The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-08-28
AGRICULTURAL.

human treatment bestowed Upon
colts while in training in that part OF
France specially devoted to this
industry: The division of the sexes
in Perche differs from most countries
where horses are raised. One sec
ton has he mares, and produces the
colts, while another section buys and
raiser them. No matter what may
be the class to which she belongs,
light or heavy, or paTtaking OF both,
the mare is expected to breed every
year. II barren, she is sold. This
fault continuing, she passes into pub
lie use. During her CESSATION she
works constantly. A few days rest
before and after !osling is the only
time lost. The remainder of her
work pays abundsntly for keep and
interest on her cost. At the sge OF
five or six months, the colt is alb
rnptly wesDed and sold. Led into
the interior upon the fertile meadows,
it remains one year unproductiye. In
winter it is fed on hay. in the stable.
and during the fine season turned
into the field to Craze. TO sum up,
it is rather poorly ncurished on bran,
grass, CT hay. The reason is that it is
yet unproductive to its master, and it
feels the effect. Wait a little. Its
hardest time has gone by; and work
will soften its lot. 1t reaches, in this
manner, the age of fifteen or eigh-
teen months. At this age the colt is
put to work. Naturally docile. in
the hands of a man always patient
and kind. the training is generally
easy. Assigned TO farm labor, the
colt ploughs, or draws wagon. Har-
messed with four or five colts OF its
Cwn age, together they pull what
would be an easy load for two good
horses. Put before oxen or joined to
three of its companions, the young
animal ploughs, and is never over
worked. Now it is fed better, and
receives better care. It's morale im.
proves, snd its master seems to delight
in contemplating the progress and
development OF the desirable quail
ties. Master, servant, large and
small, all deeply imbued with the
love of the horse. unite in this work
with admirable skill. Thus in travel
ing through Perche. one involuntsrily
stops in the middle of the field to see
the colt work, never tired of admiring
the vigor it displays and the gentle.
ness with which it is treated. At the
age of three, the Besucs farmers buy
the colt TO work his soft and light
soil. For him the animal must be
preserved intact, its development IN.
injured, nay, encouraged. The colt
has thus been worked one year,
sbundently fed, but supplied with lit
tie or no grain. Doing enough light
work to pay its keeping, the master
has received enough beside the man.
ure to pay a heavy interest on the
cost OF bis colt. The primitive work,
which would have been injurious
under careless management, is, on
the contrary, beneficial 80 long as the
colt ID in the hands OF good master.
This is so much the general case that
the contrary is the exception. The
animal grows and becomes better de-
veloped in size and strength than if
not worked"
Erterminating Grasses.-Any plant
which makes an early and rapid
growth and attains a considerable
height will overtop and smother
slower or lower growers. and more ef-
fectually if their leaves are large or
wide spreading. Even ANIMALS, in
light soil, which their roots can pene.
trate easily, will choke down peren-
mails, if they get q vigorous start In
advance. by reason of having full,
plump seeds dropped in favorable
places. Heavy, wet soils are occu-
pied by coarse aquatic or semi.aeuatic
plants, because others cannot endure
to have their roots immersed in water
continually or even occasionally. On
such soils draining is an essential for
the production of good forage plants.
On soils dry enough and fertile
enough to produce COED pasture the
grasses which have creeping stems,
which run along close to the surface,
like white clover, or just below it. like
blue grass, are enabled by this loWly
attitude to save all but their leaves
from the closest cropping, even of
sheep or goats. They also resist the
compacting of the soil by the feet OF
animals, and 30 they remain safe
when every Leaf and branch of COM
peting ANIMALS or perennials that are
within the reach of animals 10 eaten
to the root and weakened to death.
They resist Are in the same way, and
in many localities can be made to
take the place OF cosrss plants by q
| good burning OF the latter in May or
June. and again in August, or when
ever practicable, followed by thick
seeding Of the natural pasture grasses
sowed just before the fall rains, and
then protected through autumn and
spring until Just when competing
plants begin to threaten With their
foliage. By this time they will be
able to endure some pressure, and
sheep should be turned in to stay as
long as they are hungry and willing
to feed on the tender young sprouts
of the wild plants. What they will