The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1882-03-15

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the cost of production by keeping your cat
tie clean in their winter quarters. Gard
them at least once a day.-Harris Lewis.
Wholesome influence OF Farm Life on
Boys.
A great restlessness is being felt among
our country boys, and desire to exchange
the dull routine of farm life for the excite
ment and luxury of the city. Against this
we enter orr protest.
No fact is more alarming to the fathers
and mothers of the boys in the city than this;
that their fortunes can only descend tenn
porarily to their chrildren, that only a few
short years can pass when the young men of
nerve and brain coming from the country
shall dsplace those who have been reared in
luxury under circumstances in which neither
muscle nor brain could be developed.
A test of this question was made by Rev.
Washington GLADDEN., to determine what
proportion of business men the country has
furnished He sent postal cards to 100 OF
the substantial business men of Springfield,
Mass, asking where their early years were
spent. Seventy-four out of the lightweight
who replied gave the significant answer that
in childhood and youth they had the whole
some training of farm life.
There is philosophy in all this. The ex-
ercise of hard labor in the open air Is not
give solid texture to the brain, without
which well-developed mind is impossible.
An eminent divine in ADDRESSING the young OF
his audience in the city of New York said:
"You desire to have fair countenance, and
pride yourself in having tender and soft
muscle; but you must be content in having
a correspondingly soft BRAIN"
In the past and no doubt in the future,
unless radical change obtains in the habits
Of inv a furnish
young men to fill our professions, to become
our lawyers, clergymen, doctors and teach
ers, and also the business of the city must be
turned over to them. This is dark view of
the matter for parents in the city, but it is
useless to try to fight a natural law. These
country boys have labored hard, endured
privation and ezf sure until the iron has
entered into thet muscle and brain, and
WHEN they come to measure arms with the
young man of the city in point of talent, it
is no wonder that the latter is sent Keeling
back and his place is taken by those whose
discipline has better qualified them for the
place.
To the farmer boys we say stick to the
old home farm. Spend there your childhood,
and youth, attend the old country school,
and listen to the solid and sensible instruct
ion of the old country parson; then, after
you have acquired good constitution, II
you are able, go to college, If with good,
healthy physical and mental Development
and good, noble manhood, you choose to
come to the city, its positions, responsibility
and honor are before you, with the chances
in your favor Boston Transcript.
When to Top-dress Grass Lands.
There is difference of opinion among
even good farmers as to the best time to
apply top-dressing to grass lands. We have
known some to haul out the coarse dressing
and put it in heaps on the land in the fall
and then leave itunspread all winter, spread
ing the same in the spring; the result would
be that where the heaps were, there would
be SO much grass that it would fall down
and rot, while between the places where
the heaps were there would be but sight
increase of crop. We have tried this method
and full abandoned it. Others haul out the
dressing on the grass land in winter and
spread It. This works better than the other
plan, but it is not the best way. We have
found by long experience that the better way
is to put the dressing on in the fail and
spread it, if it be stable or barnyard man
ure; but if special fertilizer, then in the
spring. In this way we have secured the
best results. In the case of lawns, we rec
ommend using some coarse dressing once
in three or four years. We know that many
object to the use of coarse manure on lawns,
because of its unsightly appearance, but
that is a small matter, for it is often cover
ed out of sight most of the winter.~J. +. q.
Hyde.
Keeping Records Advantageous.
cleaned his nest of the callow young. Men
have put a dead carcass back of the barn to
entice him within gun-shot, and he has been
treated as deadly enemy. He has been
branded with bad name, and "scarecrow'
has been applied to all those nondescript
contrivances that disfignre corn fields to
keep off the birds. Still he yindicates his
right to be, and the response which nature
makes to this unreasoning welfare is, PRO
tect the crow or do worse" A few less
hills of corn in spring-time is small damage
compared to the grass crop of whole farm
destroyed by grubs. On the whole, the wise
acres at the state capitol made poor work at
amending the legislation of the Almighty.
Take care of the crows, and the crows will
take care of your grubs.-Corr. American
Agriculturist.
One Cause OF Collie in Horses.
Collie in horses is often brought on by
feeding hay passed through the cornstalk
cutter, mixed with meal, middlings or bran,
and then wet up. The horse eats this food,
thus prepared, so rapidly that it is not
properly masticated, and consequently be-
comes so cloyed in the stomach as to cause
indigestion followed by collie, more especially
if directly after eating he is allowed to drink
heartily of water; and the colder this is, so
much the more liable to bring on collie.
The best way, when horse is brought into
the stable, is to let him stand short time,
particularly if sweating, then give him three
or four quarts of water not over cold; then
some uncut hay; after this feed of grain or
meal; and half an hour or SO after that all
the water he pleases to drink. Some horses
will eat cut hay with impunity, others can
not, or at least not till after they have first
eaten some uncut Live Stock Journal.