The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-06-28
PAsTURING STOCK.


Throughout the West there is moro or
less a pest Of flies in summer. In the
prairie region there are the green heads,
and near timber the deer flies, both veri-
table bloodsuckers. The warble fly
the large black warble flies that deposit
their eggs on the backs OF cattle and
hores-are also not only annoying Mt the
time of ova-positing, but painful and de-
bilitating as the larva grows. The bot
flies, that deposit their eggs on the limbs
and on the breasts of horses, occasion
much annoyance to the stock
The general means of avoidance of all
these disabilities is dark place to which
the animals may retire when not feeding,
and especially that animals during fly
time be allowed to pasture night and
morning, and, in fact, all night when
possible. Where the flies are very bad,
we advise that all stock be driven to dark
stables from 10 A. NJ. until p. M, even
at the expense of giving them cut forage
during these hours.
Another thing the careful feeder will
do well to observe is to pay strict attention
that stock have access to water at all
times, or, at least, at stated intervals, so
that they may never get thirsty. Animals
are very much like men in the matter of
drinking. Some days they SCENE to re-
quire very little; other days they take
what may seem an inordinate quantity.
Nevertheless, when required, the water
should be accessible, and this in line with
the trite saying: GA merciful man is
merciful to his beast. ."-Prairic Farmer.
SMALLER CROPS AND DETER PRICES.
1t is small, not large, crops that we
need more of. My minimum crops have
invariably been more profitable, and 1
have heard drhy farmers Tn$kc the same
remark. Would it not be we'll for our
farmers to combine to produce less for
few years of all staple crops, thereby
thoroughly cleaning up the surplus and
getting better returns for our labor than
VIC have received for the last decade2
Certainly we have the same right to com
bine to limit production as have coal or
oil companies, millers and manufacturers.
Some may s.y that il is our duty to our
selves and our country to do our best in
our chosen calling-but best for whom2
If we can do better by producing less and
getting more for it, why not do it, as
long as other producers are doing the
same thing and we have to exchange our
products for theirs2
Why should farmers be the only class
of producers that cannot establish a price
for their commodities2 When we buy
we have to pay the price asked; when we
sell we have to take the pittance the pur-
chaser secs ft to offer. Surely, no class
of laboref T6rks as many hours for as
little pay as the farmer, and it Is time our
calling was more eremunerativc. Can this
be done 10y producing more or lcss9
am of the opinion that General Butler
was right when he said that
sour trouble Is not overproduction,
but underconsumption," and the 9ucs.
ton is, how shall we increase the con-
sumption Of farm products9 Certainly
not by increasing the quantity; but by
improving the quality. Every one knows
that soggy potatoes, stale eggs, rancid
butter, etc., last much longer than good
fresh No. / articles. II all our food
products were the very best, much more
would be consumed, thus making q
greater demand and more rempneratiye