Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-08-21

years l 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; hall
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 q forty-five gallon. barrel. [ have
found linseed oil barrels excellent for
the purpose. In most villages of one
or two thousand inhabitants, there can
be a good trade g, in pickle worked up.
| have grown from twenty to one hun
dred thousand a year for the last ff-
teen years, and have sold the. most of
them at three hundred for ST., and none
less than $3.50 per- thousand. Practical
Farmer. 81 II lhf ~ . I'll tA.
THE CARE OF HORsES.-How quick
horse becomes dilapidated and democrat
lied after it 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. I
have seen men who claimed to have
great judgment, whom we looked upon
as wise. prudent and shrewd in bust
ness, that did not seem to have any
1In nf ,bo4
horse required. If / had boy ten
years old, that was not more capable
about such things than many people, [
should think he was a hopeless idiot.
Many seem to think horse can endure
everything, go 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 in forkful
of hay, the first they come to, and let
them rip They never rub or clean
them, and never take any pains to pro-
tect them from cold or dam pness. 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 iontsiofA shape and all sagged
down. their back SIX inches too low in
front of the hips, and a foot and half
too long. A horse needs feed regularly,
as often as'Once III five hours at least,
at regular hours in the day. They
cannot bear fasting5as well as ruminat-
ing animals; but they should never be
crammed full of hay, especially after
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
tlnued 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,
a crooked, shapeless mass Of .unsightly,
useless horse-fiesh." But, strange as
1t may appear people never know the
difference as long as the animal has
paunch, hair and hoofs 1t 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 poor constitution, or is
sick. Others call it a lack of vitality
[ should call it a lack Of common sense
IN the Uranium of its owner.-Mdine
Farmer.