MISCELLANEOUS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVIII, Issue 42, 20 February 1897, Page 3 (Supplement)

MISCELLANEOUS.

When a borne has frequent fits of colic, it indicates chronic indigestion, and care ehould be taken in feeding and watering. For strength in any kind of a horse, take one with a short, straight bacfc and short

C°VVho'n the teams areallowad to rest in the fields, pull the collars away from the H l"i B not a question of bulk, bub of digestion and quality, that makea a horse an easy keeper. . , Teach your horses to act promptly when you speak to them; by doing so you may Bave much annoyance. Every owner of colts should bow from one to five acrea of sorghum, according to number of weanlings to be earned through the winter. After thoroughly ploughing and preparing the soil, a half bushel oi clean seed should be sown to each acre, and jb is bettor to put ib in with a drill. Sorghum thus sown will yield three to four tons of most excellenb feed, being both giain and forage. The crop should be mown as soon as the Beed forms, thoroughly eurod in medium sized pile*, and pub away in the barn, From an experience of twelve years a writoi' testifies to the worth of quickly grown and well cured eorghum hay.—Exchange.