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Show FARM AND GARDEN. Correspondence for the "Farm ard Garden" department of the UimLB is solicited from all parts of tho territory. Utah farmers must, to a great extent, establ isb a sybtetn of agriculture adnijted to her special necessities. Agriculturists Agri-culturists will assist each other by send- 1 ing in for publication, information pertaining per-taining to farming and gardening, and agricultural pursuits generally. FARM ICOSOStV. 1 Generally a contented claen. and furniabiny Qiany examplee worthy of being followed, our fanners mil Imve one ureut fault wastefulness. How many of you believe tbta? You, re-Ut-r, eay "this doB not apply to me, but hiLs my uuighhor Tery haul." 1 TbUB, it always is, wbeu atteution is 1 called to faults we content oursolvea by believiug that our virtue cannot be ioipugned. It is wtll to uverco'iie tbiu conceit, and awakeu to a kouwl-dge kouwl-dge of out rertl oelven, imd thia is what we waut to aek all readers ol this article lo tio. iJJn t oe rmeuueu at 1 the disagreeable statemeut it makes, but look around and eee if what w eay ia not true, do into your burn and see if the animals are not allowed to run looee and damage harness, tools and other things and injure themaolvea; eee if their mangers are not over filled and the surplus hay wasted on tho lloore; examine doors, partitions and floors to nee if they do not Deed a few nails or screws lor lack of whioh they will soon fall to piecps. Go to the stack yard and eeo tbecattla and horses eating directly from the Btacka, wasting as much as they eat, and not enjoying what they have. Visit the granary and you will find cracks through which the grain is loit, mice living well at your expense, rain or anow penetrating the roof and wetting the contents, and dirt drifting drift-ing in small clouds to injure the quality of the Rrain. Your animals are led, sometimes early sometimes late, and often not at nil. In frosty weather they are left exposed to the cold, though a few hours' work would often give shelter. The cows are milked well to-day and neglected to ; morrow; and all kinds of stock are taken to water when it pleasea the men or boys, but not regularly, and then are diiven over icy placeg, endangering en-dangering their limbs; the horses have plenty of grain in the morning, but none at noon or night; potatoes, beets, and carrots are rotting in the cellars and pits, when they could be fed to the stock, whose appetites and health would be improved by eating them. You are feeding a lot of scrub animals who cat each winter more bay than they are worth. If they will fatten cheaply enoueb they .should be tent to market or slaughtered slaugh-tered at home; and if not, kill them I for the hides. Get rid of all stock that is Dot profitable, and replace them with something better. You wilt find tools and machines, in the fields and yards rusting away, wearing out with-, out giving any returns; put them under cover and have them well cleaned. Your hired help is doing nothing halt the time, (or want of proper instruction, and even you are sometimes idle when much might be done. Get some good books and papers not exclusively agricultural read them, and get your children to read. Manage in some way to be busy at all times, for as long as everything every-thing about the entire farm is not just aa it should be, you have got something to do. Remember that, though you raise your own hay, wheat, potatoes, f to., it is a direct loss when anything is wasted. All products pro-ducts ol the farm can he made marketable, mar-ketable, or can be converted into fertilizers. It is useless to go too much tuto detail ue ohc.ii limner must judge for himBell. But URe our advice, visit the different partB ot tue farm, and buildings olten, and eee it there j are not many places where economy would make you a richer man. HACXISQ MANCHE, When it can he done, the bent titno (0 put manure on the ground is in ppricg, but then there is generally so Much other work to be done that we are apt to neglect this part. To make everything safe it is often advisable to haul and spread manure in the winter, and this can well be done now. The teams have little to do and will be improved by having some regular exercise. Where there is snow enough, the work can be done faster by using sleds instead of waeone, Good manures give rich returns, re-turns, and the more you put on the the land, the larger will bs your harvest. har-vest. THE LEGS ASD FEET OF HORSES. It is a well known fact that horses will work a ud stand sound for many years with ley a apparently much out of order. Enlargements take place in the sheath ol lendone after Btrama; also from blows, where tho partB become be-come lined with a thick coat of lymph; and some times the body of the bone itself ia found thickened from a deposition of bony lamina over the original bone. When all this has been in progress we question the propriety of any active measures, unless, as ib generally the case a feeling of soreness is expressed alter work by a shifting or favoring ol the limb or limbs in the stall, or by a "feeling" manner of going on first quitting the stable. When the lugs are really callous, little iiupreBsion can be made upon them, unless by active measure?; but rest aud proper attention are the best preservatives of these most essential members of the norte's frame, with the friendly auxiliaries of hot water, flannel bandages and freedom in a box stall alter Bevere work and good shoeing at all times. Provided no internal disease attack the feet, they will not only be as sound and healthy, but in better form, from having been properly shod, than if they had not been shod at all. Some hoofn, however, how-ever, having a greater disposition to secrete horn than others, and thus called strong feet, should never remain re-main more than three necks without being subjected tu the drawing knife of the blacksmith, and the shoes properly replaced. Neither aliould stopping with damp tuw he unutted, ns moiBiure, not wet, is beuelioial to the health of the foot. Do what we may, however, hordes that are requited re-quited lur work on hard roiuta, or to "go (he pact," will always bo mure or lees subject to diseased fuel, quite unconnected with shoeing. The action ol tb hinder legs of horaes reminds re-minds us of one useful hint to those who have to use their boryes on long journeys. I( we follow a well-tormod horse, with the free une of his limbs, uu a rottU upuii iikii ma fuotntena are imprinted, we Hi. a I fimi ttie binder loot overwlepB tho fore le-rt in the walk, but lulls behind it in the slow trot. Exciunive of relief to LI10 rauaclt-s by change of action, then, it is safer to vary lbs pace from a wall: to a blow trot on a journey, aa causing caus-ing lees tatiguu to the bock joint, by which curbs and epavins are Ire-q'lently Ire-q'lently thrown out. Add to tbi-, the slow trot ia tho safest pace a horse K'it?, became bis step is shortest. feutilixees. Tne liquid voiding of animals are worth more good authorities lay one-sixth more pnund for pound, than the eulid excrements and aro Baved with yteater fare by tho beat European Euro-pean gardeners and farmers. All thti leaks in the stables are not in the roof, as those olten in the floor are quite us objectionable and are the s cause of a great dual of waste. Make the stable-door tight, with a gutter t the heels of the stock to carry off the urine to an adjacent tank or into a heap of muck or other absorbent. Charcoal-dust is of little value as a fertilizer, though it may be UBed as an absorbent in vaults to some advantage. advan-tage. It waa formerly greatly lauded because of its great abforption of gases, but the same merit belongs to . road dust or to dry and pulverized clay ( j loam, which becomes valuable only 1 by taking in fertilizing matters. The burnt earth from coal-pits often has a , prolonged beneficial etieol when used on soils, but it weuld hardly pay -to I haul it any gret diaUnce. Country , Gentleman. j |