Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. [ARTICLE]

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

tine, and alia white the mass to ern Jiural. -The French paper* are reporting n new method'of taming 'vicious horses. Toe driver is to have beneath his seat an clec-tm-inagnclic uukchaw, worked by a Hate handle. A wire is carried through the vefln to the bit, and another to the rrupfMr, sc tfeot a current 4joes the entire length of th tr.aniuial along the spine. Ligtfc or St ong Shocks can be adminisitertff at plaulwure. A smart shock brings to a Blandst 11 on the spot the most violent ruowvay, and a hpree that won’t move may be persuaded to do so at once by a ee tiles of biwll shocks. Anyone who-has fifty or monoid ffince pqete to take -up need not dig them out, which i« «.toilsome job and a stow one. Pfovßre alight, strong lever and a’fulcrum for it andia. light chain to slip around the post and he k ready for liusimses. For a piece of 'two-inch plank a foot wide and twenty inches long; ntortifo'through for a stout standard two feet high;‘brace each way firmly. A man will oaaty'tkc whole apparatus; and with it Ae.w,yidraw,iPPßts rapidly. It is a capital taking out stumps. With the Chain under , a -EOot; a, man can raise an Tribune. Ashes are good for an old garden soil, and so is lime, and some fertilizer of this sort is better than 16 keep stuffing in the barayard/tnantirc till the soil is sick of it. «3Neld he& feessi4reatsd with more >tkan, its fair share of >come manure evety ijredr for a whole generation, and if its surface was skimmed off three or four inches and put as top dressing upon grass land it would take barnyard manures still with advantage; but unless this is done why mot lay out a new and larger garden on a. more generous scale near the house, and make4t gfa^iaqroimportant adjunct to the farnf than it has ever been A large gauden well filled with vegetables like lettuce, calory Jfests* cauliflower, rhubarb,; asparlguk.lpefs, beans ami small fruity lifcA OurfaKts, strftwbei*r:6s, raspberries and similar fruits, makes a farmer quite independent of the butcher. The nearer we can Wing all the farm to the high cultivation of the garden, the better the results'!— ‘MdieathueeUs Plowman. jA writer in the Country Gentleman maiptains the doc tripe -we have always adhered'to, that the sprouted potatoes ave qkltb hs good for planting as any other, afid MfiCTaiiyiietter in, producing earlier The did plan of cutting the potato and allowing it to dry upon a floer, sprinkled fiver with gypsum, until sproutedy Oan scarcely be improved on. The wwter above referred to ..makes this statement, and- we do not question its accuracy: “-.t have taken th 4 sprouts from the early roee potatoes, that were bar reled through the.-winter for seed, broken them off,.and planted in drills at the same time Ididthe poAito, and have invariably got.goodsmed potatoes about ten days or two weeks eSifUfeKlrmn the .sprouts than from < the potato ske|. In fact, last season, those fr<Jh*totr y f fffoats fwhite sprouts) -were ahead of the potato-bug, while the next were covered with them. This I have done several years in succession, with the same result. — GormantoionTelegraph.