The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1847-05-21
AGRICULTURAL.


The Horse.--I will state few things
Mai have learned, and they may be OF
3enetil 10 your readers. A horse that is
t'fivcn on hard roads is liable 10 get stiff
/ iniis joint. In 1888 had an animal
afieI driving .llree or four davs get quite
s ianIe. An oh Baltimore teans,er Told
Sine TO wash The mares legs with tocrabie
sail brine. which was done accordingly
three times day for the balance OF The
Journey. The stiffness disappeared IN q
few DAYS, afterwards. and drove the
mare l.4u0 miles afterwards. aud there
was no more lroHhle on that account
What pleased me most was. that The
& mare had very poor foo, to hold shoe
when started. Ii was very brittle and
a hard il would break out when a mai
8s was pu, in, but i, grew together at every
4 shoeing. blacksmith in New England
remarked TO me lha, her foot had singular
appearance when he pared it il was sof
and tough. account for it in this way;
salt will attract moisture from the aimns'
phere, which keeps the too! moist all the
lime: and salt has nearly the same tiiec
that grease has on a foot or piece oI
timber. The dripPings from salt on q
floor, if continued long cannot be got OH
y the wood becomes moist aud tough. and
H so with horses foot. After washing
the legs, turn up the horses foot. clean
: the bottom. pour The hollow fall OF brine
& hold ioI few minutes to soak the b.
tom. The practice Of rasping the foo
all over 10 tougher it is abominabe.--
n Correspondence Of Farmer and Gardner
Soring Corn for F1dler-.Nr
/ Beecher.- Would you like to Know how
one OF your readers cultivated quar-
ter of an acre in town! He spread OF
six loads Of manure, and drew three load,
Of ashes 10 be spread after plowiag. The
first of May, when the weeds began tC
show their head, he p!owel il over derp
and then sowed his corn, leaving room
in one corner 10 liant ftp Paper Of su.
gar beet seed, and planting pumpkin
hills twenty feet apart over the whole
The ground was in fine order, and the
corn seemed TO understand that il mus
be up and growing before tie weeds
could riglit-a-abont and peep az in.
The last OF July, as the spinLles began TO
appear, II was cut, and made into a fodder
house 10 cure, and the ground plowed
sadnd so,ceIagaia miM corn, leaving this
time greater distance round each pump.
kin hill and the las, of September he
had another heavy yield of fodder.
His beels yielded well, and lie had a
good quantity ofpumpkins. Daring the
summer and fall he kept cutting corn and
!, pulling beet leaves for his COW, and iix
/ them for his Children the way tire yankees
( do. The pumpkins kept up the color,
the quantity and quality ill January, and
the bects and fodder are not all gone yet,
though II is the l2h Of March and the
4 COW has kept irslrale, with only what
grew upon a little more than one quarter
Of an acre, EXCEPT iIlle corn aud oil-cahe
10 exc Out the bees.
lie took The hint from an article in
slyour paper, aud then used his own wits
! and experience, which suppose You
call book flrming.' The season was
longer than usual. and he now regrets that
he did not raise three instead of two crops.
-Pisiior, in UeStern Farmer and
Gar0aer.