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FARMING IN TEXAS 
 
 OR HOW TO FARM THE LANDS OF OUR 
 
 SEASHORE COUNTRIES OF 
 
 THE WORLD. 
 
 (Copyrighted, 1912, by Chas. N. Simpson.) 
 
 Reared and Raised and Lived His Entire Life in 
 
 Tliose Lands and Countries in Practical 
 
 Farming and Stockraising and 
 
 Experimental Experience. 
 
 A Most Complete Exposition and Defining of Science 
 
 and Nature, to the Advancement of the 
 
 Prosperity of All Agriculture in 
 
 All Parts of the World. 
 
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 PREFACE 
 
 With this valuable knowledge, the people of the 
 world can now successfuly grow and produce abun- 
 dant yields of wheat, oats, corn, cotton, and all 
 crops adapted to that particular Northern or South- 
 ern temperature; and have, and keep, and success- 
 fully raise all kinds o: farm animals, horses, mules, 
 cattle, hogs, all kinds of poultry, etc., to the very 
 best quality and highest value of specimens of their 
 kind; thus enabling the people to now establish 
 themselves in self-sustaining and prosperous farm 
 homes in the laniis of our Seashore Country, where 
 they can spend one life-long holiday in that often 
 dreamed of most beautiful and popular playground, 
 pleasure and health resort of the world, with its un- 
 surpassed beauty of sunshine and sea; and its unex- 
 celled health-giving, healing and most invigorating 
 and exhiliarting liquid tonical atmosphere, for all the 
 exhaustive weaknesses and ailments of the human 
 family; the most finished and complete results of a 
 twentj^-two years' study by close investigation, deep 
 thought, open field demonstration and the thorough 
 study of State chemists' analysis of the various soils; 
 and his complete exposition thereon, and tried, 
 proven and true remedies for all diseases of farm 
 animals, all of which have the most solid grounds 
 supported by indisputable and unquestionable evi- 
 dences of them being facts. 
 
 £CI.A309989 
 
FARMING IN TEXAS 
 
 Or How to Farm the Lands of the Seashore 
 Country (that public playground and health resort 
 of the whole world. There is not a man living but 
 what has had in his idle dreams visions of the pleas- 
 ure resorts of the beautiful seashore), not only of 
 Texas and the United States, but of the whole world, 
 Europe, Asia, Africa and all of the Americas; and 
 successfully purchase, improve and build up a most 
 prosperous, profitable,, happy and self-sustaining, 
 ideal farm home; growing and producing all of the 
 crops useful and necessary to the sustenance and 
 maintenance of life in man and animal, such as 
 wheat, oats, corn, cotton and all crops adapted to 
 the Southern or Northern temperature of the climate 
 of the country, in which the seashore lands of his 
 choice are located. 
 
 What Its Contents Will Do. 
 
 If in the South, the growing of the cotton crop 
 will now be made a positive certainty, and with our 
 demonstrated and proven knowledge of how to pro- 
 tect this crop from the destructive ravages of its 
 insect pests, including boll weevil, thorough instruc- 
 tions being given in this work. That crop can now 
 be produced to the amount of its entire limit, which 
 on the strong, heavy lands of the seashore may be 
 expected to reach the unexcelled yield of from one 
 to two and three bales of cotton per acre. The extra 
 
amount of labor, machinery and money and traffic 
 by railroad it would require to take care of and 
 handle this crop alone would enrich the country to 
 such an extent that it would be amazing. 
 An Inventor's Life. 
 
 In producing those wonderful results as depicted 
 above, I have pressed the hard seat of the inventor, 
 as all inventors of the great labor saving and much 
 improved scientific inventions of these modern times 
 have done before me, undergoing the ever attendant 
 failures, unavoidable hardships and privations, the 
 inevitable adversities necessarily accompanying all 
 of the inventor's strenuous efforts toward the com- 
 pletion of something that he is fully aware will be 
 the most probable means of great good to his fellow- 
 man and his country. 
 
 Author an Inventor; What His Exposition on Science 
 and Nature Will Do. 
 
 In pressing the hard seat of the inventor, now for 
 a long, arduous course and term of twenty-two years, 
 I have the high satisfaction of knowing that I have 
 brought to a fully demonstrated and proven success 
 the finish of a scientific knowledge ( that no other 
 human on earth in this day has in his possession) 
 that once in possession of the people of the world 
 will be the source of great comfort, pleasure and 
 happiness to innumerable multitudes of people in all 
 parts of the world; and of greatly increased wealth, 
 popularity and power to all nations which have a 
 large percentage of seacoast in their possessions. 
 
 This work will go to show what those properties 
 are in this seashore atmosphere that cures the sick, 
 heals the afflicted, calms, strengthens and builds up 
 
the shattered nerves of the overtaxed professional 
 ones — the statesman, college professor, lawyer, doc 
 tor, etc.; strengthens, renovates and renews the over- 
 worked brain of the business man — almost to dis- 
 traction and complete breakdown in the busy rush 
 of commerce; and thus save a probable case of self- 
 destruction, or occupancy of one of our many 
 asylums for the insane; also how it builds up and 
 makes renewed strength and power in the sinews 
 and muscle of the brawny arms of the weakened, 
 wasted mechanic and toiling artisan, who became so 
 through hard toil in the hard climate of the interior, 
 with its blazing hot sun of summer and its frigid 
 cold of long, exhaustless winters; and of how it builds 
 up anew his interest in life; that poor, pitiable ob- 
 ject of public sympathy — the dyspeptic and sufferer 
 of stomach trouble — that who, unable to eat or enjoy 
 the least luxury of life or pleasure, and to whom this 
 world's beautiful side of nature aad creation had 
 lost all power of attraction; how when first unloaded, 
 and as soon as sufficient time would permit of his 
 lungs taking into their depths this delicious, exhil- 
 erating ozone and tonical effecting seashore atmos- 
 phere, he steps out bouyantly, as if suddenly per- 
 meated by some life-giving electric current, and ex- 
 claims in accelerated terms and action, "Oh, but 
 this feels good!" and from that instant on, the date 
 of the building up of his vital organs has commenced, 
 until after an almost incredible short lapse of time, 
 he is made whole, and enjoys the good things of 
 life as do other people. O glorious results! And all 
 
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from nothing more than living and being in this 
 beautiful seashore atmosphere. 
 
 Likewise the sufferer from catarrh, bronchial af- 
 fections, consumption, and nearly all the ills and ail- 
 ments that man is heir to in a hard climate, with 
 no health-giving properties in its atmosphere. The 
 result of my invention will show clearly what it is 
 in the seashore atmosphere that causes all of those 
 seemingly miraculous effects; and if there should be 
 an occasional case — as there is sometimes through 
 not knowing of the nature of this wonder working 
 atmosphere — that fails to be benefited as others, my 
 exposition of the subject will so thoroughly explain 
 the nature of every particular that he can with a 
 little assistance on his part reap the benefit as full 
 and complete as the others. 
 
 Human Systems. 
 
 Human systems differ widely in their make-up, or 
 in other words, the manner of the running of the 
 human machinery therein — nerves, circulation and 
 temperament. 
 
 Effects of Sea Breeze. 
 
 As the seashore has properties in its climate that 
 are very sedative in their effects on the nerves, thus 
 calming and quieting, it stands to reason that a per- 
 son of an already quiet and sedate nerve will not be 
 benefited in the same respect that one with a highly 
 excitable and unsteady nerve and high temperament, 
 would. Hence the need of assisting the nerves with 
 an additional treatment of stimulating remedies. A 
 pure article of rye spirits (whiskey) highly sweet- 
 ened, when taken, or used in a rich and luscious egg- 
 nogg, three times daily, will answer all purposes 
 
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handsomely, and greatly enhance and increase the 
 high rate of recovery. Great care should be taken 
 to at all times keep in position to obtain the 
 greatest percentage of pure fresh air; and one should 
 ever bear in mind that the taking and using of long, 
 deep breathing, at all times, is the only effective and 
 sure method of obtaining the desired results from 
 atmospherical benefits or treatment. 
 
 Tvlalarial Poison When Going to Seashore. 
 
 As a m^atter of course if one arrives in this sea- 
 shore climate with their systems overcharged with 
 malarial poison, to such an extent as to cause the 
 natural affections from such conditions, they should 
 assist nature and the seashore in throwing this off 
 the system, by the judicious use of some anti-malaria 
 tonic and a light liver regulator, such as Black 
 Draught or St. Joseph's Liver Medicine, all purely 
 vegetable and harmless to use. 
 
 A Heaven on Earth. 
 
 Now we have seen, do see and are seeing those 
 great beneficial effects on the life, health and per- 
 petuation of man's happiness derived from only a 
 short stay on J;he seashore. Oh! what a heaven it 
 would be! what a veritable Garden of Eden to live 
 in, if the lands and business propositions were alike 
 benefited by the same cause and in the same large 
 degree and proportion as the health, vitalities and 
 life of man. This occupancy of the hard seat of the 
 inventor for twenty-two long years was spent for 
 that most heavenly purpose. To say that I was suc- 
 cessful would be only mildly expressing the results 
 They have been far more successful and satisfactory 
 -than I could have ever expected; as my exposition 
 
and formula of instructions gained by scientific 
 knowledge, will go to prove and demonstrate. 
 Salt; Its Effects. 
 
 Knowing what it is, knowing how it so ben- 
 efits the health and vitality of man, and know- 
 ing the cause and manner in which it so suc- 
 cessfully does this, is the whole secret of success. 
 Yet this same seashore atmospherical influences are 
 disastrous to farm animal and farm crop plant life, 
 as has been proven by repeated efforts of man to 
 farm this Seashore Country land and to keep and 
 raise farm animals. Knowing the cause of all of this, 
 and knowing how to correct it and make it as thor- 
 oughly beneficial to farm animal and farm crop plant 
 life to the same degree as to the health, vitality and 
 life of man, has been the crowning success of my 
 long, arduous term of inventorial and scientific in- 
 vestigations, open field demonstrations, experimental 
 experience, and deep thought and study. 
 
 Its Properties as a Chemical Medicine and Food. 
 
 Salt is a chemical, medicine, and food in its prop- 
 erties, both of which are indispensable to animal 
 and plant life alike — sedative and stimulating and 
 astringent. It has also highly preservative and puri- 
 fying qualties, and wherever it is a most predomi- 
 nant feature, as in our seashore country's climate, it 
 roots up and drives out every vestige of carbonic 
 acid gas and malaria, the presence of which is so 
 urgently necessary to the successful agricultural till- 
 age of the soil and of growing of crops useful to man; 
 hence the great healthfulness of this salt permeated 
 atmosphere for man. The chemical is also highly 
 soluble; is easily dissolved by water, dampness and 
 
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moisture, and in this liquid and atmospherical form 
 it is easily assimilated with the soil and air, and is 
 made highly available to animal and plant life, to 
 both of which it is beneficial alike and urgently 
 necessary. 
 
 As an Enrichening Substance of the Soil. 
 
 If all the conditions of doing so are the same (as 
 I will illustrate and prove), salt being highly soluble 
 when met by moisture and being in itself a great 
 producer of dampness and solvency of other solid 
 and enrichening substances, and thus converting 
 them into a liquid and absorbative form, making 
 them highly available and easily taken up by the 
 systems of both man, animal and farm crop plant 
 life, thus creating such inordinary increase in the 
 taking on of flesh in the one and foliage in the other; 
 and of such renewed vitality of both and all, and 
 that the increased appefTte of the one and tne de- 
 mand of the other for additional and sufficient nour- 
 ishment, by way of food, is so great that if no<- avail- 
 able and supplied in most liberal quantities, disease 
 and probable death, is the most certain and ulti- 
 mate consequence. 
 
 Man and Animals' Source of Nourishment. 
 
 Now man's nourishment is ready prepared food, 
 furnished in the best possible and most palatable 
 order from pantry and kitchen, and in the required 
 quantities his increased vitality demands. The farm 
 animal's increased appetite and demand for increased 
 quantitse of food depends on the price of feedstuffs, 
 the proportional supply contained in bin and barn, 
 and the generosity with which same is supplied, 
 which very often is not in accordance, and equal to 
 
the increased demand for the same by the increase 
 of vitality and appetite in the animal; while the addi- 
 tional wear and tear of the animal's system, by 
 steady usage at hard work, is also to be contended 
 with, which , all in all, leaves the animal in very 
 poor condition to cope with any disease that, through 
 the exhausted condition of his system, may attack 
 his physique. But for which my work here will con- 
 tain successful treatments for, and will save the ani- 
 mal, and with proper nourishment and better care 
 in the future will not have to be repeated. 
 
 Food of Plant Life; How Derived and Received. 
 
 Likewise, plant life differs also from man in de- 
 riving its nourishment, and the satisfying of an in- 
 creased dem-and for food. The food of all vegetable 
 and plant life is in the soil. Its mode of receiving it 
 is in and through the absorbing of and taking it up 
 in liquid form, through innumerable, soft and tender, 
 small tendrill-like roots, being very soft, white, sap- 
 like in appearance; and is kept so by the permeating 
 of them of the liquid plant food which flows through 
 them into the larger roots and so into the plant, 
 feeding and producing fruit and foliage; some, so 
 small as to almost be imperceptible, without the aid 
 of a microscope, permeating all through every part 
 of, and under the surface of the soil, and known as 
 the feeders of the plant. 
 
 Best Condition of Soil in Furnishing Abundant 
 Nourishment. 
 
 Now if the soil is strong and rich, and is in a high 
 state of tillage, being soft, sponge-like, and loose in 
 texture, and kept in a loamy, alluvial, mealj'-like 
 condition, so as to permit of those tender, delicate, 
 
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soft, sap-like feeders to permeate every particle of 
 the plant's seed bed, and so absorb and take up tiie 
 rich liquid plant food and convey same up through, 
 and to the plant, to satisfy the increased demand for 
 same by the plant's enforced vigorous growth, caused 
 by the effusive, highly soluble, and creator of soluble- 
 ness, sedative and stimulative chemical qualities of 
 salt, in its liquid form of salt sea water and its 
 permeated seashore atmosphere, and the permeating 
 effects of it on and into all other solid substances, 
 thus converting them into plant life food; and if the 
 soil is made (as above described by the applying of 
 available acid phosphates to take the place of the 
 phosphoric acid, which stands in the same respects 
 and nature as carbonic acid gas to the soil and plant 
 life; and which the purifying effects and quality of 
 the salt have driven out of the seashore soils, thus 
 causing a deficiency of this important one of the 
 three elements of plant food, the complete combina- 
 tion of all three of which is urgently necessary and 
 must be to insure a perfect source of nourishment to 
 plant life and a large yield of crop, to the land's full- 
 est capacity of strength and richness) and kept in a 
 well cultivated condition, the plant (like the man 
 will be benefited to the highest degree — for, like the 
 man, it will receive sufficient rich and nourishing 
 food, as its increased vigor and growth causes an 
 increased demand) life of the farm crops will be 
 vigorous, healthy and will produce a healthy, full, 
 plump and sound grain in wheat, oats, corn, or what- 
 ever crop of its kind it perchances to be; while like 
 the ill-kept and poorly nourished and fed farm animal 
 — if kept like them and poorly nourished and fed, it 
 
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would become diseased, i. e., have the rust, smut, etc., 
 which so spoils and damages the crop as to make it 
 unfit for use; and people not knowing the trouble, 
 and not having this knowledge, would construe it 
 to be the fault of the climate; when there is not a 
 more ideal climate — now that we understand it — for 
 agricultural purposes than the seashore country's 
 climate here or in any other part of the world. The 
 only trouble before was that this most essential and 
 beneficial element of chemicals to both animal and 
 plant life — SALT — was supplied in such a bountiful 
 manner as to overbalance the proper proportion and 
 combination of the other elements of plant food in 
 the soil; and though the richest in all of the more 
 ocstly plant foods, of all lands in other parts, and 
 more distant from the seashore, yet the deficiency 
 of the more minor or less costly of the soil's plant 
 food caused such a non-productiveness in the soil as 
 to make it utterly useless to man in the production 
 of all those crops that go to maintain and support 
 life in man and farm animals, especially the horse; 
 the hog coming next, as it requires crops of grain, 
 etc., to profitably raise and keep them; also all 
 kinds of poultry, and many, many unfortunate and 
 afterward disappointed people; having tried to build 
 up for themselves farm homes in this beautiful sea- 
 shore country, with a soil that had a slight defect in 
 it, causing them utter failure of anything like profit- 
 able results, and the loss in many instances of their 
 beautiful farm stock, which not being able to raise 
 grain crops and give proper feed and nourishment, 
 as their increased vigor and appetites demanded, 
 contracted disease, from which many never recov- 
 
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ered. Oh! it is sad and would make the most hard- 
 ened of mankind feel a deep sorrow for those poor 
 unfortunate fellow citizens who only a short twelve 
 months before were well-to-do farm people with am- 
 ple means of self-sustenance and independence, now 
 bereft of all; and them, and those beautiful children 
 and loved ones of theirs, almost on the charity of 
 the public, suffering privations and want; selling out 
 their little remaining comforts in their homes to 
 get means to convey them back to the hard and 
 disagreeable climate of the interior, from which only 
 a short while before they had such high hopes and 
 anticipations of being forever free, and of being and 
 living, day after day, month after month and year 
 after year, one long lifetime holiday in this public 
 playground and health resort. The beautiful sea- 
 shore country, when I think of it and know that I 
 have invented and learned scientific knowledge 
 that will now make all of those high hopes and 
 anticipations a solid and indisptuable reality, I al- 
 most feel like shouting for pure joy; and trusting 
 that I will not be thought vain, or adjudged a brag- 
 gard, yet knowing the hundreds and hundreds of 
 millions of acres of beautiful seashore country lands 
 that are in the world today doing nothing more use- 
 ful to man than harboring the unsightly cesspool 
 with its every attendant annoying insects, and grow- 
 ing the almost useless wild grasses and weeds; 
 while the people are occupying homes back in the 
 interior, with its hard climate of excessive heat in 
 summer and extreme cold in winter, with its more 
 malarial and disease producing atmosphere, when 
 now with this knowledge every acre of this Sea- 
 
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shore Country all over the world, and in every na- 
 tion and country, can be, and will be, included in the 
 beautiful farm home of some fellowman when this 
 little book of this most valuable scientific knowledge 
 is once in their possession, for use and reference, 
 as to how to now build up a happy, self-sustaining 
 and profitable farm home there. I can't help but feel 
 and think that I have accomplished and finished an 
 invention that will be the means of bringing happi- 
 ness and prosperity to more of my fellow-men than 
 any other single invention that ever was completed, 
 and will also be the great source of vastly increased 
 wealth, power and fame to and of every country that 
 has a large scope of seacoast plain land in her 
 territory. 
 
 Chemical Analysis. 
 The chemical elements of plant food contained in 
 the soil, as determined by the scientific analysis of 
 same by the Texas State Chemist, their different 
 natures and the respect inwhich they are required 
 to grow the plant, develop and mature a full, sound, 
 and an abundant yield of the many farm crops use- 
 ful and urgently necessary to support and maintain 
 life in man and farm animal, the scientific nanlysis 
 of the soil goes to prove that it contains three ele- 
 ments of chemical plant food that are requisite to 
 the proper growth of vegetation (and the strict and 
 perfect combination of all three of which is urgently 
 necessary to insure the successful production and 
 yield of those farm crops useful to man). Now the 
 first and most costly of these chemicals is nitrogen; 
 the nitrogenious matter and potash contained in the 
 soil is formed by the decaying, decomposition and 
 
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solvency of all vegetation or solid matter deposited, 
 growing and decaying or falling thereon throughout 
 the long ages of its standing, and where there is 
 no counteracting influence of the stronger chemical, 
 salt, with its purifying qualities, which drives out all 
 impure or foul chemicals that create and institute 
 carbonic acid gases, so necessary to alluvial, loosen 
 up and -create warmth and loamy conditions of the 
 soil, there is a full quota of phosphoric acid, the 
 third and last of the three analyzed chemicals. Of 
 course there are other natural features, such as salts, 
 carbon, oxygen, ammonia, and electric influences, all 
 of which are principally derived from atmospherical 
 treatment and influences, which, if the soil is prop- 
 erly stirred and kept open by frequent and thorough 
 cultivation, the plant life will derive full and com- 
 plete benefit. 
 
 To Ascertain Rich, Productive Soils, Etc. 
 Now to complete a depleted soil, where the defl- 
 cient chemicals are determined on and ascertained 
 by the soil's general appearance, viz., an old, long- 
 cultivated and worn soil, such as is often seen in- 
 land from the seashore, will plainly denote its lack 
 of nitrogen and potash by the sparse, small and 
 weak growth of vegetation thereon. To make this 
 soil productive and rich it will require the adding 
 of cotton seed meal, a liberal and heavy coat of 
 leaves, barnyard manure, straw or some heavy 
 organic matter, in large quantities; the plowing of 
 them under to decompose and rot, and the additional 
 application of a mixed fertilizer, of say 8 per cent 
 available acid phosphate, 3 per cent potash and 3 per 
 cent nitrate, at the rate of 250 pounds per acre the 
 
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first year and 300 pounds the second year. From 
 thence it can be doubled and tribled with good 
 effects, until the soil can be made — by very deep 
 plowing, say from 10 to 18 inches deep — so rich and 
 productive as any ordinary rich and well tilled soil. 
 Sea Air Influence on Soil. 
 
 Now the above described thin, light, poor soil is 
 rarely or ever seen in any portion of the country 
 where the direct influence of the liquid chemical 
 salt-laden atmosphere can be brought to bear on it. 
 On the contrary, it will have a heavy, and heavier, 
 a more compact and tougher texture, being more 
 obdurate, harder to work up into a seed bed. As you 
 near the actual seashore beach you will also ob- 
 serve great jungles of tanglewood-like, and the most 
 gross, heavy and luxuriant growth of vegetation, thus 
 denoting the overwhelming quantities of nitrogen- 
 ious matter, salts and potash contained in the soil, 
 which produces this great profusive and luxuriant 
 growth of wild vegetation; but which, without the 
 third — or third and fourth elements of chemicals, 
 you may say — for, as we have seen, salt is urgently 
 necessary — the same rich soil will not produce the 
 farm crops so essential to man. 
 
 Correcting the Defect in Coast Soils and Causing 
 the Same to Now Be the Means of Produc- 
 ing the Largest Crops of the World. 
 
 Now that we know the deficiency and the cause 
 of same, and that that same cause is the means of 
 this same soil's inordinary richness, we can, by way 
 of adding from 250 to 300 pounds of available acid 
 phosphate to the acre on the heaviest, most obdurate 
 soil to 150 pounds on the lighter ones, with a decided 
 
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hillside slope, where the water quickly sheds off 
 after each rainfall, supply the deficiency of the phos- 
 phoric acid made by the stronger chemical, salt, and 
 so balance up a complete, rich and abundant propor- 
 tion of plant food that, with proper breaking, pulver- 
 izing, planting and cultivation, will convert the great 
 cause of the defective productiveness hitherto orig- 
 inating so much failure, want and losses, and the 
 utter overthrow of so many high hopes and anticipa- 
 tions, into the great medium of production of the 
 largest yield of abundant crops of all that goes to 
 feed and clothe animal life and mankind of any land 
 in the world not deriving the direct benefits of this 
 liquid salt atmosphere of the seashore. Oh! great is 
 scientific knowledge. "Knowledge is power" is one of 
 the oldest, yet the most true of all Proverbs. 
 Preparing the Soil, Etc. 
 Now in preparing this land from the raw soil — 
 where it has never ben plowed — great care should 
 be taken to not plow exceeding the depth of one or 
 one and one-half inches the first plowing. The reg- 
 ular rod, prairie sod-breaker (walking), cutting 16 
 inches, is the most handsome and easiest plow oper- 
 ated for this purpose. Carefully follow breaking plow 
 with harrow and smoother, pulverizing the soil be- 
 fore the furrow has had time to dry out and become 
 hard. Four acres done this way will not give as much 
 trouble as two acres would if the furrow is per- 
 mitted to dry out and become baked before harrow- 
 ing and smoothing. The next plowing should be done 
 as deep as an ordinary turn plow's capacity— that is, 
 to carry a full furrow, not at any time showing any 
 part of mold on furrow side while plow is in actual 
 
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operation — which is most usually from 5 to 8 or 9 
 inches deep, and in an ample rainfall country, with 
 shallow well water for sub-irrigation and a temperate 
 moist climate, is of ample depth for all purposes and 
 best results. 
 
 Deep Plowing in Arid Regions. 
 
 As a matter of course in a dry, arid region, with 
 sparse rainfall and no irrigation, the deeper the 
 plowing, even to as much as 20 inches, and done as 
 far ahead of planting time as possible, in order to 
 catch and retain all of the sparse rainfall and so 
 conserve it as soil moisture, to produce crops in an 
 airid country, is urgently necessary, and often in- 
 sures an abundant yield, where the cultivation has 
 been frequent and the land stirred after every rain 
 that would tend to form a crust and so cause quick 
 and sure evaporation of the soil moisture, and the 
 cultivation done shallow and permitting of loose soil 
 to fall back in furrow, and keep same well covered 
 and protected from the scorching and fast evaporat- 
 ing effects of a hot sun. 
 
 Plowirg in Rainfall Country. 
 
 But deeper plowing than above described in an 
 ample rainfall country. — Now, I don't want to be un- 
 derstood as advocating mere scratching, etc., of the 
 soil, for that is disastrous of any results whatever; — 
 but follow the directions as given and the desired 
 results will surely follow. The science of it being 
 that in an ample rainfall country we sometimes have 
 an excessive amount of rain and if the surface rich- 
 ness of the soil were turned under, say from 10 to 
 20 inches in depth, the fall of water would sink it 
 beyond the reach of plant's availability, and so im- 
 
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poverish the plant life of the crop. I know I am 
 right, for I have seen scratching and scraping of 
 the soil give disastrous results, and I have also seen 
 deeper plowing than neecssary do the same in an 
 ample rainfall country. 
 
 Preparing Land for Wheat or Oats, 
 
 The land now being thus prepared, if early in the 
 year and for wheat or oats, can have 300 pounds of 
 a high-grade acid phosphate — analyzing 14 or 16 per 
 cent available acid phosphate drilled in with wheat 
 drill 4 or 5 inches in depth, if heavy, level-lying soil. 
 If on a decided slope and soil is light, easily worked 
 — black sandy or light sandy — 200 pounds of phos- 
 phate per acre is sufficient. As before stated, if this 
 land is being prepared for wheat or oats, it will now 
 be permitted to remain in this condition, with the 
 exception of running the disc over it to destroy 
 weeds and grass, until September, when it should be 
 rebroke, harrowed and smoothed as before described. 
 Drill in same amount of acid phosphate 5 or 6 inches 
 deep, when it is ready for planting of grain the first 
 two weeks in October. When up good and strong, 
 say shoe-top deep all over, light pasturing can begin, 
 and so on, as plants permit throughout the winter, 
 great care being taken to not injure the vitality of 
 plant by too close pasturing. As early as seems safe 
 in February or March, remove all stock and permit 
 of crop growing off and developing its fruit at the 
 earliest possibility of time, and thus mature the 
 same before the severe early summer drouth, which 
 sometimes are in evidence, and cause disease — rust, 
 smut, or an imperfect grain, and which the early 
 
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maturing grain will head off to a great extent in its 
 early maturing. 
 
 Now all small grain will be the better for some 
 manner of cultivation (to break the crust formed on 
 soil by heavy rainstorms in winter and early spring) 
 to conserve the moisture for developing and matur- 
 ing the grain by permitting of the air to permeate 
 the soil through the open and cultivated surface, thus 
 permitting the moisture, and chemicals in air of early 
 morning and all night to enter the thus opened soil 
 by cultivation, and secure a capilliary motion of the 
 underground sub-irrigation of shallow water strata 
 and sand, with the overground effects; also the 
 chemical plant foods of the soil with those of the 
 air, thus keeping the ground in an alluvial, loamy 
 and live condition and affording ample nourishment 
 to the plant, according to its increased demand by 
 its vigorous growth and the heavily putting on of 
 new fruit to be developed and matured into healthy, 
 plump and nutritious grain, which all of this extra 
 and wise attention will greatly enhance and insure. 
 Wheat and Oats Cultivation. 
 
 The most feasible and profitable tool in ray mind 
 for this prupose would be one made as follows: 
 Take a drum, or round log, of say 18 inches in diame- 
 ter, place three rows of harrow teeth, say to project 
 from log 10 inches in length; place rows in serpen- 
 tine-like twist in a gradual motion around log, the 
 teeth to be of three-quarter inch square iron, sharp- 
 ened and placed 12 inches apart in rows and dodged. 
 This will make a complete wheat and oats cultivator 
 and can be rolled over the wheat after heavy rain- 
 storms, that will if left alone tend to form a crust on 
 
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the soil and so work such disastrous results on 
 growing crop. 
 
 Right and Only Proper Way to Prepare Soil. 
 Now there are some old true sayings, as follows: 
 "Be sure you are right and then go ahead." (Davy 
 Crockett.) And another: "There is only way of 
 doing a thing for positive and sure success, and tuat 
 is the right way." And to here make an indellible 
 and lasting impression as to the vital importance of 
 the right and only proper way to prepare the soil 
 for its great work, I will again enforce my argument 
 of following the breaking plow with pulverizer and 
 smoother, in order to get this great work properly 
 done before the soil moistui-e has been dried out of 
 the upturned furrows, which thus being left in a de- 
 cided molded form of square brick-like bodies, sepa- 
 rated from the parent earth and its most needed 
 vital influences of crop-making nutriments contained 
 in the bowels thereof, and when circumstances are 
 favorable will ever work to the surface those ele- 
 ments of plant life so urgently necessary to its vigor- 
 ours, flourishing and most thrifty growth and exist- 
 ence. Now all of this being debarred and greatly 
 hindered by the ignorant and neglectful manner of 
 leaving those upturned and separated bodies of sur- 
 face soil, containing the great stores of rich plant 
 food, to dry, die and lie dormant for an indefinite' 
 period of time, awaiting the expected rainfall to en- 
 able or make possible the pulverizing and preparing 
 of it for the use of plant life, which is often de- 
 layed, to the great loss and disastrous detrimentality 
 of the successful growing of a vigorous, flourishing 
 and healthy crop plant life; and then the tiller of 
 
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the soil, through his ignorance of the nature of the 
 cause of his non-success in producing a desirable 
 yield — though he afforded every manner of proper 
 cultivation afterwards for the growing crop, will con- 
 strue the same to a defective climate, etc. 
 
 Best Harrower and Pulverizer; How Made, Etc. 
 
 Now for the least expensive manner in which to 
 do this, and as a furtherance of this great work of 
 successful farming, I will outline the contrivance of 
 the greatest pulverizing machine or implement I ever 
 saw, viz: Take two pieces of 4x4 timber (good 
 tough, heavy pine will answer all right) of 5-foot 
 length, join together, rafter fashion, at a one-quarter 
 pitch angle, which can be obtained by laying of rse 
 square on the timber with four-inch mark on tongue 
 of square and twelve-inch mark of body of square 
 being even with inside edge of timber; mark the 
 left-hand or tongue side of line; saw and join to- 
 gether as rafters would be; lay the same on a level 
 ground; now secure a piece of 2x4 of same length 
 as the former two pieces of timber will make in 
 width; lay the same just abreast and in front of the 
 angle-like shaped 4x4's; now get some 2x4 bcuff, cut 
 in sufficient lengths to reach from 4 inches abreast 
 of 2x4 in front of 4x4 angle-formed pieces and to the 
 rear of same sufficient to include a 1x12 in. boxing 
 plank at an angle of 4 — IS on tongue and blade of 
 square; now nail on 18-inch piece of 2x4, flat side 
 on, to the 4 — 16 or 18-inch in angle edge end of 
 short 2x4 pieces with angle turned down; get a 1x12 
 box plank, lay along on ground just behind the 4x4 
 pieces; now lay the short 2x4 pieces (four in num- 
 ber) at equal distances across from 2x4 long piece 
 
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in front to 1x12 plank in rear, with angle made hy 
 nailing short 2x4 pieces flat side down to angle of 
 4—16 or 18-inch on edge of 2x4 reaching across with 
 angle turned down and 1x12 tox plank nailed to 
 under side, box plank being just in rear of 4x4's and 
 reaching across to the same width of same. This 
 being done, now bore holes for harrow teeth, 10 
 inches apart, in 4x4's, drive same in with some 8 or 
 10-inch in length of tooth, extending down to soil; 
 the 4-inch surplus ends of crosspieces now being 
 fitted with devise for attachment of team. It is now 
 ready for operation. Two heavy animals, one to 
 each end of pulverizer, have worked it satisfactorily; 
 but a double team can be as readily hitched on, and 
 with ample weight being put on it, is the greatest 
 pulverizer and seed-bed preparing machine, follow- 
 ing the breaking plow and doing the same before 
 moisture has dried out, that could be or ever was 
 invented. The harrow teeth in front catching the 
 separated and upturned furrows before they have 
 been permitted to dry out, tear them to pieces, and 
 the 1x12 or 14-inch box plank just in rear of teeth^ 
 set in split-log drag fashion, of pulverizer and 
 smoother, catches the torn up chunks of moist soil 
 and grinds, pulverizes and smoothes them into the 
 most perfect seed bed form of conserved moisture 
 and liquid plant food easily available and of absorp- 
 tion to seed when planted and to crop plants when 
 ushered into existence; thus affording it the required 
 nourishment that the exhilerating, ideal climate will 
 cause a demand for, and if forthcoming and abun- 
 dantly supplied will cause plant life to reap the full 
 benefit of; as did man, whose increased demand for 
 
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nourishing and flesh producing food was supplied in 
 full and sufficient quantities, without question or 
 dispute. Now I think and fj&el confident that I have 
 made this most vital and important feature plain and 
 easy of comprehension to one and all. 
 
 Now the foregoing preparation of the soil will 
 answer for one and all kinds of crops, with a little 
 special directions for the slightly different manner 
 of the utilizing of same for that purpose. If land is 
 wanted to be planted in other kinds of crops besides 
 small grain and can be prepared the fall before, or 
 even in the winter months, I would advise the same 
 manner of preparation — phosphates and all — and let 
 it lay in that condition until February. 
 
 For Corn. 
 
 If for corn, and the party has riding planter with 
 lister in front, remove lister and replace with an 
 8-inch heavy shovel plow; use planter for phosphates 
 distributer; lay off corn rows with riding planter 
 3 1-2 feet apart; have shovel open furrow of suffi- 
 cient d«pth to permit of planter putting phosphates 
 in from .5 to 7 inches in depth; drill in an additional 
 200 pounds per acre with smoother in action behind 
 covering plows of planter. When done it is now 
 ready for the planting of corn. Place one bushel of 
 seed «orn in a box or tub; pour two tablespoonfuls 
 of coal star over the same; take the end of an old 
 broom handle, stir energetically until every grain 
 has tar over it; sift a double handful of dry ashes 
 into it and stir until tar is well covered and will 
 permit of handling without soiling of hands. This 
 will protect the seed from any possible destruction 
 
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by insects and the raids of birds while coming up. 
 Cultivation Properly Done, Etc. 
 Thin corn to one stalk two feet apart in drill, 
 strictly; cultivate properly, always keeping all storm 
 1\ crusts well pulverized as soon after each rain as 
 ; land will permit until corn is safely made, and keep- 
 ing the furrows in cultivating well covered with 
 .,j loose soil, and so conserve moisture from evapora- 
 I tion. 
 
 Fop Cotton. 
 
 If cotton is to be planted, remove planter and only 
 use the lister, plowing a deep, full furrow every four 
 I feet; keep these elevated beds between furrows 
 smoothed nicely with smoothing implement, but not 
 to leveling down any more than can be ivoided. 
 When done the land is ready for drilling in of phos- 
 phates by planter, with 8-inch shovel as per corn, 
 formerly; only this is now to be done on the ele- 
 vated beds; and planting of cotton begun near the 
 first of April, always keeping smoother behind every 
 upheaval of soil; give cotton one good cultivation 
 with shovel cultivator. I absolutely discard all disc 
 plows for cultivation, owing to their leaving the fur- 
 rows bare and unprotected from too quick evapora- 
 tion of soil moisture. Then with hoe thin to one stalk 
 every 18 inches; cultivate again, always keeping a 
 nice loamy high bed around cotton by plowing a 
 deep furrow with 18 or 20-inch sweep in center of 
 middle, permitting of furrow being well covered with 
 loose soil behind the plow. Now thin cotton with hoe 
 to one stalk in hill, 3 or 3 1-2 feet apart in row; 
 cultivate well, all weeds and grass out, and at all 
 
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times have the soil of a fresh, loose and live appear- 
 ance. 
 
 Cotton Insects; Boll Weevil. 
 
 During the first forty days after plant begins 
 putting on of forms and blooms, if the boll weevil 
 is causing any falling off of same, they should be 
 — strictly — all picked up and burned. Now this is 
 not as big a job as it at first sounds, for any smart 
 little fellow or hand can do it, and go over from 15 
 to 25 acres per day, when cotton is small, taking 
 six or eight rows at a time and get everything clean. 
 In summer if any insect pests of the cotton are in 
 evidence, take of paris green one part, flour one 
 part, and hydrated or slack lime three parts; make 
 two sacks, out of burlap or grain sacks, of 1 1-2 gal- 
 lons capacity; after the above ingredients have been 
 thoroughly stirred and mixed, so as to appear all of 
 one color, fill bags and' tie one to each end of a light, 
 stiff pole or stick (a light quilting frame answers 
 fine). "Early in the morning, w^hen the dew is on the 
 cotton, take the pole in front of you on a horse and 
 ride through the cotton, taking four rows at a time, 
 continually shaking or jarring pole sufficiently to 
 cause the emission of a fog or dust from bags that 
 will gently float over and through the cotton, and 
 remaining on same, will be the means of ridding 
 same of all insects, including that most destructive 
 cotton- plague — the cotton boll weevil; and as this is 
 the first and only effective remedy for that purpose, 
 it is of the highest value to all cotton countries. 
 Demonstration of Test. 
 
 It was fully demonstrated and proven in this coun- 
 try this last season, and kept cotton blooming and 
 
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making until its full quota of bolls were developed 
 and matured, or until frost; and I more fully had 
 demonstrating evidence of its efficacy as a true rem- 
 edy in my own experimental experience by leaving 
 of some cotton in, and adjoining the other that was 
 fully treated. The cotton not treated was practically 
 a failure and had only a very few and scattering 
 bolls, while the other that was treated had a full 
 and abundant quota of bolls; so that this valued 
 moneyed crop now is practically safe and fully pro- 
 tected from all of its many insect pests and ravages 
 that created so much discord, uneasiness, expense, 
 waste and loss, and with my exposition and defining 
 of science and nature and the outlines of my scien- 
 tific but plain and easy to follow instructions, that 
 crop can now be grown and produced as it never has 
 before and could be without this learned knowledge. 
 This same means of making a whole and complete 
 soil will answer for all manner of crops; for all crop 
 plant life, to thrive and grow to the limit of their 
 capacity, require the combination as a whole, and in 
 perfect order, all of the three or four chemical plant 
 foods contained in a whole, complete and well bal- 
 anced and productive soil; and when sufficient moist- 
 ure, proper planting — and in the proper time — 
 proper cultivation and all at proper times to avoid 
 waste of soil moisture and the non-availability of the 
 rich plant foods to properly feed and nourish the 
 plant, are all in evidence. 
 
 Proper Drainage, Etc. 
 The next important feature of making a success 
 of all the above is proper drainage of the crop plant 
 soil. To do that in the least expensive and most suc- 
 
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cessful manner is the purpose of the rules herein 
 ~^iven. Where a body of land has a decided slope or 
 Tall to some one of its many sides, and the same is 
 figlitly determined, a system of ditches sufficient to 
 convey all standing water from and off the soil, is 
 all that is required; hut with a large body of abso- 
 lutely level lying land with -depresisons upon sur- 
 face, the drainage or disposition of the surplus water 
 is indeed quite a serious problem, and one that is a 
 most wonder working puzzle to the owners and 
 prospective inhabitants, who wish to utilize the same. 
 This can be done, however, and the same can 
 be made most valuable agraicultural soil. (For man 
 can drain a level lying land and make it conductive 
 of great possibilities in agriculture and an everlast- 
 ing and durable soil, indestructible by time or tem- 
 perature; but he can not level down and fill in a 
 hilly and washed land and accomplish the same re- 
 sults.) Now where a body of land is very level and 
 flat, a man can by locating the lowest sinks upon 
 its surface and the putting down, by digging and 
 curbing, or boring and curbing — or still again, the 
 driving of pipe-wells to the water sand or strata that 
 most usually can be found and does underlie the 
 surface of those lands, at the shallow depth of only 
 from 8, 10, 12 to 25 or 30 feet, and thus afford a quick, 
 effective and sure system of drainage of those lands, 
 and at a much lower cost than the usual mode Of 
 tiling, etc., heretofore resorted to and practiced, and 
 that was so costly in the performance of as to be 
 altogether impracticable to the ordinary man not of 
 the most liberal means. Now, as a matter of course, 
 those means as a sink drainage will all have to be 
 
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shown the proper and requisite amount of attention, 
 as all systems of drainage do and are shown for the 
 proper keeping in repair and working order their 
 most efficient means of drainage. When first made 
 the bottom and top ends of curbs or pipe should be 
 well protected from the too quick clogging of water 
 sinking propensities by the filling in of coarse sand 
 and particles of soil, by a sufficient screening of 
 same with a very fine meshed article of screen wire, 
 well protected from corosion and decay by painting 
 of same with some good water-proof paint or coal 
 tar, the tar being applied in a boiling condi- 
 tion, when pipe has been driven down to 
 well water, using the customary drive well pipe 
 with point and seive or strainer on end to enter 
 ground. When same has been driven to the water 
 below there should be an 18-inch depth of 3-foot 
 square hole made with top of pipe in center and 
 about ten inches in height from bottom of hole. Now 
 with top of pipe well screened and 2x12 pieces of 
 lumber nicely laid over the 3-foot square hole, the 
 drainage system of that cesspool, slough or mud hole 
 or particular body of flat land is complete, and the 
 land well prepared as per directions afore stated 
 will be the richest and most productive of farm land 
 and the hibernating and producing causes of the 
 fatal charbon and other poisonous and disease bear- 
 ing and annoying insects forever put an end to and 
 exterminated. 
 
 Now this, most valuable cheap and efficient mode 
 of drainage has been open to me for suggestion of 
 successful practice by open demonstration in one 
 instance, by the taking of a trip through old Ken- 
 
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tucky in another. In going through certain portions 
 of that State of certain natural wonders that no other 
 country contains, one will observe great open ex- 
 cavations upon the surface of a part of its country — 
 as though large open and empty surface tanks or 
 ponds, with no possible outlet for water accumulat- 
 ing in those seemingly open receptacles for same, 
 through excessive rainfall or otherwise. My trip was 
 made just at the expiration of an excessive rainfall 
 season in that country. The rivers and all streams 
 were all swollen- to their full capacity of holding 
 their waters within their proper bounds and meet; 
 but not a gallon of water was visible in those open 
 receptacle, tank-like apertures. A profesisonal man 
 boarded the train at some wayside station, and I 
 made it convenient, in the ordinary run of conversa- 
 tion, to learn of this, to me, most mystifying occur- 
 rence, or break in nature, the non-visible appear- 
 ance of any water whatever in these seemingly open 
 and empty tanks or ponds. He explained to me that 
 the water sank through the bottom, and that those 
 open receptacles, with a capacity to hold many, many 
 millions of gallons or barrels of water, and that 
 were not only at all times void of the least appear- 
 ance of same, but were clothed with a most healthy 
 and luxuriant growth of vegetation and plant life, 
 were known to the people of the country as sink 
 holes. Now, there is the whole thing in a nutshell: 
 Those deep, open and empty tanks either extended 
 down to the underground water sands or streams, or 
 to just above some other open-mouthed receptacle, 
 for all the surface water falling in, and so conveyed 
 to them through this non-failing source of same. 
 
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Knowledge is power. Through the attaining of scien- 
 tific knowledge by the inventory genius of our 
 country, and the putting of it in practical form by 
 them, is the cause and support cf our most advanced 
 stage of civilization, and the contriving and produc- 
 tion of so much convenience and comfort as the 
 population of today are enjoying, and without which 
 gold, money or any other separate means v/ould not 
 have and could not have produced. 
 
 Farm Animals; the Horse, Etc. 
 Now all the foregoing, demonstrating how to at- 
 tain a high perfection in all manner of plant life, to 
 the furtherance of man's happiness and prosperity. 
 The next is how to keep, have and grow all of the 
 farm animals, on the success of which man's happi- 
 ness, comfort and prosperity so much depends, and 
 the which my learned exposition and defining of 
 science and nature will portend to the attainment of. 
 The horse is the nearest, in comparison, to man, as 
 the companion and co-laborer in all of life's duties, oc- 
 occupations and callings, of the other farm animals r 
 and hence their greater demand for their master's 
 attention and proper care of, and ofr their health,, 
 comfort and successful existence in any and all parts 
 of the world where man and horse are called upon 
 to inhabit and occupy. Horses' systems, like man's, 
 are greatly influenced by change of climate, and will 
 undergo all of the several and changeable influences 
 of the same that man experiences; but w^ho always 
 hitherto or heretofore was not supposed to do so, 
 hence the disastrous effects and losses of that poor 
 fellow's comfort, and to the wner and master. Take 
 man and set him here, under the great producing 
 
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influences of this lifluid chemical salt atmosphere of 
 the seashore country, of an increased appetite and 
 demand for more concentrated and nourishing food, 
 and furnishing, of, it more abundantly and in a njore 
 generous supply, and keep him most sedulously e^m- 
 ployed in hard grinding down of and life absorbing 
 toils (as the horse is, in many instances, and with- 
 out the increased supply of nourishment and more 
 concentrated foods, such as oats, wheat bran, shorts 
 and good corn in abundant and liberal supply, as 
 his increased vigor and appetite calls for) and give 
 him a meagre ration with small percentage of nour- 
 ishment and nutriment, to satisfy this life sapping 
 increase of appetite, and instead of the happy results 
 now manifested in man in this health giving sea- 
 shore atmosphere we would often witness the disas- 
 trous results in man, alike, as we have in the horse; 
 where if the horse had received nourishment in ac- 
 cordance and as man did the happy results of the 
 invigorating and life giving seashore atmosphere 
 would have been alike in both instances. 
 Effects of Sea Air on the Horse. 
 Those truths have been demonstrated to me in the 
 highest sense of the word and are indisputable facts. 
 But, as will be seen in other parts of this book, I 
 have stated before, through inavoidable causes or 
 reasons the horse may become debilitated and con- 
 tract disease, peculiarly attendant on the acclimat- 
 ing of horses to a strong sea air climate, and the 
 which has at all times proved fatal to animals af- 
 fected; and the locating of which causes, name of 
 sickness and any possible preventive and cure has 
 been so incomprehensible and impossible, even to 
 
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our most learned veterinery surgeons, witti ev^ry 
 facility and means for investigation and experiimen- 
 tal diagnosis, etc., and then admit their utter defeat 
 and inability to fathom th6- mysterious disease "or 
 diseases; for I have had it to attacl? horses in more 
 farms than one; and up to this last year in the early 
 spring, and nearing what has successfully proved 
 the accomplishing and complete finishing of this 
 study of the seashore country's climate, etc, arid of 
 science and nature, and the most complete exposi- 
 tion and defining thereof, has in every instance 
 proved fatal and the complete loss of all animals so 
 aifected. I have already given a part of the cause 
 o fthis trouble in our most faithful friend, the horse, 
 in the foregoing comparison of man and horse, un- 
 der the same conditions of feed and nourishment, 
 under the influence of the liquid chemical salt at- 
 mosphere of the sea; but I will enlarge on it more 
 fully as to its effects with and on the horse. 
 Properties of Salt, Etc. 
 
 Now, as salt has in its dissolved liquid chemical 
 form of sea water, great, permeating, solvency, seda- 
 tive, stimulative and astringent properties, we will 
 see at a glance now that we understand the situa- 
 tion. 
 
 Nervous System, Etc. 
 
 How it reacts on the entire nervous system, and 
 vitality of the horse, and all the animal kingdom. 
 The nervous system of all animal life stands in the 
 same respect to it that steam does to the life of all 
 steam power machinery; the nerve power, or force, 
 of the animal is the means by which every muscle, 
 sinew, tissue, and fibre of the animal's working 
 
force, power and senses; its powerful strength of 
 action, sight, smell, feeling, hearing, tasting, feeding, 
 digestion, and all the working of the interior organs 
 and functions that makes blood, flesh, and all the 
 tissues of the animal's anatomony, brain, reasoning, 
 and thinking faculties. Now take an animal — man 
 or beast — that will, in a high altitude, of thin, lax- 
 itive influences,- on the nerves, be highly nervous, 
 and unstrung, when moving; will do so, with all the 
 increase of speed, and action, and power contained 
 in their physique, if not restrained by some other 
 power or means foreign to their own, until they will 
 actually drop, or be compelled to stop, through com- 
 plete exhaustion of their physical capacity, thus de- 
 noting the unbalanced and weakened condition of 
 the nerve force, of the system; for the want of a 
 sedative, and stimulative tonic — either in feed or 
 diet — or the atmosphere of the climate. Now the 
 converting influence of the sea atmosphere, of so 
 much of their diet of nourishment, for the body, into 
 nerve tonic, that if additional liberal supplies, of 
 nourishment for the physic, are not forthcoming, a 
 perceptible weakness of the same, will be in evi- 
 dence, and a very poor quality of blood, or a debili- 
 tated condition thereof, will ensue; which will lay 
 open the system, for the contraction of diseases, 
 such as great debilitation, fever or blood poison, 
 which in each and every case will prove fatal, if the 
 cause, symptoms, and proper treatment are not 
 known, all of which I am giving in this wonderful 
 exposition and defining of science and nature. 
 Diseases of Horse in Acclimating and Treatment. 
 I will treat this subject in two clauses, for there 
 
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are two distinct and separate sicknesses or diseases 
 of the horse in this category of casualties. Producing 
 cause, first, which is a fever, very weakening and 
 fast producing of great emaciation fatalities, and 
 the death of the animal so affected. When horse or 
 mule is becoming affected with this trouble, they 
 will exhibit great signs of weariness; will be lazy, 
 sluggish, and of very little life, or inclination to 
 move; will lose flesh very fast, and will, at every 
 stop, show an inclination to sleep, and with hanging 
 head and lopped ears appear as thought fast asleep, 
 when the opportunity is afforded in or by way of a 
 stop or halt in their work. They will in the last 
 stages also have no inclination to eat, and will with 
 their feed trough and manger full of feed, directly 
 in front of, and easily available, prefer standing, 
 with head down and ears lopped, sound asleep. Upon 
 the touch of the animal's body by the hand, it is 
 easily discernible that his temperature is high, and 
 has fever. 
 
 Treatment: Put 22 drops of tincture of aconite 
 root into a teaspoon; grasping a firm hold of under 
 jaw with one hand, thrust spoon inside of mouth, 
 and as far back as possible; overturn the same 
 there, leaving all of the medicine on top of back 
 part of tongue, and in the glands of mouth, at the 
 same time releasing hold of jaw. The animal will in 
 a few minutes show some signs of interest, and will 
 most probably commence eating. If done at night, 
 repeat the dose in the morning and next evening. 
 The next morning give dose of blue vitrol, as per for 
 botts; which see, now let animal have ten days or 
 two or three weeks rest, with run of pasture lot. 
 
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Feed well and judiciously, on wheat bran,- oats and 
 corn, as a well balanced ration, three tiems a day, 
 with small portion of some good stock food or pow- 
 ders in feed at night. 
 
 The second trouble of and following acclimating 
 is show up as blood poison, and appears about, over 
 and on some parts, or part, of the animal's anatomy, 
 in swollen places, or lumps, under the skin, in vari- 
 oi|S shapes and sizes. Sometimes the sheath only 
 will be swelled; but more often on some under part 
 of animal; from under jaw, neck, or under belly, 
 maybe inside of hind legs, from hock upwards. This 
 all denotes and is caused by a debilitated condition 
 of the system. The blood being poor and impover- 
 ished, in quality, fails to, and does not, circulate 
 properly through body, to replenish the wear and 
 tear of same and so becomes stagnated about in 
 places, decomposing and breaking through the skin, 
 and causing running sores, of unsightly appearance 
 and foul smelling in odor; the animal all the while 
 eating heartily, or most generally does, but becoming 
 more meaciated in appearance and losing flesh rap- 
 idly. The same treatment as for the preceding 
 trouble will answer for this also — only that two 
 doses of the aconite are required, while the tonic of 
 blue vitrol and soda should be kept up morning and 
 night for two days, and then only at night for a 
 week, or until skin is showing a favorable appear- 
 ance of healing, and becoming sound, and in normal 
 condition. Peed as before, etc. 
 
 All Sores, Etc. 
 
 Now for all rope burns, nail in foot, wounds, wire 
 cuts, etc., and saddle and harness sores, a running 
 
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fistula, or poll evil, I use a tablespoonful of finely 
 pulverized bluestone in four times as much .wa|:er, 
 or less if severe wound, more if only slight, ^^T." 
 Fistula, Etc. 
 
 For fistula, when newly appearing as a lump, on 
 top of horse's wethers, Kendall's Spavin Cure, and 
 another liminent. Silver Pine Healing Oil; each being 
 rubbed on separately and thoroughly, twice daily, 
 until lump disappears; have been successfully used 
 for this trouble, removing same and leaving withers 
 in natural condition and appearance. 
 
 Poll evil and spavin, ditto. 
 
 Charbon, Etc. 
 
 Now there is one disease to be feared, and fenced 
 from, with greatest of particular care and caution; 
 and the prevention of any animal ever being 
 stricken with it is insured; and as the animal only 
 survives the attack of the disease a few minutes, or 
 at the most two hours, there is no remedy. This 
 trouble is known as charbon (pronounced "share- 
 bene" or "sharr bone"), and has in years past had 
 the most particular care, investigation, and diagnosis 
 given it by most learned and scientific medical ex- 
 perts, who discovered the cause to be in the drinking 
 of water from foul, fetid, and almost exhausted, sur- 
 face ponds or pools; over and located in pasture, or 
 range. Through inspection of this thick and fetid 
 water by aid of a most strong and efficient micro- 
 scope it was discovered to contain millions and mill- 
 ions of the most minute specimens of animalcular 
 existence — invisible only through this means — the 
 which, in resemblance, were likened to the split end 
 of a horse hair, or the barbed point of a most minute 
 
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fish hook; from which they derived their name, for 
 in their manner of attack, after animal has drank of 
 the water, they plough — as a share — through every 
 minute recess cf animal's system, blood, bone and 
 flesh, and shortly infect the heart, which is most 
 usually accomplished before animal departs from 
 infected water hole; and if great numbers of ani- 
 mals water at those places, — and are accustomed 
 to doing so — after the water becomes infected, great 
 numbers of them will be found dead and actually 
 heaped up in those receptacles of death-dealing prop- 
 erties. As a matter of course it is plain to see the 
 preventive is most feasible and sure; by the abolish- 
 ing, by using my sink well drainage system, of this 
 most disastrous mode of water supply, and the insti- 
 tuting of a clear, pure and healthful one; while the 
 trouble, atfer attack, has no successful treatment, 
 and such is as impossible as if the animal had been 
 struck with the death-dealing current of a flash of 
 lightning. 
 
 Purposes of This Work and Book. 
 Now it will be seen that those two great causes of 
 disturbance, expense and worry, of not only the 
 people but our Government, have been studied out — 
 charbon in stock and boll weevil in cotton — and in 
 this exposition and defining of science and nature 
 have been elaborately dwelt on, and most success- 
 fully treated, along with other most important and 
 necessary knowledge, and of equally as undefinable 
 subjects, to the people and Government. I have here 
 outlined a course of instructions and knowledge that 
 will now furnish to the people ample and most suffi- 
 cient information to enable them to now build up 
 
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and thoroughly establish for themselves most profit- 
 able, self-sustaining and prosperous, beautiful farm 
 homes in this hitherto most improbable lands of the 
 seashore countries of the world. Government of the 
 countries in which those lands are situated has been 
 throughout the long ages past, and are now, making 
 the most Herculean efforts, by way of employing 
 scientific experts, and the expenditures of millions 
 of money, to this very thing; — not in entirety — but 
 the successful growing of cotton alone, as a profit- 
 able and paying crop, and to which, according to my 
 last information, the success of same is as far from 
 accomplishment as when they began; while my most 
 .successfully completed and finished study of a long, 
 arduous twenty-two years' duration has determined 
 most successsfully all of the assertions herein made, 
 as the most indisputable and unquestionable facts — 
 glorious, comfort, and wealth producing facts. 
 
 Now, I will enter a humane plea for that com- 
 panion, and most faithful friend, to man, of all the 
 animal kingdom — the horse — and give a few well- 
 tried, proven and true remedies for his most prev- 
 alent, pain-producing, and fatal diseases; and these 
 most finished and complete results of my hard oc- 
 cupancy of the inventor's seat for twenty-two years 
 will be brought to a happy finish and close. Trust- 
 ing that good will bless it to the prosperity, comfort 
 and happiness of the millions and millions of people 
 for whom it was invented and gotten up. 
 
 Humane Plea for the Horse and Treatment. 
 
 The horse— that much abused of all the animal 
 kingdom. First, by ignorance: Most people think 
 he is strong as a horse; and their exaggerated views 
 
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of that amount of strength would do credit to a road 
 engine; when in truth the horse in strength and 
 vitality compares with man about twelve or fifteen 
 to one. For instance, take a very strong -medicine, 
 dangerous to give in a large dose, and given too 
 frequently; if twenty-five drops is the limit for the 
 horse, and four hours apart, two drops will be the 
 limit for man, and given the same; and will have 
 equal effects on both. Again they think because he 
 is a horse — an animal — is not man of the animal 
 kingdom? — the quality of the medicine or the way 
 of treatment with it should in no way be compared 
 with man in its purity, cleanliness or quality of 
 drugs, or in the gentle, humane manner in which it 
 is, or should be, administered to the poor, helpless 
 creature, entirely at the mercy of his master — the 
 man; and often he suffers untold miseries, and 
 even death, through this ignorant, brutal manner in 
 treating of him. He is a horse — a brute — they think, 
 when of the two, man is the brute and the horse 
 the humane — and they give him screw worm medi- 
 cine — blueing — indigo — or any old thing; don't stop 
 to think as to its being a proper medicine for in- 
 ternal treatment, or if it would be proper to admin- 
 ister it internally to yourself, only, twelve t^mes 
 less in quantity. No, you are no horse; but, the horse 
 is an animal, as yourself; has same blood, bones, in- 
 sides alike, lungs, liver, heart, stomach, kidneys, 
 intestines, etc.; runs, sees, feels, tastes, and smells; 
 in fact, has every iota of the fine animal make-up 
 as yourself, nerves, brains, reasoning powers, mem- 
 ory, and a fine instinct and intellect. He talk? his 
 language; you talk yours. His fine sense of under- 
 
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standing and smart intellect enables him to learn 
 and understand yours; but many times the man is 
 so dull in intellect he can not learn and understand 
 the- horse in his language. Now, all of this reason- 
 ing I have put forth here is for a purpose, and that 
 purpose is to try to teaeh a more humane and self- 
 reasoning propensity, to always do unto the horse 
 as you would have others dp unto you. When sick 
 give him pure, gentle, clean medicine, and treat- 
 ment; do not pour it down his nose, destroying his 
 fine sense of smell and almost strangling him; ad- 
 minister the same to him in a proper manner. If he 
 will not eat it with his meal at feeding, put it in a 
 bottle, and raising his head and nostrils, elevated 
 sufficiently, empty or pour the medicine gently and 
 slowly in his mouth, giving him time to swallow 
 same without waste or danger of strangling. When 
 driving, riding or working him, when he is showing 
 signs of heat, fatigue, weakness or great weari- 
 ness, in place of pouring the lash or whip to him, 
 keeping him going, or to go faster, thus taxing his 
 strength and vitality, to within an ace of his life 
 (which is the main cause of so many very sluggish 
 and lazy teams today; their natural given strength 
 of vitality, of which in his original nature he was 
 supplied with a large, sufficient quantity, stored for 
 to be drawn from, as his natural vigorous life should 
 require the same; and if treated and used in his 
 work and labor in a reasonable and humane manner, 
 it never fails to do so; and the animal always has 
 good life and vitality; will drive, ride or do his work 
 willingly; start up at command, or move with an 
 increase of speed, with very little urging; while on 
 
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the other hand, if when this store of vitality and 
 endurance is overtaxed, or drawn upon too severely, 
 by overdriving or riding, or kept on tugging away 
 at the heavy load he is drawing, or the heavy plow- 
 ing, when he is almost at the end of his endurance 
 and ready to drop with tireof limb and body, and 
 where if his amster could see and perceive the 
 same, and in a humane and feeling manner would 
 stop the pulling, and load, just a short two minutes, 
 to permit of him to catch up in a short rest, his 
 almost exhausted working powers, his fine store of 
 power and endurance would not be overdrawn, and 
 system overtaxed; and the same good, powerful, 
 quick and willing animal would be preserved for 
 another day's usefulness and many days as good and 
 willing, even to old age; when used inhumanely, and 
 overtaxed, they become unwilling, weak and trifling, 
 lazy, and altogether a very tiresome animal to have 
 to use. when, poor fellow, it is none of his fault; 
 but of the unfeeling one, who used up his store of 
 vitality by imprudent driving of and working him. 
 Be merciful to your team and horse; know that he 
 has feeling, and a limit to his endurance which must 
 be taken careful note of, and be preserved by proper 
 use of the animal while at work. An animal properly 
 used, fed and cared for, seldom ever contracts dis- 
 ease. But sometimes one can not always be in posi- 
 tion to do this; for instance, one may not be at home 
 at feeding time, or he may be in a rush of work, so 
 much so that the horse, as well as himself, is un- 
 usually taxed. At such times he may contract a 
 most quick and fatal sickness. 
 
 The purpose of these remedies and instructions of 
 
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tlie horse and all farm animals is to enable the 
 owner to give the poor fellow relief, and save his life, 
 for further usefulness, as has been done with these 
 treatments in many instances. They are all true 
 and tried; and followed as per -directions, will be 
 effective, to the saving of the animal in every case. 
 Colic; Cause, Symptoms and Treatment. 
 
 This is a very painful, acute, quick-acting sick- 
 ness and relief must be found very quick or fatal 
 results will follow in many instances. It is con- 
 tracted in several ways. If the horse should become 
 immersed bodily in a deep pond while he is warm 
 from work, it is almost a sure producer of the worst 
 form of colic. If drinking too heartily while warm, 
 he will colic. Sometimes overeating produces it. 
 From whatever the cause may be, it must be treated 
 immediately. 
 
 Symptoms. When first stricken the horse will 
 show signs of great uneasiness; will move restlessly 
 .about, knuckling his legs as if about to lie down sev- 
 eral times before he will finally do so. The first 
 few times he will immediately get up on his feet 
 again, only to lie down again; in fact, he all the 
 while shows the greatest nervous excitement, until 
 as the sickness becomes more severe he will lie 
 down and viciously roll, turning his head to his 
 side as if pointing out the place of misery. At this 
 stage swelling of the sides may be noted; if not, 
 will shortly thereafter. To ascertain positively that 
 it is the colic and not the bots, feel of the ears. If 
 they are cold, colic is assuredly the case; if warm, 
 and no swelling is visible, bots may be the trouble. 
 
 Treatment. Put two large tablespoonfuls of tur- 
 
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pentine into a pint of water that has had laundry 
 soap to about the size of one-half of a guinea egg or 
 less shaved and . dissolved in the water; drench 
 through mouth with head elevated by bridle thrown 
 over a limb or beam and drawing up of mouth of 
 sufficient height to keep medicine from wasting from 
 mouth; rub and press the throat to cause swallow- 
 ing. Relief will follow in a few minutes. When it 
 does no further treatment is needed. I have never 
 failed of one treatment being a cure. 
 Bots, Etc. 
 
 This trouble is caused by a short and sectional 
 grub-looking worm (in appearance something like a 
 young wasp still in the home cell of nest and before 
 he begins to take shape), which attacks the wall of 
 the stomach. The cause of which is generally the 
 derangement of the horse's system by sudden 
 change of diet, such as from an ordinary diet of 
 corn or grain and grass to an all-grain feed, which 
 causes gases to form in stomach, which greatly dis- 
 turbs the bot, thus causing same to attack walls of 
 stomach and eat its way through the same, if not 
 prevented by proper treatment. 
 
 Symptoms. Are almost same as in colic, only the 
 ears are warm and the horse not quite so excited in 
 his actions. He will appear sick at first, and lie 
 down as if to rest. After a short time he will begin 
 to roll and reach head around to sides, and probably 
 bite his flanks. There is no swelling of abdomen in 
 bots. 
 
 Treatment. If away from home where medicine 
 is not available or at hand, they can be relieved for 
 the time (and I have done it and they never re- 
 
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turned) by gently and slowly rubbing the animal 
 with hand from and along neck and side back to 
 about half way of body, as if to keep him quiet, 
 mumbling in a low, soothing voice all the while to 
 cause a complete quiet and relaxed condition of 
 nerves and animal. When in exact position to do so 
 (which is about half way between front and back 
 girths, and just under and beneath the sides) sud- 
 denly and with full force bring the knee up against 
 the horse's stomach. Do this on both sides of the 
 horse once or twice to the side. The jar of this sud- 
 den and forceful stroke, given when the horse is 
 perfectly relaxed and not expecting same, so jars 
 the whole system, and especially the stomach, that 
 it completely knocks the bots loose from the walls 
 of the stomach and so relieves the animal very com- 
 pletely. In many instances they do not return, or 
 will not until the next derangement of the horse's 
 system as aforementioned. Wehn they do give the 
 proper medical treatment. 
 
 Treatment. Take a small piece of blue vitrol 
 (bluestone, as most commonly called) about twice 
 or three times the size of a black-eyed pea (or half 
 teaspoonful of finely pulverized) pulverize very fine 
 and put in a strong necked bottle (a beer bottle is 
 proper) ; add two heaping tablespoonfuls of baking 
 soda and one-half or one pint of water, shake well 
 and drench through pouring in mouth. Turn loose 
 and feed well on good grain and grass or clean, nice 
 hay. No other doping or treatment will be needed, 
 or should be permitted, as it sometimes, and in 
 nearly every instance, proves fatal; while this treat- 
 ment has never proven a failure in a single instance 
 
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in the run of thirty-seven years' use, and has saved 
 scores of good animals where certain death would 
 have been the case and was where this treatment 
 was not used. 
 
 Founder or Laminitis. ' 
 
 Causes. Are from long, hard driving, overfeeding 
 of grain or alfalfa or any concentrated feed, or eat- 
 ing when very hungry, or too much water when very 
 thirsty. Feed and water properly and this disease 
 will never appear. I never foundered an animal in 
 my forty-five years' experience of owning, using and 
 dealing in horses and mules, from a $1.50 inferior 
 specimen to a $5000 fine specimen of imported 
 French Coach, Scotch-Clydesdale, Percheron and 
 fancy saddlers. 
 
 Symptoms. Are universally the same, as the mis- 
 ery is almost entirely in the front feet, and if not 
 relieved will continue for balance of life, so becom- 
 ing chronic. I just completed a treatment the last 
 short while that is a crack shot, as proven by par- 
 ties I co-operated with and myself. I purchased a 
 very nice mule with some fourteen months or more 
 standing of chronic founder, and relieved and cured 
 the same, thus making a useful animal out of a most 
 useless creature. When animal is discovered suffer- 
 ing from this trouble he will appear to be in great 
 misery, and be very much drawn in appearance, the 
 seat of the trouble plainly proving to be in his fore- 
 parts, from shoulders down to and including front 
 feet. Animal wil stand as if making all efforts to 
 throw the stress of his weight on his hind feet, and 
 I have seen in very severe cases (and where they 
 had been repeated several times in the same ani- 
 
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mal), the poor animal rise up on his hind feet and 
 paw the air with his front feet in his vain efforts to 
 find relief. 
 
 Treatment. And the only sure and entirely effect- 
 ive one I have ever discovered, or that is in use to- 
 day,' as all treatises on the horse that I have ever 
 seen claim there is no cure for chronic founder: 
 Pick up the front foot of animal, clean out bottom 
 and frog thoroughly; pour spirits of turpentine well 
 over the same, getting it well in all the crevices 
 around the frog. Now, having a sharp knife, make 
 a vertical incision just over the top of hoof (being 
 careful to not touch or injure hoof) on outside and 
 three-quarters of distance back from front of foot, 
 sufficient to permit of the thorough bleeding of the 
 foot. After bleeding apparently enough for complete 
 relief, saturate parts with turpentine. Within a suf- 
 ficient, humane length of time for recuperating from 
 the trouble and treatment, the animal will be found 
 to be all right and ready for active business. 
 AbsceC'3 of the Brain (or Commonly Known as 
 Blind Staggers). 
 
 Causes. Overdriving and work when very warm 
 weather exists, and exposure to a very hot sun, when 
 animal is excessively fat, or when they are being 
 fed exclusively on corn or some very ocncentrated 
 and heat-producing diet. Feed a well-balanced ration 
 of good meadow hay or grass with the grain, be 
 merciful and humane in the use of your stock, and 
 you will never, or rarely so, have a stagger case. 
 (Have never had one of my own keeping.) 
 
 Symptoms. As this affection is entirely of the 
 brain, the seat of sickness can be easily located. It is 
 
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in horse as brain fever is in man. The horse at first 
 will show very plainly he is sick, and as the disease 
 advances will become very restless and appear blind, 
 butting his head against fences, etc.; and if lying 
 down do the same if any objects are in his reach, 
 even slamming his head against the ground with 
 great force (poor fellow!), thus greatly injuring 
 himself in vain efforts to relieve himself of the 
 splitting headache he is enduring, caused by an ex- 
 cessive supply of water on the brain, or corruption. 
 Treatment. Cast horse on ground and secure his 
 feet by tieing hog fashion; lay his head flat on 
 ground; place a 1x12 plank across the neck and 
 head, by which means, with sufficiently enough as- 
 sistance, the animal's head can be held still and 
 quiet while one can shave the hair from directly 
 over the brain (which lies upward from a line drawn 
 across the head just above the hollow sink over eyes 
 of animal) ; place a poultice of cantherides (or fly 
 blister) made by spreading same on heavy wrap- 
 ping paper and sufficiently large to cover the brain; 
 place this poultice nakedly, or without any covering 
 between same and the skin, directly over the same, 
 pressing well on with hand; bandage to avoid being 
 displaced; allow to remain for two or three hours, 
 or until animal appears to be relieved; remove 
 poultice, and when blister develops clip and dress 
 with cotton batting; give twenty drops of tincture 
 of aconite root to allay any fever the animal may 
 have; have a good stock food, such as Hess, Arabian 
 or International; give in his feed as per directions 
 on package. 
 
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Distemper. 
 
 Causes. This disease of the horse is like aggra- 
 vated catarrh in man, and is brought on from the 
 taking of severe cold, which, when neglected in both, 
 runs into distemper in one and catarrh in the other, 
 which when neglected runs into glanders in one and 
 consumption in the other. 
 
 Symptoms. Are a dejected appearance of animal; 
 staring, rough-looking coat; very dull and stupid; 
 often with thick, heavy breathing, and occasionally 
 a slight cough. 
 
 Treatment. Take pine tar and pour a small quan- 
 tity of it on a handful of feathers in an old can or 
 pot, place a covering over the animal's head, includ- 
 ing the can under the animal's nose, having emptied 
 a shovel full of live embers in same; smoke well 
 and good for several minutes; then exercise him by 
 fast riding a short distance, so as to bring on cough- 
 ing, which will open and loosen up the head, and 
 cause the excessive running of the nose. This done, 
 feed stock powders as per directions on package. 
 Glanders. 
 
 Cause. Chronic distemper or cold, w^ith poor care 
 and improper treatment. 
 
 Symptoms. The animal has a continual flow at 
 times of an ugly discolored corruption from nostrils, 
 though of no particular or perceptible odor or smell 
 (as a slouchy urchin with a bad cold and a dirty 
 nose). His general appearance is very dejected, with 
 rough staring coat, and animal is in poor, emaciated 
 condition, as a person in the midst of a case of gal- 
 loping consumption. 
 
 Treatment. It is claimed there is no effective 
 
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treatment for this awful disease, but I am of the 
 belief that if the animal is very particularly and 
 strictly kept at least three hundred yards away from 
 other stock, to avoid the most sure and possible con- 
 tagion that exists in this disease, placed in a build- 
 ing and lot that distance at least away and given a, 
 chance for his life, with the following treatment, 
 there is a possibility of recovery; with the addition 
 of rich, nourishing food, such as oats, sliorts and 
 wheat bran, and some good corn and hay, with about 
 a pound and half of cotton seed meal every day dis- 
 tributed over his feed, and the following tonic, viz: 
 Four (4) ounces of white vitriol (shake) and six (6) 
 ounces o f powder digitalis in three quarts of water; 
 tablespoonful doses three times a day for six daps, 
 thence twice a day until relieved, will effect a cure. 
 It would do no harm to try, any way, under the 
 above very particular conditions given above. Every 
 precaution should be taken against contagion by 
 burning every particle of litter about his premises as 
 they accumulate, and the walls and fences disin- 
 fected regularly with crude carbolic acid. 
 Lung Fever and Pneumonia. 
 Causes. Sudden change from very warm to cold 
 (and very cold), accompanied with slow drizzle of 
 rain. If a horse is exposed in such, with a rundown 
 condition of health, or if very warm from fast ex- 
 ercise, he is a fit subje-ct, and very many cases are 
 contracted in this way ; myself having owned several, 
 and the leading up to my learning of and the ac- 
 quiring this treatment, was the loss of a fine im- 
 ported Clyde horse that contracted, developed and 
 died, en route from Enterprise, Kan., to Bryan, 
 
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Texas. He dropped dead in car in yards at Fort 
 Worth as I was switched onto the railroad home 
 track. This loss was the cause of my studying up 
 and getting onto this crack-shot and sure treatment; 
 since which time, though having several of my own 
 and having treated some of my neighbors', free and 
 as a friend, I have never failed in a single instance 
 except one; and she was a suckler, in the last stage 
 of the disease, and had been bled very freely just 
 before (after which there is no earthly chance of 
 saving their life) ; for the ravages of the disease, 
 when permitted to run until the last stage has been 
 reached (as this case had) are so weakening, and 
 with the addition of the loss of vitality by bleeding, 
 they are left in so weak a condition that, without 
 the very best of nursing, care and nourishments, 
 they can not recuperate sufficient to save them. 
 
 Symptoms. When first taken they show signs of 
 a slight chill and will occasionally cough in a some- 
 what distressing manner, though short. In the next 
 stage they will appear very disinterested and lie 
 around, apparently real sick, but exhibiting no sign 
 of any particular pain, or misery, in any especial 
 part. This is the second stage, and the only time of 
 the disease when they show any inclination to lie 
 down. After the third and last stage has been 
 reached, the animal's jaws become locked, and their 
 whole system becomes very tense and rigid. The 
 animal will move about as if very stiff, with its 
 mouth elevated and head and neck extended; and 
 when standing, will have fore feet slightly spraddled 
 apart and placed somewhat forward, his whole ap- 
 pearance indicating the greatest pain and suffering. 
 
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He is also in a very high, hot fever, and if speedy 
 relief is not forthcoming, will not live many hours, 
 most usually dropping dead, as I never heard of one 
 lying down to die (unless the disease was broken 
 and too weak to stand, as in case where was bled) ; 
 and I have known of several cases belonging to 
 people who could find no relief for them and who 
 didn't know at the time of my treatment. 
 
 Treatment. If discovered in the first stage, one 
 ■dose is sufficient of each of the medicines, after 
 which give stock food in their feed twice for two 
 days and once a day for a week, and in occasional 
 feed through the week. When the second and third 
 stages have been reached, place animal in comfort- 
 able and roomy quarters, free from all draughts and 
 exposure, and give twenty drops of tincture of accon- 
 ite root by securing tongue with one hand and the 
 medicine being in a teaspoon (no water), shove 
 same in mouth as far back on top of tongue as pos- 
 sible, turn spoon over, leaving acconite all in mouth; 
 keeping animal blanketed all the while to induce a 
 sweat. Now leave him to himself for four hours, 
 when return and repeat treatment as before. If 
 necessary, i. e., if aniaml is not revived, give four 
 doses in this way (particularly, only four, strictly) — 
 no more, and no nearer than four hours together. In 
 a real severe case can give twenty-five drops, the 
 outside limit of dose to be safe. I was eye-witness 
 at one time to the treatment of a case in last stage, 
 by a careless party, who either didn't know the na- 
 ture of the medicine, or did not care; and who, 
 though I repeatedly warned him of the danger of not 
 observing those rules, persistently gave two strong 
 
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dosee, and although the first dose broke the disease, 
 and the horse would have recovered in good shape, 
 the inhumane or ignorant fellow poisoned him, and 
 the horse taking a circle, when let loose in barn lot, 
 kept the same until he dropped dead. While there 
 is no danger if my instructions are adhered to (for 
 I have taken the same in three drops at a dose my- 
 self and use it in my family for fever in two-drop 
 doses and proves to be the very best of remedies 
 for the same, four hours or six hours apart, and not 
 more than four doses in one case), yet if deviated 
 from there are death-dealing properties in it. Now 
 in the ten or twelve hours after horse has taken last 
 dose of acconite give the dose of medicine as pre- 
 scribed herein for bots. Feed well and good, and 
 your animal will be of as much use to you after- 
 wards as he ever was. 
 
 As my exposition of science and nature would have 
 been very incomplete, as a means of building up a 
 successful, profitable and prosperous farm home, 
 without this attained and useful knowledge of the 
 horse and his ailments, and the tried, proven and 
 true remedies, derived from a long experience in 
 owning and handling farm stock, and my great love 
 for the horse and desire to always be able to relieve 
 his pain and preserve his most useful life, I am in- 
 deed thankful and proud to be able to furnish the 
 precious knowledge, so valuable to man and beast 
 alike. In the completing of the Formula of Knowl- 
 edge and Instructions, for all of that purpose, for the 
 people of the whole world, a separate and a few 
 words will not be out of place and must be in evi- 
 
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dence to make this complete for the other kinds of 
 farm animals, poultry, etc. 
 
 The cow is a very hearty, and free from disease, 
 animal. In their natural state, and only supplied 
 with food as nature produces it, by way of the nat- 
 ural grasses of the open range; and during the time 
 of year, when those grasses have and contain their 
 full nutriment, keep in the pink of condition, if no 
 other feed is given (and if man would bestir him- 
 self just a little in the fall of the year, with mower, 
 etc., and with the required amount of those grasses 
 fenced off, and protected as a hay meadow, and cut 
 and stack up in feed racks, easily made and con- 
 structed, as follows: Set three stout posts in ground, 
 atout five foot high; securely fasten a 15-foot pole, 
 or 6x8 timber, along the top of posts; now dig a 
 trench of 12 inches in depth, about five or six feet 
 from posts on each side, and of same length as tim- 
 ber or ridge pole on top of posts. Now take poles 
 of 12 or 14 feet in length, and placing the lower end 
 in the trench, lean the pole against the ridge pole or 
 timber, along the top of posts, placing one in position, 
 first on one side and then the other, thus dodging 
 the same, and forming a complete receptacle above 
 the ridge pole, with ample capacity of retaining a 
 large amount of the ready mown and cured grass, 
 that if securely packed in the same, and rounded up 
 nicely, or comb-like, , in order to successfully and 
 properly shed the rains; will keep and retain its 
 nutriment and life sustaining properties, all during 
 the winter, when the dead grasses on the open range 
 are void of all nutriment, and life sustaining prop- 
 erties; and wiien the cows in great numbers depend- 
 
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ing on same for food, get in a very poor and low 
 condition of vitality, and many die of actual starva- 
 tion; thus perpetrating great losses, to the owners; 
 and much, most manifest, suffering among the poor, 
 dependent farm animals, who if the above simple 
 and easy and cheap rules were observed, they would 
 have ample provision made for their comfort and 
 support through the hard, trying wintry season, and 
 at very nominal and low cost. Another still cbeaper 
 and more available method of thus preserving this 
 food, grown and provided by nature, is to sink the 
 end of a 14 or 16-foot pole two feet in the earth, 
 securely tamping and making firm the same, and 
 erecting the same in a perfect vertical form; now 
 the mown and cured grass can be raked and by 
 means of the great sweep rake, or drag, conveyed in 
 great quantities to the perpendicularly erected pole, 
 and firmly packed in a semi-circle around the same, 
 to the width of from 10 to 14 feet in diameter at the 
 base and gradually sloping up to a point at the top 
 of pole, thus making it self-preserving from effects 
 of falling weather. Now^ when the nutritious food 
 supply is no longer available on the open range, the 
 cow can be afforded free access to this stored sup- 
 ply of feed, and wall liberally attend to her own 
 wants, thus preserving life and comfort, to such^ a 
 degree that they will unmistakably keep and be in 
 good condition the winter through, a conserved cap- 
 ital, and a source of profit to their owners), w^hile if 
 the cow is kept and used, fed and utilized for dairy 
 purposes, they are sometimes, through overeating of 
 highly concentrated and strong foods, subject to at- 
 tacks of indigestion that culminate in disastrous and 
 
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fatal results. When such is evident, a judicious use 
 of either or any of the many proven successful med- 
 ical and tonical stock powders or food now manufac- 
 tured and on the market, will effect a complete cure, 
 and restoration of the animal. If the animal is so 
 badly affected that they will not eat same mixed with 
 their feed, it can be used as a drench in water and 
 poured into their mouths and thus administered in a 
 successful manner until such time as they will eat 
 the same mixed with their food. The author has 
 never seen a failure of this proving most satisfac- 
 tory, while without it many valuable animals have 
 been lost. Hogs the same. The author has in his 
 experience in the past, when stock powders were iioi 
 available, taken one-half ounce (tablespoonful) of 
 aloes and the same of flour of sulphur, as a dose, 
 administered to suffering cows, with the desired re- 
 sults, preserving and completely relieving and re- 
 storing the cow so affected. Now all farm animals, 
 poultry, etc., are subject to an inactive and dormant 
 system, and liver, through overeating, indigestion, 
 and the want of plenty of pure drinking water, al- 
 ways easy of access to one and all; a little attention 
 given by way of tonical stock powders mixed in 
 their feed occasionally, and plenty of pure drinking 
 water, easy of access at any and all times, and an 
 ample supply of wholesome food, will insure and 
 guarantee to the farmer at all times a well grown, 
 healthy, fat, and of the finest quality of their partic- 
 ular kind of farm animal or poultry. This has all 
 been witnessed, tried, and proven, by the author, 
 who now is giving it to the people of all the world, 
 as a sure means of success, in all of those lines of 
 
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agriculture, and the maintaining of a beautiful, self- 
 sustaining, profitable and prosperous farm home, 
 surrounded by successfully grown crops, and beauti- 
 ful, fat and thrifty farm animals, and poultry of all 
 kinds, which all go to the supplying and furnishing 
 to man all the comforts and luxuries of the civilized 
 world, or civilization. 
 
 The magnanimous purpose of the arduous and 
 deep study of science and nature by the inventor 
 and author, and thus solving of many of the hard 
 problems of life that stood out as gigantic and seem- 
 ingly insurmountable obstacles in the way of man's 
 comfort and happy existence, is most manifest to 
 be to the greatest furtherance and advancement of 
 all agricultural pursuits, to the means of the people 
 being made self-sustaining and prosperous; self- 
 asserting, loyal and independent, high-spirited 
 specimens of noble citizenship of the country of their 
 homes; by his removing of those obstacles that made 
 the occupation of farming very unprofitable and al- 
 together undesirable, and unattractive, to the young 
 bloods, of noble sires, and ancestry, who no sooner 
 than the opportunity, afforded by age, etc., are only 
 too much elated to avail themselves of the same, 
 and so rid themselves of the hitherto proven un- 
 remunerative business, with its life-sapping, unrelent- 
 ing toil and duties, in trying to subdue and make 
 produce the hard, obdurate soil; and the coping with 
 the many other — ^impossible of results — of the farm 
 life, heretofore, in many instances, and more espe- 
 cially in the heavy, strong, incomplete soils of our 
 rich prairie lands; and with eyes set on what to 
 them appears as a bright, alluring and dazzling 
 
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■beacon of future prosperity, in wait for them in the 
 large cities, with their gliter of great wealth, riches, 
 and grandeur; of promised ease, luxury, and pleas- 
 ures; hie themselves hither, with all haste; only to, 
 — when they arrive, — find themselves engulfed in a 
 confusing maelstrom mass of seething, working, and 
 ever moving humanity, mystifying, and addling, in 
 the extreme, to the newly arrived seekers of this 
 world's comJorts, and happiness; and who now for 
 the first time in their lives most fully realize their 
 real littleness, and possible insignificance, in this 
 great world of business rush and progress; and who 
 often in their restrospective moods wish they wer>S 
 out of, and again enjoying the freedom of nature, 
 with its health-giving, pure atmosphere, and great 
 roomy surroundings, where they could feel with 
 great satisfaction and triumph, as though they were 
 indeed the true lords of creation; but who upon re- 
 flection of the impossibility, of the real hard side of 
 life from which they have just emerged, still stay 
 on, to many destructive results, of both soul and 
 body; while many of those high born, and of noble 
 strain, are compelled to lower their well merited 
 dignity to the menial occupations of sawyers of 
 wood and drawers of water, and such servitude as 
 their more fortunate brother of money demands of 
 them. Oh! sad, sad, it is, indeed. And in high hopes 
 of his most persistent and persevering efforts, at re- 
 sults; of being the means of making home farm life 
 the most productive of self-sustaining, happy, and 
 easily profitable and prosperous results; the which 
 will most assuredly, and without any shadow of a 
 doubt, make the occupation of farming now, as a 
 
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]]usiness proposition, a most popular, much sought 
 for, and with such highly attractive features as a 
 comfortable and lucrative position, will turn the tide 
 of immigration back from farm to city, to from city 
 to farm; and so, not only redeem the lost dignity 
 of nobility driven from the farm by inavoidable ad- 
 versity, but also bring others into it who have as yet 
 not enjoyed the freedom and great exultancy and 
 independence of successful farm life and business. 
 Oh, the great glory of such a triumph! When I con- 
 template the immensity of it, in the making of so 
 many multitudes of the people, in all parts of the 
 v/orld. self-sustaining, independent, noble and happy; 
 and of the ability of it to preserve the credit and 
 build up the wealth and prosperity of all nations, I 
 feel like self-exultation with great pride and elation 
 over the knowing that this work of knowledge will 
 contain correct and only accurate knowledge of cli- 
 mates and soils, their true effects on all animal and 
 plant life, both for beneficial and injurious purposes; 
 with its true exposition and defining of science and 
 nature, man can now understand his own, and all 
 animal nature, soils, and all farm crop plant life na- 
 ture; the true nature and causes of the invasion and 
 destructiveness of life and crops, by disease and 
 insects, and sure preventives and effective remedies; 
 cheap, sure and effective plans of drainage for the 
 msot difficult of lands; to the extermination and 
 complete and entire stamuping out of most annoying 
 and disease-producing insects; and that sure, quick, 
 death-dealing trouble, Charbon; and make those 
 lands the most productive and richest of farm crop 
 lands; and many other god things that will now 
 
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easily make all agriculture, as a business, the most 
 successful and profitable of all others; I feel that I 
 have accomplished a great life work, and am fully 
 aware that as an inventor I have fully done my part 
 well. 
 
 "Knowledge is power." The three words in our 
 language that prove the truth of their meaning with 
 more forcefulness of character and effectiveness than 
 all others. Let us define the situation by just one 
 small, but heart-rending, illustration, if we were eye- 
 witnesses of it in reality: Behold that most loving, 
 protecting and affectionate father, immensely rich 
 in money, lands and property. There hovering 
 over and around his sweet, l(fVable, angelic disposi- 
 tioned little daughter, just sixteen years of age, a 
 known to be fatal and quick dealing death disease, 
 fastening its fearful, and suffering producing 
 clutches, daily closer and closer, — with plainly visi- 
 ble disastrous effects, — ^around this muchly beloved 
 being's vitals; the parent's heart is torn and bleeding 
 with the knowing and witnessing of the same. He 
 is making every effort that money and influence can 
 produce, by way of travel, and attention, — of his 
 own, and the most renowned and eminent medical 
 skill for her rescue from those dealth dealing 
 clutches, and the restoration of her to his arms, 
 saved and health. Oh, the life-sapping torture of 
 such anguish! I have seen it in fathers before now. 
 Let a person possessed with the requisite knowledge 
 of such diseases come in; at a glance he takes in 
 the whole situation; knows the cause, sees the un- 
 failing symptoms; prescribes what he is fully aware 
 will go directly to the seat of the trouble. With un- 
 
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failing accuracy it works its power upon the enemy, 
 and slowly, but most assuredly, it unwinds those 
 death dealing clutches from about and around the 
 life of this beautiful being; and she is restored in 
 all of her usual health and loveliness to her now most 
 rejoiced and relieved father, saved! Save through 
 knowledge, which without any inordinary efforts, 
 more than just making use of the simple remedies 
 that knowledge had revealed to him, — through the 
 study of the same — would reach the seat of the 
 trouble, and react upon it, to the healing and restora- 
 tion of the patient. Oh, great is knowledge! In the 
 gaining of this knowledge, that will now make it 
 possible for every man in all parts of the world to 
 become a self-sustaining, independent citizen, a 
 credit to his country, and the possessor of, and owner 
 of, a happy household, a prosperous, profitable farm 
 home. I have procured the requisite knowledge; the 
 world contains the land, and in abundance; you have 
 the money. Now by the wise use of this money in 
 procuring, printing and putting in possesion of those 
 people this knowledge, and through wise systems of 
 agencies and proper management, you can act the 
 good Samaritan, and at the same time derive great 
 gain therefrom for self. We have the feast prepared. 
 Do not call on the rich and well-to-do; but go ye 
 out into the highways and bring in the poor and 
 needy that will attend; and so shall my banquet have 
 the required attendance. Where are those public 
 highways? Where is the poor father with large fam- 
 ily and of brawn and muscle, who in his old home 
 in foreign lands, which crowded with greater popula- 
 tion than land to support? The poor, hard-working, 
 
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energetic and industrious, and for the most, intelli- 
 gent people, save and skimp on every point, until 
 thinking enough has been hoarded up to convey 
 them to the new countrq, of broad acres, and such 
 great possibilities and opportunities, sets foot on 
 these shores, landing, most generally, in some large 
 city with altogether different surroundings to his 
 expectations; confused, and not anything being in- 
 telligible to him, he knows not which way to turn, 
 or do, for the accomplishing of what he left home 
 to do, and gain, and most usually lodges there, and 
 remains, for lack of the knowledge and means to 
 better his condition, often becoming in want, and 
 suffering the effects of the most squalid poverty, and 
 becoming a poor, cringing object of beggary and de- 
 pendent on the dispensing to him the daily crust 
 by the many charitable institution? of those large 
 cities; barely, and — just being enabled to do so — 
 keeping soul and body together; in his want of a 
 shelter and clothing, wanders thes treets, vagabond- 
 like. They are there in thousands, and tens of thou- 
 sands; a living and crying shame, and disgrace to 
 any country, comm-onwealth, or nation, in whose ter- 
 ritory they may be found. 
 
 Now, fellow citizens, with the land, and the money, 
 and this complete form of knowledge as to how to 
 make profitable and prosperous farm homes, it is 
 on your shoulders; it only remains for you to decide 
 those unfortuntae fellow-men's fate. Shall they now, 
 with all of this great feast of prepared facilities, as 
 a banquet, be gathered and brought in as per com- 
 mand; and be permitted to partake bountifully 
 thereof, and so be enabled by their industry to make 
 
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useful, self-sustaining citizens, helping to build up 
 the wealth and prosperity of the country in which 
 they are, and of which they are citizens, — as much 
 so as you or I; or shall they be permitted to remain 
 and thus have to continue time without end, a living 
 toucry of shame against the country on whose 
 shores they are thus found; when now all those lands 
 of possible and positive agriculture, will be crying 
 out in their desolation and want of this very class 
 of brawn and sinev/, and in their need of just such 
 labor; which when produced, and rightly placed 
 thereon; will bloom out, in the most bountiful yields, 
 of all the great crops of nutriment and sustenance 
 to anim.al and man? 
 
 To impress the subject of charbon more fully, 
 will say again to sink a well or pipe in the center of 
 every water hole or sink on the land and there will 
 never be no accumulation of water in the same to 
 stand and breed charbon parasites and other disease- 
 creating poisonous insects. Lower the top of pipe 
 or well curb below surface of bottom of pond by 
 digging a square three-foot hole 18 inches deep, and 
 allow top of pipe to be 10 inches up from bottom of 
 hole. Now screen securely the top of each pipe or 
 curb and lay neatly over the hole pieces of 2x12 
 lumber as a cover for protection of stock and from 
 drifting soil and sand. 
 
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INDEX 
 
 Farming in Texas 3 
 
 What Its Contents Will Do 3 
 
 An Inventor's Life 4 
 
 Author an Inventor; What His Exposition on 
 
 f Science and Nature Will Do 4 
 
 Human Systems 6 
 
 Effects of Sea Breeze 6 
 
 [Malarial Poison When Going to Seashore 7 
 
 A Heaven on Earth .* 7 
 
 Salt; Its Effects 8 
 
 Its Properties as a Chemical, Medicine and Food. 8 
 
 As an Enrichening Substance of the Soil 9 
 
 Man and Animals' Source of Nourishment 9 
 
 Food of Plant Life; How Derived and Received.. 10 
 Best Condition of Soil in Furnishing Abundant 
 
 Nourishment 10 
 
 Chemical Analysis 14 
 
 To Ascertain Rich, Productive Soils, etc 15 
 
 Sea Air Influence on Soil 16 
 
 Correcting the Defect in Coast Soils 16 
 
 Preparing the Soil, etc 17 
 
 Deep Plowing in Arid Regions 18 
 
 Plowing in Rainfall Country 18 
 
 Preparing Land for Wheat or Oats 19 
 
 Wheat and Oats Cultivation 20 
 
 Right and Only Proper Way to Prepare Soil 21 
 
 Best narrower and Pulverizer; How Made, etc... 22 
 
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For Corn 24 
 
 Cultivation Properly Done 25 
 
 For Cotton 25 
 
 Cotton Insects ; Boll Weevil 26 
 
 Demonstration of Test 26 
 
 Proper Drainage, etc 27 
 
 Farm Animals; The Horse, etc 31 
 
 Effects of Sea Air on the Horse 32 
 
 Properties of Salt, etc 33 
 
 Nervous System, etc 33 
 
 Diseases of Horse in Acclimating and Treatment. 34 
 
 All Sores, etc 36 
 
 Fistula, etc 37 
 
 Charbon, etc 37 
 
 Purposes of this Work and Book 38 
 
 Humane Plea for the Horse and Treatment 39 
 
 Colic; Cause, Symptoms and Treatment 43 
 
 Bots, etc 44 
 
 Founder or Laminitis 46 
 
 Abscess of the Brain (Commonly Known as 
 
 Blind Staggers) 47 
 
 Distemper 49 
 
 Glanders i9 
 
 Lung Fever and Pneumonia 50 
 
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