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About Southern cultivator. (Augusta, Ga.) 1843-188? | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1869)
limbs; spine generally arched ; frothy drooling from the tips; sometimes blood in the stools; bowels unnatural, sometimes loose, sometimes constipated; occasionally rheum in the eye; the pulse rapid, often 120 beats in a minute; there is a peculiar odor detected over the flanks of the animal. When two or three of these symptoms are discovered, the introduction of a self regulating ther mometer into the rectum will detcimine the existence of the disease. If it shows over 108, the disease is proven to exist; it over 107 there ts no hope for the animal. The principal internal syii/j toms me a greenish \ellow or brownish appearance of the tat and a brownish appear ance of the lean ; the liver generally enlarged, and cut ting like lard ; the spleen always enlarged and ecch)mos ed ; it has the appearance of mottled castile soap; the kidneys vary in appearance, but generally are some what darker than natural when cut. The third and fourth stomachs are generally inflamed. In the many folds the digested food is found hard and dry. In the fourth stom ach deep ulcerations are found. The rectum is generally inflamed. The blood is lighter than in health, and under the microscope the blood corpuscles are found destroyed, and a very large increase of water is found in the blood. A minute spore, or a cryptogamic plant, of the oidium family is found in the blood. The heart and lungs usu ally are healthy. The brain is generally softened, and the surface injected with venous blood. Handling the viscera is followed by smarting of the hands.— New Eng land Farmer. ♦ »—»» HEAVES IN HORSES. Can you give me any remedy for horses or mules that have the “heaves, or are broken winded. Yours, &e , J. R. H. Tuscaloosa , Ala. The direct causes of heaves or broken wind are over exertion and indigestion. Treatment. —The object is to improve the patient’s health ; and if we can do this successfully, an improve ment in a curable case generally follows. We must re store digestion iu order to cure indigestion, and in this view we give aromatic tonics; the following we have used with considerable success: Tincture of aromatic sulphu ric acid, written for, by physicians, thus:—Tr. acidsulph aro. Dose, one drachm in a pint of water, night and morning. Most animals, however, will drink it from a bucket. In the mean time we put the animal on a course of the following alterative medicine : Powdered ginger gentian, sulphur, salt, cream of tartar, charcoal, licorice, elecampane, caraway seeds, and balm of Gilead buds (chopped fine,) equal parts. Dose, one ounce every night in the food. Changes in diet, exercise, arid management, calculated to fulfill the indications alluded to above, are indispensa ble. So soon as considerable improvement is perceptible, the aromatic tincture should be omitted; aud instead of giving one ounce of the alterative as a dose, give half an ounce night and morning. A broken-winded horse should always be watered from a bucket, regularly three times a day ; and if he be a foul feeder, arm him with a muzzle, and only remove it at meal time. In addition to the above remedies, we occasionally allow a small quantity of SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR. garlic, say a couple of heads every other day, chopped fine, and mixed in t.h6 food.— American Stock Journal. Avoiding dry food and giving moderate feedings of long forage so as to avoid distention of the stomach and consequent interference with the full expansion of the lungs in respiration, we would suggest as valuable adju vants to the above.—Eds. So. Colt. Treatment of Sows During Pregnancy.— Sows with pigs should be Well and judiciously fed; that is to say, they should have a sufficiency of whole some, nutritious food to maintain their strength and keep them in good condition, but should by no means be al lowed to get fat; as, when they are in high condition, the dangers of parturition are enhanced, the animal is more awkward and liable to smother and crush her young, and, moreover, never has as much or as good milk as a leaner sow. She should also have a separate sty; for swine are prone to lie so close together that, if she is ev en among others, her young would be in great danger; and this sty should be perfectly clean and comfortably littered, but not so thickly as to admit of the young being able to bury themselves in the straw. As the time of her farrowing approaches, she should be well supplied with food, especially if she be a young sow, and this her first litter, and also carefully watched, in or der to prevent her devouring the after-birth, and thus endangering a morbid appetite which will induce her to fall upon her own young. A sow that has once done this can never afterwards be depended upon. Hunger, thirst, or irritation of any kind, will often induce this unnatural conduct, which is another reasoti why a sow about to far row should'have a sty to herself, and be carefully attend ed to, and have all her wants supplied. —American Stock Journal. Htttjranital Department. OBJECTIONS TO THE BRINL¥ PLOW. Editors Souiiern Cultivator :—The complimentary manner in which you have repeatedly spoken of the Brinly plow, induced me to purchase twelve No. 1 and twelve No. 8, with which I commenced breaking my lands in January. I purchased two extra points with each No. 3, paying sixty cents each. In one week all the points were worn out. I then bought steel points at two dollars and twenty-five cents each, which wore badly in another working, requiring an expenditure of 50cts. each to put it in working order. In two workings more, I shall be compelled to buy another sett of steel points or abandon the plow. At this rate, points will cost about four dollars apd fifty cents a month for each plow, which will make the Brinly plow a very objectionable agricultu ral implement. The steel points .weigh four pounds.— The steel costs about ten cents per pound, wholesale; yet we are charged two dollars and twenty-five cents fO' points. After having bought the plow you must submit to this imposition or abandon its use. The Brinly plow does its work well, but the profits of the plantation will go to Mr. Brinly for points, if you use his plows, unless he will make them at a reasonable price. Respectfully yours. J\ HOLIM. 95
