Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1864-04-02


during winter, which are not embraced gen.
! orally in the list of flowers and vines to be
found in our parlors and windows.
How many Of the fair readers Of the Iee-
orapk have the beautiful vine of the sweet
potato running over the mantel shelf? This
pretty sight can be enjoyed by placing a
sweet potato in tumbler or other glass YES
sci, filled with water, passing pin through
the tuber so as to keep the lower end from
one to two inches from the bottom of the
vessel. Keep on the mantel shelf, In warm
room, and every day give it sun for an hour
or two, and in few days rootlets will begin
to appear, aiming for the bottom of the yes
sci, and in two or three weeks, the eye will
begin to shoot and rapidly grow and run upon
suspended twine, or any little treilis work
prepared forit. The di0scorea bdtdtas is the
prettiest for this purpose, when it can be OBJ
tanned. $500 as
The "Morning Glory" can be .propagated
| parlor windows where there is some sun,
to perfection during winter its flowers with
its natural colors, and the delicate little vine
can be made to run all over the window.
hanging vase is the prettiest for this.
Suspend an acorn by cotton thread so as
to touch the water in glass vessel Ia hya-
cinth glass is perhaps the best), set upon the
| window or mantel, and let it remain there for
| eight or ten weeks, more or less, without be-
| ing interfered with, except to supply the
| evaporation of the water, and the acorn will
| burst, and as il throws root down into the
| water a sprout or stem will be sent upward,
throwing out, beautiful little green leaves,
thus giving You an oak tree, in full life and
health, within your parlor.
There are many of the moses which can
be very successfully grown in the house thrO'
the winter, and with the foregoing afford an
interesting and refund enjoyment for the fem
| mines of a family. All these have been ex-
perimented with by the writer with most
beautiful and gratifying results. Gaznd''tO'c'a
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| How TO MAKE DOCILE HoRsEs-The docili-
BY and amazing instinct of the Arab horse are
shown TO proceed mainly from his constant
| association with the family of his owner, shar-
ing their food, sleeping in their family tent,
and lastly from the early age at which he is
broken in, which they say checks the devel-
opment of the spleen, very important point
in the opinion of the Arabs:
At the age of eighteen to twenty months
| the colt is mounted by child, who takes him
to water, goes in search of grass or leads him
to the pasture. Not to hurt the bars he
guides him with a longe, or a tolerably soft
mules bit. This exercise is good for them
both. The child grows up a horsenan, and
the colt acquires the habit of carrying q
| weight proportioned to his strength He
learns to walk, to fear nothing, and it is in
this manner, say the Arabs, that eve con-
t-ive never to have FESTIVE horses" For the
first few days the bit is covered with undress-
ed wool, partly with view not to hurt his
bars, and partly to allure him to docility by
the saltish flavor of which he is so fond.
When he begins to champ the bit the task is
| nearly accomplished. This preparatory ex-
ercise takes place morning and evening. Thus
| sagaciously handled the young animal will be
ready to be mounted in the early part of the
| Autumn, when he will be less tormented by
the flies and heat. Wealthy owners before
they allow their colt to be mounted by a
grown up man, sometimes have him led up
and down gently for fortnight, with pack
saddle on his back, supporting two baskets
filed with sand.
When he is about thirty months old, the
colt is taught not to break loose from his
rider when the latter sets foet to earth, and
not even to stir from the spot where the bril-
die has been passed over his head and allow
ed to drag on the ground Especial care is
taken in teaching this lesson, because it is
one of great Importance in Arab life.
CULTIVATION OF WINTER AND SPRING BAR
LEY.-JAMEs K. SMITH, of MOrpeth, c. W.,
writes to one of the Agricultural journals as
follows:
The soil best adapted to the growth of bar
ley is light clay loan. Large crops can be
grown on stiff clay soils when they are rightly
cultivated. Winter barley may be sown on
land that has been well summer followed
The soil should be well pulverized before the
seed is sown Bones and farm-yard manure
containing nitrogen, are the best kinds to
use. When beans are planted, after clover
sod, barley would do well after the bean crop.
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fore the seed is sown, which should be about
the middle of September. Two bushels of
seed, to the acre is sufficient.
Spring barley should be sown after corn,
beans or tIrnips. The land should be pre-
pared by plowing it in the fall, as the frost
in winter pulverizes it and makes ii more
easily worked. Clay soils are most benefit
4 ted by fall blowing. The land should either
be plowed again in the spring or well cultiva-
ted. The seed should be sown as SOON as the
ground is in suitable order and the weather
will permit. Sub-soiling would be beneficial.
1t would keep the land more moist. Barley
requires moist SOL, as it often suffers from
drouth. After the seed has been .sown the
land should be rolled. 1t helps to keep the
land moist and warm, and makes the seed
: come up quicker and more evenly.
| If barley is not cut before it is ripe, it can
be bound up at once. If it is not ripe, it is
better to lie in the swarth for a day or two.
The sample is often spoiled by heavy rains,
after it is cut, which makes it of dark
color.
VENTILATION IN BEE-HIvEs.-Bees in win
ter do not apparently suffer from cold even
when many degrees below the freezing point.
Their great enemy is damp. I have known
hives from which the bottom board had fall
en- and which we're fully exposed to the air,
winter wen, while others carefully .tended
lost thousands of bees, and yet both had
sufficient stores Hives made of thin boards
are bad quarters for bees, unless well ventila-
ted, and for the simple reason that when such
are exposed to the weather, they partrapidly
with with their warmth in cold weather, and
unless carried off by the currents of air, the
moisture from the bees condenses on the in
side and then congeals, and this process will
COON until the comb next the sides is involv-
ed, and the bees consequently huddle togeth-
er in an ice-house. When combs are thus
frozen or kept steadily exposed to an atmos-
phere ofzmoisture for some time, they will
mould whenever the weather becomes warm.
1t often happens that the principle portion of
the honey is laid up in the outer CORDS, and
if these are frozen, the bees cannot get their
food and may thus starve with food abundant,
but locked up by frost-From tie Ohio Far
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