June, 1910, 
THE AUSTRALIAN GARDENER. 
27 
THE FARM 
Clean water for Horses. 
In fools the horse is very particular 
It sniffs and rejects deceptions very 
quickly, and if fastidious in foods it ig 
equally soin drinks. It would almost 
“yather die of thirst than drink unclean 
water. It only does soat the last resource 
and those: who insist on being careless and 
putting impure water before it subject it 
toa greathardship. The horse is a healthy 
drinker ; ‘water is: enjoyed as. much as 
food; and-is just. as necessary to its well 
being, adiit-is quite as satisfactory to 
study its water supply as foods. If given 
a variety of foods, some valuable and 
others cheap, the former tainted and the 
latter sweet, thesound. will be accepted 
rather than the tainted. It has often a 
choice ofthis: sort, but in water it has 
none, ‘This: may bein the brook, pond, 
tank, or bucket. If it drinks ond is satis- 
fied well and good. If it refuses or 
indulges sparingly ithasno further oppor- 
tunity, and ‘is: bound to-suffer. If a horse 
is given’ impure water and drinks a little, 
and'then has some-which is pure placed 
before it, its ejoyment cannot only be 
seen butialmost felt by all who observe it, 
Surely this'is the'strongest indication of 
-what is wanted, and ‘that the greatest 
efforts should be‘made'to supply it. 
“Asa first’ step'towards providing clean 
water the versels in which it is offered 
shotld be of the: cleanest, Buckets into 
which'all-sorts of stuff are put are’ never 
At-for thehorse to drink out of. There 
should be drinking’ buckets for this alone 
aiid tothivg else. “Drinking tauks often 
beconie-very dirty: Various buckets are 
dipped in and loave deposits. These may 
sink to the bottom or swim on’ the top, 
but they are not relished on either part. 
How the horse often snorts and shakes his 
‘head if taken'to a tank to drink where 
chaff anJ other materials are floating ! Its 
aversion is a great object lesson, but it is 
often disregarded. Such tanks should be 
regularly and often cleaned out. It pays. 
‘When horses are kept in the stable for a 
day or more, as is sometimes the case, 
they are let out to drink. “It is a little 
exercise and is good for them but if there 
is stale water in’ tanks ‘or pools close at 
hand and u clear stream a little further off 
they will make'straight for this and drink 
‘and then return quite contented. 
What a Horse Would Say 
If He Could Speak. | 
Don’t compel me to eat more’salt-than 
I want by mixing it with my chaff. I 
know better than any other animal how 
«much I need, 
Don’t think because I go free under 
the whipI don’t get tirod. You would 
move up if under the whip. 
Don’t think that because I’m a horse 
-that weeds won’t hurt my hay, 
Don’t whip’ me whea I get frightened 
along the road, and.I will expect -it next 
“time and maybe make trouble. 
Don’t trot me np hill, for-I have to 
carry you and the buggy and ‘myself‘too. 
Try it yourself some time, | Run up hill 
with a big load. ; 
Don’t keep. my stable very dark, for 
when I go out into the dark my eyes are 
injured, ' 
' Don’t say whoa unless you mean it. 
Teach me to stop at the word. It may 
check me if t:e lines break, and save a 
runaway or smash up, 
Don’t ask me to “back’ with blinds on, 
Tam afraid to. 
Don’t run me down a steep hill, for if 
anything should give way I might break 
your neck. 
Don’t put on my blind bridle so that it 
irritates my eyes, or so leaye my forelock 
so that it will be in my eyes. 
Don’t be, so careless of my harness-as 
to find a great sore on me before you iat- 
tend to it, r 
~-- Don’t forget the old book that is a friend 
of “all ‘the oppressed, that says:—‘ A 
mercifull man is merciful to his beast.” 
— Farm Journal.” 
THE ONION EEL-WORM. 
Experiments for the Eradica- 
tion of—With a Short Des- 
cription of its Life History 
and Habits. 
[By W::Lnidlov, B.Sc, Micro-Biologist 
vand:C, A. Price,’ Microscopist, in 
the ‘Vic Journil of Agrigulture "7 
(Continued from last Issue ) 
The almost:.comp'ete failure of the 
chemical treatment to prevent or even 
check the attack of the nematodes was 
remarkable - fur it must be remembered 
that-in some of the puts as many as 5,000 
seeds had been sown, ant it was confilen- 
-tly expected that at least some of the 
:plants would. escape, particularly in the 
earlier stages cf their growth. Probably 
the majority were already diseased be- 
fore showing above the surface. 
That the seeds soon after its germin- 
ation- is attack by the eel-worm - can 
easily-be demonstrated by sowing onion 
seed in pots filled with infected soil, If 
the germination cf the young -plauts is 
carefully examine) from day to day with 
-the microscope, the, worms can be se n 
attacking the young shoots and invading 
them, even iu the earliest; stages, and’ in 
some instinces the worms have’ been 
detected in perminating seed itself, 
Carbalized lime Naphthaline and sand 
(a patent preparation). and .calcium 
carbide, were used on some of the Jand 
adjacent to the plots. ‘hese substances 
-were either drilled in along with seed, or 
spread aiony the: furrows, so.as to remain 
in «close: contact with the seed; Ger- 
mination was interfered wih by this 
‘method of application, and, besides, it did 
‘not.provent the ravages of the worms, all 
‘of the.plants eventually dying off from 
disease.. ; 
: sAsmwnber of young. plants, °grown in 
