Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-07
EXCITED HORSES.


when your horse is excited is to calm him.
In high state of excitement the horse
does not comprehend what you want.
Everyone has seen team where ore horse
would go forward and the other fall
back. All the whipping and ''hollering"
that hundred men can do will not start
such team once in thousand times. The
team is excited. The horses show that by
every action, and lashing and loud talk
only make matters worse. Calm the horses.
Time will be saved if half an hour is taken
to quiet an excited horse. An excited
horse is just like an excited child We
have seen a child scolded and Sawed" at
until it could not comprehend what was
wanted of it to save its life. Stop scolding
and calm the child, and the work you de-
sire OF it will soon be done. 1t is idle to
expect an animal to do your bidding as
long as it cannot understand your wishes.
Horse and Stable
FARM NOTES.
SCOT has considerable value as a fertili-
zer. As much has $4,000 tons of it are
taken from the chimneys of London in a
year. 1t is estimated to be worth $780,
600, and is used as fertilizer, half ton
to an acre.
Turnlps should be harvested by pulling
them up. Do not bruise them if it can be
avoided. Cut the tops away from the bulbs
and feed the leaves to stock Let the crop
remain in the ground until late before
harvesting.
At this season the farmer should haul
to the barn or some suitable place a large
supply of dry earth to be used during the
winter. 1t is excellent as an absorbent of
liquid manures, and largely assists in disin-
fecting the stalls
Moulting hens should be given a feed
ing of linseed meal two or three times a
week. If fed exclusively on corn or wheat
the hens will become debilitated and
droop. A mess of chopped meat OCCASION
ally is also excellent.
Professor Robertson, Guelph, Ont, is au-
thority for the statement that COW in full
milk will shrink IA per cent. if deprived
of salt one week, and that the average con-
sumption by dairy stock, if allowed free
access, is four ounces a day.
The horse-trough and barn lofts are no
places for the hens. If hens are allowed
to make nests in the stables they may not
only create filth therein, but also carry lice
in with them, as nearly all kinds of fowls
are afflicted with lice at this season.
In buying fruit trees with which to plant
young orchard it is cheapest to buy the
best and be sure to buy young trees and
not too large ones. Such trees are not so
much injured by transplanting, and grow
and do better than older and larger trees.
Mich cows in summer need, if the flow
of milk is to be maintained, more than the
pasture will supply. In addition to what
the pasture affords something should be
given at the barn. This is in accordance
with what successful dairymen think and
do.
If you have fruit tree that is not bear
ing as it should, stir the soil well and apply
a dressing of rotten manure. If, in few
days after, dressing of wood ashes can be
put on it will makeit all the better. Prune
well, especially when cutting out all the
old, diseased wood
AS cheap homemade paint for barn
roofs make mixture of red oxide of iron
and fish oil. 1t is not as durable as good
paint, but serves well to give bright color
to old roofs and buildings, and will last two
or three years. 1t should not cost over 50
cents gallon.
A grain-bin lined with sheet-iron, per-
forated with small holes, after the manner
of a kitchen safe, to secure ventilation,
will defy rats. If rats cut hole into
wooden bin or pantry, and piece of tin
be nailed over it, the rats will require
year to gnaw the edge of the opening,
In a majority of cases it rarely pays to
attempt to cure hen that has fallen into
the habit of eating eggs, and for the rea-
son that she is almost certain to teach
others the same trick often almost before
you are aware Of it, the best plan is to kill
as soon as the trick is discovered. 1t hardly
pays to run the risk.
The old horse is safer and better for the
use OF the younger members of the family
than younger ones, but for general farm
work horse should be young and strong.
During the summer, when the work is very
heavy, the horses should be fed three
times day and given two hours rest at
noon.
Bran is one of the best foods for cows
that are expected to calve in a month or
more. Bran abounds in phosphates, and
will largely contribute to the growth of
bone of the embryo calf Many cases of
abortion in cows arise from lack of proper
supply of the necessary food elements that
support the dam and young.
No quality in food-stufs is OF greater
Importance in the dairy then succulence,
in the opinion of the Jersey Bulletin. This
value is found both in the tendency to in
crease the flow of milk and in the churn-
ability Of the fat in the milk. 1t is sue
culence that gives to grass and other green
foods a special value over and above their
value of composition.
To make butter for long keeping,
slightly acid milk is required. Excellent
as the creamery system is for getting the
most butter and cream from a certain
quantity of milk, it gets it too suddenly
for long-keeping butter. Keeping cream
one or two days after gathering in mod
erately cold temperature, and then churn-
ing, is a remedy for this defect.
A correspondent of the Massachusetts,
Pi0Hghmdn says: 81 once saw a row of cur
rant bushes some ten rods long, where one
half the row was completely bare of leaves,
while the other half was in full foliage.
Where the leaves were the ground was
sowed with coal ashes, and there were no
worms on the bushes. Where there were
no ashes there were no leaves on the
bushes. The use of ashes is cheap way
to secure a crop of currants."
During the year 1887 10000 cattle per
week in the Chicago market was consid-
cred a good, strong run; last year $4,000
per week was regarded as good average
run; this year, however, it takes $4,000 to
make good run. These figures show that
the capacity for consuming the beef pro-
duct is steadily increasing. This increased
is due in some resDects in our