The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-05-13
LIVE STOCK NOTES.

The supply Of COW ponies In Texas Ia re.
ported as being greater than the demand,
with prices current at SO to $50 per head.
The world reports that It has 90 1856, eco
hogs; OF these the United States has 49,.
"0l GOO, Russia has 0,33c, 900 and Ger.
many and Austria have about 1000, 900
each. @ In
lsis the estimate OF an observing writer
that about IS percent Of all the cattle in
America are pure scrubs, with no infusion
Whatever OF good blood. A large proper.
ton OF the grades, too, are Of q very
superior type. 'l0'
Sheep droopings, ::compresaed into solid
cakes about two inches thick, are now pre-.
pared Tor horists' uae. It Ia claimed that
while 1t promotes growth in an extraordi.
nary degree 1t will not ipjurs plants, even
Il used immediately, and that the liquid
from 1t does not form crusts and shelter
Tor insects on the surface Of the pots. A
bag OF 100 pounds Is worth s3,ard the zane
In powder s. 50 f.. l.,-r' n
sheep, clover and pasture have done
much to make Michigan celebrated a. a
wheat.growirg State" says B. G.. Buell..
by persistent course of ieeding to clover
and pasturags by sheep, I think the land
Ia improved faster than by the rest and
non.stcGk systems, and besides there is 8
profit all the time accommodating from the
ahsep, IN advantage the others do not
have"
Writing from Auatralia about the sizs oil
stock ranches there and in America, Hugh
Cox says: 1.-THE email run au On contains
!3o,uO0 acres more than Mr.. Goodnixht's
Texas pasture. A friend OF miua owns l..
200 0OO head OF cattle and SEQ 600 sheep,
aud his property ia valued at SIS 600 600.
rhesa are Ac;s, 40 do not boast. of your
potato plota' In future, or you may hear
from me again." 900
Ot'sheep hushandry in Massachusetts,
Secretary RUSSELL Gays that it shows no ad.
vance, although the Society for the Pro-
motiou OF Agriculture has imported pure.
bred aheep and sold them for half their
cost. The cause, he aays, is the fact that
far ns.are aubiect to outrageoaa trespass,"
and further, that "sheep keeping must sut- |
fer I'LL dogs are put upon the SINE footing
as other animals, and their owners made
responsible for them"
49, eAPClkAAeAt uhue ny LIT. LAWeH, OF |
England, showed that an acre of rich pas.
ture in Leicestershire, produced 500 pounds |
OF Increase in the weight of fatteuing oxen
in six months grazing. It required 8 500
pounds OF clover bay, LOCO pounds Of corn
or oil cake, and 1000 pounds OF SEedes to
produce the same increase. This fodder
was considered equal in value to three and |
q half tons Of English hay. Neither soil |
nor climate in this country ia favorable for |
the maintenance Of such Pastures here.
The death Of Ira S. Todd, farmer in
Tolland, Conn, from CHAMBERS is reported. |
Todd purchased horse franz travelling
trader and essayed treatment Of the animal
for CHAMBERS by blowing smoke into his
nostrils and in other ways by which he |
was brought into close contact with the |
beast. 4 shor thine after, he had symptoms
resembling thcse OF pneumonia, and tinally |
had blotches and gatherings on his body |
and IN excessive nasal discharge. Physi-
Clans pronounced it CHAMBERS and their |
treatment was Intellectual, as the disease
was considerably advanced before they
we're called. A local veterinary surgeon
esya several such cases have occurred in |
Connecticut.