St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-05

and have faith that the horse industry
will prove more inviting, when less at
tention Is paid to more Jumps of flesh
Ohio is making rapid progress as {
trOtting horse breeding state"
The following seed for rich loamy
soils is recommended by Peter Hender
son: Orchard grass, six pounds; mead
Ow fOXtail, four pounds: hardy fescue
three pounds; meadow fescue, tive
pounds; Kentucky blue grass. three
pounds; perennial rye grass, fOu
pounds; timothy two pounds; oat grass
two pounds; tall Oat, two pounds
rOugh-stalked meadow grass, TIVE
pounds; sweet scented vernal. TIVE
pounds; crested dogs tail, two pounds
perennial clover. two pounds; white
clover, two pounds; total. 46 pounds
This may seem heavy seeding, but the
result will be thick, heavy crop, which
would not otherwise be secured. Some
thing does not come of nothing.
Quantity does not regulate the price:
alone. Should the market be fully sup
piled purchasers will continue to accept
something better than that already In
the market and will pay higher prices
therefor. Quality rules in all transac
tions, and the farmer must keep this
ia before him always if he expects tC
secure fair profit. Thousands Of
tons of goods are annually sacri
feed that would have been more
valuable If kept away from mar
ket: but there has never been time
when choice goods did not bring faii
prices, no matter how large the supply
1t should be rule with all shippers
never to send anything to market that
is not of the best quality. 1t costs toe
much, propOrtionately, to receipts, tC
ship inferior produce, and, as quality
regulates the prices, farmers should
endeavOr to produce the best only, anC
thereby secure profit.
The check rein is vanishing from oul
cities and intelligent hOrse-raising com
munties, through our humane interest:
and the efforts of our humane societies
In ali the large cities Of Europe, as wei
as in America. the handsome carriage
and coach horses, as well as
the large, heavy draft horses
now have their heads free, OF
with very loose checks. A few year;
ago the humane officers in New York
would frequently stop carriages ant
other teams and let down their higl
check rains. which they had the author
ity to do. Now they rarely have it t.
do. Massachusetts, has enacted law
prohibiting check reins. Humane peO
pie everywhere denounce it.
Colts now have their winter OF dis
content. The practice OF having nearly
all spring colts compels weaving JUS
at the commencement of winter, anC
the colt has to be weaned on dry food
making the first winter particularly
hard time. Special care shOulC
therefore be taken of them
Give them good, warm quar-
tiers, with all of the bran and the Oat;
they will eat. After this winter is 6
good time to handle them with halter
and bride. Familiarity with the coli
will, or should breed attachment, anG
this will insure better care.
The Mirror and Farmer, having OBJ
served that 1.-THE prices of beef and pork
depend largely upon the price of corn
the Michigan Farmer cOrrects the state
ment by saying: 1.-THE ABOVE is emf
nently true so far as pork is concerned
and was once so with beef. But the
corn belt no longer supplies the
demand for beef.' The Farmer
asserts the cattle ranches Of
the West and the combination known as
the big Four" really control the prices
of beef cattle at present, however much
you may feed them OH corn or grass.
In Western New York, in Maryland
and in Eastern Pennsylvania the larger
portion of the fall-sown wheat receives
at the time of sowing, from 100 to 15(
pounds of commercial fertilizers pei
acre. The cost rarely exceeds 50 pei
acre, and the practice has almost uni
versally been found profitable. The eff.
feet of fertilizers on the soil does moi
entirely depend upon the amount of
plant food provided, but on the chem
ical action upon substances already eX-
listing in the soil.
We have already published Maj. Pow
ellis opinion that the arid lands in the
rainless regions of the West and North
west. capable of being made to produce
crops by irrigation, aggregate not less
than 100,0OO,000 acres. The veteran
well-known agricultural editor. Orange
Judd, is highly pleased with that style
of farming near Phoenix, AriZ., and in
some other localities where the water
was brought long distances in canals,
producing profitable crops of grass,
grains, fruits, etc.
Goats can be kept where even the
sheep can not exist. The goat should
find ready sale in market, as its flesh
is equal in every respect to that of the
sheep in flavor and quality, and meat
from goats can be produced at less cost
than from any other animul in sections
where the range is wide, or where lands
are not cultivated. They are difficult
to restrain, however. and damage orch
ards, which are serious objections; but
under proper conditions goats may be
made profitable.
Prof. Ely, of Johns Hopkins univer-
sity, estimates that poor roads cost the
farmer on an average SIS per horse. and
Prof. jerks, of Knox college, Illinois,
argues that with good permanent roads
freight could often be hauled ten miles
on wagons cheaper than it could be
taken one mile OH a dirt road to rail
road station and delivered by railroad
the other nine.
Animals feel extremes of heat and
cold sensitively, and they cannot thrive
unless they are comfortable" Thus a
little thought when barns, sheds, etc,
are located is tantamOunt to the eXer-
else of true economy and humanity.
Barns should also be placed at good
distance from much travelled highway,
which would offer many occasions of
excitement among the live stock shell
tered by them.
Crushed, ground or soaked oats are
excellent hog feed, and at present prices
not bushel ought to leave the farm.
For breeding corn they are superior to
corn. All kinds of stock relish a change
and variety of feed. If every farmer
would feed out three-fourths of his oats
this season the price would be very apt
to advance to fair figure before snm-
mer.
The Chesire pig. developed in Central
and Northern New York, where the
principal food is skinned milk, is noted
for the large proportion of lean mea
which its carcass turns out. 1t is
thrifty, rapid grower, and not infre-
quently reaches the weight of 400
pounds in nine months, Muscle weighs
heavier than fat or bones.
The reports of several experiment
stations are always promptly sent to
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