The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1883-07-20

does rarely, he puts J ton of bone on each
acre. Timothy is seeded with the wheat and
clover in the spring. Mr. Woolsey said so
bushels of corn per acre would have done %
years ago, but it won't do now. Agricultur
al implements and fertilizers have forced far
mers along. The speaker continued, pointing
to luXuriant fields of grass, that they would
do for beds for any person in winter time, so
continuous was the growth. These fields
stay in grass from To years, and cut 2
tons of hay to the acre. As they grow older
the growth is not SO heavy, but the hay is
finer His permanent pasture has been in
grass IS years. Cattle are on it i'll the time
from early spring until late in the fall. 1t
was in many places over waist high, and
would have cut n fine crop of hay. The
wheat average on corn stubble is about 30
bushels, last year il was 33. On iallow the
average has been A. The oat yield is 50 to
60 bushels per acre, and as high as 20 bush.
els have been made. Mr.. Woolsey said he
tried to get rich raising potatoes. The first
year he got Sl25 per bushcl, and was well
satisfied the next year he got but % 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-grazng he regards as the most prof
liable branch of farming, and he iattens from
1875 to $50 head annually. Drovcrs bring two
year.old steers to his barn from West Vir-
ginia. He buys the feeding stock at his barn
and sells the tattcd cattle Il &c. lie has
large scales there, and buys and sells by
weight Last year drovcr came up with a
drove of 1Ol head, and Mr.. Woolsey gave
him $4,000 for them on sight. When he is
ready to sell merchants come to his place
from New York and Philadelphia. Most of
his cattle ale shipped to Europe. Mr.. Wool
sey said that the West Virginia beef was the
best that got to the Baltimore market. The
cattle for tattening were bought last October
and sold from March to September. In sum
mcr the cattle get grass alone. In winter all
are stalled and fed grain. Mr.. Woolscy rails
ed a steer that weighed 2,700. The cattle
when sold weigh oman average ,40Op pounds.
He has put on as much as an average OF G0O
pounds in II months on one whole lot OF
cattle, but generally less. The cattle were
seen feeding finely, looking as if anxious to
take on all the fat possible. They are at
tanning greater weight this year on grass than
ever before, and the whole herd will easily
average 600 pounds. They are all three
yrar0ld steers. Some were pointed out TO
Mr. Woolsey as having the beautiful heads,
straight backs and rich colors of the Devons,
He said yes, and that some of the fancy
breeders pretended to object to Devon blood,
but railways told the drovers not TO stop in
the selection of his cattle ON account OF an
admiXture of Devon stock, because he liked
IT, There is much in the selection Of stock
for grazing, and several gentlemen i'll the
ncighborh00d stated they would be glad to
pay Mr.. Woolsey So per head to select their
tallening cattle, us they would make an addl-
lional 81 per head by having him do so.
Mr. Woolscy says it is the finest grass sea
sou ever seen in Hartford; that il is time for
the grass To begin to fail, but it is AS succu-
lent rs it was in May. All the grass fields
are booming. The prospect for the corn
crop is as good as Mr. Woolsey ever saw,
the wheat full average, oats unusually
heavy, potatoes rs good as can be. Mr.
Woolsey keeps Berkshire pigs. Mr.: Wool
sey has some grade Jerseys, descendants OF
an animal presented to him by Mr.. Enoci
Pratt. Mr.. Pratt and the gentleman who
raised the Jersey presented to MIR. Woolsey
noted breeder of such cattle, We're Ona visit
some time ago to Mr.. Woolscy. The grade
Jerseys were shown, and the breeder ofpurt
cattle, Mr. Woolsey states, said that Il cross
of Devon and Jersey were much better iol
milk and butter than the pure Jerseys, adding
that of course it did not do for him to make
this declaration in his own locality. Mr.
Wooscy has many followers in farming in
Hartford, and is generally looked up to IN ag
| ricuItura matters.