Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1874-06-04

Dead leaves arc in those woodland ways
Cold are the lips that used to kiss:
Twero idle to recall those days,
Or sigh for all that vanished bliss!
Do you still wear your old-time grace, Il
And charm now loves with ancient wiles ?
Could but watch your faithless face,
I'll know tho meaning Of your smiles.
The Gala1y.
- .gl.1.
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
Poultry Lice.
An exchange says : One Of our cor
respondents wishes it stated thathe has
been very successful in keeping lice out
of his poultry house, and hens nests,
by the free use Of >air-slacked lime in
fine powder. We have implicit faith in
the free use Of fresh whitewash, ap-
piled while warm. Another friend in
forms us that if the boxes and roosts
are made of sassafras wood, there will
be no trouble with ice.-Okio Farmer.
Beddins Out verbenas,
A correspondent of the New York
World writes upon bedding out verbe-
ms as follows, which weindorse. except
rs to distance apart at which they are
planted. We should plant bed Of
this size, say about fourteen inches
apart the long way of the bed, in two
rows the rows nine inches from the
edge the other<waE~thegsoovud row
breaking insbetween the first. In this
way the bed Is covered much sooner
and more perfectly, and the difference
in the number of plants is but . small
item. The correspondent says:
Turn over a new bed in the grass, or,
If your lawn is a geometrically arranged
seven by nine plotwhere the grass is as
vigorously excluded as Canada thistles,
get a wagon-load of earth from some
place where grass grows upon it. Make
your verbena bed of this. It need not
be rich in barn-yard ingredients quite
the reverse. As a rule early-bought
plants from the greenhouse do not sue
coed as we'll as those kept through the
winter on the window-sill at home. If
you get your plants of the nurserymen,
keep them by you some time before
temptation is great to adorn little bed
with couple of dozen verbena plants,
fresh from the nursery, oil in blossom.
They look lovely the day you put them
out but ere long there comes . cold,
"wet rain, that drizzles the color ali
out of the flowers and turns the leaves
q sort of russell color, which disiigures
the bed until July. It does not pay to
crowd the season with . profusion of
hot-house bloom.
Set the plants into q box of earth, and
keep them growing in the house till the
frosts are safely passed. They are
growing and maturing all the while
nothing is lost, everything gained, by
the patient waiting. Six plants are
enough for bed six feet by three; they
will cover it by August.
spring Ailnent4 Of Farm Horses.
The changeable weather of spring
md early summer, says q veterinary
surgeon in an exchange, is greatly pro-
vocative of colds and rheumatism, as
we'll as disorders of lungs in horses.
Overheated by work, which at the be-
ginning of the season is more severe
than ut other times, because of the pre-
vious resting stage, cold rain occurs,
and, perspiration being interfered with,
waste matters deleterious to health are
retained within the circulation and q
febrile condition soon results. The
blood is debased inaammatory action,
congestion, and impaired secretion are
often followed by unnatural discharges,
and variety of troublesome disorders
supervene. OF these the most preva-
lent are bronchial affections, coughs
with oov,s1,po nasal O~l
rheumatism. Sometimes these by
neglect become chronic, and the
value of the animal affected is
greatly impaired. It is wisest to pre-
vent these i'll results by timely precau-
tions.
In the first place it is we'll not to
overwork any animal, nor to stint it in
its supply Of food. The increased ap-
petite consequent upon harder work,
should be met with concentrated
rather than bulky food. for the stomach
cannot safely be overloaded when the
system is overloaded by labor. Diges.
ton should be aided by regular sup
plies OF salt and an occasional tonic
consisting Of q spoonful of ginger
with q dram of sulphate of copper
(blue yitrioD. In the second place
when heated with work an animal
should not be left standing outof doors
exposed to a sweeping shower, as is
frequently the case, while its owner or
driver shelters himself by the warm
stove. Many rheumatic cases are thus
caused, which come up suddenly, pro-
ducing great stiffness and lameness.
Such case came recently to my knowl-
edge, which being a typical one, I here
record its history:
A young horse had been driven until
he was heated, and was then brought
home in a cold rain and placed in the
stable in the evening, without any at j.
tention being given to him-a frequent
occurrence: In the morning the horse
was found in great pain, and unable to
rise in his stall. One fore-leg and
shoulder were very tender, and when
the horse was raised the limb was use-
less, and he soon dropped again. Hot
water was applied to the limb and blan-
kets wrapped around it and stepped in
not water, which was renewed continu-
hly twenty-five drops of tincture of
icomte root was given every four hours
antll six doses were administered. A
soft bed was given, and the horse waa
covered up with blankets. The next
morning lie was able to rise alone, the
pain disappeared, land in a few daysh was
recovered. Prompt treatment in this
case undoubtedly prevented a prolonged
attack, but it was wholly avoided by
timely care. Sudden checks to free
perspiration are excessively dangerous
to both man and beast, and cannot do
better here than to reiterate this eau
ton, including along with the horse his
sometimes equally but seH.injured
master.
Practical Suggestions.
WRITER in Les Mondes says that
he is enabled to materially reduce the
number of insects which prey upon the
flowers and fruits of his garden by COW
ering the inside of an old tub with
liquid tar, and at twilight putting a
lighted lantern within, leaving the
whole out over night. The bugs, at
tracted by the light, try to reach the
lantern and are caught and held fast by
the tar.
A COLLAR gall can be cured by per-
uniting the horse to rest until it can
heal over The hao1in0 NAV no ~,,,:o1.