Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1877-11-15

ear is well formed and, of medium size,
while the white ones are only =" nub-
bins"
A HORSE THAT BREATHES THROUGH
lis NEcK.-Edging around in front of
the animal the reporter saw that sure
enough tube had been inserted in the
wlndplpe midway between the head and
shoulders, through the opening of which
the horse was inhaling and exhaling
oxygen with all the force and capacity
of blacksmith's bellows. A little in
qulry elected the facts from Mr.. Wood
IN. The horse Ia fine large black had
formerly been used as bus horse for
the Bellows House in Rock Island.
Some two months ago the animal had a
violent attack of epizootic-so severe.
indeed, that the larynx, or opening of
the wlndpipe, had been swollen shut,
and the horse seemed likely to die of
sutfocation. He was taken to Matt.
Fishers stables in Davenport, where a
veterinary surgeon cut the w;ldpipe as
described and inserted a 81 .,.lon-shaped
silver tube about six inches in length,
through which the animal obtained his
allowance of air. The tube has n tin
facing to which the straps are attached
which keep it in place. The horse does
not suffer the least inconvenience from
the arrangement, and is as full of life as
ever. 1t will be seen that by this mode
of treatment all strain is removed from
the INSTRUCTED larynx, leaving it in the
best possible shape for doctoring. As
soon as the swelling subsidies and the
natural passage is again open, the tube
will be removed, the hole sewed up and
the horse is himself again. As we have
said, the horse was used at the Bellows
House before his sickness, but when
Mr.. Jarvis, the present proprietor, took
charge, he shipped the animal down to
his Island Farm, in exchange for one
that was sound, which accounts for the
consequently for this item.-Muscotine
(Io.l Tribune.
SEAsONABLE HINTS.-Be sure to have
the ground where you put onions next
spring rich, and to make it so, cover it
over with manure now, run it over in
the spring, and rake off all the coarse
parts. Throw your coal ashes around
your fruit trees and under the currant
and gooseberry bushes. Don't throw
away or sell wood ashes, but use them
around your peach and other fruit
trees. Carefully examine with sharp
instrument the peach trees wherever
gum is escaping, and kill the grubs. /
not done before, trim currants, grapes
and gooseberries ; cut up the cuttings
six to ten inches long, and bury below
frost for spring setting. There is moth
ing better for hot-beds than leaves mixed
with barn-gard manure, as they produce
heat for so long time. We advise
hauling now from the woods and throw
ing them under the. horses and cattle.
To grow good roots from cuttings
ounces, currants, gooseberries, flower
ing shrubs, etc, it is well to take off the
cuttings first open, spell and bury in
earth, SO they will cailous over before
planting out in the spring. Cut scions
of apples, pears and cherries now, and
bury in sand for grating.
FALL PLoWING.-When land is plowed
in the fall, and left till spring without
narrowing it, it may be sown to any
kind of spring grain, after being well
narrowed, and the crops in most cases
will be as good as if the land were
plowed in the spring. Stable dung
when plowed under in the fall for a
spring crop, will be as beneficial as
when plowed under in the spring but
all kinds of common fertilizers should
be sown broadcast in the spring, and
narrowed in, unless one sows seed with
a drill that deposits and covers the fer
tilizers at the same time. If it were
not for the great hurry that farmers are
subject to in our short springs, it would
not be of any advantage to pillow light
loamy soils in the fall; but in conse.
quence of not having time, in many
cases, to pillow all the land in the spring
one desires to cultivate, it is decidedly
advisable in some cases to pillow in the
fall, especially clayey soils, which are
greatly benefited by being thrown up
to the action of the frosts in the win
ter. 1t often occurs that field in the
spring is too wet to plow when the seed
should go in and such land, if plowed
in the fall, would be in good condition
to harrow in the spring, and the corn
would be better for the fall blowing.