Cheraw gazette. [volume] (Cheraw, S.C.) 1835-1838, 1837-02-07
RURAL ECONOMY.

RURAL ECONOMY.
From the Farmers Register.
COMPARATIVE VALUE OF APPLES TO FEED
STOCK, AND FOR SALE, AND THEIR PRO-
DUCTS, CIDER AND BRANDY.
NOVEMBER 4. 1886.
Durinp the two last summers and falls,
nv duties called me into the apple regions
of the north. The following facts were OBJ
sa;ned IN reference 10 the subject of apple
cider aud brandy.
I. Cider drinkers arc peculiarly subject
to rheumatism, TO infamed oyelids, head
ache. bleeding at the nose, to sores and ul-
GERS, difficult and tedious to cure, to aftec.
.ions of the stomach and bowels, and
to premature trembling Of the hand and
head.
9. Cider drunkards are the most british
and cruel Of the unhappy tribe of incbrI-
ates.
8. An old orchard and d'stillery are
almost invariable indices, of widows, or
phans, poverty and drunkenness.
4. There is great loss Of money IN
making either cider or brandy. Good eat
ing apples arc worth on an average % cents
a bushel. Eight bushels of apples make
a barrel Of cider, and twelve barrels of
cider make one barrel Of brandy. Brandy
at so cents per gallon would give about
Is cents per bushel for the apples. The
loss is ten cents per bushel. This on an
orchard of one hundred trees, in ten years,
would be over one thousand dollars. No
allowance is made for capital and labor
connected with distilling. Take these inio
consideration, and the loss is much greater.
5. II costs no more 10 raise good apples,
suitable for market, than 10 raise apples
only suitable for distilling. Very often np-
niles are worth one dollar per bushcl, and
then the loss is immense BY turning them
into brandy. l am told that IN Mobile
apptes sell now for ten dollars Darrell
q. Engrafting and budding will change
the character of an orchard, and will more
than compensate for the tune and amount
sos, IN producing the change, in ten years.
7. Apples make most excellent food tor
horses. Several physicians of extensive
nrac,ice. in Connecticut and Massachusetts,
feed their horses on apples and hay. l
have never seenlfatter horses, or more sleek
and spirited. The hair is much more live
IL. and requires less grooming than horses
aed on grain. Mr.. Norton of farmmgton,.
Connecticut, has about the finest Pair OF
horses | have seen. They are fed mainly
ON apples and hay. They travel very last,
and seem TO have both wind and bottom.
Its proper, however, to remark, that not
rs much grain is given to horses at the
north as is customary at the south. One
thing Is worth noticing-horses fed on ap-
niles. do not eat as much hay as when they
are fed on grain. Very sour raw apples
iniure the teeth Of horses; but when boiled
thew do not. The rule Of feeding is to
commence with small quantity, and gradu-
allv increase to bushcl day for one
horse. -,
g. Apples are most excellent food for
beeyes. The fattcst beef have seen was
made so on sweet apples.
9. Nothing will fatten mutton quicker
than apples. Itis necessary, or best, to cut
up the apples when fed to sheep.
10. Hogs care nothing for corn if they
can get apples; if sweet, the apples may
be given without boiling if sour they must
be boiled. Mixed with corn meal the flesh
is frner. =.
II, Apples increase the quantity and
quality of milk. At first there was
prejudice against giving apples to mich
cows, because it was thought they dlmln-
ished or dried up the milk. 1t is true, that
a gorge of apples, or any other green food.
will cause fever and dry up the milk: but
given in proper quantities, the effect is quite
different. :,
l2. Cattle and hogs are purchased and
fattened on apples, and sold at fine profit
when to fatten them on corn would ensure
a loss.
13. Sweet apples and good eating apples
are to be preferred as food for horses,
sheep and cows. also for hogs, although
some recommend mixture Of sour and
sweet for hogs.
II these remarks shall induce any one
to test their correctness, by making fair
experiment, the object of my writing them
will be fully answered.
THOMAS P. HUNT.
METHOD OF PRESERVING CABBAGEs so
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