The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1872-08-03
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Abuse of Old Horses.

| to make old horses break the colt and
| too often work with them for years. 1t
is hard for an old horse to work with q
colt or Il young active horse. Old
horses, like old men, are often capable
of performing more hard work than
some young ones who can beat them
for an hour or more. The old man
hold out all day; but q little iminode-
rate exertion for q few minutes I'M
strings him perhaps all day. An old
horse driven at the top of his speed for
a few miles spells the days journey.
! When once made sore or strained, the
result is stiffness the next day. The
old horse should not haul his load to
| town and then be forced to trot back.
1t docs not injurc him as much to do
heavy work with slow motion, as to do
light jobs at the fast gait.
Again, the old horse requires more
time to eat his meals and rest his nerves.
OF all animals the oldho is the worst
abused. Although he has been our
most faithful and profitable servant,
yet in his old age the lash is applied to
force out his youthful vigor. The older
he grows the more he feels the lash.
He is often turned out of doors to give
place tosthe colts. Too often the neg
cause he is Il little old, results in q
greater loss than is made up in the care
of the young horse. The last part OF q
horses life may be more profitable,
if rightly used, than the first part.
There is more comfort and less danger
in working old horses. We understand
them and they understand us; and we
should be willing to cOnfCrln to their
nature, as they arc to conform to our
wishes. It-WOuld be more humane as
we'll us more profitable to use them rs
they should be, as long as it would pay,
and then take them out and shoot them
down. But the wicked practice is to
knock them about as much as they
will bear to pay well, and then trade
them off to some more inhunlane
wretch than themselves. The old SER
want is gone among strangers, and he
receives no sympathy in his last eN-
trenity. -r ....r
We do not blush to say that Il man
who has enjoyed the profits and pleas
ures of a good horse, as long as he was
profitable, and then shoves him off
man, treachcous, and suspicious friend.
The man who does 50 without regard
to how the horse may be cared for, is,
in my estimation, Of Il suspicious char
actcr; and l never see horses abused so
as to excite pity, but my sympathies
are directed to the mans wife and
children also, if he has them. - OHIO
Etu2QeT.
Usually there has been an intense pre-
judice against the poor bee; but at the
Apiarian General Convention, held at
Stuttgard, in Wertemburg, 1853, the
Of fT,n nj. 1,n
ing under discussion, the celebrated
pon,ologists, Prof. Lucas, one of the di-
rectors of the Hohcnhcin Institute, said:
''Of more Importance, however, is in
the improved management of our fruit
trees. Here the interests of the hOrti-
cufturist5 and the bee keeper combine
and run parallel. a judicious pruning
flour fruit trees will cause them to
blossom more freely and yield honey,
more plcntifully. l would urge alton
ton to this on those particularly who
arc both fruit growers and bee keepers.
n careful and Obscrvant bee keeper, at
Potsdam, writes to me that his trees
yield decidedly larger crops since he
has established an ;,pi;,ry in his orchard
and the annual crop is now more ccr-
tain and regular than before, though
his trees had always received duo at
tCntiOn.
s'Somc years ago, Il wealthy lady in
Germany established L green house
at considerable cost, and stocked it
with 4 great variety of choice native
and exotic fruit trees-eNpccting, in
due time, to have rcnluncrativC crops.
Time passed, and annually there wls
supCrabundancc Of blossoms, with only
very little fruit. Various plans We're
devised and adopted to bring the trees
to bearing, but without success, till it
was suggested that The blossoms needed
fertilization, and that by means of bees
the needed work could be effected. \
hive Of busy honey gatlcrers was in
troduccd next season; the remedy was
ctlCctual-thcrC was no longer any diff
ticulty i'll producing crops there. The
bees distributed the pollen, and the set
ting OF the fruit followed naturally.
~ correspondent of the Boston
Spectator, after Il late trip through the
wine growing counties OF Europe, is
convinced that American grape grow
crS follow too SCrHilclN the process of
European culture. II il well known