NOTICE TO APPLICANTS FOR ADVICE.

"Polypus."-You will find an article in the present number, on the treatment, &c. Persons desirous of obtaining professional advice must forward us a fee of two dollars; we cannot afford to write lengthy letters and impart information; which cost us much labor and expense to obtain without receiving an equivalent. "The borer

is worthy of his hire." Hence, if a man has a sick horse, and knows not how to treat him, he should be willing to pay for reliable information.

We have no objection, however, to answer through the pages of the "Journal," any questions that may be propounded; because our readers may be benefitted thereby; but if the required information, by letter, shall apply to some special case of disease, that the inquirer only, feels interested in, the same must be paid for.

Messrs. Kingman and Hassam, whose card appears among our advertisements, will please accept our thanks for a present of one of their highly finished "Horse Sandals," an article that should be in the possession of every horse owner; for should a horse lose a shoe, "on the road," or be the subject of diseased feet, the sandal is indispensable. In our next we shall describe the article and inform the reader of its modus operandi.

MISCELLANEOUS.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE.-A full synopsis of this document is to be found in most of our exchanges. It would have been very interesting to us, and more so to the four millions of agriculturists, if a paragraph, entertaining the following views, had apppeared: No citizen of our country should permit himself to forget, that the inferior orders of creation are entitled to consideration and mercy; they constitute a part of the wealth of the nation, they are subject to the same physiological and pathological laws, and require the same skill in the treatment of their maladies that apply to their "lord and master." Therefore, in view of the ignorance which now prevails in all that pertains to the fundamental principles of Veterinary science, I conjure you to aid and foster it. The emergency appeals to the citizens of every State, and I consider it an imperative duty to recommend Congress to establish a National Veterinary College, and appropriate, from the National funds, a sufficient sum of money to endow an Institution where the pr.nciples of Veterinary Science shall be taught, &c."

STRAWBERRY LEAVES AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR TEA.-M. Kletzinsky, of Vienna, has lately made a report upon the use of the leaves of the wild strawberry (flagaria vesca) as a substitute for tea. When gathered soon after the ripening of the fruit, an infusion of the leaves is a most agreeable dietic drink. The leaves may be dried in the sun or in heated pans; the infusion from the leaves thus prepared is greenish, slightly astringent, and somewhat similar to that obtained from the China plant. The infusion is miscible with milk without coagulation, possesses the same diaphoretic and diuretic properties as tea, and is slightly excitant.-New Orleans Med. News and Hospital Gaz.

THE POULTRY CROP OF STONINGTON.-This town exported in the year 1854, 2,500 geese, valued at $2,500, and 22,500 turkeys, valued at $18,000. They were marketed mainly in Boston, at Thanksgiving and Christmas. These are handsome items in the profits of a small farming district.-Homestead.

THE next National Fair is to be held at Philadelpl.ia.

STATISTICS OF ENGLISH AND FRENCH AGRICULTURE.-Some interesting statistics relative to the Agriculture of France and England were given in a lecture delivered a few days since, in Cornwall, by M. R. de la Trehonnais. In England, out of 50,000,000 acres cultivated, 10,000,000 are sown to wheat or other crops, while in France, 50,000,000 were cultivated for that purpose. The average growth of wheat per acre in England, is 4 quarters; and in France only 1 3-5 quarters; while the produce of English land is about £3 4s. per acre, and of France £1 12s. per acre. The number of sheep raised in each country is about 35,000,000, and the wool produced about 60,000 tons; but, owing to the difference in the acreage, there is some

thing less than 1 1-2 sheep per acre in England, and only about one-third of a sheep per acre in France. In France, there are annually slaughtered 4,000,000 of cattle, the average weight of each being 2 cwt.; while in England there is not half the number slaughtered, but the average weight is 5 cwt.

IN the "St. Louis Medical Journal," a case of poisoning is reported by Dr. Webb who certifies that the subject, a woman, took six drachms of arsenic and recovered. The antidote used was sesquin-oxide of iron.

REMEDY FOR CHILBLAINS.-" Wilson's Medical Times" recommends the compound iodine ointment as a specific for chilblains. It can be procured of any apothecary.

HEIGHT OF FOLLY.-To fasten the stable door with a boiled carrot.

DESTRUCTION OF HORSES.-The stable of the Union House, Gloucester, containing six horses, was lately destroyed. One of the horses was rescued, but escaped from his rescuer, rushed into the flames and perished. Three or four grunters located near the stable, escaped. The latter had no idea of letting their fat run into the fire.

HORSE-SHOES BY MACHINERY.-Robert Griffiths, of Alleghany, Pennsylvania, has invented a machine for making horse-shoes, which is pronounced a success. The iron bar of which the shoes are made, is fed red-hot into the machine, and is then cut off the required length, bent by levers and formed upon dies, swedged and punched at one continuous operation. One of these machines can make ten horse-shoes per minute, which requires very little to be done to them afterwards to fit them for use. The shoes are well formed, and exhibit no straining of the fibre of the metal. This machine acccomplishes at one continuous operation that which requires three or four different operations, on other horse-shoe machines.

A NEW PROTECTION AGAINST INSECTS.-The Imperial Horticultural Society of Paris, has just received a communication from M. Tessler, one of its members, stating that the ammoniacal water of gas has the property of destroying the insects which commit such ravages on the fruit trees. This ammoniacal water is mixed with three-fourths its quantity of common water, and is then sprinkled over the leaves and branches of the trees. A small trench is dug around each tree to receive the water which falls, and this kills the destructive insects which harbor about the roots of fruit trees.

THE attempt to make horses, out of horse chesnuts, has been abandoned.

THE celebrated stallion, "Black Prince," lately owned by Darwin Rider, of N. Y., has just been purchased by a gentleman residing in the town of Coldwater, Michigan; the sum paid was $3,000.

CHLOROFORM. In the Crimean campaign chloroform has been employed, with success, 25,000 times.

RIGHTS OF FOOT PASSENGERS.—It has been settled, by legal decision, that foot passengers have an equal right of way, across streets, with the teams of all kinds, an d that a teamster, or driver of a carriage or vehicle of any kind, is liable for damages, if he injure a foot passenger while crossing the street. Gentlemen of the whip will govern themselves accordingly.

QUESTION FOR THE "MEEK AND LOWLY."- If the cost of maintaining a fashionable church in New York amounts to $22,000 (a fact,) how much will it cost to support a horse infirmary?

A RIGHTEOUS SENTENCE-A man was lately convicted at the Special Session in New York city, for wanton cruelty in beating a horse until the poor creature dropped down; for which cruelty the brute, (the man, we mean,) was sent to the penitentiary six months.

COUGH MEDICINE FOR A HORSE.-—A good blanket, and leggins, to match.

Veterinary Journal.

DEVOTED TO THE DIFFUSION OF VETERINARY KNOWLEDGE.

Falling of the fundament-protrusion of the rectum,-or, by whatever name persons please to designate, prolapsus ani; it is a calamity much to be dreaded, yet fortunately it is rather a rare affliction: so we judge, from the very few cases brought under our notice, in the course of our professional career. For aught we know, however, it may occur in parts remote from Massachusetts, yet the agricultural press, are silent on the subject.

If the disease ever occur; a valuable horse, is sure to be the subject; hence, it becomes a matter of importance that our readers (many of whom own valuable horses) and others, who may, or may not, profess a knowledge of veterinary science; should rightly understand the nature and treatment, of so painful and formidable a disease as prolapsus ani, proves to be, and in this view we introduce the following article, a selection from The Veterinarian, an English publication:

"PROLAPSUS ANI, proctocele, inversio recti, (or, as the French denominate it, renversement du rectum,) are so many appellations for a disease, which, if one may judge from the paucity of cases on record, comes but occasionally under the notice of the veterinary surgeon-even in horses, though oftener among them, it is said, than in other animals; still, it is a disease which it behoves him both to understand the nature of, and be prepared with remedies to remove, whenever it does happen.