The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-23
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


Horse Feed.
Every good groom knows that sound
oats and beans in due proportion, and at
least a year old, are the very best food
for a galloping horse-the only food in
which it is possible to get the very best
condition out of race horse or hunter.
It also has recently become known that
horses do slow work and get fat, indeed
too fat, on maize, Indian corn, which is
frequently one-third cheaper than the
best oats. In the East horses are
fed Oh barley, and it is popular
idea with English officers who have lived
in Persia and Syria that the change of
food from barley to oats often, when
imported, produces blindness in Arabian
horses. Now, although no men under
stand better or so well how to get blood
horses into galloping condition as Eng
lish grooms, they do not, and few of
their masters do, know the reason why
oats and beans are the best food for put
ting muscular flesh on horse. The
agricultural chemist steps in here, makes
the matter very plain. and shows that if
you want pace, Indian corn, although
nominally cheaper, is not cheap at all.
pig for sale, after it has passed the store
stage, we want to make it fat as quickly
aud as cheaply as possible; but with q
horse for work the object is to give him
muscle-in common language, hard flesh.
There are times when it is profitable to
make horse fat, as, for instance, when
he is going up for sale. For this pur-
pose an addition of about pound and
half of oil cake to his ordinary food
has good effect. 1t is especially USE
full when horse that has been closely
clipped or singed is in low condition.
1t helps on the change to the new coat
by making him fat. A horse in low
condition changes his coat very slowly.
When from any cause there Is Difficult.
ty in getting a supply of the best oats,
an excellent mixture may be made of
crushed maize and beans, and the pro-
portion of two-thirds of maize and one
of beans, which exactly afford the pro-
portions of fesh-forming and fat-form-
ing food. Bran is very valuable food
in stable for reducing the inflamma-
tory effect of oats and beans. Made
into mashes, it has a cooling and laxa-
tive effect; but used in excess, especially
in dry state, 1t is apt to form stony
secretions in the bowels of the horse.
Stones, produced from the excessive use
of bran, have been taken out of horses
after death weighing many pounds
London Live Stock Journal.
Garden Notes.
Grated horse chestuuts mixed with
ten times their bulk of water, will expel
worms from the soil in flower pots.
Many farmers think it doesn't pay to
bother with much gardening; but q
good, large garden, well planted and
we'll worked, will give liberal profit
from the sale of surplus vegetables,
after supplying the home table the
season through with all the vegetables
desired.
A good supply of manure for garden
may be made from the refuse of any
household. A shallow pit may be made
and some chaff, short straw, the con-
tents of worn mattress, grass, sods,
weeds, woolen rags, burned bones,
waste from the kitchen, wood ashes,
chimney sweepings, scrapings of roads,
earth, chip-dust, saw-dust, manure from
the pou]try-house, old boots and shoes
chopped into shreds, and all such mat
waste slops of the house, soap-suds, etc.,
may be thrown upon them. In the
course of a year a large pile can be
gathered and if COW and few chickens
are kept the waste from these may add
largely to the heap. The heap should
be built up squarely and hollow at the
top. A bag of bone-dust added to the
pile would greatly increase its value,
and stock of manure that would cost at
least ten dollars to purchase could thus
be made. A pile six feet square and
three feet high would richly fertilize a
good sized garden, and help to produce
sufficient vegetables to supply large
family.
Household Hints.
MUTTON AND BEEF.-Four pounds of
beef lose one pound by boiling, and a
pound and five ounces by roasting and
one pound three ounces by baking.
Four pounds of mutton lose fourteen
ounces by boiling, and one pound six
ounces by roasting, and one pound four
ounces by baking.
On OUT OF WooLEN.-You can get q
bottle or barrel of oil off any carpet OF
woolen stuff by applying dry buckwheat
plentifully. Never put water to such q
grease spot, or liquid of any kind.
To MAKE TOAST WATER. Toast some
slices of bread quite brown, put them in
a pitcher, and pour ON them boiling
water, and let it steep.
BED CLoTHEs.-On getting up in the
morning the bed clothes should be
thrown over chair by the open window,
to air for two or three hours before the
bed is made mp; otherwise the sheets
and coverlids and be 8, being charged
with the moisture of perspiration, be-
come unwholesome.
HEAT.-More than nine-tenths Of the
heat of common CRATE or fireplace, be.
ing lighter than the atmosphere and
subject to a direct draft, passes up the
chimney and is wasted.