The Osceola times., 1877-10-27

the PAINFUL necessity Of "paying bills"
and reading letters, In substance, swear.
ing "that all philanthropists are not
dead. !" Respectfully. ID. W. RICE.
CLINTON, MISS, Sept. 90.
Csw JsrkeytsE.
"Thcre Is cheating in all trades but
ours" 30 runs the ancient saw. IL one
wishes to buya trotting horse, he expects
TO hear him extollcd as taking three
minute gait as natural jeg-and trot.
ting " low down In the thirties," II urged
as being able, with training, to "do
his mile in thirty" or twenty-five and a
half" as the case may be, but the test is
easily applied. The horse is hitched up
to the road-wsgon, aud made 10 show his
specd on tho road, or on the track by the
watch. That settles the matter of speed.
II every other point could be determined
a. accurately, there would be little com
plant of the Jockeys am led into this
train Of thought from talk ! had with
q gentleman who has gained no little
fame among horsemen from his study
and comparison Of pedigrees and perform
ances of trotting stock. He Is perhaps
better known M Hark.C Comstock," than
as p. G. Kellogg. Mr.. X. as taken
quite fancy TO Jersey stock, and would
probably buy few good cows, If he
could know what he was buying. said
he: al want well-pedigreed COW that
somebody has held watch on" That
puts II In a nutshell. In horsc-dealing
nobody thinks of getting a big price for
a trotter that has not been timed, but
our cow-dealers brag about their milk and
their butter, about the pedigrees Of their
cows, and they test their entire herds
together, or make some positive tests,
and publish-not the weights but an
estimate. Now, a horse never gels "a
record" by his owners watch, and II is
not fair that COW should. II Is time
for us TO stop talking about jockeying,
as II it were something peculiar 10 horse
dealers. ! am beginning TO think that
the cow,jockeys can give the horse
jockeys several points, and beat them at
that. They certainly could il horse buy
ers were az credulous as those who pay
the big prices for milk and butter cows
especially for Jerseys. Now and then a
cow is brought to fair test. In few
herds cows are systematically tested, and
the whole process Is open 10 the inspec-
tion OF those who are curious. A few
dealers are really anxious that buyer
should know all about COW which he
buys, and will have her milk weighed,
her cream exhibited, and several milk
ings saved, to be churned before the
buyer, and to his satisfaction, but they
are far between.--Americda Agricul,urist.
Live aud Dead weight of TUrkrya
Farmers frequently have occasion TO
sell turkeys by live weight, and wish to
know Whist Is the fair relative price be-
tween live and dead weight. In turkeys
dressed for the New York market, where
the blood and feathers only are removed,
the loss is very small. For the eastern
markets the heads are taken off and the
entrails are taken out. This makes loss
of nearly onc-tcnth In the weight. A
large gobbler was recently killed weigh
ing thiIty.one and one half pounds Az
ter bleeding and picking he weighed
twenty nine and one-haE pounds. loss
of two pounds, or one fifteenth. When
ready for the spit he weighed twenty
eight and one-fourth pounds, loss of
three and one-fourth pounds, which is
nearly one tenth of the weight. When
the market requires the New York style
Of dressing, the price is fifteen cents a
pound live weight, or less, IL the labor of
dressing be counted any thing. In the
other style of dressing, ii the price were
twenty cents, the farmer could sell for
eighteen cents, or less, live weight, with
cut loss. Farmers who never tested the
loss Of weight in dressing often submit to
the deduction OF three or four cents a
pound for the middlemen, who are inter-
ested in making this large difference.
PHILADELPHIA Times.
Fall Flowing.
Mr.. Harris, ia the American Agricul.
turist says: am convinced that we
shall find 1t to our interest TO work our
land more and more in the fail, and the
earlier the better. Our springs are short,
and we are in hurry TO get in the seed ;
the land is wet, and il plowed in this
condition, we do more harm than good.