The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1860-06-30
FACTS FOR FARAERs.


Farmer, from which we CLEAN some items
and endorse them. He says that horses
viii work, and work well if properly man
aged according to their several tempeia
ments and procliviIies-which is true as
gospel, and he is an unfit horseman who
does not study the temperament and pro-
clivities of the animal he drives. Again
"BaIks are not inherited by colts, but they
management OF incompetent and unskillful
drivers. If a est chances to be wild and
vicious, we basss.s isss st thes TOP 6f oiifs
voice, and cuff and kick him till ali is blue,
and this some men call breaking a colt p
Yes breaking hin with yengence; breaking
him from all control"
"Others seem 10 think that because a colt
walks right off and works kindly. he is for
sooth an old horse, instanter, and they load
him down accordingly. But not being ac-
cushioned to ga long pull, strong pull, and
pull altogether, y aud hence, W hen he starts,
he comes up to the draft quicker than the,
old, steady horses do-fnds it no go, and
gives back, or perchance finches, from the
pain of tender or nearly sore shoulder.
But the idea of baking had not once enter
ed into his imagination. The word balk is
not in all his vocabulary; it simply hurt, Or
would not go, and he stopped a moment
to see what was TO be done, as a right smart.
intelligent colt would. He did not want 10
be fretting and foaming when he found that
he could do nothing; and so he wisely con-
Guided to wait a moment to let bis driver
have time to see what was best to be doue.
| But his unskillful and petulant driver refu-
ses or neglects to ''touch so much as fin
| Al. I,
should learn him to balk, and forthwith
plies the whip right manfully or rather
savagely, until perchance, after long strug
| gle, both horses coming up to the draft to-
! gether, they ''move her out of this and
the exasperated driver, to whip the balks
out of his colt, but more to vent his own
spleen and vengeance upon poor colties.
plies the whip with might and main all tie
way over the bad place, or all the way up
hill, when this poor, inexperienced colt is
right glad to be under way again, and is
straining every muscle to the draft. This
process is what he calls ''whipping the balk
out of him." Alas for him, poor, petu-
| liant, mistaken man. He is rather whipping
the balk into him, with vengeance, as
calm reasoning would at once suggest-as
observation and experience abundantly dem
|
the babbling tribes of earth
LICE AND Ticks ON SHEEP-Lice and
Ticks infest Sheep of all ages, but are most
troublesome to lambs Treatment. The
most convenient mode of destroying ticks
is to feed sulphur to animals thus afflicted
For this purpose, feed to each hundred
sheep, weekly, 10 or 12 ounces of -four of
sulphur mixed with their condiments; or,
feed the same amount of sulphur to them
weekly, in small doses, mixed with their
proyender, until the ticks are destroyed,
which will generally be affected within
three or four weeks. They should be exam
ined and as soon as the desired effect is OBJ
tanned, the sulphur should be withheld from
them. Sulphur is relaxing article, and
while they are using it, they will be more
subject to take colds than at other times,
and consequently, the most proper time for
killing ticks in this manner, is In cold dry
weather in winter, or in warm dry weather
in summer, when the sheep are well cover
ed with wool, but not Immediately after
they are shorn. This method has been US
ed successfully. Or, open the wool in lines
or burrows, and sprinkle snuff or flour of
sulphur among the wool.
Or in a few days after the sheep are shear
ed, the ticks, being deprived of protection
on the sheep, will resort to the lambs, whose
wool will then be sufficiently grown to af-
ford them a covering: if at this time, the
lambs are dipped in decoction of tobacco,
the ticks may be exterminated at once.
For this purpose, make use of one pound
of tobacco for every six gallons of water;
five pounds of tobacco will be sufficient for
one hundred lambs. Chop the tobacco fine
and boil it in the water until its strength is
fully extracted
After which put the decoction into a
large tub or kettle; on the side of which,
fasten a board on which the lambs may rest
after their immersion; in order that the liq
uor may drain from them into the kettle or
tub. The lambs should be held by the
head with both hands and then dipped into
the decoction up to the ears. using special
care that none of the decoction passes into
the eyes or mouth WooE Grower.
GRATING PEACHES on PLUMs.-Another
correspondent of the same paper suggests
grating peaches on plums. He finds by
experiment that the peach will grow well on
the plum, and AYERS thatif by this process
he can secure good crop of peaches, he is
willing to sacrifice the plums, and thus out
general the "little Turk
a The editor does not recommend the whole
sale destruction of plum trees in the manner
proposed, but says those who have no faith
in curculio remedies, and have plum trees
that they look upon as only cumberers oil
the ground, viii do well to graft them with
f peaches. The plum is often used as stock
for the peach. and the plants attain a great
/ age. The effect of such grating would be
favorable to the production of fruit, as the
wood growing tendency of the peach would
be greatly diminished, over luxuriance be-
: ing fertile source of failures in the pro
. duetion of these fruits.
j, WHAT PEACH TREES SHALL WE PLANT
"A Hamilton, Illinois. correspondent o.
t the Horticulturist, says, a few days since
the question was asked him. '.If you were
planting one thousand peach trees, wha
r proportion of them should be seedlings %
: to which he answered somewhat hastily
e 81 should want eight or nine hundred o
I them to be such, and the remainder of The