The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-09-13

To make cheap pork you must feed early
Il will as rule take double the food "a
make pound in December than 1t will In
September.
I For every cent lost on account Of the
Jerseys smaller carcass, there are two
cents gained on account OF her better but
Ter and larger annual yield.
Farmers want Holstein and Ayrshire
cattle for the general milk and cheese sup
ply, Short. Horns and Hereiords for their
beef. but the country wants the Jersey Tor
her butter.
Americans are the greatest butter.eating
people OF the world. This is one reason
why the export Of butter does not increase
30 rapidly as its manufacture, and why the
price is maintained 80 high as 1t is.
The price Of beef cattle, says the Chey-
enne (Wyo.) Transporter, still has q down
ward tendency, and 1t looks as II the cattle
boom was nearly ended. Stock cattle, how
ever, are still holding firm, but few chang
ing hands.
Mr.. Charles Glib says that in Russia the
finer varieties Of plums are raised by plant
ing the trees at an angle OF forty.dve de-
grees or lower and bending them down be.
fore snow falls in winter, which then covers
and protects them completely.
Washington Territory promises to raise
great quantities Of hops. Sixty farmers in
the Puyallup Valley last year raised 800.
900 pounds Of this cured article. In King
and Pierce counties there are ! LOO acres
bristling with poles, and the business is
rapidly increasing.
The Jersey SOW oakland's Cora, owned
by Yalanery E. Fuller, OF Hamilton, On
tario, has furnished the following amount
OF milk, cream and butter in thirty-one
days Total weight OF milk, 725 pounds s
ounces; total weight OF cream. PIG pounds:
total weight OF butter (unsalted), 81 pounds
81 ounces.-AmaicaH Veterinary Review.
A correspondent OF the IoVa Homestead
suggests that the best means for insuring u
good color for butter is to feed each COW a
pailful Of corn.meal mush, warm, each day,
the corn to be OF the yellow variety. He
says the increase in the quantity OF milk
and butter will pay the cost Of the meal,
and the rich color will be secured without
expense.
Thomas JefEtrstn was the first to clearly
state that the pillow must consist Of two
wedges, one to act vertically and the other
laterally and in curves 30 that the iurrow
may rise and turn over continuously and
smoothly. In paper to the French 1nsti-
tute he attempted by mathematics to solve
the problem Of the tru0 surface Of the
mold board.
At an auction sale OF imported rams and |
ewes by the Massachusetts Society for Pro- |
noting Agriculture, birmingham. July 81. |
lao animals were sold at prices ranging
from Sl3 to SOL for rams and S. to S26 for |
ewes-about half what the stock cost, as it |
was the purpose Of the Society that they |
should be well distributed among the farm
ers OF the State.
Green food for young hogs is strenuously
advocated by the Indiana Farmer. The |
most important reason for it is to develop |
the ailmentary organs, and the reason Is |
an excellent one. The stomach Is the mill |
for grinding the concentrated food upon |
which the animal is to be finally fattened,
and 1t should be large in capacity and in
vigorous working order.
The price OF apples, dried in eyaporators |
and bleached, is so much higher than that |
Of the best dried by the old process, that |
the latter cannot be protitably followed. In |
some large fruit-growing localities nearly
every farmer has an evsperator, and there |
should be at least one in every neighbor.
hood. The "evaporated fruip commands |
double the price Of the sun.dried.
The experiments OF Wolfe and others
at German experiment stations show that
a horse weighing 100 to 1900 pounds
would eat from % to 2T4 pounds oil hay II, |
no other food were given. With grain 20 |
to % pounds was usually eaten by working
horses Of that weight. Lighter horses
would not need quite so much, but We can
find no date OF experiments with horses
weighing less than 1000 pounds.-Country
Gentleman
There is a point in sowing wheat which
deserves attention. 1t is that OF the depth |
Of sowing. On mellow land much Of the
seed is buried too deep for successful
termination and gowtb, So experiment s
nave determined. One and one.half inches
in depth seems to be the best for wheat,
hut varying from one to two inches seems
to meet all Requirements. 1T will grow il
planted deeper, but not 80 quickly, and il
buried shallow does not obtain sufficient |
moisture Il the ground is all dry.
What They nreGoing 10 Do About II.