Year: 1874

OdH L TdnClSCO lOT tIlG fisb pC"io, "H"'
was meant by soing cows, having under
stood that it would increase the quantity Of
milk. Our milk-supplying friend admitted
that he had never taken an agricultural pa
per in his life, hence, probab y, his ignor-
ance of the term.


SoiIing cows, or other animals, consists in
feeding them in stalls, or Enclosures, on
green food, cut daily and carried to them.
instead of allowing them to Craze the same
by trampling over it. 1t is an economical
method of feeding, wherever the land is ca
pable of producing a luxuriant growth of
grass, clover or other succuent food. More
food to the acre and better is obtained by
this method, and cows become more docile
and contented than when allowed an unre
stricted range; and we are certain that many
would find it to their advantage to adopt
the soiling system of feeding. A farmer
who visited our office not long since said he
had known an acre of corn, sowed broadcast
for soiling, to be sold for $50 on the ground
miloh cows, when pastures are burned up in
September. Try its. f. Chronicle.


How TO CURE SPLIT HooFs.-I had
horse that had both hoofs split from top to
bottom. He could not walk without his
feet spreading apart. kept him for three
months on straw one foot deep in the stable,
but all did no good. AT last went to the
blacksmith shop and had heavy shoes made
which spread wide at the heels. TO these
heavy shoes there was welded, at the out
side of each heel, piece made of shoe nail
iron. These pieces We're made to fit well
around the foot, about an inch below the
hair. l let the pieces come together within
half an inch each, and turned up about
three-fourths of an inch. In the turned-up
part hole was made to receive bolt an
inch long, with square head and screw and
nut on the other end. On mailing the shoes
on and putting the bolt in and screwing on
the nut, the foot was brought together. In
this way was enabled to work him every
day if l wished Previous to this my
horse had not walked one mile in three
months. Next day after l had the shoes
put on drove him in carriage twenty
miles, and l have used him right along
Cor. Gin. Gazette.


CRop REPORTS In these days of the
multiplication of Federal offices and officers,
and the projected establishment of bureaus,
to supervise the national hygien cs and ma
there is something healthy in the plan of the
National Grange to get up for themselves a
National Bureau of Crop Reports. All in
formation about the crops will be gathered
throughout the country by the members of
the subordinate oranges. BY them it will
be reported to the State Grange, and
through them it will be brought to focus
in Washington. Here returns will be COM
pared, arranged and summarized, and the
result distributed each month by telegraph
to the individual grangers through the State
not be made public. As they are gathered
by the cooperation of the grangers they
alone are to have the benefit Of them.


WHEN CHILDREN SHOULD BEGIN School


In paper on the sanitary aspects of pri-
mary education, read recently by DIR. r. j.
Sullivan, before the New Y ork Academy of
Medicine, an important suggestion occurs in
reference to the earliest age at which a pupil
should be admitted in our schools. lie
contends that seven years is minimum
age, not because mental exerton would be
injurious to healthy intellectual growth, but
because school life under its present hygienic
surroundings is very unfavorable to physical
development.


In other words it is to be understood that
although pupil is capable of reasonable
understanding and a limited amount of in
tellectual development prior to the seventh
year, such education should be given it out
of school and without the usual restraint.
A fact that renders DR.. Suliivans views
valuable is that he was for several years
medical Inspector of public schools.


Hot WATER FOR FouNDER.-I had
horse which was very badly foundered with
grain. He could not stand for several DAYS,
and was swung with tackle. | thought
his case was hopeless, and considered him
not worth a dollar, but concluded to do
what | could for his relief. In the first
place physcked him, then | took tight
strong box, got bis feet into it, and poured
boiling hot water into it as high as the hair
on his feet, and in ten or fifteen minutes he
was able to stand on bis fore legs without
the assistance of the tackle kept up this
treatment for thirty-six hours, when he was
able to go about and help himself. In
few days had his shoes put on, and in less
than fortnight more he was able to work
as well as ever.-Cor. N. Y Tribune.


STRAWBERRY SHoRTcAKE Into three
pnts of -four rub dry two heaping teaspoon
fuls of cream of tartar, add one-h half cup OF
butter, little salt, one teaspoonful of soda
dissolved in pint of milk and water, mix
thoroughly and quickly, roll to an inch in
thickness, and bake twenty minutes in
quick oven. When dons divide it, butter
and cover with strawberries and sugar, to
be eaten while warm.


AN IRON FnrER.-Spongy iron is pro-
duced by calcining powdered iron ore with