Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-12-09
AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.

AGRICULTURAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE MODEL FARM A writer in West. |
ern farm journal gives his views on excel |
lence in farming. Here is what he says /: !
We have in our minds eve a man we con- |
slider model farmer. His buildings are
plain, but they are neat and tidy MS
barns are large, airy, well ventilated and
scrupulously clean his fences are common
running plank fences, whitewashed, as are
the barns and outhouses above mentioned.
No briers nor thistles nor noXious wesds
disfigure his fields nor fence rows. His
t1ocks are fat and sleek, and his grass and
pasture lands are as free from stones and
logs and brush as his parlor floor. His land
is of the best quality, and his crops are as
good as the best. No one can gather good
crops from poor soil, but every one can
work his land so as to keep it good when it
is good, and so as to improve it every year
when it is worn and thin. 1t is impossible,
however, for the proprietors OF worn.o out
farms to keep them IN as good repair or to
improve them as rapidly as the man who
has none but rich land. Rich land, with
good management makes wealthy farmers
poor land, on the other hand, IS the most
fruitful cause of discomfort, and finally dis.
gust, with the noblest of all professions.
However, the humblest and poorest of us
may, if we only put our hearts in our
work, do much more toward identifying
and improving our homes than we ever
think of doing, THE heart lendeth grace
unto every art, and no man who engages
in farming temporarily, or who has gown
discontented with his life and only waits
on the farm until some other business is
open to him, can ever hope to be success.
ful. Farming is science, and as such
must be studied. The man who makes
successful farmer, as the phrase goes, must
l. Have taste for the business. , Once
settled on the farm, he must make his
home pleasant and comfortable if
he would be contented and happy.
Whitewash is 2 power in transforming
the plainest of things into something
really attractive 1t is also very healthful.
3 He must regard his farm as mis- home for
llte time. No one can expect to thrive
in any business who engages in it tenn
poIarily. Many failures are made in life
by really sensible men because they refuse
to stick to any one thing long at time.
No man can hope to become proficient in
more than one profession in an ordinary
lifetime. The man, therefore, who enters
upOH GIS liiC VI d SlOu.u lETSUS llG
same course exactly that the man who en-
tiers the law or the medical profession pur-
sues, viz, he should determine in the out
set to devote his life and talents and his
entire time to the business of farming
4. He should be diigent, and 5. Possess
good Judgment. The man thus armed is
the man for the farm. 1t is only such
men that reslly deserve to be dignihed
nth hrpnra hla ~ for
DEFoRMITIEs OF TIE HoEsE's MoUTH.-
Parrot mouth, we think, may justly be
called deformity of the horses mouth.
1t consists therein that the upper front
teeth overlap the lower ones, preventing
the horse from being able to Craze well
the teeth, not being subject to the proper
| natural attrition, get long and unslghtly.
Sometimes the grinders of the lower Jaw
do not exactly correspond in their opposing
surfaces to those of the upper jaw. Where
the opposition is defective the TOOTH or a
part OF the tooth, as a natural consequence
grows up above the level of the others.
The horse, then, is very likely to "quid :"
that is, he will gather in his food, make
attempts to subject it to the proper action
of the grinders (which, however, from this
abnormal formation he is prevented from
doing. Inconvenience, perhaps pain, from
the tooth cutting the gum above,
| the lips or the tongue, is the re-
suit, and the animal ceasing from
his efforts to masticate, quietly opens his
mouth aud let's the pellet of food drop out.
As q consequence of defective powers of
mastication, loss of condition supervenes,
until the horse so afflicted may be reduced
to mere skeleton. In old horses more
| especially the outside edges of the upper
grinders, and the inside edges CT the lower
are apt to get rough, jagged, and sharp,
and during masticatIOn they wound the
tongue and buccal membrane. They form
a fertile cause for pudding" In young
! horses, during the cutting of the back
| grinders, this affection is also likely TO be
present. An established "quidder must,
of necessity, be an unsound horse, for, be-
ing prevented from properly masticatipg his
! food, the loss of condition thereby eutailed
must incapacitate him, more or less, for the
due fulfitIment OF the work he is required to
perform. The remedy for this undue devel-
opmeut of the teeth in certain parts is a
mechanical one Where pointed portions
project upwards from the grinding surface,
a sliding chisel is the best instrument to
cut it off with. Where the edges of the
vigorously put into use. Both these opera.
lions although neither is Of the most deli
cate kind) require a certain amount OF tact
and practice for good results to ensue. The
loss of a front tooth, which may follow
from external violence, is TO be looked upon
as defect and a horse having this def.
cheney is not desirable one. The lips of
aged horses are often seen to hang pendu-
lousy and hahby from the gums, This is
due to loss of nervous power-a partial
paralysis and an animal with this def
cheney of tactile and muscular power in the
lips cannot gather in his food so quickly or
so well as he should do. He generally,
too, sloUbers at the mouth great deal :;
saliva is thus wasted, and the digestive
| process in that respect more or less Grip
| pied.
POTATOES A reported English expert
ment IN planting the sprouts of potatoes
and the potatoes from which they were ia
! ken In parallel rows, resulted in q slightly
| better yield from the sprouts than from the
! 'uDers. For the experiment, potatoes
weighing one pound were well sprouted.
! the sprouts 10 the weight of half an ounce)
removed and set out in row, while the po-
! tatoes from which they were taken were
/ planted In 40 acent row. Both made good
! growth OF tops, and the sprouts yielded
! five pounds and five ounces of seed pota-
! toes, while the yield from the original tu-
hers was one ounce less in weight. The
| report mentions no difference in size or
quality of the respective products.
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To FRUIT GROWERS, At the last State
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