The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-01-08


their name. When boy, my fathers
farm was on the stage road from Lou
don to the North, and l can we'll re-
member the daily passage OF the mail
coach drawn by four spanking horses
at full gallop. They were Cleveland
Bays.
With the advent OF the locomotive
their occupation was gone, and about
ten years ago they were little known
outside the district that gave them a
name, though some old fashioned
horsemen still kept up the purity of
breed, using them on their farms,
AS the demand for a general pur,
pose" horse arose in America, horse
Importers bethought them of the old
stage coach horse, and began to pros
pect for him in his native district.
The Yorkshireman has many
of the business instincts OF
the Yankee and finding demand for
Cleveland Bays ne was not slow to
sill the bill" Stations and mares
more or less resembling the old type
in form and color were mated and their
offspring shipped to the United States
of America as the pure article. And
thus it is that in a Cleveland Bay
ring one will often see three or four
distinct types of horse and perhaps
none of them at all resembling the
original.
The nearest approach TO the old
standard Cleveland Bay 1 have seen
in this country are those owned by
Pearson Brothers of this county, and
if there are any pure bred in the
United States they ought TO have
them, as the brothers were raised in
the very center of the horse breeding
district of Erkshire and have handled
that breed OF horses all their lives.
About month ago l paid visit to
their ranch on Gilleland creak, near
Round Rock, and saw their stud.
They had just received four yearlings
and two 27year-olds from England,
all OF them said to be of undoubted
purity. One of the 2-year-olds was q
handsome colt and had won seven
premiums in England at different
fairs, indeed had never been beaten.
1t is to be hoped that the pluck shown
by Pearson Brothers will meet with a
suitable reward.
I am not hear to boom any breed
or to dictate to any one what they
should breed to, but would merely
suggest full consideration of the
matter, and breeding based on a full
understanding as to which will be
most profitable, and not to the first
horse that comes to the neigh
borhood at low service fee.
WOOD ASH FOR HOGS.
Hogs kept in confinement and Of
ten fed almost exclusively on corn,
should have free access to salt, hard
wood ash and charcoal. In fact, such
mixture is indispensable to the ami
mails health and development. Care
full experiments have shown that
hogs will make more flesh on q given
quantity of corn, supplemented with
ash and salt, than when fed corn
alone. In prairie districts where hard
wood is scarce corn cob ash will form q
good substitute. The mixture should
he kept in box under cover where
the hogs can reach it at all times and
there is no fear of their using too much
JERUSALEM CORN.
The latest seedsman's novelty is the
Jerusalem corn which is said to be a
native of the Holy Land and to delight
in dry season.
1t somewhat resembles milo maize
in its habit of growth but only grows
from three to four feet high. 1t has
been tried in Kansas and Colorado
and is said to be well adapted for dry
countries. Last season when corn
was total failure it made from % to
40 bushels per acre, and the grain
was of fine quality for both stock and
human food.
ROTATION OF CROPS.
I have long preached this doctrine
as the only way to preserve and in
crease the fertility OF the soil. The
idea is not mine, but the experience of
all practical farmers and scientific
Investigations.
Writing on this subject CORE
spondent of the Rural World says: l
have had some practical experience
this year of the value of rotation of
crops. On my farm l have a regular
system of rotation, wheat, clover and
corn, and corn is never planted more
than two years in succession.
This year twenty acres were rented
from neighbor, just as good or better
land than my own, but had been in
corn four or five years. The yield is
thirty or thirty-five bushels of inferior
corn, while mine, with just the same
cultivation. will average fifty bushels
Or more of solid, good corn. At pres
ent prices of corn-40 cents per
bushel-the difference in value of the
two crops would be Sc an acre, and in
five more years of the same farming
there would be difference of one
half.
1t is certainly a matter of surprise