The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1873-07-04
FARM AND STngK MITES.


triangle They are 2is from corner /
to corner. | hook two at them 10 |
The back corners of he front one /
with hooks and eyes. and hook the |
corners of the two hack iIarrows to- |
geIler, aud | have the hest harrow |
/ ever SAW, and have tried nearly |
all kinds. IL puiverizes the ground |
better and laps down on rough land |
and keeps clean easier, aud ia
siulnpg or soldy ground does the
work better. with less i.itching GA
siuinps, than any harrow ever saw.
4. J. Emery.
The Danish farmers make but
FER that may be safely shipped from
Copenhagen TO China and back
again. Their butter, originally good,
| is sealed up in tin cans, in which
condition it undcrgoes 40 change
The cans range in size from 4 np To
% pounds. aud = large business Is
done between the merchants OF Co
penhagen, London aud Liverpool.
and those oil China. Brazil, laws,
| Spain. and either countries.
| STARTING BALKY HoRsEs.-A
correspondent of the C0Hrtry Gem
| tlemau writes / have q plan that
seldom fails to start the unruly an
/ finals in a few minutes, and if per-
/ severed in, generally effects a per-
taanen1 cure, but it is too difficult
OF apnEicati0H to become generally
/ useful. Have with you d small
Quantity of whole corn, and when
3 remedy Is needed go gently to
/ the horses head with handful,
eoax him with carresses while he
/ eats from the hand. Attempt to
1 lead him, holding the corn q little
way before him, and when he goes
sfquietly and shows that his temper
has subsidized leave him with his
4 mouth full of corn, get into the
| vehicle and speak TO him TO go on,
| using quiet manners inst as if
nothing was wrong; and if he re-
fuses apply the same treatment
again, and again if necessary, until
success attends. Perhaps it may
not be clear to the reader what the
difficulty is in applying this remedy.
1t is in the worse than baiky dis
position of the driver, who would
rather succeed once in twenty times
by spassionately whipping, than
nineteen times in twenty by gem
tleness. Only gentle man can
manage a balkey horse, and while
there are plenty of gentlemen in
society, there are not so many gem
tie men IN the treatment of animals.
| VALUABLE HINTs.-Most of the
naples in this vicinity were entirely
stripped of their leaves last sum-
. mer by caterpiIlars. The same
thing viii undoubtedly, occur this
season. The moths have been an
usually plentiful, and have laid a
/ great many eggs. These eggs are
of the size of q small pin head, of q
light yellow color when first laid,
turning dark afterwards. and are
laid on the under side of the leaves
in clusters of from twenty 10 fifty.
They are seldom or never found ex-
cept on the lower limbs, and if those
/. who have set few naples for shade
or ornament, will examine the trees
: ROsC, aud pick off all the leaves Thai
have eggs on them and burn them,
they viii save their trees from be-
ing tlefoliated There is a boreI
: that is very troublesome to naples
? that have been newly planted OF
, otherwise checked in their growth
| and the beetles delight 10 lay theil
7 eggs where limb has been cut of
? or the bark bruised. Il such places
: are covered with gum shellac oil
: paint, and the trunk and large limbs
washed with soft soap or wood
ashes, the trees will not be troubled
]. with borers unless they are alread
q in them, and in that case they must
4 be cut out. III there should be much
rain between now and the middle
2 of July or the first of August, II
would be we'll to repeat the appIi-
= cation of soap or I've at that time
} Nationalist.
WooDEN COLLARS. The Mary
land Farmer prints the following
argument in favor of wooden col.
lars: The present huge collar chOkes
the horse in summer and chills him
through the lungs in winter. A
! collar made of white Eastwood oil
other light, tough wood, would
, never heat, gall or chill q horse.
/ Experience has demonstrated that a
hard wooden surface, polished and
kept clean, is the safest, coolest.
best and healthiest collar ever used.
They will only weigh One-thiPd as
; much as ordinary collars, and mite
names and collar in one. No rough
! | 60l 0tC WI hCh ~ W cut
is absorbed to cook q scald fresh
air passes round the collar, evapo-
. rating the moisture and keeping the
skin dry the hair is not chafed and
fretted. During the war it was
found necessary to remove an equip
: Inent factory in the South, 500
miles. The number of collars for
the teams employed was insufficient
by forty, which number was made
of wood polished, and tied on by
ropes on each end. At the end OF
the tiresOme journey, ali the horses
and mules that nsed the ordinary
: collars were severely gailed-nearly
ruined. and for long time unfit for
service /; whilst those that wore the
wooden collars were ungalIed and
ready for nse as usual. Several
planters, also being unable 10 pro-
cure collars during the war, made
them of wood, and conducted thei r
business with success and comfort
TO their mules and horses. :. ssa
II WHAT To DO WITH CoRN.-A cor
respondent of the Independent who
has recently made a western tour,
says: s'The West is Just now dis!
couraged-cOrn plenty, but corn
poor. at seventeen cents per BUSH
ell the farmer hardly gets back The
cost of production. Really, when
comparing estimates, this price does
not give the farmer 81 per day for
his own labor. Fifty acres of corn
at 40 bushels per acre and II cents
per bushei only, realize $40, and it
takes the labor of one man or more
to cultivate that fifty acre field.
/ THE to - q.
year on one crop alone, although
the farmer also has little time to
attend to wheat, grass and stock.
The only way to economize il Is 10
feed to cattle aud hogs. Its value
can thus be brought up TO 30 cents
per bushel. and in this concentrated
form of beef or pork IL can be
freighted TO market at one fourth
the expense and obtain twice The
price, We would think every farm
er could see this; yet they don't.
They have been raising corn year
after year, every new conner has
gone into corn culture also, and
now the quantity is too great to- be /
prOiitabie--is more than the de-
mand. The eyes of the farmers
will lse opened TO the value of YaFi-
ed crops, and one dag they will re-
aliZe to the fullest extent the irifth |
of Mr.. Greeie,ss observations, WHO |
once said 1.-The farmers best sue
cess lies la diversified agricni-
inre."
A LAWFUL kansas FENcE.-l
Among the acts passed by the leg
islatnre last winter was one relating
TO fences, and which we publish be-