The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-07-15

turers, varnish makers, hatters, drug
gists and in many other industries.
Now wherever it is possible substi
tutes are employed, such as wood
spirits and fusil oil, which have an
Objectionable odor and are rank
poisons.
1t is estimated that if the tax
should be reduced to so cents per
gallon that at least 100000 gal
Ions of alcohol would be used in the
above industries. This would create
a market for over 100000 bushels
of grain, while it is further claimed
that the Government would suffer no
loss of revenue.
| WHEN GRASS SHOULD BE CUT
When we consider that in an acre
of grass, yielding good crop, there
is, if cut at the proper time, generally
over two tons of water, there need
be no surprise at the hardness with
which this water is got rid of during
hay harvest in average weather.
When the atmosphere is damp, evap-
Grafton goes on very slowly, if at all;
hence it is well to consider whether,
as mere matter of convenience, en-
tirely outside of the question of the
greater value of early cut as COM
pared to late-cut hay, it is not the
wiser plan to cut grass before the
summer showers set in. 1t is well
known that prior to the excessive
heat usually present between the first
day of July and the middle of Au-
gust, we are quite likely to have clear
skies and fair good drying weather
1t is found infinitely easier to save
early-cut hay in such weather,
though containing over two tons of
water to the acre, than to save it
later in the season when showers are
more frequent.
AS an example take timothy, in a
climate where it blossoms in June,
cutting it as it is just about to bios
som, and before the summer heat
and rains have set in, it will be more
easily made, and yield infinitely bet
ter hay than when allowed to APP
proach ripeness. Low, fiat lands,
such as are frequently devoted to
timothy, are quite liable to hold wa
ter upon the surface after the summer
rains commence, greatly to the detri-
ment of the prospective hay crop.
On all such lands grass should be
cut early, for the reasons above Civ
en-, as well as for the added reason
that when low-lying meadows are
| flooded a greater or less amount of
sand and soil is Incorporated with
the crop, greatly to its dctriment.
When grass is cut in the Towering
stage, the very large amount of water
contained therein holds nutritive
elements in solution. These remain
in the plant, though the water is
eyaporated in the curing process.
EXPERIMENTS IN FEEDING.--The
superintendent of the model farm
at Guelph, Canada, gives as below
the results of some experiments made
there in cattle breeding:
! /. A steady frosty winter is bet
ter than an open one in feeding
cattle.
2. An average or year old steer
will eat its own weight of different
materials in two weeks.
3. Two or three year old cattle
will add one-third of a pound more
per day to their weight upon the
same materials unprepared.
4. 1t is 80 per cent. more profitable
to premature and dispose of fattening
cattle at two years old than to keep
them up to three years.
5. There is no loss in feeding a
cattle beast well upon a variety of
materials for the sake Of manure
alone.
6. Farm-yard manure from we'll
fed cattle 3 years old is worth an av-
erage of $3.50 per ton.
Z. A 3year-old cattle beast, we'll
fed, will give at least one ton of ma
nure every month of winter
s. No cattle beast whatever will
| pay IOI Tie ulreCt increase TO us
weight from the consumption Of any
kind or quantity of food.
9. On an average it costs IL cents
for every additional pound of flesh
added to the weight of or 3 year
old fattening steer.
10. In Canada the market value of
store cattle can be increased 80 per
cent. during six months Of finishing
by good feeding.
ii. In order to secure safe profit,
no store cattle beast, well done to,
can be sold at less than ] cents per
pound Give weight).
II. In the fattening of wethers, to
finish as shearings, the Cotswold
and Leicester grades can be made
up to 200 pounds, the Oxford down
$50 pounds, and the South down
| (srade) 100 pounds each, live weight
| ID. A COW wintered upon two tons
and half of hay will produce not
far from five tons of manure, provided
that she be well Uttered and none of
the eycrpments no wasted