Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1875-11-13

the present term, which was done though
no special date was specified. The Judge,
however, remarked that they could not
be heard until the cases already on the
docket were disposed Of =, ..l&
FARM NOTES.
There are 100000 mich COWS in
this country, and $4,000, 900 times day
does the cry OF $50. therein ascend to
the skies. nv ..,...t-.. .--.st be /
Sheep on farm yield both wool and
mutton. They multiply with great rap
idity. They are the best scavengers,
'.cleaning a field" as no other animals
will. They give back to the farm more
in proportion to what they take from it
than any other animal, and distribute it
better with view to the future fertility
OF the soil. Prove this. There is no need
of proof to those who have kept sheep
and know their habits and the profits
they yield. s..-'
Small farms make near neighbors !;
they make good roads; they make plen-
ty Of good schools and churches; there
is more money made in proportion to
thc ioDoI icSS ldDor lS Wstnteu, ever
thing is kept neat; less wages have to be
paid for help; less time is wasted more
is laised to the acre besides, it is titled
better; there is no watching of hired
help the mind is not kept in worry, a
stew, fret, all the time There's not
so much fear of a drouth of weather, of
q frost, of small prices. There's not SO
much money to be paid out for agricul-
tural implements. Our wives and children
have time to read, to improve their
minds. A small horse is soon curried-
and the work on a small farm is always
pushed forward in season. Give us small
farms for comfort; aye, and give us
small farms for profit. ies s u ,fsi3 y
Eggs for winter: 1t is fact well
known to farmers that eggs are so scarce
in winter generally as not to enter into
the account Of the products of the farm.
and yet on certain conditions and with
out much expense they may be had at
all seasons OF the year, sufficient for
household use and some to sell at swin-
ter prices" 70 do this it may be neces-
sary to procure some of the improved
breeds of chickens, but the common
dung hills may be made to lay much
better by proper treatment. Our ex-
perience last winter (and last winter
was as cold as it usually gets) was with
Partridge Cochins and Brazilian DOM
iniques. The former laid all winter, and
the latter not until spring, under the
same treatment. 1t is not the intention
to describe all the details of first class
poultry house in this article, only SO far.
as it secures the comfort of the chickens
1t should be close enough to thoroughly
protect them from the storms, keep out
snow and rain, and clean enough to In
sure good health to the inmates, Part
of the floor may recovered with boards,
but not all, unless a box containing sand
is kept for them to dust in. A good plan
IS to keep clean straw strewn over part
of the floor. The temperature may be
kept some higher by having the south
side of the building, or part of it con-
structed of glass; plenty of nests should
be provided for them, filed with clean
straw or chaff. Give them plenty of
clean water to drink, and feed them
early in the morning on corn meal mixed
with warm water. Small potatoes boiled
and mixed with corn meal, scraps from
the table and such things as will digest
quickly, then during the day feed scraps
OF meat as often rs they can be obtained,
say not less than once q week-once in
two days would be better. At night feed
we'll with whole corn, that is slower to
digest and stands by them through the
cold nights. Follow this plan and if
you have good chickens, you will have
eggs all winter. .-....
Walking horses: We are glad to no.
tice that many of our western fairs are
offering handsome premiums for the
fastest walking horses. There is no
diguising the fact that a good walk is
the most useful gait that a general-pur-
pose horse can possess; and if one half
the attention were paid to cultiyatinr
this gait, and breeding with view to
its transmission, that is now given to
that Of training and breeding trotters,
horses that could walk five miles an hour
would soon be as abundant as 2: 80 trot-
tiers are now. The trouble now is, that
the whole country is possessed OF a
mania for fast trotters, and as soon as
the colt is broken to u halter. no matter
whether he be thoroughbred, Conestoga,
Norman, Clydesdale, Hambletonian or
Cano dian, he is put to trotting. The
whole country is engaged in framing
trotters. from the ploWboy in the field to
the professional on the track, to the ut
ter neglect of that more useful, every
day gait, the walk. Even the importers
Of draft stations from Europe have
caught the infection, and, instead of
bringing the best walkers, we only hear
OF their great trotting action.'' 1t is
time to put an end to this nonsense the
gait for draft horse is pre-eminently a
walk, while nothing adds more to the
ability OF the roadster to make Il long
journey i'll good time, than a walking
gait that will carry him along at the rate
OF five miles an hour. The first aim,
when a colt is broken to harness, should
be to educate him to good square, fast
walk, and after that has been done, if
you can get him to trot fast so much the
better. One of the most successful
breeders OF trotting horses in America
has often remarked to us, that he would
not keep Il horse on his place that was
not fast walker, and that he has in
variably found that the fastest walkers
made the fastest trotters. 1t is a posi-
tive luxury to ride or drive horse that
can walk off with you at the rate of five
miles IN hour. 1t is such relief to feel.
when you ease up your horse from his
5" "inging trot. or lope, that you have
not come to standstill but that you are
making respectable progress. For our
own private use on the road, the walk is
the gait which we prize above all others,
and anything which promises to increase
the number of fast walkers, shall receive
our hearty encouragement.-[S of
the Times.
A hunt in Connecticut. The New
Haven Palladium says that the second
annual hunt of the "Centerbrook Game
Club came off ON the goth inst. Sides
were chosen, and the side scoring the
smallest number Of points was to for
lett an oyster supper to the other side.
ID. f. Griswold and NJ. ID. Rose were
chosen saptains. The latter won by a
score of 1892 animals and birds, against
, '442. A good display of game was
brought in, consisting of foxes, coons,
squirrels, rabbits, patridges, woodcock,
quail, ducks, etc. Prizes were offered
to the four making the largest and the |
one the smallest score. The prizes were