The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-30
F4RMAND G1RDEN.
1a,,,,. ., agricultural, and Domestic In
terest.
.po1rT sALTISG CATTLE.

lard Turk, OF IoIelaiiu' ~
how much salt per day each dairy COW
would consume throughout the year
He reports that they will eat (when they
have free access to it, from three to i've
ounces per day each that they will con-
snme less in June, or when the grass Is
Young and tender, than in July, and less
in July than August. The quantity OF
colt eaten nv a cow is also varied by her
being in milk or being dry. When CIV
ing milk she requires more salt ms
conclusions on the whole are that the
drier. older or harder the grass (or other
feed) is. the more salt the COW needs to
assist to carry on the digestive process
everything else being equal.
Last November, at the request OF Mr..
Hardin, 1 placed my four pet Attorney
calves and six yearling Alderney heifers
ON their usual winter diet, minus the
salt. This was kept up till the first OF
February. They had been in the habit
of eating all the salt they wanted, from
the time they began to eat hay or grass
alta few weeks old till November; and
then from November till February first,
not having one grain of salt.
Almost every one here prophesied
that they would not do well. But |
have never had ten head of young ami
mails winter any better. When, on Feb
ruary first, we gave them salt, they APP
peared to be Just moderately pleased
with it, and are it with the same relish
as if it had been their weekly or daily
allowance.
Isil the fact that cattle can use salt
to assist in softening and digesting food,
and in its absence does nature step in
and furnish some other solvent in the
stomach by which about the same result
is attained at about the same expeDs 10
the animals vitality Who can tell us
Where is the skilled discusser of dairy
husbandrY" who was never suspected of
knowing anything about the matter, but
who IS a good talker, and can tell Us all
about it?
FATALITY AMONG SWINE.
a Clifton, ILL.,, correspondent writes
a follows to the Prairie Farmer:
] wish to state a few facts that have re-
Gently come under my observation.
have not myself lost any hogs. / never
kept over thirty at one time, and never
had sick one. l feed sloP, and pasture
on timothy and clover give coal, salt,
lime at all times, and put rings in their
noses. The so-called cures fail in ex-
treme cases. I have seen it stated that
the coughing disease, but one of my
neighbOrs has n slaughter-house, and
kills every day or two, and ais hogs have
mostly died, and the remainder are
wasting away. l know some cattle
feeders who have lost from eighty to two
hundred head: they bought copperas by
the barrel. These hogs had no rings in
their noses. Some one said that timber
hogs were exempt. know a gentleman
who has three hundred and twenty acres
OF timber in hog pasture, a perfect para
disc for hogs, and he has but one hun
bred head and they are dying at the late
OF eight and ten day. They are Po-
land China and have no rings in their
shouts. He has tried everything he
ever heard of. He cut some of them
open and their lungs were rotten-big
and little all alike. Another man lost
some fat hogs, cut them open and they
were eaten through ami through with
bony, hard worms like snakes; and so it
goes. Now what isthe cause? 1t is not
rings, it is not the want of timber; offal
will net save them, nor do | belive that
all the professors in this country can
help the matter. ] venture to suggest
that we are OVERRIDING the business.
Large droves seem to be the nurseries of
disease. Years ago, hogs were com
paratively healthy; they were few in
number also. In the old Bay state, we
kept our six or seven hogs on plank
floors in small pens; but a sick pig
never saw. OF course that is small bust
ness for western man, but I respectfully
submit that we must keep smaller lots
together. at all events, and keep them in
rational manner; not on the "root hog
or die" principle, or confined to hard
corn and water, and up TO their eyes in
mud, unsheltered from the storms. The
way many farmers treat their hogs Ia
disgraceful and cruel. and if they were
the only losers / would not pity them.
1t is possible also that the hog under
such treatment has lost constitution.
This may pass away like other vista
tions; like the epizootic in horses, or the
potato rot, or the cholera in man; but
believe in small lots, and good care.
APPLE TREE BoRERs.
There has been much said about that
destroyer of the apple tree, and still the
cry comes to US, "What shall we do with
the borer%' To the reader of this. let
me say, don't have anything to do with
the warmth; do not treat it so well
and you can depend upon it, it will not
trouble you. You furnish it plenty of
muck, weeds and filth at the foot of the
tree, and you court is presence; and in
return, it will work for You diligently.
Now do not do this ii is too expensive
Now for the preventive; there is no
patent on it. Keep the ground clear of
weeds and trash CT all kinds for three or
four feet around the tree, and you can
depend upon the borer staying away. 1t
does not like clean place to nest, nor
does it like asound, healthy tree. Do
pay some attention to your fruit trees;
they are worthy pitt / will cite you
two Instance: Spaulding & Co., pro-
prietors of the premium nurseries at
Springfield, H., have an orchard of abou
four thousand trees, mostly bearing size,
that have received this treatment, and
there his never been borer in them.
In lroquosi county in this state is
bearing orchard of twelve hundred trees
that have received the above treatment,
and there is't borer in them, nor never
has been. There is no secret in having
good orchar l. Plant none but sound
trees, and then take care of them.
Household Recipes.
! GINGER Cook IEs.-OIe cupful of SUI /