How to Select a Horse.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 196, 26 March 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

How to Select a Horse.

C. R. Glkason, professor of horse training, who, it is stated, has shown great skill in subduing and breaking the most obdurate animals, gives the following advice on selecting a horse : —Never select a horse having long ears lined inside with lon^, stiaight hair. Do not buy one that is narrow between the ears and between the eyes, or that has flat, round eyes in sunken orbits, and whose nostrils are small and thick, for he will certainly prove to be a beaet of small intelligence, hard to teach, incapable of remembering, and liable to be obstinate, just ac stupid persons are. And do not buy the horse that is narrow at the top of the head, bulging between the eyes, and has a sunken, dish like face between them ; for he is sure to be vicious and treacherous. But take the horse that has short ears, with short, curly hair inside them ; that is broad between the «ars and eyes, with a regular, straight face, and large, thin nostrils ; for in him you will find an intelligent, spirited, yet willing servant and faithful friend, if treated rightly.

Stoking Veuetablkh fok Winter U.ik. — It matters not how much skill or care has been bestowed upon a crop of vegetables for winter use ; unless they are properly stored we may lest assured that they will not prove to be satisfactory iv all respects It is customary with most persons to place all vegetables in heaps on the cellar floor, and the result is that they are found to be wilted, tough, and inferior in quality, to saj nothing of the yieafc loss sustained by the one& on the oiitsulo of the heap becoming dried up and thus rendered entirely useless Where vegetables are grown on a limited scale, or by amateurs, I think it preferable to store them in barrels or boxes ; not oul> do they keep better, but, the cellar ii given a much neater appearance. The best place for keeping vegetables intended for winter use ib to place them in a dry, cool, fiostproof filar, where a low temperature can be maintained. The best material to use for packing is clean sand, like that used for building purposes. In [lacking, let the box or barrel be about onothird Idled with the roots, then fill with enough sand to cover all, and continue in thi? manner until the entire box or barrel i ■ hlled. Short Pasturage. — When through an unusual sea&on pasturage becomes .-hort the Katisitb Fur, tier recommends supplementing the grass \s ith such green forage crops a& millet, Hungaiian glass and r^e. wew c have frequently pointed out to New Zealand fanners that rye was \\ ell worth growing under cei tain circumstances for gt ecu iorage puipo^ts Our contemporary remarks thuL rye makes as good antuinn and spiing gra/. ing as cocksfoot, and grows moie certainly in some localities. Millet and Hungarian gra-^s may be sown with the lili&t autumn rain?. JUye can be town later li desirtd. 0/ course it is no use to sow seed of any kind while the giound is too dry foi it to germinate, but it i* well to have the land prepared so that the seed can go in ?.ith the iirst indications of lain lltuisTEß uk Da i Ri Cows.— ltobertTurn i bull h.t^ been writing fui V c English paj.et;i <eiio!- ol < 1 tides on dairy cattle Tlo ion f-iders the bhoit-horn tlio best dairy row lie t-uggestt. the establishment ot a her i book for pine bred Short horn dairy tutile. To be eligible to entry a cow must have given -ix time* her own weight in mi'k in a year. G. W. ltust Mights ihat the Amuikan Shoit lunn bo-'H'ty open an up pemlix or liairy it'gis or wheie tnsi.e'ats dairy cow- urn be legi-tered. Shorlhoi.) bleeders have gone in wid puieirt o," huiionis iv the beef ling, but it d. c-« -eem a^ though Nutuie intended the Khoit horn for the "gcnuial purpose animal aitei all. Thk Soiling S\.sThM.— A bulletin of the Ohio e.xpciimunt fetatinn, g^iog in detail the lchiili^ of experiments in boiling cow -5 ao compued with pasturing, Minis up the conditions as follows : "The old sy>tcm <»f jia^tuiing i-» not consistent with an ad v.incjd and progressive agriculture, and the time U not tar c'iatant v hen ncailyail (lie food of cattle will, in the Stale ot Ohio be cut and fed to them. lti> pc lect y saiV to Kiy tint aliucmt any laim within th borders" of our State will cany tw ico as much stock if this latter pan was pui.Mied. A gcnei.il eh mgo fiom { alluring 10 ii«j: would double the gross receipts, and would add largely to the neb income of many u stock an J dairy iarmer. To allow cattle to run at largo over good mca *o\v land i^ unu unthrifty, aii'l iu^jno\ idon f . Half the number of acres will food tho Kirn amount of stock, and keep tjium in b^ttir condition it the product bo cut and placed befoiu them. Rye, orchard giat-^, cloy v, millot, (-owed corn, porghum and oihci crops can be cheaply and profitably grown foi tlic pmp so and each ted in its sea&oo. With a good one horse mower and a catt one man can easily cud and iced thu daily ration ot a herd of twenty head iv au hour't time.