The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1880-03-02
AGRICULTURAL.


O6DG OF l0S AHleTtcuH -AgflcuttuFlS
writes that @ pes may be preventei
from troublug chickens By ksepinl
the chickens IN warn, dry. clear
place, and feeding them with corn
meal ~eited sud mixed rather plenti
fully with ground red or black pepper
| CLIPPING Fo1Cts' Wings -TopreVen
poultry rom flying, etc, it is {
common practice to simply cut th'
feathers of a wing; but these IN
fortunately grow again A plar
much adopted here is to cut the
extremity OF the pin 90, or tip bone
about hall an inch from the articuls.
ton. This Mains the wing for If
The operation ought to be performed
when the bird is four or five months
old and in spring or autumn. The
wound quickly heals.-Psris Letter tC
NeD England Farmer.
Chicken Cholera. For few years
my chickens died so badly that
abandoned all care Of them. thinking
il labor lest. 10 1872 l commenced
feedir with air -slaked lime lost a
very few that summer. Ia the sum
mers OF 1873 and 1874 lost Loae at
all by that disease. put half pint
10 a vessel and fill it with water or
milk and put for them to drink. As
they drink of the top fill up again.
sometimes l mix hslf pint with a
peck of stirred-up feed and give them
The lime helps to form the shell for
laying hens. Z giGe the lime two or
three times per month. and always if
| sea any s'gps OF the disease. |
raised about twenty dozen last sum
mer. and hsaIthier, brighter-lOoking
chickens l never owned Western
AgricuLtTist.
Feeding Col08. - Some cows will
bear higher feeding without injury
than olhers. Commence feeding
moderately and gradually increase.
As long as the quantity OF milk in
creases it will be pretty safe to in
crease the feed. taking care to give
two quarts OF roots or potatoes twice
a week to keep the animals digestive
organs in good condition. A COW
might be fed two quarts each of corn
meal and shorts, with a pint of
colton-seed meal in at first, and
gradually increased up to three or
fouI quarts each Of cornmeal and
shorts, and two quarts of cotton seed
meal, if she continues to increase in
milk. A COW coming in in April
should not have her feed increased
much the season preceding. During
tue three or four weeks before COM
ing in cow should be led very lightly
on grain il any is given. Roots and
potatoes are good for a COW In that
oonditlon.-LeWiston Journal.
Tile Fodder Value of AppLes.-In
his investigation of the fodder value
of apples, Professor Storer confirms
the observation of other chemists, to
the effect that apples are very poor in
nitrogen. The flesh of Baldwins and
Russe;s yielded Is. III 5 per centum
of dry organic matter (the rest being
water aud mineral matters), and only
O.210.27 per cenium albuminoids.
Apple pomace contained % 3 per
centum of dry organic matter, and
OBS per centum albuminoids. Leav-
ing the water out of the account, the
dry matter of the flesh of apples con-
tsins !. 43 per centum of albuminoids.
while the dry matter of potatoes has
S.54, and pumpkin 17.32 per centum
of albuminoids. From these facts
two interesting conclusions are to be
drawn. First, the small amount OF
nitrogen explains at least one reason
for the low value OF apples for feed
and for manure; and second, to make
economical fodder from apples or
pomace, food rich in nitrogen should
be added. Ia this way not only the
sugar, but also the pectose. OF which
apples are largely composed, may be
economically utilized as food.
HolS Shall the FoaL be Rearedl-A
foal lost its mother when two days
old. Will you inform me the best
way to bring it up? At present l am
giving it cows milk mixed with
little water and sugar. - Farmer.
You cannot do better than continue
as you have begun. There Is no more
suitable eubst tlte for the mares
milk than that OF the COW, at first
used diluted with at least one fourth
of water, and to which is added two
or three ounces of sugar to the gal
lon. AS the little animal grows and
thrives, the diluting of the cows
milk may be gradually stopped; nor
will the continuance of the sugar be
necessary. We have known toals
thus arti6cislly reared. learned to
drink a gallon of cows milk thrice
daily; but half this amount, given as
it should be, fresh and sweet, usually
suffices. Within a fortnight the
colt will get Accustomed to lick
little finely bruised linseed cake
and drink linseed and oatmeal Cruel.
He will also speedily learn to pick a
little grass or clover. and should
gradually be used to eating q hsrdful
OF bruised oats. Tne first matter ia
10 prevent constipation, which is apt
to occur during the fr.t week after
birth, by the use Of sugar, treacie,
Iinseed Cruel. or, if need be, by the
administration OF a dose of mixed
castor snd linseed oils The next
point is to accustom the colt. as early
az possible, to a variety of easily
digested, good food, go that be may
become independent of his foster
mothers milk, of which. however, he
will be none the worse, even il he gets
it for six months Vet. Ed. NORTH