Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1829-10-01
nv FLETCHER & TOLER.

NibIs ~ iHt iluiitsi AiUlt VI IN tCdf, DV wnIC
practice | have known many OF hem take IN.
lock,jaw aud die others have been loundere,
by only washing their legs and feet il stop
all persPiraiion and produces violent fevers. n,
gentleman in England will permit his horses I,
he washed the horse is not a water animal; h,
wants the particular fostering hand of care
when placed in a domestic state.
Another bad practice prevails the grain i,
thrown into the manger without sitting. and
sand or gravel beng heavier than the grain. il
will settle down on the stomach of the horse
A few years past | brought a stone from a horse
which was believed TO have been formed by thus
feeding, | placed the stone in Peale's Museum :
it is rs large as a goose egg, and cased round
like a cocoa nut she'll.
| would suggest a better plan for building
stables than that in use at present. All stables
should be ventilated, so as TO admit a constant
circulation of fresh air, without which horses
are continually breathing on their lungs foul
| putrid mattar. No stalls should be less than
five feet wide, as The horse, like man, wants 10
stretch himself when lying down 10 rest MANY
horses have died in the night By being confined
in narrow sails, aud being tied with a rope
round their necks. All horses should have head
tall halters, with a rein on each side, that
should run up aad down with blocks in pulleys.
On each side Of the stall. The hangers .hould
draw in and out, like a drawer in II bureau or
disk by being thus fixed as | have described,
the horse will rise with ease but, on the old
plan the horse, by struggling 10 rise often gets
his head under the manger, aud is found dead
IN the morning. The hay racks should be
placed in front oil the stalls, and net en- the
side.
Any gentleman wanting farther information
on the subject, can fad me at AZ Leonard
street Few men have had The opportunity to
observe the evils that have occurred by the bad
MA lagemeni of horses, and very few have doc
tored SO many as IN, self. presume none Of
my fellow citizens will doubt, but | have nc
CURED some Knowledge of the structure and
economy of the nor e, after fifty years extern
sive practice. | have found many gentlemen
who have objected to have their horses removed
from Their awn stables during their sickness |
will. therefore. attend them as usual, and treat
them as if my own property.
WILLIAM CARVER
y. 3. could have said a great deal more on
this subject, but the work thai | wrote. enti.
lied The Practical Hose Farrier," will
shortly he published, being the fourth edition,
in which The subject will DC treated on more
largely.
10 Gather Seed C9rn, and Prsserre Apples.
Sect seed coin according 10 the following
directions by joseph Cooper, Esq. of New Jer-
sey
When he FIRST EARS arr ripe enough for seed,
gather a s%ufiictctt q~aantny for early corn or
replanting, and At the same time yon would
wish YOUR corn to be ripe, generally, gather II
sntif lent quantity for planting the next year,
Having particular care TO take il from stalks thai
are large AT the bottom, of "A regular taper, not
over tall. the ears set low and containing the
greatest number OF good szrahle ears Of The best
quality on a stock let il dry speedily, and from
the corn gathered as last described, plant your
main crop, and il any hills should be missing,
replant from that first gathered, which will
cause the crop TO ripen mOIe regularly than is
common which is a great benefit. DIR. Deane
observed, that " some gathering
seed corn ha fore the time of harvest, being the
ears that first ripen. But | think it would be
better to mark them aud let them remain on
the stalks till they become sapless. Whenever
they are taken in, they should be hung up by
the llusks, in a dry place, secure from early
frost and they will be so hardened As 10 be in
no danger of injury from the frost in winter. "
Apples, it is SAID, may be preserved for spring
use by packing in any kind Of grain, or in dry
sand also in paper cnftingsof the book bind
er or in shallow pits between layers of turf,
the grassy side inwards, with n sufficient GOV.
ering OF straw ami earth to protect them nom
fro~t likewise in dry flax seed, chaif, or puiVt-
riZed plaster OF paris.