The Springdale news., 1889-07-26
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
Physiology on the Farm.

The possibilities ot animal life on the farm are remarkable and deeply inter- esting. In the Tennessee Farmer G. w. Davis makes the following state ment:
 Fl have a SOW that has farrowed sew enty-one pigs iE the last two years Have fed and sold to the amount Of $370, and have the SOW and twenty of her pigs on the farm at the present time Twelve of them are a litter of sixteen, farrowed March 10 The SOW will be four years old April 1, and has farrowed eighty-six pigs.
 Vitality. connected with the secre- tion of the milk from the great whale to beautiful woman, is exceedingly modifable, tand should be carefully studied by young farmers of brains. l have just read an account Of COW that gave at fair test 32I pounds Of choice butter in seven days; being four and four sevenths of pound each day on an average. The intelligent reader can not fail to see that the milk-se- creting gland that extracts four pounds of butter in twenty-four hours from any sort of COW feed is very changeable representative of organic life. A fair common COW will yield half pound of butter in twenty-four hours. Some sheep clip eight times more wool and better wool than others
 "Undeniable facts true of pigs, cows and sheep. are equally true of all the mammalia from mice to elephants. Let the truthful farmer neither stum- ble nor grumble over plain, but pro- gressive agricultural physiology. Every organ in plant or animal has function; and every function is a vital or physiological power. Science, without any pretention, tells the farmer to study and utilize this vital energy which is unquestionably part of the power that governs the uni verse. and thus rise to a higher and happier plane of eXistance. Sound physiology has no private speculation, no trick for making money, and looks with sorrow on men and women who fail to see that the "love of money is the root of all evil" In Lombardy the government has a monopoly of irrigating water in rivers, creeks and springs. The monopoly is worse in Egypt Land and water monopoly has taken deep root in the United States; but truth and justice between man and man, must ultimately prevail in this Republic.
 Physiology, both human and com ! parative. favors truth and justice; and possible learning and science in hu- man society. Physiology is a great 1 help in changing air and water into 1 first-class butter, cheese and wool, to say nothing of changing air. water and ! little bone material into fine horses ' and mules, now so common in Tenncs- see There is no more pleasant study to carry ones life forward to ninety ' tdIS llltu NIt NtNiuN VI thS Atdi'bl' 'i anatomy and physiology, based on chemistry. geology and climatology. | These modern sciences belong to ad- vanced agriculture as naturally as q fOal belongs to it's mother. Every farmer should cherish them. Morality and purity of life comes not from ig. norance and low brutality. The thoughtful farmer will sec that he car not separate his interests from plan life and animal life. The health anC growth of these organisms should b' not only considered but earnestly studied at farmers institutes and il farmers libraries We have reached braIn culture. ''
 How far is q corn plant from e, "h' water as it grows in the field? The corn grown and placed in the capa cious compound stomach of COW, how far is it from healthy blood, milk, but ter or cheese? Is not this wonderful machinery? Think of seventy-one l pigs from one SOW in two years, and $370 for the sale of pDrkers, with the SOW and twenty of her pigs left on the farm, If farming does not pay, the fault is in the husbandman, not in ag- riculture There is very great diff ference in sows in the matter of chang ing proper food into rich milk. The same is true Of brood mares, ewes and cows. The Cultivator aims to bring the most important facts of science to the work of stock growing, dairy and shecp-husbandry- the improvement of all soils, all domestic animals, and especially all the owners of soils, P ants. fruits and homes, which need both protection and improvement.