Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1874-05-29
Agricultural.

NChiNH OLOVEh dAI.--A correspondent OF the
Germantown Telegraph gives the following as
his plan for curing and using clover hay. He
says: 1.-The most common way is to salt plenti-
fully when putting away, but as sometimes stock
get too much salt in that way, prefer two other
ways. The first Is to lime, where barn room is
not plenty, after this manner: Put down the
hay over the NOW loosely about eighteen inches
in depth, and setter over air-slacked lime. saw
about one-half peck to each ten feet square of
surface Tramp down while laying then an
other eighteen inches, and so until completed.
Clover put up in this way requires as much sun
shine as possible, and as little breaking of the
leaves; but it can be put away quite as green by
sailing. In feeding ozt never find afy linn.
and very little dust.
where barn room is plenty prefer the fol-
lowing plan Cut the clover in the morning and
afternoon, lay it loosely over the scafyolds and
floors two feet or more thick, but never mack
away. If not buried fork it over two or tbree
days and NOW away. can put up in nv barn
about an acre day. 1t is slow way IN this
fast age, but when one sees the hay in February
and March he must acknowledge il good way.
My way of feeding clover hay Is principally
to mich cows /; and we can always have good
yellow butter when the cows are fed once A day
ON clover hay. / also feed occasionally to calves
and sheep, more for change of feed than being
any better for them than other hay. believe
in changing feed as often as possible during long
cold times in eur ehangeable winters. use
clover for solling for mich cows as much as
possible, finding it increases the milk and keeps
the COW quiet while being MIXED. Never feed
clover hay to horses.
'Some of our farmers are using clover A.
fertilizer on worn or thin lands. / have no ex-,.
perience in that way but by observation on other
farms Have seen some good crops of wheat
which were attributed to plowlng in clover For
pasturng hogs think clover better than any of
the grasses"
CUTTING potatoes for planting is fertile
source OF weakness. The potato is a perennial
plant, propagated from the eyes or buds of the
tuber IS not part of the root, but rather of the
top. The whole object Of its formation. "a far
as nature is concerned, is for the purpose of per-
petuatiDg itself. The roots, leaves, stalks. and
all parts of the plant, are there in embryo, and
must inevitably weaken It. That it continues to
grow only proves its great natural vigor. Try
this practice upon the apple, peach, pear, plum
or any other feshy germs, and see If you can
continue to grow them. The skin Of the tuber
is almost impervious to fluids, and protects the
stored-up food from injury until the plant gets a
start Cutting it opens the way 10 injury from
water, and causes the seed to rot, dwarfs the
plant when it does grow, and deprives it OF the
materials which nature placed within it for the
sustenance of the plant while young If we
would restore it, we must cultivate 1t upon high
lands, cease stimulating it with animal manure
and feculent matter to grow large crops,-giye
1t Instead mineral manures, more room, and
more air. Overgrowp tubeIs are deficient in
starch, watery, and less nutritious. Few of us
have ever had the happiness of eating this food
in its best estate.-JoarnGl Of Chemistry.
FooD RoR PIes.-There is no doubt in our
mind of the benefit from feeding crude carbona-
ceous matter to swine, when they are kept in
close pens. The avidity with which hogs eat
rotten wood is well known. Charcoal is but an
| other form of carbon. Bituminous coal is still
another form. The utility of feeding wood and
| coal has long been recognized. We some years
since substituted the ordinary western stone coal
with the best results, where from 200 to 500 hogs
were kept in close pens and fed on the refuse of
| city hotels. Something Of the kind seems as ne
cessary to them as salt to strictly herbiyorous
animals. We have known them to consume a
pound in the course of day, and again they
would not seek the coal for some time. Just
what the particular use coal is in the animal
economy, Is not so easy to answer. Swine are
especially liable to scIofulous and iahammatsry
| diseases. Carbon, in the shape of coal, is an
antseptic, and the probability is that it acts in
this way in purifying the blood Wsstsrn R,ral.
Raw TURNIPs.-Some one writes the Hsrald
| Of Health So have always let my children eat
as many raw turnips they like. heard a
city woman say the other day they were not
healthy, and believe they don't hurt anybody.
VIII you please settle this dispute for usi'' The
editor Internationally children are fond of
raw turnips of the fat white strap leafed variety,
| if taken fresh from the field before very old and
tough. IL they are seraped with knife they
will not harm healthy, active children. Ifsimply
chewed they are not easily digested. As a rule
country children haye better appetites and
stronger powers Of digestion than city children.
They get more fresh air and exercise. There is
| moro waste and more want, hencs the same rule
will not apply to both classes.''
CHICKEN CHoLERA.-It appears that CORES
pondent Of the Country Gsntlsnan at last found
the remedy for chicken cholera. He says:
lost some thirty five the past season out of
flock Of one hundred, before i could bring my
mind to try a remedy that had been suggested.
After trying everything else that could hear of
without avail, did try it, and stopped the reme-
| dy at once. This remedy consisted in pouring
little kerosene oil on their corn, and then mixing
| il through the corn with the hand. first tried
| 1t with some that were very sick, and the next
day they were well. then fed It to the Aock,
| and have not lost chicken since and they all
look much more brilliant in plumage than be-
fore. My flock consists OF white Brshmas and
COchius.
WHAT IS IN THE BEDRoOx.--The importance
of ventilating bedrooms is fact in which every
body is vitality interested, and which few proper
ly appreciate. If two men are to occupy q bed
room during night, let them step upon weigh
ing-scales as they retire, and then again in the
morning, and they will find that their actual
weight is at least pound less in the morning
Frequently there will be a loss of one or two
pounds, and the average loss throughout the
year will be more than one pound; that is dur
ing the night there is q loss of pound of mat
ter, which has gone off from their todies, partly
from the lungs and partly through the pores Of
the skin. The escaped material is carbonic acid
and decayed animal matter, or poisonous exha-
lations.
HOUSEHOLD.