The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-02-01
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READING FOR FARMERS.


a CRACK IN A Hoe TRoUGH.-The
following from a recent number OF the
Prairie Farmer is almost equal TO
Franklin's story of the whistle:
a few days ago friend sent me word
that, every day, he gave nearly twenty
pals of fbuttermilk to lot OF ''shoats,
and they scarcely improve at all.
Thinks l, this is breed OF hogs worth
seeing. They must be of the sheet iron
kind. So called on him, heard him
repeat the mournful story, and then
visited the sty, in order to get better
view of the miraculous swine. l went
into the pen, and, on close examination,
found a crack in the trough through
under the floor. Thinks l, here is the
type of the failures of our agricultural
brethren.
When / see farmer emitting all inn
provements because of little cost, sell
ling all his farm stock, to buy bank or
rail road stock or mortgage stock, rob.
binG his land, while in reality, he Is
also rObbing himself, and his heir,
thinks ], my friend, you have a crack
in your hog trough.
When see farmer subscribing for
II half dozen political and miscellaneous
papers, and spending all his time in
reading them, while he doesn't read a
single agricultural or horticultural
journal. thinks l, to myself, poor man,
you have got a large and wide crack in
your hog trough.
When / see II farmer attending all the
political conventions, and knowing
every mani in town that votes his ticket,
and yet, to save his neck, couldn't tell
who is president of his county agricul-
tural society, or where the fair was
held last year, "unanimously" come
70 tNn hnf 70
got crack in his hog trough.
When see farmer buying guanO,
but wasting ashes and hen manure,
trying all sorts of experiments except
intelligent hard work and economy,
getting the choicest OF seeds regardless
Of cost, then planting them regardless
of cultivation, growing the variety OF
fruit called Sour Tart Seeding, and
then sweetcning it with sugar, pound
for pound, keeping the front fields rich
while the back lots are growing up
with thistles, briars and alders, cOntri-
buting to the ChOctaw Indian fund and
never giving cent to any agricultural
society; such a man, 1 will give writ
ten guarantee, has got crack in his
hog trough, and his head also.
When / see a farmer allowing loose
boards all over his yard, fences down,
hinges off the gate, manure in the barn
yard, | come to the conclusion that he
has got a large crack in his hog trough.
When / see farmer spending his
time travelling in his carriage, when he
has to sell all his corn to pay hired
help, and his hogs are so lean that they
have to lean against the fence to Squeal,
I rather lean to the conclusion that
somebody that stays at home will have
n lien on the farm, and that some day
the bottom will come entirely out OF his
hog trough.
FOuNDERING GHoRsEs.-A certain cure
for founder in q horse is to stand him
in water up to his belly. have known
ii practised for fifty years and swarth-
ing the legs In hot water, vinegar and
sugar Oflead, are all good to some ex-
tent but founder must be relieved
suddenly, or the horse will show stiff
ness in his action, and have deformed
and callous tender hoofs.
Water applied to the legs L DO not
consider positive cure; the disease
must be attacked nj the root, by bleed
ing and purging; II few drops of blood
taken from below the fetlOcks will has
ten his recovery. But the most certain
and quick remedy that l have ever
known is green gourd. Take large
green gourd, cut it up, put 1t into a gal
Ion of water and boil it down to n quart.
Strain the liquor and drench--in
tWentY-tOur hours the horse will be
perfectly himself. The gourd is a
powerful diuretic, and will cause the
horse to stale the most offensive OdOr.
In 1922, traded for two fine young
mares in Augusta, Ga. 1 rode ono OF
them to kentucky, and my servant the
other. Early one morning at the cross
ing of CIinch river, Tenn, we found one
of the mares so badly foundered that
she could not be led out of the stable.
! procured a green gOurd and drenched
her as directed above, and direct ed the
| fn nit ~ OH "a hya al Tn
travel, expecting that he would reach
home in three or four days after me; tho
next day after my arrival he came in,
with the mare in AS good plight as if
nothing had happened.-COr. R'trGL
World.
WALKING HoRsEs.-The best gait a
horse ever had for everyday use, is a
good walk. 1t Is gait that not one in
ten possesses. Colts are trained TO
walk in all the eastern States. Young
America wants more speed. Kentucky
has more good walking horses than any
other State, for their horseback travel
ing has long been in fashion for men
and women, over country where
muddy roads at times rendered any
other gait impossible, and so horses
have been bred for the saddle and
trained TO u walking gait. This is also
the case i'll all the western States, and
perhaps might have been so i'll New
England when our grandmOthers rode
to meeting on pilliOn behind our
grandfnthers. But one.horse wagons
have put horseback riding out of FASH
ion, and now good walking horse is
more rare than one that can trOt Il mile
in 2:40.
At the Springfield, Mass, horse show
of 1860, the writer was one OF the COM
mitIee TO award prizes to the best walk
ing horses. Out of seventeen entered,
| the committee found but one which was
considered irst-rate walker. This
was Morrill, mare, which walked five
miles an hour with ease. Two others
were fair walkers, and the rest knew
no gait that could he called walking.
At the New York State Fair the same
state of facts was again developed. A
letter from Wisconsin says: IL think
horses trained to walk fast would be Il
| greater benefit to our farmers i'll gener-
| al than fast trOtters, as almost all their
work has TO be done with walk"
knew II man in Massachusetts, who,
| before the railroads were built, Kept
| from two to four teams at work on the
road, and never allowed them to trOt nj
all, and made the distance in quicker
| time than his neighbors, who made
their horses trot at every convenient
place. He said that when horse COM
nenced to walk after trOt he walked
much slower than his common gait II
kept on walk, and thereby lost more
than he gained. Will farmers think oi
| this and pay more attention to walking
| horses ?-Fd1nne7''S Home journal.
CAN WEGRow WHEAT?-That it is
possible to raise wheat, anu stlIl not m
| destroy the ability of the soil to produce
it for the next generation; that It is
practicable to go on improving 1t in fer
tilitV while we biennially take from II