The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-01-30

COMPLIED FOR THE wAsmsG1os UNION.

Jaaed &ae .ig,,cuAurai Sociay.--The secretary has
opened apenanen office at No 365 Pennsylvania ave-
nue. in this city, where he will publish monthly Bul
f for gratutous distribution among life members and
State and local societies.
An Agrse,raa Soeiay has been formed by the farmers
who belong 10 the legislature of Massachusetts They pro-
pose to meet week and 10 discuss such subjects
may be brought before them especially the duty of gov
ernments TO foster and to develop the agricultural inter
ests
The Pennsylvania Agricura, Society have elected
officers for 1858 President David Taggart executive
committee Frederick Watts, James Gowen William A.
Stokes, Jacob Mish, and John Flennken correspond
ing secretary A. Boyd Hamilton chemist and geologist
Professor s. s. Haldemann Librarian, Henry Gilbert.
There is also vice president in each of the twenty five
districts.
A Slump Ehtraa@ recently tried at Philadelphia by
W. W. Mills the inventor, with great This
chine Is of vast power The weight does not exceed
500 pounds Its great utility may be thus briefly stated
Standing be taken from the ground large rocks
removed from their beds and it is the best power yet in
vented for moving buildings In these respects in two
three minutes 1t will do the work OF fifty men.
Suc-s said be excellent for littering stables as
it absorbs the liquids and thus preserves the ammonia
1t useful Also the of the horses health and
comfort 1t is injurious to animal feet stand in
the liquids OF his stall is hnrtful to his eyes and his
stomach and his lungs to remain long in atmosphere
charged with the powerful vapors arising from those IL
guilds Dry muck very well to scatter daily in
the stables though saw-dust is much neater 1t is quite
important, however, in clearing ont the stalls daily to
mix little muck plaster with the saw-tlust and ma
nure prevent the whole from violent fermentation
Old Prince aiavorite horse of Col Zadoc Pratt died
few weeks since, aged thirty years. He without
Ill
which united spirit kind and gentle. But, though
he docile and fit companion for ladies' he would
faer in the hour of danger, and much at
home the battlefield in the green pasture He never
had the stroke of whip He grey Messenger with
white and TAIL fifteen and a-haf hands high bone
and sinew in the right place He had peculiar intelli-
gence for horse and action when required In the
mer of 1856, although old Prince in his twenty ninth
year the Colonel rode him forty miles, after dinner in
hours and back the next day without giving him
much fatigue.
The Horse Indigenous has generally been sup
posed that there horses in this country previous
its discovery in 1902 1t is said that Columbus brought
horses his second voyage and is toeraby certain
that the hordes of wild horses which over the
mountains and plains of both North and South America
trace their origin to the horses brought by Corez the
great fbuster and which have multiplied to almost
incredible extent 1t has been supposed that the equine
first subjugaed and made subseryent to mans
uses in the Bible localities Of ASIA and followed the march
civilization and empire to the westward until in Eng
land and America find the most perfect types of the
race The researches Of science however, show that the
horse contemporary in this country with the
todon and other large animals before the world peo
pied Professor Holiness Of the College of Charleston, s.
c. has discovered udoubted fossil remains Of the horse
in the fossil beds of Ashley river in that State called the
| ''post pleoccne sepulchre of America "
Esrai~ your horses eery day Exercise assists and pro-
NOTES free circulation of the blood determines morb
e matter to the surface develops the muscular strc
tarc creates appetite improves the wind and finally
invgorates the whole system. We cannot expect much
of horse that has not been habuated to sufficient daily
exercise while such as have been daily exercised and
well managed capable not only Of great excrton and
fatigue, but ready and willing to do bidding
any season When animal is overworked it renders
the system very susceptible to whatever morbid influences
may be present and mparts to the disease they Ia
hor under unusual degree of severity The exhaus-
ton produced by want of rest is equally dangerous such
horses always among the first victims of disease and
when attacked their treatment Is embarrassing and nsa
isfactory.
rearing horse BIO easily managed If the rider is
prepared for him. The instant he is about to rise sackcn
one hand, and bend twist his head with the other
keeping your hands low This bending compels him to
hind leg and of necessity brings his fore feet down
Instantly twist him completely round two three times
which will confuse him very MUCH and completely
throw him off his guard The moment you have finished
twisting him round, place his head in the direction you
wish to proceed, apply the spurs and he will not fail to
go forward If the situation be convenient press him
into galIop and apply the spurs and whip two or three
times severely The horse will not perhaps be quite
satSet with the HfSb ueleAt. out disposed to
Try again for the mastery Should this be Che case You
have only to twist him, &C., before, and you will
find that in the second struggle he will be more east
ly tanned than the former occasion in fact you will
him quail under the operation II rarely happens
that rearing horse after having been trained in the way
described, will resort to this trick third time
Horses Feet Captain Ralston, veterinary surgeon in
the British army. recently delivered lecture in New
York on the Horses Foot in which he explained its
structure functions diseases, and errors shoeng The
injury which is inflicted horscfesh through the gnor-
ance and wilfu stupidity of blacksmhs aud arrers is
ncalcuabc and the subject is deserving Of Increased
attention from all interested in the welfare Of an animal
whose comfort and value is dependent upon sound
feet than any other quality sNo foot horse is an
old adage and it behooves all of horses keep
careful watch their feet and to trust their shooting
but the most skful in the art for it is an art
and cannot be successfully practsed by every knight
of the leather apron. 1t to be almost an i'm
possibility for blacksmiths to omit trimming the frog
of the foot and there is not of the profession who
much taken from the life and vitality of the foot and
the horse travel easily safely rapidly until
is renewed The backsmths only plea for trimming the
frog is to give it comcly shape Again, blacksmiths
7H apply hot shoes to the foot burning away the moist
ure in the hoOf and leaving the surface dry and dead
wellseasoncd plank. Opening out the heels as it
is called cutting away the bars, mspacing and mist-
ting the Shoes and various other denominations may be
in almost every forge and remedy can be found
except in the diffusion Of information the subject
among the masses, and general waking up to the inn
portance of good shooting.
Successful Draining nth Stone. "A practical farmer wri-
ting to the Country Gentleman says A year ago last
fall stated to readers my plan of understanding with