Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1853-04-06
5ornrc15 department,
RAISING STOCK.

RAISING STOCK.
There arc several important principles in
stock raising that are not SO highly regarded
bp farmers us they should be. The first is
to procure good breed. This is done by
selecting the best for breeders, having par
ticular regard 10 certain defects that it is
desirable to rcmed Y, and some favorable
features that should be cultivated, modified,
or increased Itis stated on good authority
that all animals possess more of the char
acter of the male than Of the female parent.
The most desirable qualities of stock, es.
pecialy those animals designed for food are,
form, size, tendency to grow, early maturity,
hardness of constitution, quality of flesh,
disposition to fatten, and lightncss of offal.
These points are essential to the profits OF
the farmer, but when they are obtained, his
work is not completed. 1t is as essential
to attend to the comfort and food otanimals
during our long cold winters as to their
quality.
Their food should be such as to keep
them in a growing condition. Calves and
ycarlings should have some grain during the
winter, and rich pasturage ill the summer,
we'll supplied with pure water. Next to
their food is their comfort. They should
never remain out in cold storms or after the
nard frosts commence in autumn. The
Inter or tycup where they are TO be housed
for the winter should be double boarded and
made as warm as it can be, allowing a sutii.
cient circulation of air. Ii there is not a
cellar under the barn, it should be banked
up so as TO prevent any draft OF cold air
drawing under it and up through the floor.
Regularity in feeding is an essential point,
that should never lie neglected. We hope
it is entirely unnecessary for us to suggest
to farmers that il is conducive to the growth
of animals to keep them clean and give
them a good bedding of straw or something
similar to it to sleep on,-to be well carded
every day, and to be supplied with salt as
often us once Il week, if it is not kept under
a she'd where they can go to it when they
please. Farmers are too well aware OF
these things to need to be reminded of their
necessity and we presume but few neglect
them.-i'armcr and ArtiZan.
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SWEET CORN.
A correspondent Of the New England
Farmer, among other pertinent questions,
asks. " How does sweet corn affect the soil
Oh viii, h it is raised has it been tried as
food Tor stock and, il so, with what sue.
cess? 2" We have had some little expert
emce, for the last five or six years, in raising
sweet corn for the table and for fodder and
that experience has taught US that sweet
corn cxhausts the soil just about in proper
ton as the stalk is larger and more nutri-
lious than the Northern yellow corn. The
kind of sweet corn we have raised grows
about eight feet high, the cars eight or ten
inches long, large white and plump kernel,
and ten rows to the car, the pith Of dark
rrd color, and is called the Evergreen Sweet
Corn. The seed was procured from Ohio
some eight years since. For fodder we
SOW it in drills, three feet apart, aud drop
the kernels from six to ten inches apart.
The yield of fodder the last year was at
the rate Of seven tons to the acre. Our
horses and COWS leave the best Of hay to
luxuriatc upon sweet corn stalks, well cured,
and run through the straw-cutter. The
stalks Of the sweet corn are large, and re-
quire much care i'll curing to prevent mould.
They should stand erect in the barn, or
wherever sheltered, and enjoy the benefit of
the air. Cutting the stalks as near to the
ground as possible, we leaned the tops Of
two rows together, leaving here and there a
stalk uncut, and placing from ten to twenty
stalks together near the top, to prevent fall
ling. In this manner the stalks dried rapid
ly, and gathering them before the heavy and
late rains, we have not lost n pound of lod-
der. Sweet corn should be planted or sown
in drills, or broad cast, (if any preier,) at
the same time that common corn is planted.
The richer and deeper the soil, the more
sure and abundant the crop.-Exchangc
paper.
DEEP PLowGNc.-Wc find the following
statement in The Country Gentlemen. 1t
confirms what we have said on this subject:
The present season Of severe drought has
most distinctly illustrated the benefits of
deep plowing. We planted quantity of
apple seeds on ground which was last au-
tumn az cid pasture, and which was invert-
ed with double Michigan plow of the
largest size, drawn by three yoke Of ozcn,
to the depth of eleven and half inches,
average measurement. On such soils as
this, as commonly plowed, apple seeding
usually suffer by drought; but the present
season they have continued growing, without
the least check, through the whole summer,
and are now much larger than usual under
ordinary treatment.
The Granite Farmer states that fields well
TILED only to the depth six or seven inches
have suffered severely, while OIL the other
side the crops do not suffer at all. In one
place was 4 field of corn, Of yellowish
green, and with leaves rolled by thirst;
while separated only by a single step was
another portion at least a foot taller, with a
deep green, broad, and uncurled leaf. Yet
the manure was the same, the seed the same,
and tue culture the same. On asking an
explanation, he learned that this was the
result Of the first experiment i'll sub.soil
blowing. g."-Guernscy Jefferson.
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