Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1870-09-29
AGRIoULTURAL.
fFrom the Rural New Yorkerl
AMONG THE FARMERS.-I.

IA bornly TO the old ways, and 1t is
often thought strange that he does
not sooner adopt new improve
aaQ ments but his isolation, want OF
free communication with his brother
farmers, is at the bottom Of all
this All other industries are So
cial, observing; anxious for every
improvement that will reduce labor,
tho cost of production; see the
power Of cooperation, of union,
jellously guard against all encroach-
ments of other interests study the
markets, supply and demand, pro-
\ tect themselves from within and
without. But the farmer, producing
nearly all he consumes, feels him
self so independent as to care little
for what Others are doing, and after
Simplifying his own wants, sells his
surplus for whatever the sharpers
in trade see fit to give him. Were
the farmers organized into cooper
ative societies, it would bring those
of district into intimate relations
to each other, in which they would
see and adopt each others im+
proved methods. Then, the prices
of farm products would be uniform,
o. at least in the same market.
The effect of such social and bust
ness intercourse, generally, among
farmers, would be to advance agri-
culture more in a decade than in
theprevious half century. The ag,
gregate kno Wedge among farmers
is not so deficient as its general dis
semination The Agricultural Jour
nal has been almost the only chan
mel of communication among farm
ers.
We like to take short trips out
b among our brother farmers, and
always find, even with the most un
pretending, points Of practice well
worth observing.
FATTENING HOGS ON WHEY. .
Our friend f., in a neighboring
% town, seems to have studied the
genus hog attentively. He has had
l long experience in fattening them
on corn, still slops, and is now
very successful on whey. He goes
to the cattle yard, in Buffalo, and is
careful to select hogs brought from
Canada, rather than the West. HeI
says he wants rangy, muscular
shoat-not your short, dumpy, fat
pig to feed on whey. He selects
from the Berkshire or its cross, III
he can The small boned, fat breed
get diseased on whey. But the mus
cular, bony Canada Berkshire will
fatteu splendidly, be says, on whey
alone from three to four months.
II hog can be fattened exclu-
sively on whey, (Which seems in
his case to be true, then this GER
tainly is the kind of hog to select.
Having been raised on peas and
milk, as is the custom in Canada,
its bone and muscular system is
already developed, and the office Of
whey is only to lay on fat.
In 1869 he fed five hogs on the
whey from eighteen cows for four
months, selling the first Of Novem-
Der and clearing 800 over their
cost delivered at his farm He fed
more whey, during the same time,
to five calves, and although the
calves were good, the gain did not
exceed $50. The present season
he is feeding, on whey alone, nine
hogs, bought 10th May, averaging
one hundred and twenty pounds,
and will now average three hundred
pounds each, live weight, He esti-
mates the whey from a cow, in feed
ing this kind Of hog, worth VS. to
$40 per season. But this feeding
whey alone would not answer for
hogsnot already developed in frame
and muscle.
RAISING PIGS AND CALVES ON WHEY,
Calling on farmer i, we found
some fine shoats, weighing about
one hundred pounds, that had been
raised upon whey, with an addition
Of one pound Of pea meal to three
gallons Of whey. These shoats
we're d cross OF Suffolk with com.
mon breed, and appeared as finely
developed as any we ever saw,
proving that pea meal, in small
quantity, supplies all the missing
constituents ofwhey T., also show, {
ed us some fine calves, four months
old, raised latter two weeks) on
whey and oil meal They We're
beifers, and would weigh three
hundred pounds, He has high
opinion Of whey, but, unlike r.,
thinks It should always be fed adj
mixed with nitrogenous food. Ev-
erything about LIS premises ex- p
ihibised order, neatness and econo'
my. All his plans are based upon
knowledge and reflection. He thinks
the farmers success depends as
much upon accurate brain work, as
that of the engineer or master
builder. He seems instinctively to
know the wants of bis animals, and
never fails to supply them. The
consequence IL, he never raises a
poor animal, and is never troubled, :
in his herd, with horn-ail," or
/" Lail-ail,p
But there is neighbor N, who
told us that he had "tried thepeslSy :
whey for calves and pigs and he
believes it is apizen to animals