Prime facts for the farmer, the fruit grower, and the public : furnished by John Forman, Esq., farmer and nurseryman, Western New-York . nguinalis, but he had no common name forit. In the absence, however, of a traditionary cognomen, weventure to christian it Slobber Grass, and under that de-nomination, we represent it, at full length and perfection, inthe opposite cut, by which we presume it may be very easilyidentified. The name of the grass is of but little moment comparedwith its perfect identity, and the wide spread evils withwhich it is visiting our whole country. The mere slobbering or
Prime facts for the farmer, the fruit grower, and the public : furnished by John Forman, Esq., farmer and nurseryman, Western New-York . nguinalis, but he had no common name forit. In the absence, however, of a traditionary cognomen, weventure to christian it Slobber Grass, and under that de-nomination, we represent it, at full length and perfection, inthe opposite cut, by which we presume it may be very easilyidentified. The name of the grass is of but little moment comparedwith its perfect identity, and the wide spread evils withwhich it is visiting our whole country. The mere slobbering or salivation of the horse, is, withrespect to this noble animal, only the beginning of trouble ;for when the slobbering is suffered to run on for twelve orfourteen weeks in the year, without a check, it almost inva-riably passes into a disease commonly called the Scowers,or a kind of Flux, that sometimes proves fatal. If howeverthis complaint is survived, a vitiated state of the blood ensueswhich generally brings on the Yellow Water, or a kindof Dropsy, which, in hard weather, almost always carries theanimal off. FACT NUMBER ONE. 15. SLOBBER GRASS to the actual amount of loss in the property of thehorse either to the farmer or the country, no estimate is hereattempted, simply because the proper data are not at the amount, however, be honestly reached it wouldprobably surprise the most incredulous. Note There is a harmless kind of wild grass which somewhat resembles the above; its leaf however is broader and perfectly smooth, whereas, theSlobber Grass leaf is stoutly coated with fuze, not to 3ay beardy. 16 FACT NUMBER ONE.
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