7i8 DR. CHASE'S RECIPES. 



BOWS even a bushel to the acre, and thinks It very valuable as a top-finish to 

 stacks of wheat, clover, etc., as it is impervious to water, and very little 

 injured, even that which is exposed on the outside of the stack remaining 

 sound. Two to four tons have been raised to the acre, with 12 to 15 bu. of 

 seed, wortli $1 to $1.50 per bu., and the straw valuable for feed after threshing, 

 and a never failing crop, if sown on good mellow land. So, let all try it who 

 think their hay crop is going to be short. 



Fattening Cattle. — A few words now upon the subject of fattening cat- 

 tle, hogs, etc., would seem to the author as very proper; then, to close the cattle 

 department with the consideration of silos, which, of late years, has been almost 

 continually before the mind of the agriculturist, through this class of papers, 

 until, finally, the government, through the agricultural department, has taken 

 it in hand in such a way it would seem, at least, there can be but little chance 

 for further doubt upon the subject of which however, it is our intention to leave 

 each one to judge for himself, after he has any matter properly laid before him 

 for examination, as we have done in all parts of this, our "Third and Last 

 Effort," to benefit the people. Other people write items for their agricultural 

 papers, I get them together, condense, and often re-write, to make a continuous 

 whole, such parts as will enable any sensible man to profit by the hints, sugges- 

 tions, and practice of their fellow farmers. First, then: 



Meal and Hay for Fattening Stock — Scalding the Meal a 

 Great Saving. — An old farmer, whose custom has been to fatten a few ani- 

 mals, gives his experience as to scalding his meal, merely, instead of cooking 

 it, as has been the custom of many. He says: "My practice in fattening sheep 

 and swine, as well as for feeding milch cows, has been to pour boiling water on 

 as much meal as would not make the animals bowels move too freely, both at 

 night and morning, and when the mush is cool, give it to the cow or pig. In 

 covering the meal with boiling water in this way, the starch of the grain is dis- 

 golveci, and the latent nutritive properties extracted, and the animal receives 

 the e*\tire nutriment of the grain. I have for 2 years past fatted 2 ordinary 

 sized cows, feeding only hay, and only 300 lbs. each of meal, apd yielded 

 upw?~ds of 40 lbs. of rough tallow. Salt was given once a week, and occasion^ 

 ally »■ table-spoonful of wood ashes. In my experience 100 lbs. scalded and fed 

 as abr>ve, is equal to 200 lbs. fed dry." 



Remarks. — This is an undoubted fact — a gi-eat saving in the question of 

 meal — as he speaks of knowing others who had fed from 700 to 1,000 lbs. of 

 meal, without scalding, who got no more benefit than he did with his 300 lbs. 

 Facts Uke these are " worth their weight in meal," if not "in gold." It saves 

 others the labor and trouble of ex]Derimenting for themselves. 



2. Fattening Cattle, How a Yankee Farmer Makes it Pay 

 in Massachusetts.— We take the following from the Springfield (Mass.) Re- 

 publican, not so much to show how it was done, but to show that it can be done; 

 for what has been done, can be done again, and if not done better than at first, 

 it is because careful attention is not paid as to how others have made improve- 

 ments upon the common ways of doing things. It says: "Franklin county has 



