The free citizen. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1875-07-31
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FIELD GLEANINGS.

FIELD GLEANINGS.
TREATMENT OF BALKY HORSES. s.-The
society for the prevention Of cruelty to
animals publishes the following rules
for tho treatment of balky horses. In
case one of these plans does 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
encouragingly while doing so; then
jump into the wagon and give the word
go; generally he will obey it.
z. A teamster. in Maine says ho can
start the worst balky horse by taking
him out of the shafts and making him
go around in circle till he is giddy.
Ii the first dance Of this sort does not
cure him, second will.
3. To cure balky horse, simply
place your hand over the horses's nose,
and shut off his wind until he wants to
go.
4. The brain of horse seems to en-
tertain but one idea at a time; therefore,
whipping only confirms his stubborn
resolve. If you can, by any means,
give him new subject to think of you
will generally have no trouble in start
ing him. A simple remedy is to take 4
couple of turns Of stout twine around
the fore leg, just below the knee, tight
enough for the horse to feel, and tie in
bow-knot. At the first check he will
probably go dancing off, and after going
short distance, you can get down and
remove the string to prevent injury to
the tendon, in your further drive.
A Corn ORop WITHOUT RAMA cor
respondent of the Farmers Vindicator
says he last year raised eighty bushels
of corn to the acre with but one rain,
which fell on the 18th of June. He
tells how it was done as follows: laid
my rows three and half feet apart,
threw out with turning plough, ran q
deep furrow with bull-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 he'd, planted my
corn very shallow on the top of the
ridge, and cultivated shallow with short
cotton shovel, the first two ploughings.
LAID by with turning plough, running
shallow nearest the corn, deeper in the
middle of the rows. I'then took long
bul-tongue and subsoiled by running
two burrows in the middle of the rows,
leaving small loose bed eight or ten
inches deep. tried subsoiling on diff
ferent pieces of land, both in corn and
cotton, and T found in gathering the
crop difference of four hundred pounds
OF cotton per acre in favor of the acre
subsoiled.
A BIG Conn FARM IN ILLINOIS The
Nashville Union and American quotes
the Western Rural to the effect that Mr..
~: L.. Sulllvant, farmer in central
Illinois, was, at the time of writing,
preparing to plant his corn. His men
were p!!oughing five hundred acres a
day, using two hundred and ffty teams,
ana ana ne had then ready about twelve
Thousand acres, Dr.sIee adds: MIR.
Sullivant is one of the largest and most
systematic farmers in the United States,
who made present to railway CON. /.
pany of S28,000 to construct an iron
road to and across his plantation of
some forty Thousand acres. He emf
grated from the Scioto bottoms. near
Columbus, where, like many Ohio
farmers, he learnt the art of RAISING
corn at small cost to the producer
At the time of the organization of the
United States agricultural society he
was distinguished Ohio farmer. VET
not unwilling to sell large estate at
one hundred dollars per acre to Law the
ioundatlon OF much broader one on
the rich prairies of central Illinois. at
the government price for land.
FoREIeN BIRDS FOR AMERICA. yerv
deserving institution has recently been
estaDilshed IN Cincinnati, under the
title ot Cincinnati Acclimatization So.
clety. It's OBJECT being to effect the intro.
ouot1on OF such foreign birds as are
worthy OF note for their song or their
59 services TO Tue farmer and hortioulturist.
1 me manufacturer and Builder says
Inc society announces that last spring
It expended five thousand dollars in
introducing fifteen additional anecies nf
birds, and that it has ALREADY anccess. -
fully accomplished the accIinatization
ot-the European eky lark, WHICH is
stated to be now prominent featnra of
the summer landscape in the yicinitv of
Cincinnati. Among the species wb;ch
It s1s proposed to introduce is tLe I'm.
ropean titmouse, considered abroad as
one OF the most successful foes of insects
injurious to vegetation. a4 !S-.T1 M
sAHoPEFU1 view. OF. IsrMraaAr,oN
Col. Daniel Dennet, in an article on
immigration, in Our Home :Jonrnal has
the following hopeful views: In spite
OF the predictions of politicians, bad
state governments, high taxes. negro
rule, "kn-kiuxa ana 'sbnndits," the In.
migrants are preparing to enter the
south. The seven HUNDRED
Thousand square miles of southern ter.
rltory yet uncultivated will be. in q
great measure, settled up by industri-
GUS farmers from other lands. The
vast mineral resources of the south
will be turned to valuable account. Our