The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-11-04
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Winter az Stock.

old or common system, says l.. w. Mil.
Ter, of Stockton, N. Y. 1t has been sup
posed that an animal would eat only
what nature requires consequently the
general rule has been, in feeding rumi-
nants, to give them all they would eat,
without regard to its fitness or quality.
In feeding late-cut and very ripe hay, the
food constituents of which have in great
part been changed into almost indigesti-
BILE cellulose, it might require all, and
even more than an animal could be in
duced to eat, to keep it in condition. 1t
is no uncommon occurrence, in the expe-
rience of stock keepers, that strong,
healthy animals lose flesh when fed upon
poor hay alone in unstinted quantity.
Animals thus treated acquire the habit
of stuffing themselves very full in fact,
they are obliged to do so in order to OBJ
tain sufficient nutriment. But change
from poor hay to that cut in the first
blossom (the very best time, in point of
economy, for cutting grassl, one pound
of which is worth for feeding at least
the animal relishing it much better will
eat even more, if possible, than of the
poor hay; consequently she may have
formerly. If her digestive capacity was
unlimited, so that the added nutriment
would add SO much to growth or the ac-
emulation of flesh or fat, the error
would not be so serious; but here comes
in the important fact upon which my
system of wintering stock is founded
an absolute limit to the digestive capacity
of the animal. If that's exceeded, there
is not only waste in proportion to the
excess, but the system becomes clogged
and, in the very nature of things, seri-
ously deranged. But suppose thati in the
place of the early cut hay, we feed
rowen or aftermath, which, pound for
pound, has twice the value in food ele-
ments of the former Gf cut when not
over six or eight inches high), and what
utter folly to allow the animal all it will
consume of this rich food, Some new
milch cows, whose lacteal glands are very
active and well developed, might posi-
bly, consume it without much waste; but
it is safe to say that not one COW in one
hundred could do it. Yet many dairy
men are in the habit of feeding their
COWS all they will eat the year round, re-
gardless of the fact that as the flow of
milk naturally decreases the capacity of
the lacteal glands to convert the consti-
tuents of food into milk, milk is dimin-
ished in proportion, and even when the
COW is dried off, they go on feeding at
the same rate, not considering that half
her digestive powers are dormant.
The question for every man who keeps
COW to study, is not how much lay Oh
grain, as the case may be, she will eat
that is easily determined by placing the
food before her, but how much can she
assimilate without wastel If she has
recently dropped her calf and is giving,
we will say forty pounds of milk daily,
she will require more than twice the sue.
culent food that would serve her if dry
If she has been in milk, say six months
and her flow of milk is reduced one-half
about one-third less will supply hel
wants if she is dry and is treated &C
cording to the rules laid down in my
pamphlet on meal-feeding, the amount
OF nutriment required to keep her in con
dition is surprisingly small. use thu
word nutriment, not hay-not wood,
fiber, so much bulk, or so many pounds
but actual nutriment, susceptible o
ready assimilation. This is just wha
the whole animal kingdom, man includ
ed, want, and must have in order to hv
and thrive. Nature gives capacity t
assimilate in proportion to those wants
but not in excess of them. In feeding
meal under my system this digestive ca
pacity is easily ascertained and no los
occurs.
The Household.
Yellow stains, commonly called iro
hx,h xyIr
chloric acid or hot solution of oxalic acid
Wash well in warm water afterward.
A small piece of paper or linen, mois
ened with spirits of turpentine and pr
into bureau or wardrobe for singl
day, two or three times, is said to be
sufficient preservation against moths.
The best way to admit pure air in til
night (where windows are the only mod
Of ventilation) is to open the sleeping
room into hall where there is an ope
window in order to avoid the draugh
A window with small opening at to
and bottom ventilates more than OF
with one opening only.
Never use anything but light blanke
as a covering for the sick. The heay
impervious cotton counterpane is ba,
for the reason that it keeps in the exhal
tions from the pores of the sick persol
while the blanket allows them to pa
through. Weak persons are invariabl
distressed by great weight of be
clothes, which often prevents their ge
ting any sound sleep whatever.
a child's bed should slope little fro
the head to the foot so that the hea
may be little higher than the feet
but never bend the neck to get the hea
on the pillow. This makes the chi
round d-shouldered, cramps the veins al
arteries and interferes with the free circ
lation of the blood. Even when chi
is several years old the pillow should
thin and made of hair, not feathers.
4 WhistlinG Horse.
A correspondent of the New Yol
Tribune inquiries what can be done Fl
horse that whistles when over-drive
or put to any severe exertion. The co
ditlon is almost invariably due to was
ing and fatty degeneration of the mu
cles of the larynx, and is incurabl
The disagreeable sound can be obviatt
to considerable extent and the breat
ing relieved by wearing semi-ovoid pa,
ON the flaps of the false nostrils, so as
limit the amount of air drawn in in
deep, quick inspiration. In the earle
stages, before fatty degeneration has +
advanced, much benefit may be obtain'
from active blisters, or even the apple
tion of the hot iron to the throat, but
advanced cases these are useless. Wht
it becomes so bad as to render the al
- NAL uSelass relief is still Obtainoble