Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-09-27

pearance OF RAIN put ID gOOu cOcEs dhu let u
remain so. Hay partially cured by the sun and
housed and changed every two days in the
barn, until beyond danger of mould, is deci.
dedly preferable to curing altogether in the
sun. Ifcut with grass scythes, the same process
in curing is necessary, only requiring longer
time, owing to the heavy swaths and the con.
sequent frequent turning. Land that will
Weld fifteen bushels to the acre will furnish
two tons of good clover hay the first cutting,
and as the fertility of the soil is increased, the
yield will be increased, even to five tons.
In addition to clover for hay, herds, orchard
and Timothy grasses are regarded as suitable
to our climate and soil the former does best
on moist or even wet lands, yielding an i'm.
mense crop. Orchard grass is better adapted
to high uplands, orchards and groves; limo
thy on strong, we'll drained low lands. Lu'
cerne, on lands adapted to clover, as we'll as
on sandy, produces most wonderful yield,
and is used either for hay or as, perhaps, the
very best perennials for soiling. The prepara'
ton of the soil should be thorough and ma.
nured very heavily, sowing, either in drills or
broadcast, ten pounds of seed to the acre and
covered lightly.
An inexhaustible supply of hay can be
made by cleaning up waste bottom lands too
wet for cultivation, moving in May and Sep.
tember until the ANNALS are destroyed, Civ
ing place to perennial grasses.
ANY grass or weeds that stock will eat
when green will make forage if cut in the
bloom and properly cured, even the rag weed,
so thoroughly experimental with. and so ad-
mirably utilized by the Hon. j. Washington
Watts, of Laurens county.
WINTER PASTURES.
Yellow clover, now cultivated to limited
extent in this State, sown in September, is
ready for pasturage as early as the middle OF
January, the first year; afterwards in Decem'
ber; ripens and dies about the last Of May
the land planted in corn or other crop, and in
the fall it springs up again" - 81! -
Lands thus used are rapidly improved un-
til they reach high state of fertility.
How TO TELL HORSES AGE.-The colt
is born with twelve grinders when four front
teeth have made their appearance, the colt is
twelve days old, and when the next four
comes forth, it is four weeks old. When the
corner teeth appear, the colt is eight months
old when the latter have attained to the
height of the front teeth, it is one year old.
The two year old colt has the kernel (the
substance in the middle of the tooth's CROWN
ground out in all the front teeth. In the third
year the middle front teeth are being shifted
and when three years old these are substitu-
ted by the horse teeth. The next four teeth
are shifted in the fourth year, and the corner
teeth in the fifth. At six years the kernel is
worn out of the lower middle front teeth, and
the bride teeth have now attained to their
full growth. At seven years hook has been
formed in the corner teeth of the upper jaw,
the kernel of the next to the middle worn out,
and the bride teeth begin to wear on. At
eight years, the kernel is worn out of the low
er front teeth, and begins to decrease in the
middle upper front. In the ninth year the
kernel has wholly disappeared from the up
per middle front teeth the hook on the cor
ner has increased in size, and the bride teeth
lose their points. In the tenth year, the ker'
mel is worn out of the teeth next to the mid
die front of the upper jaw, and in the eleventh
year the kernel has entirely vanished from
the corner teeth of the same jaw. At twelve
years old, the crown of all the front teeth in
the lower jaw has become triangular, and the
bride teeth are much worn down. As the
horse advances in age the gums shrink away
from the teeth, which, consequently, assume
long, narrow appearance, and the kernels
become darkish points. Gray increases in
the forehead and over the eyes, and the chin
assumes the form of an angle.