The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1879-01-08
sheep, the Poor Mans Friend.

~ 10. w. in Kansas Farmer
have taken an especial interest in small
way IN Atchison County, a. well as in Wash
ington, in sheep husbandry for the las.
twenty. five years. Wool has never been so
low but that il he's paid for the investment,
curtsiled my store bill. and. by exchanging
my wool, as do now, with the Blue Rapids
Wooden Factory for cloth and blankets. my
family are armly Clad and the cloth being
SO much superior to shotdy. lasts longer.
have usually bought commol grades of Mis-
souri, or Iowa sheep, ping a full bloode
Co,swold buck with my flock; the result is,
my sheep are superior in size, meeting
the market demand for mutton, AMI
the fleece is 6ne and long, bringing the
highest price in the msrket. For feed have
found the New German millet, and corn
fodder with hay, superior to anything else,
especially German miilet. Hungar an is TOO
apt to leave the ground seeded the following
year 10 foxtail aud is too easy prey to the
clinch bug. The same is true of common
millet l raised this year German mlllet
that grew on the high prairie 81 feet high,
With broad blade, sweet and soft stem and
the head inches long by 8 in width; when
threshed it Welded me so bushels to the acre
of seed and 8 = tons of hay. which is then
perior to any other food for sheep. Too
much of the hay before threshing must not
be fed to ives, as its cathartic effect is apt to
indirectly produce abortion and cause them to
loose their lambs. Tue seed grind and feed
to my hogs. This crop alone will carry flock
of sheep through the winter in good condi-
ton. In one instance this summer | sowed
a mixture of common millet with the Ger
man; the result was the chinch bugs left a
neighbor's field, passed over and destroyed
the common. and left the German millet To
ma ure, at three and half feet high. tri-
umphant and alone Sheep are the poor
mans friend, the poor man. stock. 1t costs
but little to get start The women and the
lifr1a chi Ira oh IN rara fn- then, an
| hope to see the day FASTENED when the
shoddy clad and shivering, thinly clothed
fimiliss of our Kansas plains will be wrap
ped in the genial warmth of their own fiocks.
Economy should be the order of the day,
and this item atone would save thousands to
the farmers OF Kansas.
Domestic Animals In Faru Economy,
New York rribunel
While the usual methods and extent aud
variety of crops must in every country be
controlled by local conditions, there is les
son OF practical wisdom to be learned from
the prevalent tendency to increase meat pro-
duction in Great Blitain, Francs and Ger
many, which the farmers of the United States
should heed AIR adv in this country the
demand for meat OF higher grades of quality
both for home use and foreign shipment. Is
beginning to exercise some influence upon
the extenfion of the culture of cover, mil
io'e Oh" otuet iotoSo P'ah'o, ouu III neopihS
up to a nigh point our corn production
in price. Could beet sugar be made with
profit here, it would prove a powerful
stimulus to cattle feeding and high culture.
While maize. the clovers and various grasses
will be our main reliance for feeding and
fattening. there is greatly needed for var
iety, and especially for more succulent win
ter forage, an increase of niaugolds cabbages,
Swedes, etc. Wheat will be MINOR inter-
est. as it is already in the older States, ex
cept in the new soils OF the higher plains
and elevated valleys of the Rocky Mountain
system, where its CULTURE as a specially will
rage yet for a considerable period. Else
where enterprising ruralists should address
themselves to careful study of the questions
OF rural economy and animal physiology in
vlved in the problem of successful meat
production