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NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



Nov. 



will travel in a way the most natural and the easiest 100 pounds of the clover itself to make 11 pounds 



of ashes, or eleven hundred pounds of the clover to 

 make one hundred pounds of ashes. According to 

 this, the above amount of articles are to be found 

 in eleven hundred pounds, or a little more than half 

 a ton of clover hay. 



From this it would seem that ashes which con- 

 tain potash — plaster which contains lime and sul- 

 phuric acid, — and salt which contains soda and chlo- 

 rine, would make good fertilizers for clover, and ex- 

 perience pro^•es that they are. These are the min- 

 ^1"'^^ ingredients, but clover also contains gum and 

 ^ , -ITT 1 ' 11^ sugar, which may be resolved bv analysis into car- 



One word more. We do not pretend to say that i^^^^ ^^j^j '^^^ ^^^^^ h^•drogen, much of wliich it 



what we have written, in rcganl to feeding a horse ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^jf^ ^t^^o ^h^^e 



to himself. Man may force him to carry his head 

 high, step short, &c., but if he be inclined to carry 

 a low head, step long, &c., nature will assert her 

 supremacy after a while ; besides, a forced carriage 

 or imnatural gait will worry the animal and jDroduce 

 bad results. 



Shakspeare in "Venus and Adonis" dra^vs a mod- 

 el horse : 



"Round-hoofed, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, 

 Broad breast, full eye, small head and nostrils wide, 

 High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, 

 Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide," kc. 



especially, should be strictly followed. What may 

 be good for one may be bad for another. The owiv 



In plowing under clover we return to the soil a 

 substance or dressing which has collected and pack- 



er must have an eye to liis horse, and if he thnves;;^^^ ^ j^^ j^^ ^^^'^^j^g ^^. q,.^,-,^^ Wg proportion 

 best on corn, give mm corn, — ii on oats, leedi ~ - *'• -• - ^ - ,° ,i. ,^ , 



uesi on corn, give mm corn, — ii on uaus, leeui^f the ' ingredients above named, and which, when 

 with oats. Some horses do best at heavy work,|^j^g clover decomposes, gives them forth in a solu- 

 ble form for the use of such crops as may be planted 

 in its place and may need them. 



some at light. Had I space, I could cite a thousand 

 instances — I will name one or two only ; a gentle- 

 man had a fine horse which he used in a chaise — 

 work light — feed liigh — careful driving — still the 

 horse grew poor ; he was sold to a butcher Avho 

 drove the horse every day in his not by any means 

 light cart — the animal soon began to improve, and 

 looked, before long, as fat and sleek as a seal ; the 

 work agreed with him. I know another instance of 

 a chaise horse which was sold on account of his 

 poor looks to a negro drayman. I saw the horse 



The wheat crop requires most of the same ingre- 

 dients, though in different proportions. The corn 

 crop (Maize) requires a large proportion of ])olash, 

 and would be benefited by such a dressing. Hence, 

 clover which by its broad system of leaves, can 

 obtain from the atmosphere many of the gaseous 

 materials necessary for its formation, and by its deep 

 and strong spreading roots can gather from the 

 soil mineral matters, changing and elaborating them 



after the drayman had had him some fiye_ or six j^^^^ ^^^^^.^^^^ combinations, is° well fitted to^be an 

 months ; he was as tat as could be. Inqmring the 



cause of his improved looks, the negro told me that 

 he had fed the horse since he owned him on good 

 hay, swill and one quart of whole corn per day — no 

 more — groomed him well, worked hard but slow. 



I might extend this article if I thought it would 

 be acceptable. The subject is a prolific one. If 

 you would like to hear more from me, please signi- 

 fy, s. w. c. 



THE STUFF THAT CLOVER IS MADE OF. 



The clover plant, Avhen properly cultivated and 

 properly used, may be made one of the most valu- 

 able aids to the farmers of ISIaine that they have. 



It is good for feeding animals, and it is good for 

 feeding the soil. This makes it very valuable. 

 Let us see what stuff it is made of. Various analy- 

 ses have been made by different chemists, and the 

 general results are very much the same. The vari- 

 ations are such as might be expected from the differ- 

 ent circumstances of growth, &c. 



The most recent analysis, we believe, is that of 

 Professor Horsford. After burning the ])lant to 

 ashes, he found that one hundred parts of these 

 ashes contained almost twenty-three parts of car- 

 bonic acid, and Httle more than one part of coal 

 and sand. 



He then examined what was left, after deducting 

 out the cai'bonic acid, and the coal and sand. He 

 found that 100 parts of this last contained 16 parts 

 1 thousandth of another part of ])otash — that is, a 

 hundred pounds would give you over 16 pounds of 

 potash, — soda, over 40 pounds, — magnesia, over 8 

 pounds, — chlorine, 2 pounds, — phosphoric acid, 

 nearly 4 pounds, — sulphuric acid, over 1 pound, 

 silica (flint) 2 pounds. 



We have stilted these things in the rough, and 

 you must remember that it is one hundred pounds 

 of the ashes, and not of the clover itself. 



agent in a system of rotation, and becomes an im- 

 prover when properly used for that purpose, either 

 when fed to cattle and then manure used therefor, 

 or when plowed under as a green crop. — Maine 

 Farmer. 



Reading in the Cars. — Thousands are probably 

 to-day suffering from this evil without mistrusting 

 the cause. If we rightly consider the ever tremu- 

 lous motion to which our bodies are subjected in 

 the movement of the cars, we can hardly wonder 

 that the delicate organism of the eye should be in- 

 jured by incessantly striving to trace the outlines of 

 the minute elements of a newspajjer, novelette, or 

 badly written sermon. If the sun was always in a 

 similar tremor, even the keen eye of the eagle would 

 soon tire of looking it in the face, or lose its sight. 

 While so much landscape beauty lies outstretched 

 from the car windows, and so much kind, social 

 chit-chat may be enjojed A^ithin, it seems hardly 

 worth while to waste so valuable a piece of personal 

 property, as the eyesight, for the sake of forestalling 

 a Httle morning or evening news, sustaining unap- 

 proachable dignity, or being thought very studious 

 or literary. — Andover Advertiser. 



Poll Evil in Horses. — For the benefit of those 

 who have or may hereafter have horses that have 

 poll evil or fistula, I would say, don't sell the 

 animal for a trifle, or give him away ; but cure him 

 sound and well. I care not how long it has been 

 running, it can be cured with one dime ; yes, one 

 dime's worth of Muriatic Acid -wall cure the worst 

 case of old poll evil. First, wash the sore well with 

 strong soap suds, then drop eight or ten drops of 

 the acid in it twice a day, until it has the appear- 

 ance of a fresh womid ; after which, it should be 

 It takes washed clean viith suds made from Castile soap, and 



