Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-09-04
agricultural.
From the Ohio Farmer.

BlES.
Most stables are constructed in direct vio-
lation of every law of nature. They arc made
to slope from the hsy-rack back to the heels
of the horse. whcns horse natural position
is with the foro-foct the lowest. The hay
rack is so high that the horse is compelled TO
reach up to get the hay His natural posi-
ton while feeding is with his head down to
the ground The stalls are so high he can
not see his companions, while he is naturally
gregarious and loves company. In the stable
he stands on a Aoor naturally on the earth.
In his natural wilds, he is "a racing animal
in the stable he Is so confined that he cannot
lie down. and can scarcely turn himself.
Is it wonderful. then, that nearly every
horse is unsound; Standing with the fore
feet the highest. throws the weight and the
strain on the nexor tendons. and destroys the
back Turning the nose unnaturally upward
strains the tendons of the neck while he is
eating. and is often the cause Of poll-ovil-
High and separate stalls destroy his natural
social qualities, and make him sour and mo-
rose; and hard plank floor on which he is
doomed to stand for twenty and twenty-iour
hours at a time. will produce ringbone.
Another defect in many stables is, that
they are too tight. with a NOV of hay over
them. The ammonia arising from the urine
has no chance to escape; the horse is contin-
ually breathing it ; it pcnetrates the hay and
he is continually eating IT, How often do we
enter a stable in hot weather. when the am
mouiacal air is so pungcnt that we can scarce
ly breathe il and vet the horse is compelled
to stand in it and breathe it, and eat his food
that is completely saturated with it. Can
we wonder that the horse is subject TO unusu-
al and sudden acute and fatal diseases: tits
more TO be wondered at that he lives at all
under such circumstances. Hay should new
or be placed over stable so as to receive the
ammoniacal gas but stables should he ven
tiated above, so as to let the gas and loul-air
escape.
Another error in the construction of stables
is the openings for throwing out manure and
ventilation. In most stables, the openings
are for two-fold purposes. In the first place
the openings are too low and allow the current
Of air to blow on the horse. The effect is the
same as a current of air on human being,
producing cold FLYER. cough and consumption.
Ncr is this ALL this current of air, which is
all the good air the horse has, comes in from
the manure heap, and is but adding more
poisonous gas to that already existing.
1t Is wrong morally, rs well as cconoml-
cally wrong. thus to treat the horse, one OF
the best and noblcst of the brute creation.
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olOhi fOh AN hI'lONN rAi'M HNo'
The last number Of the Farmers Magazine
contains the following under the head OF
Mr. Bakewell' g anccdote, alias good farming
in nutshell. The lesson inculcated is one
which so many American Farmers would pro-
fit wonderfully by learning, that we transfer
the article to our columns -
The far-tamed Mr.. Blackwell, of Dishley,
Leicestershire. the founder of the new Leices-
ter sheep, and the man who lived century
before his day, used to tell an anecdotc with
exceedingly high glee of farmer Of the old
en- school and golden times. This farmer,
who owned and occupied | 900 acres of clay
land but poor in point of money. had three
daughters looking their father very hard in
the face for money. He went to Mr.. Bake
well to know what to do for them. Mr..
Blackwell told him to keep his money and
give each daughter some land, and make it
known that he would do 50, and he would
very soon lessen his family at home. He
then made it known that he would give his
eldest daughter $50 acres Of land. | need
not add that the lady had forthwith plenty of
bcaus to choose out of: the fathers house
was haunted with young men, and she soon
got married, and her father gave her the por-
ton that he promised, but no money /; and he
found by little more speed and better man
agemcnt the produce of his farm increased -
Three years after he madeit known that he
would give his second daughter $50 acres of
land, which drew shoals of beaus, and she
soon got married, and her father gave her her
portion. He then set to work. and began to
grub up his furze and fern, and plowod up
some of his poor furze and-nay, and whore
the firze covered in some closes nearly hall
the land. After giving half his land away tc
two of his daughters, he found the produc,
of his farm increased because his newly bro
ken UP land brought him excessive crops
At the same time he farmed the whole Of hi
land better, for he employed four times tn,
labor upon it; had no more dead fallows tn,
third year instead of which he grew tw,
green crops in one year. and ate them upol
the land. A garden, Mr.. Blackwell told him
never required dead fallow He no nor
folded from poor grass close to better tn
condition of a poor plowed one. But tn
great advantage was, that he had got th
same money to manage 500 acres as he ha
at first to manage 900 acres. Three yeai
after the second marriage, he made it know
that he would give his third and last daugi
ter $50 acres of land She had beau stoo