mouse and farm. Cooking Food for Slock. At the Farmers’ Club the other day, Col Ourtis said : I have receiv ed a letter from O. D. Whitcomb, Rodman, N. Y., asking a series of questions about cooking food for stock, and al a late visit to Beacon Farm 1 read them to William Cro zier; and believing him to be at least one of the best farmers in this country , I give the questions and answers; How many cows do yon feed? Ninety cows and other Ho you feed horses cooked feed entirely ? Aus.— Yes. Ho you feed horses any grain clear ? If so, do you cook it ? Ans ._Feed no clear grain; book all in winter* ■ ' How much hay do you feed cows per day? Ans.— l feed about three per cent, of the gross weight of the animal, of my mixed food; all of it steamed. How many limes do you feed per day? ’’ 3 Ans. —Twice^ Do you feed any raw bay ? Ans. —Sometimes a little for a change. Do you feed straw mixed with bay or cornfodder orf clear? Ans.—Mixed. How much hay do you consider a ton of good oat-straw worth for feeding cows, both being cooked ? Ans. —About one-third. Wheat and barley straw ? A„s.—Good for bedding, unless cut before the grain is ripe; the erain must be lost to get value for O the straw. Sowed corn ? Ans. —Full as good as hay if cut at proper lime. Corn stalks ? Ans. —Not so good. Would you feed horses cooked food through spring plowing and other hard work? Ans.— No. Feed hard feed, hay and oats W/H a steamer of 1,000 square inches ot heating surface he large enough to cook for fifteen cows ? Ans.—A box eight feet long* four feet high, and tour feet wide is about what I use. Ido not know what he means by heating surface. A box fifty inches long and twenty wide would have a bottom surface of 1,000 square inches; make this four or five feet high and it might do him. How long do you steam fodder, and with how much pressure ? Ans.— Two pounds pressure and for three hours’ time. Do vou feed mangel-wurtzel and « o other roots, and if so, cooked or raw? An«.—Yes. Cut,mixed with other mod, and steamed. llovv large a box do you use ? An«.—l2B cubic feet. How often do you cook fodder? Ans.—Everyday. Do yon feed cold ? An*,— No; blood warra,no hotter. What length do you cut fodder ? Ans.— An inch, or an inch and a I woifld further advise him to manure well and plow deep, accord to the old proverb. Dol. Curtis adds : I do not be- I f'e there is a better system of KcAincr than ]yi r> Crozier’s. The ru(, t, hay, cornfodder are cut, then ■nmwl together, (then dampened and D.-1.1 warm on the top of the steara then dumped into it mixed v ''f‘hran and salt, and steamed; IJ * 1 1 has fifty horses and not one of Dtan has had the influenza. Ido 1 Jl say that this feeding has prevent (‘ hut I do. say that tliis fact ]' !oves that animals fed on cooked Dod are not more liable to disease, believe further that it is an econo* 1K al plan, and that no farmer keeps , l!> an inials at a less cost than Mr, ro mer; a t the same, time I never " an ywhere hiore active or more a,t hy looking stock. Mr. Colton been studying the chemistry of °king food, and had come to these Steaming food is of 1 in the straws of grains like ea t, rye, and barley, merely to ten flinty nature ; in corn* ® and roots it changes the | c into grape sugar or diastase, !,ch 18 and readily digesti* , , V ble in the stomach/ ' Hence it ren ders such foods ' morenourishing and warming; I conceives differ ence between ths method for steam ing and that pf oooking in water,— Exchange, ' ’ :: ,- t How to Make B«8> L«r* ; Therdare many hens kept through the winter which are not worth their feed, because they are chilled and half sickfrom being forced to live on food not suited to their needs, or too old for use. . A hen is ah egg laying machine, and in order to keep it in running order, it must be fed with a variety of food, out of which it can combine the various parts of the egg—white, yolk and shell. . ' . Winter is the hardest season for ! hens, and they require more at ten-, tion at that time; but if suitable food is given and the location ~of their house is sunny and. comforta ble, one can safely count on as many eggs, in December, January and February as in the summer months. Their food must be varied; this is an essential item in the care of hens. It is best to feed corn, wheat, oats, buckwheat and potatoes. Having part of the corn just from the r cob, and the rest either cracked like hominy or in ground meal, and we find it better to feed whole corn at night, and the more easily digested food at morning and noon. When cold weather becomes set tled, it is best also to wet up the morning and noon feed with scald ing water, and feed is quite hot ; for Mr. Oock-a-doodle-doo and Dame Partlett like a hot bit and sup of food when the air is frosty and bit ing quite as well as you and me; and they also like to feel comfortable and happy, and will dq, their work much more regularly if this little attention is granted to them. Small potatoes, boiled and mash ed, are also valuable food for them, and it is a good plan .to boil up a large kettle of them several times a week; corn meal or wheat screen ings can be mixed with it, but with out grain, it will prove a palatable dish and be greatly relished. A little salt sprinkled over the pota toes will make them more healthful. The idea that salt will kill hens is not exactly a true one; perhaps if they ate large bits of rock salt it might prove injurious, but we know from experience that salt curd makes chickens thrive, that hens eat of it voraciously. The practice of eating feathers from their own and each other’s necks, is also cared by an applica tion of salt to their food, in liquid or bulk. A tablespoonful stirred into a gallon kettle of food makes it of better quality. Scrap cake,which can be purchas ed of the butcher at a cheap rate, is a very healthful food for poultry, as it will supply the place of worms and bugs, and give more warmth to their systems. * Unless we give food that will permit the ben to maufaoture the egg shell, it will often produce fat and no hen fruit; occasionally an egg without a shell may be dropped and then we knew that lime, or old mor tar, bones or something containing shell material must be provided. If bone meal can be purchased, it is the best food; if not, we must burn all the meat bones we use, then pound them and mix them with boil* ing food. Oyster shells, pounded, are good; and bitsof broken crockery are esteemed as tit-bits by all “bid dies.” Green fopd, such, as cabbage heads, etc., is al«o very much relish ed, and farmers should always re member to give the refuse cabbage leaves to the hens rather than to the. hogs. Boxes of coal ashes, and sand or gravel are also ,needful articles of of furniture in every hennery; and air slacked lime—-a shovelful every few days-ris a dainty to the hens. If piles ot ashes and lime are laid in the corners of the house, the hens will roll in them and keep them selves free from vermin.. ■ , ' . The Canadian way ofrmeasuring a tree is said to be as certain as it is grotesque. Yc»u Walk from the tree, looking at it from tipie to time be tween your knees. 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