. Catalogue of agricultural and horticultural implements ... .RICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL TOOLS. 37. .iiuch used at the South. There are. four different sizes, having 9,11, 14, and 20 inch knives. The larger sizes are rigged to be worked by power, and the emailer by hand. Common Hand Straw-Cutter. Witli these the straw is moved up by hand, and the knife is used by hand-lever. It is a very simjde machine, and easily kept in order; thoi;gh wlien more than one or two animals are fed, larger machines will be preferable Fig. 43. the great utility of hat, straw, and corn-stalk cutters. There is gre
. Catalogue of agricultural and horticultural implements ... .RICULTURAL AND HORTICULTURAL TOOLS. 37. .iiuch used at the South. There are. four different sizes, having 9,11, 14, and 20 inch knives. The larger sizes are rigged to be worked by power, and the emailer by hand. Common Hand Straw-Cutter. Witli these the straw is moved up by hand, and the knife is used by hand-lever. It is a very simjde machine, and easily kept in order; thoi;gh wlien more than one or two animals are fed, larger machines will be preferable Fig. 43. the great utility of hat, straw, and corn-stalk cutters. There is great saving in the cutting of corn-stalks, hay, and straw, in two ways. The animals do not waste it by drawing it out of the mangers, and trampling it under their feet, and time and labor are saved them in masticating They obtain their .«upply of food readily, and then lie down to it Fer- mentation also developes the nutritive matter, and requires less work for the stomach, and this, by saving muscular exertion, leaves more strength with the animal to be expended on ordinary work. The same principle holds with milch cows, sheep, &c. If the food be given to them in a form more readily adapt- ed to assimilation in the animal system, the greater the product of milk, wool, flesh, &c., they can yield from the same quantity. Cutting, bruising, grinding, fermenting, and cooking the food, all tend much to fit it for easy and rapid digestion, and whenever it can be thus prepared, without too much expenditure of labor, it should be done. By adopting a mixed food, much of the coarser products can be worked up, which are now suffered to be added to the manure heap. Indeed, scarcely any of the vegetable productions of the farm need be Buffered to run to waste, till they have first contributed all the nutriment they contain to the support of animal life. By chopping these up fine, and proper- ly cooking and seasoning them, they will be eaten with peculiar relish, easily digest
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