The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-03-04
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


strained, rs the water from them is in
furious to less or greater degree, as it
contains the poisonous alkaloid called
solanine, which, it should be noted, is
more abundant when the tubers begin
to bud out.
correspondent of the Bangor wig
affirms that cions should not be cut in
the spring, as kas been the custom from
time immemorial, but in the fall, after
the trees have shed their leaves, and
when cut, they should be buried where it
is dry, about six inches deep, and in the
spring they will come out all right.
A writer in the Lire Stock Journal
puts the case in this way : "When the
day of final reckoning shall come, and
all the deeds of men brought to light
and balanced in the scales of unerring
justice, some dealers will find heavy
load against them in the transactions in
which so-called Chester white pigs were
sold to their credulous fellowmen."
A writer in London suggests a plan
for soaring rocks from corn-feld which
would probably be equally effective i'll
the case of our crows. 1t is to cut a
piece of sackcloth into the shape of the
bird, with its wings outspread, and cover
it with tar. This is laid on the field and .
creatures that "some forlorn and ship /
wrecked brother" has come to grief in .
dangerous spot, which it will be well |
for them to avoid.
The use of salt with guano has fire. |
euently been recommendedas beneficial, |
but we observe that upon the meadows
of Picardy, and also upon the irrigated
grasslands of Lombardy, the mixture
has been abandoned on account of i'll
effects. In explanation of the fact,
chemical investigations were made which
showed that when a portion of guano /
was mixed with salt and exposed to a
moderate heat, the quantity of ammonia
evolved was double that from an equal
weight of pure guano.
1t appears in a Scotch newspaper that
brig loaded with loan for Berwick was
recently forced into wrong harbor by n
severe storm after having been injured
by heavy seas. The fact that this vessel,
with cargo of molding sand, was con-
signed to port where large quantities
of artificial manures are made, is more
than suspicious, and recalls acoincidence
which happened not hundred miles
from New York seme time since when
carloads of the same material were dis
covered Ill close contiguity to a guano-
dealers storehouse. Farmers may join
in the refrain, "That's the way the
money goes.
Feeding Cows.
L. b. Arnold in the Buffalo Lire
Stock Journal, writing on the feedingOf
COWS, remarks But it is not enough
that the food of cows should bo easy of
digestion, it should also have the differ
ent elements in the right proportion.
The fesh-forming and respiratory matter
must sustain certain relations to each
other, and Il part of the latter must be
fat. 1t is found to accord with expert
ence and chemical investigation, that one
pound of albuminoids, caseine, albumen,
etc, will supply the daily waste of five
hundred pounds of live weight of ordi-
nary farm stock, while pound of starch,
sugar, etc, will hardly supply the waste
Of one hundred pounds. A pound of fat
will answer for more than l 200 pounds.
For each pound of albuminoids, there
fore, there must be five pounds or above
of respiratory food and nearly one half
pound of fat unless this proportion in
the relation of food is nearly complied
with, the animal will not prosper. From
the fact that flesh and fesh-forming food
may, in part, supply respiration, small
amount of starch, sugar, etc, may be
wanting without any material injury If
the other element is abundant. But as
nothing can answer in the place of albu-
minoids, there can be no lack of that kind
of food without loss. A fattening animal
even suffers by any such deficiency. The
increase Of cells necessary to hold the i'll
creased accumulation of fat will not be
found if there is lack Of nitrogenous mat
ter to form them OF, and having 10 place
in which to lodge it goes to waste. Fat
tening cattle are sometimes fed at q con-
siderable loss from this cause. But
dairymen much oftener run astray i'll the
use of tlesh-producing food. The IA
tiOns of q milch COW should be different
from those of the stall fed or store cattle.
A COW which will weigh 1000 pounds,
giving q good flow of milk, will require
i'll her daily food four pounds Of albu-
minoids, twelve to fifteen of carbo-
hydrates, and about one and one-half
pounds of fat. The last two are
usually in full supply, but the first is
often lacking. There is but little forage
that will furnish the needed proportion.
In green grass everything is well
balanced. But the per cent. of al
buminoids decreases as the grass ma
lures, and fails OF n proper supply in
hay and almost all advanced herbage.
Grass, either green OF dried, has the ad-
vantage of almost all other kinds of food
for milk production, in the quality of
easy digestion.
Using Sawdust.
About six years ago, writes farmer,
J had saw mill set on my farm. At
first they washed the dust, as the sawyers
called it, by letting stream of water
run underneath the saw. As the water
got low it would not work then they
had to wheel it out in pile, and when
they went away 1 had big pile of saw
dust on my hands. AS it was on good
piece of bottom land that l desired to
plow, [ wanted it out of the way. |
tried to burn it, but it would not burn.
l concluded at last to turn it to some ac-
count SO when put my hogs up to
fatten 1 hauled load every few days
and threw it in the pen. They mixed it
up with their manure and the cobs, and
in the spring / had about twenty wagon
loads of the very best manure, besides
keeping the hogs clean and dry. l used
the sawdust for bedding the horses and
COWS 1 put it around my grape-vines to
keep down the grass and weeds, and the
ground moist. The vines improved
wonderfully. So my pile of sawdust is
neal nm and IL has Daid. If / was TO