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over the calf, leaving the head uncovered, 

 when the smoke will search out and destroy 

 every louse. Five to eight minutes smo- 

 king will be sufficient. The nits will sur- 

 vive, but a second smoking will do the busi- 

 ness for that generation also. 



Smoking affects the lice as it does this hu- 

 man creature" — it kills them off. The same 

 remedy will be found effectual for ridding 

 colts of the nuisance. C. A. 



Little Valley, N. T., Jan. 12, 186T. 



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To Fatten Horses. ' - 



Every horseman knows that a horse looks 

 twenty per cent better if fattened in a short 

 time, than if several months are employed in 

 the process. I don't believe in loading a 

 horse down with fat — they do better in me- 

 dium condition. A horse if not very thin, 

 can be put in fine condition in three weeks. 

 But a narrow-headed, yardnecked, narrow- 

 breasted, lighquartered animal, if he has 

 never been fat will give you a two or three 

 months' task, and will look ; the better for 

 all the flesh you may put on him. 



To fatten a poor horse quickly is no easy 

 task. It is to be done by a variety of the 

 best feed, and with close attention in giving 

 it. Many persons feed sufficiently libe|ral, 

 and yet their horses are low in flesh, simply 

 because of the careless pnd irregular manner 

 in which it is given out, — When I wish to 

 fatten a poor Iiorse, I put his stable iq a 

 clean and neat condition, and commence by 

 giving him small feeds of corn or oats, (which 

 ever he takes best,) every two hours, rrom 

 the time of rising in the morning till I retire 

 at night — ;say six or eight feeds a day— rta- 

 king care so to feed, that he will always eat 

 with a relish and be hungry for the next 

 meal. At no time do I suffer his food to lay 

 by him; if he leaves any I take it from him 

 and let him stand till he asks for it. For 

 the first ten days 1 am careful not to let 

 him get quite all he will eat. There is no 

 better way of getting a horses appetite up 

 to the fattenin point than to feed very often 

 of good clean feed. By paying strict atten- 

 tion for ten days you you will have him 

 faily under way; and this is the most difficult 

 part of the task. If at any tijoae he gets 

 cloyed, so thai he refuses to eat, let him 

 stand till gets hungry. 



During this time his stable must be kept 

 clean and comfortable. He should have but 

 little hay, but as much pure, soft water as 

 he will drink three . times a day. Salt all 

 the time at his will. He must be curried 

 thoroughly once every day. Few men 

 curry a horse as it should be done. Take 



your currycomb firmly in your hand, and 

 with it make a quick motion back and forth, 

 pass all over your horse, getting to the skin 

 and removing the dirt therefrom; then pass 

 all over more gently with comb and brush; 

 replacing the hair, and finish with the naked 

 hank — ^putting every hair to its place. 



Never give medicine of any kind — you 

 eaii succeed better without. If I wished to 

 reduce a horse in flesh in the least possible 

 time, I should bleed and physic. If you 

 have have the time to spare, it will be bet- 

 ter employed in scalding or grinding your 

 grain, and feeding warm mashes, &c. It 

 appears that friend Munson has little faith 

 in our no-doctrine advice. If he finds 

 the oil to answer I advise him to stick to 

 it, for if he does nothing worse than to 

 pour a pint of grease^ down a horse that 

 has a tooth or belly ache, he will hardly 

 lose any. I have known it employed for 

 thirty years— It is like mush to^ stone 

 bruise — does neither good nor harm. 



How Much Should a Cow Eat ?— Cows, 

 to give milk, require more food than most 

 farmers imagine. J. W. Johnson, writing 

 from Munich to the Country Gentleman, 

 gives an interesting report of some experi- 

 ments which have been made in Bavaria, 

 from which the following is an extract: 



"Our trials have confirmed the view that 

 cows, to give the greatest possible quantity 

 of milk, must daily receive and consume 

 one-thirtieth of their live weight in hay, or 

 an' equivalent therefor. If more food be 

 given, it goes to the formation of flesh and 

 fat, without occasioning a corresponding in- 

 crease in the yield of milk ; but if, on the 

 contrary, less food be furnished, the amount 

 and value of the milk will be greatly dimin- 

 ished." 



Paying to Suppokt another Man's Wife. 

 — -A novel and strange case of alimony has just 

 been decided at L6ui8ville, Ky. A man named 

 Ferguson separated from his wife and she sued 

 for alimony. A settlement was made, he agree- 

 ing to pay her $500 a year during her life. 

 Subsequently the parties were divorced, and 

 neither party was restricted from marrying 

 again — the husband relying upon the religious 

 faith of his wife (she being a Catholic) to pre- 

 vent her from taking another husband. She 

 did marry, however, and Mr, Ferguson there- 

 upon stopped the supplies. He did'nt relish 

 the idea of feeding and clothing another man's 

 wife without deriving some little benefit from 

 the outlay. A suit w'a:s brought to compel the 

 payment of the $500 per annum, and it was 

 decided in favor uf the wifSi 



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