The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1872-08-22
Useful knowledge.

SN1TNG HAY. We do not recommend
it, or at least only in moderate quantity in
extreme cases. WheN our own food is too
highly Salted We reject it, or, il very hun
gry eat it with wry faces and disgust. All
| stock probably require a certain amount
OF salt, and il left To take it As they please it
would hr not mnch in amount, and in quite
| small quantity at any one time. If hay is
saitc( freely as many farmers apply it,
! the stock consuming the hay mast take
| three or four times AS much salt az they
would il they could exercise their own
choice about it. This course compelS cat
tie to eat what they dislike through several
months of the year, and it seems to Us
must tend 10 prevent a proper thrift, and
also tn induce disease in one form or an
| other, Indeed, it is stated that whole herds
ar" attacked with the disease called
"~cpnrs' in consequence of feeding con
| tlnually upon hay too highly Saltei. The
hayln% season with most farmers is a driv-
lhG one, so that every cXpedent that pro-
misses TO lessen the labor aud get the crop
into The barn temptS US strongly to adopt
it,. Under this idea, there is little doubt
but hundreds of tons of hay are got in not
sufficiently cured. GA little salt will save
1t, it is said; a good deal is supplied to it,
the cattle are forced to live upon it, and
pcrnlciouS consequences are sometimes, al
least, the result. 1t is cheaper and in ey-
cry way better to cure the hay thoroughly
in the first place II saves the cost of the
salt, secures better fodder and does not in
cur the risk of begctting sickness and dis
ease in the stock which il to be fed with it,
Better pay the money for hay caps than for
salt for the hay
one 0i the best and most accurate farmers
informs uS that when a boy, as soon as
he learnt bookkeeping at school, his father
employed him To keep the farm accounts
the cost OF labor, amount Of work expended
on each Held, time of performing opera
tionS, plowinS, sowing, cultivating, har-
vestin@ amount Of crops, prices ut which
sales were made, etc. He soon became much
Interested in farm operations, and thor
Oughly acquainted with all details of work,
( in II more complete manner than he ever
| could have been in any other way and
was early placed on the track of farming
regularly and systematically. Let other
farmers follow this example with their
sons, and we should have order and sue
cess.
GLOVER FOR Hoes. An Ohio hog raiser
advocates the system of pasturng on clo-
yer during the summer He presents, as
the advantage of his plan, the statement
that an acre of ground in clover will pas
ture five hogs four months, and that it will
take the corn from half an acre to feed them
the same time. The cultivation of the
corn he counts equal to the resi- Of the other
half acre. He further claims that hogs pas
turcG on clover are in far better condition
than if fed on corn. as they are better
framed, healthier, and eat better and also
states that the land is enriched by the clio
vcr paSturng.
TO those afflicted with the fowl fever the
following may be Interesting: The Ovary
of Il hen contains about six hundred EN-
bryo eggs, of which, IN the first year, not
more than twenty are matured. The sec
onI year produces one hundred and TWEEN
ty; the third, one hundred and thirty five;
the fourth, one hundred and fourteen; and
in the following fo0r year, the number de-
creases by twenty yearly. In the ninth
TINS it appears that after the first four
erS
In the abundant hay crop Of this year,
we are lorcibly reminded of the uncertainty
and WortheSSneSs of our pretended fore
sight. Last year, everybody said it would
be impossible for us to have an average
crop of hay for many years. "Old fields, "
they said, ''mu-t be plowed up and laid
down u new, before they will bear grass
and the newly sown seed dried up and did
not germinate, so nothing can be expected
from new ground As if in mockery of
our assumed foreknowledgr, old fields were
scarcely ever better and new fields have
yielded abundantly, says the Farmer.