Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-11-27
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Thomas Christopher. who owns fiae
stock farm near StauehtoRs has nov
about sixty bead Of cattle on the place,
eighteen Of them being cows ands heif.
ers, haIf-crade Sh0rthorna, also q three
ycar-oId quarter grade male Shorthorn.
He raises seventy fivs TO 100 head o1
hogs each season, fatteninR them on
clover and grain, a. IL 10 Is months old,
for the Seattle market. He win raise
abcut 800 tons in root cFops, and has put
Up 175 tons Of hAy thia season. III. No
Mahon pat mp about 100 tens Of timo-
thy clover hay. In his pastures ara
thirty head Of fine fat cattle. He SAYS
that last year be sold eight two-year-olde
that dressed from 6l5 to 40 pounds
each. g
John Gsva reports his Weld of rota-
toes at 800 bushels per acre. He planted
Garnet Chilis and Vermonts.
James Boyd says he planted three
pounds of Parsons Prolific last spring,
from seed obtained from Des Moiues.
Iowa. and that they produced 800
pounds OF potatoes.
Mrs. @. Ross has small bat very pro-
ductivs garden. full of choice. LARGE
beets. cabbaees. carrots, etc. A fine
specimen OF field pumpkin measure d
nve feet m circumference. and squash
two feet long and over three feet in cir
conference. -
J.B: Hewitt Is the owner Of foar-
year old thoroughbred Shorthorn bull.
Duke, sired by Msxurka's Duke No. 4.
6rsd ~ N. b. Ssurges, and imported BY
Hewitt from California. Duke's oirt is
seven feet six inches, and measures nine
feet fodr inches IN length, hight i've
feet two inches, dam, "Cherry,n thor
oughbred but not recorded. She shows
q fine milk and butter record. The
record kept for six months shows 1917
pounds as the best days milking; BEST
week 49, ponds; best four wee KS 1910.
or "a pounds l04 ounces per day; total
for "a weeks. 1884 pounds, or 81 bounds
4 ounces per day for that time. Mr.. II.
says that after ten months milking. the
COW still has record of one pound of
butter per day. He also owns in ali
thirty-tvo head OF thoroughbred and
grade Shorthorn cattle; also nearly two
hundred head of sheep. among them
two tine yeariine Cotswoid bucks. bouuht
of ID. Craig, OF Marion county. OREGON
One of the bucks took premium at the
Oregon State Fair last year. Mr.. IA.
showed the writer two specimens of
sugar beets grown in his field. One of
them measured 2S5 inches in circumfer
ence, and weighed without top q lbs.
The ether was nearly as large. Thew
were set out May LIST, and were when
pulled less than fve months in orowinp.
The yield this season will be fully up 10
that OF last, when two and one half
acres produced upwards of SEVENTH. tvo
too, ,,nd and 20 =. 9 sanoy ioam' Dot
mad A' 'A1 pais VI - was We'll man.
0snr;. M,,,.
~ ~. - ~ on pul X aoout noo Tons
- = 49, aa' - - ooNs, ano furnishes mix
h has 4. .id ao oh = nis nsi2nbornood.
h;e 49,. - al aooo. ~ need OF cattle on
sn -. p.aoS' nnu usually raises 5u head OF
G,; Saun yoas.
- 49, DIos.' iessees on the Stew
4 ."a -, pus up ABOUT ioV tons OF hay.
a. - ss"- .no oaIry connected with the
t pse0' sues iniix 10 tne cheese fac
s o a. n~no. Er. stewart IS
o ~. sss onnR hne country residence to
vs. Ss
al. % Maooooks owns 81 head OF good
os.o, :ome oI tnem work oxen. One
% ga e psn OF tne oxen, ne says, measures
e.e.. ieet siRn. inches IN Rirtb, and his
.,ase c,Sns iees seven inches in girth.
q lnong sne oxen are three yoke of three,
car oh.s anu Two yoke OF two year Odds
nasoaeu Ven 10 color and size. Mr. M.
I,aass specially OF Raising. buyinR and
ueaune 10 WORK cattle. Until recently
no was also engaged IN dairying, and
sept % Slows Tor that purpose, but has
iatSiy soto on ali but five of them.
Y. NJ. van Doren. L. M. and an extern
slve mop grower at White river, owns
we nea1 OF half grade Peroheron horses
bfeo aho raised on his farm. He is also
engaged ID sheep raising, and says that
,os WOOL ne prefers a cross between the
Mo..no ana TIE common sheep, but for
no.'on sue Cotswoid cross with COM
.non snsep, rs the result is larger AMI
MAJ ana one Tor which he gets from the
o4ss1ers . TO 50 pcr cent. more than
TOT toe osner cross or for common sheep.
LAS, year, Mr: Van Doren having no.
tsceo IN the Farmer and Dairypsaa a
favorable reference to some fine sheep
eeionRing to DIR. James Withyoombe Of
hiis6oro, Or, went to look at them,
and ooaght pure bred Cotswold eve
and Two Merino bucks, and says he is
very well pleased with his purchase.
Inis season the two Merinoes sheared
l5A and lsA pounds respectively. and
the Cot:wold Is pounds.
y. r. mess runs q dairy of ten COWS
and reports the present yield of butter
al 70 pounds per week. In churning a
revolving box charn is used. the motive
power being an ovsrshot wheel turned
oy the water from brook coursing its
way Through trough resting under the
caves of his dwelling house.
Samuel Sloan has lately purchased a
yeariina brown Swiss bull, imported
from Connecticut. This animal in gen.
erai appearance resembles Jersey, and
Is q ans animal. This breed of cattle
Is not very common in this country.
Other reports are as follows: Martin
Nelson, nine cows, put up 30 tons hay;
Il bow 10 tons; Niels Anderson "A tons,
81 acres IN carrots, turnips and pota-
toes, etc. Has five COWS, memorandum
pounds Of hnt,sr f,o"o Jana Io,Stn
gust 3Oth: Henry Adams. eleven COWS.
nine of which are two year.olds. ali
coming into milking condition from
May LIST until June. Has 1000 pounds
of butter on hand during that time. h.
sides that used by himself and several
hired hands. Some of the cows ara
grade shoYthorns. He put mn I5O tons
hay. p. @. Hayes, 60 head of cattle. 20
of them COWS. 4. O'Brien, I6 COWS; he