Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-01-03

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of work if properly encourage
A neat poultry house is an dl<l4iEl<z1|
to the farm as well as useful. HlIf be
sure that while ii looks we'll externAily,
it is kept clean and presentable INSIDE,
so that the owner need not be ashamcti
to show it to his friends. Such houses
are not likely to Ike visited by chicken
cholera.
HIGH FARMING.
High farming can hardly be defined
i'll a better way than to sayit Is thatsyss
TEN offarming which brings'pOssibleper-
centage of profit from the investment.
1t is not reckless application of ma
nure and culture without regard to
cost, merely to secure an extraordinary
yield of q given crop, but rather study
to ascertain how much concentration of
capital and labor can he applied to a
given area at the greatest profit. If, for
instance, ten acres can be made to
grow what is ordinarily grown onseven-
ty-five or u hundred acres and at less
cost, it is manifestly piece of folly to
cultivate the greater amount. There Is
a waste of capital in the ownership OF
land which cannot be worked at profit,
and waste OflabOr in skimming overa
large acreage when a small proportion
of labor applied to the smaller area Will
produce the same or greater return.
But how many farmers ever try to
solve this question Of concentrated labor
so as to know whether their land is
worked at the best possible advantage:
Not MANY, indeed. They own GER
tain amount of land by inheritance or
Il 10 think n
duty that il must AL he farmcd and
have It's rotation. Indeed, the question
whether half or a fourth Other lanQ by
concentrated effort cannot be doubled
or tripled or quadrupled III its yield, Is
never raised. They have 70 much ma
uure, and it must he spread over so
much space. Their fathers did so, the
ncighb0rs do so, and "it is 4 pity to let
the land lie idle" As to selling 1t, ana
applying the profits To make the re-
manning land richcrand mOrcprofitablc,
they never think of it. But why not?
If fOrty-five or fifth or sixty bushels Of
wheat can bc grown on an acre by
concentration Of capital and effort, why
work four or five acres to get this
amount Where is the sense OfkcCplng
up such system of farming? The
readers may ask these questions, but 1t
is one of those things (which no fellow
can find out" M least. ifa solution OF
the problem is attempted il fails usually
To convinced the quCStiOnor that the
reason Is nj all crgiitablC u any such
spirit of enterprise asshoUld characterize
a progressive aye. There is no room for
doubt that our system, as Il whole, Is
SlOvenly and wastCful. LandnOtnatur-
ally fertile can often he made so by due
attention and effort. land he who goes
on wear 10 year i'll tile effort to go over
certain area rather than 10 get the
highest possible profit from eac'I acre,
has small claim to he called Il tirSt-claSS
farmer. And the same Is true OF the
man who, by close economy manages
to save u little money each year, and
then haStCnS To put it on interest rather
than TO Use it in improving farm whose
capacity is not half developed. y
iudiciOus expenditure in farm improve
mcntS will return him more than five
or six per cent, and he ought 10 study
what is iuliciOuS and what is best rather
man run counter to all the settled rules
which obtain III mercantile pursuits,
where the rule is TO enlarge mdimprovc
rs rapidly as the money for it can be
obtained and experience justuics II.
STOCK AND DAIRY.
The man who can keep his temper, or
can control il, will usually succeed lii
making gentle and wcll-behaved ami
mails out of rather wild heifers and-cOlts.
But, perhaps, the best way TO make
young animals fearless of man is to
fOndlC them when young. NcvcrallOw
them to he teased by boys Orhircd men.
If a farmer must ever kick anybody, let
him kick the boy or man who ventures
10 tease his domestic animals.
An excess of bran fed to horses Is apt
10 generate stony secrctiOnS i'll the
bowels. Post mortem examinations
have shown them to be composed Of. a
hard crystalline mass, deposited in r.
gular rings, resembling the cOucgntric
yearly rings of wood, and they proved
to he composed of phosphate of
magnesia and ammonia.
The Prairie Farmer advocates the
oTtirC abolition of premiums at stock
fair, for 1.-THE best animals of any age
or breed" This is SO sensible that We
wonder it has not been suggested before.
Ii j. absurd to say that certain animal
* better than all others of different
breeds. One might almost aS well say
that a COW was better than horse, AMI
a turkey better than hen, or that ham
is better than beef-Steak.
Seward Dill, in the Maine Farmer
promulgates plan for domestic hog
raising that is quite taking. He would
plant 100 apple trees i'll an acre OF land,
graft them to prolific sweet apples, and
in not q very long time "thcre would he
few bushel Ofapples per acre. This one
orchard should be 4 hog pasture for
twenty hogs, and the hogs would soon
weigh 500 pounds each, making splendid
pork, which at Ave cents per pound
would bring $500, all from one acre of
sweet apples. What can be nicer than
that.
Grass-fed cattle bought III the fall for
winter feeding will, it is claimed, some
times shrink 100 pounds before they
begin 10 grow on winter food. PhiS i
an important fact To be remembered 10y
buyers who propose to tallow stock Ill
winter.
George Whitney, Vermont, found by
experiment that one heifcr, well kept.
gave him as much profit as four Others
kept inditierently, although the natural
illl1klllCS Ol Tie OllC NOlt Nv ptNbti NiltNli
the others. Other people would find the
same result We're they to try it. The way
to get all possible profit from COW is to
feed her all she will eat.
Thelargest COW in the world--So claim
r,i--is said to he owned by Martin {.
Stokes, of GRANVILLE, White Co, Ill.
She is years old, weighs 5000 pounds,
is l7| hands high, l04 feet from the end
of the nose To the bullock, and including
tail IL: ) feet 9incheS around the girth,
26 inches around the forearm, and 81
across the hip. Her color is white and
red. mostly red; she is well formed and
has had two calves, one now Iyears Old,
the other three months.
SOW salt early i'll the spring, and the
more the ground is stirred afterwards
the better il will he.
Nanglewurzels are good for hog feed
inc--to build up the farme ola hog
which is TO be finished off, with corn,
so saws Il newspaper. But plenty of
milk and corn will both build up and
finish the hog, without any help from
such watrry things as root crops.
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