Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1869-09-02
Agricultural.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

much grain. Such are canal horses, stage
horses, and other animals overworked and
over fed This is common, and as we'll
known as it is common. We kill our hot-
ses in this way, that is, they prematurely
die by such treatment. Stimulated to ex-
cess.
So we MAJ over-feed any animal-hurt
him howeyer. more with one kind of food
than with another. To feed young stock
or mich cows largely and continuously on
grain, especially corn. we know Is not good.
Over stimulus in youth viii lessen the ca
pacity in after life; there will be premature
failing. So mich COW will last longer
properly treated. We have an example in
a neighbor's COW, which gave fifteen pounds
butter per week cher maximum) in her fif-
teenth year. We have personal knowledge
of this This COW was ever regularly and
properly fed, not over-fed, receiving but
little grain, dependent mainly upon good
hay, warm stabling and ready running
water. Roots were somewhat fed, some
bran and ground grain
The bran and meal were given but few
months after milking period commenced,
say from March to grass time. During
winter, hay alone was depended upon
There was always an abundance, but no
waste; good appetite was always main
tanned. There were but two COWS and per-
feet concord between them. This seemed
to do good They We're brought in in the
fall, and so went out in the spring. Hear
ty, healthy. hay seemed sufficient. There
was nothing overfed here, and the cowr
lasted.
So we have known horses to do work at
'thirty-thirty years old, fat, and able to do
n fair days work then. We have known
equally good horses 10 be worn out at Is
and 10. High graiaing and high work did
the thing We know a team that is a
pointed case, owned by our father.
The world was made to be supported by
grass-the brute world-what was not
made to devo II each other, or live in the
forest alone. The herbivora want grass
they have had it, from time immemorial.
A plenty of good. nutritious grass is sufi.
cient. 1t will promote the best of health,
prolong life, and make useful during life,
and especially the latter part in comparison
to what we now too often have.-Prairit
Farmer. tET
A DIFFICULT QUESTION ANswERED.-Can
nybody tell why, when Eve was manufac-
.tured from one of Adams ribs, hired girl
wasn't made at the same time to wait on
Exchange.
We can, easily. Because Adam never
came whining to Eve with ragged stock
ing to be darned, collar-string to be sew
ed on, or glove to be mended fright
away, quick now" Because he never read
the newspapers until the sun got down be-
hind the palm tree, and then stretched him
self, yawning out, ''ain't supper mostready
my dear?' Not he He made the fire, and
hung over the tea-kettle himself, and pulled
the radishes, and peeled the bananas, and
did everything else that he ought He
MIXED the COWS and fed the chickens,
and looked after tie pigs himself
He never brought home half dozen
friends to dinner, when Eve hadn't any
fresh pomegranates, ard the mango season
was overi He never stayed ont till IL o.
clock to ''ward meeting" hurrahing for
the out-and-out candidate. and then scold-
ing because poor dear Eve was sitting up
and crying inside the gate. He never play
ed billiards, nor drove fast horses, nor
choked Eve with, cigar smoke. He never
1oafed around corner groceries, while soil
tary Eve was rocking little Gains cradle at
home In short, he did not think she was
specially created for the purpose of wait
ing on him, and wasn't under the impress
sion that it disgraces man to tighten his
wife's caresa little. That's the reason that
Eve did not need a hired girl, and we wish
il was the reason that none of her descend
ents did.
DARK STABLEs.-Any person who has felt
the pain and inconvenience of coming sud
denly from dark room into the full blaze
of day, will easily conceive the necessity of
lighting stable in proper manner
This is too often neglected in confined
stables. and the consequences are Distress
ing to n human observer. The poor horse,
led suddenly out to his work, shows his
pam quickiy IN unmistaksble expressions,
stumbles. and runs against anything that
may haIpent to be near, until the eve has
IN some degree accommodated itself to the
new circumstances under which it is placed.
Nor is this ali. BY a continuance of this
change from darkness TO sudden daylight,
the eyes become seriously injured.
The refine, or sensitive nerve, becomes
dub, and more or less useless, the horses
sight is injured, he starts and SHES at OBJ
iects which he sees imperfectly, and many
a rider who has received dangerous in
jrEy has to thank his inattention to this
simple cause. rather than any vicious ha-
] ii of The animal to which it has been at
I limited.
Blindness is almos. certain tobs caused
by inattention to the above caution, but
even blindess is less dangerous to the rider
than imperfect sight : American Stock
Journal
Maxine Cows GIVE RrcH Milk. LA Ger
man farmer had fourteen COWS in full milk,
from which very little butter Was obtained.
He separately tested the milk of each, and
that the bad quality was due to
one cpv:ouiy, the milk of the others Yield
ing good butter, and plenty of it.. This es-
tablished the fact, that by mixing the milk
of all the cows, the bad milk from one.
spoiled the whole for butter-makiDg. -
He went to q accelerated veterinarian who
advised the employment of the. following
Two ounces of sulPhuret of an
timony and three ounces Of coriander seed,
powdered and well mixed. Z This was
given as q soft bolus, followed by admins
tering drought composed of half a
pint OF vinegar, pint Of water, and a
handful of common salt The above was
given to the COW in the early morning, on
AN empty stomach, for three successive
days, and effected complete care, the
milk being found, after the application of
the remedy to have become much richer,
and to produce large quantity Of good
butter, where previously but little, and
that of an inferior quality, had been given
by the cow. No appsrsnt. cause could be
found for the deficiency of tie quality of
butter-making in the milk OF this COW,
nor had the animal any disease whatever.
How TO MAKE SPRUCE BzxR AN ex-
chapge- paper says: AS the season is ut
hand when pleasant summer drinks, free
from alcoholic influence. are frequently
brewed by the housewife, or the well
brought up daughters, who ought to be
Taught little Of everything in the way Of
household duties, we append the following
recipes. which are claimed to be excellent:
I. Take three gallons of water of blood
warmth, three half pints of molasses, TIA
blespoonfuf cf essence of Spree, and the
like quantity of ginger; mix well together
with gill of yeast; let stand over night,
and bottle in the morning 1t viii be in
good condition to drink in twenly-four
hours. 1t is palatabls, wholesome bever-
age. 2. Those who prefer mead have only
to substitutes honey for the molasses in
the above recipe and for one third