The Placer herald., 1874-03-21
USE AND FARM.

IHE ANGOLA GOAT. is no longer
a question with regard to the present and
future success of the breeding of the An
CORA goat in California Enough has al
ready been accomplished to prove the en-
tire adoption of food and climate to the
growth of a goat equal in quality of fleece
and superior in size and vigor TO those bred
upon their native Asatc nights Our high
est molntlins are not too high for them TO
climb in summer, and the foot-b with
their semi-wiuter climate (even in winter
are the grounds they seem most to delight
in roaming over.
What we are soon to he in need of, with
the present enormous increase, will be win
ter forage The foothills are destined to
be the homes of small farmers, which will
greatly contract the extent of present goat
ranges, and any remaining lands will be but
third or fourth rate for farming purposes,
except for goat grazing. These lands,
abounding with leafy shruts and low-grow-
ing trees, furnish just the proper food, for
the goat prefers a leaf to the best grass that
can be grown.
From this we can take hint. that to i'm
prove the now barren and waste places OF
these lands by growing more leaves than
now grow upon them would add vastly to
their value as goat ranges. We suggest
ther"i"rH th1iH th@. @. &c soon as any one has Sc
cured Government title to these lands that
be proceed TO add at once to their natural
value by planting all waste places with the
common malva, as this is shrub that is
hardy, leafy, luxuriant of growth, and an
evergreen; OF so nearly the latter that only
very severe freezing will cause the leaf to
fall
All domestic animals eat the leaf and
small twigs of the malva with avidity, and
to all it is a nutritious and wholesome food,
Its blossoms, which are numerous and CON
tinue in oom all summer, are excellent for
the honey bee. 1t is shrub easily cult
vated-in fact will take care of itself when
once establshed; and is as easily planted
and grown as corn. In either high or low
land the malva is one of the be t--if not
the best-of leafy shrubs for winter forage
for the goat that the soil can be made to
produce; and as it can hardly suffer from
roofing deeply, like the forest tree
it should be extensively cultivated. -
Chronicle.
Our SUFFERING HERDs-It is simply
surpris nc that person of ordinary capaci-
ty, consulting his own pecuniary interests
will allow his cattle, and particularly bis
dairy stock, to suffer from a lack of food
during our inclement winter weather. ONLY
inclement, however, from cold rains and
wind; for to a person coming here from the
East, we really have no winter here at all
and yet our dairy stock are dying by hund-
reds in all the middle and northwestern
counties from absolute starvation.
There can be no worse management than
allowing cows to get weak and poor of flesh
IN the spring, yet many, to save feed or
avoid buying. when too late, see the folly of
their false economy, and are this year learn
ing lesson that ought to be needed here
after. Many will also learn from this win
ter's experience the bad policy of allowing
the bull to run loose with the cows at all
seasons. Calves from starved and dying
cows are not worth raising, but when cows
are properly kept and bred, the calving can
be carried forward to the season of green
grass and mild weather with the greatest
advantage to both. In such cases the milk
ing season of the COW is proportionably pro
longed, and at a season when milk 's worth
more to the family than in the midst OF
SINNERS abundance. Many of us have, to
our regret, learned during the last winter,
just how dairy cows ought not to be kept
Chronlcle.
SALT IN SICKNESS DR.. Scudder ie
marks: ! am satisfied that have seen pa
tients die from deprivation of common salt
during a protraced illness. 1t il common
impression that the food for the sick should
not be seaso ed, and whatever slop may be
given, it is almost innocent of this essential
Of life. In the milk diet that | recommend
in sickness, common salt is used freely, the
milk being boiled and given hot. And il
the patient cannot take usual quantity III
his food, | have it given in his drink. This
matter is so important that it cannot be re-
peated too often, or dwelt upon too long
The most marked example of this want of
common salt have ever noticed has been
IN surgical disease, especially in open wounds
Without supply of salt the tongue would
become broad, pallid, puffy, with tena-
cious pasty coat, the secretions arrested, the
circulation feeble, the efuson at the point
of injury serous, with an unple SAINT watery
puss, which at last becomes a mere sanes
or chor A few days of free allowance
would change all this, and the patient get
along well.
AS simple method of detecting adulter-
alton of Wine, into small quantity of the
wine to be tested, says lie Temps, drop "a
piece of potash. If no deposit is formed
and the wine assumes greenish tint, i. has
not been artificia.ly colored. If, however, a
violet deposit appears, elder or mulberries
have been used. If the deposit be red the
adulteration is sugar beet; if violet red
campeachy wood; if violet blue, privet ber
ries; if clear blue, colorng matter obtained
from sunhowers.
CoLD SLAw.-Get a fresh cabbage, take
off the nnts sila leaves cut Ii in half and