The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1868-07-17
Salt in Fattening Cattle.

sAlt Increases the appetite OF animals,
and enables them to digest more TODD
and consequently to take on more fat.
There ought TO be more accurate know
ledge oh.this subject, especially among
those who ar stall feeding stock.
The following is the substance OF an
account OF experiments by Theodor,
Won Lauaer in the use OF salt, which
we find in Weekherlin's View OF
Food.
The last winter he made an expert
meat Tor determining the influence OF
increasing doses of salt on the appe-
tlte OF horned cattle in the case OF two
lean oxen Of 1910 lbs. live weight.
For two weeks these oxen received
twice . week, in the evening, per
head, one and one-hat ounces OF salt
with which both oxen consumed daily
thirty four lbs. OF choice hay, On AZ
average.
After this. the two oxen received
tho above mentioned portion OF salt
daily, Tor ten days, in which, on an
average, they both together a.e forty
and one fourth lbs. OF best hay. Wish
the same daily portion OF salt, the
two oxen consumed in the next nine
days, an average OF forty-six and one
half lbs, Of best hay; and with the
same daily portion OF salt, their daily
consumption in eleven DAYS more
amounted to fifty.one add one half
lbs, best hay.
Afterwards the two oxen, for eight
cen days, received daily twice day
the usual quantity OF salt, anu their
consumption Of fodder rose on t,e as.
erage daily, to fifty five and thee
ionrths lbs. OF hay.
Then they received tise usual guam
tity Of salt daily, three times IN the
dcy, and their daily average consump-
ton OF hay Tell to tiity-oDe It's.
This portion IT salt then appeared
to large, and they were gwen again
the usual portion potion Vi salt once
a day, on which their daily consump-
ton of hay, as before with the same
quantity, reached fifty one and one.
halt lbs.
The daily consumption of thirty
four lbs. rose, therefore, with the daily
dose OF salt to fifty one lbs, and with
twice day portion OF salt, to fifty
live and .three-fourths lbs: while by
lie being given three times day, i,
sunk to tiity.one lbs, for the two oxen.
From this exhibit it is evident how
important is the furnishing a proper
dose OF salt to horned cattle, especial
~ whea coarse hard hay or much
straw is foddered to them
Tho writer does not state whether
the drink the oxen took was increased
in like proportion. But another Ger
man farmer, in the same work gives
an account of an experiment in Civ
ing salt to ten iattening wethers, and
Gone to ten others, which were tatten-
ing with them, at the same time
Those which had the salt drank dur.
lng the experiment, the time Of which
is not stated, 533 measures OF water
while those which had 10 salt drank
only 256. d
When cattle were feeding upon dry
hay, it is desirable that they should
drink freely, as the hay is thereby !
'ottened, and its nutriment more COM
pletely extracted. This is especially ,
rue OF cows giving milk, which, a.
8 we'll known, will drink more thar !
Try stock, because large portion oflr
he Hnid received, is taken up by the |
nilk-iorming organs. The daily use
u . proper dose of salt, would proba
by promote in them an appetite for /,
rink IS we'll as for hay, aud thus in ]
crease the eurply OF milk. But too
argo dose, il seems, will diminish Y
he appetite. The proper dose must
% determined, in the case of each an !,
NAL, by experience, for different ami /
na's will doubtless require different 7
Quantities. u
An overdose Of salt generally irri. J
atcs the coats Of the intestines. and !,
proves cathartic, both in men and an "
mals.--New England Farmer. ii
GREEN PEA Sorp.-TaKe two auarts p
i stock made from bones; when itic.