Daily Republican., 1883-10-22
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EARLY FATTENING.

comparatively early age has bee
shown in marked degree during re
"ent years. A few years ago it wa
common to see four.year old steer
being fattened now such are rarely
found in the herds Of leading feeders
Some prominent Western feeders hav'
decided that they will not keep steert
even unit they are thr-e years old.
goodly number of yearlings are now
fattened even in the West. The mos
profitable practice will depend some
what on whether the feeder rears or
purchases his stock. There are sections
Of country in which it is still possible
to buy, a. reasonable prices, fair three
year old steers. 1t is not at all certain
that such cattle will not give more
profit tor feeding than would two year.
olds Of like grade.
1t Is doubtful If the sellers will make
much by keeping them until three years
and then selling them to be fattened
But there are a good many farmers who
rear few steers, but think themselves
unfavorably situated for fattening, OF
who find themselves In want of money,
and no sell cattle they had designed t.
fatten. 1t is pretty evident it will not
pay, on high-priced land, to keep steers
until they are three years old before
commencing the fattening process. But
where steers of this age can be bought
at fair price, they will give good re-
turns for feeding At the close of the
season for pasturing there are often a
good many fair young steers offered for
sale for as little as they can te raised
for
WHAT AN OLD FARMER SAYS.
This is the advice OF an old man who
has titled the soil for forty years
am an old man, upwards of three
score years, during two scores of which
| have been rich and have all | need ;
do not owe dollar have given my
children good education, and when
am called away shall leave them
enough to keep the wolf f.Om the door.
My experience has taught me that :
l. One acre of land well prepared and
we'll titled produced more than two
which received only the same amount of
labor used on one.
2. One COW, horse, mule, sheep, or
hog, we'll fed, is more profitable than
two kept on the same amount necessary
to keep one well.
B. One acre of clover or grass is worth
more than two of cotton where no grass
Or clover Is raised.
4. No farmer who buys oats, corn, or
wheat, fsdder and hay, can keep the
Sheriff from the door to the end.
8. The farmer who never reads the
papers, sneers at hook farming and i'm
always has leaky roof,
poor stock, broken down fences, and
of bad seasons
6. The farm r. who Is above his busi.
ness and entrusts 1t to another to man
age, soon has no business to attend to-
7. The farmer whose habitual bever-
age is cold water is healthier, wealthier,
and wiser than he who does not refuse
10 drink
HOW TO FERTILIzE FRUIT TREES.
Here and there Cd all farms and in
most fruit gardens will be seen an oc
,asional tree or grapevine, which !
seems to lack vigor-does not grow
well, and yet seems to have no particu.
ar disease. The probabilities are that
he tree is dying of starvation and |
l eds liberal supply Of food. When
you give it this ration, do not pile a
Dad of manure around the trunk of
he tree or tn body OF a crap vine
That is just the place where it will
10 the least good. Nearest the trunk
# the tree, the roots are all large.
The fibrous roots--the feeders. are
lrther off near the ends of the roots.
'hese only can take up the nutri-
nent.
1t Is always safe to assume that the
oots extend as far from the trunk in
very direction as do the limbs of the
rec, and to properly fertilize, spread
he manure all over that area. Then
Ork 1t in and you have done a good
,ork and done it we'll. If some disease
as began its work on the tree you
ill put the rec in healthy, vigorou
the better enabling it to
uccessfu'ly contend against It's enc.
lies. We have seen numerous old
ear and apple trees, bearing poor and
narled fruit, which the owners
onsid r of no value, but which such
'eatment as we have outlined above
'ould restore to their orig ginal useful
esS.
THE COMPOST HEAP.
The Massachusetts Ploughman among
ther things talks sugges lively about
1e compost heap, saying that it is a
ood plan to have one tor the benefit of
ne farm. The compost heap may be
,ade of road scrapings the scouringsI
t bitches, the cleanings of ponds,
lippings from banks and hedgerows,
crapings and sweepings of farmyards,
arden refuse, house refuse, and indeed
II sorts of rubbish may be added to a
Dmpost heap. Even weeds will decay
nd then help to swell the material for
nriching the land. The heap should
be covered over with q !
Iyer OF lime, and layer of salt now
nd then is also good addition. These
Materials are beneficial in themselves,
nd keep weeds from seeding on the :
p of the heap. The compost should !
turned over from time to time, and u
hen well mixed the land may be
ressed with it either in spring or
BRAN. la
Bran, as it Ia now made, consists al.
ost wholly of the husk of the grain, b
I'd Is rich in oil and in phosphates. v
ut 1t Is not 40 good feed as when the c
ner husk of the grain is mixed with o
This is sometimes called shorts, and t.
metimes coarse middlings. This, q
liked with the bran, makes excellent d
cd, as it contains gluten and starch. ci
,r dairy cows 1t is best Of all food for
milk, but for butter it Is bet
r to mix a third part Of oornmeal or
tton seed meal, or both. with the bran S
d middlings. A moderate ration of |,
is mixed feed is three pounds daily ~
full ration IL six or eight pounds. 1t Il
II pay to use this even for cows on "
stures when rich milk is desired, az it Il
rgely increases the quantity of cream
the milk. 1t may be fed to the cows
y, or may be given to them with some
ort grass or clover, mOistened q lit.