The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-12-19
FARM TOPICS.

CLEANLINESS OF STABLEs.-We fire.
uuently come across remonstrances
against keeping harness in stables, the
reason Civ, u that the ammonia preva-
lent there rots the leather and soon de-
stroys the harness. Now, this is begin
ming at the wrong end to remedy an
evil. We may talk and advise "year
in and year out" about this matter,
but harness will be kept In stable in
spite of all. Where else can the major
ity of people who keep horses hang
these trappings? A rich man may have
a closet in which the harness may hang
safely from fear of ammonia and all
other dangers; but the average horse
owner will have his peg behind the
beam, because he can have no other
way of disposing of the harness. But
the trouble would end il. the production
of ammonia was prevented. Enter an
ordinary stable at any period, but es-
pecially in the winter, when every cram
nv through which the wind can
come in is carefully stopped,
and what an offensive odor Of
tends the nostrils and irritates the eyes
Is this odor of ammonia strongly aka
line and irritant, injurious only to the
harnessp What of the horses, and the
tender membranes of the eye, the throat
nd the nasal passages?' Do you think
they are less sensitive than oak-tanned
harness leather, well creased and pre-
served as it tsp By no means. II the
prevalent odors injuriously effect the
leather, you may be sure the eyes suffer !;
the throat and lungs are irritated and
the nasal passages become infiamed.
Then occurs the frequent moon blind
ness; Opthalmia, weeping OF the eyes,
followed by Inflammation, white specks,
clouded cornea, and finally loss OF
sight; then follow coughs, bronchitis,
pneumonia, heaves, catarrh, nasal
gleet; and by-and-by, when the
blood has become poisoned by the alb
sorption of diseased matter from in
famed and suppurated membranes,
farcy and glanders-dreadful and fatal
to man aud beast, too-result. And
while we think of saving the harness
and removing it to a purer place, the
| beast, which is worth a dozen sets OF IT.
is left to rot from these pungent gasse:
without any help. Clean the stables
and the harness may hang in then
safely; and be sure, if the stable is no
a fit place for the harness, it is no place
for the horse. A barrel OF plaster car
be procured for about one dollar. 1t il
worth that as fertilizer. 1t is worti
ten dollars as absorbent of ammonia
and a hundred as health preserver Il
the herses; not counting the saving t.
the harness. Sprinkle it everywher
and be liberal with it.-RurGL Neo
Yorker.
PLowING IN CLovER.-Speaking o
the farm of Hon. George Geddes, Fai
Mount, n. Y, the Country GeratleDaGi
SAYS: "The 20-acre field which wa
cultivated for 20 years without bar
manure, and which continued to yiel'
heavy crops during all this period, wa
treated with an application of yard ma
nure few years since, not from an
necessity for it, but because there hap
| pened to be a surplus near at hand MI
, Geddes thinks it caused some increas
in the luxuriance of the crops, but q
still prefers, as 8 matter of economy
r the practice of blowing in clover
| mass of stems and leaves eoplou
enough to fill the furrow he finds NOR
valuable than any common coat of var
) manure, while the roots are not only
valuable part of the crop, but they serV