The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-11-19
THE FARM A Nd STABLE
INTERESTING AND # VALUABLE
ISL POINTERS FOR FARMERS,
Winter Protectlon--De lay In Setting
MlnIEk.T,-Rich Food Makes Rich 81
Nilk--Storing Sweet Pota-
5l# toes--Training the
Colt.
Training the Colt.

Training the Colt.
The wise kings maxim, sTrain up a
child in the way he should 60, and
when ne is old he will not depart from
it, has q wider application than to.
two-legged Youngsters. After them, it
is particularly applicable to colts,
both on account Of the high intelli-
gence of the horse and the character
OF the service heis destined to perform.
We read recently Of a remarkable
instance Of what training will do for a
colt whose dam was "a perfect
example OF horse total depravity."
She would kick, strike and bite in the
most vicious fashion on the slightest
provocation, and by the law OF
heredlty her colt should have had
some at least of her vicious character
istics. But his owner determined to
try the policy of training from the
very beginning. The plan was put in
operation within week of his birth.
Every day he was carefully handled,
no one was allowed to tease him in
any way, and when a year old he was
made acquainted with the harness in
so careful a way that he quickly
learned to submit to the operation
like an old horse. This colt has
never been broken, but has simply
been trained in the way he should 90,
and the result is a fine vindication Of
the value Of kindness in overcoming
any Inherited tendency to viciousness
which may have come from the
mother "
There is wisdom in this progressive
method OF training a horse. The old
fashion of letting a colt grow up in en-
tire ignorance OF what heis to do and
then violently breaking him into sub
mission to the strange and terrifying
bondage OF harness and wagon is like
lifting a boy run wild till he is in his
teens, IN the hope that a sound thrash
ing OF two will then educate him suf-
fciently for the work OF life. e.
A colt that has been used to hand
ling from the first has become accus-
toned to herestraint of halter and
the feeling of the harness, and has
learned that those who have the care
OF him are his friends, will be safer and
better animal for any purpose than
one that has been "broken"-i. e.,
beaten and frightened- submis-
sion. A trained horse can be depend
ed on i'll emergencies; a broken one
cannot be. The latter may possibly
turn out all right, and never do any
thing seriously wrong; but the perfect
submission to the voice of authority,
even when badly frightened, can come
only from thorough training, begun
in early colthood.
Storing Sweet Potatoes.
Storing sweet potatoes is rather a
difficult matter, most especially when
wanted for slips, for many times pota-
toes to all appearance have kept well,
but will not produce slips. Climate
makes considerable difference in keep
ing sweet potatoes successfully, and
requires perhaps, more care in some
than others. Some growers store by
wrapping each root in a bit of paper,
line 9 box or barrel with several thick
nesses of paper, laying the potato, or
root more properly, in carefully,
cover with paper, and store away in
a cellar. Successfully wintering over
requires attention to two points
chiefly, keeping the roots in a dry
place, and the temperature at or
slightly above go degrees. The great
enemy to the keeping qualities ofsweet
potatoes is moisture and low tempera-
ture. The best mode of storing to
secure these two points is to put
them in thoroughly dried dust, with
pulverized charcoal enough mixed
with it to give it dark color. The
charcoal absorbs the moisture.
l think potatoes do best dug before
the vines are bitten by frost. The
frost is carried down into the root by
rain, and thus injuries their keeping
qualities, at least to some extent.
After they are dug let them dry in the
sun a day and then put them in q
cool place until stored. When cold
weather sets in they are put into the
cellar. Cover the bottom of the YES
sci with three inches of dust, then a
layer OF potatoes close as they can be
not to touch; cover them with dust,
then potatoes, and so on until the
vessel is nearly full, and then fill up
with dust. In this way have known
potatoes to keep for two years.
Rich Food Makes Rict, Milk.
Some very careful experiments have
been m ad e at the Iowa Agricultural
Experiment Station, with the object
of ascertaining whether food rich in
fats does not increase the quantity OF
butter in milk. It has been denied
that this was the case; but, as might
reasonably have been expected, the
Iowa experiments fully corroborate
the view that the affirmative side of
tha n11pStiOn ia tho correct one The