Show the salt weed teed weed this plant or weed belonging C to thee th gal tal solus tribe and found to in the low grounds throughout thi thier gandl gandi and 0 other ther valleys ia is comparatively amatively arat ively unknown as an article of fodder for eor cattle though possessing properties highly nutritious and as we believe also highly of health especially io to animals kept up and fed in yards during winter our san pete correspondents have informed us of instances the present winter in that locality where cattle kept up have become fatally diseased there may have been a combination of causes for this it is undeniable that when animals are restricted to the confines of a corral or barnyard barn yard and allowed but little variety of diet they are more liable to become diseased than when allowed the free scope of a wide range range 0 where except in winter when the accumulated snows frequents become so deep that it is with great difficulty that the he t stock are able to gain a subsistence there is almost every variety of food necessary to supply the stimulating and juices the neutralizing r elements etc etc essential to the health of all animals could we turn out our stock to run at large upon the range rane ran 0 e during Z winter with any degree of assurance that the deep snows would not prevent their obtaining 0 sustenance we would of course prefer to do so but such is not the case the past and the present winters have fully demonstrated if never before that stock turned out upon the ran range C ge for is by no means a safe investment of capital especially is this true of cattle who have been worked across the plains to illus lilus illustrate the fact we need only to point to ruby valley west of this where nearly three thousand head have perished the present winter many or most of which might doubtless have survived I 1 had provender been provided for them but this would have involved some little outlay in the payment for the labor of cutting curill curing t and stacking hay which surely would reduce the enormous profits anticipated on the sale next season in a california market of that immen immense se herd of fat cattle aias alas for huma human n calculations how very shortsighted short chort sighted and ill contrive dl of the native stock that has been be en running on the range in this valley we have heard of comparatively few losses as yet what losses may occur hereafter we have no means of determining 13 we may state however that even our native stock are far from being proof against the ravages of starvation the winter of 1855 6 will not soon be forgotten more espe especially ciali clail by those who were the greatest sufferers sulTer ers erb some of whom whose wealth consisted chiefly in stock having 0 lost every hoof hoot they possessed and were left as it were bankrupt probably it would not be expedient for a ali all 1 who own cattle in this country to keep them up and feed them during our long iona winters the cost of 0 fodder would be enormous if indeed it could be obtained if circumstances at any future time should enforce this it would have a tendency to greatly diminish the furor for speculation in beef cattle regardless of quality of flesh or superiority of breed which has prevailed here to an inordinate extent there are few stock raisers in the east who do not prepare fodder for the winter sustenance of their stock although b in the county of san pete as above stated there seems to have been considerable sid erable loss sustained by those who have corralled and fed their animals we are not dispo disposed sed to discard the practice we would have every man who owns cattle and who wishes to derive from them the most benefit possible to make some provision for their support during times of extreme difficulty difficult yin in obtaining 0 sus sustenance cenance on the range nor would we stop there if he is an inhabitant of the city and owns cows or other stock that to succeed well requires some attention his cows and other fine animals should be invariably well sheltered and well fed during durine the winter months indeed with the best breeds of stock in the world our let alone system of stock raisin raising 0 would soon deteriorate them to the standard of our common scrubs according to our best information there has baa been more stock wintered and properly cared for in this city the present than during any previous winter since our settlement here nor have we heard of any disease whatever prevailing among among 0 them from which we infer that at their health and comfort has been properly looked after besides having them securely corralled his hia excellency ex governor rg bess beff besides ides ldes large number of working animals whose re kably good condition gives evidence of their invariable good treatment has kept up a large arge number of cows feeding 0 them chiefly upon succulent food principally carrots and having been regularly and systematically milked as well aa as fed watered salted ac their cleanliness also being t by no means neglected and so far from failing in flesh they are now generally in good condition their milk improves in quantity as well as quality and they continue giving milk longer while other cows not suitably attended to become lean give little milk and frequently dry up from three to six months before calvina calving now although it may be asserted we will not admit that people generally w who he own cows cannot or might not adopt a similar practice and reap all the benefits resulting in connection with our allusions ta to the salt weed above we had designed to state that in the corral of mr geo B wallace ward a few days since we were shown several head of cattle principally cows which we wd were informed had been chiefly fed on the salt weed with occasionally a little of the remains of the beet after the juice was expressed and we can say without exaggeration we have never seen animals in a more thriving 0 condition there was one large cow n not ot now giving 0 milk which if butchered would have made better beef than the best now found in the markets this weed when thrown to them was devoured with uncommon relish and eagerness and from what we learn from mr W as also from others who have used it for fodderie fod derwe believe it one of the most healthy as well as nutritive grasses growing in these valleys it is 13 juicy agreeably impregnated with sales salts and though though q not at first so well liked by cattle is soon preferred by them before most of the grasses here cut and denominated hay 1 we are the more interested in this weed 1 in consideration of the comparative scarcity 0 of f grass lands in this region 0 and in view of a necessity which may compel stock owners to 1 make more liberal provision for fodder tha than 4 most of them have hitherto done an old war horse there is a hurse horse in m the regiment of the lith hussars hussary of the english army which has attain eLthe edthe remarkable remark able abla age of thirty ye years ars by the horse register ii is shown that he joined the army as a four year old on the ad of october 1833 was sent to the crimea in 1854 and was present in all hii the actions including Bala baia balaklava klaia in which that regiment was en engaged aged being one orthel of the tha very few horses who survived the exposure of that winter ile he is still in 1859 in good health and fit for duty wearing flannel the very best thing that can be worn next the skin in summer as well as in winter is common woolen flannel one color has no advantage over another except that white 13 is more agreeable to the sight it is more likely to full up it lii iii washing but this may be al af most entirely prevented if done properly pour boiling hot strong soapsuds on the garment in a tub let it alone until the hand can bear the water then pour off and add clean water boiling hot let this stand also as before pour off and add more boiling clean water ani and when cool enough merely squeeze the gar ment with the hands no wrin wringing g in g or rubbing stretch it immediately on a ii line in the hot sun bun or before a hot fire and as the water settles a at t the most dependent part of the garment press it out with the hand and be careful to stretch the fabric as soon as the water is 13 squeezed out aiming as much as possible to keep the flannel hot until it is dry if woolen garments are treated literally as above they will remain pliable and soft until worn out recent scientific experiments carefully conducted prove the truth of the popular sentiment that flannel is the best fabric to be worn next the skin aa as it absorbs more moisture from the bod body than any other material and by so doing k keeps beeps heeps more perfectly dry cotton absorbs S the least hence the perspiration remains more on the skin and being damp the heat beat of the body is rap rapidly coss 1 idi idl carried orf off by evaporation and suddenly coots when exercise ceases the ill effects of which no intelligent mind needs to be reminded of hence it is that the common observation of all nations leads them to give their sailors woolen flannel shirts for all seasons and for all latitudes as the best equal i lers ers of the heat of the body halls journal of health GEESE PICKED BY ily MACHINERY the scientific american announces a machine for picking geese the result of a number of years labor and one of the most ingenious pieces of mechanism ever seen it not only plucks the tho feathers but separates the long iong ones from the short ones while passing through the machine it will pick forty five geese per hour and must materially affect the price of feathers |