Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1883-07-25

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wheat Oh fallow, which he does rarely, |
he puts J ton Of bone on each acre.
Timoihy is seeded with the wheat and |
clover In the sprng. Mr.. Woolsey said |
so bushels ofcOrn per acre would have |
done 25 years ago, but it won't do now.
Agricultural implements and fertilizers
have forced farmers along. The speak
er continued, pointing to luxuriant
fields of grass, that they wonll do for |
beds for any person in winter time, so
continuous was the growth. These |
fields stay in grass from 4 to G years,
and cut tons of bay to the acre. a
they grow older the growth is not so
heavy but the hay is finer. HIS per-
manent pasture has been ln grass %
years. Cattle are on it all the time
from early spring until late in the TALL.
1t was in many places over waist high.
and would have cut fine crop of hay.
The wheat average on corn stuoble IS
about 30 bushels; last year It was 80.
On fallow the average has been 45.
The oat Weld is so to 60 bushels per
acre, and as high as 70 bushels have
been made. SIR. WoOlsey said he tried
TO get rich raising potatoes. The first
year he got 81 25 per bushel, and was
we'll satisfied; the next year he got but
25 cents per bushel, and stopped raising
IN quantities. He plants the middle OF
June, and thinks the Burbank the best
variety. He farms, in all, between
700 and 800 acres.
Cattle-grazing he regards as the most
profitable branch OF farming, and he
fattens from l25 to $50 head annually.
Drovers bring two-year-Old steers to
his barn from West Virginia. lie buys
the feeding stock al his barn and sells
the fatted cattle there. He has large
scales there, and buys and sells by
weight. Last year a drover came up
with q drove Of l0l head, and Mr..
Woolsey gave him IS 900 for them on
sight. When he is ready to sell mer.
chants come to his place from New
York and Pennsylvania. Most OF his
cattle are shipped to Europe. Mr..
Woolsey SAID that the West Virginia
beef was the best that got to the Balti-
more market. The cattle for fattening
were bought last October and soll from
March TO september. In summer The
cattle get grass alone. In winter all
are stalled and fed grain. Mr.. Woolsey
raised a steer that weighed 200. The
cattle when sold weigh on an average
!. 400 pounds. lie has put on as much
as an average of GOO pounds in Il
months on one whole lot Of cattle. but
generally less. The cattle were seen
feeding finely, looking as ianxious to
take on all the fat possible. They are
attaining greater weight this year on
grass than ever before, aud the whole
herd will easily average l,6OO pounds.
They are all three-y -year.old steers.
Some were pointed out to Mr.. Woolsey
as having the beautiful heads, straight
backs aud rich colors Of the Devons.
lie said yes, aud that some Of the fancy
breeders pretended to object to DeIo
blood. bat he always told the drover;
not 10 stop in the selection of his cat
tie -on account Of an admixture o
Devon stock, because lie liked 1t. Tier
ls much in the selection Of stock iOl
grazing, and several gentlemen IN tho
ghborhood stated they would b.
glad TO pay Mr.. Woolsey 81 per hea'
to select their fattening cattle, as the
would make an additional s. per hea'
by having him do 50.
Mr.. WoolseY says it is the fines
grass season ever seen 10 Hartford; tha
it IS time for the grass 10 begin to fall
but 1t IS as succulent as 1t was 10 May
All the grass fields are booming. Th'
prospect for the corn crop Is as good 4
Mr.. W0olsey ever saw, the wheat
full average, oats unusually heavy
, potatoes as good as can be. Mr.. WOO
sey keeps Berkshire pigs. Mr.. Wool
? sey has some grade Jerseys, descen
, dants of an animal presented to him b
Mr.. Enoch Pratt. Mr.. Pratt and Ia
q gentleman who raised the jersey pre-
sented to Mr.. Woosey, noted breed
l. er of such cattle, were on visit som
a time ago to Mr.. Woolsey. The grad
. Jerseys were sho Sn, and the breeder
pure cattle, Mr.. Woolsey states, sal
f that a cross Of Devon and Jersey wer
G I much better for milk and butter tha
= the pure Jerseys, adding that ot cour'
q It did not do for hlm 10 make this dc
G elaralon in his own locality. M
p. Woolsey has many followers IN iarmln
T.. in HarlorG, aud is generally looEed u
It to in agricultural matters.