Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1855-04-18
Facts For Farmers.

It is fact that all domestic animals can be
improved in size and value. One hundred
and fifty years ago the average weight of cat
tie at the Smithfeld market, was not over $40
pounds, and that of sheep %. Now the
average weight of the former is over 500
pounds, and of the latter 80 pounds.
The erage weight of cattle, properly
termed Beeyes, in New York market. is about
700 pounds. sheep so pounds.
The average live weight of the heaviest
drove of beeves of 100 innumber ever brought
to this market 2067 pounds. weighed from
dry feeding, in Illinois last spring
The mode of selling cattle in New York is
at 80 much per pound for the estimated weight
of meat contained in the four quarters. The
estimation is made upon the live weight of
cattle as follows.
A droyer in buying lot of grass fed COM
mon stock in Illinois, should never calculate
to get an estimate of over one half here of the
live weight there. That is, if the drove aver
age IL cwt., they make cwt.. of meat each.
Medium beeves may be estimated as 81 or
So pounds per cwt. Good beeves at 56 or
81 pounds. Extra good, large and fat. from
So to 50 pounds per cwt.
In the Boston market the weight is general
ly estimated upon Eve quarters, that is, the
product of meat, fat and skin. There the
cattle are generally weighed, and the product
estimated upon an average of "a lbs. per cwt
In New York not one bullock in ten thou
sand goes upon the scales to determine his
price to the butcher.
It is fact that the cattle of large breed
or variety are the most profitable for the
grazier who feeds for beef 1t is doubtful
whether that will hold good with poultry.
Dorking fowls are medium size, and o much
esteemed variety They have FIVE toes.
Timber should be cut while the tree is in
its most rapid season of growth, and near the
close of the growing season, when the terminal
bend of each limb is fully formed. Saw
logs cut in winter always decay on the outside
more or less if left over, while summer cut
logs keep sound for years. Hickory cut in
winter, soon suffers powder post" lfcut
in August it viii keep forever.
Posts should always be set top end down.
They will last twice as long Put six inches
of broken stone in the bottom of the hole
Locust trees make most yaluab timber and
grow quick and easy from the seed, if it is
scalded with boiling water, or still better, lye,
and then planted as one wonld beets or onions,
and the plants are about as sure to live as
those vegetables when transplanted.
Salt applied at the rate of four quarts to a
ton of hay, will aid materially in its preserva-
ton, and make it more nutricious and whole
some for stock, and is just about the amount
usually fed by good farmer to an OK while
eating that quantity of hay
Composition Roofs are cheaper than tin,
better than shingles, are perfectly tight, and
almost fire proof against sparks. when made as
follows:
Sheet the rafter With close boarding up and
down. Cover this with felting paper. laying
the sheets to break joints with one third ex-
posed, just as you would courses of shingles
Fasten the courses! to the boards by mailing
thin strips of lath, and also upon the caves,
sides and all exposed edges. The whole is
now covered by the g composition" which we
believe is just such as caulkers use, that is,
boiling pitch 1t saturates the paper and
sticks the sheets altogether and to the buards
As fast as one man puts on pitch enough
another must cover it with clean gravel, dried
by heating in very hot sun, or an iron pan
over the fire. Make complete gravel sur
face in the hot pitch and your roof win be very
light and durable.