The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1877-12-14
VOL. XXI---NO. SO.
farmets' Column.
"Speed the PIOsU.o
Farm Notes.

Apples that were stored in bins lust as
they were picked from the trees should be
sorted, put into barrels and stored in a
cool place where the frost will not reach
them.
NO meat is healthier than mutton
No meat can be procured so cbeaply. 1t
can be slaughtered at any time, requiring
but few minutes for the operation. And
yet not one farmer in ten keeps sheep.
Prof Storer, after careful analysis,
estimates the value of wheat bran and
shorts as worth thirty-ive per cent more
than average hay. The estimate is based
upon The amounts of actually digestable
food ingredients contained in them. Con-
sequently, when hay is worth $50 ton,
bran is worth $27 for feeding.
Bones are fed to fowls in two forms. in
either fresh or calcined state. The for
mer method is much better, as the bones
are rich in both organic and inorganic
matter, just as they were in the framework
OF the animal from which they were taken.
In this condition they are easily taken by
the secretive organs and appropriated to
supply the wants and wastes of the system.
Burned or calcined bones are freed from all
organic matter, and there remain only the
ashes of the bones, which are chiefly lime
phosphate and carbonate,) and con-
sequently inferior to fresh bone. The only
objection to fresh bones is the difficulty of
keeping them fresh. The best and most
satisfactory substitute in burnt BONES
The water is removed by the heat, leaving
the lime in dry and crisp state, easily
crushed.
Cows should never be allowed to drink
stagnant water 1t is impossible for acow
to drink impure water and produce pure
and healthy milk from it. Prof. Low of
Cornell University found by microscopic
examination of the milk of COWS that drink
stagnant water that the milk contained
living organisms, similar to those found in
the water they drank. Prof Arnold says,
"that cows drinking stagnant water has
been known to cause her milk to coagulate
in four hours, at temperature of seventy
degrees, and when raised to ninety degrees
it would coaguate at once" There are in
stances where typhoid fever has been com.
municated by milk given by cows which
had drank foul water containing the ty-
phoid poison. These facts should be suffi-
cient to cause farmers to lie exceedingly
careful to furnish their COWS with pure
water for drinking purposes
-"F. B. S." askes for a rule for the
measurement of corn in the crib. Such
rules are never exact because different va
rieties of corn and the same variety during
different seasons will shell more grain than
Others Of some kinds two bushels of ears
will make more than one of shelled corn,
wi, 10 tNyn hnc of larr
will not make one of sheled corn. II we
assume that two bushels of ears will make
one of shelled corn the following rule will
give correct result: Multiply the cubic
contents of the crib in feet by four, and
strike off the right hand figure. The re-
mainder will indicate the number OF BUSH
els of sbelled corn This rule may be ex-
planned as follows: A United States
standard bushel contains 2729 cubic in
ches-therefore bushel is to a cubic foot
as is to 4. If one bushel of sheled corn
is the product of two ears, then the proper
ton is that of 10 to 4, or multiply by and
divide by 10 as above.
How strangely we overlook the value
of the liquid excrement of our animals
A cow, under ordinary feeding, furnishes
in year twenty thousand pounds of solid
excrement and about s, 900 pounds ofliquid.
The comparative money value of the two
is but slightly in favor of the solid This
statement has been verified as truth over
and over again. The urine of herbiverous
animals holds nearly all the secretions of
the body which are capable of producing
the rich heterogeneous compounds 80 essen
tial as forcing or leafforming agents in
the growth of plants. The solid holds the
phosphoric acid, the lime, and magnesia,
which go to seeds principally; but the Ii
quid, holding nitrogen, potash and soda,
is needed in forming the stalks and leaves.
The two forms of plant nutriment should
never be separated or allowed to be wasted
by neglect. The farmer who saves all the
urine of his animals doubles his manurial
resources every year. Good seasoned peat
is of an immense service to farmers, when
used as an absorbent, and the stalls for ami
mails should be so constructed as to admit
of wide passage in the rear, with gene
rous room for peat, to be used daily with
the excrement.