East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1860-12-27

DSktcI, ana even Tue ducscNlS were AZ Tue
habit of throwing salt on their grounds,
their vineyards, and fruit trees. Agri-
cultural chemistry informs US that the
simplest combinations through which
nourishmcpt is conveyed TO plants con-
sists in acids, alkalies, and alkaline sub
stances. Animal chemistry shows that
free muriatic acid and kitchen salt form
the principal constituents of the contents
OF the stomach. -,------,a.-a
In French prize paper, by DR. De-
saive, on the manifold advantages Of the
use of salt in agriculture, the following
results have been laid down by the ccle-
brated French veterinary surgeon, Gro
guicz: f.'ft Il
Common salt serves as preventive of
the fermentation and heating OF hay,
which has been heaped up in large stacks
daring wet weather Forty quintals OF
hay require fifteen pounds of salt, to be
strewn among it IN alternate layers. %
This effect il urnch better shown in
straw, which, if intended to be used as
fodder, by being moistened with salt.
water, may be preserved for long time,
when il can be given to cattle instead OF
hsy--R method in use among the anci-
ents.
Leaves OF trees, when put in bitches
with salt, may be prevented for long
time from putrelactive fermentation, and
will even make good forage. Intelligent
farmers of the Mont IL Orlyonais are IN
the habit OF thus preserving their vine
leaves as fodder for goats.
Fodder of inferior quality, for instance,
straw, or other kinds, soaked and bleach
ed by rain and sun, cured too late, or he.
come woody, may be rendered more pala-
table and easy of digestion by being
sailed. A pound of salt in three quarts
of water is required for a quintal of bad
hay. Fl.
The sharp taste which milk of cows
usual Y assumes in consequence OF beets,
turnips, and white cabbage being con-
tnually fed to them, can be removed by
sailing those vegetables.
In Flanders, common salt is strewn on
new and wet oats, 10 be fed to horses,
and, thus prepared, will not be dangerous
to the animals. The same application
may also be made to hay newly harvested,
to prevent injuries when it may become
necessary TO feed such hay, the moisture
of which has not been fully cvaporated.
Through the bad qualities of dusty,
muddy, or moldy fodder, after having
been washed and threshed, are not entire
ly removed, yet, by giving sprinkling
of saltwater, they will be diminished to
a considerable degree. This fact will be
of advantage to the farmer whenever he
may be in want Inappropriate fodder.
BY means of salt, such water as other
wise could not be used for cattle fol
drinking, will be rendered proper.
The great advantages to be derived
from common salt with regard to the
health of cattle have been clearly shown
by many experiments made by that learn
ed and celebrated agriculturist of Alsacc
NJ. Boussingault. Cattle, by being fed
with salt, receive n soft and glossy skin
their digestion and appetite are in good
order, and they Increase in flesh and
strength Cows thus fed yield mucI
milk, while those treated otherwise have
dull skins, with rough hairs, exhibit less
appetite, produce a smaller amount o.
flesh, and yield not only an inferior guam
tity, but also quality, of milk.
Manure from cattle fed with sailed
fodder is also of better quality.
Finally, manuring with salt will ban
ish mosses and hurtful paraSitical plant,
from meadows.