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324&#93; 3 2 + j FOR The parts affected maybe rubbed with either of these compositions ; unless the distemper has become incurable ; bur, in the opinion of Mr. Arthur Young (from the 21st vol. of whose Annals we have abstracted these recipes), the red salve of Mr. Culley, is more effi- cacious than Mr. Bake well's li- quid, having cured one or two diseased feet, where the latter had failed*- yet Mr. Y. always employs the liquid, previously to aaointing the animals with the salve. This malady, in general, arises from long grass in wet seasons ; but, if sheep be suffered to lie upon their own dung, a fermenta- tion will take place, and occasion cither the foot-rot, or the foot- h al 't : to prevent which fatal disorders, those animals should be well lit- tered, and kept with a strict at- tention to cleanliness. FORCING, in horticulture, is the art of producing ripe, fruits from trees, before their natural season. Although by no means inclined to encourage, this artificial practice, as fruit thus raised is neither sa- voury nor wholesome, yet we shall insert th-> method gt nerally adopt- ed to effect that purpose, for the gratification of the curious, more than for its real utility. A wall should be erected 10 feet in height ; a border marked out on its south-side, about A feet wide ; and stakes fattened into the ground along the edge of the border, at the ince of 4 inches, 'i hese are intended for the support of the lights (or, with less expeni i, frames covered with tper), w i'!. ire to be placed in a sloping ■ ion towards the frail, to shel- ■ quire : at each < nd, a d FOP. so constructed that it may be open- ed either war, according to the course of the wind. The frame ought to be moveable ; because, after a tree has been covered one the fanner should be removed to .mother; observing that each fruit-tree be forced only once in three, years: by this arrangement, the}' will be more durable and pro- ductive. Previously to applying the dung to the wall, it should be thrown together in a heap, for live or six. days, that it may thoroughly fer- ment; thus prepared, it ought to be laid four feet thick at the base of the wall; and continued upward* in a sloping direction, till it is about two feet in thickness, within a few inches from the top of the wall ; but, as it sinks, more dung should be added, for the first heat will only swell the blossom-buds. The proper season for laying it, is about the latter end of November; and, for ripening cherries, three changes of dung will be sufficient to pro- duce very fine fruit in the month ot February. — This method of forc- ing, however, being often very ex- pensive and troublesome, tanner s- ivaste is now almost universally employed for producing artificial h<;.;. by enclosing ii to the depth of three or four feet, within the walls of a hot-house. 1- illy and late ripening fruits should hever be placed together; b< c tuse the requisite degree of heat for forcing the latter, would be very prejudicial to the former, after they have produced fruit. Glass, -■.•oiled paper fran able scrvi< bul tiny noved, to vHiui' ; showers j and the doors at the ends maj, in warm ■. either be Jefi en- tirely