The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-07-31
AGRICULTURE.

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TRAINING SADDLE UoRsEs.-In an
swer to the question on training saddle
horses, says the Country Gentleman, it is
not q good rule to use q frst-class sad
die horse, in harness, or vice versa, and
horsemen all know that to use a trotter
to saddle, is to shorten his gait and get
him In the habit Of cantcring. Assoon
as horse finds 1t Is easier to canter, or
run as 1t Is commonly called, when GO
ing fast, ho will invariably take the
latter gait. But with the ordinary bug
gy horse, or saddle horse If properly
trained, it will not make any difference.
The writer has trained great many
horses for saddle and HAIRLESS purposes,
both in Europe and America, and knows
that the best saddle horses in the world
are never harnessed until their services
to saddle are over. In England. when
horse has hunted four or five seasons,
he Is sold to some tradcsman, and then
he is good for four or five seasons for
dog-cart or gig. With regard to the
development Of the muscles Of q horse
undergoing training for either trottlng
or running, his muscles will be fully
developed. The horse Of all work
should be first thoroughly trained to
saddle and then to harness. as in my
experience he will always work to
those gaits; that is to say, when in sad
die to trOt and canter, but never to pace
or single foot, when In harness ho will
learn the two latter too soon. Some
people think saddle horse ought to
pace, but this is a mistake, as the canter
Is by far the best for horse and rider.
speak from experience, as for the last
twenty years l have been in the saddle
six days cut of seven. In travelling a
long distance the horse which trots or
more ease than the pacing horse. A
good trainer can train horse to the
saddle gaits so that these will never con-
flict with each other, and on the proper
application of the bride hand and the
legs, the horse will change his gait at
any moment.
OLD-FAsHIoNED FLOWERS. MANY Of
the flowers that were popular forty and
fifty years ago are again coming into
fashion. For several years hollyhocks
have been ignored, but the double speci-
mems grown in Germany, and intro
duced into this country, are now sold
by most seedsmen. They are not so
easily raised from seeds as might be In
ferred by reading the catalogues, but
when once started, with proper culti-
walton they amply repay all the troub-
le they require, 1t Is said that by
planting the seed early in the season
flowers may be obtained the same sea-
son. This may induce hopes not al ways
to be realized. If started in hotbed
the changes are fair, but they mature
slowly. The new varieties of asters are
very beautiful, and are easily brought
to perfection with care. They should
not be crowded, and mulching in July
Is very advantageous. Some Of the
varieties introduced within few years
are very large and snowy.
HORSES ON THE R0AB.-If a horse is
required to travel long distance and
the journey must le accomplished with
out stopping to bait, 1t eXhausts the
horse less to increase the pace up to his
best average gait, than to permit a
slow gait, consuming a much longer
time in going over the ground, and on
an empty stomach. In other words, if
two horses are driven fifty or sixty
miles, under similar conditions as to
the weight they have to draw, and the
one is taken at the rate of six miles an
hour, which will keep him fasting from
eight to ten hours, while the other is
Travelled fast enough to do it in six to
oOFoii houtSj Clc laIIcF Will DC iCSS CX-
hausted than the former, though even
in this latter case the horse would be
all the better for feed in the middle
of tho journey, the time devoted to
such batting being easily made by the
Increased energy that would be suppli-
ed by the grain.
FERT1LIzING IN THE HlLL.-A small
quantity of active fertilizer applied in
the hill at planting will be beneficial.
"A handful Of a mixture of 100 pounds
of fine bone dust, one barrel of wood
ashes and barrel of poultry manure,
thrown near but not on the seed and
well mingled with the soil, will hasten
tho young growth. The earlier the
start and the more vigorous the young
growth, the more rapidly the crop will
mature. .
GRASS LANDs.-Rolling the meadows
with heavy roller will level the sur
face by reducing the hummocks, sink
ing stones andsticks, or roots, and COM
pact the soil about the roots and 80
strengthen the grass. A light dressing,
100 lbs. nitrate Of soda per acre, for lis
stance, will encourage the growth anci