New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-21
CONTRIBUTORS NOTES AND QUERIES.

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CONTRIBUTORS NOTES AND QUERIES.
Late experiments in the use of salt for domestic
animals have been found tn prevent diseases for
merly quite prevalent. especially such as are of q
direct blood and parasitic kind. 1t is said To de-
stroy the minute organisms of these malades. by
the proper of salt in their food perhaps the hog
cholera so destructive at times at the West. might
be com pletely rooted out. 1t certainly could be II
aided by suitable food and the swine were not
kept in too large herds, and always on pasture i'll
summer, aud in well ventilated clean, dry SUES VI
well sheltered dry yards in winter. Salt duly adj
ministered might also prevent the texas o".v'o
fever. 1t would he great task to feed IL 20 inc
large herds roaming there. In other parts OF the
reot West INT sacks or barrels OF IT might oe
transnorfed on to tn q ranges ana then scat'oIou
over spots of a few acres each at conslderaoe us
to,ces oport. These the cattle would soon una,
and come to them desired to lick al the SaiV "uu
crop the grass growing there, when wouiu nc III
some instances perhaps of a satlsh taste III iarEc
rocks of the Liverpool salt could be scatteTeu hciE
ana there on the feeding grounds 1t wonld ne sun
better As the elements have very llttle eHece III
dissulving this hard rock salt IL VIII no. Mdseo
y-be1 thus exposed. am so particular IN inc use
of salt TO nv animals that even give u W no
poultry by dissolving 1t in pure water ana theh aug
about II oil of this BRINE to gallon OF Tue itc5n
wafer which is used TO mix up their pudding haue
of wheat bran and meal OF some kinu,-corh' I9c'
Ia rIcv oof or huckyheat. | think il is in cOnse-
ournce of this and otherwise taking proper c'Ic on
NV animals and fow Is that am rot troubled Win
diseases Of any sort among theIn-IA. Is Aileh'
.T The fleShy part Of dDptcS is made nh mostly
of a houid contained i'll cells whose walls are eX-
ceedncly thin and delicate. 1t is OF utmost impor-
tance that the harvesting be cone so carefully that
thc cells are not Iuptured and the juices exposed to
the Air TO induce fermentation. If gathered when
the weather is wet and warm and cells are broken
by hrusing or Earring, the exposed Juice VIII be Sare
to fcrmcnt, when rot Will be lrIcsistl ana Idpu
f the IruIi at such time Is put III large piles where
il ,alnOt dry, 1t will decay without DTulSlhE'
gathered when the weather ~ dry ana cool ana
Kent where if will Try for awhile the Juice from
moderate wound Will dry down before efWehtdtlon
begins ana if kept dry the fruit may be preserved.
Il Professor l.. i. Arnold.
Having some fine tall coley, too thickly
planted to allow well of carUhing up, have tried
the cxperim ent on the half of some rows OF wrap
ming or shcctins each bunch of stems with paper
doubled 80 that light cannot reach tine stems
through it. 1t is st least much easier operation
than the carthing-up. The stems of each plant in
these rows are held together and erect by collar OF
TIN made from old fruit cans, two inches deep ana
little more in diameter. They we're placed when
the plants were set out, and are now hltcen
inches or so above the sOithc paper wrapping GOV,
ering all below them, and ashes covering the SOIL
round tne base of the paper columns 10 repeI aIugs
-IShelah.
late flood it will take years to repair. Three years
were spent III arranging experimental plots for corn
The water washed the soil of one upon the other,
etc. | live in a valley and felt sure when saw
them that the plots not high enough above
freshet mark. 1t must he apparent that the land
was i'll chosen. | feel very sorry, especially on ac-
count of good Mr.. Valentine who has spent money
with most liberal hand planning Tor results that
woull have been instructive TO farmers everywhere
and which are now necessarily denyed.-lDacre.
..Wth much interest | read Mr.. Joshua
Franklin's article on LdbOr-sdring IN the Gdrdea"
have frequently had to work corn by plougling
from and then back with one horse turning plough
much of my land being infested with Calystcgla
sepiun and some variety of smllaX, THINK; DuI tIe
plan OF a rolling coulter is a new hight 10 me- QUA
he kindly describe how it should be Made or
whether il can be procured from some manuIac-
turer IFS. A o., COleman's Falls. Va.
Can somc reader of THE tribune tell
me where steel scrapers can be obtained such
as are used for scraping the slush of English
roaawavs? They are like very wide killing hoe
set mt rather less angle and with the top and side
edges incnrved. Useful for scraping the surface OF
cow Yards into hsaps, and for cleaning stables or
roads and to collect dust into heaps for torlng as
deOdOrlzer.- Bjalrco.