St. Landry democrat., 1890-03-01
Agricultural Notes.

Agricultural Notes.
The dairying business in New York
amounts annually to $50, 000,000.
About one and a quarter millions of peo-
pie in 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 crcum-
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 und9r 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. X. Brown, of New York
says Oleomsgarine has been overthrowu
end there is noue now manufactured in
the State and practically none sold.
IN the State Of New York the amount Of
milk taken to make on pound of butter
ranges all the way from l24 to 80 pounds,
the average being about 2l4 pound.
From an original outlay of &1S4
farmer has realized in less than two years
1858, 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 f'oin the focks, no
animal on the farm so quickly and per
manently improve it.
Dr.. w i. Jones, in SoutAern FtIrm
says small grain is excellent to follow
cotton. then peas after the grain. crop is
off. Turn the pea crop nnder aud SOW to
rye and turn under in the sE'ing.
1t is estimated that in the State of New
York one third of the cows are an actual
| loss to their owners; another third just
pay their way, and only one third really
pay profit. We can do better than this
in Southwest Louisiana.
According to Commissioner Brown, the
| Weld of milk cows in New York is about
1924 pounds, and the average income of
each COW is about S35. Considering the
cost of keeping each COW at $50, this will
leave profit Of only s..
The largest hog that ever lived wss
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 fiualEy died en- route to Europe.-Me-
ridinn Democrat. If orr memory does
not fail u, that hog weighed between
1860 and 170l pounds. (Miss.)
EGnn3nGr.
Out Of s]l the new varieties of straw ber-
ries that are propogated aud placed on the
market every year, about one in five proves
TO be fair berry, one in len possesses dis
tinctire merits that make it worthy of cul-
tivation. and about one in every thirty that
shows itself to be decided Improvement,
in one or more directions, over any variety
that existed before, and becomes valua
BILE 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
) TINE to stop, they would betake 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
remsin, and nothing could induce them to
60 farther, but as they were early risers,
what they lost at one end of the day, they
made up at the other.-Ee,
Gov Hoard said that in his creamery
thew had taken over 12 eco tests of milk
for butter fat, but had not yet found any
really simple method of doing it. Yet no
man wants to pool milk, that yield 5
pounds of butter to the hundred of milk,
with that which Yields only 3! 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 oGc. per lOo
pounds.
If 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: eve must
! change our system of f.ed, which is all a
. matter of haphazard. Very few feed on a
regular system. The farmer seems to
feed for reduction, not for productiol. 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 aim some return.
His barns are empty of hay and provender'
E and he asks, where is my income to cone
> from? Echo answers, nowhere"
. Governor Hoard says that at his cream
9 cry they bought 600 pigs weighing about
SO pounds each, and fed them for 56 days
on nothing but skim milk They were
$ then sold and it was found that the skim
D milk used in this way was worth, and had
t brought, 221c. per 100 pounds 1t was
Q also discovered chat at the live-weight OF
a 100 pounds it cost 10 per cent more food food
!; to make pound of pork than it did at 5o
i pounds; at 200 pounds it cost "A per cent
!. more; and at 800 pounds it cost 50 to ~
/, per cent more. Consequently it is much
more profitable to turn off your pigs when
0 they weigh 100 to $50 pounds, than it is to
q keep them until they get to be much
Q heavier.