American citizen. [volume] (Butler, Butler County, Pa.) 1863-1872, 1864-06-15
him into a lot TO run half day at a

that has bee used to running In pas.
ture with his head down
A horse should be well accustomed
to the bit before you put on the bit
ting harness; and when you first bit
him you should only rein bis headsup
| to that point where naturally holds
it, let that be high or low; he will
learn that he cannot lower his head,
and raising it little will loosen the
bit in his mouth. This will give him
the idea of raising his head to loosen
the bit, and then you can draw the
bit little tighter every time you put
it on, and he will raise his head to
loosen it. - BY this means you will
gradually get his head aud neck in
the position you wish him to carry it,
and give him grace carriage, with
out hurting him, making him angry,
or causing his muth to be sore.-
Rarey.
TRAINING GRAPE VINES TO STAKE.
"A writer in the Taley Farmer
says: 81 would say that my plan
will be to set my stakes about seven
feet long, and set them one foot apart,
by first making a hole with a crow
bar, and then driving the stake in
with a mallet-vines from six to
eight feet apart III the rows, accord
ing to the variety. ! think the re-
newal, the best and the simplest sys-
TEN of training. If your vines are
six feet apart, you will have six stakes
to each vine, three on each side.
Have your arms within a few inches
of the ground, and grow three canes
from-each arm, tying one to each
stake. Allow only every other one
to bear fruit growing canes for next
year fruiting upon one-half Of the
canes, and fruit upon the other half.
the process is simple, and | think as
good as any. Stakes, no doubt, are
the cheapest when you are starting 4
new place. and clearing land; but in
the course of time [ think we shall
have to trellis. Grow the golden
willows for ties-nothing so good OF
so cheap they will grow almost
anywhere. 1t is by no means neces-
sary that they should be planted in a
wet place. Ihave seen cutting make
a growth Of six or seven feet on high
sandstone soil. 3
To this the Rural american adds
"This is a system that we have adopt
ed, in cases wheu we had no time tc
construct trellis, and it answers
the purpose well. If the stakes are
eight feet out Of ground, they will
n It be too high.
MAKING FLOWERS DouBLE.-A
young lady, in Central New York,
wrote to the Clud, saying, that some
of her balsam and aster plants pro.
duced flowers double, while on othe,
plants the flowers were all single,
and asking if the Club could tell her
how to have all flowers double. Mr.
Hardee said Mr.. President, the
remedy for this difficulty is simple
and cffectual. When a plant pro-
duces flower with a single row OF
petals, it must be inexorably torn up
| by the roots, and trampled in the path
Balsams, pinks, asters, and all that
class of plants are apt to have seeds
which will produce plants that will
bear single flowers /; aud if the pollen
from these is allowed to fructify the
flowers of other plants, the whole bed
will be hibridized, and the following
year crop of inferior flowers will be
produced. On the other hand, if the
plants that bear single flowers are
firmly sacrificed, the seed will improve
and frequently very fine and curious
flowers will be obtained. "-.Scsentifc
american.
BORDERS IN FRUIT TsEEs.-Bore
the tire es about one inch in depth
with gimlet or auger fill the hole
thus made with sulphur, and then Sc
cure it with clay or shoemaker S
wax. The sulphur will penetrate the
tree, or the sap will carry it into the
pores of the tree and the borers will
disappear, and the trees will recover
from their injurious effects. | saved
a thrifty apple tree by this method a
few years since. The sulphur does
not injurc the tree the hole made for it
will grow up, and the the tree will thrive
again. If holes made by the borers are
accessible, fill them with sulphur, and the
borers will not again trouble the tree.
If the trees are large, more sulphur
viii be required, and perhaps an inch au-
ger would not bc too large. Let the sui
phur be put into the tree in half dozen
places. 1t will not injure the tree, and
is certain remedy against the borers.-
". Y Observer.
A Good LATE GRAPE.-Next in
Importance to having Grapes early,
is having them to keep late; and af-
ter trying several experiments, we
have found the Charlesworth Tokay
! to koen LANCER without sbrinkino o