Red Lodge picket. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1889-1907, 1894-02-10
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When you send a riding or driving
horse TO the city market. leave the tail
en-, so that the new owner can please
himself about ha*ing the animal docked.
Professor Roberts of the Cornell stax
ton advocates ,.eiicrniny and says. if
properly performed, there is no pain i'll
the operation. HIS way is IL sreat tlly
month-old calf. 4 stick of eausti".
lnoistened at the end used, is apphsd ~
the budding horn spot until It becomes
slightly sensitive. A slight scstb fornrs
over the spot, which soon drops off. leav-
ing a perfectly smooth bali. There was
no inflammation i'll any Of tie trials ap
the station.
PEAT AND PEAT MOSS FOR BEDDING.
Prepared an,. Used For Bedding: and Fer
t;iizcrs In Germany.
Several years ago experiments wef3
made With dried moss pe:ss and it was
found that 1t could be used tG great ;i(.
vantage in tie place Of straw: yet it was
but slowly that farmers co1:ll be con-
yinced that this hitherto valueless stuff.
which is found in considerable tracts nli
over the country. where it has previois'
II been considered Of no value whatso-
ever and its existence as a drawback to
every farm. siloHl:l be called upon to
revolutionize old established usases and
to be suddenly considered OF immense
value as a regular mine Of plant food
and ali unrivaled absorbent OF ammo
MIA.
1t will absorb three times the weight
Of liquid droppings that the best straw
will, and as Il producer of hulnus it al,o
gives the soil. weight for weight. three
times the amount Of hulnus that straw
does. Its application is attended with
less trouble, and the manure is in better
shape and can be handled Immediately
and spread by means of Il shovel if r.
quired as finely as one could spread sand
or earth, enabling its use as winter top
dressing where straw manure wonld not
do. use this peat bedding for cattle.
horses and pigs 1T the rate of five pounds
q day for every full grown animal and
find tl.at they are more easily kept clean
than by the most liberal allowance Of
straw.
The first step necessary to bring 4 peat
bog into useful condition is its drainage,
which should at once be laid to the very
lowest level of the peat. A network Of
bitches should then be cut in the bog,
which is generally most tenacious i'll
holding its water. The main drain
should be governed by gate or sluice,
SO that the bog can be kept moist dur
ing the season one intends doing the cut
ting Or digging of peat, as it does not
cut easily when dry and would also be
too much exposed. to be fired and burned
out ii it becomes too dry.
cut the peat with a common square
edged spade kept perfectly sharp. in
chunks about Is inches long by s inches
broad and 3 to inches thick, which are
carted away in a handcart as fast as
pitched out Of the ditch, to be spread OH
the ground on both sides Of the ditch for
a distance OF 90 yards. The best time to
Go this is late autumn. The chunks are
then frozen in winter. which tends to-
loosen their structure and facilitates
their subsequent drying.
In spring or early summer they may
be turned to hasten this process, although
this is not absolutely necessary. ct
home they are dumped into a shed urtl!
used, when they pass through grinding
mill, a kind of gin, that has two iron
cylinders running toward each other at
different speeds, studded with u inch
steel fingers. This mill can be operated
by hand or by horse power. The peat
comes out i'll a mass Of exquisite softncss
and is ready for use. The manure from
my cows and horses is dumped into Il
large stall III the same stable occupied by
a number of young cattle running loose
and is there troddon down to a compact
mass to be carted out every month Or six
weeks.
| keep no manure Whatsoever in the
open air. Not drop Of liquid manure
has ever found its way out Of This stable
whose floor is cement concrete, into the
manure cistern. In fact, the cutters i'll
the stable behind the animals are per-
fectly dry, and the absolute absence OF
stable smell is a proof that the peat is an
effective trap for ammonia This ma
nure is so strong that it has to be used
very sparinsly for all cereals CT they
will lodge badly. Hundreds of thou
sands of tons of this peat bedding are
now annually turEed out in Holland and
different parts of Germany principally
Bavaria-pressed i'll bales of about 200
pounds each, and the supply has this
year not been equal to the demand, a 10
ton carload selling now for about $50 at
the peat works.-J. F. Sars i'll Rural
New Yorker.