Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-20

might be better potato than the early
rose, but there never has been yet,
there are more productive varities. Ii
seems to us that farmers in planting
their potatoes should look to their pro-
ductiveness. A few early potatoes are
all right, but we eat the most of our
potatoes in the eleven months when
the early potatoes are out OF season. 1t
Is only q few weeks that we relish the
early root. The early rose has marked
an era in potatoes, but is it not time that
we should have change, and a more
productive tuber?
THE PROPER TIME FOR A FAIR
is, we suppose, in the latter part OF the
summer, but as fairs are now, one of the
principal features OF fair is the agri-
cultural nlschinery. The season for
using harvesting machinery is all over.
The agent or manufactures takes great
pains in showing his machine, but
when the time comes around again for
using the machine nearly a year has
elapsed, and the farmer has forgotten
all shout it.
For the benefit Of farmers who desire
to make an intelligent purchase OF q
n over, reaper, binder, etc, fair in the
81 ring woulp be of great value. Cattle,
sheep, horses, hogs, etc, could also be
shown TO advantage. In fact every
thing except pumpkins, beets, etc.
s eep shearing would then be over and
sheep would show better.
From the Hjts6andman we learn that
the Elmira Farmers Club has arranged
o trial Of farm implements, to be held
Wednesday, April 18th, to begin at 9
o'clock and continue until the tests are
completed. The trial will be princi-
pally of plows, harrows, and cultivators,
drills, seeders, and such other tools and
| implements as are brought into requisi-
| ton by spring work. But all other
| farm tools and machinery may be put
on exhibition, and such attention will
| be given them as the occasion may
permit. Seeds and nursery stock, me-
| chanical devices, in short, any and all
! matters attaching to the business OF the
| farm, will have due consideration, and
entries from every department Of in
| dustry connected with the farm, the
| garden, the orchard, the stables, or the
! animals, are invited. The prime OBJ
! iect of the meeting will be to place be-
fore farmers means of information not
| otherwise easily accessible, while, as q
| urged that manufacturers and dealers
! who participate in the work will thus
| be enabled To extend S1les, and especl-
ally to enlarge acquaintance, thereby
establishing basis for future tran5ac-
| tons.
ito this was added q sheep shearing,
blowing match, etc, the exhibition
would be of greater Use to farmers gen.
orally than our fall fairs.
GOOD SEED.
This is the season when the table of
the editor, particularly the editor of the
agricultural paper, is filled with seed
catalogues, from some of which he Is
supposed to be able to tell the reader OF
his paper where to send for seed, and
from the quantity of seed circulars and
catalogues going through the mails, the
present season, it is supposed everybody
" i'll get what seeds they want. Among
Others We have u package of seeds and
q series of annual catalogues from the
firm of Hiram Sibbey & Co., who got
such an advertising last fall rs owning
and running the largest farm i'll the
world, description of which WAS pub
lishcd in more than half the papers Oi
the country.
SEED CORN.
A choice Of seed should be carefully
made of whatever kind. The coming
season is likely to be one of great dIsap-
pUintment in the matter Of corn. Rtpen-
ing as it did late last fall, and before
the kernel was thoroughly dry, 1t was
liable to be frozen in the shock or in
the crib. The Ohio State Board sf Ag-
riculture offers to test any samples sent
them. We have no such board in our
State, or even an experiment station,
as they have in New York, but any
farmer can test his own seed corn by
taking q few sample grains from the
corn which he intends to plant and
trying their growing qualities in box
of earth placed along side of the kitchen
or even the parlor stove.
EFFECT OF THE WOOL TARIFF.
1t is very hard to tell just how the
late change in the tariff will effect the
wool growers. Some of the highest
prices obtained by growers in this
country were when the tariff was low
est-we believe, except war times Not
| outstanding the reduction Of the tariff
wool is likely to rule higher the coming
season than since 1879. This Is not
| owing to the tariff, but in spite of the
| tariff. Good wool, such as Is grown in
| this section, Is scarce. AS near as We
| can figure the result of the recent
change in the tariff schedule on fine
woods, such as come in competition with
ours Y and NX and delaine will be to
allow such wool to come in fiOm three
to tour cents cheaper than they have
been brought in under the old schedule.
The wool market still rules strong both
in this country and in England.
HOW ARE SHEEP AND OTHER STOCK
In this section they have generally
passed through the winter we'll. 1t has
not been so in the West, aRd even as
far south as Texas. A special from
| Groesbeck, Tex, says that three snow
| storms have visited that section this
winter, an unheard-of thing in that lat
! itude. Heavy rains, sleets and SHOWS
/ are following each other, and the north
/ wind blows colder anu harder and
| longer than in the winters previous for
forty years. AT least one-fourth of the
| cattle and one-third Of the sheep of this
| and adjoining counties are dead, or will
| die during this spell. To-day is the
second sunshine day We have had this
year.
France is officially credited with 49,
OOO, 600 hens, and the production of eggs
is estimated at S4S,000,0O0. Inc total
value of eggs, hens, capons, ducks,
geese, turkeys and young chickens
amounts to the astonishing sum Of $50, :
600, 900 per annum.
The State Of Maine has forty-nine
cheese factories, with an average of l07
cows to each factory. Last year the
total product of all the factories was
ESQ, SS4 pounds Of cheese, for which the
average price received was twelve and
one-b half cents per pound.
Save al yorr bones on the farm and
cover them with ashes snd dampen the