Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-09-12

world is Mr.. HIRAM SHELLEY. He has
the celebrated SULLIVAN farm in Hi
nois, 10000 acres, and several thousand
acres in Cayuga county, n. Y.-the
Rowland farm, the largest in the
State. Mr.. SIBLEY'S farms, occupied
and worked by tenants, number one
hundred and forty-three, and of those
worked under his supervision, a larger
number. Much of his land is devoted
to seed farming, for Mr.. SHELLEY is at
the head of the largest seed house in the
country. 1t is even said that no other
seed house in the world does so great
business. Not long since he engaged
Mr.. L. H. LIBBY as an agricultural
specialist, whose business will be to use
his great scientific attainments in pro-
noting the work of seed farming. Mr..
LIBBY is favorably know as an agri-
cultural writer, and is now editor of the
Farmers RCier, whose columns will
receive valuable matter through this
new connection.
Wheat is not being sown as early as
usual. This is nearly the middle of Sep
TENDER, and but little wheat is sown,
whereas, some years, the greater portion
of the wheat is sOwn from the 10th to
the 18th of September. Last years eX-
perience had something to do with this.
Wheat sOwn in October produced rs
well when cut this harvest a. that sOwn
in what we usually term the fright
time" Last season was dry, and wheat
if sOwn could not come up, and nature
often provides against emergencies and
her own failures.
Some of our neighbors do not agree
with us in cutting timothy when ripe.
yet the experience is mostly on our side.
w. NJ. says: 1--WE had large amount
of meadow to cut one season and began
early, in fact, before timothy began to
bloom. Some that we cut early we got
in without rain, and thought it very
nice hay, and when feeding in the win
ter saved this for our lambs, but we
actually had to quit feeding this to the
lambs and feed them the ripened hay.
We fed the early cut hay to the. old
sheep, but whenever they could getany
of the late cut, or ripened hay, they
would pick it out from among the green
cut hay and eat it. On the last We cut
the seed was thoroughly ripened and on
some heads falling off,"
J.C.F. asked why we did not apply
our theory in regard to cutting hay to
our fodder corn which BILL II. is now
cutting up, and the ears of which is just
in the milk. Our reply was that if We
had our way it would be so, but our
scientific farmer friends, chemists, and
such people tell US that in order to get
the best results or the most strength
from fodder corn, it should be cut just
when the ear is in the milk, at which
time there is more saccharine matter in
the stalk than at any other time. But
really our time would be to cut when
the ear was just beginning to harden,
and was too hard for roasting ear, and
just before the blades begin to deaden
and fade, and since our conversation
with ]. c. F. we notice that PETER
COLLIER, the chemist of the Agrlcul-
tural Department, Washington City,
says that the proper time TO cut sorghum
is when the leaves begin to die-then
the best results are obtained in sugar.
So we have been thinking all the time,
and next year we shall cut our fodder
corn later.
Some of our wool growing friends
Of Washington county, Pa, have been
holding little meeting or caucus, for
4he purpose ofadvising the Tariff Com
mission, which is now travelling around
the country, in regard to the tariff on
wool. They have appointed commit
tee to wait upon the Tariff Commission,
and, in the language of the resolution
adopted, "lsy the facts and the claims
of the wool growing interests before
them. Do the wool growers Of the Pan
Handle have any facts and claims to
lay before this commission? The Wash
ington county invite Others to unite
with them. The committee appointed
belong to 10th political parties, although,
of course, it cannot represent all the po-
lhieal parties just now in Pennsylva-
mia. ~
Those in charge Of the harvest home,
or picnic, in this county, have at last
named day and place-the 18th of Sep
tember, on McGrsw's run, about X
miles above Valley Grove Station. It
will be basket picnic and exhibit of
grain, fruit and vegetables, and any
machinery that our agricultural imple-
ment dealing friends may choose to,
show. Notice later on. J.D. We