The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1877-11-01
TOPICS FOR FARMERS.
Meat for Poultry.-Cook the m

Meat for Poultry.-Cook the meat
you give your poultry always. Chop it
finely, using a common wooden bowl |
and household chopping knife, if you
have but a small quantity OF meat to |
prepare; but, if you are keeping poultry
on large scale, substitute for bowl
tight wooden box of bushel capacity.
and for chopping instrument, use a
common short-handled spade with its
blade ground to keen edge.
Salt the meat as you would for your
own eating. Mix it half and half, when
fed out, with scalded wheat or corn
meal, and it will serve your purpose
much better than if fed in any other
way.
raw meat to fowls. This is a bad way,
and in summer time causes illness,
frequently. Cooked meat goes further,
is more nourishing, and less injurious if
oyer-fed than in the raw state.
For young fowls, very little is needed
at time and either old or young birds,
when kept in confinement, should not be
stuffed with this kind of allowance. A
large share of their food should be grains
and cooked vegetables. For growing
fowls of any age this is the best staple
food, when properly varied.
Bog SPAWN in Horses.-Bog SPAWN,
says the Prairie Farmer, is essentially the
result of synovitis, there being an in
creased amount of synovial fluid in the
hook joint, which causes the capsule to
bulge on the inner and interior part, that
being the weakest. In some cases thein-
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acute, and the fluid is soon absorbed
but more frequently it is of sub-acute
character. The balance between effusion
and absorption being deranged, there is
chronic filling of the joint by synovia
Gointed oil, so-called, which has ten
dency to become more or less viscid in
its nature, and consequently less easily
absorbed. During the time the horse is
worked or being exercised, the fluid
becomes more or less absorbed, in some
cases so much so that the disease may
not be noticeable until the horse has
been standing some time. In some rare
instances, tumors form at the seat of the
bog SPAWN, which occasionally become
hard and ossified. By the way of treat
ment-in acute cases allow rest, purg,
and bathe with cold water, after which
if necessary, apply extensively thu
tincture of iodine. Firing and setonin,
used to be much more resorted to thai
at present in the treatment of bursa
! enlargements (windgalls, through-pins
bog SPAWN, etc.) High-heeled shoe
ought never to be used in these cases
, for, if used for any length of time, the,
are apt to produce a more seriou
E disease than the usual one, viz: con
/ tracted tendons. In the treatment O
t bursal enlargements, a long rest is o
Y great Importance.
Hiring ~HOrses.-The Twf, Field an
r Farm says that it has been decided ths
when horse and carriage is let out fo
|. hire, for the purpose Of performing
t particular journey, the party lettin
4 warrants the horse and carriage f
4 and competent for such journey. If til
= hirer treats the horse and carriage
r any prudent man would do, he is NJ
answerable for any damages either ma
# receive. But he must use the horse ft
e the purpose for which he hired hin
70 For instance, horse hired for sadd
must not be used for harness. If tt
+ hirer violates this expressed condition
n n the contract he is liable for any damag
- that may occur. If the horse is stolt
- through the hirer's negligence, such
> leaving the stable door open all nigh
- he must answer for it. But if he
~ ~ robbed of it by highwaymen, VIA,
e travelling the usual hours, he cannot
- - held for damages. AS these questions a
~ frequently in dispute, it is not out
~ place to shed little light upon them.