368               THE WISCONSIN FARMER.

be taken not to leave a quantity in the bag to should be allowed to rest
for a time, then giv-
be absorbed, as it may produce disease,  en a little hay, half an hour afterwads
Wt&er
   Let the milker keep his temper and treat and then oats.  By this plan
water may be
 young cows kindly, for young animals never given without risk of cold, as
the oats act as
 forget Ill treatment, and a recurrence of aim- a stimulant.-oursna de'rAgrcutwe.
 ilar circumstances will remind the cow of                   0
 former punishment.-Farmington Chronicle                    ean Dogs a Ohi
                     a
      To Cure "Stretches" and "Zlackeis"    It appears
from a carefully prepared report
                    Ma. Enn~oa              of the agricultural statistics
of Ohio, taken
         M.EIO:-NowF that I have sent my
 regular dollar, I beg leave to answer one or by the town assessors, under
the direotien of
 twguearies  Fir, thbenla  tof           the Secretary of the State Board
of Agricul-
           two "ueris.RIrst ,tn, of       ture, that the doage of the
good old Buckeye
           AsSCRATCHRES IX; sntEr.
                                             iStte are a mighty scaly set
of canines-
   The cause of this scratching or Itching is,
                                             prowling around by day and sucking
ovine
as near as I can ascertain, costiveness or ticks. prown arond a  n      
 go
In either case, thoroughly mix one pound of blood at nighto
            sulhuri' th  ourquats  f slt;plae i in The number of dogs in
the State is put down
sulphur with four quarts of salt; place it in at 174.404-  most extraordinary
number,
a trough where the sheep have free access to
it. It is also a preventive of a complaint and, of course, including all
the purps.
commonly called 1smottles."  If the sheep  But behold the number of
sheep whose
are not bad, half a pound of sulphur will do. crimson founts have been perverted
to the
               THlE aLACKLEt..              base end of merely advancing
the diabolical
  Two years ago I lost four head by this dis interests of the sausage market!-86,778
kill-
ease, and supposed there was no remedy. This ed and 24,972 wounded; damage
estimated at
spring one of our neighbors had a young cow $136,847! And still, the miserable
dog-loy-
taken with it.  I drew about four quarts of ing Buckeyes howl like savages
at the bare
blood from her neck, and gave her quite a mention of a Dog-law; that sort
of legislation
quantity of soap and milk. In two days she is "an infringement of their
rights that can
was well. In the June No. of the FARMER a not be tolerated."
well. is    n t  h     pJune blo.io teqFall  Enough property destroyed in
two years by
emedy                                      worse than worthless curs to establish
and
effectual,                                  endow an Agricultural CollegeI
Such dogs
  Farmers, as the editor has given us an in- and such people are fit associates,
and in the
vitation to send him our thoughts, let us not next life should be put upon
some hot and
be so backward in responding to his reasona- confounded mean planet, all
by themselves.
ble request. I am sure the result will be good.  If this plan of disposing
of them were to
                           J. F. BAnKER,   be adopted, wonder if Wisconsin
would be
 CASSIL PRAIRIE, Sauk Co., Aug. 15, 1t63.  much behind in furnishing her
fall quota of
                                            both dogs and dog-men?  Not much,
unless
  FEEDING OATS TO HORSES.-The same quan- there has been a great reformation
since we
tity of oats given to a horse produces different were around last time.
effects according to the time they are admin-
istered. I have made the experiments on my  THE FATE OF HORSES IN AUSTRALIA.-Talk
own horses, and have always observed there of the nobility of the horse!
 Why, we learn
is in the dung a quantity of oats not digested from reliable authority that
Mr. Atkinson, of
when I purposely gave them water after a Sophienburg, has taken a contract
to boil down
feed of oats. There is, then, decidedly a great 2,000 horses. There is no
sale for these ani-
advantage in giving horses water before corn. mals, and the owner wants to
sell their oil,
There is another bad habit, that of giving hides and hoofs, and thus get
as much for them
corn and hay on their return to the stable aft- as possible. The fate of
Dibdin's high-mettled
er hard work. Being very hungry, they de- racer was illustrious compared
with the igno-
vour it eagerly and do not masticate; the con- hI. doom which awaits the
horse stock of the
sequence is, it is not so well digested and not interior.  The wild charger
of Ausralia's
nearly so nutritious. When a horse returns burning plains may well envy the
European
from work, perspiring and out of breath, he donkey his thistle-flawarra (Auserais)
Rx.