The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1886-03-20
AGRICULTURAL MATTERS.

FARMING ~ WASHINGTON TERRITORY.
On the ditclled tide lands Of eur
Territory wonderful crops are pro-
duced. NY cat crop, two hundred
and fifty-four acres. in 1884. averag-
ed eighty four bushels of thirtv-six
pounds. Crop of lss5-two hun
bred and forty acres. averaged eighty
bushels. Barley will give sixty to
eighty bushels; wheat, thirty to six
ty bushels, but it is too soft to be
good for -four, and is only used for
chicken feed at present. / have one
hundred acres Of meadow that aver
age three tons per acre Clover
grows the rankest / ever saw. Cab
bages, all kinds of beets. carrots.
turnips. peas. parsnips, etc, grow to
perfection. Our oats bring us, on
our land vessels can come to our
OWE warehouses;. sixteen to thirty
dollars per ton: average about TWEEN
~ dollars per ton. No market for
vegetables. Wheat is not so sure
crop as cats and barley, which have
never failed 1t SHUTS and is liable
to blight while in the head, and
yields only twenty TO twenty five
bushels of shriveled grain: it would
probably average forty bushels. La
Dor is about one dollar and board
per day. except in harvest time,
when it is one dollar and fifty cents
and board. Butter is twenty to thir-
ty-iive cents per pound; eggs. forty.
The climate Of our Territory is
very mild in winter. and never hot
in summer Land is changing hands
a little with very little for sale), at
fifty to seventy five dollars per acre.
Many farms could not be bought for
less than one hundred dollars per
acre, or even for that. Failure of
the oat and hay crops is unknown.
Balrd hay sometimes sells as high
as fifteen dollars per ton, at home.
This year is the lowest ever known,
viz; six dollars at home, baled.-
Corr. in American Agrieuiturisf
EAsrING AND GREAsING HORSES HOOPS.
The horse is one Of the most SUI
perbly perfect of natures works,
viewed physically; and he occupies
besides an exalted position among
animals as to his intelligent and
moral qualities 1t is therefore most
painful to see how, under the hand
ling of intelligent (?) men. he is
maltreated and even abused He
submits his neck to the yoke uncom-
plainingly; he accepts the iron-plat-
ing of his feet; and he allows the
CALLING check upon the movement of
his head, and yet gives man his best
service even to the death. The ig
norant smith has his views as to
what should be the shape of his feet;
so he cuts and rasps, and forms them
to suit himself. He has an idea that
the hoof is made on purpose for him
to rasp and shoe, and exercise all
the tools of his trade upon. So he
makes a shoe and fits the hoef to it;
he removes the natural polished ex-
terror, which by its tough elacticity-
defends the tender parts from injury,
is nearly impervious to water, and
permits little evaporation of inter
nal moisture. by which it is kept
normally pIiahle and vitalized to the
very surface. Herounds and smooths
off the new surface; leaves it in a
condition to allow the moisture of
the hoof to pass off rapidly, and the
hoof to dry and crack, and thus he
recommends the application Of tar
and grease and lamp-blaek, as if be
were trying to render an old boot
pliablc and prescntable. The greas-
ing may be well enough-better than
nothing-after the mischief is done
But why do sensible horse owners
allow the evil which their peremptory
orders, if not their mere remonstran-
ces, would prevent?