The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1880-04-15
TOPICS FOR THE FARM.

TOPICS FOR THE FARM.
Feeding Cattle.-A writer in the In
diana Farmer says: am satisfied it is
as wrong to confne stock without
roots of some kind, as it would
be to deprive man of vegetables.
have fed we'll cured hay, with coarse
wheat, bran and roots, twice daily, and
teaspoonful of equal parts of salt,
wood-ashes and plaster twice week or
more, during winter, for several years,
and my cows are healthy, profitable, and
never had case of abortion among
them.
How to Feed.--It is better to feed
twice a day, and water Immediately
after each meal, than to feed more
Feed the poorest fodder first and then
follow with better quality, and 80 on,
finishing with grain ifany is to be fed;
then water the animals, clean the
stables and sprinkle the floor with alb
sorbents or bedding. If properly fed,
the cows will now lie down and appear
comfortable and content, and lie quiet,
chewing their cuds five or six hours.
The Peach CrOp.-The Comet, OF
Jackson, Mist, reports the peach crop
in that vicinity as quite unfayoiable,
owing to the warm winter. The crop, IT
il thought, will be very light there.
The prospect in the southern part OF
Indiana, however, seem fair for full
crop. The trees everywhere are too
forward we fear. The buds are much
swollen and need only a day or two OF
warm weather to bring them into full
bloom The co ID night that will be al
most certain to follow will kill them.
Protection for Young Trees When
it is desirable to pasture sheep or hogs
in orchards, or where rabbits make dep
relations, the bark Of young trees may
be succ, ssfully protected by washing
the trees in spring and again in mid
summer for sheep, and again in late
autumn for rabbits, with soapsuds and
carbolic acid, or solution of cOal-tar
and whitewash. Both are sure of ac
complishing the end in view, and are
valuable in keeping off the borer and in
giving a healthy surface activity to the
sap, which will make the bark look
fresh and healthy. One ounce of car
bolic acid to pail of soapsuds is
sufficient.
10 Cure Heayes.-Heaves is a thick
ening of the mucous membrane of the
p3ophagus, trachea, bronchia of the air
cells of the lungs or either, and anything
that will reduce this thickening will
cure it. If only heaves, and not
broken wind is the trouble, turning on
grass will cure him. Palliative treat
ment, Spanish brown, tartar emetic,
resin and ginger, two ounces of each,
with of inter; give one teaspoonful
three times per day in feed, or take in
digo, one ounce inter, A ounces; rain.
water, one gallon; give one pint twice
per day in his feed.-Mdiaaa Farmer
Waste Worse than Debt.-A gentle
man whose business called him into ali
parts of one of our central counties, a
few days ago, informs US that he took
pains to note the number and value of
the mowers, reapers and other expen-
sive agricultural implements he saw ly-
ing out and exposed to the weather, on
one of his trips, and from careful es.
innate he was satisfied that the loss to
the farmers from this careless and
wasteful neglect, was more than enough
to have paid the large debt of the
county, five times over. And yet many
of those farmers are complaining griev.
ously of the hard times, for it was dur
ing the years of 1875 and rs. -Mdiaaa
Farmer.
Luck is Pluck.-When a man is for
tunate he boasts of his good manage
ment and shrewdness; when he is what is
termed unfortunate, he complains of his
i'll luck. 1t is SAID that Providence al
ways smiles on the side of the best and
most bayOnets and heaviest guns. Can
not the same principle be also applied
to farming9 Success is the result of
good management, of the best breeds of
cattle, best tools and the richest soila.
Success springs from economy in saving
and making manures and in the judy
ment used in their application. 1t con-
sists in the proper selection of seeds, the
time of moving the grass, the way and
manner OF tilling the ground, vigilance
in destroying weeds, the care of cattle
and the manner Of feeding, in keeping
the fences in order and the building in
good repair. These are few of the
elements of good luck.
The Stomach of the HOrse.-The
horses stomach has capacity of only
about sixteen quarts, while that of the
OK has two hundred and fifty. In the
intestines this proportion is reversed
the horse having capacity of one hun
bred and ninety quarts, and one hun
bred of the OK. The OK and most other
animals have a gall-bladder for reten-
ton of part of the bile secreted during
digestion. The horse has really none,
and the bile flows directly into the in.
testine as fast as secreted. This con
struction of the digestive apparatus in
dictates that the horse was formed to eat
slowly and digest continually bulky and
innutritious food. When fed on hay,
it passes very rapidly through the stom-
ach into the intestines The horse can
eat but five pounds of hay in an hour,
which is charged, during mastication
9 with four times its weight of saliva
, Now, the stomach, to digest it well
will contain but about ten quarts, and
when the animal eats about one-third
/ of his daily ration, or seven pounds, il
!, one and one-half hours, he has swal
lowed, at least, two stomachs full of hay
, and saliva, one of these having passed
} to the intestine. Observation has shown
that the food has passed to the intestin,
by the stomach in the order which it il
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