded in a very se- before the cold fit is expected; then a purge, and prove effectual; but when this does not answer the rious case.t finally the Peruvian bark during the intervals of the nose must be plugged. To do this, roll up a piece Remitting Fever, or Bilious Fever.-Where the disease. A large tea-spoonful may be taken every of linen or cotton to a point, oil it, and then pass it disease is preceded by the usual symptoms, as lan-hour or two in water, or sound wine of any kind. up the nostril, by a circular motion, until it reach guor, loss of appetite, and head-ache, it often may The addition of one clove, and of ten grains of the bleeding vessel, and let it remain for some hours. be prevented by a gentle emetic and purge, avoid- Virginia snake-root, both in powder, will increase its Persons subject to this disease, ought to keep such ing meat, and the assistance of rest, a warm bath, powers. As the stomach often nauseates the medi-a plug by their bed side. When the disease attacks or bathing the feet in warm water at night. When cine, it ought to be mixed in a room apart from the growing boys in high health, it may be prevented the fever and head-ache are severe, twelve ounces invalid, and brought to him at the proper time. He by an occasional dose of physic, by avoiding severe of blood should be taken away. The operation should then swallow it without delay, rinse his exercise, and the use of as little animal food as posshould be repeated after a few hours, if the pain mouth with water before inspiring, and chew a sible: but on the contrary, when it appears in those do not abate. Cool drink may be freely taken. piece of bread; there will then be little difficul- of feeble constitutions, the diet should be generous, Avoid sweating by heating remedies, in the com- ty in retaining the bark. From thirty to sixty a dose of Peruvian bark taken occasionally to mencement of the complaint. The diseased and drops of laudanum, if taken upon the first symp- strengthen the system; and a journey of three weeks increased action of the system must always be re-tom of the cold fit, will suspend or shorten it, but or a month performed in pleasant weather. The duced before sweating be attempted. The vessels a much more agreeable remedy is the warm bath powder of Puccoon, or red-root, snuffed up, will will then pour out their fluids freely, when necessa- This should always be used for children. If the often check a bleeding of the nose. ry, by the aid of warm diluting drinks, and of such stomach be very delicate, a lump of sugar, dipped medicines as are known to determine to the surface. in compound spirit of lavender, and eaten, will Tamarind water, or thorough-worth tea are excel-quiet it. A small portion of manly resolution will lent for this purpose. Frequent purging in this greatly aid in preventing the stomach from reject- REMEDY FOR THE FOULS IN CATTLE. ing the medicine. If the bark produce constipation, Caroline, N. Y., April 5, 1826. The following article was taken from the Augusta ten grains of rhubarb may be added to every other DEAR SIR, I omitted to say any thing, at the time, of a (Georgia,) Herald, a few years since. The popular dose of it; or if the stomach will permit, he may chew confidence in the efficacy of plantain in bites of snakes, a small portion of the root and swallow the saliva. disease in cattles' feet, that seemed to give alarm has long been great in the United States. It is presum- Those who have an uncontrollable aversion to the some months since, which is very common with us, ed that the broad-leaved plantain is alluded to. bark, make take the sulphate of quinine in doses of and is called the fouls. It appears to be an indolent "In a late paper we mentioned the death of a person one, one and a half, or two grains. A cheaper re- sore, and meets with rough treatment, such as from the bite of a rattle-snake; in conversing with a medy is Fowler's solution of arsenic;" six, eight, drawing a straw of hair between the claws of the very worthy and respectable physician on the subject, or ten drops of this medicine may be taken three hoof till it bleeds, or appears quite tender; and he informed us, that for forty years he had been in the habit in such cases, of administering the juice of the times a day, one hour after meals, in a wine glass after, stimulating applications, in proportion to its green plantain, and he never knew a single ustance of of water, to which a tea-spoonful of the compound indolence or insensibility, till it gets into a healing its failing to afford relief to persons bitten by snakes: spirit of lavender may be added, if nausea should state. It is never considered dangerous. The loss he had given it, he observed, when the sufferer was ap- occur. Children to whom the bark is very disagree- of the use of oxen, for a season, is the only inconparently in the agonies of death, and when considerable able, may take two, three, or four drops, according venience experienced from it. force was required to open the mouth; and in every case to their ages, twice or thrice daily; ample experithe relief was almost instantaneous. The plantain is ence of this medicine enables me to attest its virto be bruised, and the juice pressed out, and that given tues, and pronounce it perfectly safe, if not too to the patient as soon as possible after the bite; but it is never too late to give it while the sufferer is alive. long continued. After two weeks use it should be After pressing out the juice, the plantain may be boiled omitted, and a dose of rhubarb or castor oil taken. in milk, and also given to the patient. The certainty During its use, the person must avoid taking cold A gentleman in Worcester informs us that a litter of this remedy against the bites of snakes, and such or being wet. The diet of persons in this disease, of eight hogs was lately killed in that town, which venomous reptiles, should induce persons in such situ- must be savoury and nourishing. A change of air, averaged at ten months old, 336 lbs. each. The ations where those accidents are likely to occur, to cul- or a journey, often will cure this disease without person who owned the above, had one last year tivate the plantain in their gardens or fields, that a re-medicine. Obstinate cases yield readily to the which weighed upwards of 400 at twelve months medy against an accident which may otherwise prove shower bath, if exercise be taken soon after its use. old. Another person killed a pig at six months and fatal, may at all times conveniently be procured. See the Domestic Encyclopedia, article Plantain. Weakly persons ought to wear a flannel shirt dur-three days old, which weighed 233 lbs. They were Whether the species used, was the one with broad ing the winter subsequent to the season in which all of the Bedford breed, or English Broad Backs. leaves, or that with narrow leaves, is not mentioned. they were affected with this disease, changing it re- This breed is in high repute in Worcester county; Try the arst species. gularly once a week. has small bone and little offal; hard, rich pork, and Cutting a Blood-vessel.-All that can be done, withal obtained at a much cheaper rate than most Or bone-set. Eupatorium perfoliatum. (To be continued.) Yours, respectfully, SWINE. JOS. SPEED. |