St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-15
Agricultural Notes.

Agricultural Notes.
The dairying business in New York
amounts annually to $50, 900, 900.
About one and quarter millions of peo-
pie ia New York are engaged in dairying.
The average price of cheese this year to
the New York farmer is about Is cents
per hundred pounds.
The sugar industry is one that will yield
greater profits under favorable circum-
stances in the pine lands of the States.
We should rest the land every few
years. A good plan is to SOW to some
forage crop to be turned under green.
To water single acre with one inch of
water will require over 400 hogsheads;
ten acres would require 1000 hogsheads,
or 1000 tons.
Commissioner J. K. Brown, of New York
says Oleomsgarine has been overthrow
and there is none now manufactured in
the State aud practically none sold.
In the State of New York the amount OF
milk taken to make ona pound of butter
ranges all the way from 128 to 80 pounds,
the average being about 81 / pound
From an original outlay of 1854, a
farmer has realized in less than two years
1868, and still has on hand $162 worth of
sheep, either to breed from again or to sell
for mutton.
We wish to see more sheep kept every
where, as apart from the actual profit
which may be derived from the hocks, no
animal on the farm so quickly and per-
manently improve it,
Dr. W. l.. Jones, in Southern Farm
says small grain is excellent to follow
cotton, then peas after the grain crop is
off. Turn the pea crop under and SOW to
rye and turn under in the spring.
1t is estimated that in the State of New
York oue.t third of the cows are an actual
loss to their owners another third inst
pay their way, and only one-third really
pay profit. We can do better than this
in Southwest Louisiana.
According to Commissioner Brown, the
yield of milk COWS in New York is about
1924 pounds, and ths average income of
each COW is about S35. Considering tbs
cost of keeping each COW at $50, this will
leave profit of only IS.
The largest hog that ever lived was
raised by the late Sim Orr, of Noxubee
county, Mississippi. The hog weighed
over 400 pounds, and was exhibited in
several of the large cities of this country,
and finally died en- route to Europe.-Me-
| riIiun Democrat. If or memory does
not fail US, that hog weighed between
| 1900 and 1908 pounds. aberdeen Missy
| Hammer.
| Out of all the new varieties of strawber-
| ries that are prcpogated and placed on the
market every yesr, about one in five proves
t,oe Cot Il
| tinctlye merits ttat make it worthy of cul-
| tivation. and about one in every thirty that
shows itself to be g decided improvement,
| in one or more directions, over any variety
that existed before, and becomes valua-
bic acquisition to the strawberry grower.
| An old Connecticut farmer who used to
drive turkeys to market, says that the
only trouble with them was, when it was
time to stop, they would hetake them
selves to the top rail of the fence, an no
matter how far they were from stopping
| place for the night, there they would
remain, and nothing could induce them to
go farther, but as they were early risers,
what they lost at one end of the day. they
made up at the other.-Er,
Gov Hoard said that in his creamery
they had taken over - COO tests of milk
for butter fat, but had not yet found any
really simple method of doing it. Yet 10
nan wants to pool milk, that yield 5
pounds of butter to the hundred of milk,
with that which yields only 81 pounds
Accordingly, we divide the milk into two
sections, one the Jersey vat. which brings
81 O5 per 100 pounds; the other the COM
mon vat, which brings only Soc. per 100
pounds.
II the words of Col. F. D. Curtis be
true the great State of New York has
nothing to boast of over Louisiana in the
dairy interest. He says: "We must
change our system of fed, which is ali
matter of haphazard. Very few feed on 8
regular system. The farmer seems to
feed for reduction, not for productioI. In
the spring he has not as many pounds of
cow as he had in the fall. He goes out in
the spring and looks over the bones that
he calls his dairy, and wonders how soon
they will be able to give him some return.
His barns are empty of hay and provender,
aud he asks, where is my income to come
from? Echo answers, nowhere.
Governor Hoard says that at his cream
cry they bought 600 pigs weighing about
90 pounds each, and fed them for 56 days
on nothing but skim milk. They were
then sold and it was found that the skim
milk used in this way was worth, and had
brought, 223c. per 100 pounds. 1t was
also discovered that at the live weight of
100 pounds it cost 10 per cent more food
to make pound of pork than it did at so
pounds; at 200 pounds it cost "a per cent
more; and at 800 pounds it cost 81 to 80
per cent more. Consequently it is much
more profitable to turn off your pigs when
they weigh 100 to $50 pounds, than it is to
keep them until they get to be much