Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1855-08-29
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CORN AND COB MEAL---WOoL.
Ie Editors Of the american Farmer.

CORN AND COB MEAL-s-WOOL.
To the Editors ofthe American Farmer.
DEAR SIR In reply to the application
OF your correspondent, in the Farmer of
this month, you may state that continued
to use the corn and cob mill, described,
by me some year or two ago, until food
in the water course that propelled it.,
swept the whole contrivance away. did
not renew it, as the droughts of the two
succeeding seasons so reduced my stream
as to render it of little value, and, NOR. .
over, the increase of my stock has so aug
mented the demand for food, of the de-
scrlption furnished by this machine, that
am under the necessity of procuring one
capable OF furnishing larger supply
One was sent me on trial last spring,
which did its work well, but too slowly,
and l am inclined to believe, from what
I have been told by persons who have
used it, that the {" Little GIANT" as it is
styled. is preferable to all others:
AS regards corn and cob meal, as food
for horses, sheep and cattle, consider it
superior to all others. and the most econ
"mical | know of. Owing to the drought
Of last summer, which left US no after
math or fall pastures, to the severity and
duration of the winter, and the cold and
late spring, l was compelled, for the first
time since have been engaged in agri-
cultural pursuits, to resort to expedients
TO carry my stock through and was in
dcbted TO corn and cob meal for my sue
cess. OF this, fed about 10 bushels per
day, which was more than equivalent to
go bushels Of corn, and enabled me to
economist hay ; as, by mixing it with cut
straw, it has the effect of diStending the
animal. which corn alone has not, and of
thus preserving them in health, as well
as in flesh. am persuaded this proven
der will come into general use, now that
the means of procuring it, are afforded US,
which has not hitherto been the CASE
In the meantime. if your correspondent
has steady stream Of water, or the privi
lege Of connecting the contrivance with
the GOrebay Of mill, and does not require
10 grind over three or four bushels of corn
in the four and twenty hours, I think he
wilt find such a mill as have described,
enlarged as / have recommended it should
be. to answer his purpose. l will proba-
bly, put up another, if the late rains should
restore, as they have not yet, the stream
on which was dependant for operating
1t. But it appears to me that the earth
has been SO exhausted of water, by the
recent drOughts, that years will be re-
quired to reinstate it. Wells, springs,
runs, creeks and rivers are still at low
ebb, notwithstanding we have had of late
an unusually wet season, which however,
does no: appear to furnish a permanent
supply to the streams.
There has been a considerable advance
over last years prices for fine wool, and
likely. the dealers tell me, to be sustained
for some time to come, as the number of
sheep was very much diminished, in con-
sequence of the scarcity and high prices
Of provender in the past season, many
having been sold for Strengthening, and
others perishing from disease and starVa-
ton. | did not lose moro than is usual
in large hocks, but they ate me out COM
pletely, and, what is worse, l was cons
PEELED to keep them on my meadows so
late in the spring, in consequence of my
wood ranges being retarded in vegetation
by the backwardnesS of the season, that
my crop of hay will be very much dimin-
ished thereby. Under these circumstan-
ces l would like to dispose OF some three
or four hundred ewes and wcthers SO, if
YOU have any inquiry for such, let me
bear from you. The stock is superior,
aud in fine condition. The wool will
grade super, and sold this season at SO
Cts. per 10. w. B. B.
ELLENDALE, Va, July 1856.