River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1872-11-15

feeding it is upright in the air. 1t will
keep the animal to which it is applied
where he belongs, sure.
ONE of our substantial subscribers. in a
recent conversation, gave his experience
IN training meat stock affected with the
habit Of eating wood, chewing bones, etc.
Ills cattle were one spring affected in this
wav they became thin in flesh, refused to
eat hay, and presented sickly appear.
ance. Lie had no impression that their
food lacked the constituents for making
bone, but his neighbors used bone meal
without noticing any good results what
ever. At last he put about four bushels
of leached ashes in his barnyard, and threw
out to them about shovelful each day.
They all ate as if with evident relish.
After turning them out to pasture, he put
one peck of dry ashes per week on the
ground in the pasture. They ate all up
and gnawed off the grass where i: had
been lying. The cattle began to improve,
gaining flesh and looking better than they
had done for several years. He says that
this morbid appearance was unnoticed
years ago, from the fact that the ground
was ashy from the burningsof the woods
and land clearings. Latterly he gives
one quart of ashes mixed with the same
quantity of salt to twelve head of cattle,
about once week.--LiUe Stock Journal.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Maryland
Farmer urges the general introduction of
wooden collars, for the following reasons:
l. The present huge collar chokes the
horse in the summer and chills him
through the lungs in the winter.
2. A collar made Of white bass or
other light, tough wood, would never
heat, gall, or chill horse.
3. Experience has demonstrated that
a hard wooden surface, polished and kept
clean, is the safest, coolest, best and
healthiest collar ever used.
4. They only weigh one-third as much
as ordinary collars, and unite names and
collars in one. No rough surfaces are
worked up no sweat is absorbed to cook
scald fresh air passes around the collar,
evaporating the moisture and keeping the
skin dry the hair is not chafed and fret
ted, and the horses health is freed from
the membranes of collar disease. As
illustration of the superior quality of a
hard, non-absorbent surface on horses
shoulders, he presents the following in.
stances: During the war it was found
necessary to remove an equipment factory
in the South 500 miles. The number of
collars for the teams employed was insul-
ticent by forty, which were made of wood,
polished and tied on by ropes through
each end. At the end of the tiresome
journey, all the horses and mules that used
the ordinary collars were severely CALLED,
nearly ruined, and for long time remain
ed unfit for service; whilst those that
wore the wooden collars were ungalled
and ready for work as usual Several
planters, also, being unable to procure
collars during the war, made them of
wood, and conducted their business with
success, and comfort to their mules and
horses.
5. The uncovered hand of an axman
will be more comfortable than the hand of
one who uses gloves for its protection.
(This every farmer will concede.)
6. The ox-bow and yoke are proof to
the point. Iroa bows are in common use.
7. Hard rubber has found place in
horse collars. They are manufactured at
Baltimore.