Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-03-29

; said that he would always get mp instea
of turning over in bed, when once awakeI
ed in The morning. Jacob Strswn seen
/ to have followed the same habit, for, in
newspaper article, from which the prece
ding exfacts are taken, he says: aWhe
you wake up, do not roll over, but roll ou
Il viii give you time to ditch all you
sloughs, break them up and harrow then
and SOW them with timothy" In a couu
try where the vast amount Of arabic Ian
makes farmers careless as to great meet
Of details be keeps bis corn well cultivated
plows his ground deep, cuts his grass q
the time when experience, rather than read
ing, has taught him it contains most nutri
tive matter, and even spuds out his cockl
burs and dock weeds in the pasture lo,s.-
His fences be makes high and strong, hi
barn tight, and his stacks are fenced abou
so that the stock cannot eat and waste tb,
fodder as they choose. What wonder ther
that with the aid of a soil of great fertili
ty, and substance of natural pasture, b.
should have succeeded?
To illustrate the accuracy in estimating
the weight of cattle which Mr.. Strawn ha.
BY long experience acquired, We may state
that be had judged lots of 100 to 500 bead
of steers, and varied but half score Of
pounds from the actual weights, as ascer.
tanned by the scales. He buys in prefer
ence three and foW year-old steers, but
takes them of all ages, if necessary. Get,
ting them in February and March, be grazes
them through Summer, and until Decem-
Der, when he commences to feed. This be
formerly did as early as November, because
of having bad more cattle TO given quan-
ti,y of land than he has at present. He
keeps man to about every hundred head,
which, with his system of management, is
sufficient. The cattle are fed in timber
groves, and the corn is thrown on the
ground stalks and all, inst as it is Lauled
from the field. The allowance per head,
when stall feeding, is half bushel daily,
and the large cattle get even as much as
three pecks. Two hogs are turned in to
each steer, to collect the waste. Mr.. Strawn
thinks sixty bushels large crop of corn,
and mistrust the fabulous stories of yields
that sometimes meet US in the papers.
In the old times his practice in feeding
steers was TO commence in October, while
the cattle were still in pasture, giving them
not more than six quarts day. After
feeding them ten days be increased the al
lowance by one quart if the cattle were
large, and always feeding at one regular
hour. Or if he wished to get them fat
soon, be commenced with two feeds or five
quarts each by the first of November; by
the tenth be gives two feeds of six quarts;
and SO, increasing slowly, he got them up
to their full feed only when the cold wealth
er came, if it should be deferred until JAN
nary. By the latter part of January or the
early part of February be would begin to
feed SO that the cattle would ever have
beds of corn and fodder to lie upon. Mr..
Strawn advises the keeping of enough hogs
to eat up the vase in any event. If he
fed heavily he had half as many stock cat
tie as fat cattle to follow. He sells as
soon rs he can do so at a moderate profit,
replacing the ones sold with other cattle,
for be thinks that the 'nimble sixpence is
better than the slow shilling"
His allowance of pasture and corn for
each head of stock is two acres. In form
er times, he bought three year-old steers
at 80 and turned them off at SIC; but the
prices have so advanced that he now pays
from $25 to $50 per head and sells for $50
to 500. The profit is the same as former
ly, but the capital involved is much greater.
He pays no attention whatever to blood
in cattle or horses, but chooses from their
appearance alone. The several anecdotes
front porch of bis house, fully evinced bis
for those who are weak enough
to devote themselves to raising blooded
stock. His points Of merit in a farm horse
are large eye, bay color, with heavy black |
name and tail, round body, large ham,
string, short back, long belly, fifteen or six
leen hands in hight, and to weigh about
j 200 pounds. For many years he has
not let his stock horses come into stable,
but keeps them running out all Winter
He gives them nothing but hay when the
,now is on the ground. He does not wean
bis colts, but let them run with the dams as
hey would in state of nature. Last win
Ter be wintered over 20 head in this way.
without grain of any description. The
whole lot did not be says, eat more than
six tons of hay during the Winter. He
thinks be can raise five colts so as to be
arge enough to use, cheaper than he can
,aise one steer; but the trouble with them
IS that large lot cannot be sold togeth- |
sr for cash, as can always be done with
steers.
On high knoll short distance from
he house, Mr.. Strawn has made water |
oasin, similar TO these which one sees all
through Central Kentucky. It is twenty |
-ods long, ten wide, and ten feet deep
He rallied it around and fed corn in the ba-
sin to cattle and hogs, thus getting the
bottom well puddled by the trampling of
heir feet, and making it almost water
light. The heavy rains of single Winter
,ufficed to pour enough water into the ba-
,in for several hundred head Of stock, and
We were assured that it bad never been
Try but once in twelve years.
. The BRfDeEpoRr AMALeAMArIoN CASE
-OBxYINe SpIRIr.-Mrs. Beach, the
wealthy and handsome Bridgeport widow,