Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-13
FARM TALK.
HcW Fares the Wool
OniIOOk-NOIiees and Grain Items-
The Storm and the sheep.


herd, tine sheep should have all been
under shelter. Now, that Is the CUES
ton. The tender-hearted man who has
sheep cannot bear to haze them run
out, and be almost makes hot-house
plants out OF them, while the farmer
who is only intent on making money
out of the sheep lets them run out to as
much hay n they can eat, aud, with 4
little grain, gets flock Ofsheep through
the winter that look as well as those OF
his te nder. hearted neighbor, who won
ders how they ever got through the
winter at all. And yet they can
run faster and jump higher than his
that have been almost as well cared for
as his own family, and illshear nearly,
ifnOt altogether, as much wool.
The sheep have generally come out of
the winter looking well, and seemingly
feeling better than the wool growers
who have been left in the recent
TARIFF TUSSI.E,
and complain that they have been be-
trayed in they house of their friends.
They figure that il will be 3 loss of
million a year to the wool growers Of
Ohio alone. 1t may look that way, and
still wool grown may have worse storms
than that to contend with, and beside,
the Western. wool grower Is looming up
with his millions of money made out of
his millions of sheep, which are con-
stantly increasing, aud We think that it
is only mater of time when wool will
be raised in such quantities in the West
that the wool grower will have to
change his tactics IN growing ard hand
ling his wool.
TIE OUTLOOK FOR WOOL
is good the coming. season, as far as
prices are concerned, which are now
fair in the East, owing to the scarcity Of
the staple. Prices would have adj
vanced several months ago hal it not
been for the tariff agitation and the
strainelstfOrts made by manufacturers
TO keep out of the market, but in spite
f all these and i'm the face of all, wool
had to advance.
The Drover's Journal, Of Chicago,
has the following Oh
THE SHEEP SUPPLY.
That the country is comparatively
"full of sheep" there is little doubt.
There are more sheep in the country
than ever before, and there is more de-
mand than at any previous time in the
history of the country. Whether the
supply and demand will be so regulated
as TO avoid disastrous fluctuations i'll
prices, remains to be seen; but the ill.,
dications are that holders will be too
anxious To realize on their stock and
will Overcrowd the market during the
spring months, when prices usually rule
highest of the year. There seems ID be
a great deal Of confidence among Old
sheep men in high prices for good sheep,
but our market reports have lately been
holding out some strong arguments i'll
favor Of holding sheep till they are in
good mutton condition; for prices have
been rather high for the best kinds,
whiiC'infUriOr To- fair and medium have
been extremely hard to sell even at low
prices. There may and probably will
be too many common IN fair sheep mar
keted this spring, but it is not likely
that the offerings of good muttons will
exceed the demand.
Armour x Co. and Swift d Co. are
taking large numbers of medium to
choice sheep for the dressed mutton
trade, and there has been marked in
crease in the demand from nearly all
sources.
There is no doubt that there are
enough and too many low grade sheep
in the country, and farmers aud feeders
will do well to hold back their sheep a
little until they are in condition fit to
pass for good mutton stock. The dan
rer seems to be that there will be too
many poor sheep, but there is not much
fear of an Oversupply of good stock.
SIULEN CATrLE TO ORDER.
And now there is q man out West
who takes the horns from all his cattle
large and small-as soon as he gets
them, with no more pain than pulling a
tooth. The cross old bull and the young
calf are served alike. The Texas long
horn and the Durham have no horns In
twenty-four hours after they reach this
mans farm, and they are not sick an
hour, nor do they lose q meal. 1t is
claimed that with the horns off two
rounds of beef can be made to grow
where one grew before, or with the
same feed twice as many cattle eau be
raised, without horns as with.
There are many things to be said IN
favor of muley cattle, but when such
things as these are put forward in their
favor, il does the cause of the muleys
no good. That greater number can
be put into stables and are less liable to
iniure one another, or other stock, make
the finest beef, &c, may all be true, but
do not go too far.
LATE AND EARLY PLANTING OF CORN
Think it was Waldo who asked i
anybody had tiled late and early plant
ing of corn, to see if there was any
difference in quality. Where one bali
of a field was planted early with yellow
corn and the other half planted late
with white corn, 1 remember that when
fed to hogs it took just six baskets OF
white to equal FIVE of yellow, but there
may have been a difference in the kinds
of corn to partially or entirely make the
| difference. One farmer in this county
says, if he gets his corn planted the first
week in May it always holds out in
weight when he sells it, but if planted
after the Goth, it is always light.