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Show "STEP IN." BY W. D. GALLAGHER, Look not tiucbvrnnl, but iorironl! 'TIs belter - To kuup na oyo iiltvuyn boforo. Tliu )tH hulda oiiu down to I lie luttor; 'Tin a cbrtiu, ft1 id a fl-m, and a fotti'r And muro. It Bborteua ami tmmin-r.4 onrp&roi; It Mud u willi conl.H that we feel; It claHps in In corfola mul brni-efi; It Itoepa ua iu ruiH with itd tracus Ofstuol, Now (m (I then It in vrnll lo remain 1-or; At night, say, tl ink ovir tbo noon; WhnfB tho wooil, though, thin' burnt, to the omborl Whut'a the worth of tliu light or I'ocember, Iu Juni'? Jnt llio worth of thu 1lt;lit ofa nfihol Ulilinl, ftnJ thoufflco it 111 lit. At tho front, now, U whoro wo must r.'nilu, 1 honli It bo wllli hut mortur auil posilo, And pills. To lb front, thon I And throw out before you hutoTor will light up your way . Willi ihli, and lliu froo sky tlmi'n o'er yim, Auil thu Iutu of the niolhor who haro vuu, i 'Tl day. Nuw, wluilo'or fur your notion Is wiihlng. Lily 1ml il of, and work till it's done, Willi u will not a littlo ubullng; Until ihuu, ihuuh you work with a hutlug, Work ou, W liono bt'iitaluB, fullern and nilni'o.t, Jlukea fiios, but inakoa rarely a friond; Suing your nerved to tho point that no'er And bend ! Ay, hcu'l to your talk as the tree bonds, Whon It londa with its fruit otory bough From tbo riht, though no more than tbo hen Watchhiui In bis cmrso. and m be bondd, Bond tbnu. Still, in Urge tilings no mora than in little, Should man put himself to hia licit; liis days aro as glass that Is briit o; In all thlugs, tle-, wrk for acquittal, And rest! Stand firm, in lifu's rnsh and its rattle! Remember young David- tho Hling Tho Hold, ami tho odds Iu tho battle. The liordur of snoop nd of cat tit', A klnsl God blessoi tho meal that is sifted; II o aiovos not tlio spirit that iLlrks; Ttie guld iu tbo ruck I lint in rifted, lie shows; with tho tin ud that is lifttd, lie works. And, aa Hiiro as jon hoavon Is nbovs you,., 'TIs in (Ins world you lose, or jou win. Then lot your full manhood now iuotuyou, And, for nil hero who loan on nud luvo you. Step In I FIELD, FARM AND GARDEN. VIEWS OF A STOCK 1'EEDEU. - In order to feed corn iu the shock to the beat advantage, construct boxes twelve feet iu length, four to five feet in width, and fourteen . inches in depth. They Bhould bo placed ou trellises three and one-half feet in height. Twenty-four boies of this size are sufficient for two hundred cattle. I am confident that I saved enough feed the first year to pay the entire expenses of constructing them. During the summer I Bait my cattle every five days, giving to each a email handful of salt on the grass. I allow al-low three acres of pasture to eveiv four-year-old steer. In managing hogs, I use as a .pre-Tentiveof .pre-Tentiveof hog cholera coal siftings from the coal pits. I first throw down three or lour scoop ahovelfuls of the coal Biftinga, then throw a small handful hand-ful ot salt, giving this amount to six hogs that is, in this proportion te tho entire drove. My hogs have never been troubled with the cholerft. I prefer the Berkshires to any other breed, but I am also quite partial to a croBs of tho Berkshire with the Magie breed. My experience has been that hogs with the usual amount of food will increase in-crease in weight from three to four pounds a day, I let my hogs have plenty of clover during the summer; sum-mer; otherwise I feed them them on a mixture of two-thirds meal and one-third one-third bran, which is allowed to sour before belore being fed. I should like to hear from others on the best methods of feeding and fattening hogs and cattle. Rural World. WHOLE CORJt FOR TURKEYS AND HOGS. Mr. Thos. R. Hazard, Vaucluse, R. I., has written a sprightly and suggestive letter, in which he undertakes under-takes to explain why it is that Rhode Island turkeys are worth in the Boston Bos-ton market three cents per pound, more than those from any other locality. lo-cality. The Bimple reason, according to this authority, is that they are supplied, especially in the south part of the state, with hard Indian corn, instead of meal, barley, oats or other food, and because they are picked without being scalded in hot water, and their inwards removed immediately. im-mediately. 1 There is almost as much difference, Mr. Hazard asserts, in the bird prepared in this way and one fed otherwise and dipped in hot water (to save two minutes' labor in picking,) and then left to swelter a week with its inwards undrawn (as is the case with the most that are brought to the New York, Philadelphia and other markets,) mar-kets,) aa there is between a woodcock and a crow. So, too, if the hog be fed selely on hard corn and water, its meat will be ag far superior to that fatted ou meal or other soft food, as real, pure Orange county ia to distillery dis-tillery or swill milk. Why are Cincinnati Cin-cinnati hams so celebrated 1 Is their superiority owing to the method of ouring them Bolely ? By no means; but more to the quality of the flesh, which is made entirely from the juice of sweet, hard, wild nuts and un-ground un-ground Indian, corn. A QOOD FARMER. A Mr. Anderson, of Vermont, in reply to the query of "wb,at is a good farmer," said thi$ he should first bo a man o.f good common sense; should possess care, skill, and a faculty for good management go-aheadative-nesa and stick-to-ati ven ess; and one who never looks back, except to Bee that his furrow is straight. COCCJII IN HORSES. The Spirit oj the Times, in reply to a remedy for a cough in a horse, statoa: Qive an ounce of powdered nilre in a bran maah every other other night for two weeks, and apply a mustard plaster to tho throat once a week till the cough disappears. WORMS IN HORSES. The Spirit of the 2Ywics recommends for worms in horses half an ounce of areca nut freshly powdered in food, and repeat in tyo days; or two drrtphm.fi of tartarized antimony may be given in food four successive mornings, morn-ings, to be followed by a dose of linseed lin-seed oil, if necessary. WHY IIGU MltHAK FROM A THOT. There is one point which appears to bo overlooked by our correspondents, correspond-ents, namely, the oausu of some horses breaking bo badly, and how to prevent it. have considered this subject for a long time and have observed ob-served horses of nil, aires, and have arrived at a theory which am almost al-most satisfied, ia tho true ojie. Some cx pi r (envied horsemen say that a horse, iu his e(lort to respond to the whip, ovfilialances himself, and is forced to break to prevent himself from falling. I am satisfied that this cannot be true, for if it wore, a home would very often stumble when he broke; but a horse in theact of breaking break-ing does not stumble; on the contrary, con-trary, he flares ud with a plunge and seems to loose control ot the movements move-ments of hia legs for a few moments. Some first-claBS trainers, again, will toll you that a horse when trotting wry fust, loses confidence in himself, him-self, and breaks from fear of striking himself. Now, if this were the case, tho horse would hitch and go awkwardly awk-wardly from the moment ho wbb forced into a fast gait. My theory is, that the nower of trotting fast lies more in the brain than in the muscles. A'ld when a horse, under tho excitement ol tho whip, increases his speed above a certain cer-tain point, his brain becomes unable to keep up with tho rapid continuous motion of the muscles. He is unable to put his legs where he wants them, and he goes into a gallop because that pa.it requires little or no exertion of thi brain. I am almost satisfied in my own mind, that I have hil on the true theory, and that a horse should bo so handled as not to lose confideuco in his ability to do the work required of him. 1 should like very much to hear from some of your correspondents on this subject, the above suggestions being oilorcd with a view to invito discussion on the matter. Cor. Turf, Field and Farm. |