Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1876-03-03
agricultural.

CARE OF HoKsEs.-The London Horse Book
says An horses must not be- fed on the same
proportion, without regard to their ages, their
constitution and their work because the impro-
priety of such practice is selEeyldent. Yet it
is constantly done, and is the basis of disease of
every kina. - r- t- ' ~
Never use bad hay on account OF cheapness,
because ther" is no proper nouri>hmelt in it. g.
Damaged com i- excce.iFng injurious, because
II brings on inflammation of the bowels and skin
disease. Chat is better for OLD horses than hay,
because they chew AMI digest IL better
When horse is worked hard its food should
De chiefly oats; if not worked hard its food
Should Chiefly b. hay, because oats supply more
nourishmeni aud I'll making material than any
other i""d; hay not ,nu,.h.
Rick feeding Is wasteful. rh. better plan is
Ia ferd with chopped hay, frum a manger, be-
Cause the food is not then thrown out, and is
more easily chewrd aud digested
Sprinkle the h y with wafer that has salt dis
solved in ii, brc use it is pleasing the animals
TASTE aud the hay Is more easily digested.
traspo"nful If salt IN bucket OF water is suffl.
cient.
Treatment OF sHYrse shoksEs. -shyips gen
e,alIy arises from timidity, but sometimes it is
uuited with cunning. and induces the animal to
ASSUME a fear Of some object for the sole purpose
OF nnding an excuse for turning aside. The
usual cause of shying is, doubtless, the presence
OF some object to which the horse has not been
accustomed, and if be has defective eyes, which
render him short sighted, it will be difficult TO
| convince him of the innoesnt nature of the novel
object. There are endless LeeuIiarities in shyiDy
| horse, SOME being dreadfuy alarmed by one
Kind OF object, which is not at all formidable.
| The best plan of Treatment which can be acopt-
ed, Is TO take little notice as possible of the
shylng, and to be especially careful TO show no
fear OF its recurrence When the '.alarming" OBJ
ject appears in the distance. When the horse
oeslns TO sho" alarm, but not till then, the
driver should speak encouragingly to him, and,
! II necessary, with severe tone, which may even
be supported 10y the of the whip if his onward
progress can not otherwise be maintained.
The principle which should be carried out, is
to acopt such measures as will get the horset TO
pass the object at which he SHES, somehow or
other, and this should be effected with as little
Violence as possible, always commanding in an
I
ed. Nothing has great tendency to keep up
the habit as the plan so common among ignorant
grooms of chasti.ing the shyer after he has
passed the object OF his alarm. II he can be
persuaded TO go quietly up to it, and examine
with his muzzle, AS well with his eyes, great
good will be effected, but this can seldom be done
with moving vehicles, and heaps OF stones or
piles of sand are generally only alarming from
defective vision, SO that each time they assume
new phase to the active imagination of the
timid animal. Furnishing bits only make high
couraged animal worse, and the use of s'over-
checks" rarely, if ever, proves beneacIaI.-An.r-
iean Stock Jossrnel. ......
SOWING SEEDs.-'rhe time will soon arrive for
general seed sowing, and HUT or two in regard
TO ii may not be out of place.
Much that is sown never appears, and the
scotsman is charged with selling old. or poor
seeds. Sometimes this may be so, bat very Oftes
, 1t Is the sower's own fault. There is much more
nrt in sowing seeds successfully than people
suppose. and yet il is very simple when under
stood.
Many seeds are sown too deep, and yet if not
deep enough they will dry up and not grow at
all. The depth must be determined by the size
of the seed and the character of the soil. If the
soil be light and sandy, there is not SO much
danger of seeds rotting from deep sowing as IL
the soil be stiff; and even in stiff soil the depth
will have to be determined By the condition of
the soil. Suppose we are SOW a piece of oats, in
land that is liable TO become cOtty, and this Is
the distinction between light and heavy land.
Ii We can roll the land after sowing il would not
matter much about sewing deep; but the seed
would have to be narrowed in pretty well if left
in clotty condition nrrolled. Indeed if tbs
seed were sown ground simply first narrowed
aud then rolled, in such land as we have aescrib-
ed, many more seed would do well than if har-
rowed before rolling. In othe: words, shallow
sowing, if the ground is well-pulverized and
pressed firm, is more favorable than deep plant
ing With a rough surface. Finely pulverizrd
soil, with wel-pressed surface, is indeed the
very best conditions for success with all seeds
and the shalovest kind OF sowing, so that the
seeds be firmly imbedded in the soil, is the
srnee of good seed sowins.-GsnnGntocs 7sls-
grrph.
LINE is one OF the constituents, TO a greater or
less extent, of all soils that are capable of culll-
vaton. All plants remove some of the lime from
the soil, especially wheat, clover, barely, oats
and turnips. 1t follows that unless the lime
be restored, exhaustion will ensue. Yet lime
cannot strictly be said to be manure. It is
. rather s,imulant. Successive applications of
lime without manure will only quicken the sx-
{ hnusIiye process. As means OF bringing back
run down land, lime alone is useless Its action
is to decompose vegetable matter and 10 render
more quickly available the plant food that al
ready exists in the soil. In this direction it acts
like magic. 1t follows that the best time TO
apply lime is immediately after the application
Of heavy dressing of stable manure. or after
ming under green erop.-Ganada Far-nsr
To RESTORE GILT FKAMEs.-Take one ounce
cooking soda and beat it thoroughly with the
whites of three e. IS. Blow of the dust with
pair of bellows, ar brush it our with a feattG
duster. Then dip small paint brush into the
mixture and rub it ali over the gliding into sIrry
tiny creyice, aud it will render it fresh and
bright. te
MEAT FOR CHICKBSs.-Every person who keeps
chickens, especially il they are confued, should
not forget to supply ;he'u Literally with fre-b
meat. When free To- range abroad, the great
part OF their food consists of worms and insect
and when confined, substitute for these m'
be supplied, and meat is the only article thast
properly supply their place. II il cannot at
times be procured, fresh fsh will answer. Chi
ems supplied with this necessary irticle, will
ways lay. and If grain, lime, ashes, sour
and chopped vegetables are literally gigen,w "
pure water for common drink. they will