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biear up the tvheels till it will do to plow — 

 wnll cost at least twenty-five per cent, 

 more than drawing it in fali or winter, 

 from the difference in the value of time 

 and labor, leaving the indirect loss of thus 

 consuming time needed for the peculiar 

 labors of the season, out of the estimate. 

 Such objections, and others, in drawing 

 out manure in spring, which might be 

 drawn and spread in the fall, present them- 

 selves. Spreading fall or winter drawn ma- 

 nure should be always preferred to heap- 

 ing, because M'hen manure is heaped, the 

 middle of the heap is exposed to fermen- 

 tation, and this in extent according to the 

 size of the heap — ihe heat necessary to 

 fuch effect being set in motion by chemi 



From the Valley Farmer. 



Cooking Food for Hogs and other Farm 

 Animals. 



The most stubborn obstacles to agricul- 

 tural progress and improvement, are the 

 the result of long established prejudices 

 and practices that have often grown out 

 of necessities that now no longer exist. 

 To remove these prejudices and establish 

 a reform, nothing short of repeated prac- 

 tical demonstrations will suffice. If facts 

 and arguments were wanting, one would 

 suppose that what we have already given 

 in the Valley Farmer, would convince 

 every husbandman ol the importance of 

 the artificial preparation of food for do- 



cal action, protected from the cold by thejmestic animals, particularly at the present 

 outer part of the pile; the resulting loss | advanced prices of farm produce. If we 

 by fermentation need not be now reitera- take 2i physiological view of the subject, 

 ~' " - ■ - ...» compare the wants of man with cer- 



tain domestic animals, whose organization 

 difl^ers in no essential particular from his 

 own, we think the importance and econ- 

 omy, (not to say humanity,) of the sub- 

 ject is clearly established. Man, even in 

 his uncivilized state, jirepares his food 

 mostly b}'' some method of cooking, and 

 to compel him now to eat it raw would 

 neither prove conducive to health, nor 

 qualify him for the duties and labours he 

 is required to perform, Whether the same 

 necessity exists, or the same advantages 

 are gained, in cooking food for ruminating 

 animals, we are not so fully prepared to 

 establish by well conducted comparative 

 experiments, yet, so well satisfied on this 

 point are some of the best dairymen in 

 the country, that they seldom feed their 

 milch cows on any but cooked food, in- 

 d|cluiling hay, straw, oil-cake meal, and 

 other grains. 



Mr. B. Rives, an intelligent farmer of 

 Ray county, Mo,, gives his views in the 

 November number of the Farmer, (page 

 342.) and concludes that when corn is 

 worth fifty or seventy-five cents per 

 bushel, and the labour of a hand is worth 



ted. Thus then, although more bulk of 

 and moisture manure appears to be left by 

 heaping, it is really quite otherwise as to 

 real manure, for its essence has been dis- 

 sipated by the liberation consequent on 

 the heat in the middle parts of the heap. 

 These, and the repeated occupation of 

 time and labor, comprise some of the 

 objections to heaping manure at any time. 

 But no treating in the heap and consequent 

 loss, no further occupation of time in 

 spreading, &c., follows, U'hen manure is 

 drawn out in the fall and spread as fast as 

 it is drawn. So treated at those seasons, 

 but little evaporation and no fermentation 

 can take place, and there is therefore no 

 loss of value, or comparatively none, at- 

 tending fall and winter manuring. 



These views are based in part on Prof. 

 Voekler's demonstrations, but more so on 

 facts exposed to general observation ; an 

 if correct, the general theory that manure 

 loses its nutrient properties by being 

 drawn out and spread in the fall and win- 

 ter — and should not therefore be thus 

 treated till spring — is based on a fallacy, 

 and tlie practice resulting from it may not 

 only be relinquished without loss or re- 

 gret, but with reason and advantage, and i one dollar and a quarter per day, it will 

 m many instances doubtless, such will be not pay," and concludes by. remarking 

 the result, equally to the individual and that the most economical method under 

 public benefit. J. VV. CLARK. the circumstances, is to fence a field 



of corn and let the hogs help themselves. 



We have no doubt, that if hogs are 

 turned into the field. Or fed on corn and 

 stalks cut up while the grain is in the 

 milk, that the same advantag-es are secur- 



To kill cockroaches — get a pair of big 

 boots, then catch your cockroaches, put 

 them in a barrel and dance on them. 



