The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1870-07-08


commenced farn.ing, over 10 years ago,
= the tirst,,hree cows he bought cost HIM
so each. They were good ones ana
iarye. Now. IN the same nei.hborhoou,
COWS arc selling for SIS TO $l2O each. u
believe" he adds, :" cattle and sheep wiii
l..p their price for some years. II II
Mas not for Illinois. do not see what
New York City would do Cor beef. That
STATE furnishes from two-thirds TO three
,ourths of all the beef cattle in the mar
le, For instance, last week. out Ut a
total of GIL. Illinois furnished o,2o2.
II there was a Vanderbilt TO buy up all
the Illinois cattle. he might control Inc
market for years 10 come. iheie Il
probably no danger pf ANYTHING OF the
kind being attempted. But II Is ume
more attention was directed to the rear
ing. breeding. and fsttening OF cattle
and sheep. The truth is. that our popu-.
latiou increases with marvellous rapioitv:
And we are. rs rule. nation OF naru
workers. Our resources are unoounueu,
and there is probably no people that
work SO hard and live so well as the
Americans. An English farm laoorerl
gets so cents day and boards himself.
Neither he nor his family can afford to-
eat beef or mutton. The samcman here
would work harder and earn his dollar
and a quarter or dollar and a half day.
would require more liberal diet, and
be enabled to get it. So may it always
be. But that il may be SO. the Ameri-
can farmer should endeavor to raise
more. and better. beef and mutton. Il
do not want to see meat any cheaper :;
but do want. both for our own inter-
csts. and those Of the consumer, 10 fur-
nish meat of tire best quality. Cheap
rs our mutton often is, il is the dearest
meat in the market. Thousands and
tens Of thousands of sheep are sold that
do not dress over So lbs. From soto 50
per cent Of the meat consists of water.
How much of the remainder consists OF
good digestible meat, and how much OF
bones. skin, and tough indigestible mus
Gle. has not vet been determined. But
il is pretty large proportion. We may
urre people to eat less pork and more
mutton. but it will do no good unless we
provide mutton that approximates more
closely to pork in actual nutriment. we
ought to be able TO produce a pound o.
mutton that shall contain as much avail
able nitrogen and carbon as pound OF
pork. and at hess cost. This should d.
the aim of our breeders and feeders
When this is the case, we shall be
mutton-cating instead Of pork-eafins
people. Our mutton must contain les
water and more (inyisible) fat. II mus
be grown more rapidly, and fatted whil
the sheep or lamb is growing. lbeiiev
that the time will come when we shat
have sheep that can make as much ia
and flesh out Of given amount OF rea
food az a pig. At present, our bes
mutton breeds, such as the Cotswolc
Leicester. and South Down. will no
approximate to pig in this respect
and the fact is not creditable to our III
telligencc and skill as breeders. Let
turn our attention to this subject
Covor., folds of winter wheat hav
been plowed up in this neighbornood.,
Trouble, awintcr-kill," which IS onl
another name for waterfall, or want
draining. Many other fields are oadl
spotted. We attribute 1t to the snow,
the frost. or the wind, or the rain, OF u
sun. But if You would listen though
fully. you would hear the dying wne
on every one Of these bare spots calm
.tiles. tiles BY and by we shall hay
a drouth. and our clay land will gapiI
with cracks. and we shall be praying +
rain. I believe we should pray wi
more faith if we pat in more drains.
am tired hearing men complain OF u
climate. If they would work more al
prumble less. the seasons would DC mo
favorable. .sBut we have not the capt.
TO drain. and if we had, we cannot g
men to do the work. when Won qua
relied with your neighbor about
division-fence, You found money to p
the LAWYERS. And You spent more tlI
and money to establish claim to a Il
square rods Of land that will not p
YOU a dollar year, than would ma
drained ten acres of land. And that I
acres would have given you more r
profit than you now get, after deducti
the orchard, from your whole farm
seventy-fve acres. ] could easily sht
this to be an absolute fact.
Another very valuable paper will
found i'm the American Agriculturist
july LIST. The chapter on PoIsoNs
their AxTIDoTEs, in which over 90
fercnt poisons are each accompanied
a remedy to be found in most hou
holds, is the most complete thing OF
kind ever published, and 1t should
procured and kept at hand in every ia
ily. since cases of accidental poison
not unfrcauently occur in even the IN
careful. well-regulated families
.x1 :l1,. ~ lions for a chnan. r.