The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-09-22
AGRICULTURE,

FEEDING VALUE OF ENs11AaE.-We
hove inquiries concerning the feeding
valuo of ensilage, some OF which show
some confusion of mind in regard to the
subject. Bearing in mind few gener-
nj principles Will help to better under
standing:
First. The value of food preserved
IN silo depends very greatly on what
was put in---lts nature and condition.
The material used and the dt gree OF
maturity of the crop will greatly affect
The value.
Second. Putting grass, cornstalks or
other substance into sllo does not add
anything to the nutriment contained in
the material. We cannot take out what
we did not put in. Cutting and storing
the green food in silo may mako it
more digestible; may, and often docs
make it fuore palatable than when tho
food is dried in the open air. Letting
the moisture dry from meadow grass
or from green oornstalks in itself should
not make these substances less desira.
able as food. In tact, 1t does make
them less paiatable. Preserving much
of this moisture in tho ensilaged food.
may be help.
Third. Reason and experience alike
AOtho I'D w cOhSluuo UuhU W0 CbuuOG
mako ensilaged grass or oornstalks alone
take the place Of good grain feed. The
latter should be given III connectian with
the former.
Fifth, Reason and experience alike
show that almost any paiatable, nutri-
tious, succulent plant kept III q sllo,
with reasonable exclusion of the air,
makes palatable and fairly satisfactory
food.
A METHOD Of preventing the lnroads OF
the cabbage grub is to make each plant
unpalatable to the grub. This may be
done Ill the following manner: In the
spring procure some fresh burned limo,
lot it become air.slaked, and mix it With
an equal quantity of SCOT. In planting,
tho holes ure made with a trowel IN the
usual way; eaoh plant is dropped INTO
it's place and an inch of soil put over
the roots. good watering given first.
then moderate handful of scot and
lime mixture thrown into each hole, and
the remaining soil filed in. Equal pats
Of SCOT and tine garden soil mixed with
water to the consistency of thin mortar.
with the plants dipped INTO the mixture
up to the base OF the leaves previous to
planting, IL aluo advised ns II preventive
to clubbing. Wood ushes, mixed with
water poured into tho holes, hns beon
tried with SUCCESS. i
EXPERIMENTS we're made at the Mas
snchus. tt> Agricultural College in grid
ling surplus branches which were to he
ntterward ont away. a revolving knife
cut rapidly q rnY Of the bark fourth
OF all noh wide Just below tho bunch of
fruit about midsummer. This treat
mcnt WAS performed IL twelve rows of
grapes. The enlarged and early fruit
sold for $3G more tlInn the same amount
OF the common or main crop, the labor
bong less than half the sum. No inju-
ry has been apparent to tho vines 40 trou-
ted, tho glrdled canes beng cut away
whom done with.
SUcH weeds rs ohickwecd and purs-
lane, wi loh very quickly go 70 seed,
should be carefully removed from the
land, III order to destroy the seeds they
Gohtaln;the safest way is TO dump them
in some out-oi-the-way ctruor, where
they can do no harm, or to compost
them carefully with hot horse dung,
whloh will ehectunIly destroy the seeds
IL the compost IL turned carefully 80 as
to bring MI parts into the hcat Of the
central portion Of the heap. The out
side OF the henp does not become hot
enough to destroy all the seed, but tho
middle does.
when you sot tho hens scatter sui
phur, snuff, tobacco or insect powder in
til" nest, and again about ten days i,c-
fore tho CHI cks are duo dust tho fenth-
ers Of the hen well with sulphur or in
scot powder. and the ohicks will como
from tho nctts froe from lice; then put
them III clean coop, give the mother
hons chance to dust themselves, nnd
tue ohloks will not be troubled with
lice. For young chicks that are troub-
led with lice there is nothing better than
II few drops Of sweet oronm on the head
Of each ono. 1t soon spreads and kills
the lice.
dRArE-dKowEk, who greatly disikes
earth worms, tells me- that last summer
he killed large striped snake, swollen
full, AZ he supposed, with hNpless toad
or irog swallowed. On examination, the
swollen mass proved to he enrthworms,
and my friend repcnted the killing.
Fer my own part, l cannot IA yot be-
NeVe TINT enrthworms arc particularly
injurious. AS plenty rs they arc in our
nohest clay loans, l am forced to think
tnat, II injurious, we should grow moth
ing where we often get our best crops"
TIlK winter rye that is to be cut into
hay should he cut before it comes into
bloom. If the weather ls favorable it
VIII make about as ins I let alore after
euttli y Until it IL pretty we'll wilted, or
merely turned in tho swMth onca or
twice. 1t GOES not pny TO handle il vcry
much the first day or two a'ter eating,
as thtro is too much water to be lifted.
Rye ia 30 grensy, like cabbage, that Il
shower does not wet it in muon; but the
last day before eating it III, it should
be Kept constantly stirred by tho ten
der. 1t oaunot be too dry to keep we'll
in the mow.''
LIME Stacked out dry, nr nir. slnoked
80 as to be fine aud light, and sprinkled
freely Oh squash, melon and cucumber
vines, has been found to be protection
from the striped bug. The bug always
flies i'll its pnssage from ono locality to
another. II it aiights on tho lined sur
face OF the leaves it does not like tho
lime. and ii closely watched will be seen
to soon put out for some other Il oality.