The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1894-01-20
THE AGRICULTURAL WORLD
MATTERS OF GENERAL INTEREST
TO THE FARMER. ~
Crops in Proper Condition
Green Corn Fodder-The Profit
From Geese-The Garden-Items of
Interest. '.

From Geese-The Garden-Items of
Interest.
The loss Of fruits and vegetables in
storage is Of not infrequent occurrence.
To lose ones supply Of potatoes or
apples is a serious matter. Sometimes
the loss is due to storing in bad con-
dition. Potatoes and apples-in fact,
every fruit or vegetable, should not be
stored away while damp. Dampness
favors rot. Fruits and vegetable are
best stored in some dry, airy outbuild-
ing until the imminent approach of
freezing weather makes it necessary to
put them in the cellar. The building
should have rather open sides, and
! there should be a free circulation Of
air under and around it. Seed corn
should not be put away until it is thor
oughly dried-to put it away damp is
to give a cordial invitation to disaster.
If meat is put away in proper con-
dition it will keep sweet; otherwise it
will decay, and it would make many
farmer feel poor to have his pork spoil.
Meat most frequently spoils because
it is put away before it has thoroughly
cooled. One should remember that the
interior cools last and that the middle
Of a piece viii retain considerable heat
after the surface has been cool for
some time. Sometimes meat, butchered
in very cold weather, is put away frOZ-
en- so hard that it will not absorb salt.
This may favor decay. Every year
much hay, straw and fodder is lost be-
cause Of storing it in bad condition.
The great bulk of the straw stored
in this country is put in stacks, and it
will keep in good condition several
months, if the stacks are properly con-
structed. Much depends upon the top,
and it is a good plan to repair the top
and carefully readjust The keepers some
weeks after the stack has been built.
1t will have become settled by that
time. The same attention should be
given to hay stacks. Corn fodder
left in the field during the winter is
sure to be damaged seriously. The
parts injured are just the cnes that are
most valuable. If it pays to cut corn
it will lay to store the fodder in such
way as to preserve it. If it is well
set up and given roof of boards and
straw it will keep in good condition.
Corn cribbed before it is fully ma
tlre will mold, and may rot. 1t does
not pay to get in too great q hurry
| and store the corn before it is fit; and,
Oh the other hand, unless one begins
husking it at the earliest seasenable
| moment and pushes the work, his corn
| will pass beyond a fit condition for
storing if he be in the great corn grow
ing belt Wheat or oats put in the
bin in unfit condition will spoil unless
attended to, and one should frequently
run his hand deep down into the bin,
for scne weeks after threshing. If the
grain starts to spoil the only thing to
do is to get it out on the barn floor
and shovel it around every day until
it dries and cools. In conclusion, to
put every thing in storage in good con-
dition is q reform much needed on many
farms, and it is to be noted that it is
reform that may be begun at any
time.-American Agriculturist.
Green Corn Fodder.
The results of some experiments
rpon the comparative digestibility of
green corn fodder, and Of the same ma
| terial field cured and ensilaged, are
presented in report of the Pennsyl-
vania experiment station. These re-
| salts, when compared with those of
and elsewhere, modify some previous
conclusions as to the influence of en-
silage upon the digestibility of corn.
Contrary to the generally accepted
opinion it was found that in certain
| cases the process Of ensilage increased
the digestibility of the woody fiber of
the corn. It was also found however,
that this result was only reached when
the amount of fermentation and con-
sequent loss in the silo was excessive.
and that under more normal condi-
tions, both ensilage and field curing
somewhat decrease the digestibility Of
corn Evidence is constantly accu-
mulating that the undoubted great
value of ensilage in progressive farm
ing is not due to any mysterious &C
ton Of the silo upon the fodder; but
is an economic advantage arising from
the facts, first, that the corn crop pro-
duces q very large amount of food per
acre, and second, that the silo pre-
serves this food with comparatively
little loss in palatable and succulent
condition, so that it is eaten with little
or no waste.
Condemned Animals.
Following are the latest inst auctions
given to the q. S. Bureau of Animal
Industry in charge of the inspection of
animals slaughtered at abattoirs
throughout the United States: .~.
All animals found on either ante or
post-mortem examination to be affect
ed as follows are to be condemned
and the carcasses thereof stamped
with the condemnation" stamp sup
Piled by the department, and inspect
ors will see that said carcasses are
placed in the rendering tanks of the
abattoirs:
First-Hog cholera.
Second-SWine plague
Third-Carbon or anthrax.
Fourth Malignant epizootic catarrh.
Ftfth-Pyaemia and septfcaemia.
Sixth-Mange or scab In advanced
stages II