The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-17
FARM AVID PRESIDE

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surgeon for thirty years and he has
taken pains to ascertain the cause of
megrims. On examining the horses
eye Immediately after or during the at
tack, be has found it exceedingly con-
vulsed and acted upon by spasmodic
affection of the muscles, a symptom that
could not be present if the disease arose
from distension of the arterial vessels of
the brain. He has never seen a saddle
horse affected with this complaint, and
all the cases he has seen occurred when
the sun was shining brightly, on by
moonlight when snow was on the ground.
He had a fayorite pony which was sub
ject to megrims. He removed the
winkers from the bride and the pony
never showed any symptoms of them
a~fterward. 1t occurred to him then that
the rejecting of the sun upon the win
kers falling directly on the optic nerve,
was the cause of this extraordinary COM
plant. Since that he has had many
patients affected with megrims, and in
every case he has ordered the winkers to
be removed, or if they were not, to have
the horses eyes shaded with a piece of
leather three or four inches wide, extend
ing in front from one winker to the other.
In every case this treatment proved sue
cessful. he feels satisfied, from the
symptoms he has always observed in
megrims, that the brain is not the seat
of difficulty.
FATTENNG ANMALs.-A very COM
mon error among farmers, which needs
correction, is the opinion that animals
may be fattened in a few weeks, and
fitted for market, by heavy feeding, or,
as it is termed, by pushing. Many far
mers do not think of beginning to fatten
their hogs or cattle for early winter
market until autumn has actually COM
menced. Their food is then suddenly
changed, and they are dosed with large
quantities of grain or meal This sud-
den change often deranges the system,
and it is frequently some time before they
recover from it. From observation and
inquiry we find that the NEST successful
managers adopt a very different course
They feed moderately, with great regu-
larity, and for a longer period.
The most successful pork-raiser that
we have met with commences the fatten'
ing of his swine for the winter market
early in the preceding spring. In fact,
he keeps his young swine in a good grow
ing condition through the winter. He
begins moderately, and increases the
amount gradually, never placing before
the animal more than it will freely eat.
With this treatment, and strict attention
to the comfort and cleanliness Of the ami
NAL, his spring pigs at ten months usu
ally exceed three hundred pounds, ant
have sometimes gone as high as foul
hundred and fifty pounds; and pigs win
tered we reach a weight of five or si1
hundred. The corn, which is grount
and scalded before feeding, nets him, Oh
an average, not less than n dollar pc
bushel when the market price of pork i
five cents per pound.
EFFECT OF SALT ON WHEAT.-In Al
interesting series of experiments re
Gently made on the farm Of the Roya
Agricultural Society of England, tn
manurial value of salt was u~nmistakabl
indicated. An acre of wheat dresse
with three hundred pounds of commo
salt yielded thirty-nine bushels of grain
with a proportionate amount of straw
: while an adjoining acre, left unmanuret
T produced only twenty-nine bushels pc
! acre, with the straw imperfectly deve
oped, showing an increase of ten bushel
e per acre. The entire cost of the crop
: not stated, but this experiment show
q that the additional ten bushels resultin
: from the salt were produced at a cost Q
: thirty cents each.
In another case a piece of ground il
: tended for wheat was ploweds the pr,
g ceding fall, and again in May, when
was sowed with salt, and afterwar
plowed twice before seeding. On tt
d LIST and I'd of September wheat W,
| sowed at the rate of two bushels to tt
acre. The crop, when harvested, yielde'
according to the estimate of the owne
Mr.. John Parke, not less than fort
bushels of grain to the acre, with a lu,
uriant growth of straw. From the
and many similar cases the inferen'
seems to be that salt is a specific for Il
wheat crop, imparting solidity to Il
grain and firmness to the straw.
le PEcULIARITIEs OF SEED GERMIN-
,e TIoN.-The instance quoted by M
y Webster, says the Gardeners Chronicle,
i; a plum seed negotiating after haviI
to been boiled in the jam, is not the on
&c re one of the kind on record. DR.. Lindls
le has mentioned a case of raspberry seet
70 yegetating after being subjected to Il
a same ordeal, and he also states that Il
n practice of boiling the seeds, of legun
n nous plants especially, with the object
making them terminate more readil
had been adopted by several perso
with perfect success. Theory of Horr
% culture). The fact does not appear
wonderful when we know that seeds vi
lie stand without injury a temperature
a. far below the terminating. point
above. 1t is supposed that an extreme
low temperature is as destructive to '
tality as a high one, and that both a
es something in the same way. See
seem fitted by nature to survive und
Mt very adverse circumstances, existing
ages if buried deeply, and, what is qui
Is as singular as anything, passing u
scathed through animals that have t
es power of digesting very e~xtraordina
in substances.
Household Helps.
FRENCH TOMATO SAUcE.-For mea
u. peel, and cook for a few moments thr