The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1881-08-13
AGRICULTURAL.

to avoid Frightening the colts lest they run
against the fence and hurt themselves. We
fnean far more, also, than merely to avoid
making them wild and timid, although
both these dangers are imminent, and justl-
fy careful avoidance. In all animal life
the inherited habits of action may be great
ly neutraliEed or greatly strengthened by
cultivation. THIS cultivation begins when
the foal stands up and sucks, and when it
Is six weeks old tho education may he
somewhat regular and methodical. If you
are breeding running horses, encourage the
colt to extend himself at gailop, for that
Is what you want him to do in the future
but If you are breeding trotters, encourage
the colt to extend himself at trot, for
that ID what you want him to do IN the
future-rear him, If you can without
knowing that there Is such gait as the
Gallop. If you have a young hound dog
that you intend specially for the pursuit of
the fox, you will not allow him to strike
out on every rabbit trail he may come
across If you indulged him once he is
much harder to restrain the next time, and
If you let him have his own sweet will III
chasing all the little ground anne IN the
neighborhood, he will be of no use as a
fox dog. The dog had the Inheritance and
he would have been all right ii he had not
been ruined in his education. So 1t is
with the trOtting bred colts In the field.
Every time you scare up one and make it
gal.op, 1t Is the dog off on rabbit trail.
You lnjurc the colt in driving him out of
the gait for whlc Ii he was bred, and to
which his instincts led him to adhere. In
the end "e will reach the colt that will
not know how TO gallop; but as means to
that end we must stop making the colts do
the very thing we don't want them to do.
TO PRODUCE healing of wound III
horse or COW, some stimulant is nearly
always required This may be common
spirits Of turpcntinc or tho compound tine
ture of benzoin or that of myrrh and aloea.
Either of these may be applied with a
feather once day, or if the wound is deep,
the stimulant should be injected to the bot
tom with common squirt can, Or syringe.
Wounds should always heal from the bot
tom, and to secure this the opening should
be kept free, by means of plug of lint
dipped in the stimulant used. Lint may
be made by scraping piece of linen cloth
such as towel, with knife and collecting
the loose fibrcs Linen only should be
used, and never cotton or wool for this
purpose. If pus Is incoscd in wound
and the opening Is permitted TO close, an
abscess will be absorbed, with somc future
Ill effect. In the case Of deep, puncturcd
wounds careful search should be made for
the possible presence Of splinters or other
foreign bodies and to enlarge the opening
will often facilitate tho search or assist in
the ultimate healing.
MULES ON TIE TARM.-Somc way or
other, mules tor work On the farm are not
appreciated by the agricultural community.
Why 1t is 80 no one can tell. It does not
cost but little over half as much to feed
grain to mules, as 1t does horses, as they
require 81 much less and remain in good
order, and as far as work is concerned a
span of mules will do rs much and prob
ably more work than span of horses can.
They are rs gentle and as easily handled
as horses. 1t is true they are not as hand
some, and few years ago they were not
as gentle, but the American mule is great
improvement i'll every particular on his
Spanish brother. They are found to be so
profitable by the farmers in tho South that
1t Is seldom span Of horses can bo found
on farm, but all the teams arc composed
Of mules. There should be more Of them
in the North.
hlATTHEw CRAWFORD states in an eX-
change that the destruction of tomato
plants by the cut. worm may be avoided by
making compact mound Of earth about
the plant, as large as al inverted teacup,
the cut-worm being unable to climb An
other way, which we have long practscd,
is to wrap around the stem, if tho cLt-worm
10 feared, few inches of paper or a large
green leaf, any kind, before drawing the
earth around it. They will not take the
trouble to gnaw through the paper or leaf
SULPHUR FOR SmEEp.-Mix a little sui
phur with salt and feed occasionally to
sheep. 1t will cffectually destroy sheep
ticks. The same remedy applied to cattle
troubled with lice will soon rid them CT
vcrmin. The use of sulphur with salt well
repays the trouble of keeping supply for
cattle and sheep. If a mixture of one part
Of sulphur with seven Of salt bo freely ap-
Piled there will be no trouble with vcrmin.
In sowing the new asparagus seed, or
any other seed hard to gcrminatc, it ls a
good plan to SOW few radlsh seed among
1t They come up soon, arc good to mark
the rows before the tardy seeds are ready
to come up,and the rco's orc of the ground
before they become troublesome.
TnR planting of elm, maple and other
forest trees at proper distances along the
highways increases the value of adjoining
property and adds to the beauty and COM
fort of the section. In Germany fruit trees
adorn the waysidcs.
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Separation of Nickel Oxide ana Co.
6aH Oride. The author proposes to give
process for the separation OF the two
metals, derived from. two known methods
and permitting the exact determination of
the two oxides, and Incorporation of the
two metals In state of purity. The two
fundamental processes are that of risani,
who uses canstic potassa in presence of an
ammoniacal liquid, in which are dissolved
the two metals, with exclusion of air. The
nickel oxide is preclpitatcd alone in bulk,
but always carries down with it more or
less Of cobalt oxide. The second method Is
that of Terrell, who prccipitatcs cobalt in
an acid solution in the state of rosco .cobal
tic hVdrOrhOrate Tho coholt avid, IL