and all others before them, and wo understand 
that they are vigorously prosecuting infringe¬ 
ments. 
This cable is furnished, ooilod as shown in tho 
illustration, on wooden spoils each coil weighing 
about 100 pounds. 
Tho wire and barb aro both pure stool. Tho 
barbs aro placed and firmly fastened on tho wire 
at distances of loss than live inches apart, and 
aro also firmly hold by tho twist of the cable. 
This wire has been fouud to bo a perfect pro¬ 
tection to board fences, by taking off the top 
board and putting a barb wiro in its place. 
Two wires with posts two rods apart make a 
good fence against large stock, although throe 
wires aro used by a great many. Tho rail-road 
companies, who are extensive consumers uso 
four and five wires. 
Many m the West build a cheap fenco of 2 
barb wires and one plain wire between. Tho barb 
fenco is easily built. After driving, or Betting 
tho posts, tho wire is reeled out, fastened at tho 
end, and tightened and thon stapled to tho posts. 
Those who havo used thiH style of fenco are very 
positive as to its merits, and as to its cheapness 
and durability there can bo no question. 
any salo if ho had evidence of having been used 
in harness. 
There aro hundreds of thousands of horses 
that have been used under tho saddle eight or 
Yet, when one considers the increasing de¬ 
mand and commercial importance of the egg 
trade in the United States—amounting to about 
$18,000,000 annually—he is surprised to see so 
Figure"! 1 
ten yoars, not ono over having had a collar on. 
Walking is always tho pace when English horsos 
are exorcised by tho grooms, and all gentlemen’s 
horses havo their regular morning walks. 
A Wo iik i no Farmer. 
little attention given to this branch of industry. 
Farmers, as a class—particularly Western farm¬ 
ers—nevor bestow much time or thought on 
fowls. Homo think they aro too unimportant to 
receive much attention or care, and some will 
toll yon that they regard them only in the light 
of farm appendages—destructive and unprofit¬ 
able ; that thoy consume more food than their 
heads are worth, ami that in tho ond it is as 
cheap to buy tho eggs. 
Tho candid opinion of such mon 1 respect and 
partly believe; hut wore I, or any reader of tho 
Rural conversant Avith poultry, wafted to thoso 
delectable barn-yards, chanticlours ami their 
spouses of the last decade would greet us. 
Filthy roosts, meager food, impure drinking 
water, ami in-breeding, Avould doubtless ho dis¬ 
covered by our investigations. But allow mo to 
say to such folks and to thoso who contemplate 
raising fowls for use and profit, that I will in 
«oiuu subsequent article give them my viewB— 
tho mature results of an experience of many 
years passed in tho careful study and manage¬ 
ment of poultry, and which I trust will he at 
once a source of pleasure and profit to them. 
Janesville, Wis. .loaitru Wallace. 
Heaves in uouses ariso from rupture of tho 
air-cells of the lungs, either on account of im¬ 
proper food or tho right kind of food improperly 
administered, ill-ventilation, and protracted in¬ 
digestion. Sometimes, liowovor, there is really 
no assignable cause, unless a hereditary predis¬ 
position. In treating this ailment, great atten¬ 
tion Bhould be paid to the qualify and quantity 
of the food given ; musty or badly-cured ha.v or 
oats, must ho aveided. Water Bhould he given 
an hour or so after tho animal has been fed. 
Give daily in a mash, of roach limo finely pow¬ 
dered, half an ounce, liuseed-oil two ounces, and 
arsonious acid, four grains. 
HALL’S HUSKING GLOVES 
Those who have struggled with an uuhusked 
oar of corn without gloves, fired by a worthy 
ambition to strip it, havo suffered pains and 
penalties that the fascinations of the most en¬ 
trancing “ husking bee” havo failed to entirely 
assuage. Wo feel, then, that in reproducing 
two illustrations of an improved husking glove, 
we call tho attention of farmers to a worthy and 
useful article. 
BARB WIRE FENCE 
Baku Wi rite Fence, as an article of manufac¬ 
ture has been known hut three or four years, and 
yet such has been the demand for this cheap 
and efficient fencing that, as near as can ho esti¬ 
mated, over loop tons havo been sold during the 
past year, and since its success has been estab¬ 
lished, numerous factories havo sprung up and 
over 150 patents have been issued upon different 
devices for barbs and barb wires. Tho first, re¬ 
cord of its invention is ombracod in the patent 
of Wm. D. Hunt, Scott. N. Y., who conceived 
the idea of putting spurr whcols upon tho wires 
of a wire fence, and who received a patent in 
1807 for tho same as un improvement in fences. 
WALKING HORSES, 
“ Who will bo the first to introduce walking 
matches ?" Tho preceding question closes a 
very sensible article, and as I attended the fair 
at Montgomery N. Y. which ivas to havo a walking 
match, l acquaint you with the fact that a gentle¬ 
man in advance of the times, had soon, as you see, 
the utility of tho walking pace, and was tho first 
to introduce walking matches by sending $100 
to ho walked for. Ho besotted are Americans in 
respect to trotting that there was no raco for 
walking so that it w as a great disappointment. 
All the paces should ho cultivated especially the 
walk, and if it was customary to ride more on 
horseback, the canter is tho easiest pace of all 
for tlie rider and in general an equestrian can 
travel without trotting at all. 
A fine trotting action for carriage horses is 
well, hut tho grace and style of a beautiful horse 
is lost when he is hurried beyond the rate of 10 
or 12 miles an hour, and even less than that looks 
more aristocratic. Gentlemen of refined taste 
will soon eschew these scrambling,rushing horsoB; 
for what can appear more vulgar, than a man on 
one of tho racing sulkies hollowing at the top of 
his voice to urge a horse faster ! 
As it is pertinently stated of tho speed in trot¬ 
ting, “ horses can run the distance in much less 
tune. Hocau a dog, socana locomotive." In Eng¬ 
land, farm horses can walk threo miles an hour, 
and draw heavy loads, and walk four miles when 
coming homo with an empty wagon ; but there 
is not a “ nag" or saddle-horse to ho found in 
tho possession of any good horseman, which 
could not walk over four miles in an hour ; and 
every good walker with a good average horse¬ 
man on his back, is expected to go five miles in 
an hour, without any extra trouble or pains be¬ 
ing taken in any way. 
The walking pace is easier taught by riding on 
horsebaok than by driving, and this is why 
horses walk better in England than in the United 
States, for every horse--except heavy draught 
Ono illustration shows the “ full ” gloves, that 
ontiroly cover tho band, while tho other portrays 
tho “half” gloves, to one of which is attached 
an improved husking pin. This pin may ho used 
independently of any gloves. It is made of su¬ 
perior caiit steel, and is fitted with straps ready 
for use. Tho manufacturers also Tnaku a single 
pointed pin, that may bo used by those prefer¬ 
ring that style. 
Both kiuds of gloves aro made of tho best calf 
glove leather, and aro shielded, as shown, by 
metallic plates on tho parts most exposed to 
wear, hut tho platoa aro so arranged as not to 
lessen the flexibility of tho gloves. They aro 
made in throe hIeob for mon, and one for youths. 
Tho gloves aro made to moot the requirements 
of right or left-handed persons. Those who 
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The third patent was issued to Michael Kelly, 
who having noticed the offorts of tiro farmers of 
tho Wost to make a hedge of tho fast-growing 
Osage orange, also to make a durable fence of 
iron wire, and rccolleotiug that in his younger 
days ho had seen live thorn fences mended by 
weaving in dead branches of thorns, conceived 
tho idea of making an iron thorn ITedye, having 
the efficiency and offensive character of the 
thorn and tho durability of the wire; llo suc¬ 
ceeded in making the Kelly Barb Wire precisely 
as uow made by his successors, 11 The Thorn 
Wire Hedge Co.” of Chicago. 
The introduction of Thorn Wiro Fences undor 
tho name of “ Barb Fence," is chiefly due to tho 
energy and porsoverauco of Ellwood and Gi.id- 
dkn, of Illinois, who invested largely in its 
manufacture and spont a great deal of money to 
overcome tho prejudice of tho people and bring 
it into general use. Their business lias been a 
wonderful success, and is continued by Wash¬ 
burn & Moen Manufacturing Co. of MasB., and 
have never used a husking glove have no idea 
of their comfort and convenience, and nothing 
could be said to demonstrate it so well as the 
gloves themselves. Try them. Tho Ilall Husk¬ 
ing Glove Co., Chicago, Ill., are the manufact¬ 
urers. 
THE PROFITS AND LOSSES OF RAISING 
POULTRY.-No. I. 
A PRACTICAL COW FETTER. 
Since the introduction of Asiatic and other ~ , ” 
foreign fowls into this country, the i ress has 
echoed the public mind, and has given much at- ~ •■= 
tention to poultry matters. The “ Poultry Yard" 
now occupies in the columns of every well-con¬ 
ducted journal a conspicuous corner, wherein 
writers and correspondents of acknowledged 
merit favor tho reading public with practical 
views on the care and mauugomont of poultry. 
Tho /ten, nowadays, comes in for a full meas¬ 
ure of praise and discussion, and a profitable cart horses—is 
and friendly chat is iutorohanged between tho taught his paces and brought to a good mouth, 
wide-awake farmer, the thrifty hen-wife, and the A good saddle horse is nevor polluted by being 
fancy breeder, tending to make the “Poultry driven in harness, and any horse however good 
column” useful and instructive. lie might be, would lose 50 per pftut, in value at 
Maledictions both loud and deep aB well as 
tears are caused by tho antics of a cow’s hind 
leg, notwithstanding tho philosophy that recom¬ 
mends one not to cry over spilled milk. H. J. 
Hauler, Warren Ohio, has invented a fetter 
that is cheap and well adapted to tho purpose it 
is Intended to serve. The illustration in our 
advertising columns shows its application: ono 
of its most conspicuous merits is that it not 
only prevents kicking, but finally eradicates tho 
habit. Its price puts it within the means of tho 
most limited purse and we should think it would 
always prove a good investment, 
Figure 2. 
J. L. Elwood & Co. of Illinois, who own all the 
leading patents, tho Kelly patents being as¬ 
signed to them, the Thom Wire Iledgo Co., of 
Chicago, manufactures of the Kelly Wire, having 
a full and free atop right under the Kelly patents 
