Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-05
FARM TALK.
Tino,hy and Glover Hay.

have had an experience OIaDOutt"ehtJ
five years in taking care OF sheep, ana
have fed hay made of the dinerent
kinds of clovers and grasses. also nave
fed all kinds ofstraw and corn fodder.
/ think that ripe timothy is the poorest
and meanest coarse feed for sheep that L
ever fed. l would sooner have goou
bright wheat straw. | have sometimes
been compelled to feed ripe timothy
but il goes very much against my VIII.
In nv experience, would sooner nave
good clover hay, we'll cured, and cut at
the proper time, fed TO sheep, without
any grain, than timothy hay and one
and a half bushels corn and oats TO the
hundred.
saw an article in former Number
of your paper, in regard TO burning
straw stacks. Ny advice would be TO
feed YOUR straw to your sheep, instead
of burning it. If you don't have the
sheen, buy them. In the fall, take some
of the straw stack and make a shelter.
Fix ward adjoining the stack, ana
feed them literally with it. DO not let
them run TO the stacks, as they will get
their wool full of the chatf, and you VIII
oct docked on the wool at selling time
The straw should be fed in box racks,
which are very easy TO make; anu L
think. all things considered, they are
he rack. When | feed straw, L
usually commence to feed about three
fourths of a bushel of shelled corn to the
hundred head, and increase gradually To
twice that amount by March LIST. sheep
want free access to pure water AT All
times, especially when fed on dry food;
II farmers would use this coarse feed
ALI lid i'm this manner, then haul out
their manure, and apply it To their corn
ground, and plow it under, they would
not complain so much of poor crops:
Some time since | visited the farm OF
one ofthe most successful sheep men OF
my acquaintance. 1t is his custom to
haul his manure right from the sheep
sheds and yards, and spread 1t on SOD
land through the winter to be plowed
under for corn in the spring. And he
never fails ola good crop Of corn.
Corn fodder makes a Very good feea
for sheep, when it has been cut up at
the proper time, anu well secured =
have wintered on corn fodder entirely
for coarse feed, with moderate feed of
grain. DO not be afraid TO feed little
grain to sheep. II will pay two fold; first
in the fleece, and second i'll the inn
proved condition Of the sheep i'll the
spring.
At some future time l will give my
ideas of the proposition to cut and cure
hay for sheep. SHEPHERD.
Shiloh, o.
The above is from the correspondence
column of the PttSbUgh SOckman.
We have not clipped it out for the facts
il contains, but for the assertions. Straw
NAV do for Cotswolds and keiceSterS, all
except wool sheep, or itmay be better
than the hay that is raised around Shi-
lob. But to say that the clover and tlmo-
Othy hay grown in this Ohio Valley Is
not better than wheat straw for the
Merino and SaXOny sheep, that are
raised and bred here, will not do.
Further than this the Agricultural edl-
tor sayeth not, at present.
EnsiIage. Black Lambs, Radishes, dc,
The Germantown 7ciegrGph., while
doubling the practical advantage claimed
for ensilage, says: Nevertheless. We
donot want to discourage the building of
sllOs and the storing up ofgreen food by
those who can afford it; rs it Is well for
mOneyed people to make these costly
experiments, in order that if there
should really be anything valuable in
them the general farmer may 90 to work
with his eyes open, and reap whatever
advantages they may possess"
The Country GcIlHcD'dn says: 1T
takes many years and great care to breed
out inherited tendency to revert to an
CCstral black blood. In flock with
which we were familiar for p years, 4
black lamb appeared after nine inter
vening generations of white sheep, and
there had not been black sheep on the
farm for 80 years. Among Merino sheep
a lamb with black or Smutty spots is
frequently seen but this color disappears
Us the lamb grows up"
The best soil for radisheS Is one that Is
light and rich. They should be grown
quickly in order To be tender and crisp.
They may be raised 10y preparing the
ground and sowing the seed broadcast.
They will generally grow so quickly
that they will not be troubled by the
weeds; a better way, however, is to sow
the seeds in drills. TO have n succession,
a row should be SOwn every week from
the time the frost leaves the soil in the
spring till late in the fall.
Intelligent breeders make rigorous
selection of breeding stock. The late
Edwin Hammond once was asked what
proportion of the rams bred by himself
he would be willing to Use on his own
flock, and he answered promptly" Not
one in 300"
And yet Edwin Hammond believed
in in-and-in breeding properly managed
The .AmGic0R CmtirdtOr says, in an
article on maple sugar, that the sap"
begins to run in Boston about New
Years Day. City dealers in maple sugar,
determined to be the first in the market,
commence boiling down brown sugar,
old maple sugar with lite maple
syrup for flavor, and make pretty cakes
of pure maple sugur" weeks before the
sap begins to run on the Vermont and
New Hampshire hillsides. These tradu-
lent compounds lack the fine flavor of
the pure maple sugar, but the dealers
succeed in making money out of our
ignorant public. Each year large lots of
old sugar are melted down by city
dealers into little tin mOulds and sold as
pure sugar, but such lots are deficient
in flavor and bear little resemblance to
the genuine maple sugar.
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