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THE FARMERS' CABINET. 



VOL. I 



seed, for each calf, is boiled in water in the [ 

 evening, and half the quantity given next 

 morning and evening to the calves, adding 

 to each mess from a pint to a quart of scald- 

 ed oatmeal, according to the size and condi- 

 tion of the calf, and about two quarts of skim 

 milk. In five or six weeks water rnay be 

 substituted, provided the calves can have 

 plenty of green food by mowing or feeding. 

 The mess should be stirred up while the 

 calves are drinking. The parings of the 

 Swedish turnep or Mangel Wurtzel are 

 given in the fall, and great care is taken the 

 two first winters to give the best hay and a 

 liberal supply of roots, Swedish turneps. 

 Mangel Wurtzel, carrots, or potatoes, or oil 

 cake — and in summer the best grass m pas- 

 ture. After this the young stock will keep 

 in good condition without extra keeping. 



By early attention to young stock, their 

 growth and condition fits them for an early 

 profitable sale, or for the market at an extra 

 price. 



The writer has killed two heifers of four 

 years old each, that weighed when killed 

 near nine hundred each. 



A bull calf of superior shape, and intended 

 to be shipped to Jamaica, was allowed on 

 an average nine quarts per day of new milk 

 for fifty days and then treated as before 

 stated. At one year and eleven days it 

 weighed eleven hundred and thirty-six 

 pounds. It is important that the young ani- 

 mals should be kept clean, well carded, and 

 regularly watered with pure water. 



Meaning of Horse Power as ap 

 plied to Steam Engines. 



In compliance with the request of C. C 

 in the Ellsworth Radical, who enquires of 

 us respecting the meaning of the term Horse 

 Power as applied to Steam Engines, we 

 would answer — that the term at btst is 

 rather an indefinite one, and tliat Engineers 

 themselves are not agreed what is the actual 

 amount of a Horse Power. Were all horses 

 equally strong it would do verj"^ well as a 

 measure of power, but as this is far from 

 being the case, and as the same horse can- 

 not, at all times, owing to difterent causes, 

 such as variation in health, spirits or flesh, 

 pull the same number of pounds with the 

 same ease it cannot be an exact measure of 

 strength. We will however endeavor to 

 state in a plain way what is meant by horse 

 power when speaking of Steam Engines. 

 Suppose you have a body — a rock for in- 

 stance that weighs tliirtij-three thousand 

 pounds. Yon tye a rope to it and then pass 

 it over a puliy and attach a horse to it. If 

 he is a stout fellow he will draw it up at the 

 wte of a foot high in a minute. Unharness 



your horse and attach your steam engine. I 

 this will pull it up at the rate of a foot high 

 in a minute it is a one horse power engine 

 If it will haul up twice that amount, or sixty- 

 six thousand pounds, a foot high in a minute 

 it is a two horse power engine. If it will pull 

 up three times as much it is a three horse 

 power, and so on. Thirty-three thousanc 

 pounds is the amount used by American En 

 gineers as a Horse Power. Bolton &Wat 

 assumed Ikiriij-iwo thousand pounds drawr 

 up a foot high in a minute as a horse power 

 Desaguliers assumed 37,500 lbs. as a horse 

 power, and Smeaton set it 22,916 lbs.— 

 Others again, calculate a horse to draw 20( 

 lbs. at the rate of 2 1-2 miles an hour — o) 

 220 feet per ininute— but 200 lbs. at 220 fee' 

 per minute if multiplied together will mak( 

 the draft equal to 44,000 lbs.— or 44,000 lbs 

 a foot high per minute. 



Thus you see the exact amount of a Hors( 

 Power is not settled upon. It ranges fron 

 22,000 lbs. to 44,000 lbs. The rate of draf 

 at a foot high per minute, you will perceive 

 is verv slow. It is evident, however, that 

 at a quicker rate, the same power could no 

 move so much. A Horse can draw mud 

 more at a slow pace than at a quicker one 

 Hence the quicker the draft, or speed, th< 

 less must be the load. 



Thus the same power required to raise 32, 

 000 lbs. one foot high in a minute, couli 

 raise but 3,200 lbs. ten feet high in a minute 

 and but 320 lbs. one hundred feet high in ; 

 minute. 



Spontaneous Combustion. — The Hamp 

 den (Mass.) Whig, relates that a quantity o 

 hay which had been put into a barn, in th( 

 town of Otis, about the beginning of August 

 spontaneously took fire and consumed by i 

 slow combustion, which probably went oi 

 for months. Mr. Root, the owner of the ban 

 had observed, from day to day, that his mow 

 — where he had placed a quantity of greer 

 hay well sprinkled with salt, was graduallj 

 sinking in the centre. Last week he climbec 

 it and threw off a little hay from the top 

 when the following scene occurred. 



" On a sudden a stream of flame, smok( 

 and cinders burst upon him, that well nea 

 suffocated him, at the same time his fee 

 gave way and he found himself ingulphec 

 to his shoulders in smoke and embers, fron 

 which situation he fortunately very soon ex 

 tricated himself, rather singed, and gave th< 

 alarm of fire; his neighbors by timely exer 

 tion extinguished the fire and saved his 

 barn." 



Are not the great happiest when most free 

 from the incumbrances of greatness 1 Is there 

 then any happiness in giratness ? 



