The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-09

time.
 The Southern conatry needs more
 sheep f the prices continue at their
 present level, fine profits are certain. If prices fall, the South can make 1 money with sheep when other sections | will be losing money. The old fields | that have been thrown out will raise
 sheep when other animals, with the ex-
 ception O. goats would starve; and the
 sheep would be getting the soil built | up for cultivation again.
 ! With the test of the Wyoming Exper- 1 iment Station showing that lambs will ! make better gains and go to market
 in better condition if allowed to harvest
 a crop of field peas than would lambs | fed on alfalfa and corn, the South need | not fear that it cannot finish sheep for
 market more cheaply and better than
 the Michigan and Ohio farmers who ! have made so much money in this line | of the sheep business.
 More peas should be grown in the | South for the good of the land. More | sheep and peas will make better crops | and better bank accounts for the | Southern farmer. The soil of most Southern farms would be much bene- | fited by either more sheep or more peas; and the two make such an excellent | combination to produce mutton from | that the day ought not to be far distant when the combination of peas and sheep receive as much attention gener- ally as dogs.-Southern Farm Gazette. Alfalfa In Indiana. Good crops of alfalfa can be grown ] on almost all Indiana soils that have | good. deep drainage. Water must new CT stand on or near the surface. 1 It will yield from three to five tons of excellent hay an acre a season, and l for soiling or pasture 1t has few equals. ia rtn in {p mn tftia m fa
 and is excellent for feeding with corn | or other starchy foods.
 It is more digestible than red clover and it is not far behind wheat bran in | feeding value.
 It is an excellent soil renovator. gath | ering nitrogen from the air, opening up | the soil and bringing large quantities | of mineral food from the subsoil It may be sown at any time from early spring to midsummer. provided | there Is sufficient moisture to give it a good start. but rather early sowing seems preferable.
 The seed bed must be deep and finely prepared and about twenty pounds of | good seed an acre should be used. The seed should be lightly covered with a | harrow or weed er.
 It may be sown either with or without a nurse crop. The nurse crop Is to be | recommended where weeds are likely | to be troublesome, but 1t should In all cases be cut for hay soon after it | heads out. A half seeding of oats or
 beardless barley makes good nurse | crop.
 Inoculation will be necessary in nearly all cases and shoul1 not be neg | lected
 A good dressing of farmyard manure
 will aid materially in securing good
 stand and vigorous growth. It will l also facilitate fha innOnlatfIin f During the first season the growth l should be cut down every time 1t | reaches a height of five or six inches
 Where nurse crop is used this treat
 ment should also be practised after the
 latter has been removed.
 If the crop is grown for hay 1t should
 be cut every time wn sn about one-tenth | of the blooms have appeared. It Is | generally not wise to try to get a hay l crop the first season.
 Alfalfa should not be pastured the 1 first season and never closely. When | must be taken to prevent bloating. Cultivation with a disk harrow, set shallow, after cutting in July and Au- | gust. If the soil is dry, is likely to be ! eneficial-Farm Purdue University Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 161. What is a Good saddIe-Horsef I
 CTS Association says it Is horse sub
 ject to registration In the records of
 their association and so bred that he
 can easily be taught to go five differ
 ent gaits. Of course 1t must be an
 animal of good form and with carry
 ing capacity. While these requirements of the
 association are necessary for a regis | tered saddle-horse, 1t does not neces-
 sarily follow that all horses so regis | tered are good saddle animals. The | five gaits recognized by the American
 Saddle-Horse Breeders Association are | the walk, trot rack, running walk. | slow pace or fox-trot and canter. | These cover all the desirable gaits for
 saddle-horse to have, but include
 some that are not considered desirable | in sections where saddle-horses are
 mostly used as a necessity as we'll as | a pleasure.
 Saddle horses are differentiated by | their gaits into two classes, by the | association-the walk-trot-canter horse ] and the horse that has, in addition to
 these, all the other gaits above men | toned. But there is another class of | riders, men who spend more time in | the saddle than any others, who ride | for business, and who have learned | from experience that they can ride further, day after day, with less fa- l
 that will travel in only three of the | gaits mentioned viz, walk, fox-trot 1 and canter. Yet in grouping the three | most desirable gaits, the American Saddle-Horse Breeders Association
 prefers the walk. trot and canter in stead of the walk, fox-trot or running walk and canter
 After all, what constitutes a good saddle-horse, is a question that Is de- | cided mainly by the purposes for which he is used. In the East, this is principally to attract attention and in- cidentally, to furnish exercise for the rider. For this purpose they want the walk-trot and canter. Such horses find ready sale al remunerative prices in New York and other Eastern cities
 In speaking to an old and experienced
 saddle-horse dealer on this subject,
 why 1t was that the Fasteners pre-
 terred the trotting gait in a saddle
 horse to the more comfortable and
 easy fox-trot or running walk, he re-
 piled: Tt Is this way; they want
 high action trotter to give them ex-
 ercise, then they want a walk to rest
 them after the exercise, and a canter to show off Oh, no; you can't sell a decent saddler. such as we know in
 the South and West up North now, but after awhile they will doubtless catch on"
 There is, undoubtedly, much truth in this explanation. and our old friend might have added 1t is English. don't chew naw," to ride a trotter. This is true from the simple fact there is not, in all England today, a decent saddle horse unless he or his sire or dam has been exported from America, for the