The New England farmer . oubled withbunches on her stifles and is quite lame. I haveapplied kerosene and chamber-lye and salt with-out apparent effect. What shaM I do for her ? Littleton, Mass., May 6, 1870. i. s. h. Remarks.—We mistrust that the leg has beensprained or injured, and that the trouble is in thejoint. Sometime when your family doctor is ridingby, get him to look at it. It is very important toknow the cause and seat of disease. If the bunchis caused by weeping from an injured joint, itrequires very different treatment from what wouldbe proper in case it is a tumor or sore originat
The New England farmer . oubled withbunches on her stifles and is quite lame. I haveapplied kerosene and chamber-lye and salt with-out apparent effect. What shaM I do for her ? Littleton, Mass., May 6, 1870. i. s. h. Remarks.—We mistrust that the leg has beensprained or injured, and that the trouble is in thejoint. Sometime when your family doctor is ridingby, get him to look at it. It is very important toknow the cause and seat of disease. If the bunchis caused by weeping from an injured joint, itrequires very different treatment from what wouldbe proper in case it is a tumor or sore originatingin the skin or flesh. You do not say whether thebunch is hard or soft. If it proceeds from an in-jured joint, it is probably soft, and contains fluidmatter, and it may be of the kind called a bursalswelling. These are often opened at the lowerpart, and after pressing out the fluid, bandagesare applied and drawn over the swelling quitesnugly. It may be necessary to repeat the opera-tion. 1870. NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 317. -x^^i^s-sC FKENCHS PATENT CULTIVATOR. The increased attention lately paid to dairy-ing, which at the present time is assumingsomewhat the type of an agricultural fever,has naturally suggested inquiries for bettermilk producing feed. Dry hay, especiallythat which stood till the seed was thoroughlyripened, or pasture feed which has turnedwhite from old age or August drought, is notquite juicy enough for factory cows, or forgilt edged butter, and many farmers are think-ing about raising a patch of roots, if not for thedaily food, at least for an occasional changeof diet for their animals. The remarks madeby Mr. Henry Lane, of Cornwall, Vt., in hisaddress at the meeting of the dairymen ofthat State, about raising beets for cattle andpigs, eeem to have been read with much inter-est by many farmers. But the labor and thebother of raising roots, is the great objectionwhich we fast-horse Yankees urge againsttheir cultivation. To obviate this objectionthe inventors hav
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