THE FARMER.
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SAIT.--Mr. Russell, in his Tour in Germany
says, if the experience OF Austria and Sile-
sia be correct, wood will not burn when fully
impregnated with salt. Learned societies
have recommended that the wood to be used
In roofing should previously be saturated with
salt; in which state they say it will resist
fire as effectually as eitherlslate or tiles will
do. Mr.. X. says the wood which supports
the vaulted roofs of the salt mines of Vie
Hezka, in Poland, is now as hard as rock;
and he was assured that the dead bodies OF
animals and man, which remain in the salt
caverns, do not purify, but become as dry
and hard as mummes.


Fodder.-Nearly double the fodder is eve-
ry year, and BY almost every farmer, ex-
pended, that would be sufficient, was it
properly and economically prepared and
fed.


1t i, asceItined that hay goes much far
sher by being cut into chaff before it is fod-
dered out. Many scientific and observing
men have ascertained by actual measure
ment that saving OF nearly one half, and
some say more is effected by these means


But ifit be not true that hay IS doubled in
value by cutting, it cannot be denied that IN
applying this economy properly to the
csarser kinds of food, such as straw, corn.
stalks, oats in the sheaf, sc. saving of one
half, at least, may be made.


W. Eng. Farmer.