Fruit contains the elements necessary for the nourishment of the body, as will be 
seen from the following table showing the composition of the strawberry, viz.: 
AW QUOD) \'ss'n a Care sell he State ES Ti ei yee vies bibee.t vie ae 87 per cent. 
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RG MOIR RET TTON ars pie Sch soi licistdieete eaters le vecle cle es sie aae 1} ds abc: 
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Insoluble matter (4 per cent of which is ash)................. (ie hi 3 
Who objects to being convinced of the healthfulness and economy of the strawberry 
in summer as contrasted with a meat diet? Prof. Faraday says of apples : 
Let every family in autumn lay in from two to ten or more barrels, and it will be to them the most 
economical investment in the whole range of culinary supplies. A raw mellow apple is digested in an hour 
and a half, while boiled cabbage requires five hours. The most healthful dessert that can be placed on the 
tableis baked apple. If taken freely at breakfast with coarse bread and without meat or flesh of any kind, it has 
an admirable effect on the general system, often removing constipation, correcting acidities, and cooling oft 
febrile conditions more effectually than the most approved medicines. If families could be induced to substi- 
tute the apple—sound, ripe and luscious—for the pies, cakes, candies and other sweetmeats with which chil- 
___ dren are too often stuffed, there would be a diminution of ddctors’ bills, sufficient in a single year to lay up 
a stock of this delicious fruit for a season’s use. 
_ of varieties as will furnish him with a constant succession of fresh fruits for his family, 
and let every townsmau make arrangements for a constant supply of fresh fruit from the 
The moral of all thisis: Let every farmer plant a fruit garden with such a selection 
- fruit market. 
. The second point [ want to emphasize is this: (2) Apples form one of the most val- 
uable articles which can be given horses and cows in connection with their daily allow- 
ance of food. In point of nourishment alone they are equally valuable with carrots for 
horses and with turnips for cows, and more valuable than mangels pound for pound. On 
page 95 of the Report for 1887 will be found a table prepared by Prof. L. B. Arnold, in 
which he shows that ripe apples have a feeding value equal to one-third the value of hay, 
about 16 cents per 100 tbs, or 8 cents a bushel. I believe that this is far too low an esti- 
mate and in this I am supported by a Mr. KE. H. Hutchinson, an American farmer, who 
“Says: 
For the general purpose horse of the farmer, I know from actual experience that apples are valuable 
food. I have had horses that were in very low condition, from worms, entirely freed from this trouble 
_ when running among apple trees, where they eat all they want. I believethat a horse not at hard work would 
do as well on four quarts of oats and a peck of apples as on a peck of oats per day. If this statement is 
true, it would give apples a feeding value of about 20 cents a bushel. 
1t will be observed that we have here a practical farmer giving apples about two 
and a half times the value which Prof. Arnold has allowed to them, viz.: 20 cents per 
bushel, or 40 cents per 100 Ibs. Now if this can be proved it will open up a new way of 
‘disposing of a large portion of our apple crop, and increase the value of the farmer’s 
orchard. If apples can be shown to be worth 20 cents a bushel as food for stock, surely 
we need not fear over-production or market gluts. And if weight of testimony is of any 
_use, here is another from a writer in Orchard and Garden. He says: 
When some of my pear trees littered the ground with their ripe, mellow fruit, [ fed them to my cows. 
A peck of pears, with two quarts of meal and bran for a noonday feed increased the milk and butter one- 
_ fourth, and when the apples were ripe and cheap in the market, the horses, cows, pigs and fowls had all 
they wanted. 
4 Here are two quotations from the Michigan Farmer. Mr. Charles Dann says : 
I have fed apples for twenty years quite extensively. During the past three years T have been feeding 
twelve cows with them. As soon as the apples attain any size and drop from the trees, I have them picked 
up and thrown in the pasture. Some days the stock get as much as ten bushels and I can always see an 
increase of milk. The apples are of different varieties, but not very sour. Cut down all trees which produce 
apples that will not do to eat. I am feeding two bushels of Baldwins at one time to my cows and get an 
quart can of milk exvra from the fruit. 
' I have been interested in discussing the value of Ah aes for stock. I had last winter 600 bushéls of 
apples and began by feeding them to wy team, giving them at noon instead of grain, and with apparent 
ain to the horses. If the team was hard at work it probably would not answer. I had a pen of fatting 
Fogs to which I had been feeding a bushel of apples for their noon feed. I had no means of making accu- 
te tests, but think they did equally well. LI also gave them t» my cows, a peck at one feeding, with the 
t of increasing the yield both of milk and cream. I have also fed them all winter to pigs which I am 
ping over. lam convinced that to feed apples to stock is as profitable and much more satisfactory than to 
them to be made into cider with the possibility if not the probability that its use will lead to the use of 
mger intoxicants.—E#. A. Bradley. 
