The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-11-09
1--WE STnCK

The highest price ever paid for Jer-
sey (S5, 100 is said 10 have been given
for the bull SIR George at recent auc-
ton sale.
The agricultural department at Wash
ington estimates the shortage of the
hog crop in the great hog raising states
as follows: ain Kentucky the decrease
from last year, as returned by our cor
respondent, is 25 per cent; 90 ia Ohio;
% in Indiana; 81 in Illinois; 20 IN Iowa
80 in Missouri. The decrease is but
per cent in Kansas and 2 in Nebraska. !"
1t also says there is q small decline in
the south and in the middle states. The
Drover's Journal, Chicago. says we have
every indication for two months past, of
a short hog supply, as the extreme high
prices have failed 10 bring to market
anything beyond q meagTe supply.
Great efforts are being made now in
the hog raising districts, to increrse the
supply as fast as possible.
Most sheep get ali their permanent
teeth when between three and
four years old. An authority says
"In the sheep, as in the OK, all the tenn
Porary inciso's are up at a month old,
rs well as the first, second and thiId
moiars At one year old the two cen
trail Incisofs are changed and replaced
by permanent teeth, and the fourth and
fifth molars are up. Six months later
the two lateral, central and sixth molar
appear. At two years ana three months
the lateral permanent incisors are cut,
and the first, second and third molars are
permanent. At three years old corner
incisors are shed, and shortly aiterwaTd
all the permanent teeth are in the
mouth"
The wisdom of turning stock into
stubble fields 10 pastuIe is questioned by
many fe"mers, and their objections TO
the practice have considerable force, un-
less clover has been sown on or with the
u -ain, and even then is not advisable IN
less the young plants have got good
S. art-that is, obtained a strong hold in
the soil. The stock usually turned into
the s.uDble fields consists of hogs, the
object being to utilize the grain that may
be left on the z. ound. Where grain has
been allowed 10 stand after it is ripe and
much Of it is shattered 10 harvesting, it
is not amiss to turn swine on the stub
BILE to Utilize the shattered grain, but it
is advisable to provide them at the same
time with green food sufficient TO pre-
vent a1y min 'ious effects that may arise
fcom their eating too much hard, dry
grain There viii be little danger from
l0tS SpuFCS II luSEc Is Clover among tue
stubble, for the swine will be certain to
eat enough clover 10 prevent engo-ge-
ment with gain. But in case of the
presence of green food, the benefit de-
rived comes mainly from the clover, and
not from the grain Cleaned from the
stubble-Prairie Farmer.
In feeding for beef the notions of
each animal should be coBsulted-his
preferences, likes ard dislikes. The
object of feeding usually is to get the
animal TO eat ali that he viii digest
we'll Hence, a variety should always
be at hand, and the ra;ions should be
varied by feeding cooked, soaked or dry
meal, as the case may be, with hay and
roots. Tale great care not TO feed aud
nd in case of over fe ding let starva-
lion be the cure. Thus the animal will
soon take to feeding again, but will be
less likely TO fall OF much in flesh than
if "physickedn
Push faitening hogs forward US rapid
ly as possible. Keep them warm and
clearly. Charcoal broken fine ard mix
ed with tlIe cooked feed is an excellent
regulator and tonic, aiding digestion,
and promoting fattening TO such an ex-
tent that it is hard to believe Ii does not
cerx-a q FDo6