Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-17

nothing is more important than a proper,
selection, at the same time, nothing is
more difficult to describe. Ask an ex-
perienced and skillfnl buyer how to Sc
lect cattle and sheep for feeding. and he
will tell you to select those that will feed
we'll and fatten easy. Ask him how to
tell such animals, and he finds it diff
cult to answer. But the substance of
the best information he can impart, is
that he finds it matter of practical ex-
|perience, judgment and skill, rather
than a result of any definite rules that
can be repeated, or described and ex-
planned. Still it is found that the main
point is to get good thrifty animal.
that has never been checked nor stunted
in growth, but is of good size, whether
young or full grown, and has a good
healthy thriving appearance.
Such an animal will be snug, square
built, with good quarters, round barrel,
well ribbed, and good chest, with suffi-
cient room for good, healthy lungs. The
hair is rather fine and soft, mellow touch,
neither too loose and fabby, nor any
thing like hide-bound. The eye and
general appearance of the animal denote
quick, contented habits, showing that no
considerable portion of the feed will be
wasted in restless efforts to get some
where or do something not allowed by its
wner-Cultirator. --a
KEEPING CoRN.-A great deal of corn
is wofully wasted after all the trouble
and expense of blowing, planting and
harvesting. This waste is absolutely
wicked, and with triAing extra care may
be easily remedied. In the first place,
in husking, vigilant lookout ought to
be kept that no unripe, unsound ear or
half-made 'nubbin" goes in with the pile
that is to go into the crib. The pig pen
is the better place for all such material.
One unsound ear may, and often does,
damage bushel of sound corn.
) Next, wherever you are going to put
corn to keep, put coal or gas tar about
the premises pretty literally at first. 1t
is an utter abomination to rats and mice.
They will not board in the corn crib
favored pretty strongly with gas tar
Half dollars worth of tar will save ten
dollars worth of corn.
Very many people seem to suppose
that corn may be kept in any sort Of a
crib, as open as Jack Straw's house,
neither wind nor water tight, so that it.
is housed under tolerable roof. So it
can-but never long in marketable
condition. While corn cribs ought al
ways to afford free ventilation, they
should be so constructed as to shut out
all storms, either rain or snow. Better
grow less corn and keep it sound than
prize crops and let it spoil.-Er.
AMERICAN HAY IN EURoPE.-Mr-
Alexander A. Macrae, in his recent Liv-
erpool produce circular, speaks Of Amer
ican hay as follows: "This article should
be well worth the attention Of all. Ow-
ing to the continual drouth in this coun-
try, the price of English hay has ad-
vanced to SET per ton, and we cannot re-
cuperate until June or July next.
Meanwhile, each steamer is bring
ing in the American, which has
been sold at the low price of
ee5 to e5 5s. per ton. This, how
ever, cannot last long, and the price
must, it is fair to predict, assimilate
with English. Our newspapers TEEN
with leading articles and letters as to
what is to become of our cattle for want
of fodder. and the Times is greatly
alarmed, publishing in yesterdays edi
tion the following. from me : }
SIR-Are your correspondents aware
that every steamer almost is bringing us
hay from America, and that it sells as it
arrives at about 65 per ton? Some lots
sold this week only at ee4 15s to 85 5s.