The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-06-06

of acid phosphate. This will make 9
ton and you can use as much per acre
as experience has shown you to be
lproftahie.- Farm Gazette.
The Farm Telephone.
| We cannot realize at first thought
how much a telephone means to the
farmer. The progressive farmer wha
| is making money, Is busy man. When
his crops are calling him TO the aeld,
he cannot afford to run errands. Help
| Is getting scarcer every year on the
farm, and the farmer has TO help him
self by using everything that will save
time or make his time so farther.
When a man Is wanted for emergency
work. the farmer can find some one in
q Few moments spent at the telephone
instead of running to town or scour-
ing the neighborhood. II a machine
breaks down. q message to the irnple-
ment man will often save day In orr
derirg repairs that are not In stock.
Equally important is the advantage
of keeping in touch with the market
when the farmer has something to sell,
The grain or stock dealer can call In
a car of stuff on short notice when the
market is favorable, and both the
farmer and the dealer gain by the
transaction. which would be impos-
sible without the telephone. In a hun
| dred ways the telephone is valuable
to the farmers as a business asset.
| With the telephone, one can talk
to the neighbors or to relatives on the
other side OF the county, that one
would not see in a year. When doc
tor is wanted in hurry to save life
| the telephone proves friend In need
| A telephone is vastly more useful
and necessary to those who live on the
farm than to people in towns and cit
les. The farm telephone business is
| growing so rapidly that number OF
large independent factories are en-
| gagged in supplying the necessary mat
erials and instruments.
| 1t will not be many years until every
/ farmer who can afford buggy will
have a telephone. 1t seems more de-
| sirable for many reasons, that farmers
should own their instruments and their
lines, as a majority of the farm tele-
| phones now In use are owned, with
paying tribute to Caesar.
| Building a line is just as easy as
| setting a barb-wire fence. There are a
few little things to be looked after.
there Is nothing that need worry a
good machine man. The instruments
are not tenth as complicated as a
sewing Observation-Disclosures Age.
The Less Of Cud.
Says the veterinary editor of The
Breeders Gazette on the so-called loss
| of cud By the COW. The common idea
| that a COW Is the proud possessor of q
well-organized controllable cud which
she can bring into her mouth at any
| time, and which is absolutely necessary
as an aid to the mastication of food, Is
| part of the stock in trade of those who
believe in and that such mythical dis
eases as wolf in the tail and hollow
horn.
Every Illuminating animal forms all
rough food into pellets or boluses,
| which are thrown back from the stom-
ach, through the gullet, into the mouth
for slow and complete chewing and in
salvation. Hundreds of such boluses
are formed and masticated daily, but
no special cud Is reserved as a sort of
nest egg to stimulate formation other
cuds next day or hour when rumination
lis again commenced.
For this reason 1t is silly, absurd,
useless for well meaning but ignorant
would-be COW doctors to manufacture
an artificial cud of dough, bacon, red
herrings or any other comestible for
the deiectation of the sick COW, nor will
| the insertion of such a foreign body
| in her mouth cause her to regurgitate
and masticate her food unless she feels
| like it.
In short, cud chewing is the natural.
healthy function of all ruminant ami
mails, is carried on during health, sus-
pended during times of sickness, de-
| rangement of the digestive organs or
distress, fright or discomfort OF any
kind, and resumed when the cause of
suspension is removed.
The ruminant animal has four stom-
NJ of NuhtNh
known as the rumen, is the storehouse
for all food. Into this large recepta-
Gle the cow passes food as quickly as
| it is consumed and without much prep
aratory chewing.
When the rumen or paunch Is SUM-
| clently filled, she lies down, the churn-
| ing motion of the stomach forms the
pellets or bolluses, which are thrown
to the top of the food mass, thence
probably go to the second stomach,
where meals, bran or foreign bodies
are sifted out, and the digestible por-
tons are passed directly to the third
stomach.
This done, the bolus, more complete
Iy formed, is thrown UP the gullet into
the mouth, there masticated and again
returned to the paunch. These pellets
of food or cuds are doubtless masticat-
ed over and over again until fully in
salivated and deprived OF large por-
ton of their nutrients.
/ They are then broken up in their pas
sage through the other compartments
of the stomach and fully digested after
due exposure to the action of the dt-
gesttVe fluids, while these portions
which are useless to the body are
passed on and out in the form OF feces.
When our correspondents COW filled
the paunch, indigestion was induced
and vomiting ensued. This usually
comes from the eating OF large quantt-
ties Of starchy foods. such as potatoes,
but may be due to chronic diseases of
the stomach or stopPage OF the small
| intestine.
A cow in this condition would ma
turally stop chewing her cud, the stom-
ach having lost their normal function
and the COW her quietude and desire to
ruminate. Were the deranged condi-
lions set right. she would commence
to ruminate again, but until disturb
ance was thus removed. the use of an
artificial cud placed in her mouth could
have no effect whatever, unless II
might be to aggravate her distress and
| discomfort.
| Loss of cud, so-called, may then be
taken as a sure sign that arrangement
OF the digestive organs or serious con-
stitutional disease is present. and rem
edial measures should be speedily
adopted.
Soy Beans.
The soy bean Is one of the richest
II not the richest, of all beans in fat
| and flesh forming matter. Not like COW
.