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SEPT 22 
THE BSJBAL ISEW-YORIEB. 
cutting it when ripe, and feeding the grain 
and using or selling the straw. 
Morris Co., N. Y. 
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APPLE POMACE FOR CATTLE. 
Excellent for dairy cows and beef stock; kept 
in a silo ; daily ration. 
About three years ago I began feeding my 
cows cider apples. We gathered them and 
just before feeding them ran them through a 
root-cutter which broke up all the big apples 
which might choke the stock. I found them in 
a few days improving in the quality and quan¬ 
tity of milk. Last year I repeated the feeding, 
having a large quantity of apples. After they 
were exhausted I sent a team to the cider mill 
and drew a load of apple pomace and began 
feeding it, and found my stock quite as crazy 
for it as they had been for the apples. I con¬ 
tinued it until I fed up a number of tons and 
found the cows increasing in milk and flesh 
about the same as when fed on fresh apples. I 
fed it to my beef cattle also, and to young 
stock, and saw a decided improvement in their 
condition. I found it of so much service that 
I planned to draw it from the cider mill six 
miles away. The pomace was going to waste 
and the owner of the mill was glad to give it to 
me to get it out of the.way. I obtained about 
18 tons which I put in one of my silos on top 
of my corn silage, after k itbad settled. It was 
placed on top of the planks which covered my 
silage. As we drew it we packed it down hard 
and even and after the 18 tons were all in we 
covered it with boards, and straw on top of 
them. This was in November. The last of 
December I opened the pomace and found it 
as good as the day it was placed there. 
I began feeding it once a day to 
the stock—about a peck at a time—and con¬ 
tinued it until it was all exhausted. I fed silage 
once a day, hay once and pomace once. I 
found good results from its use, and when it 
was gone the cows did not do quite so well. 
To the beef cattle I fed hay, silage, pomace 
and corn meal, and they grew nicely. The 
cost of the article was nothing except the 
expense of hauling it, and yet if it were but a 
mile or two from our home it would have 
been my chief feed at a dollar or even two 
dollars'per load. The article now can be had 
free all over the country where there are 
cider mills; but the time will come when it 
will be sold freely to those who desire it. I do 
not think it can take the place of silage, but 
if a farmer has.no silage it will be the next 
thing to it, as cattle are very fond of it. The 
pomace was from sweet and sour apples. 
Doubtless the sweet apples would be the best. 
Hancock, Mass. A. F. morey. 
DISPOSING OF THE HOUSE SLOPS ON 
THE FARM. 
That was a good item that the Rural 
copied from the Farm Journal—“ Stop the 
hired girl from throwing the dish water out 
of the kitchen door. Get a portable cask for 
her to put it in, if you have no good drain.” 
But I would like to amend it a little for us 
farmers. Make it read: “Throw no dish 
water or slops of any kind anywhere in the 
door-yard. If you have got a drain tear it 
out and fill it up. Then get a portable cask to 
stand by the kitchen door and receive the 
waste, which can be wheeled away and 
emptied always in a different place.” Cer¬ 
tainly the day has passed when reading 
farmers do not know the danger in throwing 
out slops always in one place around the 
house. One need not argue that point to 
those who take the Rural. 
Again, they ought to know that a drain such 
as is commonly found in the farm door-yard, 
is no less dangerous. I have frequently seen 
such drains with my own eyes, the inlet of 
which came up close to theikitchen door, and 
even inside, without any attempt whatever at 
trapping. The gases from that foul drain, 
not even exposed to sunlight to purify it a 
little, could and did, of course, come right up 
in or around that home. I remember at an 
institute when this matter had been under 
discussion, a farmer came to me after meet¬ 
ing, and told of an under-ground slop drain, 
laid with common drain tiles, that passed 
from his kitchen door within a very few feet 
of his well, and then off. They had been 
using it in this shape for years. Just think of 
that! The air around the house must be more 
or less dangerous to health, and it was only a 
question of time when their water would be¬ 
come so impure as to cause sickness. 
Di'ains on the surface, or open ditches to 
convey the waste water away are often found 
at fanners’back doors. These, though prob¬ 
ably not as dangerous as underground ones, 
are open to the same objections as the 
plan of throwing slops out of the door in one 
place. 
I do not believe one farmer in fifty has it so 
arranged as to dispose of the slops in such a way 
that they can do no injury. Of course, they 
can put in drains and traps, so there will be 
little or no danger from sewer gas. In the 
city this must be done; but on the farm I 
believe there is a better way, and that is the 
way told of in the above amendment. This is 
from experience, as for several years we have 
used a portable cask at our back door. I like 
it)very|much. It is a 48-gallon cask (an old lin¬ 
seed oil barrel) mounted on wheels. I put a 
porch on each side of the kitchen, which is 
built out by itself on the back side of the 
house. This barrel can be wheeled to either 
porch that may be handiest. Our folks wash 
on the west porch in warm weather, and the 
barre can stand close to the tubs, so as to be as 
handy as could be desired. Once or twice a 
day we wheel it away, out of the yard, and 
empty it in a new place each time. There is 
no stinking place anywhere around, and no 
dangerous drain. The barrel can be disin¬ 
fected easily. Being soaked with oil it will 
last a great while. We paint the outside and 
the wheels every year. 
For two or three months in winter this can 
not be used, except on washing days when 
there is a good deal of water. At this time we 
use pails and carry the waste water out of the 
yard and spread it on a field. If sickness and 
death come I mean that the minister shall be 
able to say in truth, at the funeral, that the 
“ Lord gave and the Lord taketh away.” I 
do not mean that a stinking hole around our 
back door .'shall take us off or a foul drain 
either. T. B. Terry. 
NEW FEED BOX. 
Almost every farmer has been provoked at 
times by reason of the “bos3”cow or steer 
monopolizing the feed rack or water trough, 
while other more hungry animals stood about 
patiently waiting for her ladyship or his lord- 
ship to become satisfied and move away. 
It has occurred to me that by making a 
trough or box four or five feet square, and ex¬ 
tending a stall or partition from the corners, at 
least four animals could be fed or watered at 
a time, and could not materially interfere 
with each other. I send a rough sketch or 
plan. See Fig. 320. c. e. f. 
Muscatine, Iowa. 
A NEAT AND CHEAP TANK. 
Dr. Baisely, of East Rockaway, L. I., has 
devised a neat, cheap and exceedingly useful 
tank for watering the garden, chickens, etc. 
It consists of a whisky barrel (our temperance 
friends might use a kerosene barrel) supported 
upon three joists properly braced. It is filled 
by an ordinary force pump. The water is 
distributed by a small hose with a spray noz¬ 
zle. It would be very easy to arrange it so 
that a water trough for cattle or fowls could 
be kept full all the time. All that is required 
to make it water-tight are three joists and 
two or three pieces of boards to hold the bar¬ 
rel and to act as braces. The whole thing 
could be built and painted in a couple of 
hours and need not cost over a couple of dol¬ 
lars. It will force water a hundred feet or 
more, and all the effects of a water supply 
with a pressure may be .obtained. See Fig. 
321. 
A HOME-MADE HAND ROLLER. 
MULE-FOOTED SWINE. 
As A curiosity which I never saw before, 
or even heard of, I send the Rural a foot 
of a “mule-footed” hog. There is a herd of 
Fig. 219. 
them ranging the woods about eight miles 
north of Baton Rouge. None of the old set¬ 
tlers can give me any further information 
concerning them than that “they are a herd 
of wild hogs.” R. G. B. 
Cottonville, La. 
R. N.-Y.— An exact drawing of this foot is 
given at Fig, 319. We have seen several of 
these mule-footed hogs. In a small Southern 
town a large Poland-China boar had one hind 
foot exactly like the one shown in our picture, 
and a large proportion of the young pigs from 
him were marked in the same way. 
THE MOYER GRAPE. 
We have received a few small bunches of 
the new red grape “Moyer,” from Mr. L. 
Roesch, of Fredonia, N. Y. Its color is a 
dark sort of a chestnut-red, the size of the 
berry medium. The skin is thin, but firm, 
like that of Delaware. The pulp is tender 
and the seeds part from it readily. It is pure 
in flavor and the quality, though not so good 
as that ot Delaware, of which it is supposed to 
be a seedling, is yet sweet and agreeable. It 
is unquestionably very early. Mr. Roesch 
and others deem it as early as the Champion. 
A cheap and very convenient hand roller 
or lawn and garden use is shown at Figs. 322 
nd 323. It is made of a piece of stove-pipe, 
ly three feet long and from five to eight 
iches in diameter. Circular pieces of wood, 
be heavier the’better, are fitted in both ends, 
nd the pipe isjfilled with sand or old pieces 
f lead and dirt well rammed down to keep it 
olid. The handle is a heavy oak or hickory 
apling, split up far enough to make the bow 
s shown in the cut. An axle may be made 
f an iron rod running through the blocks 
u the ends of the pipe, and completely 
hrough the cylinder, or they may be screw- 
iolts running into the blocks. The block 
hould be put in one end of the pipe and se- 
urely nailed; then the pipe should be filled 
pith sand, or other heavy matter, and then 
he block should be put in the other end and 
his should also be well nailed. An old piece 
f stove-pipe, the larger in diameter the bet- 
er, a hickory sapling, say eight feet long, a 
od or bolts for the axle and a couple of round 
docks, of the same size as the pipe, and an 
lour’s time will make as good a hand-roller as 
an be bought for four or five dollars at the 
lardware store. The roller may be put in a 
rame-work made of old boards, and an old 
awn roller-handle uBed instead of a sapling, 
i'ig. 322 shows the way the handle is made 
vith a sapling, in which 1 is the sapling divi- 
led at 2 with a three-cornered piece, 3. Fig. 
123 shows a handle made of a frame of boards. 
KALAMAZOO CELERY. 
HISTORY OF THE BUSINESS. 
Kalamazoo celerY has a national reputa¬ 
tion w hich extends to Canada and Mexico. 
Its popularity depends upon its fine flavor, 
uniform quality and even size. It is clean and 
free from rust. It has been raised here for a 
quarter of a century. Twenty-five years ago 
it was cultivated on a small scale on high- 
aground by Mr. Taylor, but could not be pro¬ 
duced in paying quantities. In 1871 Mr. 
Brown prepared a small piece of marsh land 
and planted it to celery. The result was a crop 
great in quantity and excellent in quality. 
This may be said to be the beginning of the 
industry. The next year Mr. John Schaal be¬ 
gan the cultivation of celery on a larger scale, 
and has continued the business to the present 
time. Since that date there have been fresh 
accessions to the ranks of growers, until now 
celery culture is the principal business of hun¬ 
dreds. Joseph Dunkey is the largest grower, 
having 40 acres under cultivation this year. 
ITS EXTENT. 
There are between four and five thousand 
acres under cultivation in the county. Each 
acre produces from 1,500 to 1,800 dozen 
bunches to each crop, and during a favorable 
season two and occasionally three crops are 
