Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1880-12-23
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Is THE PRACTICE OF RAISING CALVES on
SKINNED MILK A CONCEIVABLE ONE The
slop-feeding Of calves has many admirers.
II is thought TO be economy. and that they
grow jus, as we'll MANY have become so
welded 10 this Kind Of slop-work that with
Calvinis,ie readiness they rcproye the cas-
tiers Of doubt. Calves often do seemingly
well when weaned on skim-milk. With
new milk nigh; they not do better What
is worth doing a, all. Is worth dong we'll"
We never grew a slop-fed calf, but j, came
to the frs, housing, swarming with lice
There is a physiological law which rules
in thi, matter Of food and growth and he
who ofends. reaps the penalty. for Natures
Law is no; Kidding sieve" full Of loop
hole escapes.
Skinned milk is not the food which Ma
ture provides for the mammals Young. The
cream and the natural warmth of the milk
are elements Of nutrition which are indispen-
sable to health and growth. In new milk
there is caseine for ,he'production Of flesh
phosphate Of lime for the production
Of bone; sugar and fatty matter for the pro
duction of ia; and heat All Of these sub
stances which are only to be found in the
original milk must be supplied to build up
such "iron-elad" constitutions as the seasons
Of icy cold require.
r. hp = Of
English recipe is Ito the skim-milk. add an
infusion Of linseed, an infusion Of boiled
beans, with little sugar; il makes pow
erful milk, on which calf will grow like a
weed"
WHICH or FARM ANIMALS HAS rHK MOST
TEETH The hog, having forty four.
Is BREED AND RACE ONE AND THE
SAM NO. A race i natures; breed is
arts.
Should SALT BIZ FED TO FARM STOCK ?
Doubtless, the ninety and nine" will ans
wer, yes. Our heterodoHy may incur their
disproval. In the face OF all Of the grand
Aourishes Of guesses which say that animals
need sailing, there is higher law drawn
from the pages ofmodern Physiology, whose
dic,um the zeal Of opposing opinions can
not fling aside.
An attempt to eradicate ali old opinion
reminds US Of an English poet, in despair
of all attempt. to eradicate charlook. who
was inspired TO sing
But he zays. zays'e, II Amt 10 Use
Vor to 60 to a girt expense.
vor twill come agen, whste'er thee does.
Nor year or two yrom hence
To 20 back TO the salt-Salt NAV be a
useful adjunct in the feed of growing ami
mals. If rightly fed; ba, free use Of j, to
animals growing. grown. or fattening, is a
positive INJURY.
Salt is taken into the stomach 10 enabl.
an animal 10 form bale What IS bile !,
is fluid of yellow or greenish color. Sc
creted in the liver. partly collected in the
gall bladder, and discharged into the small
intes,ines, (duodenum) in immediate con-
nection with the stomach. Ii is a COM
pound formed from fat. gum, sugar, resi-
nous matter, Soda product Of salt-and
so on. Its purpose is to assist, or TO com
plete the digestive process. Without salt
no bile; without bile, no digestion. But
mind, any means which produces an excess
of bile, like feeding an excess Of salt-re-
tards digestion. robs the animal Of portion
of its food, prevents the formation OF fat.
induces dyspepsia and kindred diseases.
The more bile, the less fat; the more salt,
the more bile.
True, animals, sheep especially, when
they can have salt, will greedily eat it
Does this indicate that they so need it,
if SO, why will lambs gorge themselves with
the leaves of the deadly poison laurel AMI
mails do need salt A fair sized COW will
eat daily in its food from 3, TO 5 ounces Of
salt, which is contained in the ordinary
saline materials Of the food itself Be il
known that chloride of sodium common
salt is one of the IA ever present oonsti-
tuents of plants.
If an animal does need an excess of salt,
and one can't resist the inclination TO give it,
broadcas, it upon the land leaving the AMI
mails to take it up in their food.
When q COW or a calf is poisoned with
lamb-kill, salt is one of the remedies to
counterfeit it, thus proving that lone poison
may be the sntidote to another.
COOKING FOOD FOR cATTLE.-wILL IT
PAY?-In dealing with such controver,ible
questions as this, one finds himself like a
switch on railroad track-but one inch
between wreck and rolling prosperity
A few years since we had the pleasure?
of listening to the reading of an elaborate
paper expressly prepared to prove the econo-
my of cooked food for stock, the text and
context, of which from first to fms, was
'much do about nothing" 1t neither
proved nor disproved a single proposition;
it neither strengthened nor weal ened the un-
certainty, as to whether ''Messop kicked
Barry or Barry kicked Messop-" The re-
quisite fixtures, as shown BY the paper,
would equal the cost of mining outfit.
On this subject Of cooking food there is
great deal Of misunderstanding Is to what
cooking can effect; q great deal Of misun-
derstanding As to what are the functions and
processes of digestion. If nutritive mater
ials do not exist in certain kind of food
cooking cannot supply them. Sawdust, by
steaming OF cooking, can't be converted into
q food. Hnutritive qualities do exist, all
that cooking can do is to make them more
soluble. Under mask Of solubiity, lies