The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1869-08-04
HOUSE AND FARM.

any acre SraZeu VIII uot eaiiy sneep.
Other acres will give full feed to COW, each,
all through the summer, and be pretty good
moving when frost comes Both kinds
pass under our observation every day. The
difference is not in the original character OF
the land, for it is found on adjoining farms,
with the same formation, and with the sur
face and subsoil looking just alike. There
is big pasture of so acres. where fifty sheep
would lose rather than gain flesh during the
summer The oldest inhabitant docs not re-
member when it was plowed, seeded, or top
dressed 1t has always been pastured-gen
orally by cows until it ceased to yield feed
enough to support them. There is some
grass upon it now. but more mulleins i've
finger. and moss The grass is nearly choked
out. But the soil was originally good. The
trees that stand on the borders are heavy
oak and chestnut timber, which do not
thrive on poor, thin soils. Yonder is field
of five acres, that pastures five COWS. and
has done 1t for several years The grass is
luxuriant and grows much faster than the
| cattle can consume it, It was stocked down
! five years ago after several years of heavy
cropping, with vegetables and tobacco. Of
course it was manfred heavily, and very
thoroughly cultivated. The land will feel
that treatment, and make grateful returns,
for whole generation to come. 1t is far
within the limits of truth to say, that one
acre of this five is worth the whole fifty of
the other for the purpose of sustaining ami
NAL life and making saleabe products. The
one does not pay taxes; the other pays
them and handsome profit. Now we do
not believe there is any road to thrift with
these rundown pastures. Top-dressing will
not answer, for the grass seed is not there to
vegetate. Seeding will do little good, for
| the grass already there is growing small by
| degrees. If the soil is lair, arabic land,
| pillow, plant, manure and cultivate, and you
| give it a new start. That old sod of dead
! grass roots and more rots, becomes plant
tood and sends up joyful harvests. But
! this will cost money, spent In manure. seeds,
and labor. You say, Of course 1t will, and
| il you get yonr money back again, princi-
| pal and interest, you ought to he satisfied.
Ii, by spending $50 upon Il worthless acre
OF pasture you make it pay you the interest
on $50 above the working expenses, you
are doing good business. We must use
our capital in farming just as we do in
other enterprises. We must bury it as we
do our wheat, that it may live and bear
fruit. If we buy stock in a railroad, or IN
almost any enterprise, the capital dies for
time We don't lose faith if it does not come
back the first or second year. Spent in
renovating Old pastures by blowing and
| manuring it usually gives full interest the
first year, and puts us in the way to secure
| dividends for years to come-Anerican
AgFiculturist.
Cow STABLEs.-A Ohio correspondent
asks for some details with respect to plan
Of milk barn in an old number of the RuraL
R,gister-contributed by an editor of this
journal.
We make our reply general, by saying
that cows should have such depth of stand
ing room, and only so much, as will ensure
| the dropping of the manure into cutters.
This length of flooring will of course de-
pend upon the size of the cow For grade
shorthorns it should be longer than for Al
derncys. With mixed herd, it has been
our practice to have standing floors vary
somewhat in length the inquirer will OBJ
serve this TO be the case in the plan he al
ludes to. Five feet is good average length
two feet for Manager, one foot for gutter
then four to six feet for gangway. Where
COWS are in lines on either side a stable, the
central gangway ought to be seven TO eight
feet wide. The arrangement we prefer for
stable is feed gangway in the centre Of a
stable, with shoots from hay-barn and gran
airy above-tte cows placed with tail to-
ward outer walls In such case, five feet in
clear between gutter and exterior wall would
be ample space.
Cows may be most economically tied ESQ
far as space goes) in double stalls from six
to seven feet wide, the animals being made
fast hy chains and rings sliding up and
down in the corners of such stalls. Three
feet and half is ample height for the divi-
ding partitions.
MANAGEMENT OF BROOD MAREs-During
the seventh and eighth months of the period
OF CESSATION, hrood-mare are more liable to
lose their foas than at any other time. For
this reason, after the sixth, month has passed
every mare that Is expected to rear Il colt
should he provided with box stall while
she is in the stable, even if the partition
between two stalls must be removed Tor
such purpose. Then the droppings should
not ne allowed to accumulate SO as to render
the surface uneven and disagrceable for the
beast when she lies down. A little worry
ing by disagreeable driver, little hard
driving, little neglect about Watering and
feeding, often result in shaking of the tioal
A CHEAP BARoMETER.-A Western paper
is responsible for the following:
at is said that cup of coffee is sure
barometer, if you allow the sugar to drop to
the bottom of Il cup and watch the bubbles
arise without disturbing the coffee II the
bubbles collect in the middle, the weather
will be fine; If they adhere to the cup,
forming ring, it will he rainy and if the
bubbles separate without assuming any fix-
ed position, changeable weather may he ex-
pccted.
How TO TREAT GARGBT.-" Mrs. L. J.
H." of Brattleboro, VT, sends us her meth
cd oftreating garget, which consists of SIM
ply bathing the adder in cold water, both
before and after milking, rubbing it gently
with the hand. She says the cold-water
application acts as charm She also feeds
sliced potatoes, to open the bowels and
coHnteract any tendency to constipation, but
never gives anything to increase or lessen
the flow of milk. The following is her ac-
count of ii severe case of garget which she
successfully treated. When she first saw
the COW which her husband had RECENTLY
bought, she says:
A sicker-ooking animal I never saw: she
could hardly walk, and her gait was like
drunken mans Her eyes looked white and
glazed, while her head was thrown upward
and backward, seeming to rest upon her
neck. We bathed the udder until we could
start the milk, then drew out al we could
get, then hathed again. then drew the milk
out and gave the COW thorough hand-rub-
bing all over, particularly her legs; next
day did the same, morning and evening,