The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1856-02-23
AGRICULTURAL.

ASFACu1t1Aras.
LEAVES FOR LITrER.--For bedding down
cattle, horses and other stock, during winter,
litter is of prime importance. 1t not only
insures great amount of comfort to the
cattle, by g wing them an easy and warm bed,
but ii saves, indirectly, much in fodder in
consequence Of the warmth thus Obtained
cattle eating much less when they are kept
warm and cleanly. The fertilizing material
of leaves also adds essentially to the enrich
ing qualities of the manure heap. All SEN
sible gardeners prize highly compost made
in part Of decomposed leaves.
RoUP IN PoULTRY.-The roup is often very
fatal to poultry, more particularly when they
are kept In large numbers, often fourth
OF the flock dying Of this disease. 1t is very
similar to malignant erysipelas, with con-
gestion of the lungs, in the human subject,
the windpipe closing up, causing suffocation.
The only effectual remedy known is, to close
all the doors and windows of the poultry
house, at night, when the fowls are on the
roost, then burn within the building a few
corn -cobs, the smoke of which will fill the
apartments, causing constant snuffing and
sneezing which affords the diseased fowls
relief.
Corn FROM SPAIN.-The commissioner OF
patents has obtained from the south of Spain
a dwarf variety of corn called the ' forty
days maize which is represented as ripen-
ing high up on the Alps in forty days after
planting. The object of introducing this
grain into the United States is, on account
of its quick growth, early maturity, and
sweet flavor in the green state, as we'll as
the delicacy of the bread made from its meal.
1t appears also to be we'll adapted to the high
latltudes where most other varieties of corn
will not thrive, and likely to form success
ful cross with the larger sorts, to which it
may be found to impart, in some degree, its
quality OF early ripening, and perhaps its
sweet flavor.
GREAT CRop FROM BROADCAST SOWING
A gentleman at the west states that he sowed
IL bushels of corn broadcast on one acre of
ground, intending to cut it up for fodder.-
Finding during the summer that it was grow
ing about as rapidly as his corn planted and
worked in the usual manner, he concluded
to leave it to ripen. When the time arrived
for harvesting, he found it to yield $50 bush
els of ears Of good corn and five tons of fod-
der, and 30 bushels of nubbins besides. If
such results could always be anticipated from
sowing broadcast, there would be no reason
why corn intended for feeding should not
thus be planted, or in drills. 1t is not, how
ever, so reliable as the usual method.
GROUND AND UNGRoUND FEED. Those ex-
perienced and skilful farmers, the Lebanon
| On. H. Shakers, state that more than 30
years practice leads them to estimate ground
corn at one-third higher than unground, as
food for cattle, and especially for fattening
pork. The same experience also induces
them to put higher value upon cooked than
raw meal and for fattening animals, swine
in particular, they consider of cooked
equal to of raw meal. Until within the
last three or four years they have fattened
ANNUALLY, for 80 years, from 10000 to 5O,-
600 pounds of pork, exclusive Of lard and