Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-01-26
SORTING.

The Editor of the Prairie Farmer
says: This word brings to mind
heap" Of things as the native Suckers
would say. 1t takes us back in memory
to by-gone years when in these shorten
ing November days, in an eastern State,
we gathered, father and brothers, in the
old fashioned corn house for two or
three evenings in each week and BY the
light Of an oil burning lantern suspend
ed upon horizontally placed fork han
die "sorted the corn that all hands had
husked in the Intervening days, and
which now paved the floor some feet in
depth; with a golden precious pavement.
The nubbins and ''soft" ears went into
the small bin upon the left, to be fed to
the hogs in the early stages Of fattening,
while the long, heavy, bright ears, thor
oughly stripped OF silk and husk rapidly
filed up~the big bin ON the right
There are many grown up boys among
our readers that can recall similar scenes
Of their boy life.
There, ten acres Of corn was marvel
OF a crop. There was time enough for
such things and it paid. Here, where
acres are counted by the hundreds OF
thousands the best corn, nubbins, (not
very plenty, true, as a general thing)
silks and many stray husk are tum-
bled into the enormous crib together.
We will not argue that like care would
nav here. for there are MANY things to
be taken into account, before thus de-
Gliding. But it will pay to sort the
white corn from the yellow unmixed
corn will bring cent more per bushel
in the market than the mixed A very
trine on each bushel but forming an
immense aggregate. Sorting is a good
word here.
Sorting potatoes pays. Before tax
ing load to market, sort out all the
small potatoes that serve only to fill up
the "chinks'' between the large ones,
and count how many bushels you gain
Oh the load, Then calculate the BUSH
els you will thus gain on your entire
crop, and see if you do not agree that
sorting is again good word.
Wool Growers have told you all
about carefully sorting over your flock
Of sheep and disposing of ten per cent.
or more of them, leaving you better
and more profitable flock than you had
before At any rate, if you don't sell
them it will pay to sort them over and
keep the weaker ones by themselves.
Thus it will be with your fattening
hogs Sort out those great, strong,
pushing hoggish fellows that get all the
food, and Let them have lot together,
where they can crowd each other to
their hearts content; but let the small
er, weaker and more modest porkers
eat and fatten in comfort. You will
get more pork from your feed, and more
money from your pork by sorting.
So do with your herd Of store or stall
feeding cattle. Those diminutive year
lings, or two year olds have no business
to Be left to pick up a rrecarlou3 liy
ing among those mammoth, stiff-necked
stags and oxen. BY sorting you will
give them a chance for their lives, and
YOU will get more beef Better sort
out, and give away dozen head this
fall, than to tamper with, and feed or
half feed too many through the winter,
and, have dozen hides to sell just as
grass begins to grow in the spring.
| Among our hoes, spades, shovels,
forks, rakes harrows, cultivators, plows,
planters, ETC. etc, you have many imple-
ments that you have just been able to
get through the season with. There are
others that need an hours or a day. $
work Of repairing done upon them
Sorting is needed here. Let it be done
that you may know where to find the de-.
fective when repairing time arrives
/ You put all away in some good place,
safe from the weather. OF course you
do-all you have to do then is to haze