Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1867-03-09

points, in hopes.of striking some point
4 where water will not be touched, and
where the salt can be quarried, as in
Hungary and Poland.
| EXERCISE FOR HORSES. Because
there is little work for horses during
4 the winter season, they sometimes fail
of receiving proper exercise. Do not
suffer them to stand tn = whole week in
the stable, but give, at least, one hours
exercise daily. Give sloppy food at
least twice week, and throw lump of
rock salt in the manger.
! FEED FOR HORSES. A New York man
| kept pair of horses from the last of
August to the first of April, on the
straw from three acres of oats, cut
short and mixed with about 100 bush
els of a mixture of corn meal and bran,
in equal proportions by weight, fed
three times day. He used no hay
The horses kept in good condition.
The HEAD AND HAND.
being science as well as an art, re-
quires both an educated head and an
educated hand. - The educated hand
must have the direction of the educa-
ted head, or, skilled as it may be in
practice, 1t will lose half its labor for
not working In the right direction. So
the educated head must have the help
of the practised hand, or its wise de-
vices will fail of proper execution.
To MAKE HENS LAY IN WINTER
Raise sufficient quantity of suntiow-
ers for the hens to feed upon the seeds
all the winter, and you will have plen-
ty of eggs. The best way to raise
them is to plant with potatoes; then
you can also plant butter or lima beans,
which viii run up the stalks, and save
the expense of polling. The sunhowers
win shade the potatoes, and make them
grow better and be much sweeter, so
chat three crops can be raised off one
! piece of ground. Cut your sunhowers
up, when ripe, at the bottom OF the
stalk, and set them up on the ends, with
their heads together, near the fowl
yard, who're the hens can run. under
between the stalks. and pick up the
seed as they fall.
CARE OF LoNG-WooLED SHEEP. The
Rural World says, that experienced
breeders of Cotswold and leicester
sheep should not be kept in the same
yard with Merino sheep. They say
that the odor from the bodies of the
Merinos is not only offensive but hurt
full TO the English breeds. The long
| wooded sheep are little disposed to
roam over the pastures they eat what
they want and then lie down. The
i Merinos on the other hand, are much
disposed to ramble all over the pasture,
picking little here and little there.
The consequent trampling of the grass
aud scattering of the dropplngs of the
sheep seems to unfavorably affect the
Cotswolds andyl Iiecesters so much SO
that it is advised, even where they are
i kept alone, that at least three pasture
lots be kept, so that the sheep may
have fresh pasture frequently.
How no BREAK CATTLE TO LEAD
Take two animals of about equal size
and strength and tie them together
with strong rope by placing one end
around the horns of one animal and
the other end around the horns of the
other, and make them fast, as for lead
ing or tying up, leaving three or four
feet of rope between the inner horns,
and turn them into q field free from
trees. Let them run and pull and haul
till they are tired of it and they will
walk side by side and feed together.
Then take off the rope and they will
ever after lead with the doeility of a
child, even though the first occasion
NAV be years afterwards. 1t is much
easier than for a man to be jerked
around all day by wild heifer or steer,
and more eff5ctual. We have tried 1t
and know.
4 QUEEN BEE.-Prof. Leitch has an
nounced a new theory in the queen
bee, a puzzle which has exercised the
wits of naturalists and philosophers for
many ages. How is a queen bee pro-
duced from an egg, which, under or
/ binary circumstances, would produce a
sterile worker ? 1t is commonly sup
posed that this change is effected by
the supply of peculiar food IA royal
jelly" it has been termed to the larvoe.
Prof. Leitch considers that the change
is effected by an increase of the tenn
perature of the cell containing the
larvae intended for the production of a
queen bee, and that the object of the
isolated position of the royal cell is to
admit of it being surrounded by clus-
ter of bees, who, by their rapidity in
creased respiration, produce the warmth
necessary to accomplish the growth OF
the queen. -Ahsea9ae
One of the leaders of the temper