Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-01-27
FARM AND GARDEN.

SWEET CoRS AS STOCK FEED.-Mr. JO-
nathan TalcOtt, the weil-knOwn FARMER
oi Rome, New York, reports 10 the
American CultirdiOr this very satisfactory
experience with sweet corn as stock
feed:
During the past two seasons | have
had an acre or more 10 cut up Wheh
suitable Tor ruasting-ears, besides what
I have fed in its green state direct To
the COWS, and think Il Is the best ieed
that have ever used for feeding dairy
cows, or iattening animals. In either
raseit seems a food nearly perfect. The
ears furnish material for iattening or
milk as the farmer wishes, and the stalks
uf IL. when green aud well-cured, will
he eaten very clean AMI serve all the
purposes of hay, especially Tor working
oxen; and while they are So supplied
they feel the effect OF good feeding as
readily AS on any iced | have ever given
to working oxen. | lind, while so fed,
oxen will lay on flesh very last, II not
required Tor daily labor on the farm. Let
every farmer Try piece oi sweet corn
for 1879, aud note the success, being care
tul "a secure the fodder, with the ears
ON, in tine condition, and Keep II
bright and sweet I'LL ied out.
HoRsE SHOES The strong Arguments
al English papers al the past year against
horse shoes have drawn considerable
sttcntiun tu the subject IN that country,
and a gentleman reports the London
T,p,ss this satisfactory result Of a prac-
tival test:
The argument against them seemed to
me - ,trrug, and the convenience oI
doing without them 81 great, that re-
solved Ia try the experiment. Accord
iugly. when my puny : shoes were worn
out. hal them removed, and gave him
a months rrst and grass, with an ocCiI-
sIuual drive ut a mile or two on the
hIsh ruul while has hOois were harden
mg. The result az hrst seemed doubt
ml The huut was thin shell, and
kept chipping away until Il hal worked
dow hrvuud the holes ot the nails by
NH,,h the shoes had fastened After
tins the h1ul grrw thick aud hard, and
quite unlike What 70 had been before.
nov put the pony L. tull work AMI he
slauj, u we'll Tie Is morc sure-tooted ;
hI, tread l. almost nuIsclvsS; his hoois
arr ma no danger from the hands al the
barrier. and the change altogether has
h,,yu a clear gain without anything To-
st "a against u. Nv pony, | may
add, VAS between hour aud five years
old. he had been regularly shOd up On
the present year. Tie nov goes better
without shoes than he ever did With
them, aud without shoes he viii con
tinur Ia ~ a. long as he remains m
my possession.
THE HEARING IENR-Mr. J. :. Pat
tsr~nn Ot Ohio, communicates 10 n,
Cauairy Guil,mdH this note Of expert.
rnre I'M changing the bearing year \
ypunr nr,har,i Very CONSIDERABLY took
/ Ia bearing on the Oft wear, - that when
! I hat apples L. sell, prices were good
but In April 1875, y freeze kllled most
| Of the blnSSnm hudS, and that changed
! the wear 0f bearing, and nov l have SIs
/ ples when everybody else here has
But MANY trees this wear bore - tut
that il Is Ia he hoped that some OF then
will rest two wears, as not untreQuentN
happens, and again bear the of year
/ II i a fancy witk many that the year a
BEARING is determined by the year o.
graftinc-in the case of top-gratJIng al
/ least. This has necessarily nothing &
\ do with a. A Young trceS wear 81
/ bearing. apart nom the accident o.
I irostS, Is determined more by the rate q
I growth and he kind oi soil Il is IN, than
| bv any thing else. But the rate a
\ growth. with reference o. determining
bv purpose the year al bearing. Is l
\ cause 50 practically indefinite and un
manageable as to place II quite outsld'
/ the category nj available means