The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1878-08-29

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salt. They will eat it. it is true. but it
creates thirst and then they are apt to
drink too much cold water, and bring
| on chills and fever, and perhaps infiam-
nation of the stomach or bowels In
summer salt acts as a corrective to the
| I.x;tv and tfatulenee which the succG-
lent grasses NAV produce A tight box
under the cow-shed, in which the salt
may be put, is the most economies, WAY
to feed it. A saving may De made oy
pouring all of the old beef ana nam
/ brine into this box; the cows viii take
lick or two every day, and this is petle,
than giving them heap on the grounu
/ twice week as the common practice IS,
which Is a waste of salt, and besides
makes bare spot Farmers study ut
tie economies the least of any class OF
business men. No merchant would
think of throwing away half barrel OF
brine and then turn around and pay his
| money for lot of salt to use In IT'S
place. He would use the brine and
4 congratulate himself as Dr. Franklin
did, that "a penny saved is as good as
a penny earned. s'-Nec York. Tribune.
! EDUCATING You've HoRsEs.-Rev-
! w. III. Murray gives, in the Golden RUE,
the following directions for educating or
as it used to be called breaking in "
Young horses: " If you have colt to
teach, and have the habit of speaking
| sharply and loudly, correct yourself OF
1 Il at once. Colts are timid, high-spirit-
ed things, if they are worth any thing;
and he who manages them should be OF
quiet habits, and have low, pleasant
| toned voice. The trainer that yells
stands in the same category rs the driver
in the public race who screams ana
whoops like Comanche Indian when
/ coming down the home-stretch; the one
should be bsnished the track, and the
other turned out of the gentleman's sta
bles. Our method of educating colt to
4 the harness and wagon is to educate nim
sinclv. by himself; and this education
. should begin very early. When the colt
is twelve or fourteen months old begin
to put the harness on him. In few
weeks he is accustomed to it and ready
for the shafts. But, in doing this, do
not be In hurry. Give the youngSter
time to get thoroughly acquainted with
every strap and buckle, as it were. Let
him see every thing and smell every
thing. The senses of sight, smell, and
touch are the great avenues OF knowt-
edge to the horse, especially the last two
The ear and eye give the alarm These
two organs stand, As it were, on picket
for the animals safety. But if your
horse is frightened at any thing, let him
smell and touch it, and he will fear no
longer. Hyour colt is afraid Of the har-
ness az it comes rustling out of the har-
> ness-room, let him touch it with his nose,
and smell of it few times, and he will
soon understand that it will not hurt
! him. If he is inclined to kick or jump
if the breeching- band or any strap hits
his hams or legs, by gently rubbing them
against the sensitive places he will soon
become Indifferent to them. BY the
I time the colt is two years of age, or even
less, he should be educated TO go be-
tween the shafts, either forward or back
ward, and be thoroughly familiar with
! the harness and vehicle and ordinary
, road-servlce.
RENovATING OLD PASTURES The
WORKOUT pastures which abound I'D
, some of the older and especially the
; Southern States, have previously been
exhausted by severe cropping with
grain, tobacco or CT ton. The land IS
, cropped until it will no longer pay for
cultivation, then turned to grass, and
the failure of that marks the smallest
possible degree of fertility. Bushes,
briars and hedge take the place OF val
I liable grasses, until their decay furnishes
material for revival of fertility. Such
land is however richer in plant food than
is generally supposed. Cropping rare
ly exhausts more than one or two ele-
ments, and as soon as these give out the
land ceases to produce and arrests the
process. Nine times out of ten phos-
plate of lime is the lacking ingredient
With this, good crops may be Produced
and If suitable rotation, including
clover, is adopted, fertility will be in
definitely maintained. 1t is only thus
that we can account for the wonderful
results of improved farming on some of
the so-called "worn out - lands of the
Southern States. fthe soil were really
deficient in plant food, it could not be
so easily restored to fertility. Undoubt-
eddy after cropping ceases, the decom-
position of plant food continues, so that
after few years of "resting," fields
once fertile may again be brought I'M
der cultivation for one or two crops.
In the old settled parts OF the South this
process has usually been repeated once
or twice before the land has been given
over to scrubby trees and bushes. To
bring such land up requires greater
outlay than where only the first or ORR
7 ginal fertility has been exhausted.
Many Northern pastures are gradually
failing because milk, cheese and wool,
all rich in phosphates, have been sold
from the farm. There is difference in
the manure from milch-cow and that
from fattening cow. The fattening
animal takes mainly the carbon and al
bumiRoids needed to form fat and lean
nest A cow giving milk, or grow
ing young animal, abstracts from the
food the phosphates to form milk and
bone, and the result is deficiency of
this element in the manure. Selling
butter does not have this effect if the
buttermilk is fed on the farm and the
manure saved. Excepting the oil, the
buttermilk contains the strengthening
and 1esh-forming elements of whole
milk; but the whey from curd is of lit
tie value for feed, neither does it make
valuable manure. The discovery of
phosphate rock in the South is Of i'm
mense Importance to its agricultural fn-
ture. OF course its first use will be on
cotton or, other cultivated crops; but
with improved farming, more attention
\ will be given to renOvating old and
WORKOUT pastures, and when this is at
tempted, phosphate in some form will
! be found the most essential clement
Cor. Country Gentleman.