Year: 1860

SHEEP WAsHING.-A correspondent OF the Anleri-
A9ricuIttrdliSt gives the following plan: A
large vat made of plank, about ten feet long, four
feet wide, and three and half feet Deep is placed
stream where there is sufficient fall Troughs
laid to conduct the water, with their lowar ends
standing about two feet above the vat. Two boys,
each holding sheep soaking at one end of the vat,
while two men, standing on the ground outside the
vat, each hold sheep under the stream running
from the troughs. 1t requires but little squeezing
of the wool, and much less time to wash them well
than by the old method.


TRANSPORTING BEEs.-A correspondent of the N.
e. Farmer gives the following directions for trans
porting bees: "Spread down sheet, and set the
hive it; then bring up the corners and tie over
the top, invert the bive and put the bottom


piece of muslin eighteen inches square, fastened at
the corner with carpet tacks. wagon with clip
tic springs is best for conveying them. In all
cases the common box hive should be bottom up, to
avoid breaking combs. When moved late in the
season they should be set several feet apart.


THE EYES HoRsEs AND CATTLE.-In the New
England Farmer, a correspondent gives the follow
ing remedy, when horses or cattle inure their eyes
so as to bring a white substance or film. He
says: Take fresh butter, newly churned, melt
about tablespoonful, and turn it into the op-
poste the eye injured being careful to hold the ear
tight together, that they shall not by violent
shake of the head, throw it out of the ear. This
remedy, he says, may be safely applied, if you do
not them when the film is coming off.


TOBACCO STALKs.-One of exchanges says ::
owe made last year better crop of potatoes, man
ufactured exclusively with tobacco stalks, than we
have ever made with a free of guanO. The
stalks from four acres will manure one abun-
dantly."


CHEAP APPARATUS FOR GIVING SALT TO SHEEP
'R. b. writes to the Boston CultiUator: "Last
year carried large sugar hogshead, for which
paid thirty eight cents, into the field and laid it
upon the ground, making it fast, one head having
previously been taken out. was careful to smooth
off all protruding nails rough substances liable to
pull the wool. Then upon the inside of the other
head nailed Z by box to contain the salt, and
the work was competed-the whole costing, in
money and labor, about fifty cents, and far as
necessity is concerned, it anwers very good pur-
pose"


CHANGE OF FooD FOR CATTLE.-Nature seeks
variety, and with almost as great pertinacty as
she insists on progression. The continual use of
salt food by man produces scurvy, while the entire
absence of either salt animal food produces other
classes of disease, and refuses to build up an organ
ism capable of enduring disease. All those things
which, BY analysis, animal is found to contain,
must of necessity form part of its food, it cannot
be perfect organism; therefore, no one kind
of food can produce as perfect an animal, develop
ing all its functions equally, and a variety is dis
tinctly called for. The very instinct of an animal
shows this fact. The cattle breeders of England can
scarcely be said to have succeeded until after the
introduction of the various root crops, and still
find many cattle breeders in America who have
never raised roots at all, and who continue to feed
their animals hay and corn alone. The same
area of land used by herd of milch cows for pas





crops, will cause them to furnish thirty per cent.
more milk, and ofa better quality, than when they
confined to the use OF one or two kinds of food
only. For the same reason that horses flourish
best when travelling over an undulating country,
rather than when perambuatng the plains, viz ::
That other sets of muscles brought into ac-
ton when they leave the dead level, and thus a
single set of muscles is not called upon to bear
the whole fatigue. So with the variety of food;
their digestive functions are in turn appealed to-,
and all the constituents required by the body are in
turn furnished that healthy result is the conse-
quence. 1t is true that fed carrots give
better milk in winter than when fed other kinds
of food; but if fed carrots alone, they lose their
highest state of health. Carrots have value far
beyond that which can be attributed to the mere
nutriment they contain; for, in addition to what
they furnish in this way, they contain quantity
of poetic acid and this carries the property of gel
atinizng the vegetable and animal matters held in
solution, and thus ending the peristalic motion of
the ntestnes seize hold of their contents that
digestion of all matters of food is perfected by the
presence of carrots If the horse be fed in part
carrots he to evacuate the undigested shells
of oats, bits of hay, etc. His dung is as homogene-
GUS almost as that of man, and it is for this
that bushe of carrots and bushel of oats bet
ter for horse than two bushels of oats-not from
the nutritious matter contained in the carrot, but
in part from the power of the carrot to all the
nutrment of the oat to be appropriated in the max
ing of muscle instead of part of it being evacuated
in feces This action is true in regard to all tt Q
vegetable substances which go to make up the va
riety of food for animals, and the very instinct of
every animal gives evidence of this truth Work.
ing Farmer.