The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-08-03
FARM ~ F1REsIDE.

FARM AND EIREsIDE.
COOP STocK-For a farmer who is rear
ing stock for market it is as necessary
that he should breedgood animals as It'll
that he should feed them well and if he
wishes them to thrive it is indispensable
that he gets good blood. 1.-THE female
of his stock are only fair to mid
ding, good animals may be produced by
always using a good and pureb bred male.
Of course it is not expected of the farmer
that he should use or purchase those an
finals having all their points and pedi-
grees up to the standard of perfection,
because they bring fancy prices. But
he can do this: avoid the purchase or use
of the narrow chested, the weak loins,
the thin chine, and the hard, thin, parch-
ment like hide of a bull OF a COW, and
hereditary defects and unsound feet and
legs in a horse. Of course farmers can
not afford to buy, for breeding grade
stock, the best animals at public sales,
but they can buy and select second or
third best stock, which is better than to
have the best of a bad lot.
Some farmers have a nice lot of COWS
and mares, but ruin their produce by an
Indifferent bull OIL stallion, when if they
would use a good sire they could not
fail to breed stock that would be better,
command more money, andb ready for
market months before the Indifferent
bad ones.
To breed and feed economically is of
the greatest Importance; and to do it
with profit to the farmer, judgment
must be used and exercised in the breed
ing and selection of well-bred animals,
either cattle, horses, sheep or hogs. lift
pays to raise any of these, it must pay
better to breed and rear the better class
of each. Another important TENT to.
farmers is the relative value of feeding
stufs, and the English say that Al lbs. of
wheat is as good as As lbs. of peas, or 81
lbs. of barley, or 55 lbs. of oats, Oh 81
lbs. of beans, or 80 lbs. of clover hay, or
100 lbs. of ordinary hay, OF 200 lbs. of
potatoes, or $50 lbs. of cabbage, or 275
lbs. of carrots, or 1897 lbs. of beets, or 475
lbs. ofgreen clover, or 800 lbs. of turnips,
or 30S lbs. of oats or barley, or $50 lbs.
of wheat or bean straw. OF course no
one food is suitable to be fed alone; all
a~limentary substance must be given with
a view to somepurpose. Young animals
require food rich in mineral and albumi-
nous substances, to make bone, fat, and
keep up-the animal heat; and combined
with good food must be cleanliness,
warmth, good ventilation, and unremit-
ting attention. If those requisites are
all present, and the animals regularly
fed, the farmer cannot fail to succeed.
We wish our readers to remember that
we are not advising, nor do we expect,
every farmer to become a breeder of high
bred, fancy stock, either of cattle OF
horses, but they can greatly improve
them, with profit to themselves, by Sc
lecting good sires and dams at reasonable
prices. The reason why some animals
have brought such high prices at public
and private sales, Notwithstanding the
hardness of the times and the spread o.
economy, is that the market for such
animals-the more celebrated ones-i
not confined to this country, and they
can always find and will find purchaser
abroad at these prices. They are lik,
gold coins, which have not only an in
trinsic value, but can be marketed any
where at high prices. 1t is different witt
: the ordinary or Questionable animals
3 and these latter are the ones that fal
. mers, who cannot afford to buy high
!, priced animals, should look to, to in
: prove their stock.
EXHAUSTION OF Soil AND ITS Rem
. EDY.-The subject of manures is recei,
: ing more than usual attention in on
, agricultural papers. As a few years ag
many expected from the researches {
J, Liebig to make barren and exhauste
! soils at onc productive, by supplement
' ing chemical analysis with the manure
that it suggested, and that it would il
SUR good crops, SO today many are ca
ried away with the idea that by certai
formule of manurial compounds, an
crop can be raised with its own climate
upon any soil, up to a maximum produ'
ton, stated and definite.
n Too much attention can not be give
to methods of fertilizing our soils, BIT
when it comes to the addition of a mil
= eral formula as sufficient to render a
lands productive, there seems to be
large flavor of theories that long ago wei
shown to be practically useless.
There is SO much variance in the idei
!" of successful, intelligent farmers upc
n this matter of manures that we at on,
le conclude safely that, after all, a mans e.
&c perience which has led to continuol
le success with him, is worth more to hi
:, upon his own farm than all the formul
:. of chemical laboratories. =
b. The work of chemistry seems to be
lie indicate the processes of nature, and th
- is to be supplemented by farm experien
err in the production of crops. And aga
is Unjust SO far as chemistry would exhit
g. a difference in soils, it is unsafe for OF
d, land owner to PROFOUND methods to a
ce other.
Is We give below some recent things tn
have been written upon manures that o.