The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-01-20
THE FARM.


familiar with this noble beast can attest.
1t is true that q horses countenance
sometimes indicates viciousness, but this
thing of examining his eyes, head, tail,
etc., etc., to find whether he has intelli-
gence, temper, courage, honesty, etc., is
worse than the sickhest popycock. The
only way to secure good-natured and
servioeable horse without danger of being
swindled, is to make your selection and
then take him on trial A common plan
in horse-trading is to take every man for
villain until he proves himself gentle.
man. Farming World.
MICE are very prolific; a single pair
will often multiply to fifty or more dur
Ing single season, as the earlier broods
reproduce one or more generations.
Usually large proportion of each sum-
mer's growth is killed off in winter. if
autumn rains saturate the soil. If at any
point the soil freezes solid before copious
rains, extra caution should be taken to
protect fruit trees and shrubs against
mice. The methods, such as banking
earth around the trees; tramping the
snow hard about the trunks as it falls !;
putting tarred paper, four to six inches
above ground and little below, etc.,
should be adopted.
POTATOES. is estimated that New
York City alone daily consumes 90, 900
bushels of potatoes; or one bushel to
rs or so Of the resident and transient
population; or four and half bushels
each per annum. Potatoes always
is an expensive food. That is to
say comparatively. A bushel of
potatoes go lbs. contains nearly
30 lbs. Of water and only about
10 lbs. of solid nutriment, which is
mainly starch. Taking the country al
together, and the prices of potatoes,
corn, wheat, etc., high and low, from
year to year, the average nutritious food
obtained in the form of potatoes costs
four to five times as much as it does IL
the consumption of corn or beans, and
two and half to four times as much
as in the form Of wheat -four, or oatmeal,
beans. rice. etc.
IMPLEMENTS. - Wagons, plows, har-
rows, rakes, in short any implement that
with good usage and protection will last
eight years, will become weak and de-
fective, and generally useless if exposed
during four years of dews, rain, and sun.
It can not be otherwise. Dew is very
destructive to all wood and sun-cracks
admit rain and moisture to the interior
ibers, to work injury there. To have
implements thus exposed is direct loss
of fifty per cent, q heavy tax. But, to
state it mildly, an implement which, left
unprotected, would last say five years,
will undoubtedly last six years if always
kept dry and in the shade, when not in
| actual use. This will save one-fifth OF
its efficiency, or twenty per cent. A few
boards, or straw cover, and attention to
having the implements always put under
1t, is far more profitable than to "work
OUT the twenty per cent. to buy new
ones. Woodwork that mast be left ex-
posed, will be greatly benefited by a
frequent application of paint, or simply
coat of painting oil, and filling up all
sun cracks as soon as formed, with such
oil. The use of crude petroleum tends
to the preservation of wood, may be ap.
piled to all implanted woodwork of i'm.
from rust by thin coat of lard which
| has been melted with resin (rosin) THE
size of blackwalnut to pint of lard,
more or less. This forms sort of var.
nish that sheds water or dew. Table
knives and forks, and other steel articles
to be laid away, if rubbed with the
| slightest film of this lard-resin mixture,
will keep bright TO: long time. 1t is
easily removed when desired.
SHELTER SAVES FooD. Every keeper
Of animals would actually profit by lit
tie study of chemistry and physiology.
Here is short lesson All kinds of food
as hay. grain, bread, meat, ETC., are like
wood, mainly composed of charcoal (car
bon) and water, with considerable nitro
gen In some of them. To prove this
| strongly heat any of the above food ma
terialy in coal pit, or better, under
glass. Water with some nitrogen gas
will be driven off and can be found il
the glass receiver, while only charcoal
will remain. Let in more air and the
charcoal itself will unite with the oxygen
of the atmosphere, and also go off as 6
transparent, invisible carbonic acid gas
This chemical action sets at liberty heal
| that was before concealed or insensible
the same as when coal is burned rapidly
in stove, producing an active fire o.
as when wood decays. but gives off heat
SO slow as not to be observed. Exactly
the same thing occurs when any food is
dissolved (digested) in the stomach Of
animals or men, and is taken into the
blood and carried to all parts of the body
The blood gets oxygen also from the air
in the lungs, and carries it all through
the body. The atoms of oxygen meet
the atoms of digested food, here, there,
and everywhere in the blood vessels.
The two unite just as they do in stove;
heat is produced, only minute quantity
at any one point, but great deal Of it,
taking the whole blood circulation to-
gether, and so the whole body is kept
warm. though heat is constantly escap-
ing from the whole outside surface. Ma
ture provides that the body shall always
be kept warm otherwiseit would quickly
perish; and 50 if the oxygen in the
blood don't find food enough to keep up
the internal heat, it will attack and con-
sumo any fat or flesh stored in the body,
and thus make the animal poor. We
must have an ever-burning fire in both
the animal and human system. If the
surrounding atmosphere is cold. and car
| ries off heat rapidly from the surface Of
the body, we must increase the internal
production OF heat by putting In more
food, or by surrounding the body with a
covering that will prevent the escape Of
much heat. Is it not plain then, that by
keeping animals warm, by means of close
buildings, or shelter against heat-steal-
ing winds, less food will be needed, and
there will be less waste of flesh In max
ing heat? Any arrangement of shelter,
cover, stable, shed, blankets-anything
that will prevent the natural warmth
from passing away from the surface Of
any animal-will be q great saving of
food required to keep up the absolutely
necessary internal life warmth will pre-
vent loss Of flesh: will allow the food 10
go more to adding to weight of flesh, or
the yield Of milk, or Of wood. Shelter
and external warmth in cold weather are
most economical and therefore profitable
in the keeping of farm stock.-AD1eri.
can AgricuIt1rist.
HOUSEHOLD HELPS.
from the American Cultiyator.l