St. Landry democrat., 1890-02-22
Agricultural Notes.

Let the rule be production at the lowest
possible cost.
Some of our exchanges are roasting the
man who uses tobacco.
The pea as a pasture crop for sheep has
never received the attention that it de-
serves.
1t is wiser to make mutton for the mar
ket than to try to make market Tor the
mutton.
The more brains we put into sheep hus-
bandry the more aud better wool and the
more and better mutton we shall produce
The wool industry probably represents
$500, 0O0,00 per annum, and the native
wool product is four times as large as IN
1886.
The profit of raising early lambs depends
upon getting them into market early, and
in order to get them in at the earliest pcs
sible time they should be forced.
We believe we are warranted in saying
that the future of sheep promises well.
The people are consuming more mutton,
and as mutton becomes better, the con-
sumption will increase more rapidly still,
| and the foreign demand for American
mutton is also increasing.
patent has recently been granted. says
the Scientific american, for process of
separating butterlnilk from butter, which
consists in first melting the butter under
sufficiently warm water by holding said
butter in bulk below the surface thereof,
next allowing the butter to rise in
melted state through the wster whereby
the buttermilk is absorbed by the water,
and then beating the pure butter which
has r sen to the surface into Ii froLb, and
finally allowing the froth to cool, whereby
it becomes non granular and solid.
Mr.. Wilson says that it has not been
proven, nor has any attempt been made to
do so, that there is any reason why
large, heavy fleece of excellent wool car
not be grown on large carcass Of excel
lent mutton, The nearest that has come
to an attempt at such proof YVES by
Western agricultural paper, which said ::
"Mutton sheep were bred for mutton
therefore it is best !" Can there be any
objection to growing twenty pounds OF
wool on 200 pound carcass of first class
mutton? Yet this point has been reached
in individual cases and can be made gen.
eral. Let us then discard this "wool or
mutton theory, and use the njunotive
land" instead of the distinctive 'cr."
Galen Wilson, in recent article in the
Sheep Breeder, says that in view of the
excellent prospects for sheep the question
!, arises. What kind of sheep shall be
grown? This will have to be answered
each for himself-by first considering
what his probsble market will demand.
/ Mr.. John Tucker is reported to have said
, "We must change our methods and make
the carcass the mainstay of sheep industry
, and not the fleece, as we have been doing. y
3 The fallacy of the claim that sheep should
t be grown either for wool or for mutton he:
been SO generally shown, that MIR. Wilson
said he did not know there was respecta
BILE sheep writer left who would have the
3 hardihood to advocate it Mr.. Wilson is s
pretty careful observer, and we are some.
5 what surprised at that statement There
f are hundred lines written on wool grow
4 ing to one on mutton production ard The
, average sheep raiser and wool grower is
! thousand times more exercised ovel
t the subject of wool than he is over that o
. mutton.