70 Earthquake-^Beneficial Us3 of Salt in feeding Stock. 



ments of rattling wall shades, swinging punkahs, and flapping 

 doors. There are different opinions as to its duration, which ap- 

 peared to me about twenty-tive seconds ; the intervals were verv 

 distinct. It was not accompanied bv the runil)lini) iioi>,e I have 

 usually heard on such occasions, and which 1 have hitherto ima- 

 gined to be the earth's vibration. Both the noise and motion 

 must be separate effects of some unknown cause. The rains have 

 not yet commenced, and the weather has been unusually hot." 



SuLTANPORE. — Extract from a letter dated Sultanpore, Oude, 

 17th June 1S19 : — "A severe and awful shock of an earthquake 

 was felt at this station last night, at seventeen niinutes past eight, 

 which lasted some time, and occasioned very considerable alarm. 

 The bungalows actually rocked, particularly the mess one of the 

 1st battalion 19th regiment, in which the offivers were at dinner 

 at the time, and the huts of the soldiers were a good deal da- 

 maged. The heat for the last two or three days has been exces- 

 sive, and not a drop of rain has yet fallen." 



BENEFICIAL USE OF SALT IN FEEDING STOCK*. 



In the year 1S17, eight tons of salt only were granted undei 

 the then existing act, for the use of cattle; five tons of which 

 were imported for the use of the Sthoose farm. In the last year, 

 ten tons were obtained for the like pi-rpose ; but from the facili- 

 ties afforded of transferring it, above thirty persons were supplied 

 from the stock; and all of those with whom Mr. Curwen has 

 had the pleasure of conversing, concur in the benefit which has 

 been derived by the addition of salt to the food of their cattle 

 and horses. 



The practice of daily giving salt to cattle, in the proportion of 

 four ounces per head, commenced at the Schoose farm, in Oc- 

 tober ISiJj with the feeding on steamed food, consisting of chaff, 

 i. e. cut straw, or the husks of grain, and continued during the 

 succeeding seven months; after which, and during the five sum- 

 mer months, while the cattle were fed on clover and grass, the 

 daily quantity was reduced to three ounces per head, mixed with 

 a little bran. Calves and one and two years old stock were given 

 from two to three ounces each every day. The least thriving of 

 the calves were observed to be the fondest of salt. 



In a very early stage it vvas discovered, that salt thus given, 

 removed the unpleasant flavour from the milk, while milch cows 

 fed not only on the bulb but the tops of turnips. What may be 

 the operation of salt, iMr. Cur en does not presume to decide : 

 the fact, however, valuable as ir is, is completely established ; 

 avjd the tops of turnips, amounting in weight to a sixth part of 



» From the Communications to the Board of Agrjcultare. 



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