The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-11-04
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.


AT the New York State Fair where
hogs were shown in large numbers, the
Berkshires and Suffolks, were the lead
ing varieties.
The WeSte1n Rural says Mr.. Daniel
Kelley, well known Illinois breeder
of Merino sheep, has lately filled an or
der from Colorado for stock rams-the
purchaser taking all Mr.. X. would sell.
"A ram weighing 402 pounds was
exhibited at the Michigan State Fair.
He was entered as Leicester, but a
correspondent of the Western RkrdI
says he was more than three-fourths
Lincoln.
-Forney's Weekly Press says the cul-
ture of broom corn has been revived in
New York, where it was grown this
year in very considerable quantity. At
tention to this crop had declined for
some years.
The st. Louis Journal Of AgricuI-
ture does not accept the arguments to
prove that pork will decline. 1t thinks
if the farmers do not get scared too
soon" they viii get IS per hundred for
good hogs delivered in st. Louis.
"A two-year old imported Clydsdale
COLI HetS mug lilo pOuuus, was SHOWH
at the Ontario Agricultural Exhibition.
When shipped from Glasgow, Scotland,
six weeks before, he weighed 1,7S0
pounds. 1t is said that an offer of ST.
500 in gold was refused for him.
Hearth and Home thus describes
Guernsey as compared with Jersey cat
tie: "They are larger bodied, shorter
legged, usually of lighter colors, having
RI on1 oil Ocf mi
formIy having white three cornered
star in the forehead, and white switch"
Joseph Harris, near Rochester, n.
Y, writes Hearth and Home that he had
just sold load of Diehl wheat for S1.50
bushel. The miller told him he would
have given him 81 .65 had not the Diehl
been mixed with the Red wheat-a di-
rect loss of 15 cents bushel from SOW
ing mixed seed.
The Massachusetts, Agricultural
College is fortunate in having a good
supply of animals of different breeds.
At late Fair there were shown, from
the College Farm, Short-HOrns, Ayr
Down sheep, Chester White and Suffolk
pigs.
The Ne,c England Farmer makes
note of some very fine grass fed cattle
among others a pair of oxen which
weighed 1890 pounds when delivered
at the Boston markets. Then dressed
weight was 1880 pounds. The price
paid was 1915. They were fattened en-
tirely on grass and hay.
Mr.. Willard says, in the Rural
Nea1 Yorker, that in feeding whey to
pigs, bran, ship-stuffs, or some kind of
meal should be mingled with it, stating
that good quality of pork is made
whey alone the pork is soft, watery and
of inferior quality.
The New Hampshire Board of Ag-
riculture has decided to hold State
Agricultural Convention, to be follow
ed by meeting in each county in which
the people manifest an interest in the
the organization of Agricultural Clubs
in each town throughout the State.
We of the Northwest are not gem
orally troubled by having an over sup
ply of apples. In New England it
seems they are this year. The NeD
England Farmer says second quality
apples were selling, in some parts of
New Hampshire, at five cents per BUSH
ell on the trees. 1t recommends their
free use as food for stock, saying they
are better for this purpose than are po-
tatoes-being good for fattening animals
mich cows, and horses.
The action of the New York State
Agricultural Society in having two
weeks trialof Agricultural Implements
Immediately preceding the State Fair,
and under the direction of carefully
AArrn xEwr1wn y
spread and deserved commentator.
The report of really competent COM
mittee after thorough trial would have
vastly more weight than the usual re-
ports made after hurried look on the
Fair grounds.
"A correspondent of the Rural Nec
Yorker says Mr.. o. S. Lewis, of Orleans
county, n Y, finds, in practice, that a
300 or ], 400 pound bullock, will gain
on an average three pounds per day, on
five pounds of hay, ten or more pounds
of straw, nine pounds of corn meal,
half a bushel of turnips, all steamed to-
gether. He estimates, but it is not stat
ed on what experience. that the same
food uncooked would produce only two
pounds of beef.
The thin condition of some Jersey
calves exhibited at the New York State
Fair called out some unfavorable COM
ments. The owner of the calves, in q
well written note in the Country Gem
tlen1dn, takes the ground that while an
animal for beef should be trained from
its birth to lay on fat upon its carcass,
the animal designed for the dairy should
be kept in ignorance of its ability to do
this, and should receive food best adapt
ed to promote growth without produc-
ing fat He thinks such calf should
be encouraged to be large eater, but
of food designed to make muscle and
other tissues.