The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-11-22

nal organs keeps them in a healthy
state, and supersedes the necessity of
pills and other cathartics which many
people are obliged to use habitually.
This matter of making -four of the
whole wheat is well understood and
approved by every school of physic
ians, and through their recommends
ton to their patients, and the teach
ings of health journals, its use is be
coming somewhat common, and wheat
flour, as it is called, is staple article
in the markets.
Strong as the prejudice may be at
first against the brown, plebeian- look
ing loaf, it will vanish in most cases
at the first taste, if the bread is well
made from well ground wheat of
good quality, the sweet, fragrant,
nutty flavor commencing itself to
every taste not wholly vitiated. With
wheat -four the complaints of heavy,
sour, and insipid bread would vanish
forever, as is so light, owing to the
feathery particles of the hull which
pervade it. that no yeast or alkali is
necessary to raise it, but it Is, when
baked with pure cold water alone alb
solutely self rising to a greater extent
than fine -four can be rendered by
yeast. Again. no less than thirteen
per cent. of the -four is saved by dis
pensing with yeast, as the fermenta-
ton in its growth converts that pro-
portion Of the starch and sugar into
alcohol. This is saved, of course, by
the use of an alkali and acid to gen.
crate carbonic acid, but deleterious
neutral salt Is, in every case, left IN
the bread-tartrate of soda, if cream
of tartar is used; lactate of soda, if
sour milk, and mellassate, if molasses.
The best and most entirely innoxious
mode of raising fine -four for those
who will use It, is to use muriatic
acid, which forms with soda common
salt, which is needed in the bread,
and is a constituent Of the human
body.
LARGE OR SMALL CATTLE.
In taking into consideration the
question:, Which shall | buy, large
or small?'' we must first look at our
pasture field; if the grass is light, and
large space has to be gone over to
satisfy the feeder with his morning
meal reason would say that large
heavy castle would consume too much
time and strength in obtaining that
meal, while smaller ones, filling
themselves in less time, would have
more rest, and consequently gain
more flesh. The more quiet N ami
NAL is kept the more fat is added to
his system. Hence before the main
question of profit is decided, the pas
ture question must be settled.
But where the grass is good and
thick, and of the right kind to pro-
duce muscle and fat, the nearness to
market and the general demand for
that market must be consulted. At
certain seasons of the year large cat
tie are not so saleable as medium
sized or even small ones q do not re-
fer TO cattle under four hundred
dressed weight, while there is scarcely
a time that the latter are not in de-
mand.
Again, to bring this question to one
of profit alone-the gain per cent. on
the capital invested in medium cattle
is larger than on heavier ones, and the
risk attending, from death or acct
dent, proportionately less. Also, the
time required to bring medium cattle
to marketable condition is less than
LOT ldTReF ONES. 10 uOG CI1IQk many
of our farmers claim much profit for
feeding the large oxen, Of which
mention is often made in the papers;
the amount of food they consume is
necessarily very great, and the inter
est on the first cost is also an item of
Importance.
But to narrow the question down
still further, let us set aside what are
called extra cattle, and conine
ourselves to medium (say seven hun
bred to eight hundred pound cattle,
and snail Give hundred, or even four
hundred pounds.) The latter are
sometimes dull of sale, unless at
very low price, while a good fat steer
can always be sold. Such has been
my experience at least. | have tried
both, and found, when cattle
were plenty, small steers were
very hard to sell. Drovers do not
like them, and for the home market
butchers are not too apt to bite
freely. To realize regular profit
from year to year, we must feed cat
tie suited to our customers, and l am
of the opinion that, taking term of
years in succession, the average profit
on lot of medium sized cattle will
be greater and more uniform than on
any other kind. | know there are
some who will differ from me, and
DerhaDs am wrong If so | am