Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-04-25
FARM TALK.
Spring Fairs-WooI Dealers-PerenniaI
Rye Grass-Roads, Etc,


SpriSg Fairs-WoOI Dealers-PerenniaI
Rye Grass Roads, Etc.
By Oar agricultural Editor.
SPRING FAIRS.
The implement trial and show of
tools OF the Elmira Farmers CLUB came
OF a. per appointment. The report of
the committee covers a page of the
HIS6dadman, and the Spring FAIR
seems TO have been a grand success,
and had everything in its favor-gOod
weather, q large attendance, and a
good show of machinery, and We VEN
ture to say that the practical results
flowing from this exhibition of ms
chtnery We're greater to that immedi-
ate community than any fair they have
ever held. Spring fairs and exhibitions
have been advocated in these columns
as the time for the proper show of ma
chinery and many kinds of stock, but
who is here To work it up? The Elmira
exhibition seems to have been a per-
feet bonanza for some of the implement
makers, one firm selling one hundred
cultivatOrs for cash, and many more or
dered. Who among farmers, who
among manufacturers or their agents
here are ready to go into a show of this
kind? or rather to get il up, for plenty
would go in after it was once started.
The wool dealers complain that they
have made bnt little money for the past
few years, yet at supper the other
night given TO some retiring wool
dealer, who got out of the business be.
cause there is no money in it, each plate
cost thirty dollars. A wool grower when
he pays thirty cents for his meal often
thinks he does not get the worth of his
money; yet the dealer complains that
the grower has been making it all for
the past few years.
And now come to the manufacturer.
Although the tariff has been fixed TO
suit him, and left the wool grower out,
who claims that they are losing and
doing losing business. Wool, indeed,
must be a hard thing to handle, as
every one loses who touches it, from
the grower to the tailor. We shall stop
then for we have not heard from him.
Tie English wool growers and dealers
also complain of losing money. Are
We class of grumblers?
PERENNIAL RYE GRASS.
On accoun. of the failure of timothy
and clover seed to grow, a cOrre5pon-
dent of the Elmira Farmer Club rec
Omeuds the sowing Of Perennial rye
grass. 1t stands the drOuth aud keeps
green during the winter If not pastured
TOO close-Here il some of his eXper-
fence. The hay, did not weigh, but
can guess pretty nearly by the number
of loads. | call the hay crop before il
was threshed, about five tons per acre.
1t was tangled, lodged mass, but not
hurt much by staining. as one would
imagine, being so heavy on the ground.
My cattle ate 1t readily after threShing,
and was only sorry when it was gone.
The seed yielded at the rate of q little
over sixty bushels of twenty-four
pounds per acre. How is that for grass
seed? Ii any members have doubts, let
them come and see for themselves, and
| think / can give ocular dem n
stration on these points. | likewise
have sold my surplus seed ut two dol
lars per bushel.
We do really need something better
for meadow tian
TIMOTHY AND CLOVER
for meadow, as well as pasture lands,
clover seed costing, as il has done this
spring, from SO to Sl2 per buShel, is an
extensive seed to SOW over the ground
with about as fair prospect OF never
seeing grain of it growing aud that
il viii ever produce crop, anu II COM
ing up in good shape it will only last a
wear or so as meadow or pasture.
Timothy is about Is uncertain, except
if coming up it will last longer
as meadow, but generally
one years pasturage kills II:
ROADS! ROADS! ROADS. AND MUD. g
The farming community that Is
blOckaded with mud from the time the
corn crop is gathered until the wheat
rrnp is made, suffers an annual loss that
is hard to estimate.
So saws the Ohio Farmer. Mud
from six to ten months of the year,
every farmer acknowledges the value
OF good roads, but is afraid TO help
build them for fear that his neighbor
may derive more benefit from it than
he will. The aggregate annual loss on
account of bad roads for ten years
would build brick houses and barns on
every farm, and it is direct loss from
which no benefit is derived, except
what little the blacksmith gets for re-
pairing broken wagons. Many horse
has his spirit dragged out of him pull
ing through the mud and up heavy
grades who could trOt over good roads
for many long year, after his bones
laid bleaching in the weather, ifhe had
a good road to pull the farmers ioai OF
produce out to null or market.
In Ohio they have been changing
their road laws from time to time for
many wears. But we have observed that,
let the laws be what they will all seem
TO depend at least upon the enterprise o'
the community in which the ROADS are
built or rather upon a few public spirit
cd citizens in the community, who are
ready and willing to spend their time
and money to give good roads start
EXPERIMENTS IN FEEDING COWS.
Bulletin SO of the New York Agrlcul'
turaI Experiment Station contains the
results OF experiments in feeding cows
with different kinds of food. The eX'
periments were made on tour jersey
I COWS, The feed used was OF SIX ulLler'
eat kinds or mixtures, viz: l. hsy
shorts aud meal. 2. Hay and shorts
3 Hay and gluten meal. 4. Hay and
| meal. 5. Ensilage and and meal. o
| Ensilage, DR.. Sturtevant, the DIRECTOR,
concluded his report as follows:
1t becomes plainly evident that IN the
case OF four Jersey cows under the TIA
as described:
I, The effect Of the shorts was very
favorable TO the richness Of the milk
and the amount of butter obtained
| therefrom.
. The effect Of the meal was neither
| favorable to rich milk nor the economy
| of manufacture of butter therefrom, ou
was favorable to the quantity OF NILE
yielded. os nm