Connecticut western news., 1872-01-12

compressing it very tightly. A heavy hammer is also used, and the creature winces, and beco nes troublesome to shoe, for which he, not uncommonly, is severely beaten.
 All these culminate in injury to the legs. First, we have the want of pro- lection to the bones of the foot within the hoof; they suffer and become inham- ed, and at the parts where pressure is greatest lose substance by absorption. The animal becomes stilty, and is said to be groggy che goes like cat on hot plate," and we'll he may. The evils are, however, still perpetrated by MT. Far rier, and not knowing how to remedy them. probably tries all the absurd pat ent shoes which cunning men have de- vised as "good draw" and the owner finds himself obliged at last to sell his fnvorite, disease having extended from the foot upward, the whole limb to the knee being involved, and the animals condition disgracefully sacrificed by an amount of torture which the perpetrator alone shonld be made to suffer for one week in order to bring him to bis senses.
 PoP DRESSING. meeting of the Farmers Club, MT. A. Pratt, of Platts- burg New York, said: Twenty years ago the opinion was that manure should be plewed under. Oftentimes damp or cloudy time would be chosen for these operations in the belief that there would be less loss by evaporation than there would be in clear weather But there has been great and gratifying change in theory and practice since that time. It has long seemed to us that the process of nature amply justified sur- face manure. A weighty reason in favor of emptying barn yards on our ground after it has been plowed is that it not only makes good yield of corn and puts the soil ill tine condition for subsequent crops, but proves destructive to foul seed. What does not germinate md get killed by the preliminary working of the surface preparatory to planting IS sure to be annihilated by the after cultivation of tho crop if thorough cul- tore is given. But when plowed under deep such seed will lie dormant till turn ed up the succeeding year to grow and ripen in the years crop. We have put on course manure, straw, long corn stock butts, dry cobs, chip dirt, anything ou the premises that we wanted to get out of the way, and what had not manurial properties immediately avail able as plant food we found to serve advantageously as Q mulch in dry wealth CT, and ultimately to increase the fertil- ity of the soil. Prof. Nash said I go for putting the manure on or but little under the surface not deep under- ground, for there it either lies dormant ii long time and does no good, or If it decomposes it 'goes into compounds which are poisonous to plants whereas If left on or little below the surface, where it feels the influence of the sun, air, and rains, it is speedily decomposed, and its elements pass into such com- pounds as are genial to plants, restoring their growth at once. But do not leave manure above the surface. If so left in great Jumps, hardly touching the soil, it dries up ; it's value is but partially at- tached into the soil, while most of it is wasted on the desert air. On meadow land, therefore. would spread it as evenly as possible, and then roll down into actual contract with the surface soil. If applied on plowed land would cover it but shallow, not more than four inches at most, and then harrow till 1t should be fairly mixed in and composted with the soil.