The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-08-01
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WHIPPING HORSES

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Wagner, in his work on the Education
| of Horses" says:
Il would caution those who train or
use horses against exciting the ill-wiN of
the animal. Many think they are doing
finely and are proud OF their success
In horse training by means Of severe
| whipping, or otherwise rousing and slim
| ulatlng the passions and then from ne
cessity crushing the viii through which
| the resistance is prompted. No mistake
| can be greater than this; and there Is
nothing hat so fully exhibits the ability
| Judgment and skill of tie real horseman
| as the care and tact displayed 10 winning
instead repelllng the action Of the mind.
Although Il may be necessary to use the
whip sometimes, it should always be ap-
| Piled ludiclously and great care should
| be taken not to rouse the passions or
excite the will to obstinacy.
| The legitimate and proper use of the
whip Is calculated to operate unon the
sense of fear almost entirely. The aflec-
tons and better nature must he appealed
TO training horse as well as In training
a child. Arsproof given may be intend
ed for the good of the child but if only
the passions are excited the sffsctI is
depraving and injurious. This Is vital
| principle and eau be disregarded In the
management OF sensitive courageous hor-
ses only at the imminent risk of spelling
them. | have known many horses Of
naturally gentle characer to be spoiled
by being whipped once and one horse
that was made vicious by being struck
with whip once while standin, in the
STALL
Il have referred to these instances to
show the danger of rough treatment
and the effect that may be easily pro-
duced by i'll usage especially with fine
blood horses and those Of a highly ner-
vous temperament. Many other cases
might be cited as such are by no means
uncommon. Sensitive horses should
never be left after they have been excit-
ed by whip or other means until calmed
down by rubbing or patting the head
and neck and giving apples, sugar or
something OF which the animal Is fond.
Remember the whip must be used with
great care or it is liable TO do mischief,
and may cause lrreparabie injury
SAVING TIMBER,
When we consider the fencing and
| farmbuildiDcs required by our more than
four million farms. if rekoned at one hun
farm making six hundred millions Of
dollars, and when all TIE uses of wood
are considered. few men who have tray
eied widely and observed and estimated
closley, will deny that more than one
thousand million dollars in products
is derived from our forests annually
five times the value Of Our largest cot
con crop, ten times the production of our
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Of gold and silver and four times our
| wheat crop. Indeed few single interests
exceed in value the enormous product
ions of our forests.
How to cut timber with q saw ecientif-
cally, may be treated Of in another article
and | will only at this time point out
some Of the advantages over the Hasteful
and primitive axe. First, saw the trees
down, they can be cut closer and with
greater economy than by chopping and
by the use Of wedges felled in any desired
direction. They can be cut with less
labor if the operator knows bow and uses
the most improved saw. If the tree be
designed for fuel the saving by saving
1t, the leugth desired on the ground in
the forest is manifest Iffor stove-wood
the blocks may be carted without split
ting, and when thus saved, trees that any
chopper would leave to rot in the forest,
become instantly available: for who
does not know that one foot block may
be split easier than one of four feet, be-
sides saving the immense waste of
chip a foot in width? From one-third
to one-quater of the trees in many forests
are what woodmen regard as "culls,"
| and tough timber; this, added to the
saving of the chips makes fully one third
of the forests available for fuel that
might otherwise be wasted and remain
an obstruction and incum brance
| Saw-logs and dimen+of-timber, fenc.
ing posts, ETC., in the Northern States
are now usually sawed, but in a recent
! trip through all the Southern States
Except Texas), [ noticed in mill and
| lumber-yards the splintered ends of saw
logs cut with axes; indeed this is the
general method Of country mills there,
but improved methods will soon prevail
everywhere in all wood cutting.
Now let us consider the time and labor
saved by saving instead of chonping.
To cut one hundred million cords Of
wood with the axe requires as many
days labor, and as many dollars; If the
use OF hand cross-cUt saws be substituted
and only one-half the labor be saved, the
fifty millions now thrown away are gain
CO besides the immense waste of fuel
making 10 the two items an annual saw
ing Of an amount equal TO the interest
OF the national Observation-Disclosures.
GEORGE W. CAMPBELL, of Delaware
Ohio, in recent letter in the Ohio Far
nler says:
The point which | wished to establish
was whether the honey bees were Justly
classed among the grape destroying in-
sects or whether they simply utilized the
juices OF the grape by appropriatipg " hat
| would otherwise be lost after the skins
of the berries had been broken by some
other agency. | have up to this time
been wholly unable to ascertain that they
ever attack a sound anbroken grape, and
believe they have acquired this reputa-
ton only by reason of being sometimes
found III bad company. The wasp Is
furnished with powerful ard efficient
saw toothed cutting apparatus with
which the grape skin could be easily
abrased; but this is entirely wanting in
the honey bee, whose organs seem only
suited to the suction ofliquid substances.
Grapes are often burst by oyergrowing
on the stems, especially if rainy weather
succeeding drought occurs about the
time of rlpening and wasps and other
insects will then be found abundant
among the vines.
| SUCKING Cows.
a correspondence Of the P-ouie Far
naer gives the following as preventive
Of COWS sucking themselves;
Take hickory stick eight or ten in
ches long make it round, white the ends
to sharp point, have it 6ve-eights or
three-fourths of an inch thick in the CEN
ter when done. Then cut a groove
around the center one half inch wide and