Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1875-06-25
FARM AND FIRESLDE.

TRAINING A CoLT-Many persons,
when colt becomes used to the halter
when standing in the stable, endeavor to
teach it to lead by going before, expecting
a colt to follow. The colt does not know
what is wanted, and so refuses, and then
comes tugging at the end of the halter, and
too often whipping from behind. by an as
sistant, until at length the little sufferer
| begins to comprehend what pulling from
| before and whipping from behind means in
the language OF those terrible beings who
| have gotten it, in some very Incompetent
sible way to the colt, into their power
Another way, and we must acknowledge
a more humane one than the last described,
is to take the colt out at the end Of a long
light rope but so that it may still be with
in reach Of the whiplash, and then lunge
the terrified animal about, sometimes I'M
til the sweat starts from every pore in it's
body. The only reason, however, why we
think this more humane than the other is,
that it is less reasonable to expect the colt
to advance toward an object it fears, than
that it should Try to escape another SINH
lar object it fears. The preferable way is
to take the colt by the halter strap, near
the head. and standing by it's side, and
holding light whip continue to tap it
gently behind, if it sulks when hidden to
go. Ii, on the contrary, it tries to rush
ahead, restrain it at first only so much as
to check undue exuherance, and guide it
in the direction wished, talking gently to
it, and at the end of the lesson giving a
little sugar Oh some other thing it likes.
In this way it will soon come to like the
exercise, and then it may easily be taught
to go in q circle, both right and left. 1T
will be thoroughly trained in a short time,
and will always lead promptly up to, OF by
the side of the attendant.
To make the colt advance to you when
standing in front, at the end Of the halter,
give d slight pull and say 'scome,'' repeat
ing this until you are satisfied it will lot.
Then, upon repeating the word, tap the
colt on the fore legs with the end of the
whip. and it will soon learn what you
want. When the colt has approached close
to you, give it a taste of something it likes,
and it will soon learn to come and lay it's
head on your shoulder. 1t is t..ue u takes
time to educate colt, but these lessons
are never lost, and perfect confidence be-
ing formed between the colt and yourself,
the subsequent training to the saddle and
harness will be sufficiently simplified to
more than repay this extra care at the be-
ginning. The difference BE- i cen breaking
a horse and training horse is simply the
difference between the exercise of brute
force and human intelligence.
GATHERING CLovERsEED.-A cores
pendent of the ssFarmer's Journal" gives
the following: I saw an article in your pa
per asking information as to the best way
OF saving cloYerseed. [ have been expert
menting with this for the last six years;
first with strippers, made for this purpose,
which L found, after several years. use,
did not gather the seed clean enough. I
then tried q mower, but found could not
get the clover up clean with a rake, as the
second crop, which is the one bearing the
seed, is generally very short. My next
experiment. was with self-raking reaper,
which proved quite a success, as it threw
the clover off in punches. Do not let the
clover get too ripe before cutting for seed,
else a great deal will be wasted. Cut
when the heads are handsomely brown,
and the stalk dead, as there will then be
scarcely any waste, and the seed just as
plump as if cut later. When thoroughly
dry, you can cut Immediately, but if you
fail to do this, put away where it will keep
dry, as damp clover is very difficult to hull,
and at the same time impossible to get all
the hollis off the stock. In order to secure
a good crop of seed, the first crop of clover
ought to be cut by the middle of June,
THINNING CoRN.-Prof Roberts, of the
Cornell University, made some expert
ments in growing corn upon the college
farm last season, the results of which are
valuable. He planted three plots Of three
slXteenthS OF an acre each with corn, and
thlnned the hills in one lot to three stalks,
another to four stalks to hill; the third
was not thinned. The first plot yielded at
the rate Of 100 bushels, the second 125
bushels, and the third 106 bushels (of ears)
to the acre. NJ. Roberts states. as the
result OF many experiments prior to these,
at the Iowa Agricultural College, that thes
heaviest crops of corn were made by grow
ing three stalks to hill, and that two
stalks to hill will produce more than five
stalks. IL every stalk produces an ear,
and corn is planted three feet apart each
way, there will be nearly 100 bushels of
shelled grain per acre. To grow maxis
mum crops of corn, then, it is only neces-
sary to grow one ear upon stalk, and ears
of such a size that q hundred of them will
make a bushel of grain. In view of this,
it is strange that, with so prolific a grain
as corn, a yield of 100 bushels to the acre
should be considered as something almost
impossible to be obtained.-A Aqrdcul-
tNrist.
SIMPLE VENTILATION The following
simple method for ventilating ordinary
sleeping and dwelling rooms is recon-
mended by Mr.. Hinton in his esPhysiology
for Practical Use:'' A piece of wood, three
inches high and exactly as long as the
breadth of the window, is to be prepared.
Let the sash be now raised, the slip of
wood placed on the sill, and the sash
drawn closely upon it. If the slip has
been well fitted, there will be no draught
in consequence of this displacement of the
sash at its lower part; but the top Of the
lower sash will overlap the bottom of the
! INNER one and between the two hsr. nor