Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-02-07

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power steam engine, used for cutting
feed, grinding grain, and furnishing
steam for steaming all the food con-
sumed on the premises. The "hash Z"
is made of the following mixture:
525 pounds corn fodder worth. ..........ss "a
90 pounds corn meal, or 60 quarts. ...... A
los pounds cotton seed meal. ........ l "a
ia pounds shorts. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. l 40
Total. ..-.................Sll 81
This gives about 1913 bushels of feed
at batch, costing about seven cents
per bushel. Two bushels of this food
is given each animal per day, and five
pounds of dry hay. The whole daily
cost of feed per COW is only 81. 46 cents.
This, certainly, is low figure for the
cost of feeding as large animals as
were those Short-horns. 1t always has
seemed to us that the natural occupa-
ton of the COW is chewing the cud.
Whether from the fact that the food is
all cut and cooked, or because of the
excitement at seeing so many strange
faces, the COWS were none of them quiz
city chewing the cud as we would like
to see them. Their occupation ap-
peared to be gone. We shall need to
see more experiments in feeding
steamed food to COWS, before we shall
be converted to the system.
Scraping Fruit Trees.
We consider early winter to be the
best time for scraping and washing the
trunks of trees. 1t is well known to all
observing fruit growers that the loose
bark of trees is the winter quarters of
myriads of insects, where they securely
remain until the ensuing spring, when
the warm, genial weather invites them
to quit their cozy homes and begin
their destructive operations for the sea-
son. We have found a narrow saw,
rather fne-toothed, to be an excellent
tool in rasping off the superhuous bark.
It accomplishes it more uniformly than
a hoe, trowel, or other scraper a
trowel, or short-handled hoe, however,
is very good when the other may not
be possessed. After the bark is re-
moved, the trunks should be washed
thoroughly with preparation of whale
oil soap and water, say in proportion of
a pound of soap to four gallons of
water. 1t can be applied to large trees
with hickory broom or stiff white
wash brush, and to small trees,
especially dwarfs, with the hard scrub
brush. Sickly trees, which can at this
season be easily detected by being COW
cred with species of fungi, or perhaps
more properly peculiar insectivorous
deposit-should be scrubbed so as to
completely remove this. The mixture
will of itself benefit the tree, while the
removal from the stem of all extraneous
and injurious substances will give to ii
new health and vigor the ensuing sea-
son-in some instances to a surprising
extent. When whale oil soap is not OBJ
tainable, or carbolic or soft soap, ley
should be used, but it should not be
very strong, or it might be injurious to
the roots of the tree if applied plenti-
fully and the tree small. Germantown
Telegraph.
Domestic Recipes.
PLUM PUDDING.-Two eggs; six
crackers ; three pints of sweet milk
piece of butter the size of an egg
one cup of raisins a little salt and nut
meg.
BAKED INDIAN PUDDING eggs
one quart of sweet milk; five large tea.
spoonfuls of Indian. meal nutmeg and
sugar to the taste. Boil the milk and
scald the Indian-meal in it, then let il
cool before adding the eggs. Bake
three-quarters of an hour. Eat with
butter or sweet sauce.
PANoAKEs.-One egg; two spoonfuls
OF sugar one cup Of sweet milk one
teaspoonful of soda two teaspoonfuls
of cream-of-tar; three cups of -four.
QUICK PUDDNa.-One egg; one cur
or sugar one tablespoonful of melt co
butter one cup of sweet milk half &
teaspoonful of soda; three cups of -four
Bake half an hour or more. Eat with
sweet sauce.
SAGo PUDDING. Two large spoons o.
sage boiled in one quart of milk the
peel of lemon little nutmeg whe1
cool add four eggs; little salt. Bak,
about one hour and half. Eat will
sugar and cream.
A Cheap Ice-HOuse.
My ice-house is crib ten feet by tel
and half inside, and eight feet high
and set directly on the surface of tn
ground the posts are made of slab
and the sides are of the same, malice
on horizontally two or three niche
apart. Cost of lumber 81 nails fit,
cents labor done by farm hand. Fiv
three-horse loads of ice filed it. L
filling, one foot of sawdust was put in
and then layer of ice one foot from th
sides, the edges packed and the middl
broke up little, and as each layer wa
put in, sawdust was filed in betwee,
the ice and boards, and so on till th
crib was filled. The top was fnishe
rounding, ssand covered with a foot @
sawdust, and pine boughs on that, t
keep the wind from blowing it away
and has had no roof of any kind. Tn
first of this month there was still si1
teen inches of ice left. In the middl
of one end, about one foot from th
boards, is dumb waiter case, fftee
inches square and ten feet high, insid
of which is dumb waiter two and
half feet long, fitted up with shelve
for meat, butter, etc., and it has al
swered good purpose. Cor. Count,
Gentleman.
Reducing Bones.
Mr.. Potter Warren, of New Haml
shire, at recent Agricultural Convei
ton, gave the following easy and chea
formula for reducing bones. If til
farmer will set aside cask in som
convenient place, for the reception {
bones, and throw all that are found G
the farm into it, he will be likely I