Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1885-06-22
|AGRICULTU R AL
DOES FARMINo PAY?

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DOES FARMING PAY?
At . meeting Of Liberty Grove
Grange. No. "a, Montgomery County.
ON January 18th, which was Target y At |
tended, being the occasion Of the install |
lation Of officers, the question, Does |
Farming Pay ?" Was taken up for dis |
cussion. 1t was decided by q vote that |
1t does pay. One member stated that
46 years ago he started farming with . |
capital Of $65, and now owns over 800
acres of land In fertile ndition, we'll |
stocked, with good buildings upon 1t /
he has raised large family, and now
has An income of about thousand dol
lars annually from money at interest,
all made from farming.
Another said he started with q CAPT. |
tai Of 81, and now owns farm stocked
with herd of forty six good cows. and
and run two milk wagons In Washing
feeds, has hay to sell and considers that
farming pays.
Another said he started about sol
years ago, borrowed every cent Of the
money be paid for the land and was In
debt $500 besides. He now owns his
farm, which is ina high state of cult
walton, (raised last year ID barrels OF
corn per acre, has large and convenient
buildings, good orchards, etc, raised
family Of seven children, has started
three of them to farming for themselves
and consequently thinks farming does
pay, and II any one has tried 1t and
found Il did not pay tho fault was with
the farmer or farmers wife or both.
SALT.
According to Prof. johnson, over ONE
halt the saline matterof blood consists
salt, and neither will the bile be able
properly TO assist digestion, nor the
cartilages be built up as fast a. they
NATURALLY waste. From this we 500
that the use of salt Is daily demand ,
which the animal system makes upon
the food provided. The sailing then
once o week, or once q month, Is a ne
elect similar in quality, though not,
perhaps, in quantity with the failure
,, to furnish the needed grain, hay, OF
: pasture.
II On the plains, cattle refuse. In many
: d istricts, to eat salt thrown to them,
t simply because they find it in their
, food and water, placed there In ample
quantities by the genial hand of Nature
, If they cannot satisfy their needs In
t this way, they will be seen sucking old
bones, or licking some salty. alkaline
v bank-thus satisfying any craving'
q they may have for 1t, and, at the sam
# time. sharpening their appetites fol
}, pasture. But how is it with the cattl'
In your pastures or barn? They ar
either not sailed at all, or in such guam
: titles. aud at such long distant periods
Il that 1t becomes more Of an injury thai
5. o good. To salt the food, II graiI
would be means of BEAUTIFULLY distri
= buting it, but If on grass meadow lick
s would be healthfnl means for its SUI
7. lply.
CORN FOR STOCK.
ri In this country fully three-fourths {
Or the food given to fattening, or othe
ut stock 10 corn. 1t does not become L
to speak against corn. Growing an
- feeding 1t largely are evidences of in
Se improved farming. We rather exa
re ourselves on the fact that farmers hel
can grow corn, while those in Englan
49, cannot. But alter all. corn is not anon
r. the more valuable feeds for manur
= especially on land requiring pho
FL pilates, as most of our long cultivate
= soils do. What has been called Il
*. English farmers prejudice again
~ feeding corn, 10 possibly q recognize
I OF this fact. According to Mr.. Lewe
tables, based on values In England, Il
ID man ure from q ton OF Indian corn me
lor can be worth only 81 66.
Or That from a ton of linseed cake
. worth $40 ~, from beans S16.65 al
)F from peas Sl5 70. The manure from
IS. ton of clover hay is worth 1855. VIII
10, that from coarse to fine wheat mi
y. dlings varies from 1888 to SAL
M These figures are very suggestive. Tn
Ito show not only shat many kinds Of fe
have more value as manure than COZ
~, but that some of these are worth mo
IN for the manure alone than the mon
I'm value Of their cost. 1t is not unco
mon to have wheat bran selling We
II near to what it is worth as manu-
n even in the East. At the West it C
= often be purchased for $40 or $l1 I
ton in the fall. 1t must be remember
. that the above figures are made
IL England, yet the matter Of comparatl
a,,, values ID equally valuable here.
nts CORN ON THE COB.
~, ~. An Ohio grower of pork has learn
ID by experimenting that q bushel of r
= corn ted on tho cob will produce nj
TO pounds Of pork, while an equal quar-
ure ty, IL ground and the meal fed raw, v
aisc yield twelve pounds. A busbel of CT
No. boiled made thirteen and a. half poul
tt of pork, and bushel of meal COOK
80, made about sixteen and ahalf poun
'ar, Some experiments report better resu
mel. from feeding uncOoked meal.
3Ss WARM FEED FOR cows.
st A COW VIII ich receives every day
w morning, noon and Light, an ordin
EN-, EN- waterpailful of water. slightly war;
ard and sailed, In which bran has been {
plar red at the rate of one quart to two
it* Ions of water, will give five per c
,,1s: more milk Immediately under the eff
snc. OF this drink ; and she will become
mar. attached to it as to refuse to drink C
'-tf water, unless very thirsty. But
\, . meas she will take at any time, and '
.xne- for more.
dress TO FIX THE WHEEL.
~ Many farmers think that an so0r
wagon felloes begin TO shrink,
lily to must 20 at once to q blacksmith.s
uren and get the tire set. Instead of Dc
~ that (which Ia often a damage to
DOR wheels, causing them to dish). if
table will get come linseed oil and hea
rect, boiling hot and give the felloes all
o-u oil they can take, 1t will fill them III
TT l. their usual size aud tighten to
miiy, them from SHRINKING anu Also 10
this out the water.
lot
it'll. still GrOwltnE.
West Hundreds OF the disapDoiU ted