The Penn's Grove record., 1886-10-09
FARM NOTES.

EXCESSIVE OF SALIVA.
1t is apparent az once to those who
give the matter a thought that the excess
sIve discharge OF saliva, or SOLDERING,
as 1t is more commonly called, is unnat-
uTal or injurious to horses. 1t Is not
only this, but it is also very annoying
to those who have to work with the
horses, the discharges often saturatifg
the clothes, making 1t quite uncomfort-
able, The loss Of this fluid, undoubt-
eddy intended for the stomach, where it
assists IN the digestion of the food, has
a tendency to weaken a horse and DIS
arrange his stomach and bowels, and
frequent attacks Of disease may be
traced TO this source. There is no
doubt but that soldering is caused by the
animal eating some certain kinds Of
weeds, and the second crop of clover is
said to also produce it. Whatever may
be the cause, a preventative is more
necessary to understand, and when pas
.ure fields cannot be abandoned, which
are known to be the cause it Is best to
seek some remedy which will overcome
the trouble. Dry food, such as bran,
ground oats, or corn meal, with plenty
Of salt will give relief at once; but
nothing probably will produce a per-
manent cure without first removing the
cause.
BLINDERs.-An old horseman has
this to say about the use of blinds on
horses: Usually the use of blinds caus-
es the very evil it Is intended to remedy
-shying. The horse SHES because he
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see at all an object that makes a noise,
the nature of which he does not under
stand. If he has no blinds TO interfere
with his sight he will shy less often. If
you could not see on either side, only
straight ahead, you would be far more
timid, your heart would suddenly begin
to beat much faster, much oftener than
it does now. So with a horse: blinds
makes him timid. If you have a horse
addicted to shying, remove the blinds
and be kind to him for a few days, IN
Til he has gained confidence i'll himself
and in you. This will effect a radical
cure.
FLINT records an English experiment
with sheltered versus unsheltered sheep.
Twenty sheep under shelter gained 273
pounds more than the uusheltered, and
consumed two to four pounds less tur-
nips per day, and about fOrty-six pounds
less of linseed cake. To allow our
lambs to be dropped and exposed with
their mothers to the tender mercieS
of our changeable Climate is thus to
make a lottery of our business where
certainty should be secured. If intel
ligence has any value IN the farm 1t
rests in the regulation of conditions
and the subordinatIon of comfortable
factors to brains.
WOLF TEETH.-Decidious Or VOLTS
teeth, or, as they are sometimes called,
eye.teeth, occurring in some horses are
situated in close approximation with
the first molar teeth of the upper jaw.
There Is no foundation for the belief
that their presence has any relation to
diseases of the eye. Their presence
horse, unless, as they sometimes do,
they deviate from their normal
straight position and lean to one side,
when, if they at the same time
happen to be very pointed, they may
wound the tongue Or the cheek;
in VIII oh case they may be easily re-
moved with a pair of small pincers.
THERE have been a great many rem
edies suggested for hog cholera, but
SO far none have proved always effect
ual. The best remedy that has been
tried and which has given better results
than any o,her, is to add a teaspoonful
of carbolic acid to two gallons of soft
water. The water must be used entire
ly for mixing the food, and they must
have no other to drink. If the animal
is very sick it should be drenched with
a pint of the water. If they will eat
add a pound of powdered fenugreek to
each bushel of feed.
TIE Dairy World says milk varies
very much in It's quality for butter
making. The creameries make a pound
of butter from fourteen quarts of milk
but they do not skim 1t close. A fair,
ordinary quality of milk will make a
pound of butter to each twelve quarts.
The best result has been apound of but
ter from four quarts of milk, but the
was an extraordinary N A good
average COW should make a pound of
butter from eve quarts of milk, and
dalrymen should grade up their cows to
that standard.
DOES the food you give your young
horses contain the necessary material
for the development Of bone and mus
Gle requisite for a horse of stamina and
endurance? If not, you cannot expect
to raise a very desirable kind of horses,
matter what their breeding. Good
blood Is essential but not any more so
than the material that forms the food
for producing the animal when once
started in life.
THE white-leaved and weeping lind
ems are among the most useful lawn
trees for our climate. They are hardy,
and injurious insects and destructive
diseases appear to pass them by; and,
while their growth is quite rapid. the
foliage of each is ~singularly beautiful
and tenacious.
CHARLES A. GREEN, in New York
Tribune, says: 81 know Of no easier
luCLuON IA oUouuAhS SahuNb biiotiSo
than by sending them to clover and
timothy. moving repeatedly for three
or four years." That is certainly bet
ter than to dig up the ground and bake
it, as we have seen it attempted.
IL straw is run through a cutter be-
fore being used for bedding it more
easily absorbs droppings, more quickly
decomposes in the manure pile, is more
evenly and readily spread upon the soil
with the manure when 1t is actually
used, and is more easily plowed in than
when left in Its original lengths.
MATING HORSES FOR WoRK.-Re-
member that n horse may be able to
stand the extreme heat better than the
other in your team, and this being the
case there is danger or lnjuring or kill
ing the N while tie other may not be
dong all 1t is capable of doing. A well
mated team means mated as regards