The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1884-07-22

KICKING WHEAT.

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A correspondent of the Indians
Farmer furnishes the following plan
for ricking wheat:
"If your rails are ten feet long,
make the bottom of three rails length
and ten feet wide. Make the rick
run north and south if possible.
Make the first round by placing the
bundles lengthwise through the mid
die; then build up widening gradually
By turning the short side of the sheaf,
on the outside course, downwards
till you get say eight feet high.
Then change the sheaf and turn the
short side up, the first layer project
ing a little over the other. Now
raise the middle and draw in tolerably
fast, keeping the middle full and
trampled solid, so that when the rick
settles the outside will settle more
than the middle. The outside course
should be placed as loosely as pos
sible, Just as it will stay in its place.
Keep the middle full, if you have to
Law some sheaves lengthwise to do 80,
and when your ricks is six or eight
feet according to the length OF
bundles) wide on top. commence at
one end, placing two sheaves side by
side and one or more on top. Then
stand sheaves on each side, covering
with good caps, till you get the other
|, end. Have there ladder ready to
stand on while you give the
finishing touch. have followed
this plan twenty years without fail.
ure. The main thing to be observed
is to keep the middle solid, and the
outside close"
cow MIXERS.
We often hear dairymen complain
i of the difficulty OF securing hired
: men that are willing to milk. One
r principle cause of this is that the far
: mer wants the hired man to do full
, davis work besides the milking, and
E no wonder he does not like it. Hon.
Hiram Smith said once. in conven-
4 ton, that he found no difficulty IN
} getting and keeping good help. He
|. considers that the dairy work is part
e of the regular DAYS work, and his
!. men are contented. There is no rea-
n SON why the farmer who milks from
!. ten to thirty cows or more, should
/. not do his milking in good season.
I He makes as good profit on that
d part of the farm labor as on any other
@ and he has no right to expect the
e hired man will look at it in any other
. light.-Jefforson County Union.
e NOTES.
= The Michigan Farmer says: The
last census revealed some curious
things and one of them is that about
o one-third of ali the horses in this
- country are used for pleasure, driving
q and riding, while twO-thirds are em-
:. ~ ployed for industrial purposes. As
y y there are over 1000, 900 horses In
= this country, there are therefore
= nearly 1000, 900 employed almost
&c solely to contribute to the enjoyment
:. of the people. These are worth, on
!; an everage, not less than $3.50 each
~ (and perhaps more) giving our drlv-
- ing horses an aggregate value OF about
i0 81 Zoo, OOO, 900. These are astound'
. ing figures, but the census Is respon-
~ sible for them.
a. Of the different methods of punish
a. ing a horse while working it, none Is
no more detestable than jerking it with
Ia the lines, and it is practiced by many
m unthinking and unmerciful horsemen'
10 At the least provocation the lines are
A brought into service in manner
= calculated to tear the mouth of any
an horse, thus making it tender in the
"a mouth. Horses seldom need half the
an punishment they receive. and when
" it becomes absolutely necessary there
M is a proper way and q more appro
70 priate place to administer them thar
wv by injuring their mouths.
Ks ST. Louis has one of the growing
sst horse markets of the United States
er and its peculiar location gives promis'
or of even a greater rate OF increase Il
OF the future. The receipts of horses a
lie. the national stock yards in 1882 were
~, IL, 700 head, and In the first MIN
til months of 1883 the number reaches
d. IS 900 head. Prices for good horse
nd are booming all over the the west.
ID Men who would complain if the,
ed would be compelled to labor eight o
ten hours per day, think but little o
compelling their horses to work iron
twelve to fifteen hours out OF ever
twenty.four, and think nothing of it
the h Driving horses are generally the c e
55k' of horses that suffer the most Iron
in long hours, on account, perhaps, g