The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1828-01-16
WHOLE No. 1850.
From the .Ns1o England Farmer.

OdrIl, Lney VIII eat aDrOdu III Tue open dlr
and most freely when it is laid upon clean
snow. Not only this, but the meanest of
straw should be given them in this way
What is left will help to increase the ma
nure il me yard.
"Every farm yard, where any consider
able stock is kept should be furnished with
large shed, and rack under it. For
where there is no clean snow to lay the
straw, and other mean fodder upon, it should
be put into the rack. A larger proportion
of the dung will be dropped under the she'd
than in any other part of the yard. And
this dung will be better than the rest, as it
will not be washed by rains, nor SO much
dried in the SUM-"
Sir John Sinclair says, Straw given to
stock, should be constantly made use of as
soon after it is threshed as possible; for if
exposed to the influence Of the atmosphere,
it becomes either musty or to dry; and in
that state, cattle neither relish nor thrive
on it so well. 1t must be kept length of
time for fodder, it should be bound IN truSSeS,
in which state it is.easier moved, lies in less
room. and retains its strength and favor
rather longer, than when loose; or it may
be secured in a stack properly built, trodden
down and covered. Wheat straw on ac-
count of its strength is frequently cut into
chat, and given to horses in their corn,
grain The chaffis likewise mixed with
other food, in particular with potatoes, and
given to feeding and working cattle.
In tract entitled . Notices for Young
Farmer" written, we believe, by the Hon.
Judge Peters, formerly President of the
Penn. Agricultural Society, are the follow
ing directions:
" Cut or. chat your hay, straw, corn tops
or blades, ant. even your stalks with a straw
cutter, and you will save great proper
ton, which is otherwise wasted, or passed
through the animal without contributing to
its nourishment. One bushel of chaffed hay
at mess, given in trough, three times in
twenty four hours, is sufficient for a horse,
OK or cow. A bushel of chaffed hay lightly
pressed weighs from to 81 pounds. A
horse or horned beast thrives more on Is lbs,
thus given, than on "a or 25 lbs. as COM
monty expended. Including waste) in the
usual mode of feeding in racks; to which
! troughs properly constructed are far prefer
( able. Salt your clover and other succulent
as well as coarse hay. But over-salting
diminishes the nutriment. More than-a
( peck to a ton is superhuous. Half that
! quantity is often sufficient. Ten or fifteen
[ pounds is usually an ample allowance,
/ Feeding your stock by weight and measure
of food will not only save your proyendcr,
/ by its orderly distribution, but frequently
the lives of animals, too often starved by
niggardliness or neglect, or gorged and
destroyed by profusion. fit be true, as tbs.
| that I" the masters eye makes the horse fat,1
/ it is equally. so, that the masters eve pre-
vents the horse from being pampered, wan
/ ton, pursive, bloated, foundered, and blind.o
lfhay is sailed by using salt in substance
! it should he done at the time it is deposited
| in the NOW. In some cases 1t may not be
amiss to sprinkle a solution of salt in water
over hay or other food for cattle in the win
/ ter time, especially if the fodder be of infe-
rior quality. Lord Sumerville recommends
salt to be mixed with good as well as dam
aged hay and Mr.. Lawrence says " OF the
great use of sailing damaged hay, have
known various instances. Heated and
moulded hay has thus been rendered more
agreeable to the palates of cattle than even
the finest, and has improved them in an
equal degree"
| A writer for the Vermont Republican
says The practice of sailing cattle in the.
winter is extremely injurious and should be
abandoned. To prevent the necessity OF
this, by far the best method is to put the
salt upon the hay whenit is put into the
NOW. If this be done your cattle will re-
guire no salt in its crude state during the
winter nor will they take it if offered to them.
Another inducement to the practice of salt
ing hay in the NOW, is the unavoidable waste
of salt and labor which accompanies the old
method of using it in the winter in it's crude
state. 1t also prevents the danger of the
hays suffering injury from heat, and by inn
proving its quality, win occasion much less
waste in the expenditure of it during the
winter. This practice Of seasoning the hay
will be found also to conduce much to the
health and thrift of the stock. For the use
Of salt in the winter is accompanied some
times with costiveness, and at others it pro-
duces opposite effects, land invariably renders
the cattle more susceptible of the cold.
And it not unfrequently results in the loss
of flesh and disease. The profuse use of
salt on hay would no doubt prove detriment-
al. Having for series of years pursued the
practice of sailing my hay in the NOV, \
consider it superior to any other method OF
using salt, by at least two hundred per
! cent"
PROPERLY IN A NosE. Sir A. Carlisle
and other eminent surgeons have been late
ily, by curious chirurgical operation, maxi
ing new noses for other mems faces The
following anecdote will, perhaps, render
them cautious Of mourning such a RESPONSE
bity, for it is not every man who wears a
nose that is responsible for the expense of
such an appenaage. Some years ago, a
man named Cock, ofEtchelhampton, Wits
and one Greenland of Devices, had been
gambling, when the former was so unfortu-
nate as to lose all the money he had but
snll unwilling to relinquish the game, offer
cd to play his nose against certain sum.
Greenland was again successful, but Cock,
| at q loss what 10 do militant 4: :. -. -. ,