The Penn's Grove record., 1883-10-13
Agricultural.
About Stables.

About Stables.
If more attention was paidto the care
of the horse, the farmers most useful
servant, fewer blind, lame and diseased
animals would be seen. The following
good points are from Whip and Spur :
Let your stable be well drained and
sufficiently lighted. The vapors from
a dram, putrid floor, and the 81 dden
change from darkness to light, will
almost to a certainty cause blindness.
Let the floor of the stall be quite fiat
and level, Standing on a sloping place
is very painful, and causes lameness
! by straining the ligaments and mem
branes. 1t also produces grease and
sore heels. Every stall should be at
least six feet wide and nine feet long.
This will enable the horse to turn round
without bruising himself, and to lie
down and stretch himself with comfort.
Let the stalls be separated by partitions,
not by bars. They prevent the horses
from fighting and kicking each other.
Let proper openings be made just under
the ceiling, to permit the hot, foul air
to escape, and proper openings at the
bottom of the wall to admit fresh air.
Impure and confined air will cause
broken wind. Tie fresh air should
enter through a number of small, rather
than a large hole, such as an open win
dow. T1at prevents draughts, which
cause chills and coughs. The tempera-
ture of a stable should be that of a sit
ting-room or parlor not rel seventy
degrees in summer nor under forty-five
in winter. Hot, close or foul stables
will bring on CHAMBERS or ia flammation,
while a very cold or damp one may
cause an incurable cough or disease of
the lungs. To not keep the hay over
the manger. The steam and breath of
the animal make is both unpleasant and
unwholesome. If The hay must be kept
over the horse, the ceiling between
should be of plaster. This will IN a
measure prevent vapors from passing
up to the food. Have no opening into.
the Manager from the hay-loft. Dust is
very often thrown into the horse's eyes
when fed in this way, and thus blind
ness is begun. The breath aseends di.
rectly to tie food through the opening,
which at the same time pours4a coAtin .
ual dIaught down on the hoTse's head,
thus causing chills as well as bad food.
How to Transplant.
The plants should be drawn from the
bed one at a time, and carefully placed
in baskets OF in the body of a wagon
for removal to the field as soon after a
rain as the soil will admit of stirring,
New ground may be planted immedi-
ately after a rain, but old should not,
lest it cake around the plant when dry
and injure it. An expert man can
transplant from 5000 to 1900 per day,
if he has the endurance to stoop and
plant a whole day. The leaves of the
DlduI 0llOuIu uO uldNA tO&tlllCI ONCI
the bud and the plant set so that the
bed will just reach the surface of the
ground. The soil should be well pressed
igainst the roots of the plant, using
care TO leave no hollow space below it.
Plants are often lost by the carelessness
of the laborer is pressing the earth to
the upper part of the root, leaving the
lower extremity dangling in the hole
made by the dipple. If the plant bed is
not well meistened by the rain to the
depth of the roots of the plants it should
be thoroughly wet by artificial means be-
fore drawing the plants-Fdrmer's Home
Journal.
SIugs and Snails.
The experience of a gardener given in
a late issue of Revue Hortieele, in regard
to the destruction of these creatures,
which are so harmful where they are
abundant, is particularly worthy of
attention, and it is hoped that at last
we have a quick and easy method of
despatching them when they make their
appearance. Some pulverized sulphate
of copper tblue ~vitriol is mixed with
coarse wheat bran, and the mixture
placed about the garden where the
slugs can have access to it they scent
the bran and greedily eat it. but al
most Immediately die from the effects Of
the copperas. In usingt this mixtureinthe
open air where there is danger that birds
might eat it and thus be poisoned, it
must be protected so AS to prevent
access of the birds while allowing slugs
to reach it. This can easily be done by
enclosing a little space with small sticks
fet upright, and covering it so that the
slugs can crawl through, while the
birds are fenced out.-Fick's Mdga-