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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
[July. 
many tricks and labor-saving actions.— 
No. 6 is a portrait of “ Mike,” a first prize 
winner among the Irish Water Spaniels. This 
is a hardy and intelligent variety of the span¬ 
iels, used in Ireland as retrievers, and are 
very courageous. 
The “Mayor of Bingley,” shown at No. 7, 
is a well known Newfoundland, which came 
from Yorkshire, England. “Turco,” No. 8, 
is a fine specimen of the St. Bernard Dog, im¬ 
ported direct from the St. Bernard Pass, 
among the Alps. A first prize Cocker Spaniel, 
is shown in “Beatrice,” No. 9. “Rattler,” 
No. 10, is a black and white Beagle, a breed 
used to some extent for hunting the hare. 
These animals are bred so small as to be car¬ 
ried to the hunting grounds in the pocket of 
a shooting coat. The Mastiff is a breed of 
dogs that is intelligent and courageous, with¬ 
out ferocity. Individuals of this breed, have 
attained a hight of 3 feet 9 inches, and a 
weight of 180 lbs. No. 11 shows “Grim,” a 
very fine specimen of a large Mastiff, owned 
by C. P. Fraleigh, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
A rather uncommon dog is shown at No. 
12, the “Berghund it is something of the 
nature of the mastiff. No. 13 is the fox¬ 
hound, “ Coiner,” a first prizewinner. This 
dog has his ears cut or “rounded,” to avoid 
having them torn by briers, etc., while hunt¬ 
ing. The small crooked-legged dog, No. 14, 
is the “ Dachshund.” This breed is not com¬ 
mon in America, but is much prized in Ger¬ 
many, as a dog of the highest courage. 
However undesirable it may be in some res¬ 
pects, farmers and others will keep dogs, and 
anything that will introduce dogs of greater 
beauty, intelligence, and service, in place of 
the miserable curs so often met with, is com¬ 
mendable. As an aid to this end, engravings 
of some of the leading dogs of the different 
most popular breeds are here presented. 
A Convenient Small Barn. 
Mr. Joel A. Simonds, Cook Co., Illinois, has 
a convenient small bam and carriage house, 
with stable and privy, which he prefers to 
any other that he has seen, and sends plans 
with explanations. “The barn, fig 1, is de¬ 
signed for one carriage, one buggy or wagon, 
one horse, and one cow. The carriage house 
Pig. 1.—FRONT VIEW OF BARN. 
is 20 by 24 feet, with 16-foot posts so as to 
give sufficient room for hay or fodder over 
head. The stable is 12 by 24 feet, with a lean- 
to roof which furnishes a place overhead to 
store bedding. The horse and cow have box 
stalls in which they move at liberty. The 
stables have no floors in them, the animals 
standing on the ground. The stables, if well 
littered and properly cleaned, furnish a dry, 
clean, and wholesome place for the animals. 
The privy is an every day blessing ; it is clean, 
odorless, and healthful. There is no vault 
under it. The droppings of the privy fall 
upon the stable litter, and are covered with 
dry ashes or dry loam, by which they are deo¬ 
dorized, and then removed to the compost 
heap and covered with stable manure which 
effectually disposes of them. This work does 
not occupy more than one or two minutes in 
connection with the stable duties, and is 
performed every time the stable is cleaned or 
the cow is milked. A barn of this descrip¬ 
tion can be built here [Illinois] for $300 or 
$400, according to the way it is finished.” 
EXPLANATION OP FIGURE 2. 
A, Place for the carriage ; b, place for the buggy or 
wagon ; o, door hung on the outside of the building ; d, 
door hung on the inside of the building ; each of these 
doors slides past the other without interfering with it; 
E, harness room ; p, stairs; Q, bin for corn in the ear ; H, 
bin for oats ; I, bin for corn meal; J, bin for bran ; k, 
tool corner ; L, horse manger, fed from above ; m, horse 
grain box; N, cow grain box ; o, cow manger, fed from 
above ; p, horse stable; q, cow stable. Litter for stables 
overhead, v, water; t, privy ; s, waste box; r, ash box. 
Hungarian Grass and its Relatives. 
This season we have an unusual number of 
inquiries as to Hungarian Grass, Hungarian 
Millet, Italian Millet, and German Millet, 
which are different names for forms of the 
same grass. Besides these, such names as 
Tennessee Millet, Missouri Millett, etc., given 
in some localities for the same grass. The 
only apparent difference between those called 
Millet and the others is, that they produce 
larger crops of seed. As a grain crop this— 
for they may all be regarded as one, and called 
Hungarian Grass—is hardly worth considera¬ 
tion, but as a forage crop it is often of great * 
value. Being a quick-growing annual, it 
may be sown to supplement the hay crop 
when that is found to be short, and it often 
allows land to be usefully occupied when it 
might otherwise lie fallow until the time to 
sow grain. It is not a crop for poor land, its 
life is very short, and it should be pushed to 
its full extent, in order to get a heavy crop 
of succulent fodder, and a large return. A 
light warm soil, with a dressing of some 
stimulating fertilizer—the equivalent of 300 
lbs. of guano to the acre—will give a heavy 
crop ready to mow in six or seven weeks 
after sowing. It may be sown with safety 
on proper soil, as late as the middle of this 
month, except, of course, in far northern 
localities. The land being well prepared, the 
seed is sown broadcast at the rate of a bushel 
to the acre ; some sow but three pecks, which 
may do if the land is very rich, but there 
should be a thick stand in order that the 
herbage may be fine and tender. After sow¬ 
ing, harrow lightly, or brush in the soil, 
avoiding too deep covering. This grass should 
be cut early, that is, while in flower, and not 
only before the seed is ripe, but before it 
begins to ripen. All the fault that has hitherto 
been found with Hungarian Grass is due to 
late cutting; not only does the base of the 
stalk become hard and the lower leaves poor 
and trashy, but the small, rough bristles that 
surround the seeds become very firm and 
harsh, and are said, no doubt with truth, to 
have seriously irritated the stomachs of ani¬ 
mals that have eaten the hay. As all do not 
observe with sufficient closeness to determine 
when the grass is in flower, for that is the 
proper time at which to cut it, it will be safe 
to mow as soon as the head is visible on a 
large share of the plants ; a few days too early 
is far better than a few days too late. 
There is nothing about the curing different 
from other hay ; the aim should be to cure 
it green, in which state it is highly relished 
by stock of all kinds. Two crops have been 
taken from the same ground in one season ; 
and one farmer in Tennessee reports that on 
October 10th, he secured an excellent crop 
from a sowing made on September 1st. It is 
not claimed that hay from Hungarian Grass 
has the nutritive value of that from the pe¬ 
rennial grasses, but it makes a most excellent 
substitute, and the seed can be sown even at 
this late day and make a most useful hay crop. 
A Fixture for a Kicking Horse. 
Mr. “ H. W. S.” New Hanover, Fa., writes. 
“I will give you my method of treating a 
kicking horse. Procure a heavy bit and a 
strong strap ; fasten one end of the strap to 
one ring of the bit and pass it between the 
front legs until it reaches back of the belly- 
band. Put on a strong ring, and bring the 
other end of the strap back again, and fasten 
it at the other ring of the bit. Another strong 
strap is fastened, one end to the leg just above 
the hoof, and then brought through the ring 
and back again and fastened in the same 
manner to the other hind leg. The strap 
A REMEDY FOR A KICKING HORSE. 
should be made tight enough to prevent the 
horse from being entangled. By this method 
the horse can be worked without worrying 
him, except when he wishes to kick.” 
“ I>octoring; ” IPariaj AsiIisanE*.-—It 
is a poor practice to be continually dosing 
animals. When we see a farmer frequently 
visiting the drug store for medicines for his 
stock, the impression is, that there is some¬ 
thing radically wrong in his management. 
He is the “ sick one,” and needs the aid of a 
good physician—some one to show him that 
sickness rarely happens on a well ordered 
farm; that clean, warm stables, and plenty 
of good feed, pure water in abundance, etc., 
are far better than their opposites, with all 
the physic that the largest drug store can 
supply. Nothing is more clearly proved than 
the importance of care and keeping of the 
right sort for the health of farm animals and 
