GLEANINGS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 183, 4 August 1877, Page 5

GLEANINGS.

[Canterbury Times.] . The borso allus gits up from the ground on his fore legs first, ami the kow on her hind ones, and the dog turns round 3 times before he lies down. — Billings' Almanac. A recent case of "splenic apoplexy" quickly followed upon the allowing thriving bullocks to have access to " port-wine colored water " from a burn contaminated by sewage. The operation of foul water upon the health of cattle and horses merits more attention, than it receives. — English News. If you have upon the farm a horse that is " bad to catch/ try what virtue there is iv the following treatment: — You may club and pelt him before you catch him if you will; but after you get him fully in hand give him a feed of oats, curry and brush him, and call him a good fellow, and it will have a visible impression upon the horse's mind. — Chicago Tribune. Dr. Kingsbury talked of sanitary reform on the farm. Decaying vegetable matter about the house, around the wells, and in the cellar, are prolific causes of disease in the farmhouse. Til treatment of cows, getting them excited, and then feeding the milk to children, is a practice likely to be atteded with fatal consequences. Bad ventilation, attended with impure air, causes catarrhal and skin diseases of our animals, especially when obliged to breathe the impurities of decaying manure. Better ventilation af sleepiug rooms was urged, aud more outdoor exercise for the farmer's wife. — New Hampshire Agricultural Meeting. Let every man who keeps a cow sprinkle an ounce of sulphur along the back of the animal from the horns to the tail twice at least during the summer; rub it well with a corncomb, so as to work to the skin, and the aninvcl will not be troubled with grub 3 in the back or vermin of any kind, and will be more quiet in every way. — A. H. H. in Neio York Tribune. It appears that parsnips are now proposed as an article of food for horses, and have received considerable support in France. It is stated that M. le Bian brought with him to Paris for ■ the winter season several horses fed exclusively onparsuips. The appearance and condition of the animals are said to speak well for the nutritive value of their present food, while its cost is below that attending the use of oats, being as one to four. — London Live Stock Jonrnal. It is difficult to cure kidney disease in hogs. It has been cured by giving copperas. Begin giving a teaspoonful twice a day, dissolved in water and mixed Avith food — corn meal, or anything of that kind. Increase the dose gradually to a tcaspoouful twice a day, • given in the same way. It frequently efFects a cure. — Leader. The following recipe will destroy vermin on horses effectually, without in the slightest degree injuring the hair: — Take one pound of quassia bark and boil it slowly in five quarts of water; keep on boiling uutil the water has been reduced to four quarts; then strain, cool, and sponge the horse all over with it, particularly the hair where they ninke their head quarters. This is a tonic, and has the effect of destroying the vermin at once. The fact of a horse not having been clipped makes very little difference, as, when the remedy has been made to penetrate through the hair, it has the desired result. — Leader. For fattening cattle, according to an English agricultural authority, an allowance of 281bs of pulped roots per day per head for large and small beasts, one truss of hay per week, and as much straw as they will eat, both cut into chaff and mixed with the roots is what we allow our cattle, and also one pound per head per day of corn or cake for all those not fatting. For fatting cattle we allow five pounds to seven pounds per day of cake, and two trusses of hay each per week, and of ' course what straw they want beyond. "We never exceed 281 bs — half a bushel —of roots per day for any stock, and find that quite sufficient.