The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-07-31
FIELD GLEANINGS.

society Tor tue prevention OF cruelty TO
animals publishes the following rules
for the treatment of balky horses. In
case one of these plans does not succeed,
try another:
l. Pat the horse upon the neck; ex-
anime the harness carefully, first on
one side, then on the other, speaking
encoura9ngly while doing SO; then
jump into the wagon and give the word
go; generally he will obey it.
2. a teamster in Maine says he can
start the worst balky horse by taking
him out of the shafts and making him
go around in circle till he is giddy.
If the first dance of this sort does not
cure him, q second will.
3. To cure balky horse, simply
place your hand over the horses's nose,
and shut off his wind until he wants to
go.
4. The brain Of horse seems to en-
tertain but one idea Mt time; therefore,
whipping only confirms his stubborn
resolve. If you can, by any means,
give him new subject to think of you
will generally have no trouble in start
ing him. A simple remedy is to take
couple of turns of stout twine around
the fore leg, just below the knee, tight
enough for the horse to feel, and tie in
bow-knot. At the first check he will
probably 60 dancing of, and after going
short distance, you can get down and
remove the string to prevent injury to
the tendon, in your further drive.
A Corn CRoP WITHOUT RAMA cor
respondent of the Farmers Vindicator
says he last year raised eighty bushels
OF corn to the acre with but one rain,
which fell on the 18th of June. He
tells how it was done as follows: I laid
my rows three and a half feet apart,
threw out with turning plough, ran
deep furrow with a bl,ll-tongue in the
water furrow, put sixty bushels of cot
ton seed in the bull.tolgue burrows,
threw four burrows with the turn
plough, reversing the bed, planted my
corn very shallow on the top of the
ridge, and cultivated shallow with short
cotton shovel, the first two plonghings.
Laid by with turning plough, running
shallow nearest the corn, deeper in the
middle of the rows. Ithen took long
bul-tongHe and subsoiled by running
two burrows in the middle of the rows,
leaving small loose bed eight or ten
inches deep. tried subsoiling on diff
ferent pieces of land, both in corn and
cotton, and I found in gathering the
crop difference of four hundred pounds
of cotton per acre in favor of the acre
subsoiled.
BIG Corn FARM IN ILLINOIS The
Nashville Union and American quotes
the Western Rural to the effect that Mr..
M. L.. Sullivant, farmer in central
Illinois, was, at the time of writing.
preparing to plant his corn. His men
Wero ploughing five hundred acres a
day, using two hundred and Fifty teams.
and he had then ready about twelve
thousand acres. Dr.. Lee adds: Mr..
Sullivant is one of Che largest and most
systematic farmers in the United States,
who made a present to q railway COM
pnny of $4,000 to construct an iron
road to and across his plantation of
some forty thousand acres. He emil
grated from the Scioto bottoms. near
Columbus, where, like many Ohio
farmers, he learnt the art of raising
corn at small cost to the producer.
At the time of the organization of the
United States agricultural society he
WAS distinguished Ohio farmer, vet
not unwilling to sell large estate at
oIa hundred dollars per acre to Law the
foundation of much broader one on
the rich Prairies of central Illinois. of
the government price for land.
FOREIGN BIRDS FOR AMERICA yery
deserving institution has recently been
established IN Cincinnati, under the
title OF Cincinnati Acclimatization So
clety, It's object being to effect the intro
ductlon OF such foreign birds as are
worthy of note for their song or their
services to the farmer and hortioulturist
Inc manufacturer and Builder saws !.
Inc society announces that last spring
IL expended five thousand dollars in
Introducing fifteen additional species of
Dlrds, and that it has already success-
1ully accomplished the acclimatization
o1|the european sky lark, which is
stated to be now prominent feature of
the summer landscape in the vicinity of
cincinnati. Among the species which
1t ls proposed to introduce is the En-
ropean tltmouse, considered abroad ma
one OF the most successful foes of insects
injurious to vegetation.
A HOPEFUL view OF IMMIaaAr1oN
Col. Daniel Dennet, in an article on
immigration, in Our Home Journal. has
the following hopeful views: In spite
OF the predictions of politicians. bad
state governments, high taxes. negro
rule, "ku-klux" and "bandits," the i'm. I'm
migrants are preparing to enter the
south. The seven hundred
Thousand square miles of southern ter
ritory yet uncultivated will be, in
great measure, settled up by industri
GUS farmers from other lands. The
vast mineral resources of the sonth
will he turned to valuable account. Onr
beautiful south is not doomed to be
either Africanized, or utterly DESTROYED
by demaeognes, or allowed to 20 back
into wilderness state. It's future will
be more glorious than it's past. It will