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THE MAILBAG 
Curing a Pawing Horse 
On page 880 I notice an inquiry by 
J. H. F. in regard to a remedy for a 
pawing horse. lie says his horse “has a 
habit of pawing when hitched to a post.” 
The pawing indicates neiwousiiess. What 
is its cause? Remove the cause and the 
cure is effected. I guess the cau.se is an 
over-draw cheek. The check hit irritates 
the roof of the hor.se’s mouth, causing 
the nervousness; the pawing is a pro¬ 
test. Itemove the check and note the 
effect. 1 have reasons which would take 
many words to explain. M. ir. D. 
Cider Bees 
Apparently the “cider bees” mentioned 
on page 115 are the same as the “beer 
bees” which I remember 20 years or so 
ago. If E. II. Root had followed direc¬ 
tions he would have found out that the 
“bees” were not dead, and that they had 
a great deal to do with the matter, for 
they are a peculiar kind of yeast which 
keeps together ih a mass and travels 
slowly lip and down through the liquid. 
Each “bee” will iie at or near the bottom 
until its load of gas (carbon dioxide, the 
gas of the soda fountain) causes it to 
start toward the top. Soouier or later 
this load will be dropped and the “bee” 
start downward, as the “bees” are hut 
little heavier than the liquid they move 
slowly and if working fast may never 
reach the bottom. As I remember it they 
worked best in the sunlight, perhaps be¬ 
cause it was warmer there. 
ALFRED C. WEED. 
“Cider” or “vinegar” bees are a thing 
that is. for I have seen them at work, but 
their purpose in life is to make vinegar 
and not a stomach medicine. A handful 
in a 2-qnart fruit jar of water with a 
little syrup and sugar added and kept in 
a warm place will, in a week or 10 days, 
make very nice vinegar. The bees re¬ 
semble a crumb of bread, and will multi¬ 
ply quite fast after their work of mak¬ 
ing the vinegar is over. They are used 
by merchants and wholesalers, so the peo¬ 
ple at large know little about them. 
Ohio. M. F. B. 
Crooked Asparagus 
Crooked shoots of asparagus are usually 
caused by the shoot meeting an obstruc¬ 
tion, such as a small stone, hard clods, 
chips and sometimes by hard-baked soil. 
All growers have more or less of them 
during tlie cutting season. The large 
growers for market, when there are more 
deformed sprouts than can he consumed 
on the farm, usually sell them in bulk, as 
by the basket or half ba.sket, and charge 
about 50 cents per peach basket, most 
u nally sold to employes or nearby neigh¬ 
bors, who do not care for the better or 
higher-priced sprouts, which are no better 
in quality than the deformed ones. K. 
Crows and Potato Seed 
If S. E. A. Tl.. Massachusetts, juive 
844, will dust his i)otato seed lightly with 
Parks gis^en mixed 50-50 with uir-slakcil 
lime I think the crows will not bother 
him nnicli.^ We are troubled here with 
meadow mice eating seed and find this a 
wonderful remedy. I enjoy reading The 
R. N.-Y. so much; I usually take one with 
me if 1 am going away on a trip. 
Bishopville, Aid. L. c. D. 
Driving with One Line 
I see reference on page 152 to a method 
of guiding work teams that I have seen 
for the first time here in Virginia and 
that seems to me a seriously though un¬ 
consciously cruel one. As Mr. Duke says, 
the driving is done with one line. The 
driver gives a steady pull on this line to 
turn the horse one way and several jerks 
to turn him the other. I have discussed 
this thing with several of my neighbors, 
trying to point out that the universally 
used method of the two lines must be 
surer and very much easier on the horse. 
The answer always is that this way of 
driving is not hard on the horse since the 
idea is to jerk the line gently. It may be 
that a man with judgment and an even 
temper may use this method with com¬ 
paratively little worry to the horse, but 
the great trouble is that the majority of 
men are not even-tempered, and one has 
only to watch the method in practice and 
consider what tremendous force a husky 
man can put into a backward swing of 
his arm on a line and how constantly this 
jerking goes on, in most cases, where a 
horse is being worked this way, to be ap¬ 
palled by the amount of suffering that is 
being thoughtlessly inflicted on thousands 
of horses in the South. Surely, the horse 
deserves well enough at our h.ands to jus¬ 
tify the little extra trouble required to 
save him this needless torture to his 
nerves. I wish horse owners in the South 
might be brought to think about this mat¬ 
ter, especially those whose horses are 
I worked by hired hands. B. KIRSON. 
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