The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-03-13
AGRICULTURAL.
TRANspLANTINa FLOWERS.

TEAESPLANTING FLOWERS.
Many of our readers who have plants
in the open ground such as geraniums,
fuchsias, lobelias, roses, etc., may be
anxious to preserve them and want to
know how to do it,
We will suppose that our eeraniums
have been growing thriftily all summer
they will now (if Jack Frost has not hurt
them be very large plants, with masses
vi succulent green shoots and large toli-
age, and you wish to practice the best
plan to get some flowers from them during
the dark months, at the expcnse of the
plants health.
Have in readiness some good sandy
soil with as few worms in it as possible J
in some six-inch pots, No larger; place
in tue bottom of each an inch or so of
broken rocks or cinders for drainage,
and then fit your plants. with all the
roots yol can get shake of the soil,
prune away some Of the strongest and
grcenest branches, and c!canly cut the
points Of the roots where broken Or bruis-
ed. DO not be alarmed that the pots are
too small, but tenderly work the plant
around and around with a determination
to make it fit, work in The soil gradually,
giving smart shake every now and
then to SETTLE and leave space enough
between the collar Of the plant and the
top of the pot to allow for good watering.
Your next care should be to r;pen
what green wood you have left on your
plants, and to do this expose them to all
the sun and air that you can without
frost or frosty wind keeping them rather
dry at the root, and checking too rapid
evaporation, vixen they seem to flag badly,
by partial shading or sprinkling tho
foliage with lukcwarm water.
Lobelias and new rcmbergias will have
formed "tufts" of growth; take these
tightly in one hand, and with the other
slice off two-thirds; under this you will
see a number Of healthy shoots will form
your choice for winter fowers-if you
attempt to save all, you will lose all
These will not bear SO much sun, aud
will need more water than geraniums,
and should be shaded for some days.
ANIMALS THAT CHEW TIE cUD.
Illuminating animals gather their food
rapidly, give it few cuts with the teeth,
and swallow it. 1t goes to an interior
receptacle, where it is moistened this is
very essential if it be dry hay. When
the animal has filled himself, he masti-
Gates the food thus slowed away in his
stomach: raising it cud by end. When
a portion is completely masticated, it
passes to another receptacle, and the
/ progress of digestion goes on. Thus an
OK, if left to himself, will raise and masti-
cate all the food thus slowed away in his
stomach. If he be pushed aud worked
hard, and does not have much time to
masticate, he falls off in flesh his health
is poor, his digestion incomplete. The
horse, on The contrary, however much in
a hurry he may be, must masticate each
mouthiul before he swallows it. A
hungry OK let into a meadow will fill
himself in twenty minutes, while horse
would want at least an hour and twenty
minutes to take the same amount of grass.
The OK, deer, sheep, goat, chamois, and
rabbit, being the natural prey of fero-
cious beasts are endowed with the extra
stomach in which hastily to stow away
the food without nastication. This may
be regarded as wise provision ofnature,
enabling them to sally forth where tho
food is plenty and IN a short time fill
themselves and retire to place of safety,
to ruminate their feed at their leisure
A New York city paper, having hired
an agricultural writer says that a farmer
never shonld buy super phosphate till
his chemist tests it--as though farmer
keeps chemist the same as dog.