Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1882-11-30
Farm, and Other Notes, !,


I, Farm and Other Notes.
Hog cholera in malignant form hat
broken out near Iowa City.
! The American cattle arriving in Eng.
land this fall are reported far below the
standard established ny our former ship.
ments. They show the effects of the
high price of corn in the corn growing
States.
Dressed beef has taken boom. The
introduction, of it into New York City
has terrified the city butchers, who have
formed syndicate with $1,000, 900 capi-
tai to drive out the Western importa-
tions.
The st. Louis Beef Canning Company
has increased its capital stock from $400,-
600 to $500, ,000 with the intention of
shipping dressed beef TO the Eastern cities.
The beef ration in the United States is
estimated to have been for many years
one hundred pounds per head, with an
export of twenty pounds per head, max
ing consumptive demand of 12O pounds
per head. The beef product of 1888 will
furnish only about fifty pounds of beef to
each consumer, which means high beef
next spring.
Butchers beef in the villages and small
cities is ruinously high. Yet the farm
ers derive no benefit from it. The coun.
try butchers pick up the old fat COWS and
steers, in lots of one to six, and pay from
three to four cents pound and sell beef
from eight to sixteen cents. The farm
ers sell low and buy high, or do without
fresh meat. They can not save a whole
beef, except in the coldest weather. They
will be compelled to build refrigerators,
in connection with ice-houses, large
enough to enable them to handle supplies
of fresh meat and fresh fruits.
Apple seeds, skins and cores ara ship
ped in large quantities from New York
evaporators to Chicago, when it is manu-.
featured into jelly, with the addition of
glucose. Detroit, also, is doing some
thing in the same line.
Imports of live cattle by American
breeders is becoming an enormous busi-
ness. 1t amounted to $3.675, ,518 for the
first half of this year. It is likely to
reach 1000, 900 for the year 1882. ii.
American breeders are reaching out for
the best stock the world produces.
The importation of stock now exceeds
the money value of exports of live cattle
from the United States.
During the first half of this century the
total imports of live stock did not equal
the imports of 1889.
In Franklin County the farmers sold 400
tons of butter at loss Of three cents a
pound, or $25, 1885,. which might have
gone into the pockets of the farmers and
saved the wives an incalculable amount
Of hard work and anxiety.
An International Sheep Show is to be
held at Hamburg, Germany, from the Sd
to 11th of July, 1888. Three hundred |
and seventy-five thousand dollars are to |
be offered in prizes, covering eighty. eight
classes of sheep.
The factory system of butter making is |
urged as more profitable thaA the plan of |
each family making the butter. Cream
cry butter sells in Massachusetts for three |
cents a pound more than family made.
The potato crop of the German Empire
is ordinarlly 20, 500, 900 tons. The crop of |
1882 is only about 100000 tons. The
deficiency must be made up with cereals
and meat. AS the German people have
the American potato and hog
out of their domain, the German pork,
raisers will probably get fat price for
pig meat. There are various ways of pro-
lection, but the German method is per.
haps the most roundabout and expensive
to the consumer. ga"
The blood of one OK EQUALS four gal.
Ions, and will manure one hundred and
twenty square yards. Dried blood IS
worth 30Of ton. This blood can easily
be kept inodorless il stirred as it leaves
The animal, SO as not to clot, and then to
it be added persulphate OF iron. This
forms paste, which is dried aud pulver-
zed. Let our butchers take the hint and
Gil their purses still fuller, and make
their slaughter-houses less nuisance to
The public.
A peach tree fraud is likely to be tried
in the Courts of Michigan. The Farmer
gives the facts, and says they are worthy
of the perusal of every orchardist in the
State.
One thousand peach trees were bought
of New York firm, and now that they
have borne crop, the orchardist finds to
mis- sorrow that 721 of the 1000 are not
true to name, though they were shipped
with the warranty. "These peach trees
are warranted true to name," then fol-
ows the names and number of each var
ety. After the trees had been fruited
and proven to be of seeding and almost
worthless varieties, the nurseryman had
he effrontery to offer his victim fifty
lollars' worth more of trees if he would
accept that as pay for damages. The
ouyer was sick of growing such stock and
declined the offer. He printed state
nent of the facts and the contract made
with the nurseryman.
Instead of paying the orchardist for
lamages done him, the nurseryman now
'ues him for libel, with damages laid at
b1O, 900. -
The orchardist has spent five years in
the ground, planting and tax
ng care Of these trees. He paid for choice
'udded trees, and got short count of
eedlings-most of them worthless. We
rope the Michigan Farmer will continue
he good work of giving these tree scoun-
lrels their dues. This class Of fraudu-
ent tree dealers can be found in every