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MANGEIN HOUSES, SOTS, CDLIC, &r.
Editors Southern Cultivator : —I desire
to ask for a remedy for mange in horses. I own
a mule that has had it for live months. Appe
tite good—no uneasy symptoms except a desire
to rub and bite the parts affected—the hair gets
dry and rough, and eventually drops off, leav
ing nuked patches as large as a man’s hand. No
sores—t he extremities seem to be worse affected.
I have used sulphur externally and internally,
mix vomica, mercurial ointment, strong wash of
poke root, wash of salt and soft lye soap, but all
to no effect. Tam now using strong copperas
wash, but can’t see that the disease yields to any
of my remedies.
Having never seen my remedy for colic or
hots in horses published, I send one that I think
the most effectual of any used. For colic, give
teaspoon full of calamine (?) in one pint of warm
water as a drench. For hots or worms, 1 table
spoon full of calomel in one pint of strong vin
egar, diluted with a little warm water. Repeat
in 0 hours, if it does not act. I have tried them,
and find them good. G. W. FINUCANE.
Fillmore, La., Sept. 17,1870. *
Foot-Evil in Horses.—Editors Southern
Cultivator : —1 saw a piece in your valuable
paper where a man had a remedy for foot-evil
in horses, and w anted to know if any one else
knew of a remedy. His was to pour hot tallow
in the cracked p;u*t of the hoof, and in three or
four days it would be well. I *liave a remedy for
foot-evil Which 1 think far superior to pouring
hot tallow in the cracked parts of hoof; it is al
so good for scratches. As soon as you find your
horse has foot-evil or scratches, make a strong
tea of the leaves of w r ild ivy, wash the foot in
it, and bind some of the leaves also to it, and you
need not stop working him. One application is
sufficient— have the tea as hot as he can bear it.
Camden, Ala., Sept, 1870. FINE KNOT.
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Gravel in Houses. —Editors Southern
Cultivator: — Tell the man that wants a reme
dy for gravel in horses, to take three or four
lioney bees, slightly mash them, pour one quart
of boiling water on them, let stand till cool,
take out the bees, and drench the horse with the
w ater, and he will be all right in five minutes.
This remedy is said to be equally good for
man, using one bee and about a small tea-cup of
water. T. R P.
Smithdale, Amite Cos., Miss.
soi:tiieun cn/nvATOR
Mccjjaiutal geprtmtuf.
LABOR-SAVING IMPLEMENTS.
The agriculturists of the South arc very much
exercised upon the subject of labor. From ev
ery direction the cry is give us more and better
labor. On the second point, to wit, the quality
of our present labor, all will agree that there is
abundant room for improvement. On the first
point, the quantity of labor, there is decidedly
more ground for doubt and difference of opinion.
In a political and national point of view it w r ould
obviously be desirable to increase our wdiite
population (if a good class of immigrants could
be obtained) to seeure control of the government
and to give needed strength in time of war. In
an industrial point of view, however, as remark
ed before, there is room for doubt. The cotton
crops of the last two years nearly equalling the
average crop before the w*ar, indicates apparent
ly one of two things ; either that better modes of
cultivation, Ac., have been adopted or else that the
laborers (whose numbers have certainly decrease
ed by the withdrawal from the fields of the wo
men,) have been greatly more efficient than they
were whilst slaves. No one will admit the lat
ter conclusion, and the question, therefore, nat
urally arises, if, with a smaller number of labor
ers, but with new implements, new methods of
culture, Ac., Ac., crops, rivalling in extent those
of antebellum times, can be and have been pro
duced—whether, by pushing these means still
farther, larger and still larger crops may not con
tinue to be made. We have no doubt on this
point, and until the limit is reached in this direc
tion, may it not be unwise to attempt to increase
the supply of laborers ? The means alluded to
are, first, planting more largely crops which re
quire little labor, such as small grains, grasses
and clover—2nd, limiting the labor crops , as cot
ton and com, to the smallest possible areas and
enriching these to the utmost possible degree—
3rd, by use of implements to substitute animal la
bor for human labor whenever practicable. At
present we invite attention to the last point
mentioned, the use of labor-saving implements.
Many of these, such as reapers, mowers, tedders,
grain drills, Ac., Ac., are costly, and their use
brings up at once the question of small or large
farms, bince the war the South has received a
vast quantity of gratuitous advice from the oth
er side of Mason sand Dixon’s line, one of the