Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-11-05
AGRICULTURAL.

sI CARE IN PLowING.-An item of i'm
porsance of plowing is to see before be-
ginning if there be any defect in the
surface of the ground that can be modi-
fed or corrected.
In the commonly adopted course of
eploNing round and round, rise on the
outer edge is produced, and depression
in the centre, which in many cases, lays
the foundation of ruinous "wash" and
in pieces of fine level land we see deep
s7depressions created that hold the surface
water, making "mire'' that browns out
the seed sown there. Starting in the
center and blowing "back furrows," is an
ample and simple remedy for this, which
from mere thoughtlessness, is seldom
done. 7fH ri
In finishing off the field, leave strip
on the sides equal to the width of the
Jt'turn rows" or ..headlands." and plow
round the entire field, and it will have a
Clean, neat. finished appearance. In
cases where this course was impossible,
we have seen potatoes put in, or clover
seed sown, which often came in well for
"green bite in summer during hard
= work.-Er.
FEEDING Sort Corn To HoGs.-The
frost cut our corn this season badly, and
as we had quite number of hogs to
feed, and no cattle, and as all the old
farmers told me "that soft corn was good
for nothing for hogs, but was first rate
feed for cattle-that had best sell my
hogs and buy cattle to eat my sixty
acres of soft corn" I thought l would
ascertain whether this was true or not.
I weighed six pigs in one pen that
weighed 770 pounds, and six in another
that weighed IT'S pounds. 1 weighed
out 200 pounds of corn meal, and fed it
to the pigs weighing 77O pounds. 1t
; lasted them six days, when we weighed
them again and they weighed S03
pounds. To the six weighing IT'S
pounds, we fed in the same time fifteen
bushels of ears of soft corn, and weighed
them, and they weighed S31 pounds.
Each lot was fed regularly, five times
per day, all they would eat clean. The
lot fed on meal gained 33 pounds in six
days /; the lot fed on soft corn, SO pounds
in the same time.
g 4 had in another pen two pigs that I
had weighed fifteen days before; one
weighed 1853, and the other 175 pounds.
These had been fed soft corn exclusively.
do not know how much corn they had
Q eaten. but they gained "a pounds each,
in fifteen days, on soft corn. do not
know but soft corn is better for cattle
than for hogs; but if live. I intend to
raise some another season for hogs
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-STuUK IN PAsruRE.-I no.
ticed, some time ago, a good deal written
about keeping mixed stock on pastures.
As have been keeper of stock from
very early youth until now, venture
to give my opinion. And first, I have
found that sheep do very well among
cattle, but cattle do badly amongst sheep.
To prove it, let the farmer take the fod-
der left by the cattle, even when part of
it has been trodden under their feet, and
if the sheep are not fully fed, they will
see the sheep eat it up very greedily
then let them take what his sheep leave
and offer it to his cattle, and he will find
they won't taste it, if they can get any
thing else : or let him turn his milch
COWS into sheep pasture, and he will
find them to fail in milk.
- Cattle do very well where horses
pasture. In proof of this, every farmer
must hayesseen that cattle will eat the
litter of horses, even if fully fed, but
horses won't eat what cattle leave, unless
compelled to do so. But horses and
sheep will do well in some pastures, es-
-pecially the horses. To prove this, let
the farmer turn out the sheep from their
yards. turn in Lis horses, and they will
eat up all the sheep have left, even the
-liffar around the racks-.Lnhn .Lohnskou