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loL. XXIII. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, AUG. 11,1888. NO. 32 WEATHER CROP BULLETIN , ou Indiana Weather Service ln Oo- operation with the Signal Service. Indianapolis, August 4. Ths rainfall daring the past week was illv distributed and insufficient In quan- ,r, to be of much benefit to the remain- _i crops, except in very few localities. i tbe central portion of tha State,ln most olities no rains fell at all, and at few the nount was but small; from the extreme dh and southeast portions and from .ng the northern border gocd rainfalls ere reported and these proved very ben- _a»l, as corn at present neesds it, the soil .ring become very dry. The tempera- ire was exceedingly above the normal, iring tbe week, high temperature pre- iiled day and night and with much sun- i;ne daily, the conditions of the weather we not beneficial if not injurious to corn, loti-toes, etc. The threshing of wheat and a, is nearly, if not quite ended, and the '-Id, apparently satisfactory. The corn still in excellent condition, in spite of ■protracted dry weather of the pist few •-to, and the farmers expect acropex- ing tbe average of a number of years H_o!8ne quality. OBSERVERS REMARKS, -unman—The past week has been rather arm nd dry for corn and potatoes. The sa^oats and hay crops have been se- ■rediii go6ct"co_ie__i(i6n*."Apples*'will be wthalfa crop, other fruits are abun- :^gpl Rainfall, 0.25 inch. Veray—A'egetation is in the most ad- «ced condition. Corn is in tassel; to- wo growing rapidly; kitchen vegetables |s In inch abundance, that the price is f» beyond precedent; potatoes, however, 'fttheir own, selling from 75 cents to dollar per bushel. Passing thunder- pjrms have purified the air and copious N revived vegetation in general, July '■Mp. m. unusually -heavy rain fell to kpth of 1.80 inches in 45 minutes. Rain- ■Uooinch. Bitterville—The hay harvest is about " and in good condition; the greater -oaat of grain is threshed.' "Wild goose Ma are all marketed in fine condition; atyof summer apples of fine quality. ^Ml, 0.30 Inch. Mount Vernon—Oat of the 10 townships p°sey county seven are suffering for ""ol rain to make a full crop of corn. -* wheat firm at 73 cents. Corn 50 cents. ^'«11,0.05 inch. ffanklin-The ground is very dry and ^rain; garden stuff is drying up. ■reshing is still going on. No rain. ii«nzy_Wheat threghlng l8 mostiy •j8- Pasture is good. Prospect for corn ""ever better. Riinf__U0.53 inch. ^Jmour-The weather during the past * aa-ibeen favorable to all growing •?». Oats threshing in process;- yield ,Ve the average and q uality good. Corn ; melons very promising; the corn j.wi" ba the best in ten years. Bar- 5 ra,ns'orn_) August 1, a large number .' of a r«e variety, fell here, some of 1 '0Ur -^tes long. Rainfall 1.08 Inch. "Mngton-The rains on the 28th ^j"*11 -°oal rains, covering very little *eri e corn and melon crops are *dSgifr°m Wantof raln and wU1 ** re* ,,I*6*-9 r»ln comes soon. The heat •ssult* &Dd nmcli sickness, flax, etc., ■•>«>• ttetetrom- RalnfaU 0.98 inch. Ly^^Pfinga-Splendid weather for Tl,.8' l to° dry *or corn and tobac- "Wel roads are very dusty. Peach ■ie. j. , WnB d°wn under their load; Ul dl e P)ei»tllul. Good rai»s occurred ^ndA romhereon July 28tb> p.:!l August 1st. Rainfall only 0X>3. r i very i e weatnerli' now favorable '''*hL 8 Ji6ld 0)*corn;lrxlit is ™ry «! Potatoes will not be as large a crop as the earlier season promised- Rainfall, 0 60 inch. , Dalphi—Present indications place the corn crop at 10 per cent above an average; oats crop full average, and potatoes promise a good yield. R iinfall, 0.88 inch. Princeton—Corn is looking fine, yet we need a little more rain; most of the wheat is threshed in this section. Rainfall, 1 inch. Logansport—The very dry weather of the preceding week, seriously affected the corn crop, but the rain on Tuesday of this week partially relieved the drouth; pas tures,also, have been greatly benefitted by tbe rain. Potatoes are a good crop. The temperature has been unusnally high. Rainfall, 0.76 Inch. Farmland—Ssveral good rains fell this week and corn and potatoes were beginning to need it. Very warm. Rainfall, 1.02 inch. H. A. Huston, Director Indiana Weather Service. Per C. F. R. Wappenhans, Signal Service Ass't. Food, Feeding and Nutrition. Without attempting to be too technical, it is nevertheless requisite to present some chemical or physiological views of food. Unless the reader keeps these in mind he will be very apt to err in practice when special articles of low selling price are placed on the market for sale. Inasmuch ' itsTtmye»iy•'■ttiweaMiig eosref ■•nrmers» oflal, and the refuse of oil mills, starch and sugar works, breweries, and seed- cleaning houses, renders the obligation of growing the greatest amount of food on the farm a serious duty, as well as a great advantage, it is of primary importance that we &hould understand something of the physicil structure'and chemical com - position of the grasses, fodders, seeds and roots grown on the farm. Until we form some intelligible acquaintancs with the charac&er of the plants grown on the farm, and aro ablo to form definite ideas of their food values at the different stages of their growth, we shall be a long time in arriving at any .correct habits of economy in feeding. Quality in food is a tremeadous factor in economical fowling and of incalculable value in digestion. Farm fodders and fesding are, in many localities, very much like the ccarse pork and the cholera hogs we are condemning— of low qua'ity, dangerous, and very unreliable in feeding value. The composition of the plants growing in our fields havo certain general principle, in common, Thoy all consist of the following substances: FOOD rBINCIP__ES. f FOOD FUNCTIONS Fat. i Fat Formers. Starch, sugar it gum,or \ Heat givers aud Carbohydrate.. I Digestion Aiels. Cellulose,or Crude Fibre I Nitrogenous Compounds. Fle.hand Milk Ash or M neral Ma,ter. Formers. Bane Making. ' The sta^e of growth or the condition of maturity of a plant, ma'erially affects its feeling value.and hence It is tbat we meet with such variations of experience among practical men and also among some men of science who use these feeiing substan- ce i;' tto fame in name, but widely different in the amount and digestiblo condition of the nutriment which they contain. The amount of natural moisture or water of combination which a plant contains, is an element of the greatest value in cost of food and efficient digestion. While it is quite true that water will neither make flesh, fat, heat or bono.it is a powerful solvent in the form of a plant juice, because plant roots take their food in solution, and the whole of tholr components are grown and developed in solution, just as human musclc,fat and bone are formed from blood derived from food first reduced to'fluid in the. organs of digestion, and then by an elaborate preparation absorbed into the blood. This agency of water in food, or plant juice? or fluids, accounts for the great digestibility of grss.03, green fodder crops, roots and ensilage, and also the relatively low rates of digestibility in the over-ripe hay, clover, straws and corn stalks grown for their seeds. Then there is the other extreme of greenness or immaturity in plants cut and fed before maturity, or in the middle of their growing period. In this condition they have an excess of water, and their solids, weight for weight, are much less efficient as nutrients, and moreover,are apt to scourand cause diarrheal, especially to young stock and to sucking* pigs, calves and lambs whose dams feed on it. In the over ripe or very dry fodder, and in full ripe seeds we have a lower ratio of digestibility, because the extension of the growth period has formed too large a proportion of cellulose or crude fibre which forms the cell or envelope of the true food. The real food being locked up securely in this integument forms a crust or shell, and has been developed at the expense of the other food. This, of course, is the method of growing all wood, and when in this condition much more nervous energy is expended on digestion in the effort to reduce the food, and less cin be taken out of it, and the increased expenditure of nerve power is a loss to the animal. The function of the digestive organs is to reduce well grown tood and absorb the nutriment sapreparead, but not to waste energy on ill grown and coarse material Among the articles which are in general use as food, and as auxiliary substances, the following may be given as the list of pig foods grown on the farm or purchased from other sources: OREBN POODS. Pasture Grasses, Winter rye, Winter Wheat, Red Clover, Orchard Grass, Peas and Oits, Southern Cow Pea, Serradella, Commoh Millet, Hungarian Grass, Lucerne or Alfalfa, Italian Millet, Alsike and Timothy, Scotch Tares, Timothy and Broad Fodder or Knsilage Clover, Corn, Sorghum. cereal foods. Wheat, Oits, Corn, Rye, Birley, Peas, Linseed, Beans, Buckwheat. ROOTS. Potatoes, Carrots, Tankard Mangel, ' Globe Mangel, Cabbage, Sugar Beets, Turnips, Parsnips. refuse materials. Bran, New Process Linseed Middlings, Meal, Shorts, Gluten Meal, Skim-Milk, Beet Root Palp, Whey, Glucose Factory Meal, Malt Combings, Brewers' Grains, Coin Canners' Stalks and Cobs. According to Mr. Coburn, the author of "Swine Husbandry," he estimates from feeding practice an average of about one pound of pork from four to four and a quarter pounds of grain and 15 pounds of green clover. Worked out according to our Ontario crops, we can calculate the following returns from our acres: Mr. Cobum's Ontario Pounels Acre Experience Acre of Grain Fork Ratio BUShelS Wheat 15 Barley...:. 35 Oats 40 Corn.... 40 Peas .25 Iliuhels 31 27 37 40 21 Yield 315 4 !_1 4 396 4* 560 4 215 4 8 0 IS times the amountof fat contained in wheat or barley, and nearly as much digeHlble nitrogen. Peas have double ths nitrogenous matter of any of thetn. P<*ai and oits mixed with bran would theref >re appear to be our best mixture in Canada.—James Choesman. A Prosp3roua Year. Editors Indiana Farmer: I predicted last November that U13 year of 1888 would be a very prod active year, following the great drouth of 1887. My predictions are being reallzjd. I think now that this year ha-i been one of unparalleled growth. At the balcony window a grape vine already this »9ason has climbed up twenty (measureJ) feet. A catalpa tree set out this pa .t spring his made growth of six feet. Tomato vines will measure eight feet and this early August. Fruit trees although laden with heavier crops than for the past ten years, have made enormous growth. A Klefer pear set out in '86 has now 18 line specimens of fruit on it, and has made wood in length four feet. Rispberries and blackberries after bearing a fine crop of fruit have canes for 1889, that would be praised if this was October. Strawberry vines set out last fall, bearing half crop in List June will not be more than well covered with half bushel measure, and so on with all vegetation, even the "weeds" are doing "their level best." . . . Purslaln and careless weeds, smartweed and foxtail, grow as if this was to be their prizs year. Leave them alone a week and you .think you have been absent a whole month, and I predict that when September comes that weeds will hold un? disputed sway in nine gardens out of ten, and be as rank in growth as a Louisiana Canebreak. And while this has been a joarof great growth, it has been one of the finest, and now promises tho largest crop of corn, oats, apples, grapes, melons, and all garden vegetables, we have had for ten years. And with the time to fully mature the fine growth already made we will surely have a fine crop of fruit in 1889. B.vtes. Rockville. 1,21*0 1,296 1,258 2,210 l,2fi0 Oreen Clover.. 6 tons 12,0 0 So far aa known at present we have no table based on the experience either of college work or farm practice which enable? us to deterinineclosely the exact value of these substances. No Englishman or Canadian would for a moment accept the ratio values assigned in this table to I oats and peas.ifOats well grown have three | Preservation of Eggs. At the London Dairy and at tho Birmingham Fat Stock Show, during the last two years, prizes have been offered for the best preserved eggs, says an exchange. These, as well as many private tests, have shown that the lime-water system is, all things considered, the best. A pound of lime should b3 stirred with a gallon of water, and the eggs, perfectly fresh, immersed therein in barrels or jars. This excludf b air and any germs that might clause mildew or mould, and prevents vaporatlon, so tbat tho contents of the egg are not reduced in bulk. It is important to have a considerable excess of lime toreplaceany thatmayb come carbonated. The vessels containing the eggs should be kept in a cool, well ventilated place. A very successful variation in the process consists in imbedding new-laid eggs, warm from the nr st, in a thick paste of lime and water. E/g. thus prepared, for six months could hardly be distinguished from those newly laid. The content* of eggs evaporate rather rapidly through the shell; and the object of the preserver must be to prevent this evaporation, and at the game time to allow for the expansion and contraction of the natural air-space in the egg due to chacgis of temperature. The plan of coating the shells with wax or melted paraffine fail** in the latter particular. Strong brine fails because • the contents of eggs preserved in it become much reduced ih bulk.—American Stockman. The total output of esoal from Iowa mines laat year was 3,864,490 tons.
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1888, v. 23, no. 32 (Aug. 11) |
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Transcript | loL. XXIII. INDIANAPOLIS, IND., SATURDAY, AUG. 11,1888. NO. 32 WEATHER CROP BULLETIN , ou Indiana Weather Service ln Oo- operation with the Signal Service. Indianapolis, August 4. Ths rainfall daring the past week was illv distributed and insufficient In quan- ,r, to be of much benefit to the remain- _i crops, except in very few localities. i tbe central portion of tha State,ln most olities no rains fell at all, and at few the nount was but small; from the extreme dh and southeast portions and from .ng the northern border gocd rainfalls ere reported and these proved very ben- _a»l, as corn at present neesds it, the soil .ring become very dry. The tempera- ire was exceedingly above the normal, iring tbe week, high temperature pre- iiled day and night and with much sun- i;ne daily, the conditions of the weather we not beneficial if not injurious to corn, loti-toes, etc. The threshing of wheat and a, is nearly, if not quite ended, and the '-Id, apparently satisfactory. The corn still in excellent condition, in spite of ■protracted dry weather of the pist few •-to, and the farmers expect acropex- ing tbe average of a number of years H_o!8ne quality. OBSERVERS REMARKS, -unman—The past week has been rather arm nd dry for corn and potatoes. The sa^oats and hay crops have been se- ■rediii go6ct"co_ie__i(i6n*."Apples*'will be wthalfa crop, other fruits are abun- :^gpl Rainfall, 0.25 inch. Veray—A'egetation is in the most ad- «ced condition. Corn is in tassel; to- wo growing rapidly; kitchen vegetables |s In inch abundance, that the price is f» beyond precedent; potatoes, however, 'fttheir own, selling from 75 cents to dollar per bushel. Passing thunder- pjrms have purified the air and copious N revived vegetation in general, July '■Mp. m. unusually -heavy rain fell to kpth of 1.80 inches in 45 minutes. Rain- ■Uooinch. Bitterville—The hay harvest is about " and in good condition; the greater -oaat of grain is threshed.' "Wild goose Ma are all marketed in fine condition; atyof summer apples of fine quality. ^Ml, 0.30 Inch. Mount Vernon—Oat of the 10 townships p°sey county seven are suffering for ""ol rain to make a full crop of corn. -* wheat firm at 73 cents. Corn 50 cents. ^'«11,0.05 inch. ffanklin-The ground is very dry and ^rain; garden stuff is drying up. ■reshing is still going on. No rain. ii«nzy_Wheat threghlng l8 mostiy •j8- Pasture is good. Prospect for corn ""ever better. Riinf__U0.53 inch. ^Jmour-The weather during the past * aa-ibeen favorable to all growing •?». Oats threshing in process;- yield ,Ve the average and q uality good. Corn ; melons very promising; the corn j.wi" ba the best in ten years. Bar- 5 ra,ns'orn_) August 1, a large number .' of a r«e variety, fell here, some of 1 '0Ur -^tes long. Rainfall 1.08 Inch. "Mngton-The rains on the 28th ^j"*11 -°oal rains, covering very little *eri e corn and melon crops are *dSgifr°m Wantof raln and wU1 ** re* ,,I*6*-9 r»ln comes soon. The heat •ssult* &Dd nmcli sickness, flax, etc., ■•>«>• ttetetrom- RalnfaU 0.98 inch. Ly^^Pfinga-Splendid weather for Tl,.8' l to° dry *or corn and tobac- "Wel roads are very dusty. Peach ■ie. j. , WnB d°wn under their load; Ul dl e P)ei»tllul. Good rai»s occurred ^ndA romhereon July 28tb> p.:!l August 1st. Rainfall only 0X>3. r i very i e weatnerli' now favorable '''*hL 8 Ji6ld 0)*corn;lrxlit is ™ry «! Potatoes will not be as large a crop as the earlier season promised- Rainfall, 0 60 inch. , Dalphi—Present indications place the corn crop at 10 per cent above an average; oats crop full average, and potatoes promise a good yield. R iinfall, 0.88 inch. Princeton—Corn is looking fine, yet we need a little more rain; most of the wheat is threshed in this section. Rainfall, 1 inch. Logansport—The very dry weather of the preceding week, seriously affected the corn crop, but the rain on Tuesday of this week partially relieved the drouth; pas tures,also, have been greatly benefitted by tbe rain. Potatoes are a good crop. The temperature has been unusnally high. Rainfall, 0.76 Inch. Farmland—Ssveral good rains fell this week and corn and potatoes were beginning to need it. Very warm. Rainfall, 1.02 inch. H. A. Huston, Director Indiana Weather Service. Per C. F. R. Wappenhans, Signal Service Ass't. Food, Feeding and Nutrition. Without attempting to be too technical, it is nevertheless requisite to present some chemical or physiological views of food. Unless the reader keeps these in mind he will be very apt to err in practice when special articles of low selling price are placed on the market for sale. Inasmuch ' itsTtmye»iy•'■ttiweaMiig eosref ■•nrmers» oflal, and the refuse of oil mills, starch and sugar works, breweries, and seed- cleaning houses, renders the obligation of growing the greatest amount of food on the farm a serious duty, as well as a great advantage, it is of primary importance that we &hould understand something of the physicil structure'and chemical com - position of the grasses, fodders, seeds and roots grown on the farm. Until we form some intelligible acquaintancs with the charac&er of the plants grown on the farm, and aro ablo to form definite ideas of their food values at the different stages of their growth, we shall be a long time in arriving at any .correct habits of economy in feeding. Quality in food is a tremeadous factor in economical fowling and of incalculable value in digestion. Farm fodders and fesding are, in many localities, very much like the ccarse pork and the cholera hogs we are condemning— of low qua'ity, dangerous, and very unreliable in feeding value. The composition of the plants growing in our fields havo certain general principle, in common, Thoy all consist of the following substances: FOOD rBINCIP__ES. f FOOD FUNCTIONS Fat. i Fat Formers. Starch, sugar it gum,or \ Heat givers aud Carbohydrate.. I Digestion Aiels. Cellulose,or Crude Fibre I Nitrogenous Compounds. Fle.hand Milk Ash or M neral Ma,ter. Formers. Bane Making. ' The sta^e of growth or the condition of maturity of a plant, ma'erially affects its feeling value.and hence It is tbat we meet with such variations of experience among practical men and also among some men of science who use these feeiing substan- ce i;' tto fame in name, but widely different in the amount and digestiblo condition of the nutriment which they contain. The amount of natural moisture or water of combination which a plant contains, is an element of the greatest value in cost of food and efficient digestion. While it is quite true that water will neither make flesh, fat, heat or bono.it is a powerful solvent in the form of a plant juice, because plant roots take their food in solution, and the whole of tholr components are grown and developed in solution, just as human musclc,fat and bone are formed from blood derived from food first reduced to'fluid in the. organs of digestion, and then by an elaborate preparation absorbed into the blood. This agency of water in food, or plant juice? or fluids, accounts for the great digestibility of grss.03, green fodder crops, roots and ensilage, and also the relatively low rates of digestibility in the over-ripe hay, clover, straws and corn stalks grown for their seeds. Then there is the other extreme of greenness or immaturity in plants cut and fed before maturity, or in the middle of their growing period. In this condition they have an excess of water, and their solids, weight for weight, are much less efficient as nutrients, and moreover,are apt to scourand cause diarrheal, especially to young stock and to sucking* pigs, calves and lambs whose dams feed on it. In the over ripe or very dry fodder, and in full ripe seeds we have a lower ratio of digestibility, because the extension of the growth period has formed too large a proportion of cellulose or crude fibre which forms the cell or envelope of the true food. The real food being locked up securely in this integument forms a crust or shell, and has been developed at the expense of the other food. This, of course, is the method of growing all wood, and when in this condition much more nervous energy is expended on digestion in the effort to reduce the food, and less cin be taken out of it, and the increased expenditure of nerve power is a loss to the animal. The function of the digestive organs is to reduce well grown tood and absorb the nutriment sapreparead, but not to waste energy on ill grown and coarse material Among the articles which are in general use as food, and as auxiliary substances, the following may be given as the list of pig foods grown on the farm or purchased from other sources: OREBN POODS. Pasture Grasses, Winter rye, Winter Wheat, Red Clover, Orchard Grass, Peas and Oits, Southern Cow Pea, Serradella, Commoh Millet, Hungarian Grass, Lucerne or Alfalfa, Italian Millet, Alsike and Timothy, Scotch Tares, Timothy and Broad Fodder or Knsilage Clover, Corn, Sorghum. cereal foods. Wheat, Oits, Corn, Rye, Birley, Peas, Linseed, Beans, Buckwheat. ROOTS. Potatoes, Carrots, Tankard Mangel, ' Globe Mangel, Cabbage, Sugar Beets, Turnips, Parsnips. refuse materials. Bran, New Process Linseed Middlings, Meal, Shorts, Gluten Meal, Skim-Milk, Beet Root Palp, Whey, Glucose Factory Meal, Malt Combings, Brewers' Grains, Coin Canners' Stalks and Cobs. According to Mr. Coburn, the author of "Swine Husbandry," he estimates from feeding practice an average of about one pound of pork from four to four and a quarter pounds of grain and 15 pounds of green clover. Worked out according to our Ontario crops, we can calculate the following returns from our acres: Mr. Cobum's Ontario Pounels Acre Experience Acre of Grain Fork Ratio BUShelS Wheat 15 Barley...:. 35 Oats 40 Corn.... 40 Peas .25 Iliuhels 31 27 37 40 21 Yield 315 4 !_1 4 396 4* 560 4 215 4 8 0 IS times the amountof fat contained in wheat or barley, and nearly as much digeHlble nitrogen. Peas have double ths nitrogenous matter of any of thetn. P<*ai and oits mixed with bran would theref >re appear to be our best mixture in Canada.—James Choesman. A Prosp3roua Year. Editors Indiana Farmer: I predicted last November that U13 year of 1888 would be a very prod active year, following the great drouth of 1887. My predictions are being reallzjd. I think now that this year ha-i been one of unparalleled growth. At the balcony window a grape vine already this »9ason has climbed up twenty (measureJ) feet. A catalpa tree set out this pa .t spring his made growth of six feet. Tomato vines will measure eight feet and this early August. Fruit trees although laden with heavier crops than for the past ten years, have made enormous growth. A Klefer pear set out in '86 has now 18 line specimens of fruit on it, and has made wood in length four feet. Rispberries and blackberries after bearing a fine crop of fruit have canes for 1889, that would be praised if this was October. Strawberry vines set out last fall, bearing half crop in List June will not be more than well covered with half bushel measure, and so on with all vegetation, even the "weeds" are doing "their level best." . . . Purslaln and careless weeds, smartweed and foxtail, grow as if this was to be their prizs year. Leave them alone a week and you .think you have been absent a whole month, and I predict that when September comes that weeds will hold un? disputed sway in nine gardens out of ten, and be as rank in growth as a Louisiana Canebreak. And while this has been a joarof great growth, it has been one of the finest, and now promises tho largest crop of corn, oats, apples, grapes, melons, and all garden vegetables, we have had for ten years. And with the time to fully mature the fine growth already made we will surely have a fine crop of fruit in 1889. B.vtes. Rockville. 1,21*0 1,296 1,258 2,210 l,2fi0 Oreen Clover.. 6 tons 12,0 0 So far aa known at present we have no table based on the experience either of college work or farm practice which enable? us to deterinineclosely the exact value of these substances. No Englishman or Canadian would for a moment accept the ratio values assigned in this table to I oats and peas.ifOats well grown have three | Preservation of Eggs. At the London Dairy and at tho Birmingham Fat Stock Show, during the last two years, prizes have been offered for the best preserved eggs, says an exchange. These, as well as many private tests, have shown that the lime-water system is, all things considered, the best. A pound of lime should b3 stirred with a gallon of water, and the eggs, perfectly fresh, immersed therein in barrels or jars. This excludf b air and any germs that might clause mildew or mould, and prevents vaporatlon, so tbat tho contents of the egg are not reduced in bulk. It is important to have a considerable excess of lime toreplaceany thatmayb come carbonated. The vessels containing the eggs should be kept in a cool, well ventilated place. A very successful variation in the process consists in imbedding new-laid eggs, warm from the nr st, in a thick paste of lime and water. E/g. thus prepared, for six months could hardly be distinguished from those newly laid. The content* of eggs evaporate rather rapidly through the shell; and the object of the preserver must be to prevent this evaporation, and at the game time to allow for the expansion and contraction of the natural air-space in the egg due to chacgis of temperature. The plan of coating the shells with wax or melted paraffine fail** in the latter particular. Strong brine fails because • the contents of eggs preserved in it become much reduced ih bulk.—American Stockman. The total output of esoal from Iowa mines laat year was 3,864,490 tons. |
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