Connecticut western news., 1886-05-05
Seeds ana Weeds.

How long a seed will retain it's vitality is question which can never be settled, because people cannot live long enough to decide it. The past season an old fence row dividing a garden from a field, which neighbors say has not been dis turbed for at least century, was spaded up, and produced thick growth of wild mustard. This is common weed in my neighborhood, and comes up when ever any new land is cleared or old meadow or garden is plowed or spaded deeply, or wherever the earth is thrown out from newly dug cellars. It is said that the heaps of earth which have been left around old European mines undis- turbed since the ancient Romans left them became covered with the common weeds of the country as soon as they are turned over. have recently seen newly cleared forest land springing up thickly with red top grass, and this is the common natural herbage over exten- sive areas, and on the tops of the mount ains in the Blue Ridge country from West Virginia to Alabama. Every back woods farmer knows how the common fire weed springs up on newly cleared and burned timber land. All these well kn own facts tend to show that seeds of Inany varieties of plants are practically indestructible by any natural causes in the soil. Hence the greatest caution is to be observed in keeping seeds of weeds out of manure and from the soil. There are few things which are impos- sible when one determines to do them, and the clearing of farm or garden of weeds is quite easily possible. The way to do this is to never let weed seed. In time the stock will be exhausted. The usual ''how-not-to-do-it" plan is to spend a great deal of labor with the cultivato1 and the hoe in roofing out weeds while a crop is young, and then when the very worst time-the seeding time-arrives, the crop is "laid by'' as it is called, and the weeds are left to ripen, and scatter their seeds on the soil to make work fo, another year. If farmer is asked what is the greatest drawback to his success he will tell you it is the nuisance o
 weeds, but the Northern farmer has : very faint idea of them as compared witl the Southern farmers, and yet thes'
 Southern farmers are the most careless O.
 any in this respect.-Neao Fork Times.
 Tho Caro- of Horses,
 A leading veterinary surgeon in con
 versation with 8 reporter for the Mai
 and Express today, said: "Want of or
 dinary care often ruins some of the bes
 horses. Even those people employed t
 take charge of the animals often neglec
 some of the simplest things. Every hors
 should be reshod at least once a month
 After each days work the animals fee
 should be carefully examined, to ascer
 tain that the shoes are in good order an'
 gravel or stones removed. Twice eacl
 week the feet should be carefully looke
 at, broken nails replaced, loose shoe
 fastened and projecting clinches reduced
 Once week the feet should be stuffe
 with faxseed meal or wet clay. Any UT
 healthy condition of the hoof ought to b
 immediately attended to. Horses requir
 careful grooming and should be rubbe
 dry when used; not allowed to stan
 without rubbing when heated. Occasions
 sponging of the nostrils with wca mixture of vinegar and water is als beneficial. The practice of using hos
 or stream of cold water on horse whe heated is very injurious. Care should | exercised to see that the feed is kept fre from dust, foreign substances and ba
 odor. Small quantities fed frequent
 are best for the animals. Bran mas should be given once week, never o tener than twice, except when it is d
 siraple as purge. Glauber salts give
 once week will help to keep the hor healthy. Watering horse while war or immediately after eating is bad; b7 before eating it is not objectionable, while at work. Stables should be ke] clean, well ventilated and free fro smells. The feed-boxes should be scrup1 lously clean, and washed once a week wit vinegar and water. Those animals a fected with glanders or discharge fro
 the nostrils should be isolated and ke]
 tied. Man and beast are both in dang F of infection therefrom. In places ar vicinity where an infected animal is tn, . tied the wood and iron work should l
 cleansed with hot water and soap, al ,, covered with a wash of freshly mike l quicklime, which should be scraped ( , and removed within two days. All ha Q ness, horse cloths, saddle-cloths al 2 blankets used by glandered hor I should be destroyed. Corns on horse
 feet are bruises of the sensitive sole, al
 mostly occur in the fore feet. The
 should be carefully attended to, and
 treated in time will soon disappear; othe s wise the horse may be permanently lame e Trotting on a hard road will often pr T duce corns, and like human beings, thu t arise many times from bad shoes. Atte e tion to these simple things will oft , save valuable horses from being ruined Recipes.
 Fresh Herrings. and drain; p U in baking pan; add salt, pepper, tv t or three chopped onions, parsley al