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1877.
FAEM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
A Cheap Food for Cattle.
! A Maryland farmer has prepared what
he calls cheap food for cattle. He
sowed land in corn, and the first Of Oc-
tober, when it was in tassel, he had it
cut down with a reaper. and passed
through the ordinary process OF chop
ping, using for that purpose an ordinary
feed cutter. The fodder thus produced
was mixed with straw in the proportion
of four-ffths corn fodder to one-ffth
straw. It was then put in trenches,
trampled down, and covered with earth.
The fodder remained in this state until
last Christmas day, when the trenches
were opened and the fodder taken out
and fed to the cattle. The fodder was
found to be in as perfect state of pres
ervation as when it was first put in, and
the cattle seemed to relish it from the
first, and now prefer it to any other kind
of feed. The cost of producing this fod-
der was only about one dollar a ton,
which is only ons-twentieth as much as
the cost of timothy hay, which is not
equal to it in any respect. If the land
is planted early in the spring, twenty or
thirty tons can beraised to the acre, butin
France the landis highly manured and the
corn is sowed only two feet apart, which
often makes the yield as high as eighty
tons to the acre. The same land can
afterward be planted in barley, and loses
none of it's strength by the planting of
the corn, as it is principle in agriculture
that the strength of the land is only lost
in the formation of the grain. By the
use of this fodder every farm of one hun
dred acres. planted with ten acres Of this
fodder, would be able to fatten one hun
dred head of cattle during the winter,
which would yield profit of fifty per
cent, besides the immense advantage of
having such an amount of stable manure,
which in itself, if utilized would pay for
the fodder thus used.
The advantages of this method is best
shown by comparison between the cost
of production of this fodder and the cost
of timothy hay:
Phosphates ten acres at SIG. $3.50
Team and ow for thirty days. &C
Man to tend the team.... ............... Is
GuVcri6 ;....... oso
Hauling and preserving. g................... 25O
Total cost ..................... ..S5O0
A fair estimate of the crop of these ten
acres would be five hundred tons. Five
hundred tons of timothy hay would cost
$40, 900, and as this five hundred tons OF
chopped fodder will answer the same
purposes as the timothy hay, it is easily
seen that every community can thus raise
it's own meat at about half the cost to
import it.
Medical Hints.
TooTHAcHE.-1. Take of creosote, one
drachm; rectifed spirits of wine, half an
ounce; distilled water, half pint. Mix.
The mixture is to be used daily and ha-
bitually. Let the tooth brush be first
moistened with the mixture and applied
to the teeth and then little cold water;
afterward whatever tooth powder per-
son may be in the habit of using 2.
Alum reduced to an impalpable powder,
two drachms; nitrous spirit of ether,
seven drachms. Mix. and apply them to
the TOOTH 8. Take Of compound tine
ture of Benjamin, and Battley's solution
of opium, of each, one drachm. Mix. A
little of this mixture, dropped on cotton
and applied to the hollow and along the
gum of a decayed and painful tooth,
will afford great and sometimes effectual
relief
Hot WATER AS A L1NDlENT.-" The
patient" writes q physician, "was en-
gagged in machine shop, and while his
hand was upon the anvil of trip ham,
mer the hammer, weighing seven hun
dred pounds, fell. 1t so happened that
file was on the anvil, and in this way
the force of tile hammer was arrested
about half an inch before it reached it's
bed. When the hand was examined it
was found that the whole palm was a
mass of pulp. The metacarpal bones
were comminuted extensively, and there
was apparently but small chance of saw
ing the hand. 1t was, however, placed
in hot water, and kept there for two or
three weeks, and then taken out and
dressed In three months the patient
was sufficiently well to leave the hospi-
tai, and now-nine months after the ac-
cident-he is able to move the fingers,
and has quite a useful hand" Bruises
and injuries do much better when treat
ed with hot than with cold water. The
temperature should be about 103 degrees
Fahrenheit. Another case is reported
of compound fracture and dislocation of
the ankle joint, in which the proximal
end of the first metatarsal bone pro-
truded from the foot. The dislocation
was reduced and the foot placed in hot
water. At the end of week it was taken
out and dressed in the ordinary manner.
The foot is now doing well and promises
good result.
Some Points In Cheese Making.
At q recent meeting of the American
Dairymen's Association, Prof. Arnold,
in reply to questions, said that one of
the greatest difficulties in cheese making
was that of maintaining an even heat in
the curds. One reason why Anne. lean
cheese failed when it became old was the |
inequality with which it was ripened,
owing to the almost unavoidable differ
ences in temperature in the mass. His
idea was to keep up through hout the heat
at which the rennet was applied, and to
remove the whey from the. curd as it
formed. The best Swiss cheese makers
heated the milk to 120 degrees, applied
the rennet at that temperature, and
maintained it throughout. The invention
of vat which would allow an even tenn
perature to be maintained should be the
principal object of experiments among
dairymen. He did not regard the form
alton of acid as very important in fact,
the peculiar nutty flavor was found in
cheese made with the least acidulation,