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 THs is a formidable and fatal disease of cattle, mostly confined to the western states, its cause hitherto considered unknown, and medical treatment almost useless. In the October no. of the Tenn. Agricuturist, we find the following, which is deserving of con- sdcfation from the fact that the disease appears, so fir us we have learned, only where cattle have been fed on stalks, or where that is almost their only food, as in the vest Cattle fed on cortsiaiks cut in straw cut ter, do not suffer in this way.

 ssGENrLEMEN-l know of but one remc- dy for the mad itch, and that Is surgical.- Open the second stomach and extract the corns!alks. This fatal disease among cattle is produced by cornsinlks. The flores being indigestible, haug in the manifold or duodc- n,tlt, and irfliate and iallame until the poor animal is driven 10 madness. Farmers feed their hogs upon green corn; the cattle fol- low and pick up the stalk chewed fine by the hogs, which by superior sagacity he spits out, and this ready made article does all the mischief, and so il would serve the hogs ol horses if they were to swallow 1t. Separate your cattle from your hogs in cornstalk chew ing tiale, and you will separate your cattle from the mad itch. An ounce of prevention is worth pound of cure. Farmer, this Is the remedy.-A BELIEVER IN PRoRER REM EplEs.o The Cultirator.