Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-08-19
Agricultural.

Fowls IS THE HORSE E-sTABLE--Fowls
should never be permitted to have ac-
cess to the horse-stable, nor the feed
room. nor the hay NOW. Their rooms
should be entirely separate from the
stable. SO that they may not always be
ready to slip in whichever a door Is
opened; and that the vermin which in
fest poultry may not reach horses and
cattle.
1t is well-known fact that fowls of all
kinds frequently drop very sordid,
offensive, clammy, vicious odor; and
when allowed to so on the hay NOW, or
in the feeding room, or anywhere In
the barn, they damage more fodder
than We are wont to suppose. We
would as soon allow fowls to live IN the
kitchen, and to hop on the dinner table
while we are eating, and to roost on our
bedstead as to allow them to have free
access to the horse-stable and barn.
Some horses are always afraid OF
fowls: and when one enters the manger,
or rack, the timid horses will imme-
diately surrender their entire right,
however hungry they may be. to these
lawless marauders. And after they
have scratched over the feed with their
foul feet. and smeared portion of it
with their filthy droppings,a "a horse must
be exceedingly hungry before he viii
eat his mess. Many a hungry horse
has been deprived of his feeding OF
grain by lot of bold, gallinaceous rob-
bers that had learned when and where
to fill their empty crops with the feed
of jaded horse. Let gates and bars
exclude fowls and pigeons from the
doors and windows of all horse stables.
PLASTER FOR PorAToEs.-
to Mr.. Crompton, author of the prize
ESSAY on the cultivation of the Potato,
very remarkable results are obtained
from plaster by busting the vines with
it as soon as they are through the soil;
again Immediately after the last piow-
ing and hoeing; aud at intervals through
the whole growing season. The first
application may be light, the second
heavier, and after that more bouutliul,
say 200 pounds TO the acre. Ii renders
the plant less palatable TO the insects,
and appears to be fatal to many of the
fungi family. The vines retain bright
lively green color, and the tubers con-
tinue swelling until growth is stopped
by the frost; beside, potatoes thus
grown are so sound aud free from dis
ease as to be easily kept for the spring
market, without any loss by rot. Mr.
Crompton says he has seen a field, all
planted with the same variety, at the
same time, or one-half OF which, that
mad received no plaster, the yield was
but 60 bushels per acre, and many
rotten: while the other half, TO which
plaster had been applied, v.alded 800
bushels per acre, and not an unsound
one among them.
ScALY LEGS N FowLs.-It is not very
difficult to determine the canse of this
affection called scuryy on the legs OF
fowls. 1t is want of cleanliness and
proper exercise but not very diff cult to
effect a cure. Ii the fowls have been
permitted to run for a considerable
time until the legs are encased In scurf,
a thorough washing with warm strong
soap-suis to remove the outer scarf,
and after drying the legs, make an ap-
plication of hogs lard and flour of sui
phur mixed together, will generally
effect cure.
In very bad cases a second application
may be necessary. This affection gen.
erally manifests itself by a sort of ashy
appearance on the inside of the legs of
fowls Just below the hook joints and
about the feet. At this period simple
thorough greasing with lard alone will
often effect a cure. Kerosene oil has
been tried effeciu lily IN many cases,
but the lard and sulphur is Supposed to
be the best remedy.
VERBENAs. 1t may not be generally
known to flower growers that this char
ming flower can be grown so as to pro-
duce flowers from seed the first year,
but such is the case. Procure of reli-
able scotsman seed saved from the
choicest flowers. and SOW them any
time during March, either IN a well pre-
pared hot-bed, or in a box of rich, fine
soil, to be kept In tine house nights, and
cold days: water with warm water as
often as dry, and transplant into the
garden as early as June. If the plants
should grow rapidly, they should be
transplanted, at least once in the hot
bed or boxes, so as TO make them grow
stronger, and keep the roots more COM
pact. Plants properly grown in this
way will produce larger and healthier
flowers than those propagated in the
green house, from cuttings, although
they will not be of any particular
variety.
FEEDING HORSES. Es.-Professo of No.
Ology, has been investigating the re-
lations between the food given to
draught to horses and the amount of
power it produces-that is to say, the
strengthening value of the heterogeneous
elements of food. BY a series of sci
entifc calculations, tested in the stables
of the Omnibus Company of Paris, he
finds that the rations in practice given
to the horse are in conformity with
science and the views of the company,
to feed the animals so that they will not
run into flesh, they will lose nothing in
strength. The mean average weight of
the bus horse is 1900 pounds; he is
employed four hours daily, drawing a
weight of two and threequarter tons, at
tba 70 - tu-o anl l,olf Ie a eooonl