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A NEW FOOD FOR STOCK. 
Is both Denmark and Sweden, for the past few year: 
made with blood as an ingredient for animal fecd. Similar experiments have 
been made in Germany with apparent success. A patent has been issued for 
the manufacture of an animal-food mixture called « Kraftfutter” (strength 
feed) or “ Blutmelassefutter” (blood molasses feed), of which 
ingredients are fresh blood (collected at the city 
and “grain cheat,” by which is meant screenings 
rye, oats, &e. Turf mull, or turf flour, 
“cheat,” but not with success. 
This feed is prepared in three different mixtures—for horses, for cattle 
and swine, and for poultry. The retail price is 6 marks (about 6s.) per 100 Ib. 
The preparation is not intended to be fed raw, but as a mixture with other 
regular feed—for instance, when the amount of oats given per day is 15 Ib., with 
the use of ‘‘ Kraftfutter”’ the quantity of oats is reduced to half, or 74 Ib., to 
which is added 5 lb. of “ Kraftfutter.” 
At present the United States Government is experimenting with this feed 
on artillery horses, it being claimed that the albumen in blood, coupled with 
sugar and the other ingredients, makes an exceptionally strengthening food, in 
addition to being inexpensive. 
Factories for the production of this mixture are now in operation at Berlin, 
Stettin, Kiel, and Konigsberg. 
8, experiments have been 
the principal 
slaughter-houses), sugar refuse, 
38 or blowings from wheat, barley, 
has been tested as a substitute for 
A BOTTLE MOUSE-TRAP. 
Mice are easily caught if one goes the right w 
extermination. A cat is useful in this work, but she 
fill; a dog is too active to watch and wait like his feline companion ; traps want 
constant attention, and, moreover, they become recognised by the wilier members 
of these pestiferous vermin; and poison is dangerous, besides which mice 
_ destroyed in this way often die in the runs, and so give rise to offensive odours. 
Bottles will catch mice alive or dead, as may be required, They should be 
vessels with fairly open mouths and not too long necks, and when in position 
should be placed at an angle, as in the accompanying diagram, with means of 
ay about effecting their 
cannot eat more than her 
approach. If something is inserted as a 
bait, with a scent sufficient to attract 
the attention of the little animals, the 
y will soon investigate the inner recesses 
of the bottle, and,’ once there, their exit is more than they can effect themselves. 
The glass affords no foothold, and, though they may spring as far as the bottle 
neck, down they slide, to repeat the effort until exhaustion compels them to 
desist. If a poisoned bait is put in the bottle, the traps should be constantly - 
visited, and ie bodies of the victims emptied out. Barns, corn lofts, stacks, 
and other places about the farm can be cleared pretty, effectually of rats and 
mice by this means, only in the case of rats the bait should always be poisoned, 
A GOOD MANURE FOR ROSES. 
Rosus may be much benefited by a manurial dressing once in three weeks of 
1 Ib. of nitrate of soda to from 50 to 75 gallons of water. After application 
moisten the soil slightly. Old stocks require more dilution—say, 100 gallous 
of water to 1 Jb. of nitrate. The soil may be soaked with this. 
