The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1884-02-18

not keep SO well. The employment or salt
is not necessary. nor is a mixture with dry
matters, cut straw, chaff etc. required. Silos
constructed in masonry and cement give
good results, but no special system of trench
can be recommended; that ought to depend
on the region, the surface and sub-soils, and
the climate The chief ends to secure, con-
sist in the exclusion Of air and water, the
pressing of the matter In the trench with
regularity, and covering it with a pressure
OF to 10 cwts. per square yard. Cutting
before trenching is not indispensable, save
in the case of forage with thick stems. In
nutritive value, silo-food approaches most
to winnowed fodder, but is more assimila-
tive. In the case of milch COWS it is bene-
fetal ration.
1t is the usual practice with housed stock
to commence the rations with hay, and then
having cleaned the troughs, supply the wat
or, to be followed next by roots etc. This
plan or order of giving food-supplies, has
been called in question. At the agronomi-
cal station of Kiel, where the cattle can
drink when they please, the rations were
distributed thus, twice a day: hay, cake,
roots and straw. It was observed that the
cows only drink after having eaten the roots
(mangolds), and that as soon as the special
drinking trough was reflled, they COM
menced again to drink with ayidity. Only
occasionally an animal drank little water
after consuming straw.
The agriculturists of the department of
Loiret, have presented M. Parteur swith a
splendid object d'art-Subject, "Youth," in
honor of the benefits of his discovery of vac
cinating cattle against the Charlton malady-
has conferred upon them. Since they have
practiced his discovery, they fear no longer
the disease. Impossible to have more strik-
ing testimony.
The herring boats on returning to France
after the seasons fishing, proceed to re-cure
the fish; the refuse is available for manure.
This is not in high request from the quanti-
ty of salt it contains, so per cent. 1t is sug-
gested to wash the refuse tive or three times
In water to carry of the excess of salt, and
then dry the debris, which contains Al per
cent. of nitrogen and of phosphoric acid.
The fatty matter, IS per cent, and which is
of no use to the plant, could be separated
by treatment with sulphuret of carbon, that
which would enhance the heterogeneous value
of the manure.
Messrs. Lavallard of the General Omni-
bus Company, assisted by Professor de
Muntz, have been occupied for two years
nynarimnutipu On fba roIn tive no I,,a 80 cav
dust, peat and straw, as littering for horses,
and their Importance as manures. The con-
clusion is, that saw-dust from white deaD
ranks first, then peat mold, aud lastly,
straw.
A roller-cart, though not exactly new in
idea, is becoming favorite, in the case
where the eutting-up of meadow land by or
binary wheels, during the transport of top
dressings, is undesirable, especially when
moving machines are intended to be used
1t is an ordinary cart arranged to be fixed
on roller of two or three joints.
The society for tie encouragement of Ma
tional Industry, has awarded it's first prize
of $4,000 francs to M. Faucon, for his plan
of resisting the rayages of the phylloxera,
by autumnal submersion of the vines and
good spring manurings. The plan is now
applied to $4,000 acres of Vineyards, and
signifies an assured production of
more than half million gallons of wine
yearly. 1t is regrettable to learn that there
are 100000 acres of vineyards capable of be-
ing flooded, but that the proprietors decline
to SO treat them.
M. Gaillot of Beaune (Cote d. Or has pro-
duced the latest remedy against the vine
bug. Accepting as true the saying, that
fire purifieth all things, he has invented a
small hand-machine, three pounds, called
ttGnbelr, which injects fame of petroleum
distance of ten inches. By a system of
cocks, this fame can be directed in any di-
rection, and hood protects it from being
deviated by the wind. 1t is thus between
November and February, and during dry
period, that he singes vines attacked with
the phylloxera, destroying their eggs etc. !;
the same cure can can be applied to any
trees affected with insects, regulating the
action of the fame to the delicacy of the
stems. tits capital for blistering off old
coats Of paint, and scorching the walls of
stables or apartments where an infectious
malady has taken up its abode.
A proprietor of several farms asserts, that
for ten years he has prevented wild mustard
and similar or weeds spring up with his SOW
ings. In March, he employees peculiar
harrow, of finely-set steel teeth, combining
the advantages of scurifer; the soil well
stirred, is carefully rolled. All the seeds of
weeds that can grow will now sprout. When
the latter have sprouted, he gives a few
strokes of his harrow-which never allows
the weeds to return to the soil, while ''stirr-
ing. the soil aud the enemy lies every
where dead. 1t is thus his farm is ever
clean, while his neighbours is filthy.