Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-27
FARM TALK.
Late Spring Work-Wealth an Fencing
Cooperation W.. Fighting-why Not
Begin PloWins-Yes, why Notr
By Our IgrlcNIturdI Editor.

Late Spring work-weaIth IN Fencing
Cooperation W.. FiEhting-why Not
Begin PlowinE-Yes, Why Notr
By Our agricultural Editor.
As usual in this climate winter ling
ers longer in the lap of spring, and
seems very slow in taking her departure.
The farmer has done but little spring
work. II is near the first of April, and
We know of no farmer who has a field
of sod plOwed. Some few have COM
meneed, not because the ground is
ready, but the time of year is upon us.
Arrangements have been made for a
large acreage of blowing this spring, in
daced by series of good crops for few
years, and young farmers who are TAX
ing hold of the plOw are full of vim and
enthusiasm, and feeling that they are
going TO show their fathers how it can
be done, and little more money made
than has been made in the past, and
indeed it is necessary for them to do
this to keep even with the world in this
expensive and go-ahead age.
All over the country, from the Terri
tories to the Eastern shore, complaints
come in of this backwardnesS in getting
spring work done-even the Texas
"OOI-5AOUSA says Ihal IL - hAiu Ou lis
lambs.
FANCY FARMING AGAIN.
We have often had occasion to speak
in these columns of the indirect good
resulting from the expenditure of money
in farming, that had been accumulated
in other ways. Often experiments are
made by wealthy men that canaot be
made by the ordinary farmer, yet when
the Press speaks of bringing the "ener-
gy and strong common sense that wins
a fortune" in some other business into
farming as an element Of success we
object. Ii is the money that brings sue
cess in farming ia bis case, and his for
tune is more apt TO have been made by
lucky hits than in any other way. Here
| is what the Press says:
at is always good thing for agri-
| culture to see men of intelligence and
energy, after acquiring fortunes in BUSH
ness, turn their attention to farming as
a recreation during the later years of
| life. 1t is good for them and good for
! the cause. The energy and strong COM
mon sense that wins q fortune in man
ufacturing or merchandising has good
| field before it in agriculture. Thousands
| of common farmers would do far better
than now with plenty of means at their
! command"
Alabama is to have a Department of
! Agriculture. Georgia has one of the
best in the world. West Virginia does
not need any. Her capacity for agri--
| cultural development is so great that
/ they would become overgro Gn or alb
! normal if she had department Ofagri-
| culture.
NEW VARIETY OF WHEAT.
Some Ofour exchanges speak of new
variety of wheat, with an immense
head, long stalks, kernels a large as
two or three ordinary grains of wheat,
light colored; tifty-eight bushels have
been grown to the acre, boards as large
as barley, and such. The long boards
drop of rs it natures. In spring-wheat
regions it is a spring wheat, and In
winter-Yheat sections, especially in the
East, it is a winter wheat. Prof. A. f.
Blount, of Colorado, who last year grew
| 100 kinds of wheat, writes US, ut GER
tainly is the most fascinating variety
| ever handled"
This certainly is the coming wheat.
| It is called the "Black- Bearded Centen-
| NAL" The HusbRdDldn says of the
prospect for wheat in New York:
"Wheat Just now has very unprom-
| ising look. Evidently it has Jared badly
| during the winter not yet ended. The
ground is still frosen and bare, wheat
EXPOSED to cold winds, and at this date
| brown, as if all the life had departed.
! Much will depend on the next four
weeks. If there frequent thaws, with
| subsequent frosts, the crop will suffer
severely, even if it be not already past
hope, q question to be determined soon"
The wheat in this section does not
look so bad as that, but all depends upon
| tho future. The hardest freeze on wheat
we ever had in this section was In April,
excepting, of course, the June frost oil
| 1889.
COOPERATION RECOMMENDED.
Our friends of the Philadelphia Press
will discourage cooperation, or the far-
mers working together in one column
and encourage il in another. Here Is
| what they say about the New lorR
milk and butter fight:
WIf the farmers of dairy section
would reap the greatest possible dement's
| from creanleries they should own anu
RIM them on the cooperative principe.
Then they can have all the profits from
| them, and can control prices as lar rs
thew car be controlled. The farmers OF
| Orange county, \. Y, are just now nav
inc a fight with the rascally New YORK
milkmen, and in the struggle they nnu
| tho Orange county creamerieS working
With the milkmen and aiding TO starVe
the farmers out. There Is no good rea,
con why the profits of creameries should
GO to q few shrewd individuals, ana the
mix PRODUCERS be compelled to sell 10
them at nearly starvation prices" :,
The wool-grOwers, of Ohio, have cali
ed q meeting for March so, at Column
bns for the purpose of considering the
Gravity of the present situation as re-
Cards the reduction of the tari1 on
SSooI Some of them are very hard on
tbe iiso-called National Wool Growers
Association" and propose TO eau q
| National convention to organize u real
| association, and
THE FARMERS ORGANIZATION RECoG-
MED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF AeNi-
Several wears ago, when the patrons
! of husbandry had acquired consluers-
HE influenee and members, ana were
| Gathering into their organlzatlon on
| tbis account many deadbeat dema-
GoUues. and deadweights generaily,
eommittee from their body asked some
favor from the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington City. Inc request,
| a very small one, was denied Win tue
very definite information that TINS
Denartment does not recognize Tue
Grange This seems to be all cnangeI,
now. We have lately received opecia,
Report No. So, from the aoove-nam.e s
RePortment, entitled 1.-THE Grange; its
a,;P;n nrovress and educational pur-
O Oosss by Hon. D. Wyatt Aiken, NJ. G.,
nom South Carolina" all gotten up in
H. grsyest pale green regulation ofthe
DN-eert 1ant MIR, Aiken is chairman