Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-07-25
Farm. Garden and Household.
Animals that Chew the oud.

rapidly, give IL Few cuts with their
teeth and swallow it. 1t goes to an in
erior receptacle, where it is moistened.
This is very essential if it be dry hay.
When the animal has filed himself, he
masticates the food thus slowed away
in his stomach, raising it cud by cud.
When portion is completely mastica-
ted, it passes to another receptacle, and
the progress of digestion goes on.
Thus an OK left to himself, will raise
and masticate all his food thus slowed
away in his stomach. If he is pushed
and worked hard, and does not have
time to masticate, he fails of his flesh,
his health is poor, his digestion incom-
plete.
The horse, on the contrary, however
much in hurry he may be, must mas
ticate each mouthful before he swal-
lows it. A hungry OK, let him 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, channels, and
rabbit, being the natural prey of fero-
cious beasts, are endowed with the
extra stomach in which hastily to stow
away the food for mastication. This
may, perhaps, be regarded as a wise
provision of nature, enabling them to
sally forth where the food is plenty,
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retire to a place of safety to ruminate
their food at their leisure.
Farm Hints.
Onions require a well-prepared mol
low soil free from weeds. A newly
plowed sod is not at all fit for this crop.
If sod ground is to be prepared for it,
it would be better to pillow the sod now
and SOW crop of buckwheat, which
would mellow the ground and give the
sod time to rot.
Rotted pine sawdust is of little value
upon sandy land. In any case it pos
sesses but little fertilizing properties,
but upon stiff clay it tends to open the
soil and make it lighter. The muck
from the bottoms of ponds or swamps
would be much more valuable as q ma
terial for composing, with manure.
A correspondent informs us that the
chinch bug has nearly ruined the wheat
crop in portions of Missouri and Kan
sas. Wheat on new prairie land broken
last summer is not much injured, and
wheat on land MANFRED last fall, before
or after sowing, is in fine condition, I'M
injured by the bug.
An English poultry keeper writing of
food for young fowls, says: "Nothing
is so good for goslings as grass. Oat-
meal put in pan of water is excellent
food for them, and it is often wise to
add some bran to it. Chickens should
have bread and milk, chopped egg,
cooked meat cut up fine, crumbs, sods
OF growing grass, fresh earth, and in
bad weather beer.
The application of Paris green to po-
tatoes for the destruction of the Colo
RADIO beetle is not injurious to the crop
In any manner whatever.
Pure Water for Cows.
DIR. Wellington stated that be once
knew farmer in the Eastern States
who produced on his farm from one to
two barrels of milk per day. The
farmer was surprised to learn that the
sweet milk he served to his customers
one day turned to clabber in an incredi-
bly, short time. The next day 1t was
the same. He was much troubled to
know the cause. The problem was
solved for him. His COWS had been in
the habit of drinking from a stagnant
pool on his place. He took care to
give them afterward water from 8
spring, and he had no more trouble
with the milk.
Kindness to Cows.
At a meeting of the State Board O.
Agriculture of Massachusetts, promi
nent citizen, q dairyman, expressed hi,
views of the value of treating the diary
COW with kindness, and said
81 have taken good deal of pain
to test the value of my milk that I hav,
worked into cheese. L have graduated
glasses for the purpose and found {
COW whose uniform percentage of cream
was eighteen per cent. reduced to sil
in twelve hours-not from any chang
of food, but from little excitement
You, gentlemen, who make butter, b.
careful to adopt my advice, and Away
treat your COW kindly and gently; an,
never get her excited, because ever,
ounce of excitement will take from he
milk one per cent. of cream. I hav
known COW abused by brutal mixer
and the per cent. in her cream wen
down one-half. It is astonishing wha
an effect excitement has on the percent
age of cream on the milk that COY
produces. Whoever abuses his GOV
knocks out of his milk large percent
age of that cream"
When to Cut Wheat.
The Parsons (Kansas) San says
"We have been told by several farmer
who know of what they speak, abou
wheat in this county. The time to Gu
is just after the grain leaves the milk
and is beginning to make dough. A
this time the head and stem will be al
most green, having turned very littl
yellow, if any; shock it up immediatel
and put two good caps on it, and STAG
it as soon as dry enough and tn
strength in the stem will be ample t
fill the head perfectly. 1t is just abor
this time that the bugs begin to wor
on the wheat and ruin it; and by Gu
ting and shocking it, it is out of th
way of their ravages."