The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-07-05

Or late quite q discussion has sprung
|'up among stool. raisersl and others, re
lative to feeding farm animals with
salt, and strange As II may seem, 4her,
Is Q goOdly number who claim tina
cattle and other animals, as sheep
horses, pigs, etcs I thrive T5ust a. vel
without salt.as with One fact, all, n
the outset Of this discussion, must "a,
NIT, namely, that the desire for sal,
among animals iss almost Saniversal
and that desire IL also very great, lead
ing them to travel long distances. and
often fncurring great risk to life, In
ORDER To reach saline deposits. This
physical demand is instructive and
natural, growing out Of the organic
demands Of the system In all the
mammalia, especially tho vegetable
feeders, who from the nature Of their
food require pow erful digestion, tile
necessity for salt Is absolute. IN the
healthy human stomach, ana also In
the stomach. of most animals, there is
at all times, and particularly when the
organ is empty OF food, a considerable
amount of free muriatio acid, which
acts as powerful solvent OF all vege-
table ingesta. This acid, which &C,
cording to psychologists is so essential
to q good digestion, Is chiefly furnished
by the decomposition of salt. Chemi.
cally speaking, common salt Is q chlOr-
ide Of sodium, formed by the union of
muriatic acid and soda. In the stoin-
ach, by some mysterious process, salt
taken in the food or otherwise, is de-
composed and the muriatic acid set
free, aud; thus we have 10 ready in the
stomach, to, do duty In, the great vital
process of digestion. Instinctivelyhll
animals cali loudly for salt, and If
there were no other reasons for feeding
IL, this, would. be sufficient !. Without
other and better. guides IL is always
safe to follow the animal Instincts; for
to say thesleRst Of chem, they always
point towards the truth. aside from
reasons above given, IT L. positively
cruel to Withhold this condiment from
animals that 30 strongly desire it.
five take aA'the hogs fattened in
the United, States iu a'syear, and
change the time of fattening from cold
to warm weather and feed largely on
clover, one-half or the grain now fed
will make all the pork. This would
be o saving Of food, at least, 10 the
amount Of $50, 900, 600, per year.
[S0uthefn Farmer >'Tf's hfH
A ST. Joseph's man SAYS that he has
prairie fowl feed from bis hand In Ave
or six days after their capture. They
being &c easily tanned. he proposes tn
iomestiCate and feed them ON large
scale, and II possible tocrOss them with
some barpyard fowl, thinking to inc
part the stamina and vigof OF the Wild
bird 10 the domestic fowl, "H''S
THE NAMES Of Ls.AThe terms
"four-penny, " ;sixspenny, "s'ten-peh-
n.y." &c, as applied 70 pals, mean
this: "' F6uf-penny,' means four
pounds to the THOUSAND nails, ssix-pen-
ny ak pounds -to-the thousand, and
80 on. 1t II an old English term, and
meant, at first, ..ten-pound'. nails (t6e
thousand being underwood, J but IA
old Englishmail clipped tito ten-puff %
and from that to Ten pnpny,' and SO It
FOR 'pound.T Sd. when YOU ask rfo5
fouf-penny naiis3 NOW -a-days, YOU
want those Q thousand OF which will
weigh four pounds; but In these degeh-
crate times, we question whether You
will yet rs many as q thousand In that
weight. When q thousand nails weigh
less than one pound fheys ere called
lacks, bfads, &C., and are reckonAd III,
ounces to the tf1otisAnd;) SO YOU. viii
see '8.oz,ss10oz, h'l8-oz,' &c. on papers
OF tacks. - Fss..Ai = 1sslGI.S~ .,s.,s
!. One Of the best compoan dsfbf cleans
Ing metals consists Of one part of oxalic
acid and six parts Of fottenst0ne mixed
In enough Of equal parts or whale oil.
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