The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1875-11-05
PLANTATION TOPICS.

ing as embodying the result of long and
successful experience: 1t may be SET
down as well-settled point that they
should be well-kept and protected from
the storms Of winter, but this does not
imply that they should be constantly
housed up and pampered with heated
grain. Like all other young and grow
ing animals, they require an abundance
Of fresh air and exercise, and should
have free opportunity Of indulging in
the gambOls, and frolics, and races to
which their nature prompts them, and
which Is 50 essential in order to prop
erly distend the lungs, swell the veins,
invigorate the entire system, and make
a hardy, healthy, active horse.
Give muscle and bone forming food
in abundance, but feed corn sparinglv,
and, fatal, only in the coolest weather.
Oats and wheat, bran and grass, and
hay in abundance will make the colt
grow; and exercise, with protection
from severe storms, viii Keep him
healthy. If it Is indispensable that he
should run out and take all the storms
as they come, which, by the way,
should never be permitted, give more
corn with the feed, as that produces
fat, which IS a protection from the
cold.
Were we to be compelled to choose
between the two extremes Of close con-
tinement, with high feeding on heating
4 Il II
Of running at large in fields, exposed to
the mcrcilcss storms of winter, with
free access to the cOrn-crib, we should
mhesitatingly take the latter course rs
likely to develop the harder, healthier,
stoutcT horse, because we regard the
opportunity for abundant exercise Us
absolutely essential to a healthy, har-
monious, development in all young ami
mails. But generous feeding and Sc
cure housing from inclement weather
are not incompatible with plenty Of
exercise, and such a course of Treatment
viii bring the youngsters through the
winter in perfect health, with consti-
tuition mimpaircd, and growth un-
chccked.-UUEe5 Spirit
\ WRITER in the New York Herald
states some facts about how horses
should be shod, which are worthy the
consideration Of blacksmiths and farm
ers as well: Most Of the horse-shoers
of the country prepare the hoof, fit a
shoe, and secure it to the hOOf in the
same manner that a wood-butcher fits a
shoe to an old wood ox-sled. The
mechanism of a horses hOof Is one of
the most wonderful and ingenious
structures that can be found In all the
works of the Creator. Beneath and
in the rear of every hoof there Is a
frog, which is tough and elastic pad
for preventing injury to the animal
whenever he plants his foot on any
hard substance. Large rolls of cylin-
ders Of India rubber are placed be-
meath railroad cars to prevent injury
to any part of the car or to the cargo
with which it Is loaded. The frog be
meath the foot Of a horse Is designed
10 subServe a similar purpose. But
the manner in which most horses are
shOd lift them up, as it were, on short
sti!:s, 50 that the frog cannot perform
Its appropriate functions. If we look
carefully at the young horse when he
Is trotting or running, it will he per-
ceived that every foot Is brought down
to the ground in such a manner that
the frog receives the powerful blow.
BY this means all injury to the animal
Is prevented. Science teaches us to
permit the frog to develop and expand
downward. But most blacksmiths
seem to think that the Advise Creator
made Il great mistake when he formed
the hootS of horse. Hence. they fall
at the frog with red-ho5 burning irons,
with edge tools, and with any other ap-
pliance that viii enable them TO re
move this eNtrancoU~ eNcrcscencc. Il
lustrious ninnicS. Why not shave and
burn away all the tough, callous adj
pose tissue beneath their own heels,
and allow the bare bones 10 rest on a
plate of iron inside their own boots
and shoes?
Ar certain towns in Switzerland
grapes are grown solely rs medicine,
and vineyards are put to no other use.
Instead of drinking water as in other
places, the patient Is sent out to eat
grapes, and must pick them himself
from the vines. Where the doctor or
dinarily instructs the patient to drink
80 many glasses of water, he is here in
structed to eat Just so many punches Of
grapes, and no more. 1t Is assumed to
be dangerous To 90 beyond the doctors
prescription a single grape. As strange
rs it may appear the invalids expert
cncc the best of good effects from the
''raisin cure or ut least think that
they do, and 90 away very well sat
isficd.
Another popular treatment is found
mt the mud-bathS, of Schwaback and
other places, where the patients are
immersed in soft black mud up to their
chin, and remain in the bath for some
hours. Most Of them have floating
tables before them upon which they
keep books, cigars, and refreshments,
according to the tastes Of the patients.
After remaining over two or three hours
in the mud-bath one Is washed off with
Il hose-pipe and put into 4 tepid bath.
The operation Is continued the next
morning, and Is repeated until the pa
tient is cured or tired.
EGG-PREsERvTNG PICKLE RECIPE
An agent of the Rural Press reports
the following: Three quarts lime, table
spoonful cream tartar, one cUpful salt,
and water enough to fill a fivc-gallon
can, after seventeen dozen eggs have
been carefully placed within the can.
To the water add the other ingredients.
stir up well and pour it on the eggs,
and keep them in Il cool place entirely
covered by the pickle The lady sub
scriber who furnishes the above keeps
her eggs perfectly sweet with the above
treatment, and by special request, after
writing the above recipe, she boiled
me an egg that had been in pickle for
four months, and ! found it perfectly
sweet and free from all shadow of
faint or any objection of any kind, and
would trust them fully rs soon rs the