The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1875-03-25
FACTS FROM ALL SOURCES.
EARIY srATuRrrY o. cours. :

EARLY MATURITY OF COLTS.
Over the signature of Observer we
find the following in the Michigan
Farmer Forcing colts to early matu-
rity by premature growth and the
early training of these hot. bed plants
to develop speed. has proved disastrous
to the future endurance of some OF our
most promising horses. The forcing
system, by over feeding stimulating
food, promotes the oyergroWth Of the
body, that tires out and smashes up
the legs. The borse without good feet
and legs is worthless for anything ex
oept slow work, and the over-strained
leaky joints that are constantly throw
ing out curbs, spaVins, or other bony
engagements, are not fit for strong SLOW
wo~k. The unnatural growth leaves
the muscles loose and easily relaxed,
the joints weak, and the whole system
clogged up with superfuous fat, soft
and spongy. The legs have grown so
quick that they have not the firm fixed
sinews to stand severe eXerti0n. Early
maturity implies premature decay. 1t
is substance well placed that gives that
substantial growth which promotes /
lOrg life and great durability. The
hot bed system OF forcing precocious
growth in the young scions gives coarse,
numbering forms that seldom make
good breeders; like produces like, or
the likeness OF an ancestor they stand
an even chance of transmitting their
own defects, in spite of their ancestors.
BITS AND BRIDES.
The following Is from the Farmers
Home journal There being by nature
such wide difference in the mouths
and dispositions of horses-no two, IN
ah
else where, Judgment will be required
to determine which is best for eaca
horse or colt. What may suit or be
best for one, may be bad for different
mouth or temper. The plain snaffle or
bar will answer for more cases than any
other pattern. OF this there are a
great many forms, from which a selec-
ton may be made, suited to each par
ticular case. Tender mouths, hard
mouths, side pullers, luggers, and other
natural and acquired habits, have ali
to be provided for, and changed or i'm
proved as is required. It is important
and may be advantageous to make
changes III some cases. A horse may
drive well in q bit for some time, and
after getting used to it may have a
tendency to some Objectionable habit
which change of bit viii often remedy.
In this way the horse will become ac-
custOmed to the habit of acting IN
pleasantly, when by returning to the
first bit the difficulty may be removed
for time at least. Some horses are SO
perfect in their mouths and tempers as
never to require any ehange-sUch viii
drive TO one bit, and this the plain
snsffie, all their lives. Bad or heavy
hands, accompanied by ungoYernable
tempers, ruin many q mouth, and let
me here paTenthetically add that there
ID more difference in the hands of driv-
eFs than can be explained. With bad
hands, and no natural tact or gift for
the business, to say nothing of ungov-
ernable temper or the crazed condition
to which drivers aye often reduced by
whisky, man might drive a hundred
years and be Indifferent at last. Some
men may have q taste or fancy-call it
what you will-for the horse business,
and yet be without a natural talent for
handling horses, without which q man
must continue q common man, so to
speak, however much practice he may
have.
PARASITES ON SHEEP AND CALVES.
At recent meeting of the Scottish
Veterinary association, the president,
MIR. Williams, stated that he had exam
ined many lungs and livers of sheep
and calves, which were studded over
with small white blisters. These bills
teHs, under the microscope, were found
to contain worms of various stages of
development. The animals thus in
tested showed evidence Of great debil-
ity. The bodies of other animals were
found to contain the ova or eggs Of
these parasites imbedded in the flesh,
and fowls which ate some of the flesh,
died in consequence, suffering from the
presence of both worms and eggs In
their hveTs and intestines. Prof.
Whalley also cited some similar facts,
and remarked that the flesh of animals
thus suffering would communicate the
parasites TO persons eating it as food,
unless it should be thoroughly cooked.
He also declared that a stall in which
an animal had died of pleuro- pneumO-
mia cannot be safely occupied by another
animal under six months.
At the recent fair OF the Warwick
shire agricultural and horticultural
society, among the prizes offered was
one of $50 TO the best plonghman to
plough not less than one acre five inches
deep $50 to the female servant who
had longest resided in the same family,
and $15 for the male servant ditto
Also to the shepherd who had reared
the greatest number of lambs in pro.
portion to the number of ewes, and to
the laborer who had supported family,
not less than FIVE children, the greatest
number Of years without assistance ex-
cept in sickness, premiums amounting
to 500.
a gentleman who has resided three
years in Alaska, made the following
statements before a farmers' club in |
New York: =" Ia gardens on the island !
Of Sitka the inhabitants are able to |
raise potatoes, which, however, on ac-
count of the shortness of the SESSION.
never fully mature. They rarely attain |
a size larger than a hens egg. Let |
tuce aud radishes are grown quite sue |
cessfully. Grasses flourish luxuriouslY |
during the short summer season of |
june and July, but there is nothing to |
encourage agricultural DEVELOPMENT |
there, for, with the exception of the |
articles which 1 have mentioned, moth. |
ing as food for man or beast is produced |
from the coil
Several agricultural papers have re-
Gently stated that there are bees in |
China about four times as large as ours,
and that they are able to extract honey |
from flowers that common bees cannot |
reach. All this means that some sharp
chap is going into the business of i'm |
porting Chinese bees and selling them
at 800 apiece.
The growth of the patrons throughout
the south is remarkable. In Alabama
there are now reported to be GAL
oranges, with 80, 600 members in Flor
ids, 108 oranges, with $500 members
IN Arkansas, 521 oranges, with 81 600
members.
Butter and talloW are not economical
foods for COWS and sheep. When we
let an animal grow thin IN winter, we
are feeding fat and flesh. It is injuri-
Gus to the animal and a great loss to
US.
Wild turkeys from the western states
and territories are now being bred in
New England, in quite large numbers.
prairie chickens are also doing
well on the commons of England and
ireland.
We have no further work for bees.
Roney is made of. corn starch and
gycerine, and beeswax of paratine.