Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-05-19
FARM TALK.
How about Wool


Having incidentally mentioned wool
growing it has occurred to us that
Something might be said about the
prospect for wool the coming season and
the prices to be obtained. Ofthe latternO
man knoweth anything. Three pounds
of good washed wool may be bought for
a dollar, or two pounds, we cannot tell.
IL all seems to depend upon the amount
of fools that the wool trade send out to
buy, and how excited they get. Last
wear they started out.
TaIking b cts and Paid 40 cts,
They talk much the same this year.
Iastyear there was undoubtedly a large
stock of wool on hand in the eastern
market, particularly offoreign. This year
the foreign has disappeared, and cannot
| be imported except at a loss; domestic Is
scarce, i'm fact never was so well cleared
up in the wool growing sections, yet
| theN do say that manufacturers are full
| of wool, and have stacks of goods. This
story is slightly old, and has been used
before, bnt whatever may be the case,
wool is low and dull in the Eastern
markets, and according to the prices at
which the old stock of wool is being
sold out, buyers could not afford TO pay
over So to SO cts for new clip. But we
are inclined to think that they will pay
more than that all the same.
Do not Pasture Meadows
You cannot have pasture land and
meadow in the same field for more than
two or three years, at least. Farmers
| complain of their meadow land giving
out. Its because they pasture it early
| i'm the spring, and late in the fall. You
| connot have your cake and eat it at the
| same time. We havea piece of meadow
| that we never pasture, and the timothy
| and clover grow heavier and heavier
| each wear. 1t is best to not turn stock
| out too soon on any kind ofgrass land
The Massachusetts ROughDaansays:
MANY pastures are injured by feeding
before the grass has got high enough to
show green. 1t is much better to keep
both cattle and sheep to the barn until
the grass gets well started. BY doing so
it gives time for the land to get well
covered with growing vegetation. Thus
protected, the land retains the moisture,
and is kept in a condition to furnish
good feed throughout the season. If
pastures are not fed early it gives an OPP
portunity to SOW grass seed on the bare
spots and get the young plants well
started before the stock Is turned In.
When we understand how to better
care for our pastures We shall not only
keep our stock out until the grass has
got a good start but We shall be a. par
ticular to manure them as we are now
TO manure our moving lands, and thus
we shall be able to keep more stock to
the acre and keep them in better condl-
ton. How best to manage pasture lands
is one of the important subjects which
is now occupying the attention of intelli-
gent farmers
Why not Better Prices for Butter:
We are of the opinion that our
farmers do not get enough for their but
ter, or rather their wives do not
The State of Iowa is allowed to carry OF
the prize in butter making, while this
Ohio Valley country should be the best
butter producing country in the world,
growing as it does the best grass, and
having more and finer Geld water
springs than any country under The sun,
| Why don't our butter and cheese have
world wide reputation?
tits Our own Fault,
We do not put our butter to market
properly, we sell our butter much a
we sell our wool, good and bad, dirty and
clean, all going at the same price. Inc
careful housewife has no Involvement
to put up a prize article; the huekster
comes along and pays the same price
for all, or makes but little difference in
price. Now and then there is an excep-
ton when a farmer engages" his but.
ter for year at stipulated price, and
packs it into town, every week. "A
| little cooperation among neighbor;
would save great deal of time and
each could help the other to make a
little more money, and each one make
a reputation for his or her own butter
and help to establish the reputation
of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Nir'
ginia butter, as we have for our wool.
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