The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-15

IL Is desirable TO pasture sheep or hogs
in orchards, or where rabbits make dep
relations, the bark of young trees may
be succt 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 a 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 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: ke
10 Cure Heaves.-Heaves is a thick
ening of the mucous membrane of the
esophagus,. trachea, bronchia of the ali
cells Of the lungsor either, and anything.
that viii 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 ateaspoonful
three times per day in feed, or take in
digo, one ounce; inter, 4 ounces; rain
water, one gallon; give one pint twice
per day in his feed.-Indiana Farmer
Waste Worse than Debt.-A gentle
man whose business called him into all
parts of one of our central counties,
few days ago, informs us that he took
pains to note the number and value of
the mowers, reapers and other yexpen-
siye agricul ltural limplements 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-
ing the years of 1875 and '76.-7ndiana
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Luck is sPluck.-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
ill luck. 1t is said that Providence al
ways smiles on the side of the best and
most bayonets and heaviest guns. Cam
not the same principle be also applied
to farming? Success is the result of
good management, of the best breeds of
cattle, best tools and the richest soils.
Success springs from economy in saving
and making manures, and in the judg-
ment used in their application. It 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 i'll 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 hayngsae capacity ofene hun.
dred and ninety quarts, and, one hun
dred Of the OK. The OK and most other
animals have gall-bladder for a reten-
ton of part of the bile secreted during
Digestion. The horse has really none,
and the bile flows directly into the in
struction of the digestive apparatus in.
dicates 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,
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, in.
one and one-half hours, he has swal-
lowed, at least, two stomachsfull of hay
and saliva, one of these having passed
to the intestine. Observation has shown
that the food has passed to the intestine
by the stomach in the order which it is
received. If we feed horse six quarts
of oats, it will just fill his stomach, and
if as soon as he finishes this we feed him
the above ration of seven pounds of hay,
he will eat sufficient in three-quarters
of an hour to have forced the oats en-
tirely out of his stomach into the intes-
tine. AS it is the office of the stomach
to digest the nitrogenous part of the
feed, and as stomachful Of oats con.
tains four OF five times as much of these
as the same amount of hay, it is GER
tain that either the stomach must Sc
crete the gastric Juice five times as fast,
which is hardly possible, or@it must re-
tain this food five, times asalong. By.
feeding the oats first, it can only besre-
tanned long enough for their proper
digestion of hay; consequently it seems
logical, when feeding a concentrated
food like oats, with mulky one like
hay, to feed the latter first, giving the
grain the whole time between the re-
pasts to be digested. "a .a5oae
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