AMERICAN INSTITUTE. " 445 



The importance of salt to the health of sheep is generally ad- 

 mitted, and they should have it regularly; one thousand will 

 consume in six months, one hundred and thirty-eight pounds. In 

 fact, all stock should have salt administered to them daily, in the 

 following quantities on pasture : 



I'or a sheep, from 2 to 3 ounces per day. 



cow, 3^ do 



ox, ' 5 do 



calf, 1 J do 



yearling, 3 do 



horse, 5 do 



If feeding oh green food, they must have salt always before 

 them, and they will never be subject to the bot. In these de- 

 scriptions, the language of others has been occasionally employed, 

 and I acknowledge my obligations to Arthur Young and Sinclair. 



ROBERT L. PELL. 

 Extracts from a letter from Mr. Horace Nye, of Putnam, 

 Muskingum county, Ohio, Feb. 28th, 1856. 



" I saw an article in a late Tribune, relative to the question of 

 feed for stock, before your Farmers' Club, and as to the effect of 

 apples fed to hogs. I feed some for my own use. I bought a 

 three months shoat, the poorest of a litter of nine, let him run 

 in my orchard where apples were dropping off, I rung his nose, 

 he fed on the apples and slops of the house, and at the end gave 

 him as much corn as he wanted for two weeks. I killed him 

 about Christmas, when he was about fourteen months old, and he 

 weighed three hundred and forty-three pounds. Fat on his 

 shoulders four to five inches thick. No shrinkage in the cooking. 

 I think that if he is killed while fattening the pork will not 

 shrink, but swell in the pot, but if he is not thriving from any 

 cause whatever, his pork will shrink. From the experience of 

 many years, I have come to the conclusion that apples wdll make 

 the fattest and best pork of any feed I have ever used. Eut as 

 to cows, if you turn them into an orchard, they often founder on 

 the apples and their milk dries up. Sweet apples are best for 

 stock, especially for horses. . From long experience I find apple- 

 fed pork harder than that fed on corn. So is tallow of grass-fed 

 beef harder than grain fed." 



Jean Blanc of New Orleans, patent for newly discovered fibre, 

 viz: From the Hibiscus palustris (cotton stalk), melva, Veronica 

 virginica (wild indigo,) palma christi, Asclepias asnarma, Ascle- 

 pias cornuta, Asclepias incarnata or gigantea tuberosa, Asclepias 



