The weekly Shasta courier. [volume] (Shasta, Calif.) 1872-190?, 1873-03-29
FARM AND GARDEN.

excellent remedy, when properly ap-
piled, has an amazing good effect upon
farmers boys, keeping them at home in
the evenings when they ought to be
there, and making them love home bet
ter than any other place on earth.
Here are the ingredients:
|. Treat them as partners with you.
Give them to understand that they are
interested in the success of the farming
operations as much as you are yourself.
2. Converse freely with them. Get
their opinions, and give them yours.
If at all prudent, make use of their
plans, and when you think your own
best, explain to them why you do not
adopt theirs. Don't keep them alto
gether in the dark with reference to
your plans for the future.
8. Don't require them to stay at
home in the evenings all the time.
When there is any meeting or enter
tainment from which they might receive
benefit, be sure to let them go.
4. Provide them with plenty of good
books and papers; especially referring
to agriculture. Let them be well post
ed in their own business-farming.
5. Never scold them because they
don't do their work or attend to the
business of the farm as well as you do
Encourage them.
6. Give them holiday now and
then. They look for it, and they need
it and it will be better for you and
them to let them have it.
Other ingredients may with safety be
added, but the above are few of inf
mite importance, and should never be
omitted.
Farmers, try my recipe; it acts like a
charm.
CLEAN AND DRY STABLEs.-A horse
will endure severe cold weather without
much inconvenience, so long as he is
furnished with dry stable. But re-
quire him to stand on a wet and foul
floor, and his health will soon begin to
fail Horses often suffer from cold feet
and legs. A great many stables have
damp and wet floors. Few men who
handle horses give proper attention to
the feet and legs. Especially is this
the case on farms. Much time is spent
of morning in rubbing, brushing, and
smoothing the hair on the sides and
hips. but at no time are the feet exam
ined and properly cared for. Now, be
it known, that the feet of horse re-
quire more care than the body. They
need ten times as much, for in one re-
spect they are almost the entire horse.
All the grooming that can be done
won't avail anything if the horse is
forced to stand where his feet will be
filthy. In this case the feet will be-
come disordered; and then the legs will
get badly out of fix; and with bad feet
and bad legs, there is not much of the
horse fit for anything. Stable prisons
generally are very severe on the feet and
legs of horses; and unless these build
ings can afford dry room, where a
horse can walk around, lie down, roll
over, they are not half so healthy or
comfortable to the horse as the pasture,
and should be avoided by all good hos
tiers in the country.
AIR PLANTs.-In a late number
noticed an inquiry about the air plant.
There are a great many varieties of
them, but the kind mentioned is like
one that we have. 1 am told it bears
no flowers, and there is no beauty in it
as plant. 1t will grow with straight
stem nearly to the ceiling, and the only
interesting thing about it is the curious
way of growing, viz: Pluck leaf,
fasten it by needle to the window
casing, in few days little tiny fbres
will be seen starting out from the pro-
jections on the edge, and in a short
time leaves will grow, and if no acct
dent happens there may be quite plant
grown. 1t is not to be watered, or
anything done to make it grow, only to
be let alone.
FLoRIcULTURE.-All lovers of flowers
must remember, that one blossom al
lowed to mature or ego to seed" in
jures the plant more than dozen new
buds. Cut your flowers then all of
them, before they begin to fade. Adorn
your rooms with them; put them on
your tables; send bouquets to your
friends who have no flowers; or ex-
change favors with those who have.
You will surely find that the more you
cut off the more you will have. All
roses after they have ceased to bloom
should be cut back, that the strength of
the root may 60 to form new roots for
next year. On bushes not a seed
should be allowed to mature.-Scrib-
ner's.
PAINTING IN WINTER.-There is
prevalent an erroneous impression to
the effect that winter is bad time to
paint buildings and the like. On the
contrary, it is in many respects the very
best time, for there are no insects or
dust to stick in the paint while it is
wet. We would not advise the selec-
ton of zero temperature for painting,
but almost any clear day may be re-
garded as reasonably effective dry
weather
BURIAL SERVICE ON BOARD MAN
oF-WAR. But into this, our floating
citadel, steals sometimes "single
sombre warrior" and smites in our
midst. Young Hylas is gone from
among the Argonauts. All last night