The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1888-12-21

OIUCA OACCuCL5 ASoOCloIiOu Va AOWo
held on Dec 5th:
HANDLING IMPROVED STOCK.
A paper on this topic was read by
VIM. Cook, of Marion. The speaker
said he thought scrub farmer better
handle scrub stock. 1t was bad policy
to buy good stock and then not care for
it. 1t required improved men, as well
as improved stock, to be successful 10
the business. AS to kind, the markets
and the surrounding character of the
soil must be studied. All breeds were
good, when properly handled. Breed
ing cows and calves should be stalled
separately; as to others give good shell
ter aud dry beds to lie on. All i'm
proved breeds would pay, if properly
handled. Impure water and unwhole-
some food were the causes of many
diseases. Expensive buildings were
not necessary; yet good stock needed
shelter. Comfort was the secret of all
successful, stock raising.
IMPROVED STOCK. BREEDING AS A BUS
INRSS.
In paper on this subject, o. G..
Norton, of Durant, thought our market
depended on the number of wide awake ke
farmers there was to buy our stock.
Farmers must be educated to the ben
e6ts of breeding better stock. More
successful breeders were needed. The
business would not run of itself; we
must maintain the excellence of cur
stock. Good stock proved an incentive
to better care for it, Improved stock
would keep the boys on the farm.
Stock.handlers were plenty; we wanted
breeders. A love of the business was
essential to success in this business.
We should breed and feed good ami
mails; then charge for them.
Geo. Van Houten, of Lenox, showed
how poor man can raise good stock
in paper read entitled "Can the Poor
Man Afford to raise Improved Stock?'
oy proving conclusively that poor
man cannot afford to raise or own any
but improved stock. All scrubs were
sold at loss, and therefore it required
rich man with plenty of money to
raise and handle scrubs. Only good
stock could be grown at profit on
high-priced land. Thousands of cattle
we're kept at loss. Good males were
within the reach of all. A few neigh
bors could club together and buy a
good male, and thus improve their
stock at small cost.
Poultry for Profit" was the subject
of paper by j. E. Williams, of Mason
City, in which he set himself to prove
chat the improved agricultural hen will
discount the COW every time, if you
give her good care, plenty of feed and
warm quarters but to those whose
poultry roost on fences and in tree.tops,
with the thermometer below zero, the
writer of the paper had but little of en-.
aouragement to offer.
"Swine Breeding" was considered
in short paper by Mr.. Van Auken, of
Mason City, who thought the scrub hog
was thing of the past. Improved
hogs were found everywhere in the
State. Sows, he ssid, should farrow in
April. Pigs needed side pen where
the old sow couldn't get, and they
should be fed milk as soon as they can
eat it; later, corn and oats should be
added. The pig should be kept grow
ing; stunted pig was not worth the
feed it consumed.
HISTORY OF THE RED POLLS.
j. A. Murry, of Maquoketa, Secre-
tary Of the Nationll Red. Polled Cattle
Climb, read very interesting paper en-
titled the cred Polls," in which he
gave brief history of their importa-
tion. He said that there were at this
time about 1900 head in America.
The "Red Polled Cattle Club number
ed 100, but there were 400 owners of
these cattle in this country. The his
tory of Red Polls showed that they had
been bred hornless aud red in coIor Tor
$50 years. Two varieties have been