The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1880-04-01
TOPICS FOR THE FARM.

roeOlng CAtIIe.-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.
1 have fed well cured hay, with coarse
wheat, bran and roots, twice daily, and
a 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 a case of abortion among
them.
How to Feed.-It is better to feed
twice day, and water Immediately
after each meal, than to feed more.
Feed the poorest fodder first and then
follow with better quality, and SO on,
finishing with grain if any 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 Grop.-Theg Comet, of
Jackson, Miss, reports the peach crop
in that vicinity as quite unfavoiable,
owing to the warm winter. The crep, it
is thought, will be very light there
The prospect in the southern part of
Indiana, however, seem fair for a full
crop. The trees everywhere are too
forward we fear. The buds are much
swollen and need only day or two of
warm weather to bring them into full
bloom. The CO. d 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 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
4 sap, which will make the bark look
fresh and healthy. One ounce of car
bolic acid to a pail of soapsuds is
sufficient.
To Cure Heayes.-Heaves is a thick
ening of the mucous membrane of the
esophagus, 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 4 of inter; give one teaspoonful
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.-Indioaa Farmer
Waste Worse than Debt.-A gentle
man whose business called him into al
parts of one of our central counties, &
few days ago, informs us that he tool
pains to note the number and value oi
the mowers, reapers and other expen
sive agricultural implements he saw ly
ing out and exposed to the weather, OF
one of his trips, and from a careful es
innate he was satisfied that the loss tt
the farmers from this careless ane
wasteful neglect, was more than enough
to have paid the large debt of the
county, five times over. And yet many
x
ously of the hard times, for it was dur
ing the years of 1875 and '76.-Iadiano
Farmer.
Luck is Pluck.-When a man is fol
tunate he boasts of his good manage
ment and shrewdness; when he is what
termed unfortunate, he complains of hi
ill luck. 1t is said that Providence al
| loo fho cSf ffx Of 1o hos
, most bayonets and heaviest guns. Can
not the same principle be also apple,
to farming? Success is the result O
good management, of the best breeds o
, cattle, best tools and the richest soil'
) Success springs from economy in savin
/ and making manures, and in the jude
} ment used in their apphcat on. it cor
sists in the proper selection of seeds, tn
time of moving the grass, the way an
manner of tilling the ground, vigilanc
in destroying weeds, the care of cattl
8 and the manner Of feeding, in keepin
good repair. These are few of tn
l elements of good luck.
). The Stomach Of the Horse.-Th
horses stomach has capacity of onl
e about sixteen quarts, while that of th
/ OK has two hundred and fifty. In tl
n intestines this proportion is reversed
/ the horse having a capacity of one hui
d dred and ninety quarts, and one hui
r dred of the OK. The OK and most otht
animals have gall-bladder for q retel
d tion of part of the bile secreted duri1
Digestion The horse has really non
- and the bile flows directly into the i
testine as fast as secreted. This CO
e struction of the digestive apparatus i
It dicates that the horse was formed to q
slowly and digest continually bulky al
,e innutritious food. When fed on ha
Is it passes very rapidly through the stor
% ach into the intestines. The horse cs
eat but five pounds of hay in an hou
$. which is charged, during masticatio
with four times its weight of saliv
K Now, the stomach, to digest it we
lg will contain but about ten quarts, al
when the animal eats about one-thi
in of his daily ration, or seven pounds,
I'd one and one-half hours, he has sws
o. lowed, at least, two stomachs full of h'
b. and saliva, one of these having pass
to the intestine. Observation has shov
that the food has passed to the intesti
n. by the stomach in the order which it
received. If we feed horse six qual
u =, of oats, it will just fill his stomach, al
10 if as soon as he fin shes this we feed hi
d u the above ration of seven pounds Of ha
" " he will eat sufficient in three-quar;e
ai of an hour to have forced the oats G
=. tirely out of his stomach into the int
VI tine. As it is the Office of the stoma
~ ~ to digest the nitrogenous part of t
~ feed, and as a stomachful of oats &C
tains four or five times rs much of the
d. as the same amount of hay, it is c.
. tain that either the stomach must
o crete the gastric Juice five times as ia
which is hardly possible, or it must
IL tain this food five times as long.
feeding the oats first, it can only be
tanned long enough for their proI
y digestion OF hay; consequently it see