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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1765, 16 October 1879, Page 4

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A physician recommends rubbing horses in fly time with strong carbolic soap, and afterwards brushing them well before harnessing. A French veterinary surgeon, to prevent the attacks of flies about the ears of horses, advises painting the inside of the ears, or any other part especially troubled, with a few drops of empyreumatic oil or juniper. The odor is said to be unendurable to flies, and that they will keep at a distance from the parte so treated. Drivers will do well to make a note of it. That clover should be cut during the early flowering of the plant will be seen by the following quotation from Wolff, the wellknown German chemist, who says—“Ked clover cut when it begins to flower, contains 54.43 per cent, of nutritive food; if cut in full flower it contains 4G.07 per cent,” The manure of cows and pigs resist decomposition for a longer time than that of the sheep and horse —both the latter being dryer than the former and decomposing more readily in the soil. French feeders, it is said, find that feeding the fowls with boiled or steamed carrots, chopped into small pieces, rapidly fattens them and imparts an agreeable flavor to the flesh, greatly relished by epicures, and that jowls thus fed sell more rapidly than others,