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Great value of Jlpples — Fras^ments. 



Vol. III. 



should be chosen : or it will do just as well to 

 set into their pen boxes of dried sand, or kiln- 

 dried, well pulverized earth, for them to wal- 

 low in, in warm weather. — Con. Courant. 



Method of Ascertaiuins^ the IVeU^ht of 

 Cattle while Li-ring. 



This is of the utmost utility for all those 

 who are not experienced judges by the eye, 

 and by the following directions, the weight 

 can be ascertained within a mere trifle. Take 

 a string, put it round the beast, standing 

 square, just behind theshoulderblade; measure 

 on a foot rule the feet and inches the animal 

 is in circumference : this is called the girth ; 

 then with the string measure from the bone 

 of the tail which plumbs the line with the 

 hinder part of the buttock ; direct the line 

 along tlie back to the forepart of the shoulder 

 blade ; take the dimensions on the foot rule as 

 before, which is the length, and work the fig- 

 ures in the following manner ; girth of the 

 bullock, 6 feet 4 inches ; length .5 feet 3 inch- 

 es ; which multiplied together, make 34 square 

 superficial feet; that again multiplied by 23 

 (the number of pounds allowed to each super- 

 ficial foot of all cattle measuring less than 

 seven and more than five feet in girth) makes 

 713 lbs.; and allowing 14 lbs. to the stone, is 

 50 stone 13 lbs. Where the animal measures 

 less than nine and more than seven feet in 

 girth, 31 is the number of pounds to each su- 

 perficial foot 



Again, suppose a pig or any small beast 

 should measure two feet in girth and two feet 

 along the back, which multiplied together, 

 makes four square feet; that multiplied by 

 eleven, the number of pounds allowed for each 

 square foot of cattle measuring less than three 

 feet in girth, makes 44 lbs., which, divided by 

 14, bring it to stones, is three stone two 

 pounds. Again, suppose a calf, sheep, &c., 

 should measure four feet six inches in girth, 

 and three feet nine inches in length, wliich 

 multiplied together makes sixteen and a half 

 stjuare feet ; that multiplied b}' sixteen, the 

 number of pounds allowed to all cattle mea- 

 suring less than five feet, and more than three 

 in girth, make 264 pounds; which divided by 

 14, to bring it into stones, is 18 stone 12 lbs. 

 Tlie dimensions of the girth and lengtli of 

 black cattle, sheep, calves, or hogs, may be 

 as exactly taken in this way, as is at all ne- 

 cessary for any computation or valuation of 

 stock, and will answer exactly to ttie four 

 quarters, sinking the offal, and which every 

 man who can get even a bit of chalk may 

 easily perform. A deduction must be made 

 for a half-fatted beast, of one stone in twenty, 

 from that of a fat one; and for a cow that had 

 calves, one stone must be allowed, and a»o- 

 ther for not being properly Pit. — Cattle iCe*'p- 

 cr's Guide. 



Great value of Apples. — In the fall of 

 1835, (says Mr. Eleazer Cady, of Canaan,) 

 1 gathered about 1.50 bushels of good sound 

 apples of di lie rent kinds, and put them into 

 my cellar, for the purpose of feeding them 

 out to my stock of cattle and pigs, to .see 

 what eflfect they would have. When hard 

 weather commenced, I had two cows that 

 gave milk ; I put them into a stable, and 

 commenced feeding the two cows with half 

 a bushel of apples to each cow per day. I 

 charged the boy that milked them, to see if 

 the cows increased their milk; and the third 

 day the boy says that the cows gave almost 

 double the quantity that they did before 1 fed 

 them with apples ; and the young woman 

 that had the charge of the milk, says the but- 

 ter that was made from the milk, at the time 

 of feeding them on apples, was of a fine 

 flavor, and a fine yellow color. 



I likewise commenced feeding them to my 

 pigs; I fed about one bushel a day to thirteen 

 pigs, with a small portion of corn ; and I now 

 defy the state to bring thirteen pigs as good 

 as mine, that have iiad no better keeping. 



I had gatliered about 550 bushels of good 

 apples, and put them into a good bin in my 

 carriage house, with the intent of making 

 them into cider; but before I got ready to 

 make them into cider, the cold weather came 

 on, and all my apples froze. I immediately 

 covered them with blanket?, and they re- 

 mained in that situation till a thaw in the 

 latter part of December ; I then commenced 

 feeding them to my stock of cattle, which 

 consisted of twenty-two head and two colts ; 

 I fed them about ten bushels per day ; I soon, 

 found that my cattle would not eat half the 

 quantity of hay that they did before I com- 

 menced feeding them on apples; and when 

 the apples were gone I could see that ray 

 cattle had gained in flesh and looked better. 



Communicated for the Farmers' Cabinet. 



" Gather up the Frasiinents that nothing be lost." 



No. II. 



IMPORTANCE OF AGRICUI.TIRE. 



To prove the importance of agriculture to 

 a community, seems very like demonstrating 

 the advantages of having food to eat and 

 clothes to wear. That it is indeed, the first 

 and greatest concern of every nation, and the 

 founriation of its prosperity in every oUier 

 matter, is a truth so universally acknow- 

 ledired, that it has obtained almost the cur- 

 rency of a proverb. 



DISCOVERY OR INVENTION: 



It docs so happ^^n, that many of our useful 

 discoveries have been owing to men not con- 

 nected in practice with the art to which their 

 discoveries were applicable. ArUwriglit was 

 a baiber, Dolland was a silk'-veavor. The 

 [icompasd, tlse chronoiuet'jr, aitd ti'.c weither- 



