The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1879-02-27
AGRICULTURAL.
SELECTED FROM THE PRAIRIE FARMER.

it for the benefit of a new subscriber.
W. q. L.
AnsUer:-If the land Is free from
stumps, grubs or rocks, a thorough sum-
mer fallow will do it, followed by hoed
crop kept perfectly clean. When the
land is full of stumps or rocks, it is diff
cult to totally eradicate them, since the
roots find a Judgement beneath. If the
tops be not allowed to appear above
ground during one season, the thistles
will be killed.
SOWING LIME.
What amount of lime should be used
on an acre, sown broadcast! If used
about the hills of corn, how much should
be used, and how should it be applied?
Should it be used about the corn before
it is covered, or after? Is salt good for
wheat, sown broadcast in the spring, and
if so, how much TO the acre!
VIEWER, IA, Feb. II. W. A.. J.
Lime should be sown broadcast, and
not be applied to the hills, except for
killing insects. In this case it must be
intimately mixed with the earth, say a
good handful to the hill. Experiment
only can show the amount that should be
sown broadcast. Try 25 bushels per
acre, and increase it to 100 bushels per
acre if the outcome would seem to war
rant it. Salt is considered beneficial in
strengthening the straw OF grain. The
mode of applying it has lately been stat
ed.
ANG0RA GOATS.
The breeding of the Angora goat for
its fleece is q failure in California, where
it has now been tried twenty years, as in
Kentucky and Georgia for thirty years;
and in France for half century. In five
years after the Merino sheep had been
brought to California for wool growing
purposes, the first importer had made a
fortune, and wool had become a promi-
nent article of expectation. In twenty
years the Angora-goat wool has not been
able to obtain n mention in the ordinary
annual summaries of exports. The men
who have goats for sale at high prices
tell about shipments of Angora wool, but
the records of the commercial newspa-
pers know nothing of them, and the
large shippers Of wool and the annual
wool circulars take no account of them.
So far as we are able to learn no herd of
goats in this state yields enough wool to
pay the interest on their cost and the ex-
pense of keeping them; and every person
prominent as the owner of them looks
for his main profits not to his wool clip.
but to the purchases Of his bucks by ig-
norant and deceived customers. The
production of Angora wool may ultimate
ly be a success in California; hitherto it
has been a most complete failure as
source of profit to those making the ven
ture. 1t is reported that there are so.
600 highgrade goats in the state.
ECONOMY IN FEEDING STOCK.
What IS the relative value of corn meal
for steers fed in stable) to corn in the
ear fed out of DOORS, or, in other words.
what per cent. is corn on the cob worth
(to fatten cattle fed as above statedD TO
corn meal; and will hogs do as well after
cattle fed meal as corn? What is the best
and cheapest mill for grinding? Would it
better pay farmer, living one and one-
fourth miles from mill, and using 100
bushels through the winter, to grind his
own corn, or pay 5 cents per bushel at
the mill?
CAMERON, Mo. H.B.F.
We cannot find concise statements
showing clearly the absolute gain or loss.
At the Industrial University, some three
years ago, the steers fed out of doors on
whole corn, as against those fed on meal,
made the best gain. Our own expert
ments, made some ten years ago, showed
DO profit in grinding the corn at home,
until the price of corn reached 40 cents
per bushel, the animals being fed in
stables, OF course. Hogs will not do as
well after cattle fed on corn meal-as when
the cattle are fed on whole corn. The
hogs pick up the whole corn dropped un-
digeSted, or only partially SO.
You have given US hard question to
answer, as to which is the best mill The
portable mills Of Nordyke & Marmion
Co., indianapolis, Indiana, are certainly
good enough. The Big Giant mill,
manufactured hy T. Field e % CT
Louis, Mo-, will certainly give satisfac-
ton, especially when corn and cob, or
unhusked corn. are to be ground.
If you have horses at leisure, it vii
pay you better to grind your corn at
home than to cart it to and from the mill.
and pay five cents for grinding. At least
this has been our experience. A smart,
careful boy will soon learn to drive and
tena the mill.