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Following is a summary of the results reached in these tests :— 
Timothy has proved to be less digestible by horses than by ruminants 
(animals that chew the cud). 
Grinding oats increased their digestibility. 
Cornmeal was considerably more digestible than shelled corn, _ 
Feeding concentrated food or grain with hay decreased the digestibility of 
the hay. : 
It is impossible to maintain horses on a grain ration alone; they must 
have a long forage. 
Making a “mixed feed’? of the grain and long forage is the best manner 
of feeding horses. 
The new corn product was better digested by horses than timothy hay. 
Grinding fodder to the condition of the new corn product, or of coarse 
bran, does not destroy its value as long forage. . 
The new corn product was successfully used as a substitute for hay in 
horse feeding. 
GLORIFYING THE HEN. 
Ay old crippled soldier was requested by Galen Wilson (in Karm and Fireside) 
to give his views on poultry-raising, in which the soldier was engaged. The 
reply was:—Hggs are always cash. They are ready for market the minute 
laid; and the sooner they are got to market the better. They require no 
cultivation, pruning, or harvesting, but are at once in a saleable condition. ~ 
With plenty of eggs on the farm, there area host of good things in the kitchen 
and money in the family purse. Gathering up eggs is like picking up dimes 
and dollars. Great is the hen that produces them. When everything is dull 
in winter, the egg-basket has wonderfully helped out many a poor farmer. 
The crops may be poor, the provisions low, the family cow dry, with a long 
wait for the next growing season; but the hen comes up smiling, and is ready 
to get 2 pound of tea or a sack of flour. If treated well, she will respond as 
readily when the snow is onthe ground as when the fields are green. She is a 
friend to the rich and poor alike. - 
DRYING TOMATOES. 
Mr. H. A. Tarvenr, manager of the Westbrook State Farm, gives the 
following recipe for drying tomatoes :— ; ; 
There are many ways of drying that perfect esculent, and thus preserve 
it under a condensed form, easy to keep, easy to carry, and most handy to use. 
The best I know of, so far, is the following, used for years past by Mrs. 
Tardent:— 
Take good fleshy tomatoes, throw them into a tinned copper boiler. Boil 
over a moderate fire until the skins separate from the flesh; then pass 
through a sieve to strain off the skins and seeds. Then boil again to evaporate 
as much moisture as possible, without burning. ‘Then pour on plates, saucers, 
or shallow dishes. (For commercial purposes, square specially made moulds are 
better, as the dried tablets thus pack well in cases.) ‘The pulp should not be 
thicker than in half-inch layers. ‘Then expose to sun and wind, taking care to 
cover the moulds with sheets of butter cloth, as flies are apt to deposit eggs in 
the pulp. Stir also occasionally the crust which forms on the surface, as 
otherwise the moisture cannot escape, and thus would engender mouldiness 
under the crust. The process is greatly hastened by finishing the drying in a 
cool oven, cr, if available, in an evaporator. When the tablets are thoroughly 
dry, let them cool and pack in airtight boxes. 
