Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-01-05


Of soft food. 1t is easily picked by
the little fellows, and they can quickly
fill their crops from a dab of wet meal
thrown on The ground before them.
This too rapid eating is one of the
worst evils in artificial feeding young
/ chickens. They gorge themselves, be-
come sur:eited and die. We have
/ found whole wheat grains much bet
ter, beginning for two or three days
| by breaking the grain in two pieces.
| 1T does not matter, however, ii the lit
tie fellow is forced to do this work
himself. He will struggle with
grain OF wheat or oat grain for two or
three minutes, and at last, after des-
perate struggle, swallow it. The very
hardness of the whole grain keeps his
food from compacting in his crop.
We would not, however, feed whole
corns TO very young chicks, nor in
deed corn ground into meal, as their
principal diet.
At present many country people
want to know how to make quickly
vinegar out of cider. Apples vary in
the amount Of sugar they contain.
Some that make thin and watery ci-
uer. or are largely diluted with water,
will never make strong vinegar unless
reinforced with more sweet. Any
coarse sugar or molasses will do, rs
whatever impurities it contains must
be thrown up to the surface in violent
fermentation, and may be skinned
off, II the cider is all right, place it
in place, where some may be drawn
off and poured back every day, taking
pains to bring it into contact with the
air as II uch IS possible. For this pur-
pose it is often filtered over coarse
shavings or straw. The oxygen the
air starts first the vinOus or alcoholic
fermenta ion, which is quickly fol-
lowed by the acid fermentation. The
more sweet there is in the cider the
stronger the fermentation and the
! sharper the vinegar. If you have old
cider that don't turn readily into vine
gar, put it into an old molasses hogs
head or barrel, and give it another
! trial. There are various methods OF
! keeping cider from working. If your
old cider has been subjected to any Of
/ these, it is better to make or buy
barrel of new. The cider that has
been doctored to keep It sweet is hard
to change into vinegar, and Is not OF
the best when made. The common
practice Of putting the cider barrel in
the coolest corner OF the cellar, and
then letting it work itself into vinegar
without help, is not one to be gener-
/ ally recommended.
A CORES pondent OF the Country
/ Gentleman writes from California how
/ he saves and cures peaches in the sun.
He says neaely all evaporators are
abandoned and the rays Of the sun
are depended on and answer as good
purpose as the best system OF artificial
heat. He goes on at length to say how
thu fruit is gathered, peaches being
J is cwn crop, that it is b!eached by
use of sulphur fumes half an hour,
and the sun dries large fruit that is in
halves in three days time. California
evidently has great advantage in its
warm sun and dry climate, but while
they depend on the suns rays only,
they have not any decided advant-
ages over the evaporating machines
now in Rogue in Oregon. They do all
the work of preparation aud laying on
trays, and while they place these trays
in the sun the evaporating concerns
hold them more conveniently and the
cost of wood is small. The cost OF
handling is the same In either case.
There was short time last summer
when sun drying was efficient, but
not TO be depended on. The sun in
August can be utilized here in con-
nection with cvaporating by heat.
Last summer when peach plums
were threatening to spoil because
there was not evaporating space to
hold them, the expedient was resorted
TO of spreading the fruit cut and pitt
ed upon boards and partially drying
+ it thus. 1t was found to be an ad-
vantage, as the fruit partially sun-drled
was even better than that put at first
into the evaporstor. If We have a
good sun it cGn be utilized to dry fruit
and it can be bleached as well before
sun drysng as when dried in an evap-
orator.
In making calculations for any in
vestmeDt, it is always we'll to con-
slider both sides carefully-the proba-
ble cost and the probable returns the
investment will yield. II by one
| ,atbnd oF Dracedl1ra If costs five
cents per pound, and the price OF
beef gives promise OF fiuctuating be-
tween Al and 81 cents per pound, the
investment is not promising one.
Again, If it costs 500 to raise COM
mon horse in a common way to the
age OF four years, and there is no
promise OF more than $l25 for him,
While it cost. $lz5 to raise d fine draft
colt to the age Of three years, anu
such colts readily sell at $l75, it is not
hard to see which investment gives
the greatest promise of profit. In this
question of relative profit, the Farm
ers' Advance gives the following inter
esting incident: A gas company hav-
ing quantity of pipe to be hauled
some distance offered what they sup
posed fair rates by the hundred
pounds for the work. Light teams,
or what many call general-purpose
teams, could draw an average OF 2,2OO
pounds, earning $3.50, which, after
deducting $1.50 per day for driver and
his board, left $3.50 for use of team,
I wagon and harness. Any one will