Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-11-27

Sol fe,S
way eeding horses on molasses.
calls attention to the fact that for two
years this food has been in general
use for all stock. and nine-tenths of
the draft animals of the Louisiana
sugar district. The animals like it.
and are kept in splendid condition by
this diet. Mules fed on molasses main.
~ are worth 20 TO % per cent. more
than those on the cotton plantation,
which generally are fed with cotton
seed and cotton-seed meal. ''Nolasses
has been a waste product in Louisiana
ever since the improved processes
in the manufacture of sugar have ex-
tracted more of the saecharine from it
than formerly" says the New York
Sun. 1t has been a problem how to
get rid of it. The discovery, there
fore, that it could be used as a food
for stock was of double value Six
months ago a factory was erected fer
the manufacture of cattle food from
molasses. The process is very simple.
The molasses is mixed with corn or
Se6So IA hNeli ~ S4Uo. p1OpOl llOuS. he
mixture is pressed into a solid mass
and ried, and then ground in a fine
powder. 1t is like the cotton-seed
meal with which cattle and horses are
fed throughout the world. The horses,
mules and cattle are very fond of the
molasses, and they do better on it
than on any other food fed to them.
They keep fat and are capable of en-
traordinary work in hauling heavy
loads. This one factory turns out
$50 tons of molasses preparation a
day, and the stuff is being rapidly sub
stituted on the plantations for the
raw molasses, not because it is any
better, but because it is more conven-
iently handled. So far the use of mo-
lasses for feeding horses has been
confined to New Orleans and the
sugar districts, but by this process,
which enables it to be handled easily,
it is likely to be shipped elsewhere.
Some Use for Surplus Apples.
The Vermont experiment station
has found the use of hand grinders
and cider presses improbable, while
the manufacture of apple jelly from
cider paid. Forty pounds of jelly can
be obtained from 100 pounds OF cider
if one pound of sugar be added to
every five pounds of the liquid The
finished product will have cost about
three cents per pound. The common
method of allowing cider to ferment
profitable. The quickest and best re-
suits were obtained by mixing equal
parts of cider and old vinegar
Waste apples may be fed to COWS and
pigs. Mich cows are often made sick
by being allowed to stuff themselves
at the piles of half-rotten apples un.
der the trees. Careful tests have
shown that apples fed regularly and
in moderation to COWS will produce
no bad effects. Their nutritive value
is not very great, but they do not
damage. One or two big sacks of
dried apples used to hang from the
garnet rafters of every farmhouse a
few years ago. The apples were dried
on boards in the yard or strung and
hung in festoons along the sunny
side of the house. Flies and dust
helped to cause the abandonment of
the almost universal practice. A few
farms have substituted modern evap-
orators for the old apparatus, and
there are still some dried apples. The
expense of the machinery, however,
makes it practicable only for those
who expect profit from the sale of
the product. Still, very good home
driers can be bought for S. or $40.
Those families who still remember
with regret the dried apples of
mothers time" ought to try the small
evaporators.
Pottting and Forcing Bulbs.
Winifred Weld Beck in New Eng
land Farmer-Every once in a While
| read that blossoms of bulbs forced
in water are frail and short-lived, and
while l shall always grow hyacinths
in pots of good rich earth, I am sure
that nothing could be more beautiful
than my bowls of trumpet narcissus
The paper white polyanthus narcissus
had grown well, blossoming so freel,'
in this way that / tried bowls of BIZ
color Horsfeildii, Empress and En-
peror trumpet narcissus. and if any
one cares to try the experiment it will
be revelation of much beauty, as the
roots and leaves as well as the bios