The Northern star, and farmers' and mechanics' advocate. [volume] (Warren, R.I.) 1830-1834, 1830-10-16

From the .Nep England Farmer
HoD TO keep .Apples for scinter'3 use.--
Put them in casks or bins, in layers well
covered with dry sand, each layer being
covered. This preserves them from the
air, from moisture, and from frost, it pre-
vents their perishing by their own perspi-
ration, their moisture being absorbed by
the sand at the same time It preserves
the flavor Of the apples,a prevents their
willing Pippins have been kept in this
manner sound and fresh till midsummer
and how much longer they would have
kept is not known !! Any kind of sand
will answer, but it must be perfectly dry.
Cow Keeping I'm Holland the food
for one COW in winter for twenty-four
hours is, straw, eighteen pounds turnips,
sixty pounds. Some farmers boil the tur-
nips for them others give them raw,
chopping them with the spade one or 9th
er operation is necessary to obviate the
risk of the animal being choked, where
the turnips, which is usually the case in
Flanders, are of too small size. In lieu
of turnips, potatoes, carrots, and grains,
ore occasionally given bean straw like
wise, and uniformly white drink; prepar-
ed both for cows and horses, and consist
ing Of water in which some oilcake has
been dissolved. and whitened with rye
meal, or the flower Of buckwheat.
Cattle Stalls.-The common cattle
stalls of our country are So i'll contrived
and SO Strengthened in their dimensions,
that the cattle are constrained to lie down,
in part, in their own dung. This dries
and forms thick coat on their hind quar-
tsrs, from which they are not relieved till
they shed their hair in their spring They
are thus rendered uncomfortable. To be
uncomfortable is to suffer some degree of
pain +; and no one will suppose that ami
mails in pain can thrice, or preserve their
plight, with the same food, equally with
others perfectly at ease. Even hogs, tho
prone to wallow in the mire, in warm
weather, are always pleased with a dry
bed, and thrive best when kept Clean
[Col. Pickering.
Hints miM regard TO tatfing Su;ne.-If
your object is merely profit in fattening
your hogs, you must take time for the pro-
cess, and make them thoroughly fat. A
farmer, stating the result Of some expert
ments in the Bath Society papers, vel vi.
p. 332 says "I invariabe found that
quantities of food consumed by fatt,ng
hogs increased every week till the animals
became three parts fat F; after this period
they ate but little and almost all they ato
turned to fat and that can be done by
giving time"
The experienced farmer need not he
told that fatting hogs sheuld now and then
have dose ofbrimstone or antimony Civ
en- with their food, in order to preserve
their health and increase their Appetite
But there may be some, who never knew,
or have forgotten that rotten wood throwo
to them occasionally, will be eagerly de-
vourcd, and serve as an absorber of those
acid juices, which might otherwise occa-
sion a disorder. 1t is likewise said that
to throw them now and then few pieces
of charcoal will answer the same purpore.
The new Unitarian stone Church, at
Taunton, was dedicated on the 7th inst.
The house is finished in an elegant style,
and it may be truly said of it, that it is de- /.
csntly neat, and elegantly plain. Tho
Advocate says &C pews were sold and tho