Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-08

Or sack or Malvoisie.
love the cup that cheers re, and
quan my homely tea
Farm RakiRgs.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Tribune says twenty-five years expe-
of stock can be grown so easily and with
so much profit as can mules.
AT corn husking party in Wisconsin
three men husked 30S bushels of corn III
five hours and forty minutes.
4 FARMER in Fresno county, Cal, re-
port that from field of five acres he
cut 20 tons of alfalfa hay, which netted
him so ton also, one crop of alfalfa
seed, weighing 1900 pounds, which
netted him 20 cents per pound This
is clear profit of Sl2S per acre, thong
it is not stated that any allowance is
made for interest ON the value of the land
or the exhaustion produced by the crop
ping.
Mr.. S. NJ. WELLS, one of the leading
onion growers of Connecticut, writes to
the New York Tribune that the best fer
tilizer for this crop is the richest stable
or hog-pen manure, plowed IN four
inches deep. The land, he says, should
be SUBSIDIZED An application of forty
bushels of wOod-ashes per acre after the
onions have been once hoed, has an ex-
cellent effect.
A Cow SLIDING DowN HnL.-And
here is the first demonstration / may say
it was ever in my power to witness in
cowology-a cow "coasting " down hill.
The barn stood upon hill, at the foot
of which the cattle had been accustomed
to go for drink. But last Monday morn
ing the hill was covered with ice, and,
the boy placed tub of water near the
barn door, and let out the COW, suppos-
ing she would slake her thirst from that
tub. The COW, however, started off for
her old place at the foot of the hill, and
finding herself slipping, she squatted
herself ON her launches like dog, and
bracing her feet in front, she slid a dis
lance of twenty feet to the bottom; and
as she brought up of sudden, she re-
covered her hind feet and looked around
as if to see "what has happened. Cor.
Boston Globe.
HoRsEsHoRNG.-Ay year ago in De-
cember was converted to the view that
the Goodenough shoes were the best l
could get SO, about the first of january,
/ stood over the smith and had my two
farm and all-work horses shod with them
according to his, Goodenough's, plan of
pairing out only bearing for the shoe,
letting the knife and rasp touch no other
portion, lowering the heels well and
keeping the bearing level. The shoes
were steel, and adapted to winter use
Some time in April the horses were shod
again. BY this time the frogs bore
squarely ON the ground and had nearly
doubled in size, while the heels had
spread apart greatly. The horses worked
and travelled well and were used daily,
doing all my farm work and taking me to
and from the station daily. They wore
the shoes until the first of July At this
time their feet were in perfect order, the
frogs broad and full as those of colts
the hoof round, heels of each hoof wide
apart. They had really been going bare
foot for six months with simply an iron
guard to prevent the hoof wearing toe
much This winter it has been so Icy
that have used calks but last year il
was not necessary. / do not argue IL
favor of the Goodenough shoe. 1t was
the best L could find. No shoe ought tC
be worn Except, perhaps, for shor
time in very icy weather) which does not
allow the frog to bear fully and solidly
upon the ground. The pairing of tn,
frog and sole being avoided entirely, ex
cept to prove absolutely ragged portions
or excrescences. A shoe to wear wei
should have the nail-hOles counter-sunl
to take the heads of the nails, and no
fullered," for such shoes are half worl
out to start with, and the nail-heads work
ing in the groove the clinches soon wea
and cut the horn. Fullering" is onl,
a continuance to make work for tn
smiths.-M C. Weld, an ChristidI
Union.
Domestic Economy.
A PIECE OF alum as big as a hickor.