The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-05-04
AGRICULTURAL.

When grain ruled at a very low price,
| as it used t6as oats at s to 10 cents,
and scorn at - TOGO cents a -bushel, 1t.
did not pay to devote much time or.
effort to ~econOmize, but at present.
values, wastage can hardly be too
closely regulated. When grain is fed
whole and in a dried state, much Of
it is swallowed whole, unmastioated,
aud those grains being protected
by a hard, insolHble husk, or en-
velope, resist the digestive pro-
cess and pass away, with even
its vitality unimpaired hence so
much Of it is a dead lossto the feeder.
This is said -bv those who have care
fully experimented upon 1t, to makea
large per centage Of the whole amount
fed. If grain IS thoroughly broken
up by grinding every part, 1t IS sub
mitted to the solvent power OF the
juices Of the alimentary canal and the
nutritive elements absorbed and APP
propriated TO the animal economy with
out waste. Next to grinding, we would
suggest soaking Or maceratlon with
either hot or cold water. Hot water
will of course be the better because
it is a better solvent, but either, by
softening the outside Of the grain,
viii render it much easier of masti-
cation and more soluble in the stOm-
ach. Cooked food, whether by boil
ing or steaming, either with or with
out grinding, is much preferable to
unc0oked; the starch, sugar and
other nutritive elements contained IN
the bodies of the grain or vegetable
is wrapped up in membraneOus cap
sules, heat continued to a certain
point breaks up and dissolves these
small envelopes and sets their con-
tents free, consequently the mass Is OF
much easier solution and digestion.
THE TREES BY THE WAYsIDE.-
AS we were travelling recently
through the town Of WaldbOrO, we
noticed that long rows of trees were
growing by the roadside, in the pas
lures, and forming a good fence. We
have sometimes wondered that men
owning wet and clayey pasture land,
where the fir and the spruce grew
spontaneously, and where fencing
stuff was scarce and dear, did not set
out these trees on the lines Of fences,
especially by the roadside. A man
with his boys could set out several
rods in asday, which, in a few years,
would be a perfect protection, and In
thesc0urse of twenty years may be cut
for wood. Men win frequently go six
miles after wood without thinking of
| some provision for the future. 1t is.
a hard way toahve.
Persons living on the line Of a
railroad could set out a row of naples
or elms, or other trees next to the
fence, where they could grow, doing
no injury to anybody. Some Of the
best farms we know of in the State
have their long rows of apple-trees
by the roadside grated and produce
tive. Good farming does not look
wholly to the present. 1t lays plans
to be sure for a present crop, but also
for the future. Plans for the future
when well laid are equivalent to
money at interest. Both principal
and interest will be sure to return IN
due time. The great fault with the
most of US is, that we lay these plans too
late in life, andthen feel less courage
to take hold of a new enterprise. At
tendt to it nowl-Maine Former.
How TO BUILD A CoRN-CRIB-I
is asked how to build a rat-proof
corn-crib. l have one that has stood
for ever twenty years, and has never
had a rat, and but one nous IN 1t to
my knowledge. Posts ten or eleven
feet long and eight inches square;
mortice two feet from one end; for
side and end sills, two-inch mortice
with tusk. Taper post from sill to
the end by hewing off inside until
the end is reduced to four inches d.
ameter, make smooth with a draw
knife, and nail on tinghalf way to the
end, below the sill. Let sills be
eight inches square; also, end tie
them and the rafter plates strong
with moderate inneT-ties. Brace
we'll, and lath up and down with
three-0uarter inch lath dOvetail or
c~ountersink joists c~rossWise; lay the
floor and board up the ends with I'M
grooved boards; let each bent be
twelve feet long. six feet wide at the
sill, and seven and a half feet at the
plate, with one and a half feet floor,
and if full to peak, it Will hold two
hundred and fifty bushels.
I never had an ear to hurt on ac-
count of the great width If preferred.
lay the floor with lath or narrow
boards, with room for ventilation.
Each-post should stand on stone
about three inches from the ground
and each stone have q foundation two
feet square, and below the frost
Tor. american Institute Farmers
Club.
MEALY POTATOES.-It Is a very
common thing 10 the Spring to fine
strong, watery potatoes on the table
-,,Ias- oara has been taken tn SaIppt