The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1886-03-25


Corn was fed to all kinds of stock,
horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. A
dozen ears three times a day would
keep horse in fine condition. The
nubbins, or very small ears, were fed
to calves. Ears were split into small
pieces for the calves when there were
not enough nubbins. A splitting
horn was made of piece of bucks
horn sawed off near the end OF the
horn with one spike left. This was
thrust into the end of the ear of corn,
into the soft pith in the cob, and thus
the ear was split into small pieces.
Corn was shelled for sheep, and
poured along into long, shallow
trough.
Every part of the corn crop was
utilized. The blades, fodder, or tops,
husks, ETC., were called "roughness,
and before the pioneer had time to
clear land for meadow, was used IN
stead Of hay. Even the corn stalks
were used by the children, to make
toys, such as hogs, sheep, toy mills
put in the draft of the chimney,
where they would revolve with great
rapidity.
It should be borne in mind that the
pioneer had an abundance of milk,
butter and eggs. Cattle, as we'll as
horses, sheep and hogs, got fat IN the
range, OF woods. Every pioneer had
an ear mark for his cattle, sheep and
hogs. and brand for his horses. The
original ear marks were crop, Silt,
swallow fork. upper bit, under bit,
and by using one or more OF these,
scores, or perhaps hundreds Of men
could have separate marks. My faith
er's recorded ear marks for his stock
was crop and under bit in the left
ear, and swallow fork in the right,
and he had a piece of iron two or
three inches broad at one end, and the
eight of an inch thick. bent into the
form of the letter S. This he would
heat red hot, and press it against the
side of the shoulder of a horse. This
burn would leaye scar, plainly to he
seen so long as the animal lived.
On the 25th Of February 1924, the
General Assembly of the State OF
Ohio passed an act defining the duties
of township Clerk, and in prescribing
what he should record in his township
book, it says:
And also the ear marks Of cattle
sheep and hogs, used by the owner OF
, owners, and such other marks and
brands, as any person may wish te
have recorded in said township book
!, but he shall not record the same mark
to two different persons; the saio
clerk shall be entitled to receive o1
the person employing him as afore'
said. the sum Of twenty-five cents fol
every such entry of marks or brands
of which entry he shall if required
3 deliver certified copy to the owner
On the 14th day of January, 1914
= an act was passed for the punishment
e Of certain offences therein named, thu
18th section of which reads as fol
:, lows:
r Sec. 19. That if any person shall
S wilfully and maliciously alter or de
n face any artificial ear-mark or brand
: upon any horse, mare, foal, tilly. null
l | or ass, sheep, goat or swine, COW, OK
t steer, bull or heifer, the property o
d another, every person so offending
e shall on conviction thereof, be fne'
in anv sum not exceeding fifty dollar
J, and be liable in treble damages, t
the party injured.
In two or three years the pionee
Il had quite stock of young horses an
g cattle. In the Spring he would put
. bell on one of the horses, one of tn
> cattle, and one Of the sheep, and hav
ing them properly marked an
{ branded, would turn them out in tn
Ii range. He would go about once
> week and give them salt. | must sa
j that this was often done on Sunday
. as there was seldom any preaching
. and no Sunday Schools. He ha
y nothing to do on Sunday but go fish
e ing. or hunting service berries, blac
: berries, grapes, haws, buckle berries
l., and looking after his stock. He kne'
u the sound of his bells, and recognize
g each as readily as he did the voices o
9 the different members of his own fam
y ily. The bells not only aided him i
u finding his stock, but they kept tn
Z animals together. The horses kept i
I hearing of the bell on the horse; tn
Il cattle in hearing Of the bell on one O
Il their number, while the sheep KEEP
a close to the ''bell-wether.' -
u The bells were far superior to thos
> now sold in the stores. They wer
e made by the country blacksmith's an
. could be heard a long distance.
t have heard our COW bell when | wa
" at home, and the cattle up on Rees
t Ridge, near the Locust Thicket, full
two miles on a straight line. Cow
;, often went from one to two mile
u from home, and when their calve
were not very young, they were to
= lazy to come home, and the childrel
u had to hunt them, and drive ther
t home. Cows in the range becam
very fat and sleek and gave larg
e yield of the richest, purest and bes
i milk. Milk was so abundant that
u was cburned every morning, and tn