Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-10-27
Agricultural.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


THE WAY TO BLANKET HORSES. few
persons comparatively understand how to
apply blanket to a horse to prevent him
from contracting cold. We frequently
see the blanket folded double and across
the animals back, leaving those parts of
the body which need protection entirely
exposed to the cold .. .--..l,
Those parts of the body of horse which
surround the lungs require the benefit of a
blanket IN preference to its fanks and
rump. When we are exposed to current
OF cold air, to guard against any injury from
contracting cold, we shield our shoulders,
neck, chest and back. If these parts be
protected, the lower part of the body will
endure degree of cold more intense, with
out any injury to the body thanif the lungs
were not kept warm with suitable covering
The same thing holds good in the protection
of horses. The blanket should cover the
neck, withers and shoulders, and brought
around the breast and buttoned or buckled
together as closely as man buttons his over
coat when about to face driving storm.
Let the lungs of horse be well protected
with heavy blanket, and he will seldom
contract a cold, even if the hlndmost parts
of his body are not covered. Many of our
best teamsters protect the breasts of their
horses. by piece of cloth about two feet
square, hanging down from the lower end
of the collar. This is an excellent practice
in cold weather, as the most important
part of the animal is constantly sheltered
from the cold wind, especially when travel
ing toward strong current. The for
ward end of horse blankets should be
made as closely around the breast of
horse as our garments fit our bodies
Most horses take cold as men, if not
blanketed while standing after exercising
sufficiently to produce perspiration. SO
long as the horse is kept in motion, there
is little danger of his suffering from cold;
but allow him to stand for few minutes
without a blanket to protect his shoulders
and lungs, and he will take cold sooner
than men.-Er.
PRESERVING EGGs. At late meeting of
the Western New York Farmers Cub, Mr..
Quinby, as reported by the American Far,
mer, gives his method of preserving eggs,
considering it timely, as the season for
packing for winter use is at hand His
practice is to gather the eggs from the nest,
and when two or three dozen are obtained,
to place them in dish and pour scalding
water over them, and immediately turn it
off. This process is repeated three times,
coagulated, the pores of the shell closed,
and the egg, as 1t were, canned in its own
covering. Thus prepared, the eggs are
ready to be packed away in the cask design
ed to hold them for future use Spread
layer of salt over the bottom of the cask OF
crock, sufficient to steady the eggs, and
then set them in circle, apex downward,
till the surface is covered with eggs. Add
more salt, and proceed as before till the
cask is filled-the top layer being covered
with salt tor the exclusion of the air. Put
down this way, eggs will keep as fresh as
when first laid, for long time. They have
been found as fresh at the end of the year
as when first laid, with no perceptible
change in their flavor.
The STOCK SHOULD GOVERN THE FARM
ING.-Hog raising demands certain kind
of farming; horse raising another, and
sheep raising the third and very different
one. For hogs, you want small fields for
clover, rye, oats, corn and roots; low and
close fences; numerous pens, a feed house
with steaming apparatus and aliberal sup
ply Of fixed and movable troughs For
sheep, you want several pastures of fine
grass, some hilly ground, root and corn
and oat crops, barns of a peculiar model,
low sheds, folds, combined feed troughs
and hangers, meshing room, and if you
can get it, clear stream from some noun
tain source For horses and mules, YOU
want corn and oat fields, meadows, pas
lures, stables, sheds, hay-barns, dry-yards,
and for the brood mares, paddocks with
shed stables. The fences should be strong
and high and the Enclosures of the yards
should have the resisting power of the
stockades of q fortress. So peculiar are
the improvements and the farming reouir-
ed by each class of stock, that the traveller
flying by on a railroad car is at no loss to
tell, at glance, what the leading stock is
on each farm he passes. s -r- -F
CURE FOR SBEEp- CHASING Docs. A large
deer hound of mine, or rather of my IA
theirs, "a prize winner at Birmingham),
with not being well looked after got into
the habit OF chasing sheep, and killed them
too, whenever he had on opportunity. He
was sharply corrected and kept chained up
for some days, but when taken out he was
as bad as ever. My father happily remem-
bered how he had cured large retriever of
the same sin five-and thirty years before,
and we have, am pleased to say, made q
perfect cure of my deer hound. After one
OF his chases he was takeE up to the sheep
farm, securely tied between two old Scotch
rams, and then let loose in the yard. No
sooner We're they let loose, than all three
being good jumpers, they cleared the wall
and the dog was dragged about the park
till all three were dead tired The poor
fellow was taken home, and can assure
you sheep-chasing is now the very last
thing of all others that he ever thinks Of
Correspondence Of the Field.
STORING POTATOES. potatoes are to be
stored IN a cellar, it must be either natural
ly dry or made so by proper drainage. The
potatoes ought also to be dry when put in
to it-that is, they should lie for an hour
or two at least after digging before they are
carted to the cellar It makes them clean
er, of course, to knock all the dirt from
them while picking them up, and keep that
which settles to the wagon floor from going
in the cellar with them; but they viii keep
better in the bin if these precautions are
not taken, and a considerable portion Of
dry earth is allowed to go with them.
Transmission OF Mental Disease.
DIR. Charles Elam, an English physician,
has just published book in which medical