The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-27
FARM NOTES.

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led him to the conclusion that @red
rust-proof oats are undoubtedly the
best" for use in that State.
HORACE GREELEY used so say that he
always knew when a farmer was pros
porous by the way he handled his
manure heap and his whitewash- brush,
as well kept buildings we've advertise
ments Of weil-kept garden.
A FOREIGN paper claims that full
feed Of hay to horses. following the
feeding Of concentrated food; is waste
ful, for the reason that it crowds the
first out of the stomach before proper
digestion has been accomplished. And
so, IN order to secure best results, hay
should be fed at first and the coneen>
trated food aitefward, WHICH leaves it
to become fully digested, with no
danger of being crowded away or out
of the performance of its desired pur-
pose.
A COLTS feet are sound and we'll
formed before he is shod. and the ills Of
the horses feet are occasioned by shoe
/ ing, and cured by running barefoot. +"
Most ailments, such as spawn, ring
bone, ETC., can be traced to bad shoe
ing. A barefoot horse will travel freer;
keep his footing freer; and show less
fatigue from a journey or d hard days
work than If shod. The kick Of an til
shod horse is not as dangerous as when
shod, and stumbling rarely occurs
cutting; interfering, over reaching and
forging t1ever.-M G. Yield.
The Grange Tisttor thinks, all things
considered, there is no way of keeping
apples quite so good and practicable as
packing in tight barrels and storing in
cool cellarsJ the batrel forms d room
and prevents circulation of air and con-
/ sequent drying and shrinking of the
fruit, and also lessons the changes of
! temperature, and beside more fruit can
/ be packed and stored in q given space
than in any other way. The poorest Of
ways is the large, open bin, and the OBJ
jections are, too much fruit in contact,
too much weight upon the lower fruit,
and too much trouble to handle and
sort when desirable to market.
SUCCESSIVE crops of the same char
| actet exhaust lands of the particular
food they require wi h great rapidity.
/ The (Which nature so freely renders,
where. crops rotate, is withheld in such
a system of cultivation, because the
farmer is violating her laws. TO fioht
against nature is to war at fearful odds,
/ and it is not difficult to forecast the re-
suit To work in harmony with her
! insures a comparatively easy victory.
| One Of tbs most beautiful of her pro-
| visions Is that, While one crop exhaiists
the soil Of that element which enters
most largely into it's composition by the
operation of some mysterious law, it
prepares that same soil for some other
crop of a different character. As an
illustration Of this principle, we know
that clover does not successfully follow
itself, although it leaves the ground in
the best possible condition for corn or
wheat. One crop, therefore, restores in
a measure what ano her has taken. By
raising continuously the same plant you
interfere with this beautiful contriv7
ance of NATURE TO febriild her wasted
strength.
FEEDING FOR BEEF. The question of
whether or not it will pay to feed
cattle this fall is one that is agitating
the minds of our stockmen, and is of no
small importance. At the present
prices of beef, which is from $4.3O to
$500 per loo in Chicago, corn at SO
cents and stock steers at $3.50, It don't
require much figuring to show that it is
by far the most sproftable to sell the
corn. It seems to be the opinion of
some of our oldest and best feeders
that the prospect for more than 6 cents
for beef is very poor, and many put
the. price at 5 cents. Now, if this is to
/ be the price, there certainly is no mon
ey in feeding 39cent stock-cattle on So
cent corn. But the question again
comes up, will corn be worth so cents ?
| Of this there seems to be much doubt,
and while we have up to within the last
two weeks felt very confident of corn
bringing SO cents, we are free to confess
that we have changed our mind. Corn
that on Aug. Is showed through Iowa
and Illinois ten bushels or less, is now
showing prospective twenty-five bush
els to the acre, and should frost hold of
! late there is a chance for even better
returns, and with very large yield in
! Nebraska and Kansas, fair crop in
Iowa and illinois, it is not to be pre-
sumed that corn will remain at 30 cents.
Then the question arises, will it pay to
feed 30-cent corn to 34-cent steers for a
prospective or 6 cent market. We
think not. IF stock hogs were worth 3
to 81 cents, there might be a show of
getting out, but hogs are selling to-day
at cents in Nebraska, and scarce at
that, 50 it is folly to expect hogs to
help us out.-Nebrdska Farmer.
THE Pro IN AGRICULTURE THE pig
has recently been spoken of in contempt,
when compared with our domestic ami
mails. But if we examine his good
qualities at all critically we must award
him q high place in agriculture. He is
found to produce pound of product
from less food than either cattle or
sheep, and is, therefore, the most eco
nomical machine to manufacture our
great corn crop into marketable meat
Our people are becoming wiser every
year, and exporting less, proportionate-
ly, of the raw material and more of the
condensed product. If it takes seven
pounds of corn, on the average, to make
pound of pork, as is no doubt the
case, the farmer begins to see the econ
omy of exporting one pound of pork,
bacon or ham, instead of seven pounds
of corn. The difference in cost of
freight makes fine profit of itself; be-
side, the pound of meat is usually
worth more than the seven pounds OF
corn in the foreign market The pro-
duction of pork should be encouraged
on the further consideration that it car
ries off less of the valuable constituents
OF soil than beef. The fat pig con-
talns only three-fourths as much miner
al matter per cwt. as the fat steer, and
only two-fifths as much nitrogen per
cwt., and, therefore, the, production of
a ton of pork on the firm Will carry off
q little more than half the fertility car
rled off by ton of beef. Beside, ton
of beef will require nearly so per cent.
more to produce it, This oyivaa IN