Western cyclone. [volume] (Nicodemus, Kan.) 1886-1887, 1886-09-16
STOCK AND FARMING.

Pear blight seems to be prevailing to
a certain extent in Pottawatomie county.
A very fine crop of broom corn was
raised in Allen county this year.
A large and excellent crop of apples
will be raised in Lincoln county this
year.
Cawker Public Record: Grapes by the
wagon load dispel the notion that some
have that fruit cannot be raised in this
section Of the state
Voltaire Advertiser: Sherman county
has produced enough feed to carry the
stock till another spring, and some even
feel safe in bringing more stock to the
county this fall.
st. Marys Express: H. H. Hagan sold
this week, one hundred and twelve head
of the latest cattle ever shipped from
st. Marys. They averaged 1862 pounds
and brought $3.50 per cwt. in the home
market.
LindsbOrg NetCS: Broom corn buyers
are not coming in very fast. The present
supply of old stock is nearly exhausted,
but manufacturers think that there is an
immense new crop on hand, and are try
ing to get the prices to the lowest
possible notch. AS soon as a correct
estimate of the present crop is formed,
the market will probably open up with
good price.
Hoxie Sentinel: Mr.. Solomon Reese
residing in this county, will have over
5000 bushels of potatoes to sell this sea-
son. He estimates that his total revenue
this year from forty-fve acre garden
patch will be over $4,000. Mr.. J. L.
Carson has a garden patch of twelve
acres and says that it will net him at
least $4,000. There gentlemen are now
marketing their produce, and find ready
sale at good prices for all they have to
sell. The above is true statement of
what two citizens of this county have
done this season, and fair estimate of
what any one can do with proper effort.
Wa Keeney World: The Washington
Post is Of the opinion that all domestic
animals need rough feed, or "stover,"
mixed along with the fine food-hogs as
we'll as the rest. In the case Of the ru-
minating animals, it is doubtful if grain
or meal fed alone goes to the first
stomach at all. A large majority of the
experiments made to determine this
point, clearly show that fine foods do
not, to any material extent, go to the
first stomach when fed to cattle alone;
and if food can not go to the first
stomach, it can be only very imperfectly
digested, since it escapes the macerating
process of the rumen, and being remas-
ticated and mixed with the saliva. How
true this is every large feeder of cattle in
the west at least, must know. A large
proportion Of the kernels of corn eaten
by the animal is found in their drop
pings, some whole, others broken, but
all undigested. If they had been passed
into the first stomach they would have
been raised and remasticated, and GER
tainly would not have escaped this pro-
cess scarcely broken. So it is when
meal is fed. It passes into the third
and fourth stomachs, a mass OF dough
into which the gastric juices can not
penetrate. It is true that the muscular
contractions Of the stomach will give
gentle motion to the dough; but this
will make it more compact rather than of
a character that the gastric juice can
operate freely upon it. If, however, we
mix the meal with cut straw or hay, the
mixture will go to the first stomach, and
will, OF course, be remasticated, while
the bits of straw or hay will allow the
gastric juice to circulate through the
mass and insure complete digestion.