The weekly Shasta courier., 1873-05-17
FARM AND GARDEN.

FIT COLLARS TO HORSES 0HoUL-
DERs.-It is very important to have
collar fit nicely and snugly to the shout
ders of the horse. 1t enables him to
work with great deal more strength,
It prevents CALLING and wounding, as
the friction is avoided. Collars ara
made so, or should be so made, as to
throw the chief force on the lower part
of the shoulder. The horse can apply
but little strength on the upper part,
and for this reason breast collars are
coming greatly into vogue, as the
strength is exerted on the lower part of
the shoulder. To make new collar
fit the shoulder of the horse, the collar
should be purchased of the proper size,
Just before putting it on the first time
immense it in water, letting it remain
about minute, and Immediately put
it on the horse, being careful to have
the names so adjusted at the top and
bottom as to fit the shoulder, and then
put the horse to work. The collar by
being wet will adapt itself to the shoul-
der, and should dry on the horse.
When taken off it should be left in the
the same shape it occupied on the
horse, and ever after you will have
snug fitting collar and no wounds
Valley Farmer.
NATURAL ROTATION OF CRoPs.-
Agriculturisrs had long been practically
conversant with the advantages deriva-
BILE from the practice of not growing
the same crop on the same soil for too
long a period. The advantages conse-
quent on this so-called rotation of crops
are due to more than one cause; but it
was bureau de la Male who, in 1925,
called attention to the phenomenon of
natural rotation. From long observa-
ton of what takes place in woods and
pasture lands, he established the fact
that an alienation of growth, as he
called it, occurs as a natural phenome-
non. In pasture lands, for instance,
the grasses get the upper hand at one
time, the leguminous plants at another;
SO that, in the course of thirty years,
the author whose observations we are
citing was witness of five or six such
alternations.-Popular Science Monthly
for May.
GREASE FOR oG-WHEELs.-"G
C. A. asks in what proportion tallow
and black-lead should be mixed togeth-
er when used to lubricate the gearings
of thrashing machines. The tallow is
used only to cause the black-lead to
adhere to the gears, therefore no more
than suffices for that purpose is needed.
| CARRorINg FOR CoLoR1NG BUTTER.
"A writer in Dingters Polytecnisches
Journal recommends caroline, the COL
oring matter of carrots, obtained by
exhausting the dried and pulverised
roots with bisulphide of carbon, as bet
ter adapted for coloring butter than
anatto, the caroline being tasteless and
scentless.
A correspondent of the Rural Home
gives the following remedy for heaves
in horses: Give once daily teaspoon
full of aquafortis, prepared as follows:
Mix it with teaspoonful of sour or
skinned milk, and mix this with bran,
and the bran with the grain fed. The
catarrhal affection of the throat makes
rapid amendment under this treatment,
and the correspondent says he has
known q number of cases cured by it.
A writer in the Journal of the Farm
says all that is necessary to have lettuce
through the winter is to build frame
out of coarse boards, to cover it with a
closely fitting glass sash, and to place
it in sunny spot-somewhere protect
ed. In this plant the lettuce sets about
six inches apart, in good ground, and
keep them properly watered. They
will grow all winter, and in the early
spring will form beautiful large heads
to encourage the appetite and grace the
table. The earlier in the autumn this
operation is begun the better.
The Waterville Nail says Messrs.
Howard and Ellis, of Fairfield, Me-,
have in their fine Shorthorn herd the
monstrosity of double headed calf.
The heads are distinct enough to exhibit
in full the eyes on both sides of each;
but the two tongues join at the root,
and the windpipe and other organs
thence downward are distinctly one. 1t
seems to be no improvement on the
common style. except in supplying the
market with calf's head One of our
fancy breeders thinks that if this doub-
ling-up fashion is to prevail it should
begin at the opposite end especially
when hay is high.