Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1878-02-11

Refuse potatoes, which in many Scotch
countries and in Yorkshire are freely given
| TO horses, both raw and cooked, occasion
| gastric derangement, and even death un-
less at first used sparingly. Exactly the
| same caution is necessary in the use of the
mangold. 1t is full of moisture, contains
| upward of ninety per centum of water
md more saline mater than many other
articles of food, while it readily undergoes
| ermentalion, and thus is liable to impair
| he digestion of horses unused to il. But
| when accustomed to the mangold they
axe it very well on some farms six or
light pounds are given TO every horse, but
| rom its watery and saline character il Is
'ot so well adapted for hard-working
horses as either swedes or carrots. Where
| roots are scarce and horses are living on
| Try food they ought to have twice a week
| liberal allowance of bran. Ewes with
Young lambs readily eat mangold, and do
| oerably well if they are receiving also
ull supplies of nutritive dry food. Civ
n to sucking ewes on grass it is how
-ver, very liable to purge the lambs. Un-
der these circumstances-lamb thrive
| ouch hotter while their dams are receiy-
ing swedes.
HOW TO LAY DRAIN TILE
| An Ohio farmer laid sixty rods of drain
| lie, beginning at the lower end while the
men were digging out the trench above
him, and the result was that the whole
-ixty rods had to be taken up, after the
ditch was filled in with earth. in conse-
quence of the tiles becoming filled with
mud, as any farmer ought to have known
would be the result. In laying the tile
always begin at the upper end. and when
there are lateral drains lay them before
| YOU lay the main conductors. The man to
whom refer says in regard to his work.
titeI he had corrected his mistake: II
now commenced with my six inch tile, at
the upper end, took in each branch as |
passed by. putting in six inch sewer pipe
with four inch branch, till all was fin
shed. now found my tile all clean, the
water running out clean, and all working
in first rate order. Results the land, al
most as soon as the bitches were in, be-
came dry enough to plow-when horse
could not have walked across it before
and is now in good order" Pine boards
six or seven inches wide. nailed together
at their edges, with three cross strips on
the under side to hold them in shape, will
last twenty or thirty years when used in
| the place OF tile. Even hemlock boards
have been known to make good drains
| fifteen years. The drains should not be
over thirty or forty feet apart, and at least
| two feet deep and where the fall is suffi-
cient to allow the drain three feet it is bet
ter to make it of that depth.
| "rURE CIDER VINEGAR"
| Doubtless many country farmer, who
has never practiced any of the ways that Z
are dark and tricks that are vain" in which
too many INSCRIPTIONS commercial men
engage, has often wondered now IL came
to pass that, whether apples are scarce or
plenty, whether cider could be bought for
one dollar or would readily command six
dollars. vinegar was held at almost unva-
rying quotations. When vinegar was
plenty. and the market was filled with
cider and apples, he has kept his stock
over IN strong hope and full expectation
that the next year the price would be
| nearly doubled, yet when the next season
came he found. to his dismay, that Vine
gar was still plenty in market and sold for
the usual price" The fact that three car
loads ot spurious vinegar has just been
c"nfiscated in the District of Columbia
may explain how it has happened that
scarcity OF apples and cider has had no
susceptible effect upon the price of ''pure
cider vinegar" A spurious vinegar,
which in taste and appearance very close
ly resembles the genuine article, can be
made at cost. Tor the materials, of not
more than twenty cents barrel and it is
said. by good authority, that "probably
one halt the vinegar sold at city groce-
| ries is q rank poison. Ii consumers un-
| derstood this they might be more ready to
buy OF farmers. or reliable dealers who
know what they are selling, and pay
lar price for a genuine and healthful ar
ticle. A little light on this subject may be a
benefit to both buyer and seller. making
the one more careful in buying and insur-
ms to the other fair price for his goods.
THE AMERICAN MEAT TRADE.
Speaking at the annual dinner of the
Wenlock Farmers Club, Mr.. Brown. NJ.
F., of Liverpool, said the American meat
trade was increasing, and increasing so
| rapidly that it was likely to become
| thriving and important branch of foreign
trade with this country, and it must
eventually compete seriously with the
British farmer. Living in Liverpool he
was able TO Judge the Importance of this
trade. In the first nine months of 1876
the amount of Americansmeat imported
into England was 81 900 cwt., and in the
first nlnr months OF this year the amount
had increased to no less than $4,000
cwt., an increase perfectly prodigious.
Calculating the value at Cd. per pound,
the value for the relative periods was
goo, 900 and Il ,031 900 respectively. In
Liverpool during the first nine months of
1876. 26 900 cwt., was imported, and dur
ing the same period of 1877 81 900 cwt.,
OF the relative value of f74.000 and
t9O0, 900, showing that the progressive
increase was greater at Liverpool than
any other port. These figures applied
almost totally to beef, for the importation
of mutton had not been so successful.
To show how rapidly the meat is disposed
OF, he would tell them that short time
ago cargo of Am nerican beef arrived at
Liverpool at one A NJ. at two A. NJ. it
had been unshipped, packed in an ex-
press train and started for London; and
at seven A. NJ. it arrived at its destina-