Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1859-02-11
DOES CHINESE CANE KILL CATTLE !?

DOES CHINESE CANE KILL CATTLE ?
Il have fed this plant to all kinds of
stock for the past season, in every
stage Of Its growth-green, ripe, and
cured as fodder. I have found it the
best soiling plant ever raised--horses,.
mules, sheep, swine, goats and cattle,
rapidly fatten when fed on it. l fed
two hundred and fifty bushels Of seed
during the past winter to sheep, goats
and poultry, and attach the relative
value Of oats to it as winter food for
these animals. In April last l sowed
twenty acres broadcast in sugar millet,
intending it as u pasturage for calves
and mich COWS. On the first of July
I turned the mich COWS, calves, sheep,
goats, swine an lgeese upon it, and have
not lost a single animal. They have all
improved rapidly, and although | have
large numbers on the field. the heritage
bids fair to keep ahead Of all demands
made upon it. l made it a point to
take my animals from good pastures,
and fed them we'll before turning them
in, allowing them plenty Of salt. If a
half. starved COW is turned on wheat,
peas or Indian corn, she is just as like
| ly to die by over eating these crops as
she is from eating the Chinese sugar
cane. The disease which kills cattle
W. en- over-fed on green food in hun
cry state, is termed Hoove, the best
cure for which is a drench of salt dis
solved in a gallon Of water. This will
sometimes relieve an animal in a min
ute. Peas, Of all green food, are the
most dangerous, from the fatulent ma
ture Of the plant. l have frequently
seen half dozen COWS die in a few
hourssafter they were turned into lux
uriant pea field in the Fall, and have as
frequently seen others relieved by the
above dose. A COW, which like the
asses CT Ephraim, had been feeding on
the east wind during the winter, and
grazed upon the roadside and bushes,
might be expected to die from joy af-
ter an over-feed on sugar-millet. l
have sown broadcast at the rate of one
and half bushels Of sugar cane seed to
the acre, q meadow which | intend to
convert into q good nutritious hay for
winter food. l think more COWS will
die for want of this food in our State
than from being over-fed on it. | do
not think, with the proper precautions,
it is in any wise more dangerous than
any other green food we are accustomed
to feed, and would advise its extended
use as soiling and hay crop in the
South. Cor. tim. Cotton Planter.
DIDN'T THINK.-Walking in the
country one morning, in early Spring
time, we seated ourself to rest on a
large stone near an orchard gate. Very
soon we observed a large man hanging
to the topmost limbs of small apple
tree with one hand, while with the
other he was cutting off twigs and
branches. We babe him good morn
ing. He answered chcerfully and we
vel tured to hint that the tree he had
climbed bore heavy burden. eyes, "
he said, "the trees all need pruning ;
but 1 can only attend to a few of them:
The others wouldn't bear my weight. "
"Why don't you fasten your saw to
pole, stand on the ground, and prune
such limbs as most require it :" we
asked.
"Well, I DECLARE" he answered,
"that acoula do didn't think Of it. :"
There was valuable lesson in that
confession-'I didn't think Of it.'' 1t
explained Why, in many respects, that
farmer was not prosperous. He was a
hard worker. lie endeavored to be
economical; but he was always behind.
His orchard didn't yield abundantly-
his cattle had diseases-his grain was
often poor-and he could only sell at a
low price, because he didn't think. He
had never learned forethought-he did
not know what it is to consider-he did
not understand how judicious head-work
assists hand work.
Didn't think-that is sorry expla-
nation Of much error; Of many a
crime; Of many a hardship, and ma
ny an abuse.
Little boys and girls, bear in mind
that whatever advantages you may have
at home, in school, in business or soci-
ETY., unless you Minh, your lives will
be sad, and your efforts unsuccessful.
Learn, then, while you are young, the
art Of thinking. To be great and good,
you must understand the art Of rehec-
ton, as we'll as appreciate the pleas
ures Of memory.
A CANDID CoNFEssIoN.-Any trade
by which man or woman obtains ali
honest livelihood is honorable; and we
know no reason why child's-nurse
should not be as respectable as a dress.
maker. or vice yerso. We imagine that
a sensible man would as soon marry a
child's-, urse as a dress maker if she
were equal y Industrious, virtuous and
affcctlonate, and if he happened to be
desperately in 1--we with her. Still,
trades and occupations are higher, in
one serse, in proportion as they de-
manl high mental and spiritual quail
ications to carry them on. Thus the
ministerial is higher than the street.
sweeping profession-and most men,
even in this democratic country, would
rather marry the daughter Of President
Buchanan supposing he had any
than the daughter ct old Swipes, the
bone gatherer.
HAPPINESS Now let me tell you