Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-14
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,
Sweeney In Horses.

THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Sweeney In Horses.
Sweeneyed shoulder in horses is not a
disease Of the shoulder originally, but is
representative of other diseased parts,
through sympathetic action of the limbs
from tho feet.
a horse suffering severe pain from bone
shrunken hip as result of the morbid &C.
ton OF tho diseased parts. All diseases Of
the tore feet affect the shoulders. Canker,
contraction, founder, gravel, prick from a
nail, are affections Of the feet only. Some
people will say that such horse is chest
foundered, while the horse apparently per-
ishes in tine chest. This is caused by the
horse standing with his fore feet stretched
out forward. II man were to remain
with his arms stretched forward, his chest
would suffer the same way. Contraction
is not so much disease as the result of bad
management on the part Ct the smith in
shoeing the horse.
"Ser1eulturc or. How to Mako &1OO
Per Acre Of GrQund.'
In q new treatise on rearing silkworms,
just out ofLondon. 1t gives the palm to
the white mulberry tree as food produe-
or, against The morus multieaulis, which
once created such furore in England and
America. 1t shows how to accomplish
the difficult feat Of making silkworm cul-
ture profitable. China earns by its silk
$85,000,OOo annually; Japan, ~, OOo.-
900; Italy, 81 200, 900, and France over
S4,OOO,0OO, while England and America
(outsid. Of California; produce almost no
sikh With six million mulberry trees
and three crops Of silk year the Califor-
mans expect to produce two million
pound Of silk within two OF three years.
About Oar Bees.
Uncle Sam has bees enough to give III
ull sting! There are two million bee
hives in the United States. Every hive
yields on an average little over %
pounds of honey. The average price 1t
which honey is sold 10 Is cents q pound.
So that after paying for their own board,
our bees present US with revenue Of
over SS,5OO,0OO. TO reckon it another
way, they make a clear gift o f over q
pound of honey to every man, woman and
child in the vast domain of tie United
States. In 1860 over 23,33O,3OO pounds
Of wax we're made and given to us by
these Industrious workers. Tho keeping
of bees is one of the most profitable in
ves:merts that our people can make OF
their money. The profit arising from the
sale Of surplus honey averages from soto
200 per cent Of the capital invested -:
Massachusetts, Ploughman.
Formers Should Raise Heavier Horses
We indorse the opinion of the National
Live Stock journal, that it does not pay
farmers to raise fast horses. They have
seldom means suitable for tho purpose
and stand :. small chance Of succeeding
If they get good animal, they have no
the skill or time to train it. ills better t.
leave the raising of trotters and racers to
the professionals. But there is no neei
OF filling back on scrubs. Our farmer,
should raise carriage and draugh,
horses, for which there IS ALWAYS health,
and active demand. The Journal saws
Taking scrub or common horses a.
they run, and their quality IS so poor, tn.
supply SO large, and the prices 50 low
that there is absolutely no chance, az .
general thing, Of making expenses in
breeding and raising this description Of
stock. But there are other kinds .
horses which can be bred with obvious
advantage. If they have good mares O
fair size, they can by breeding to horses Q
good breeding, secure colts Of proper eize
&C lion and style to meet with prompt sal
at remunerative prices as carriage horses
etc. Or, If they employ stations Of III
most any Of the heavy draft breeds, tho
will obtain those solid heavy animal
which are in such demand for expires
wagons and heavy scanning all over tn
country. No one who has not iuvestieat
e3 The subject can form an intelligent est
mate Of the number of such animals th
country can absorb. Tho demand i
everywhere greater than tho supply, an,
is steadily and rapidly increasing. An
tits demand which, for great man
years at least, cannot be met. For, asid
from the natural increase in the deman
for them, those already in use are place,
at such severe labor, that they are 500
used up; hence the old purchasers ar
soon back in the market in search of fres
supplies. There is nothing of the lotter
in this sort Of business; every horse q
this description which the farmer ca
send to market will meet with ready sale
and bring good round prices. Aside fron
tho stallion service, the cost of raisin,
such animals is not a particle greater thai
the cost of raising scrub which will np
bring one-quarter the price when brough
to market; and their disposition is such
that they are less liable to strain and in
jure themselves while developing in tn
pasture, and are more readily broken I'm,
trained to harness.
Experience IN Butter-Nl king.
A correspondent Of tho Cincinna,
Gazette, in answer to an inquiry, gives hi
views rs follows:
1t is asked-DOcs not the WASHING n