New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-12-06

cool cd corn il equal TO 30 los OF ra~ corn n, bo,
feed Mr.. Mason Of New Ieriey proved TIA, pork
u vth raw grain cost SIC pound, and that fro n
cooked food g. Cooked corB-stslks are a. -of and
au DuiTicious green stalks II is animpro y
inert that pays. Cattle can b. failed NJ ab,1i ba :
the txBeLte upon cooked food 10 warm stsbie tbat
ctfers cnD ouf dooTs fed upon IA food I you'd
rot cook food for bCTses. Carrots ara ysluable f,r
hoses because they stsist food 70 gelstinize F.
oxen 20 quarts OF meal boiled Ia % gallons az
weer poured over cut corn stake N sse excellent
feed. IL il well known that hogs fatten fast that fol,
low cattle fed wi sbJle corn In al sf.bles ,rea,
6esl more food than We afford to lOse passes of
uDeg ested sLd goes into the manure pile IL il poor
Omy 10 cd hogs horned cattle on any kind Of
raw grain. All coarse feed should be chopped. and
cornseks, in PARTICULAR are increased in value yery
much by stetmiig.
SoLos ROBINSON raid that person in Indian. told
bim that be cOIfDed two hogs in a narrow pen-ooe
forward OF the 0tber-and fed the first with whole
corn, leaving the other TO live be could upon the
meal ground by the one ahead Of bin. The result
was that the one in the rear ia ted first
Prof MAPS said that so much Of the corn consumed
by The fret passed through undi gesed that the one
in tie rear obtained his food ground and partially
cooked.
Mr.. ROBINSON said that all western cattle-feeders
kept hogs to pick the corn undigested by the bu
locks tina. they often fatted ready for the knife
in Il at way.
ICE HOUSES.
Prof MAPEs-There is great mistake in building
ice'houtes with walls filed in With tan, straw, earth
or even charcoal; though the latter is the best sub
stance. But the best thing as has been fully proved
by Mr.. Tudor, the great ice merchant of Boston is
hollow walls, containing statum of air. Ice-houses
Iced not be made below the surface If properly con.
stIucted above, and made to contain large cube
of ice.
DIR WELLISGToS-A cube Of less than Il feet. Mr.
TUDOR says can never be relied keep ice. Three
four dollars additional expense in building will en-.
able person always to have ice, when in a smaller
bulk II would all melt.
Prof MAPEs-I have heard II stated that Mr. Tudor
makes ice in tank built On piles above the ground
ind takes il, when formed right on ship. board
DR.. WELLIsGToS-He tried that plan but il did not
succeed He built a tank some 500 feet long and
GOO wide the ice froze bottom and top leaving water
or hollow ia the middle
DR.. WATERBURY-I have seen an ice-house filed
by letting in water from spring. gradually adding
The bulk TIL cold cake as large the square of the
building was frozen. Then the roof was puton and
the ice kept we'll
SoLos RoBISsoS-The objection to that plan is the
difficulty in getting it out. Some one proposed to fur.
nith the City of New-Oreans by freezing fat boats
full of solid ice in the Upper Mississippi, and sting
down but he found upon trial that he could only get
the ice out by ehOpping it up so fine that it .wOuld
melt dire city.
The ice.cutters Of Boston build in stacks ne. the
raiIoaos, filling the ihterstices the outside with
fne hay and covering the top with hay and boards TO
fbed of the rain and ". and being in large Masses
will keep long time without wasting ms'eraly. The
great III building cehouses Is making them TOO
tmsll. II family with supply Of six tuns year,
they should build house big enough 10 hold thirty or
forty tuns and fill il the first good season, and keep
the old in from year to year. adding enough for
CURE ut use each winter In that way the small guam
tty needed in summer will koepthe large mas keeps
it cold. 1t is only expensive in the first filling.
This subject will be continued at the next meeting,
ard several other interesting ones.
FRENCH WINE STATISTICS,
Mr. Goodrich furnished the following statistics upon
the vine-culture in France:
Nesrly 5000, 900 acres Of land are employed in the
cultivate Of the vine in France, from which is made
annually 900 900 600 ,llons of wine The average
value is Is cents gallon. The French wines have
doubled trebled in value within two past years.
Average annual total value of the wine crop, frac
ton less than 500, 600 600.
ExPoRTs.-5O, 100000 gallons are annually
ported. The south western and south eastern dis
tricis of France are the most productive.
BRASDY.--l2 O0O, 0Oo gallons Of brandy are annually
exported
ExCIsE-Tbe excise duty on wines and their distil-
latloIs in 1853 was s235, 900.
LABORERs.-The number of persons employed in
the Guilty. alton Of the vine and facture of wine is
a fraction short of 600 000 and 240 900 persons
engage in selling wine Most OF the wine lands
uutillable sterile and billy. The wine culture does
not average return Of more than per cent. an
nualy.
DIsEAsE-The disease of the vine is pretty general
France, though the southern section sui
fers most This disease has prevailed for three four
Years and threatens TO destroy the business.