| Show the cattle disease caused by I 1 imma mature food 1 9 there is an interesting article in the journal d agriculture pratie from the pen of I 1 gustave hamoir camoir in which several facts are brought forward to show that cattle feeding on immature immature food are very liable to the cattle disease which 1 ch has haa caused such a panic durin during the present summer in massachusetts ile he states chatin that in seasons favorable to a rank growth of the sugar beet and when consequently quent ly the beet is deficient in sugar cattle led on the pulp of the beets are subject to this disease but he has hag found that if the pulp is steamed in such ouch a way that the steam carries off the volatile matters alcohol acetic acid and essential oils it is then healthy food several experiments are mentioned which seem to prove the truth of this idea there can be no doubt that immature food of any kind lind is unhealthy the leaves of turnips which analysis shows to contain a much larger percentage of nitrogen than the bulbs are well known to be less nutritious than the bulbs and have a tendency to cause scours in ill the sheep and cattle eating them in mr lawes experiments on sheep this fact was waa brought out in a very striking manner sheep fed on turnips with of lime did well and gave a fair increase while sheep fed on the same kind of turnips and grown in the same field and fed out at the same time but which were dressed with a large arge quantity of ammonia not only did not increase in weight but actually lost in flesh and were so evidently ill fed that it was necessary to discontinue the experiment I 1 analysis showed these turnips to contain a much higher percentage of nitrogen than those grown with the of lime in other words they were delici deficient ent in carbonaceous matter the ammonia caused them to continue gr growing owing late in the fall and the they were when e gathered far from being perfectly matured sugar beets heavily dressed with manures are well known to be deficient in 19 sugar and the manufacturers of beetroot beet root sil sli sugar silar ar do not like excessively heavy crops JM 31 hamoir camoir states that the years when the crops of beets were unusually heavy were the tbt years when the cattle disease most prevailed and we have no doubt it was caused by the beets being immature we see no reason to doubt that immature grass or that grown on I 1 low wet land would also be injurious gen ge gec r I 1 asee farmer I 1 pickling onions A correspondent of the merican american I jg wishes to know if all its lady readers know what fine pickles may be made of small onions and says that anil ans any variety will mili do but theN the white hite or silver sliver skinned are the nicest I 1 use those from the size of a large pea to an inch or more in diame diameter tery terp but prefer those about as lar large gelas geias jas a hickory nut I 1 I 1 peel off the outer dark skin and jay them in ill salt and water for from six to ten days according to size pouring off the brine and adding new every addy they are then put into a vessel and scalding brine poured on and covered up until cool when one more s milar similar scalding is given this cooks them just enough then place them in jars cover N with vinegar and set away aw ay the soaking in salt water removes the strong flavor and after standing in the vinegar they are very fine and will keep a long timp for variety I 1 pat into a jar or two ginger root mace cloves etc the friend who taught me this process advised to pour in a little olive gil oil to float on the top of the vinegar in the jars when set away this ma help heip to keep mould off from the vinegar ut but not liking the flavor of salad oil I 1 have not tried it i transplanting trees treel an exchange says if nurserymen nurseryman nursery men would mark the north side bufore they vere taken talen up and when set out to have the tree tiree put in the ground with its north side to the north in its natural natu a 1 position p 0 a larger proportion would live 1 ignoring 0 r ing this law of nature is the cause of so many transplanted trees side is exposed to the south heat hat of the sun especially in the southern states it is too therefore great rea 1 t for that sid bide side of if the treo tree to bear and therefore it dries up and decays masing easing land the city of boston mass blass is is engaged in filling in some two hundred acres of swarn swain swamp flats immediately west of the corni mon the material for filling is brought seten seven miles ou oa rail tracks employing ten locomotives i one hundred cars and an army of workmen it is estimated esi esli esl mated that four years will be re require lairet to complete the work and that the land thus made will anvill be worth ten million dollars I 1 A remedy for st in wheat an ohio farmer says that smout smut in wheat is caused by an insect which deposits the germ in the the proceeding crop and that there will be little or no smut in wheat when the seed bown sown has fias bern kept over summer as thereby the egg is destroyed ile he asserts that by noticing carefully when the wheat is about half ripe the smut grains will be e found to be full of small smail insects lae las varnish for vines it Is stated upon good atit authority hority that grape vines may bp pruned at any period without danger from loss of bleeding by simply covering the cut parts parta with varnish made by dissolving sticks stick lack jmj jn alcohol ohp lac varnish soon dries and dormi an impenetrable coat to rain it may also aiso b bei a applied plied piled ting the theo ind ire tre 7 |
