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THE CULT IV-A TOE. 
Nov. 
Suffolk Boar Prince. 
In the month of January, 
1852, John C. Jackson, of N. 
Y. City, imported from the 
yard of His Royal Highness 
Prince Albert, eight Suffolk 
swine. These pigs, shortly 
after their arrival, were trans¬ 
ferred to Col. Sherwood, of 
Auburn. I purchased Prince, 
one of the eight pigs of Col. 
S., and have just re-sold him, 
to Mr. Clark of Mentz, for 
the sum of one hundred dol¬ 
lars. Prince has proved him¬ 
self a good sire, and has in¬ 
creased the value of our stock 
of hogs in this neighborhood 
fully $1000, in the 3 r ear past. 
J. R. Page. Sennett, N. Y. 
About Salting Stock and other Thing®. 
Messrs. Editors —The communication which I sent 
you some months ago, regarding salting hay in an even¬ 
ly manner, has led to a result, which will doubtless con¬ 
tribute much to the health and the comfort of the cat¬ 
tle on a thousand hills or farms, and fc> the consequent 
comfort and benefit of their owners. It has brought 
out information as to the best method of salting stock, 
which must be valuable to many of your readers. For 
one, I acknowledge myself under obligation, both to 
your West Pawlet subscriber, and also to Mr. J. W. 
Colburn of Springfield, Vt. I have been in the habit 
of depending entirely on my hay, when evenly and pro¬ 
perly salted, for a sufficient supply of that article for all 
my stock during the period of foddering. Now I will 
adopt the more excellent way pointed out by the con¬ 
tributors to your paper, whom I have named above, and 
have salt always accessible to them in a trough. This 
trough, I will endeavor to have under cover, or defended 
in some way from rain and snow. This is a provision 
for having the salt always in a proper condition which 
is not mentioned, if I recollect aright, by either of your 
contributors referred to. Another matter essential to 
be attended to by all your readers, or others who pro¬ 
pose to have salt always accessible to their stock, is 
this—the animals should all be accustomed gradually to 
the use of it. If sheep, especially after long abstinence 
from salt, were allowed free access to it, they would 
partake of it in such excessive quantities as to sicken 
and destroy several of them. Another thing which 
should be done in connection with this mode of salting 
stock, might be of considerable advantage, especially 
when corn or any other grain is fed to any of the ani¬ 
mals^ At such times especially, and probably at all 
times when the food is mainly dry, a quantity of ashes 
or a small portion of saleratus or sal-soda, crushed and 
powdered, may be mixed with the salt. This will tend to 
prevent that heart-burn and sourness of stomach, which 
oat meal and corn meal are apt to produce in the 
stomachs of human animals, and which they probably 
produce occasionally in those of other animals. 
Now if all the suggestions which have now and for- 
been made on this subject be reduced to practice 
by all your subscribers, during this and coming winters, 
we are persuaded that both the health and the comfort 
of all their animals will be much increased. To allow 
creatures access to salt whenever they have the instinc¬ 
tive craving for it, seems certainly the most natural and 
proper way, and the way most likely to promote health 
and prevent disease. In no other way can an animal 
have, so certainly, just what it wants, and what it needs, 
of this salutary condiment as in the way which your 
correspondents named have recommended through the 
columns of the Cultivator and Country Gentleman. 
Let us all adopt this method then, till we hear of a 
better, which will not be very soon, I guess. 
There is one fact, which has recently come to my 
knowledge in connection with this subject, which may 
be given to the farming public with some prospect of 
benefit; as many may use it so as to save hay when it 
is scarce. A neighbor of mine had some wheat which 
he was obliged to get in, soon after being cut, and while 
the straw was rather green, to prevent injury from a 
threatening rain-storm. In order to prevent the mow 
from heating, moulding or otherwise taking harm, he 
sprinkled on the several loads salt in very liberal quan¬ 
tities. After this mow was threshed, and the straw 
stack made accessible to the stock on the farm, it was 
noticed that the animals were almost constant^ picking 
at it, and that it disappeared quite rapidly. The straw 
was also eaten up cleaner than usual. This was all 
owing, doubtless, as it was ascribed, to the salt having 
made the straw more palatable. At all events, the fact 
furnishes a hint worth dollars—worth more than the 
subscription price of either or both of your papers—to 
many, who may have occasion to try it, and find as our 
neighbor did, that (C never was straw eat up so slick.” 
Observes. —— 
To Prevent a Cow Failing in her Milk. —Wash 
the cow’s udder and teats with pure cold water before 
milking, and then milk her morning and evening as dry 
as possible; negligence in this latter precaution is one 
of the^causcs of cows failing in their milk. The cow 
should if possible, be always milked by the same person, 
and while the process is going on a small quantity of 
hay should be placed before the animal. This furnishes 
employment for the jaws, and draws her attention from 
what is going on, and the milk is in consequence yield¬ 
ed freely. 
