The Placer herald., 1872-06-08
HOUSE AND FARM.

highly formed, powerfully DulIt, wen Dred
mare, standing at least Is hands high and
weighing not less that l 200 pounds in ordi-
nary condition. This mare should breed to
a thoroughbred horse Of pure pedigree,
good form, great strength and depth in
body, standing on short, powerful and strong
limbs. lie should be at least 16 hands
high, and weigh not less than 900 pounds.
From the union of these we may expect
fine animal The mare must at least be
reasonably well bred, and ought to be larger
if anything, than the horse. Never breed
to a small or delicate Thoroughbred If
you sow weeds you cannot expect to reap
wheat 1t may be asked why the same
result could not be- attained by breeding
your fine mare to one of the many breeds of
draft horses. 1t may suffice to say that ex-
perience shows that it cannot, but this expe-
riencc rests on reason. The thoroughbred
mare and the draught horse are Of the same
genius, but they are of entirely different
origin. In form and physical consttut on,
they are widely different. The thorough
bred is the highest and most perfect type Of
the horse, while the draught horse is the
lowest. In physical composition and form
they differ as widely as the Caucasian from
the Ethiopian. 1t breeds a superior race to
an Inferior the product will not be similar to
either. 1t will degrade the superior and
elevate the inferior: hence it is a mongrel
grade. If you breed an inferior race with
lower grade than the superior, the product
will be inferior to both, because the tendency
of all animals is to revert to the origin that
most strongly predomnates in them. There
fore, if you breed quarter Or eighth bred
mare to coarse Norman, Percheron, Clydes
dale, Punch or Lincolnshire stallion, the
product must be the inferior of both, because
you are not elevating the standard but
degraeing it.-Er.
A VICTIM OF HAIR DYE.-Thos. Minshall,
young man residing in Chester, Pa, was
terribly poisoeed a week or two since by a
species Of hair dye in common use among
BARRIERS everywhere. While cooring his
mustache the barber suffered drop to fall
upon his lower lip, which was slightly chap
ped. In short time after it began to
SWELL became innamed to an enormous size,
and his face presented a SHOCKING appear
ance. Convulsion after convulsion followed
and for some days his life was in great jeop-
ardy. Within the last day Or tive, however,
the swelling has somewhat subsided and he
is in fair way to recover.-K'eha Jour-
nal.
INDIGESTION IN HORSES. Whenever the
evil is noticed, the animal must have piece
of rock salt and chalk constantly placed in
his rack and a little pipe clay, magnesia or
other ani-acid, in his water. If worms
have been passed, give three drains of aloes
dissolved in two ounces of turpentine and a
pint of Cruel. Half an ounce each of ginger
and gentian, and half drachm of sulphate
of iron, should subsequently be administered
twice day to impart tone to the digestive
organs. Turning the animal out to grass in
the Spring of the year, when it can be bene
fitted by exercise and fresh air will be found
to be very beneficial. Stock
Journal.
TOMATOES IN Iron PoTs.-There are a
thousand and one things | would like to
know, (and probably shall, in time, unless |
have to learn how to vote), but this | do
know, that tomatoes must not be cooked in
an iron pot. Some bene6cent housekeeper,
following in the footsteps of the ustrious
"scrappe" maker, gives a recipe in last
weeks Rural for a cheap soup, in which she
directs the ingredients to be put into an iron
pot. l sometimes, at good tables, taste to-
matoes which have been made bitter by
this process. If the intention is to medicate
them, the result will satisfy the design
Rural Ne,c Yorker.
To PRESERVE SrRAwBERRIEs.-T two
pounds of fine, large Strawberries, add two
pounds of powdered sugar, and put them in
preserving kettle, over slow fire till the
sugar is melted; then boil them for half an
hour as fast as possible; have ready a num-
Der of small jars, and put the fruit in boiling
hot. Cover the jars Immediately, and keep
them through the Summer in cold dry Gel
lar. The jars must be heated before the hot
fruit is poured in, otherwise they will break.
The lowest temperature at which seeds
can sprout has been generally taken to be 40
or SO Reaumer (4lo to 43o Fah.) Decan-
dole found that all the seeds with which he
experimental sprouted at temperature of
A. or more: only the lepidium saticotm (gar-
den cress) and linun usitatissimun, sprouted
at 80, and out of 80 seeds of the sinapis
alba (whte mustard) at %, Uloth, accord
ing to the Flora, Oh clearing out an ice-cel-
lar, found in pieces of ice fully sprouted
seeds of maple and wheat. which fourished
when transplanted to soil. The cellar was
fully dark and the temperature zero (320
Fab where he seeds were found.
WET CLOTHES Few persons understand
fully the reason why wet clothes exert such
chilling influence. 1t is simply this: Water,
when it evaporates, carries off an enormous
amount of heat, in what is called the latent
form. One pound of water in vapor contains
as much heat as nine or ten pounds of
liquid water, and all this heat must, of
course, be taken from the body. If our
clothes are moistened with three pounds of
water, that is, if, by wetting, they are
rendered three pounds heavier, these three
pounds will, in drying, carry off as much
heat as would raise three gallons of ice-cold
water to the boiling point No wonder that