The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1881-10-15
FARMERS COLUMN.


lows is pushing TO the front in the cream-
ory business. She threatens to soon have as
mnny crenmeries as Illinois.
When farmers village neighbors know
that his pork is lattened on good, healthy
food, he will usually find ready market
for H.
The hogs 10 winter successfully. that Is at
a proiit,are breeding sows. To winter small
pigs does not pay very we'll but all will pay
better in good warm barn cellar than in
cold out oi door pcns.
Mr.. J. II. Walker, Worcester, Mass.. re-
ports 504 pounds of butter in one week from
twenty eight Jersey cows. FIVE OF the herd
had three quarts Of corn meal per day the
rest had pasture and cut grass.
Vermont COW, named Jersey Queen, is
reported to have given 4,4OS pounds Of milk
during the first 100 days after calving and
25i pounds Of butter But the knowledge
worth most in dairy trials lie thu yield for
365 days, or the full amount from calf to
calf.
Mr. Brown, in charge of the Ontario Mod
ei Farm at Guelph, saws that it IS thirty per
cent, more profitable to sell fat cattle at two
years ofage than to keep thcm year long
er. The fsttenng Of old cows and steers a
dozen years old cannot then be very profit
able business. 1t is to be feared that farm.
ers generally do not appreciate this fact.
Prices for Jersey cattle in the Island of
Jersey were never so high as now. herd
OF i76 head was shipped to the United States
on August 4 soine of them costing $500
This would indicate another craze il the
cattle breeding business The prices are
speculative, because farmers who raise the
progeny Of these 81 500 cows aud bulls can
not get their money back through dairy
producis
No dairymsn should say he "canuot af-
ford to feed or house his stock as carefully
as some rich neighbor does, provided the
latter's system is profitable. 1t is the poor
man always who cannot afford TO be- negli-
gent and wastoful, nor Indifferent to accur-
ate experiments or good examples. The
gross cost of a system Of cattle feeding is of
litie account provided it brings good net
profit That is the point to study.
II is the general testimony that pure bred
animals, or even grades, are ALWAYS superin,
to conmou stock. BY common stock is
meant breeding at random. with no aiten.
fiof IN ifnnrovanart ccn,,,;,.,.. . -. .
with more than the average care, aims tt
improve by breeding only from his best ami
mails, but while this is better than no car,
Il is slow and uncertain process bccaus,
only pure-bred animals are reasonably Ger.
tain to beget their like. That is the chic
characteristic Of the nurc breeds.
The recent Live Stock Exhibition at Chic.
ago wos very successful The P.aire Farm
er reports the number Of cattle al "probsbly
mt less than thonsond." :" with nearly a.
many horses. NJ. W Dunham had abon
rs head of stock of all ages Sine 1872 h,
has imported over 600 Percheron Norman
horses. In the class of draft stations 81 q
the finest specimens ever collected were led
into tho ring OF sheep there were Of fine
wools 22l long woods, 1856; middle wools
I75
An exchange speaks oft cows which
lately broke into cornfeld and ate so much
that they bloated and died. This was had
but It IS result of the pasiuring system
To turn herd into field whore the pas
Ia
weather and except the cows TO stay there
conteniedly is to expect too much. Well fed
stall.fed cows will not cat themselves tc
death even with the chance before them
but starving COW knows no more law than
a starving man.
In soiling cattle ono needs, first. csncen-
trated food, which can always bc bought A,
needed and second, The grasses, green ir
summer and dried in winter But cras,
even in summer is not essential, as witt
good cows. good butter, and good market
soiling car be mode more profitable ever
when everything is purchased, than tn,
sverage 'dairyman makes il by pastnrare
exposure to sun. heat storms and fles vast.
oil manure, bad water, no feed at the stable
and other wastes aud ups and downs of thai
slip-shod system But il cannot be made pro
itable, of course, with cows that give s ,OOC
or 5000 pounds Of rather blue milk wear
Weigh each milking, and when YOU ge
cows that double these figures it will paw
you to soil all the year.
A Country Gentleman writer says his COW.
have kept "splendidly" during ten years on
corn-fodder cut into half-inch lengths, with
three quarts OF ground feed, one peek oftur.
nips snd three pounds Ct hay as daily ra.
tiou. but he always noticed that they gcin-
cd milk on good pasturuge. Just So good
pastnrage is better than any corn fodder that
ever grew, and with six quarts oi corn meal
day, six more Of wheat bran, or due por
tion Of cotton seed meal, or oil meal, he
might have omitted his half inch corn fod-
der,and Ais herd would have done still more
"splendidly," and he would have heen rich.
er for It. A man who hes tho oughlv tried
concentrated food and whose wife ran ma Ike
good butter, will not fuss mnch about chi.
ting corn-ioddsr into hAItinrh lengths
Cows will not eat bean-poleF, -vcn ifground
Hne, end coarse cornstaiks cut Gne are just
about as good as bean poles
The New Jersey cranberry crop is plenti
fnl and spod.
Tbs largest apple orchard in the State Of
New York, and probably the Ia gest in the
world, is owned by Robert Mex instry, near
Hudson, Columbia county.