Show AND HOUSEHOLD A variety of llou for alie farmer the 3 a 1 TJ HOUSES farmers make a mistake when they slight the advantages to be derived from keeping good horses and from breeding abair br two of colts every year A colt be reared as cheaply as a cow of the same age but while an ordinary price for a three acar old cow is forty dollars young colt is five a year old and one hundred and fifty dollars when three years 1 however A n a tho A I misused is used at the cost of fifty dollars the colatat three years liay carlly be worth three li undred dollars roadster in the north and saddle horses in the south both are really roadsters are the most desirable animals to rear the thorough like puts machine it a strength firmness lightness durability elas and vigor anto the cold blood the bouc is harder and more solid and lighter the binens are stronger and more elastic the muscles are firmer and have greater he lungs are more capacious the weight is reduced and with more aad vivacity of motion and less weighty we have swiftness and ease of movement io ni 5 f S T TO GUASa k 1 l our greatest is to grow more gra not more acres but more to theair cr leaving a larger area of ground for fodder and other crops raised on a mixed only be done by better preparation af pf the jn elead of the seed in a haphazard way upon the hard surface of the ground in the spring the seeding should be postponed until the grain is cut and th 0 soil is then to be plowed with a shallow furrow thoroughly well harrowed and compact the seed must be sown and immediately in with the smoothing and brush harrow which is easily made this levels and firms the soil as awell us spreads and covers the seed it is well to use this harrow crosswise of the harrow maahs I 1 across the r line of sowing 1 so aado spread the seed more evenly it is better still to sow the seed both ways half each is not able to sow it quite evenly the even sowing j very important be 1 caus ebare spaces are a great injury in two wave one that the ground is vacant and will weeds in the bare spots the other that the grassis grass is too crowded where it is too thickly sown grass seed if sown will start up very quick and grow rapidly if the seeding is done in july or early in au f be strong enough lo 10 the winter safely cromwill crop will be the result american agriculturist for june COCA WHAT IS COCAINE jhc thc that cocaine will produce local or insensibility lity tu pain is next in imbor tau ceto the discovery of the properties of ether cocaine has been used in important operations upon the eye this and especially its recent employment to allay the pain m the terrible disease under the illustrious patient general grant has suffered so long have giyen prominence to meet the popular desire to know something lot give an account af pf the plant from which cocaine ia derived the earliest european trave lerain peru men tiong the use by the natives ofa eaf which they chewed to produce a ct that of opium alio leaves known as coca are from a shrub which bears iho kauvo nauvo o 0 and ou and other provinces alie peruvian have an altitude of to ivo thousand feet above the sea reaches aue hight of six or eight feet and has very thick evergreen leaves the baroo tit the genus is paeans redwood several of the specie natives of tropical countries having wood of a red color the specific name of the 1 species ia ahat given fi by choji av ti crift name is coca iff its relationship the brub is barest to the flax and the geranium families the shrub cultivated o 0 by who the young plants froni the seeds to form plantations known cocalas in i ron three to arvo from planting the afford a gathering of leaves ia made an dually the leaves are mature when they break on being bent they are dirk d on platforms a portion by stamping the leanee when aked ia ee of about fc eighty pounds which are covered by a coarse cloth made by bu na lives in this form il a an important article of domestic traffic in peru and recently it has been sent tar country and to europe in considerable quantities the whole bale value of the leaves is from one ji ollar to one doll araud fifty cents per pound in peru the use of coca is very general especially among the natives the leaves mixed idith lime are chewed and tho saliva swallowed the individual remaining quiet the while As the enjoyment of the coca occurs four limes each day and each line li ne requires at least balfa halfa hour tr causes no to dvork and fo 1 the effects of coca arc sard to be imort cleasur o 0 intoxicating and those who become addicted to its use rarely abandon it it is claimed that by the use of coca the peruvians can perform a great amount of labor n the mines an d as porters in carrying loads upon very little food the active principle cocaine not cco aine as sometimes incorrect separated tho process isa expensive arid the product small hence the price haar been very high tho balts of cocaine having been sold at over a dollar a grain in view of the probable increased demand for coca it would for our department of agriculture to consoler con siler ahe possibility of successfully cultivating the ehrob within obrown territory american A june borses FEET horses in lands suffer more from the feel of a horse arc subject to many injuries both from bad shoeing and fromille fro mill kept road and ilis important tor owners of horses to study well how these causes bf diseased feet cabi be avoided but in the consideration of this question there are some pints not well understood tho london gives a statement that a borso weighing sixteen hundred pounds drawing a load bears a weight he two tons the extra pres sure being caused by the downward force of the act of drawing now an average horata draft power amounts only to a forward strain of oae hundred and fifty seven pounds As the horse is only exerting this forward force by pressure upon the collar it is clear the fief cannot press wilh any more force upon the ground so that the above explanation of the cause of injury to the horses foot is imagine ary it is not the force exerted by it at all A wild horse the top of his speed presses upon the ground with than a horse irion i nga ton in a wagon spona road atthe rae of two miles an hour and yet wild horses have ex eel lent feet and are never lame but they have a choice of path and have no blacksmith sto cutaway tho frogs of so deprive them of the means nature provides for the protection of the foot if the roads acre kept in good condition and efrom fre loose stones and tho frog bf the foot were never pared horses would rarely suffer from frog pressure expands the heels toughens the horns duea much toward giving a horsek sound feet american alst for june |