The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1871-03-16

cash to work on. The land is but half
cultivated, and the resulting crops but
one-half what they out to be, while the
labor is double what half the ground
would have called for. Here there is a
fourfold waste and instead of paying
but six or seven per cent. for money, it
brings up the actual cost to nearly
twenty, under which one soon falls.
For our part, we are rather in favor of
a young man starting life with but little
cash capital, buying farm with some
mortgage on it, providing he has a de-
termination to pay that mortgage off as
soon as he can turn round. Thousands
of men now own property who never
would have done so but for the necessity
of thus exerting themselves. Their
earnings would have went some how
away. 1t is hard to resist family inn
portunities when everything is dear !;
but when there is something which must
be met, the disposition to save receives
strong support from the glaring fact
Forneys Press.
KICKING Cows--l have raised and
broken many heifers to milk, but have
not had kicker for years. 1 keep only
gentle cows, and always accustoming
my young stock to much careful and
kind handling, they seldom kick when
I commence to milk them, and gener-
ally stop it altogether after few milk
ings. 1 bought heifer, however, some
years ago, which persisted in kicking
for two or three weeks, kindness having
no effect upon her, and I was obliged to
resort to severe treatment, whipping her
until she was entirely subdued, and she
never kicked after.
1 once had COW left for me to milk
o few weeks, which was the worst kicker
1 ever knew, being vicious to the last
degree, and the only cow l was ever
afraid to milk. Whipping and kind
ness were alike of no avail, and strap
ping up the foreleg did no good, for she
would kick just as we'll standing on
three legs as on four. We were at last
told to buckle circingle tight about
the body, just in front of the bag and
over the hips, and we found we had her,
for though she could jump up and down
she could not kick. To put it on we
secured her head in the stanchions, and
passing the strap round her body, just
back of the forelegs, slipped it back tc
its place, and then quickly tightened
and she would soon submit to be milked
for that time.-Cor. of Exchange.
BEST WAY TO SELL HoGs.-I wish
to state to you that in selling my hogs
this year, l thought would try which
was the best way of selling, gross OF
net. Before weighing gross, the hogs
were without feed or water for twenty.
four hours. They were eighty-eight il
number, and their average weight wa;
454 lbs. gross. After butchering they
averaged 3S4 lbs.
They were weighed, gross, January 8
and on account of the warm weather
were not butchered until the 18th, dur.
ing which time they only had two feeds
They were sold to Sumire & Cathman
of Quincy, Ill. The difference between
gross and net weight was about 10 pei
cent. / was offered $5 80 gross, anc
$40 net. Farmers can make their cal
culation from this, whether it is any
benefit to them.
If had to do it over again, should
sell gross, to get rid of all other trouble
although if my hogs had been butcherec
Immediately the result would have beer
in favor of the net weight. They were
slaughtered and weighed, and I wa:
we'll pleased with the way they were
handled but when it came to weighing
net, 1 was not entirely satisfed.-Cor. O
Prairie Farmer.