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Show FARM AND GARDEN. KEI'OIIMINO A BALKY IJOl-SE. It was new to me, eaya a c. rrespou dent ot tbo Lice Stock Journal, iii.d was very effective in the one cuso iit which I eaw it tried, hence I tend you a description of an apparatus designed to induce a balky hore to relorm bis bad ways. A light but stroDg pole has one end fastened to one end of a whiffletree a sternly ihoroe being worked on the end. Tu-oiher Tu-oiher end of the pole eitends to ib-head ib-head of the troublesome borne, nd i fn6Hined tn a strap pupymg troui.d the none and through Hie bit ring. If horno does not htart promully nd keep ftbreHBt with bit mute, ho i pulled by the (rout and upper purl of liis mouth. Whenever lie etarlb lor-ward lor-ward he is relieved. In the caao in which I saw thia tiied, the horBebung back for eome three hours tbo iirst day, perhana an bour the next, and gradually gave up aller a short trial, until after about a month he showed no sigoB of bis old habit. SEEDING FOlt PASTUUK. New pasture may be produced nioBt speedily by prepHring the ground hh early ae piacticable in ppriny (by plowing, harrowing, elf.), to b lo yive a fine, smooth, nielluvv mrlurr in the eoil, aod then bow the yrs- enl alone, or without the iutt-rven tton of any grata crop. If tbo auii ? rich, and the prass gets an enrly Mtin l, it will make a good growth eri in summer, but it may not bt: advirt-alde advirt-alde to turn in animate on the young plants before midsummer, mul then only when the ground is bunt nnd dry. Glover and timothy may be sown together: or clover and orchard grass, except in euch locnlitie an orchard grass does not succeed well in. This grass must he kept grazed rather short or it will become bard and unpalatable, and is objected to on this account by some good farmers who wish to allow tbeir pastures to make a heavy growth. If it is in' tended to allow the pasture to remain several years, and the soil is rich with a good deal of vegetable matter, a portion of Kentucky blue grass mny be mixed with the grass seed. In order to secure a good dense pasture, pas-ture, sow three or lour times as much seed as is done in common pasture. HINTS ON PLANTING FRUIT TREES, BIr. JoBiah Hoopes evidently does not sympathize with those who can not raise fruit trees because the "soil is so bad" or the "climate won't do," tor he says that failures of tiuit ;recs are, in nine oases out ot ten, the results re-sults of causes which have their origin iu careless or ignorance. Deep planting plant-ing is one error to plant a tree rather shallower than it lurmerly stood is really the right wuy, while: many plant a tree as ihey would a I post. Hoots are of two kindu the young and lender rootlets, composed entirely of cells the leeders ot the tree, always found near the surface getting air and moiniure and roots of ovor one year old, which serve only as supporters of the tree aud as con ductors of its food. Hence the injury that ensues when the delicate rootlets are ho deeply buried in earth. Placing fresh or green mauure in contact with the young roots is, he tells us, another great error. The place lo put manure is on the surface, where the elements disintegrate, dissolve and carry it downward. Numerous forms of lungi are generated and reproduced by the application of tuch manures directly to the roots, aud they immediately attack the tree. It is very well to enrich the soil at transplanting the tree, but the manure, if to be in contact con-tact with or very near to the roots, should be thoroughly decomposed. Philadelphia I'rcxs. VEKY IMPORTANT TO SHEEP RAISERS. A young Scotchman and shepherd, Mr. Chas. Scott, of Howford-Ettrick, Selkirkshire, Scotland, made the discovery dis-covery a year or more ago that carbolic car-bolic acid was a sure remedy for the fever of eweB, produced from bad lambing. He comtnnuicated this intelligence to Mr. Henry Woods, an extensive sheep raieer ot Norfolk, England, and asked that the remedy should bo thoroughly tested, aud, il found effectual, to make the fact public. In the last issue of the Farmers Chronicle, London, Englaucl, this gentleman gives his experienc-H with the remedy, and cites aovtral very hopeless cases that were speetl ily cured by I he treatment. The first Bymptom of puerperal fever is dullness and increase of milk-flow; tbe latter condition may be known from lambkin ehowiug signs of hunger. hun-ger. No time should be leal when these symptoms appear. The remedy should be applied at once ftfterjjtbie manner: Pour into the uterus car-bolic car-bolic acid, one part; olive oil, two parts, and bathe the outside well with the mixture. It is well to noticv oarefuliy the condition of ewes lor Ibreo dayB alter lambing, and if found to be dropping, with signs oi inflammation of the uterus, apply same remedy, but in weaker solution, arjd repeat every ten hours. Puerperal fever is a common nflliction, par ticularly with young ewes, and heretofore here-tofore bas proven fatal iu a large majority of cases, and this discovery should have the attention of sheep-reisers. Minueoota Farmer. HOW OFTEN TO FEED WOLiK HORSES. There is a conflict of authorities on this subject, but writers agree that all horses ought to be fed as olten as once in about six hours, during the day eome say four hours. No doubt a horse may eat his fill and digest it in about six hours, and be ready fur another ration. They may be managed so hB to be ravenous lor food all the time, and yet eat more than enough anil one sot of horses will be in go d condition, will do about twice tbe work of another set on half tbe feed. I have been watching tho working of an experiment ex-periment ii so it may be called which furnishes a case in point : A long established firm in New York employ constantly, and have heretofore hereto-fore owned about five one-horse truck teams. That is, five horses have done tbeir work, a considerable part of the time one having but little lo do, but necessary in case of an emergency. Some months ago the entire stock ol horses, trucks, stable, furniture, barneeee?, eta., was sold to an employe-, who has since then, added no new horses to the Bleble, done the Bame work, done the carting for another bouse in fact got nearly double the work out of the horses and yet they have been constantly improving in looks and in ability to work. At first the feed was not essentially obanged. Tbe horBes had better care, and tbe eye of a master, who was their owner, though not the driver. Toe truckmen, somehow, 'felt more interest in their work and in tht-ir horses, and thin made a difl.jreuce; but all things combined muet have produced their legitimate result within two or three mouths. |
