Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1870-06-10
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Fat steers.

Fat Steers.
fThe following articles, from "NIonthly re-.
port Of the Department Of Agriculture" will
be read with interest:
George Ayrault, of Poughkcepsie, New
York, reports to the department on four steers,
sold near the close of 1869 to William Lalor.
ofConter Market, New York City, for So, 200,
the ago of ono Of the animals being seven
years, and of the others six years Tho larg
est stood about six feet high, with a girth Of
ton feet and the weight of tho animals was
$500 pounds, 1890 pounds, 3,4oe+ pounds,
and 8 3,440 pounds, respectively; their pro.
portions being good notwithstanding their
enormous size. The aggregate gain in weight
during the season of 1869 was I,460 pounds.
The net beef weight of the larger pair, after
slaughter, was 1857 pounds, exceeding, is is
claimed, that of any other pair of beeycs ever
fattened.
Their average weight at the age of three
years was 1850 pounds After attaining
this age, each received daily peck of corn
meal and wheat shorts, or oatmeal, combined,
divided into two feeds, and, as dessert, peck
Of sugar bccts twice day. In the summer,
until lately, their only feed was grass supple.
hiented with little sweet hay. The second
winter the daily feed of meal was increased
to ten quarts each, given in two feeds. In
tho summer of 1860, each received one peck
Of meal per day, given at morning and at
night; aud in the winter following, twelve
quarts of meal daily, in three feeds, besides
roots. In their course of feeding they have
had, in winter, tho best of early cut hay from
nj lI,,I I,l
it in summer. They were not closely cou-
fined in winter, usually having the run Of
small yard, with access to water, and with
sheds under which they could lie protected
from storms, and were tied at feeding time.
is Mr.. Ayrault's opinion that when cat.
tic are fattening and it is desired to give them
all the grain they will cat without being clog
ged, it is important to feed three times q day {;
and he considers bects, or their equivalent,
essential in winter in promoting the growth
of granted cattle. He does not advise
heavy feeding for beef until animals are we'll
grown, lis practice being to maintain his
stock in merely thrifty condition until they
reach the age of three years
A committee of the Farmers Club, Amcri.
can Institute, reporting on these cattle, state
that they find that the only profit arising
from tho last years growth of tho auimals lay
in the increased or 'fancy" ratos obtained on
account of magnitude, and that, in Mr.
Ayrau!t'a judgment, five years is the age at
which fattencd cattle will give the greatest
profit to the feeder
FARMING IN AnoosTooK County, MAINE.
Tho Prcsquc Isle Sunrise supplies statist.
Jos of farm products in Aroostook County,
Maine, for 1869. Tho scventy-six farms re-.
ported show the aggregate yield and value of
the several products named, as follows:
1900 tons Of hay, at $40 per ton, $4,000
2,79O bushels wheat, at So per
bushel, $3.50
693 bushels corn, at sl.50 per bushcl, 1,039
26.G3l bushels oats, at SO cents per
bushel, 13.265
24,78l bushels buokwhcat,.a at SO cts.
per bushcl, 1906
ola bushels beansi at So per bushel, 1,719
2O,260 bushels potatoes, at 25 cents
per bushel :. 5,O65
28,6ar pounds butter, at 40 cents '''0'
per pound, 1l,4k2
'7,foo pounds cheese, at Is cents per
la,6oo pounds clover seed, at Is cts. '''''
per pound, 1876
1886 pounds pork, at Is cents por
pound, o,s79
Total, s95,177
Less paid out for labor, 1850
Leaving ss7,417
To be divided among scvcnty.six owners of
tho farms for their own time and labor, which
is equal to 81 ,150 each on an average. When
it is remembered that there are other products
from these farms than those enumerated,
such as roots of all kinds, minor articles of
the garden, dairy, &C., wc think that it will
be admitted by all that farming pays we'll in
kroostook.
YIELD OF WHEAT IN DIFFERENT CouN-
TRlEs.--.A correspondent of tho Cork Consii.
tuition calls attention to the fact, shown by
the consular returns to the Foreign Offico Of
the continental States, that tho produce of
wheat per- aore in France is under II bush.
els; Prussia, fraction over II; Belgium
Il; tho other countries average IL to Is
while that. Of the United Kingdom Of Great
Britain and Ireland is %; but taking the
Higl, :farmed districts, it reaches an average
of44 to 40, when the holdings are large and
capital expendcd--the latter being treble tho
average Of France, the Uuited States, and
the rest Of Europe, while it doubles that O:
Belgium. IS.
ToBAcco FOR FRUIr TREES. The Char
2 I6tte, Democrat copies our article In regard tc
worms infesting fruit trees, and suggests, as