Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-08-21
vine should never be lifted or disturbed

vine should never be lifted or disturbed
more than Is absolutely necessary,
Where pickles can be sold at twenty.
five cents a hundred, they will be found
a very profitable crop. The cost of
picking Is not more than three or four
cents hundred, and in n favorable
year fifty thousand or more can be
gathered from an acre. At the pickle
factories the prices varies from 81 to
$1.5O per thousand, and even at this
price should consider them a paying
crop, for they only occupy the land for
a few weeks, and crop of turnips may
be grown on the same land; for many
years have grown my largest crop Of
turnips in this way. Pickles may be
sailed SO as to keep for years. There
are two methods; one is to make a
strong brine and cover them, and the
other to fill your barrel with pickles
and salt and alternate layers. and let
them draw their own brine; half
bushel of salt will do for a barrel. In
either case there should be a weight
upon them, and the scum that arises
should be removed. If your pickles
are small and of uniform size, between
three and four thousand can be sailed
in forty-tive gallon barrel. l have
found linseed oil barrels excellent for
the purpose. In most villages of one
or two thousand inhabitants, there can
be good trade in pickles worked up.
l have grown from twenty to one hun
dred thousand year for the last fif.
teen years, and have sold the most of
them at three hundred for 81, and none
less than $3.50 per thousand. Practical
Farmer.
The CARE OF HORSES. a quick
horse becomes dilapidated and democrat
lzed after 1t comes into the possession
of some people. Itmakes no difference
how young or nice they are when they
get them, they all look alike in less than
two years, and always have that dis
couraged, destroyed appearance.
have seen men who claimed to have
great judgment, whom we looked upon
as wise, prudent and shrcwd in BUSH
ness, that did not seem to have any
idea of what treatment and care a
horse required. If | had a boy ten
years old, that was not more capable
about such things than many people,
should think he was hopeless idiot.
Many seem to think horse can endure
everything, 60 without feed all day and
half the night, and be off on journey,
in bad travelling. time after time. When
they get home they put them into an
old, dark, dirty pen, throw ina forkful
of hay, the first they come to, and let
them Grip" They never rub or clean
them, and never take any pains to pro-
tect them from cold or dampness. They
overload them repeatedly, compel them
to labor under difficulties" when in
no condition to labor. How many
young, stylish horses have we seen all
drawn out of shape and all sagged
down. their back six inches too low in
front of the hips, and foot and n hall
too long. A horse needs feed regularly,
as often as once in five hours at least,
at regular hours in the day. They
cannot bear fasting rs well as ruminat-
ing animals; but they should never be
crammed full Of hay, especially after a
long drive when they have been with
out all day, nor just before hard days
work or long journey. | have seen a
good many horses nearly spoiled by
fasting and examining. 1t will soon
spoil their digestive organs, and if con-
tinued it will weaken them and destroy
their vitality so that they will never
take on flesh at all even under good
treatment. And SO they always remain,
crooked, shapeless mass of unsightly,
useless horse-hesh." But, strange as
it may appear, people never know the
difference as long as the animal has a
paunch, hair and hoofs II is not at all
work that has brought them to this,
There are thousands Of horses that
look as well as they ever did. 1t is the
general management. 1t is not the
team horse or the livery horse SO much
as the farmers horse, that shows bad
treatment. Some pretend that the
horse has a poor constitution, or is
sick. Others call it a lack of vitality
| should call it lack of common sense
in the Uranium of its owner.-Maiat
Farmer.
Rattlesnake Jack.