The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-12-13
The 8uttana Daily Glnbs
MONDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1875.
tFrom the Boston 0lobe.l
THE FARM-YARD CLUB OF LOTHIAN.


By DR.. George B. Loring.
rwRNTY-FIRsr MEErNa-suBJEor GRAIN
CROPS.
Many days passed before Mr.. Howe met
John Thomas for the purpose of arranging
another meeting of the club. The min.
lister was not entirely convinced and salts
fed with regard to charges which had been
preferred against his associate on the CON-
mittee; he could not exactly understand
bow universal belief in a mans guilt
could be entertained to-day, and almost as
universal an assurance of his innocence be
felt Tomorrow, without a careful and sat-
isfactory investigation; and lie was half in
clined to look upon the whole matter Of
John Thomas's guilt as based on suspicion,
and of his acquittal as tho result of popu-
lar freak. And he found il difficult to bring
his ministerial mind into such an easy es-
innate of error, and his ministerial heart
into such an unfounded and impulsive for
giveness of sin, as he had witnessed in the
events of the town meeting and the club
But he had great faith in his people, and
he entertained no doubt that they had the
best reasons for the course they had pur-
sued. When he met John Thomas, there
fore, he tried TO feel as everybody else ap-
peared to feel-satisfied and confident, and
full of restored esteem and kindness. He
was quite unwilling that his faith should
make him less ready to forgive than tho
rest of mankind about him-even while he
was disposed to believe that his conscience
was more enlightened, and more keen in
its demands, through the influence of the
illogical thought. He made up his mind to
acquesce in the views and sentiments of
his people, and to wait patiently for such
satisfaction as he might derive from future
developments. 1t was without effort. there
lore, that he met Mr.. Thomas with his US.
ual cordially, and made arrangements for
issuing notice of the next meeting of the
club, and for the continued discussion of
the subjsct of
GRAIN CROPS.
When Mr.. Hopkins called the club to Or
der, he found his parlor somewhat crowded
by the members who were present In full
force, and who manifested the lveliest in
terest in the welfare of the organization.
1t had evidently become the institution of
the town, and was destined to control to
great degree the public opinion and to d.
rect the public councils. He looked about
the subject, and called upon those present
to express their views freely and 10 give
their own experience in the raising of those
crops which are of importance to the very
existence of man and beast.
William Jones opened the discussion inn
mediately 10y calling attention to oats 40
one OF the most important grain crops of
the north.
GOATS" said he. shave peculiar inter
est to my mind, on account of their con-
nection with the health and vigor of one of
the most valuable of our domestic animals,
the horse. am of opinion that they arer
the only grain which can he safel<a and
properly fed to this animal; and that. we're
they produced in larger quantities., and sold
al lower prices, the use ~0f corn, in apy
form, for horses woulS(be entirely aban-
doned. have been obliged, for the sake
of economy, 10 use corn meal in what is
usually S%red chopped-feed but have al.
waysfound that it produced tendency to |
disease in my horses, either in their diges-
i've organs or in their heads and legs, and |
lhave been glad to quit it. If you want |
= fat, round, bloated horse, with CREASED
heels and loose bowels, and a stupid brain, |
feed him on chopped feed, or give him q
heavy supply OF cracked corn, three times
a day. l have often wondered how the
great mass of livery and stage horses can
possibly perform their work ON such a
diet and have no manner of doubt that |
three-quarters of the cripples which we |
see in our stables, and tottering along the |
roads, are burnt up by corn. Poor hay and |
sour meal mixed together are enough to
kill the strongest horse ever born
And then have noticed Mr.. Chairman,
that.our stables are beginning to be filed
in the spring of the year with young, ovor-
grown Western horses, which have had all
the corn they could eat from the day they
were weaned until they were sent here for
sale. The have been provided with corn
Just as Western hogs and cattle are--by
throwing plenty of ears for them to NIB
Die into the yard where they are confined
and they grow up very much after the fash
on of swine and short-horn steers, whose
only merit is their fat. They come into our
market half broken, used perhaps to lit
lie double harness work, but wholly unit
'or private single driving and about as safe
IS panic stricken reindeer. Their bodies
ire out of all proportion to their legs.
Their lungs have never been expanded by
xercise over rough and billy pastures. In
ummer they have been overted with the
aux grass of western pastures. and in win
er they have been stuffed with surplus
Il western corn. And 80 when they are
tut to work on the road or ON the farm, or |
q the heavy drags and wagons of the CITY,
hey soon begin to tumble to pieces, have
II the diseases that are going round, get |
anne, and for a year at least are pretty |
ear worthless. think it would be better
or these horses and better for their owners |
they were half starved in winter at q
traw stack, than to he fed as they are. 1t
Gems to me that half the civilized world
hight be supplied with horses from the
rest to the great profit of the breeders
here, and to the great advantage Of the
urchasers also, if they were only bred and
ed in the right way"
"Under our rules, | must remind Mr.. |