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434 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. *♦■ 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