The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1875-07-22
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case one Of these plans docs not succeed,
try another:
1. Pat the hOrse upon the neck ex-
anime the harness carefully, first on
one side, then on the other, speaking
encouraginply while doing 30; then
lump 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 a circle till he is giddy.
n the first dance Of this sort does not
cure him, n second will.
3. To cure a balkv horse, simply
| place your hand over the horses's nose,
and shut Off his wind until he wants to
go.
4. The brain % a horse seems TO en-
tertain butone idea alta time therefore,
whipping only confirms his stubborn
resolve. II you, can, by any means,
give him a new subject to think OF You
| will generally have no tronble in start
ing him. A simple remedy il to take a
couple OF turns OF stout tyine around
the fore log. inst below the knee, tight
enough for the horse TO feel, and tie IN
a bow knot. At the first check he will
probably 90 dancing off, and after going
n short distance, you can get down and
remove the string to prevent injury to
the tendon, in your further drive.
A Conn CRop without RAMA cor
respondent OF the Farmers Vindicator
says he last year raised eighty bushels
Of corn to the acre with but n rain,
which fill on the 18th of June. He
tells how il was done as follows ] laid
my rows three and n half feet apart,
threw ont with a turning plough, ran a
deep fnrrow with D b%ull-tongue in the
water furrow, put sixty bushels OF cot
ton seed in the bull. tongue burrows,
threw four burrows with the turn
plough, reversing the bod, planted my
corn very shallow on this top of the
ridge, and cultivated shallow with short
cotton shovel, the first Two ploughings.
Laid by with a tnruing plough, running
shallow nearest the corn, deeper in the
middle of the rows, 1 then took a long
bull tongue and subsoiled by running
two burrows in the middle of the rows,
leaving a 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 a difference Of four hundred pounds
of cotton per Gc.e in favor OF the acre
subsoiled.
A BId Corn FARM IN ILLINOIS Tho
Nashville UnIon and American quotes
the Western Rural to the effect that Mr..
NJ. il. Sullivant, n farmer in central
Illinois, was, Mt the time of writing,
preparing to plant his corn. Ills men
were ploughing five hundred acres u
day, using two hundred and fifty teams,
and he had then ready about twelve
thousand acres. DIR. Lee adds Mr..
SuIliyant is one OF the largest aud most
systematic farmers in the United States,
who made Il present to n railway COM
pany OF &2S. 900 to construct an iron
road to aud across his plantation Of
some forty Thousand acres. He emf
grated from the SciotO bottoms, near
Columbus, whore, like many Ohio
farmers, he learnt tho art OF raising
corn al n small cost to the producer.
Ah lIlb llIlb III Vic oIgtilLtLlbn VI lIlt
United States agricultural socieCy he
was u distinguished Ohio farmer, yet
not unwilling to sell n largo estate at
one hundred dollars per acre TO lay the
: foundation Of Il much broader one on
the rich prairies Of central Illinois, at
the government price for land.
FOREIGN BIRDS FOR AMERICA A very
deserving institution has recently been
established in Cincinnati, under the
title Of Cincinnati AcclimatiHation 50.
ciety, its object being to effect the intro
duction Of such foreign birds as are
worthy Of note for their song or their
services to the farmer and hOrticulturist.
The Manufacturer and Builder says ::
The society that last spring
it expended five thousand dollars in
introducing fifteen additional species of
birds, and that it has already success
fully accomplished the acclimatiz ,tion
of the European sky lark, which is
stated to be now a prominent feature of
the summer landscape in the vicinity OF
Cincinnati. Among the species which
it il proposed to introduce il tho Eu-
ropean titmouse, considered abroad as
one Of the most successful foes of insects
injurious to vegetation.
A HoPEFUL VIEW or IMMIGRATION
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, %"kn.klux' and "bandits," the i'm.
migrants are preparing to enter the
south. . The seven hundred
Thousand square miles of southern ter
ritory yet uncultivated will be, in o
great measure, settled mp by industri
Gus farmers from other lands. The
vast mineral resources of the south
will be turned to valuable account. Our
beautiful south is not doomed to be
either Africanized, or utterly destroyed
by demaaogues, or allowed to go back
into a wilderness state. Its future will
be more glorious than its past. 1t will
yet be the garden spot, the glory and
pride OF this continent. 1t will be pros,
porous and rich in duo time, or the
writer does not truly understand the
signs OF the times."I
TOBACCO IN FIpBIpA.-7Aeoording to
the monthly report of the department
OF agriculture, Gadsden county, Florida.
has producsd for ferty years n variety
grown from seed obtained in Cnbs
having a small, narrow leaf, and pos
sessing to a remarkable degree the pc.
oulIar aroma and delicate fragrance 80
highly priced in the Havana cigar. The
report adds. Sincs.the advent of Ger
man buyers, an article was introduced
which produces tho FLORIDA wrapper
md IL now the main growth. It's leaves
are sometimes three feet in length and
twenty inches in breadth, of a fine silky
texture, admirably adapted to. use as
wrappers, the coarser leaves being used
very acceptabIy as filters. Another