The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-05
AaRIOULTURE.

AGRIOULTURE.
CABE OF You've STooK. We plead
with the farmer for more tender care
aud comfortable quarters for young
stock. There is not only humanity in
it, but money. During the first year
the foundation is laid for the mature
animal. If It Is dwarted the first win-
ter, 1t will at maturity be only q dwarf
ed scrub. The time to make large
frames is the first year, and without
frames no profitable superstructure can
be reared And the Iowa farmer is COM
pelled to raise the largest and finest
beeves, or quit the business, The
plains and mountain valleys of the Ter
ritories can raise second.cIass stock
cheaper than we can. HaYing plenty
of tame grass and grain, I'VE can produce
a superior article, which will always
bring It's full value in New York, Bos-
ton, Philadelphia or Europe. The de-
mand for sup ,rjor beeves Is rapidly in
oreasing, and it is evident the supply
will never meet the demand. TINS
brings us back to our subject, Take
care tenderly of the young stock, for ut
tins season only can the foundation be
laid for the beeves Iowa must depend
On for the future.
A GERMAN writer calculates that q
single grain Of wheat producing fifty
grams the subsequent season, and each
year resown, would in the twelfth sea-
ron produce enough To feed all the peo,
pie in the world for generation. The
estimate of fifty grains from one seed is
theoretically not too much, rs it. is cften
exceeded by single grains carefully sown.
But in practice we find that the average
sowing of one and half or two bushels
of seed per acre produces q crop of ten
to forty bushels, which at the best is
not much more than twenty five grains
for each seed.
ONE Of the largest silos in Europe ia
said to be in France, on the property of
M. Vicomte Arthur de Cheseiles, in the
Department of the Olse. In this is de-
posted the produce Of ITO acres. The
sl!o is descrlbed as an oblong shed, roof
ed with tiles 72 yards III length, g.
yards wide and 4 yards high, forming
an admirable Dutch barn, under which
a gre at portion of the cereal p:o lut Q of
the farm is stored ut time of harvest.
The floor, instead Of being level with
the ground, is sunk at out II feet, and is
paved and drained. In this great pit is
stored the ensilage.
SHEEP will endure severe cold if kept
dry; but exposure to storms, either ram
or snow. is very hurtful. The water
remains i'll the wool. and in M atmos-
phere little. if any, above freezing, it
chills the body long time. 1t is for
this reason that III open winter is gen.
orally unfavorable f)r feeding sheep. If
kept housed they ure too warm, their
appetite fails and they lose flesh, no
matter how fed. The coarse wooled
sheep are more impatient of wet than
the line wooled, tho heavy, oily gum on
the wool OF the latter keeping the water
from penetrating the skin.
WHEN you sell off the turkeys don't
sell al the largest and keep only the
small, late Matched broods. Before you
sell or kill q single turkey, select the
very best for next seasons breeding
stock. Sometimes it l good policy to
keep the late turkeys through the win.
ter and send them to market in March.
They will grow right through the winter
''ho turKeys,good ones, always command
good price during the latter part of
February and in March.
THERE is no animal 80 easily choked
as pig; and there are undonbtedIy
many cases in which men have poured
mixtures fearlessly Into the mouth of q
SCI Gaming pig, but only to feel O dead
weight Oh their hands, and see the Door
anlmalstretched lfeless Mt their feet. As
6 usetu purgativo for pigs, we NAV
mention coupe of croton buaps, bruis.
@ and mixed with the food. Nitre and
sulphur Are among the remedies often
OF service. and easilY administered.
WHEN pigs do not thrive and try tc
eat gravel or earth it is symptom of
indigestion. They are PROBABLY over
fed. Reduce their food one half. Give
two pigs half pint of sweet oil or lin
seed oil IN the 1ood daily for two or 3
days, and as they recover gradually give
them little dry corn in addition to their
1000. Some charcoal would be of sar-
'>>'oS '>A'>~ Aa"J w bANoA lIStucuCly,
T1IE valuation of sheep mn 10 in the
highlands of Scotland has reached a
point which even old fockmasters have
not seen surpassed. Sellers are often
astonlshed at the prices tn y receive,
while buyers are paying prices at which
they would have been appalled, year
ago. This is especially true of desira-
bile breeding stock, while the boom OK
tends through all grades CT decent NUT
ton sheep.
In doing up wool the fleece should be
put mp 30 as TO be comparatively loose.
light and easy to inspect and handle.
Lay the fleece on the table, turn in the
head, tail and fianks. and roll it up.
commencing at the tail end. Tie with
two strings to keep the roll in place,
and then one about the ends. The slrings
can be laid in grooves sawed into the
folding platform, 30 that the feeue can
be tied quickly.
THE greater part of tho soil of Eng
land has been under cultivation for n
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