Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-03
INTERESTING TO FARMERS.

sale OF shOrthorn cattle came OIL lately.
Sixty-five head of cattle were sold at an
average Of 1898 per head.
The last thing TO be done before going
to bed is to go out to the barn and give
good look at the cattle and horses, and
they will be likely to have good look
in the morning.
An inventive genius filled small tar
letan sack with a spoonful of cayenne
pepper and tackled it over a rat hole.
When the rat bounced out his eyes were
peppered by the sitting from the shaken
sack. He squealed like pig and escap-
ed. The whole tribe have since mi
grated.
By proper management two filters of
pigs may be obtained from the same SOW
in a year, and with considerable profit.
1t is frequently an advantage to have
pigs come in August, as they can then
be ready as small pork for the holt
days. Above all, keep the pens neat and
clean.
1t is believed by many beekeepers that
rye meal is the best possible substitute
for bee-bread, when the latter is not in
full supply. The meal should be put in
shallow boxes near the apiary, and a few
pieces OF comb near it will attract the at
tention of the bees. This food causes the
swarms to be larger and earlier than any
| other
f. Won Wolf and others cut grass
three times in the early summer, in the
years 1874 and 1877 the first cutting
took place about the middle of May, the
second at the beginning and the third at
the end of June. The second cutting ap-
peared to give the best results in the
t<case of animals experimental upon,
namely, sheep and horses; and, as rule,
it was found that more heterogeneous
matter was excreted by the latter than
by the former.
Many persons now keeping bees re.
ceive no profit or benefit. Bookkeeping,
when properly managed, is remunera-
tive business, and is especially adapted
to men who have become debilitated or
are advanced in life, and ladies who are
dependent on their labor for their sup
port. 1t is an easy vocation and within
the ability of invalids. Many who are
not sufficiently strong and healthy to
perform hard labor can attend to an
apiary, there being but little labor re-
quired after they are once put into proper
condition.
In June last the Department of agri.
culture was informed by DR.. Lyman, its
veterinary agent in England, that Ameri
can western cattle affected with apthous
fever, otherwise the foot and mouth dis
ease, were arriving from Boston at Liv
erpool. Commissioner lie Due made in
quiries among western cattle breeders
respecting The matter. Replies so fal
disclose the existence of the dreaded
fever in Kansas as well as generally
throughout the south, especially in Ala
bama. The plague is evidenced by
eruptions on the feet and mouth of cattle
swine and sheep, and is contagious, evel
affecting man.
Late-cut hay, ordinary straw, and othe
coarse folders are unquestionably i'm
proved by cooking, as it softens th
woody fiber, and dissolves portions o
the starch and cornmeal and other food
rich in starch are also improved by cook
ing. But in considering the question 0
economy, it is easy to see that, although
it will pay on large scale, it is no
likely to do so for few animals, for
costs nearly as much to cook for ten a
for fifty head of cattle. Grinding rem
F ders all our cereal grains more digestiblt
by reducing the size of the particles t
be saturated and digested by the gastri
juice, and hence many of them pass cattl
undigested. When corn is ground
should be mixed with coarse fodder, s
J as to prevent it adhering in mass to tn
stomach, and to insure its remasticatio
and insalivation.
A farmer asked an expert in butter
making: "Will an ounce of salt, adde
to one pound of butter, increase tn
weight to seventeen ouncesp" The eH
pert replied: 81 have tried this exper
, .nent frequently, and never found an il
crease nearly equivalent to the weight {
salt added, and have sometimes eve
1 found decrease. Weigh the butte
after the first working, then weigh til
! salt, and after it has stood twelve hom
( you will find quantity of water has lie
the butter, and in working second tim
the water will be worked out. Weig
q again, and it will be found 10 have lo'
4 water about equal to the salt added
g | have asked this question of a gre;
many butter makers, and have foun
n only few who had ever taken IL
: trouble to weigh the butter after the So
: was applied, but those who have are a
}. of the opinion that the addition of sa
y does not increasethe weight ofmerchan
able butter"
Apples.
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