Morris tribune., 1883-05-30
FARM NOTES.

The National Live Stock Joarn u,
says if COWS must Craze, they should
have pastures on whic,l the feed is
plenty, and accessible with the least
possible amount of labor. But it is
not profitable to have cows subsist
entirely by grazing, especially where
land has much value, because it
requires so great an area to support
them. There is no way i'll which
grounds yields so little food as in past
uring. The surface may be COVERED
ever so tiickiy with grass, yet produce
but little food, because the growth Is
so frequently interrupted and put back
by the injury done by constant crop
ping. AS much food will grow Oh one
acre, where it is allowed to grow with
out molestation, as will grow on three
acres when mutilated by being bitten
of every few days, the circumstances
being in otherrespects the same. The
costliness of the grazing system was
we'll illustrated by the statemet of
practical farmer recently in Il farmers
club. He said, when he began farm
ing, few years ag9, on 100 acres, he
cultivated forty acre., and had sixty
acres in meadow and pasture, and
found it difficult to keep stock equal
to twelve cows. He has now adopted
the plan of cultiyating and gathering
the food for his stock, and, rs Il con-
sequence he has reduced his grass land
to thirty acres, and finds no difficulty
in keeping the equivalent Of thirtysiX
cows, and has seventy acres of land to
cultivate instead of forty.
Out of the millions of bushels of
wheat sent. abroad this season, not a
pound was carried in an American
vessel. There were British, French,
German, Austrian, Spanish, Swedish,
and Italian, but not one American.
The small and insig nificant kingdom
of Belgium sent us ships to be laden
with five millions Of bushels. The
Italians took three millions, The Dutch
two millions, and the British between
twenty-siX and TWEEN y-seven millions.
That the foreign carrying trade should
vastly surpass the home marine would
of course be looked for, but it is re-
markable that out of more than forty
six million bushels exported, not a
solitary grain was taken away in an
American vessel, and it took over
thirteen hundred foreign vessels to do
the whole business. The only place
we beat foreigners in our marine is on
| the lakes-American Trade Journal.
Maine has forty-nine cheese factories
and those who know their value are
hoping for many more:
The wet weather may cause weeds
to spring up rapidly among the corn.
Every effort should be made to put
them down at once,
An Iowa farmer says that horses
may be prevented from cribbing by
mailing portion of sheepskin, wool
side uppermost, on the Manager.
Another uses WOODEN cloth, instead of
sheepskin, but sprinkles it with red
pepper. A third simply smears the
manger with kerosene. A fourth has
successfully tried feeding from box
Oh the floor, with no partition or
manger within reach. With the head
lowered to the box cribbing is inn
possible.
The Husbandman has well said
that farmers as class are rs seven
in ten in the community, and their
Importance to the social, commercial
and political well-being of the nation
is in every way equal to their nu-
nlercial preponderance, and equally
weighty are their duties and respons-
Utilities. But association, the master
agency of civilization, has not until re.
Gently been called to the aid of the ag.
riculturist. Association has perhaps
done more for the amelioration, I'M.
:. provement and strengthening of other
classes than any other one thing
But as yet its use is, to considerable
extent unknown among farmers
The preservation of straw for feed.