The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1889-08-07
SOUTHERN AGRICULTURAL.
Physiology on the Farm.


The possibilities OF animal life on the
farm are remarkable and deeply inter-
esting. In the Tennessee Farmer G.
w. Davis makes tho following state
ment:
II have sow that has narrowed sew
enty-one pigs in the last two years.
Have fed and sold to the amount of
1870, and have the SOW aud twenty of
her pigs on the farm at the present
time. Twelve of them are litter of
sixteen, narrowed March 10. The SOW
will be four years old April 1, and has
narrowed eighty-six pigs.
'Vitality, connected with the secre-
ton of the milk from the great whale
to beautiful woman, is exceedingly
modifiable, tand should be carefully
studied by young farmers of brains.
have just read an account of COW
that gave at a fair test S23 pounds of
choice butter in seven days; being four
and four-sevenths of a 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 twcnty-four hours
from any sort of COW feed is a very
changeable representative of organic
life. A fair common COW will yield a
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 Stun
bic nor grumblo over plain, but pro-
gressive, agricultural physiology.
Every organ in plant or animal has a
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 q 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 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
these favor mental culture as the best
| possible learning and science in hui
man society. Physiology is a great
help in changing air and water into
tirst-class butter, cheese and wool, to
say nothing of changing air, water and
a little bone material into fine horses
and mules, now so common in Tennes-
see. There is no more pleasant study
to carry ones life forward to ninety
years than the study of agricultural
anatomy and physiology, based on
chemistry, geology and climatology.
These modern sciences belong to adj
vanced agriculture as naturally as a
foal belongs to its mother Every
farmer should cherish them. Morality
and purity of life comes not from ig-
norance and low brutality. The
thoughtful farmer will see that he can
not separate his interests from plant
life and animal life. The health and
growth Of these organisms should be
not only considered but earnestly
studied at farmers institutes and in
farmers libraries. We have reached
brain culture.
How far is corn plant from air and
water as it grows in the fieldp The
corn grown and placed in the capa.
cious compound stomach OF a COW, how
far is it from healthy blood. milk, but
ter or cheese? Is not this wonderful
machinery? Think of seventy-one
pigs from one SOW in two years, and
1870 for the sale of porkers, 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 tc
the work of stock-growing. dairy and
sheep-husbandry-to the improvement
of all soils, all domestic animals, ani
especially all tho owners of soils
| p ants, fruits and homes, which neei
both protection and improvement.
Winter Rye.