The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1874-05-08
ARR HO TSEHOLD AND
KITCHEN.
THE FARM.

mich inconvenience, so long as he is
furnished with a dry stable. But require
him to stand on a wet, foul floor, and
his health will soon begin to fail.
Horses often suffer from cold feet and
legs. anu many stables have damp and
Wet floors. Few men who handle horses
give proper attention to their feet and
legs. Especially is this the case on
farms. Much time is spent of a morn
inc in rubbing, brushing andsmoothing
the hair on the sides and hips, but at
no time are the feet examined and prop
erly cared for. The feet of horse re-
ouire more care than the body. They
need ten times as mu oh, for in one re-
snect 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. The feet will become disordered,
and then the legs will get badly out of
fix: and with bad feet and bad legs,
there is not much else of the horse fit
for anything. Stable prisons generally
are very severe on the feet and legs of
horses and unless the buildings can
afford a dry room, where a horse can
walk around, lie down, or roll over, they
are not half so healthy or comfortable
to the horse as the pasture, and should
be avoided by all good hostlers in the
country.
EXTRAORDINARY YIELD OF Conn.,
Mr.. John ". hurry, Of Carroll county,
Maryland, reports. in the Westminster
Adr0cate, that on one acre, the past
season, he raised 80! barrels Q53!
bushels of shelled corn. The reported
culture was as follows: The land was
s~osi.uated that it received the washings
from the road and from his barn-yard,
and had been in grass for fifteen years.
In the spring of 1872 he plowed it and
planted it in corn. The yield hat year
was 263 barrels. On the 10th Of May,
1873, he plowed the corn-stubble
ground very deep, and narrowed and
rolled it. The next day he sowed 800
pounds of bone-dust and narrowed it
again, marked it off 80 inches n way,
sowed 200 pounds of Rhodes super
phosphate in the rows, and dropped the
corn, one and two kernels in the hills,
10 inches apart. The variety of corn
was the Chester county mammoth vel
low. On the 4th of June, as much was
missing, he dragged the ground and
replanted = plowed on the 10th, some
hills still missing /; on the 18th plowed,
hoed and plastered the weak spots - on
the Both. dragged, plowed and thinned I;
on the 18th of July, chilled with a po-
tato plow as deep as one horse could
pull" and continued to thin as it re-
quired until the shoots appeared.
OLIVER RoT."-An English farmer,
who has kept sheep for forty years,
says he has found rock salt an antidote
for liver rot, and that these animals
cannot be too literally supplied with
this saving substance. He further de-
clares that in cases of congestion of the
liver, or rot, he has found two table
.spoonfuls Of turpentine, shaken up in a
half pint of water and given to the suf-
ferer, a frequent cure, unless the dis
ease has made very great progress.
No GooD.-The New York Herald
says there is no use in nanuring lands
to grow weeds in buying tools to rust
out under a stone wall; in erecting
buildings to rot away for want of paint
and care; in buying animals and leav-
ing them to the unhindered action of
disease in accommodating manure to fill
the air with its e~xhalations and the
brooks with its teachings in raising
forage to floor a barnyard with in buy
ing land to yearly lose its strength and
virtue; in growing crops to feed I'M
needed insects. Yet more than one of
these defects may be seen on almost
any farm in the country, and the extent {
which they lower the average success
OF our farmers is greater than would be :
believed. .
CURE o. FIsrULA.-The opening at c
the top of the withers should be en- I
iarged SO that the ~forefinger can be in
tfoduced, in order to ascertain how far G
and IN what direction the disease has S
extended. If the matter has penetrated G
and formed sinus. thew sbould he com- /