National opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1865-1874, 1870-09-09
Farm, Garden and Household.

at EgremOnt Plain, year ago, has re-
appeared. DIR. Beebe made post NOR
tenn examination of horses, and pro-
nounced the cause of their death to be |
the cattle disease. Last fall it was
thought the death of the COWS possibly
originated in feeding upon medows
which had been overhowed by the Octo-
Der freshet, but the cause not existing
this year, the theory is exploded. Up
wards of 20 head of cattle have died of
the complaint since its first appearance.
A MAN i'll st. Johns, Mich, recently
received the following letter &" Dear
Sir Enclosed you will find 81. l will
give you an explanation. Seven years
ago last February, | was at Joe b.
Smiths house. You We're driving an
express. You brought your whitfietrees
into the bar-room to mend. While you
were fixing them stole your jack knife,
and oh, my God it has panied me ever
since and, as l have obtained your
address, l determined to confess and
make it all right l am very sorry for
having done 50, and ask your forgive
ness. Yours, sincerely, -"
CHARCOAL FOR HORSES WIND
MANY years ago, | recollect," says a
correspondent of London paper, ga
horse being brought into the yard of
Joseph Bignal celebrated man for keep
ing hunters at Croydon. The horse was
much affected i'll the wind, and could
hardly move from distress. In few
days this animal did his regular work
as a hunter, with perfect ease and com
fort to itself. Tar water was the cure.
Tar is carbon, and charcoal is also car
bon charcoal in the powder is more
easily given than tar water. l have tried
it with Il. ost beneficial effect, and | think
it stands to reason that the removal of
noxious gasses and tiatulence from the
stomach of the horse must improve his
wind and condition. Tar is frequently
given with benefit in case of chronic dis
eases of the respiratory organs; but its
effects are totally different from those
produced by charcoal carbon"
MANAGEMENT OF LAND. In treating OF
the importance and the method of pre-
serving the fertility of cultivated land,
the Ohio Farmer makes the following
observations
On clay soil, with favorable season,
good crops are always looked for where
sod is turned, and even to the second and
third blowing without the aid of manure
and here is Just the point that should bt
noted. Clay land should never be plowec
until manure is required, and the bes
guide to be governed 10y is cease plowins
before the decayed sod has disappeared
stock to clover, pillow under one crop, an'
then use as moving land, applying man
ure to surface until it is desired to u.s.
again for grain crops.
Many of our most successful farmer
never put forkful of manure upol
plowed ground, but use all that can b
collected upon their grass land, and d
not raise more than three crops in success
sion upon plowed fields before returnin
it to grass. 1t is well known to ever
farmer that barn-yard manure multiple
labor when put upon land used Tor hoe
crops, weeds will grow and blowing an
hoeing will not eradicate them, and doubl
labor is required to obtain even mediui
crop.
Ii an animal is allowed to get poo
more feed is required to sustain life an
strength in said animal than i'll one IA
ways kept in good condition, ana so it
with land. When by over-plowing an
heavy draught upon the soil fertility
lost, it requires double the amount {
feed to reclaim it than would have bee
required to have kept it i'll good sta'
of productiveness by proper treatment.
ABOUT MILKING--Five per cent al
perhaps ten can be added to tt
amount of milk obtained from the coy
OF this country, if the following rules a
inexorably followed
lst. Never hurry cows, i'll driving
and from the pasture.
I'd Milk as near at equal intervals
possible. Half past five i'll the morml
and six at night are good hours.
3D.. Be especially tender OF the COW
milking-time.
4th. When seated, draw the milk
rapidly as possible being certain to alwa
get it all
9TH. Never think or talk of any6ii
besides what you are doing while mil
ing.
9th Offer some caress and always
soothing word when you approach "A c,
and when you leave her. The betters
loves you the more free and compile
will be her abandon us you sit 10y h
side
We append the not uncommon pr;
tee:
LIST Let some boy turn the COWS ava
and get them, who is fond Of throw
stones and switching the hind ones eve
chance he gets.
I'd. Milk early in the morning Il
late at night dividing the day into t
portions, one of fifteen hours am
other nine.
3D.. Whack the COW over the back W
the stool, or speak sharply to her If 5
does not $50" or "hOlst.
4th. Milk slow and carelessly, and st
at the first Stacking OF the fluid.
9TH. Talk and laugh, and perht
squirt milk at companion mixers, VII
seated at the COW.
9th. Keep the animal in tremble
the time you are milking, and when dc
give her vigorous kick
MODES OF FATTENING Hoes. Not
few farmers feed corn in the ear, u
some even raw potatoes, to their iattenl
swine. One-half would probably be
under estimate of the loss by this easi
but most slovenly and costly practice.
A large number mix dry meal with c
water or Stops, and Immediately feeC
to their hogs. The loss in this case
not as much MS in feeding the corn
ground, but it cannot be less than fir
fifteen to twenty live per cent.
Still others cook their meal with I'll
potatoes, both thoroughly, complet
mixing the one with the other, and Il
adding to the conglomerate water S,