Connecticut western news., 1871-08-18
Farm, Garden and Household.

ana W1GQOuI Gu0 CduSo D0luS IomON0u it is impossible to cure it. In some cases the leg is swollen to the knee, and discharges offensive matter from sup purating cracks, which are open at every movement of the horses foot. No care ful horse-man, however, would permit his beast to become afflicted to this de- gree, for early treatment brings about 8 speedy and easy cure. Carboic soap and warm water, applied three times a day, and little glycerine to protect the cleansed surface from exposure to the air, will effect cure. This unsightly disease should not be permitted to exist 8 moment longer than necessary to eradicate it. We can not imagine man of proper self-respect allowing himself to be seen in public driving horse suf- fering from 1t. t.-Hearh and Home.
 HINTS TO HoRsEMEN AND FARMERS. - Wash the beasts and all places on your horses and working cattle with a strong decoction of white-oak bark boiled down very strong. Wash few times where the harness comes, and it will toughen the skin and prevent gals. If the har- ness wears the hair from your horse, have the harness properly and thorough ly soaped and cleaned, and then oiled with neat's-foot oil blackened with two tablespoonfuls of ivory-black to quart of oil. After the oil has been on few hours, take sponge, soap,. and water. and wash off the surplus oil, and your harness will be clean to handle. Use sweet oil on patent-leather pads and binders. Give your horses warm bran-mash, mixed with a little salt, every Saturday night, except when green grass is fed. Clean out the gravel stones and dirt from the shoes every night with a stable hook, made of inch round iron, six inches long. The hook needs to be bent only half round. Stuff the horses forefeet with-eow manure, clay, and salt twice week in dry weather Have him shod monthly by the best of farriers, although you drive ten miles to find him. No horse can be driven freely unless his feet are in frst-class order The feet, like the foundation of build ing, are the first thing to look at in purchasing, and if the horses feet are unsound, don't buy at any price. Your time is too valuable to lose with ten der-footed animal If the horse is taken sick you will prescribe the same course of treatment and medicines you would do for yourselves in similar cases, and then send for your family physician who will do better than the quacks styled horse-doctors or veterinary surgeons Discharge any man who has no judg ment and fidelity in the care and use o horse. Cd'Tidge tops.-Use oil extract ed from the entrails and cooking O. fowls, and add a little ivory-black. It iI better than neat t's-foot or other oil, anC an occasional application will keep you carriage-cover in perfect order Soar of the oil after it has been applied few hours. For the axles, use caster-oi in warm weather, and sperm oil in colo weather, and wipe surplus, from axles an' nuts clean before and after using"
 HINTS FOR THE SEASON. Weeds il Pastures and Fence Corners should no on any account be suffered to go to seed Let them be moved at once.
 Stubble Land, especially after barley is often full of weeds 8 moving machin may be used with advantage to cut them Also, in pastures where thistles and othe weeds are abundant, moving machin affords an easy method of checking 0 destroying them.
 MlLch Coacs are apt to fall off rapidly i their milk this month, and that dairy man is fortunate, or, more correctl speaking, prudent and enterprising, wh has good supply of corn fodder. The1 is little profit in keeping COWS, unles they have all they can eat and digest. Th trouble with corn is that it is too bulky The COWS are capable of digesting mol of it than their stomachs will hold The need. if the grass is of poor quality, little corn-meal in addition to the fodde
 Horses suffer greatly from flies tn month, and should be provided with ne or light cotton covers. Washing the with water containing little crude ca bolic acid is 8 temporary relief.
 Sheep frequently suffer greatly tn month for want of water. If there is I water in their pasture lot, let them | put at night in a lot where there is wate or else be driven to water night al morning allow them plenty of time drink. If the weather is wet and u grass long and succulent, it is a goo plan to mow portion of it occasionall The sheep will eat and thrive on u dried grass. Lambs, ifnot done alread should now be weaned. Let them ha7 the best of pasture after weaning, al place the ewes on poor pasture until dr Examine the bags for few days, and, necessary draw out the milk Wht dry, and if early lambs are desired ne spring, the ewes, should begin to ha' abundance of good food. Stron healthy lambs can only be expected fro ewes in good condition.
 Saoine.-Feed the pigs at night, b not in the morning. They are tn, hungry enough to search for their foo to run on the stubbles, to pick up worn fruit in the orchard, and to eat wee and grass. At night they have feed soaked corn, and go to sleep contented with full stomach. They should ha constant access to- fresh water, and
 external application will be grateful received.
 Reneping Old Pastures, by harrowi them and sowing timothy, can be do any time this month, or the beginning the next.
 Manure may be drawn out and spre
 on the pastures and meadows, or
 grass or clover land intended for co next spring. Many farmers are afrs that the hot sun will evaporate all
 ammonia. It would do so if there VI
 any Hee ammOn1a Ill the manure, Q
 such is rarely the case. Spread t
 manure at once, and be careful to bre
 up all the Jumps.
 Root Crops must be hood and thinn
 out. Most people are inclined to lea
 the plants too thick. White turnips m
 be sown any time during the month, a
 even ruta-bagas sometimes afford f
 crop on good land, sown early u
 month.-Ag,tculturist.
 Ar a meeting of the Massachuse