1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
195 
SCIENCE FROM THE STATIONS. 
REVIEWS OF IMPORTANT BULLETINS. 
The Massachusetts Experiment Station (Am¬ 
herst) has issued Bulletin No. 50, which dis¬ 
cusses the feeding value of salt-marsh hay. In 
many places along the Atlantic coast, there are 
large areas of salt marsh. These low swamps 
are covered at some seasons with the tide, which 
flows in and out through numerous creeks and 
streams. The marshes are covered with coarse, 
hard grasses, which are usually considered of 
little value for feeding, being largely used for 
bedding. The Massachusetts Station has had 
some of these grasses analyzed, and has also 
fed them to sheep and cattle. A fair statement 
of these experiments seems to be that these 
salt grasses closely resemble an average quality 
of English hay, having rather more ash and less 
fiber. This salt hay, cut when in bloom and well 
cured, has from 10 to 18 per cent less feeding 
value than English hay of average quality. 
When fed in combination with grain and ensi¬ 
lage, the salt hay has given good returns, pro¬ 
ducing about five per cent less milk and butter 
than an equal amount of English hay. These 
salt hays are low in price, and these experiments 
would show that where a farmer is feeding ensi¬ 
lage, the upland hay might be sold and the salt 
hay used as a substitute. While it is not so 
stated, we should judge that where ensilage is 
not fed, this salt hay will not prove a full substi¬ 
tute. As a grain mixture to be fed with one 
bushel of corn ensilage, and 12 pounds of salt 
hay, the station recommends either of the fol¬ 
lowing : 
I. 
50 pounds cotton-seed meal. 
100 pounds gluten feed. 
100 pounds corn meal. 
Mix and feed five to seven quarts daily. 
II. 
50 pounds cotton-seed meal. 
100 pounds gluten feed. 
100 pounds wheat bran. 
Mix and feed seven to nine quarts daily. 
III. 
100 pounds gluten meal. 
100 pounds wheat bran. 
Mix and feed eight to nine quarts daily. 
IV. 
100 pounds corn meal. 
75 pounds gluten or cotton-seed meal. 
Mix and feed five to six quarts daily. 
V. 
Six to seven quarts of gluten feed daily. 
This experiment will certainly be suggestive to 
farmers who live near the seacoast and are able 
to secure quantities of this cheap fodder. 
The Department of Agriculture of Pennsyl¬ 
vania has issued Bulletin 34 containing a variety 
of very interesting reports. It is published by 
the Secretary of the Department, Thos. J. Edge, 
Harrisburg. Among other departments, is a re¬ 
port of the dairy and food division, which gives 
something of the results obtained in enforcing 
the pure-food laws. Tuberculosis, Tobacco Cul¬ 
ture, Free Rural Mail Delivery, The Interstate 
Commerce Act, Fertilizer Supplies, Beet Sugar, 
are very good illustrations of the topics under 
discussion. The following remarkable state¬ 
ment is quoted in this pamphlet, from Lea Busey, 
in 1877: “In 1847, the gold mines of California 
were discovered, and the silver mines soon after. 
Since their discovery (up to 1877), the amount of 
both mined in that region is very near SI,000,- 
300,000. It would be natural to suppose that, from 
such a vast sum, we would have retained an 
ample sufficiency. But such is not the fact. And 
why? One of the most prominent reasons is 
that, during that period, we have imported and 
consumed over 81,250,000,000 worth of sugar. 
While we have squandered our gold for sugar, 
France, by preserving, in a wise policy of the 
protection of this industry (beet sugar manu¬ 
facture) for the national benefit, has for the last 
10 years produced sufficient sugar for home con¬ 
sumption, and now is exporting a large sur¬ 
plus, and without any mines of gold or silver, 
possesses to-day, according to the best authority, 
over 81,200,000,000 of the precious metals, of 
which 8360,000,000 has been accumulated during 
the last seven years, and after paying an unpre¬ 
cedented indemnity to Germany within that 
time.” The whole pamphlet is very interesting 
and valuable, and certainly, every Pennsylvania 
farmer should have it in his library. 
The Canadian Department of Agriculture has 
issued from its Central Experiment Farm, Ottawa, 
Can., a bulletin on the Possibilities of Agricul¬ 
ture in the Yukon District. This deals with a 
subject of particular interest just now to people 
who have their eyes and hearts set on Alaska. It 
is reported that Ladoga wheat ripened at Fort 
Simpson, 818 miles nor„h of Winnipeg. At Daw¬ 
son City on the Klondike, and probably for 200 
miles up the Yukon, it is safe to try the earliest 
potatoes, radishes, turnips, peas and rhubarb. 
The following extract from the bulletin will show 
something of the difficulties under which Alaskan 
gardeners must labor: “Mr. Ogilvie says that a 
‘ Mr. Patch tried to grow potatoes on the south 
side of Forty Mile River, but they were invariably 
killed by frost before they matured. He then 
sought a nook on the south side of the river where 
the sun did not get to them until towards noon. 
They were thus gently thawed out in the shade 
before the strong sun heat fell upon them, and 
thus survived the action of the frost.’ Mr. 
Ogilvie mentions several other gardens at Forty 
Mile in which potatoes have been cultivated, but 
those grown in that locality are watery. He also 
refers to the experience of a Mr. Harper, at Fort 
Selkirk, on the Yukon, who has grown potatoes 
of fair quality. To preserve them from frost he 
made a large covering of heavy ticking, and every 
evening when frost threatened he suspende d this 
over the potato tops, and lifted it again in the 
morning, and in this way he was fairly success¬ 
ful.” On the whole there is nothing in this re¬ 
port that would induce a man located anywhere 
in “ God’s country ” to go to Alaska expect ing to 
make a living on a farm. 
THE NEW YORK DOG SHOW. 
The annual bench show of the Westminster 
Kennel Club, which closed in New York February 
24, was very successful, both in quality of ex¬ 
hibits and number of visitors. Most of the ani¬ 
mals exhibited were familiar prize-winners, 
among them being Lord Brassey, said to be the 
largest St. Bernard in the world, and the great 
German mastiff, Black Peter, which, missing the 
ill-fated steamer Veendam, was sent over on a 
later vessel, and thus arrived at the show too 
late for judging. Popular taste seems to run 
strongly toward hardy, outdoor dogs, and the 
delicate little toy terriers, once so fashionable, 
seemed comparatively neglected. The modern 
woman does not care for lapdogs, and the Mal¬ 
tese terriers which look like little mats of white 
spun silk, toy black-and-tans, Blenheim and 
Japanese spaniels, in their little glass houses, 
attracted less enthusiasm among feminine visit¬ 
ors than square-jawed, bow-legged Boston ter¬ 
riers, or miniature French bulldogs. The breed 
last named appears the favorite of fashion at 
present, and some of the specimens exhibited 
were valued at 81,OCX) each. The most grotesquely 
hideous animals in the entire show were the Eng¬ 
lish bulldogs, whose value, in the fanciers’ eyes, 
appears to increase in ratio with their ugliness. 
Fox terriers, both smooth and wire-haired, were 
largely represented; this breed is very popu¬ 
lar. Cocker spaniels were also shown largely, 
some fine specimens coming from Canada; they 
are handsome animals, and both intelligent and 
good -te m pered. 
Among the large dogs, St. Bernards, Great 
Danes, Mastiffs and Collies led. A troupe of per¬ 
forming Great Danes from Germany, sufficiently 
educated to walk tighti-opes and perform other 
circus feats, added to the interest in this breed. 
Russian wolfhounds, lean, powerful animals, 
represented a type very rarely seen. The New¬ 
foundland appears to excite less attention than 
any other breed, being always sparingly shown, 
and the one-time craze for German Dachshunds 
appears to have passed away, though the short 
legged, long-bodied Dachshund is one of the most 
companionable dogs we know. e. t. k. 
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