The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-03-28
Boiled Indian Pudding.


soaking through much. Salt it, of
course, and put in a handful of dried
raspberries; tie the bag, leaving room
for the meal to swell One-half. Put it
over to boil at eight o'clock in the
morning, and boil until noon, adding
boiling water as needed. It should be
eaten, if possible, with maple molasses.
The best way, however, to make a
boiled pudding is to steam it. Take
equal parts of rich buttermilk and
sweet skim-milk, two eggs, a large tea
spoon of soda, and stir in meal to make
rather thin batter. Have enough,
when done, to make a two-quart pan
two-thirds full Put this in the pan in
a steamer, cover tight, and steam an
hour and half, and it Will be nicer and
lighter than a boiled pudding.
INDIAN Corn FOR HORSE FEED pos
sesses all the elements of warmth and
nutrition, and is well calculated to sup
ply the wear and tear of the system of
the hardest worked horse, and keep him
| in a healthy condition, without any as
sistance Of oats; but the usual addition
of hay should be allowed to horses,
whatever be the feed that is in use.
By a reference to the analysis of corn,
it will be observed that there is little
| loss from woody fibre or other inert
substances. 1t is this principle con
! tanned in corn that is to be modified and
corrected as a feed, and not to be added
| to by greater concentration of nutri-
tive matter; or, in other words, add to
the corn materials that do not contain,
| or at least but in a small degree, those
powerful constituents that characterize
Indian corn; and for this purpose we
will recommend that the corn be IN
minute division, or ground into meal,
to insure q greater diffusion in the
| stomach, and less concentration than
would result by feeding it whole, and
not mixed with extraneous matter, as
cut hay, or chaff and little bran. The
! bran is to prevent, or at least modify,
| the costive or binding and heating
effects Of the corn the chaff or cut hay
| is to give sufficient bulk to feed, there
| by keeping the bowels moist and the
meal from contraction. At the same
time the horse has feed before him of
which he can eat his fill without pro-
ducing cramp or collie, which often re-
suits from feeding corn whole or in
meal, without a sufficient mixture or
bulk being in it. It is the want of this
knowledge, together with the extra
trouble in cutting hay and mixing such
a feed, that forms the chief argument of
some stable-men against feeding with
corn, and in favor of oats. A carriage
or saddle horse used for shopping or
afternoon rides or drives, can be kept
in excellent condition with six pounds
of corn meal, three pounds of cut hay,
two quarts of wheat bran, and a tea
spoonful of salt, mixed with warm water
in winter and cold in summer, the water
to be just enough barely to moisten the
mess and not to make soft feed or slop,
to disturb the bowels of the horse and
unfit him for exertion. The above
named mess is to be divided into three
feeds, for morning, noon, and evening.
An addition of six or eight pounds of
hay must also be given in the rack.
These quantities, however, are merely
approximate, for the old horse and one
of harder work will, to keep him in
good condition, require an addition,
and young animals of less work will not
require so much. Draught and hard
worked horses should be fed more gen
erously, say Is and 16 pounds of meal,
with six to eight pounds of cut hay,
half peck of bran, and an extra allow
ance of hay IN the rack at night. This
amount of feed to saddle and carriage
horses is equivalent to about 40 bushels
of corn, about two tons of hay, and %
bushels of bran per year; and for
draught horses 100 bushels of corn,
about two tons of hay, and 81 bushels
of corn.