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ADVANTAGES OF COOKING FOOD FOR ANIMALS.-ETC. 
lives in the wood three years or more before it 
attains its full growth. The moths, which come 
forth about the middle of July, have thick and 
robust bodies, broad, and thickly veined wings, two 
distinct feelers, and antennae, that are furnished on 
the under side, in both sexes, with a double set of 
short teeth, rather longer in the male than in the 
female. The larva of this insect is said also to 
prey upon the wood of the black oak (Quercus 
tinctoria). The other insects that attack the com¬ 
mon locust-tree, is a species of Apion, which in¬ 
habits the pods and devours the seeds; and the 
Eudamus tityrus, which feeds upon its foliage, as 
well as upon that of the Robinia viscosa.— Browne's 
Trees of America. 
ADVANTAGES OF COOKING FOOD FOR 
ANIMALS. 
It is a matter of great importance that many 
kinds of food intended for domestic animals should 
he cooked. For example, that of working horses 
should be so prepared, or of such a nature, as to 
allow them to satisfy their hunger quickly, that 
more hours may be allotted for rest during the time 
given them from labor. Not being ruminating ani¬ 
mals, their oats and corn should be boiled or 
crushed, in order to avoid loss or waste by swallow¬ 
ing it raw or whole. Equal advantages may be de¬ 
rived by cooking grain and roots which are to be 
fed to cattle, swine, and sheep. To those who 
have not already the conveniences for crushing and 
boiling the food for their animals, we take pleasure 
in recommending the following implements for 
these purposes :— 
Mott’s Boiler.— Fig. 82. 
1st. Sinclair’s Corn and Cob Crusher, a cut and 
description of which appeared in our fourth volume, 
page 92. Price $30. 
2d. Pitt’s Corn and Cob Crusher, which is a new 
invention, admirably adapted for grinding corn 
alone, or with the cob. Price of this complete, $45. 
3d. The Hand or Horse-power Mill, made of 
burr-stone, suitable for flouring wheat and grinding 
all sorts of threshed or shelled grain. The prices of 
these vary according to the diameter of the mill- j 
stones, say from $30 to $125. ' 
4th. Cast-iron Hand-mill, suitable for grinding 
all kinds of grain. Price $7. 
Mott’s Boiler, Fig. 82. This consists of a com¬ 
mon box-stove, with a boiler set over it with two 
bottoms, which prevent the meal burning in the 
process of boiling. It will be seen from the cut 
that this boiler is formed in the simplest possible 
manner, and may be attended by a child. The 
dimensions vary from 15 to 60 gallons; the price 
from $12 to $40. 
EXPERIMENTS WITH GUANO. 
I have used Ichaboe guano, Shakspeare’s cargo, 
on my meadow lands, and also on the following 
crops, wheat, rye, oats, barley, potatoes, Indian 
corn, rutabaga, common turnips, and sugar beets, 
all of which have done well, except the corn and 
rye. Corn planted in drills, a superabundance of 
stalk, corn light; this I attribute wholly to plant¬ 
ing too close. Rye not well filled, but abundance 
of straw. Wheat, barley, and oats, not yet thresh¬ 
ed, except a few bushels of the former, which have 
been sold at $1.37 \ per bushel, for seed wheat, and 
more wanted for the same purpose ; the yield will 
probably be over 30 bushels to the acre. On my 
meadow lands I used 200 lbs.guano and 200 lbs. of 
gypsum, which increased the quantity of hay per 
acre 2,360 lbs., viz.: where no^guano was used, cut 
1,800 lbs., and where it was used, cut 4,160 lbs. I 
should recommend 300 lbs. guano and 300 lbs. 
gypsum, as a top-dressing, to be applied immedi¬ 
ately after the frost leaves the ground, and just 
previous to a rain. On my wheat and rye I used 
700 lbs. guano to the acre, 300 lbs. before sowing, 
200 lbs. after it was up two inches, and 200 lbs. in 
the spring, with an equal quantity of gypsum each 
time. On other crops used 400 lbs. All my mea¬ 
dow lands which have been top-dressed appear like 
new meadows. The field where I took off my 
wheat and rye, the grass is very thick, and 18 
inches high. 
For oats or barley I consider 224 lbs. to the acre 
quite sufficient. E. K. Collins. 
Mamaroneck, Oct. 2 d, 1846. 
Plowing in Green Crops. —Spending a short 
time in New York a few days since, I was invited 
by Mr. J. W. Satterthwait to look at a field recently 
sown with wheat, in which he had turned under a 
very heavy crop of green corn that had been sown 
broadcast with the Eagle plow, No. 25. The ope¬ 
ration was performed first by rolling the corn flat 
on the surface of the ground, and then completely 
covering it with the plow, after which the wheat 
was sown and harrowed in the usual way. Mr. S. 
has promised to let me know the result, when the 
wheat is harvested, Avhich, if favorable, shall be 
sent to you for publication. A Traveller 
W estphalia Plan of Smoking Hams. —A room 
in a garret; fire in the cellar; smoke gathered in a 
tunnel and led to the smoke-rooms by a small pipe; 
by the time it gets there all the heaviest part of the 
pyroligneous acid has condensed, and the smoke has 
become cool. Nothing touches the ham but a pure, 
j light cool smoke, which passes off by a number of 
I small apertures, about as fast as it is applied. 
