The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1882-10-20


its must come from more painstaking
tillage of less land.
PRoE. w. M. Brown, of the University
of Georgia, reports experiments which
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
per0,is by the way he handled his
manure heap and his whitewash brush,
"a well kept buildings were advertise
ments of a well-kept garden.
A FOREIGN paper claims that full
feed of hay to horses, following the
feeding of concentrated food, IL 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 conoen-
trated food afterward, 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 well
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 he traced to bad shoe
ing. A barefoot horse will travel freer,
keep his footing freer, and show less
fatigue from Journey or a hard day 3
work than if shod. The kick Of an un-
shod horse is not AZ dangerous as when
shod, and stumbling rarely OCCURS
cutting, interfering, over-reaching and
forging never.-M. C.. Weld.
THE Grange Visitor 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 cellars; the barrel forms n 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
he packed and stored In 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
acter exhaust lands of the particular
food they require with great rapidity.
The aid which nature so freely renders,
where crops rotate, is withheld in such
a system of cultivation, because the
farmer is violating her laws. TO fight
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 the most beautiful of her pro-
visions is that, while one crop exhausts
the soil of that element which enters
most largely into its composition by the
operation of some mysterious law, it
prepares that same soil for some other
crop of different character. As an
illustration of this principle, we know
that clover does not successfully follow
itself, although it leaves the ground III
the best possible condition for corn or
wheat. One crop, therefore, restores in
a measure what another has taken. BY
raising continuously the same plant you
interfere with this beautiful contriv-
ance of nature to rebuild her wasted
strength.
FEEDING FOR BEEF.-The question OF
whether or not it will pay to feed
cattle this fall, ia one that is agitating
the minds of orr stockmen, and is of no
small importance. At the present
prices of beef, which is from $40 to
$500 per 100 in Chicago, corn ut sc
cents and stock steers at $3. 80, it don't
require much figuring to show that it is
by far the most profitable to sell the
corn. 1t seems TO be the opinion of
some of our oldest and best feeders
that tho 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 3t-cent stock-cattle on 30
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 80 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 chance for even better
returns, and with a very large yield in
Nebraska and Kansas, a fair crop in
Iowa and Illinois, it ia not to be pre-
| sumed that corn will remain ut so cents.
Then the question arises, will it pay to
feed 30-cent corn to 3i-cent steers for a
prospective 5 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 TODAY
Mt cents in Nebraska, and scarce at
that. so it is folly to expect hogs TO
help MS out.-Nebr0skd 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 high place in agriculture. He is
found TO produce a 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.