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AGRICULTURAL. TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE TO FARM AND GARDEN. The _ Frightened , Horse. The feeling of fright is probably a sen sation common to all animals from man kind down to the lowest grade of life, It ts also true, that the higher the grade of life, the more sentient the animal, the keener is this sense developed. The horse is universally noted for his sagacity and intelligence, therefore in him tright is innate. When a horse manifests fear lt is because he has by exercise of his reason decided that there is danger to himself lurking in some object, which he accordingly endeavors to avoid, 1 hat same reason will, if properly di reeted, undeceive him and convince the an mal that he is mistaken. The horse be ug unable to reason, except from his experience, you should convince him, by careful examination, that the object he dreads is harmless. Bring him in direct contact with it. It is a common saying that if the nose is touched to the object the animal will be satisfied; generally this is true; the animat becomes ac quainted with his “enemy.” It is a ter rible mistake to use a whip on a fright eued horse The animal is already ex cited, and will, in all probability, associate the wh pping with the object of his dread, hxert your own common sense and calm your horse. Colts especially should receive most considerate treatment, and above all things leave make jour lessons thorough. To the ob ect of his alarm before hav¬ ing made him thoroughly familiar and careless of it, is often worse, tenfold, than no attempt at. all to break him of his skittishness.— National Horse Breeder. Making Vinegar in Small Quantities Where families have no cider mills and but few apples they may easily make their own vinegar by mashing apples in a tub with a pounder. The pomare should then be put into a halt barrel with holes in the bottom, and be placed over another tub as a receiver. A lower can be placed on the pomace aud be pressed down by a lever or stationary keg. weights. bung The juice should be kept in a open, and in a warm place until the vinegar is made. By frequently replenishing as it is drawn out, any far mers familv can easily keep up their stock. A few apples mashed and Dut in can be used for this lowVnperature. purpose Vinegar will stand quite a but it is better not to allow it to freeze. times Vinegar from other substances is some made. Wine vinegar is from soured wines and the juice of grapes, Wine vinegars are extensively counter feited by chemicals. For sorghum vine five gar, to one gallon of sorghum syrup add or six gallons of water, with a little yeast, or to a barrel of the strained juice of the cane, a pint of yeast aud a little syrup. made from Large whisky quantities of vinegar are aud acids that have a but good appearance and sharp acidity, are unlit for family use. For molas¬ ses leans vinegar, take one gallon of New Or¬ molasses and five gallons of water, put in a little old vinegar to sour it, or Start it to fermenting with a little yeast. Keep in a warm place and cover the keep’out bung hole oi the keg with netting, to the flies. Fine honey vinegar is made in the proportions of one pound of honey to a gallon of water, thoroughly mixed. For healthfulness and general utility head apple cider vinegar stands at the of the list .—New Fork World. The Culture of Rhubarb. At the request of several of our sub scribers we give the following hints on the culture of rhubarb. The best time to has plant rhubarb is in the fall after frost killed the leaves, or early in spring before it has made much growth, but it may be set out without much risk at any time in early summer before July 1. The old roots should be divided so as to have but ons or two eyes to each piece, and should be set out about three feet apart in the furrows of a small plow, with four feet between the rows. Cover two inches deep with a hoe. Rhubarb is in no way particular about the land it grows upon, provided it is not a dry gravel and is well manured, To grow it well, however, demands very heavy manuring; ten or fifteen cords per acre every year of strong manure, rich in nitrogen, is what is wanted. Hog manure plow under is best. when Spread the manure and preparing the land, and put some more along the furrows in planting. (all ths dead Afterwards rake off every leaves and rubbish About Nov. 1. Plow a light funow from the plants at each side, fill this with ma¬ nure, and cover with plow, ridging the land well over the crowns. In early spring tir cultivate across the ridges and 8 often with plow and cultivator, and hoe until it is growing too high. in _ The Boston best is variety the Victoria, for generafmarketin<* its large on account of size and very heavy yield. Thirty tons per acre is not unusual, and even I-inmeus forty tons have been grown. The by variety is earlier and preferred it does some buyers for its milder acid, but the not yield much more than half crop which the Victoria will pro duce. To grow rhubard profitably one should be near his market, for the bulk of the crop sells at less than $15 per ton, and often for $10. The expense of market mg is mostly at long distances is considerable. It grown within six or eight miles of market. The bed should be replanted after about five years bearing, as the roots spread about and crowd, making a large amount of small stalks, involving double the labor in cutting and bunching for market, and making an inferior product to that grown on a young bed. A new plantation should not be cropped at all the first year, and will not produce a full crop the second, but after that for five years is in its prime, The price of rhubard is always high early in the season, and some growers grow a little of the Linnams variety in sandy land on the south side of a fence, so as to get it early. — Cultivator. Farm ami Garden Notes. Keep tools handy. Cut corn fodder from which the sweet corn has been picked. A window facing south in the poultry house this winter will pay in increased e SS s - Every time you worry your horses - vou sl:l0rten their lives and days of use I’d n e ss - nri S’heep are better scavengers for small, : ? riaimed. P. e ’ w «rmy apples than swine are, it 1 * s The English rarely drive their draught horses faster than a walk. Trotting a cart-horse would seem barbarous to a j cockney, The longer you put off transplanting strawberry plants the less they will grasp the soil and the more danger there will be of wiuter-killing. French farmers report very beneficial f a manUie °‘ l strawb f ne3 ’ P ea «, let tUC ^ ^ a9 , beans Ca " 0ts and vme f‘ Wash dal l utensils, ’ and T pans, pans y a t s carefully with cold water, in which a 1,t tIe saI ‘;° r sod fi then rinse, and then thoroughly , scald with hot water. Professor E. W. Steward advocates flaxseed as a medicine for pigs. It is soothing and it is also to the rich stomach in food and intestines, for muscle and bone, To have fowls moult quickly they should be well fed, in good health, young and vigorous, and, according to the Poultry Yard, a little extra stimulation just before and during moulting can be defended. Hovr to Reduce Fat. For the reduction of adipose tissue, Banting has, in Germany at least, been superseded by pedestrianism, and the but walking up-hill. is not This to be upon fad level will ground, be adopted new indolent certainly not by persons, and most fleshy people are more or less dis¬ inclined to exertion. In fact, laziness is responsible for much of the accumula¬ tion of fat. The new relief from obesity has been experimented with by the re nowned Bismarck, who has in this man ner reduced his weight from two hun dred and seventy-four pounds to one hundred and ninety. The principle of the new system is to strengthen the ; muscle of the heart, which is best done by climbing heights. hill The patient is in structed to walk up at a slow pace until palpitation comes sit down, on, when and then he is to stop, but not to to goon. He must walk several hours a day, and climb more or less. Slowly walking up stairs is recommended. Pro fessor uertel, of Munich, is the investor of this new “obesity and heart cure,” and he advocates mountain climbing for i valvular defects of the heart as well as for all diseases associated with corpu¬ lency .—Boston Beacon. Old Mr. Bently the King (reading Spain the paper)— ill.” “I see that of is Old Mrs. Bently—“Goodness, Joshua, I hope he hasn’t got a cant cer, too 1” Old Mr. Bently—“No, he’s teething.”— Philips. Welch. The Sound of Thunder. One of the most terse and succinot that descriptions recently of a natural phenomenon is he given by M. Hirn, in wjiich says that the sound which is known as the thunder air traversed is due simply by to electric the fact that that flash of lightning, an is spark, is, a suddenly raised has to volume, a very high temperature, and its moreover, considerably increased. The column of gas thus suddenly heated and expanded is some¬ times several miles long, and as the duration of the flash is not even a mil¬ lionth of a second, it follows that the noise bursts forth at once from the whole column, though for an observer in any one place it commences where the light¬ ning is at the least distance. In precise terms, according to M. Hirn, the beginning of the thunder clap rives us the minimum distance of the lightning, clap and the length length of the thunder He gives us the of the column. also remarks that when a flash of lightning strikes the ground, it is not necessarily from the place struck that the first noise is heard. Again, he points out that a bullet whistles in traversing the air, so that we can to a certain extent follow its flight, the same thing also just happening with a falling meteorite before striking the earth. The noise actually heard has been com¬ pared to the sound produced when one tears linen. It is due, really, to the fact that the air rapidly pushed on one side in front of the projeotile, whether bullet or meteorite, quickly rushes back to fill the gap left in the rear. “Is the editor-in-chief in?” asked a stranger, as be sauntered into the city reporter’s room at eight o’clock in the morning. “No, sir,” replied the janitor, kindly; “he does not come down so early. Is there anything I can do for you?” “Perhaps so. Are you con¬ nected with .the poetical department of the paper?” “I am, sir.” “O, what do you do?” “I empty the waste-baskets, sir.” Diving on the Reputation of Others. “Take everything that I have hut my good name; leave me that and I am content.” So said the philosopher. So say all manufactur¬ ers of genuine articles to that horde of imita¬ tors which thrives upon the reputation of oth¬ ers. The good name of Allcock’s Porous Plasters has induced many adventurers to put in the market imitations that are not only lacking in the best elements of the genuine ar¬ ticle, but kre often harmful in their effects. The public should be on their guard against these frauds, and, when an external remedy is needed.be sure to insist upon having Allcock’s Porous Plaster. A man may be great by chance, but never Wise nor good without taking pains. A “Put and Call.” This is a funny phrase to the uninitiated.but all the brokers understand it. They use it when a person gives a certain per cent, for the option of buying or selling stock on a fixed day, at a price stated on the day the option is given. It is often a serious operation to the dealer, but there is a more serious “put and call” than this: when you are “put to bed with a severe cold and your friends “call” the a physi¬ house cian. 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