, 1863-12-12
FEEDING MEAL TO SrocK.-DouLtlcs

FEEDING MEAL TO SToCK.-DouOtlcSS
many Of your readers have had longer ex.
pericnce in feeding meal, and perhaps know
as economical and efIectual a manner of
feeding it as the subscriber. | believe
there are few, at least of your patrons,
like many farmers whom know, who feed
from four to eight quarts Of meal day to
one beef creature, till they feed from seven
to ten cwt. of meal to one beef, and who
never slaughter an ordinary sized beef that
yields upwards of forty pounds of rough
taliow. These farmers feed their meal dry.
This is great waste. My practice in fat.
tening beef and swine, as well as feeding
COWS for milk, has been to pour boiling wa.
ter on as much meal as would not make
the animals bowels move too freely, at
night and in the morning when the mush
is cool, give it to the COW or pig. In GOV.
ering the meal with boiling water in this
way, the starch of the grain is dissolved,
and the latent nutritive proper ties extract
ed, and the animal receives the entire nu
triment Of the grain.
calculate stock do not, in eating dry
meal, receive more than one half Of the
goodness of the meal. There is not action
enough in mastication, or heat sufficient in
the stomach Of the animal, to extract and
receive the entire and real sweetness Of
the grain. Had roots, should feed them
to my fattening beef But not having any,
feed only meal and hay, and ! have tatted
two ordinary sized cows, two years past,
and to which only fed three cwt. Of meal
each, ard they each yielded upwards Of
forty pounds of rough tallow. Once n
week, throw into the mush d little salt,
and occasionally tablespoonful Of wood
ashes. My experience teaches me that one
cwt. of mcai as described above, is equal
to two cwt fed dry. Try it, young farmer,
and see if you cannot endorse this.
DOUBLE FLowERISG FRuIr TREEs.-A
correspondent wishes some inquiries an.
swered respecting Double Flowering Fruit
trees, and we propose to make, few sug.
gestions on the subject, which will be of
interest to many Of our readers. There
are few objects more really beautiful when
in blossom than some Of our double fow-
ering fruit trees. The cherry forms
snowy wreath of flowers as double as the
rose; the Double Peach and Almond are
magnificent. But we have not recon-
nended their general cnlture very strongly,
as our correspondent intimates, and for
the following reasons -
The double varieties flower with the sin.
gle, when our orchards aud yards are gay
and fragrant with fruit blossoms and who
ever saw more beautiful object than
well grown apple tree with its branches
gracefully dropping to the ground, ,-one
fragrant, rosy pyramid of delicate and
beautiful flowers. If we turn from such
an object TO q double Towering tree, the
change is by no means satisfactory.
The flowers OF our double Towering
fruits are short lived, and then we have
only the common fruit tree, without its
fruit, which makes the bearing tree almost
as fine in the autumn as in the spring.
We would certainly prefer well formed
dwarf cherry, apple, or pear, to q double
Towering tree, for beauty.
When double towering fruit trees are
grown, especial pains shonld be taken to
prune and train them, SO that they may
look as well as possible at all seasons.
The double peaches that we see growing
are usually struggling, unsightly things, in
many cases more dead than live wood upon
them. This could be prevented in great
measure by shortening in the young shoots
90 as to obtain round and compact head.
PoxD's SEEDING PLUM AS A DwART.-
Much is said Of dwarf pears and apples,
but little Of dwarf plums. The plum is
susceptible Of being grown as dwarf 1t
may be made almost as beautiful aud SYM
metrical on object as pear /; some kinds
quite as muehso. Like the pear, some kinds
Of plums take on q good form better than
others.
Dwarf plums are admirably calculated
for the garden. All parts Of the tree being
within easy reach, the fruit is readily gath.
cred, and the "little Turk is more under
control. Trees Of this kind become objects
Of regard, receising better treatment, and
consequently receive better fruit. There
Is no reason why they should not be alter.
mated with pearsiGthe garden. They are
deserving Of place there, and will repay
the little extra trouble they demand in
their formation. Our object at present is
to simply call attention to the subject, and
TO present on example Of good specimen
Ponds Seeding isa vigorous grower
and quite productive. The fruit IS large
md oval in form, with yellowish skin,
tinged with yellowish red, especially on
the sunny side, and somewhat juicy, but
not Of the highest favor. IL is very
good plum, ripening about the middle Of
September. l..l..-l. !. .-...s
BLANcIING CELERY. I'VE copy the fol
lowing from the Gardeners Chronicle, that
our readers may give it q trial. Having
had some trouble in keeping late celery
ffcm rotting in a new kitchen garden,
where the sol was very rctentive and
damp, and the plants earthed up in the
usual manner, have since used sawdust
for thepurpose, and find that Il answers per-
fectly. Last winter oil the late celery was
earthed up in sawdust, and 1t kept quite
sound till April, and no slugs or insects
attacked it under ground, the heads being
very solid, clear and crisp, and well favored.
] had some doubts that the sawdust from
the resinous trees might give the celery q
disagreeable favor, but on trial l found
this not TO be the case, and the sawdust is
now taken iudiscriminatelv from the saw.