The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-01-15
STOCK FARM AND GARDEN.


With. good care, and where sheep
are kept-in small flOcks, 95 per cent.
of ali lambs, dropped should be raised.
II this not done the chances are that
something is wrong with the shep-
herd. Generally speaking, 100 ewes
are enough to keep in single flock.
OF courses this does not apply to such
methods as must pertain to the ranch,
but is addressed to the farmer, or
stock farmer.
Red POlled cattle have been gener-
ally classed among the beef breeds,
but there seems to- be evidence now
that they have some claims to be
Recognized as dairy. animals, or, at
last, as good general purpose" uni
ting both good beef and good milk
inequalities. AT the Ohio State fair
least fall . Red Polled COW took three
first premiums in the milk test-fOr
the largest amount of butter fat, aud
other solids, and for the largest
solids. We believe this, breed is
bound to gain in popularity, both
both because OF its intrinsic worth
and becaHse many people are begin
ming to favor hornless cattle, yet do
not want to practice dehOrning.
Kainit, or German potash salts,
beside being q fertilizer of value for
many crops, has the peculiar property
of destroying grubs, wire-wOrms and
cut worms. The entOmOlOgist of the
New Jersey Experiment Station says
that he has the testimony of many
farmers to the effect Il at where they
veused the potash salt, fields which,
had been previously infested seemed
to be entirely freed from these pests.
II farmers have special fields that are
more than usually infested in this
way, it might pay them for season
to eonfiHe themselves solely to the
foregoing fertilizer. Whenever we
accomplish two good things at q
time, such as enriching the land and
discriminating insects, it will pay to
take advantage of the means.
We have seen a recent statement to
the effect that white oats contain
more nutriment than black oats, and
should always be chosen for feeding
horses. The only difference lies in
the fact that the black oats have a
little thicker hush, sufficient to make
q difference of perhaps five per cent.
in the feeding value. A horse cannot
be well fed for less than 80 cents per
day. This maxi a pretty heavy
drain on the farmer who carries three
or four idle head through long win
ter. II these were brood mares, all
raising good colts to pay their way, it
would not be so Lad. One way in
which good stock of all kinds is of the
most decided value is that 1T in
creases the owners interest in 1t. A
man will look after good stock more
carefully than after a lot OF scrubs
every time.
Proper preparation OF the soil not
only gives the young plantlet some
thing to feed on at the start, hut ena-
bles Ii to make such quick and
hardy growth that il is the better
able to resist disastrous influences,
such as drouth, cold, disease, insect
enemies, etc. With the majority of
crops an early start means an assur-
ance of success, but the early start
should never be made at the expense
of complete preparation before the
seed is committed to the ground. A
good farmer never gets in q hurry
about this matter. He makes up his
mind in the. beginning as to how the
land must be prepared for a certain
crop, and he does it that way. II
storms or untOward weather inter-
fere he waits then, when he can, he
his operations just where he
left off. He knows that it is better to
be q week late In getting his seed into
the ground than to be two weeks late
In having il come up for want OF
proper seed bed. Beside this, slow
sprouting usually means an imper-
feet stand.
A good clover field, cut the frs It
time for the hay crop and the second
time for seed, will give net return
that is not excelled in very many of
the staple branches of agriculture.
The hay crop should equal at least
Nv o tons per acre, and an average
A stand sufficiently good to give this
amount of hay should yield four
bushels OF seed to the acre, worth say
81. so per bushel. Then there remains
some late pasture and the straw from
the seed crop, which have some feed |
ing value, say the two together are
worth 50 per acre. This would give q |
total return OF S32 per acre, an amount
often exceeded by such management
OF a good clover field. The expenses |
Incurred In making these crops are
pot very heavy, considerably less
Than In making and harvesting q |
corn crop. Farmers who are keeping |
more land under the pillow than they |
can well handle might find it wise to
seed down q good portion to clover |
aud handle as above. Sow on the
wheat with the last snow, and you
will be pretty sure of a catch.
There is no staple crop in the world,
Of large production, which is so
wholly consumed in the country !
where grown as the corn crop of the |
United States. We have never sent |
more than Ave per cent. Of it abroad |
In any one year, Notwithstanding the |
fact that various efforts have been !
made to introduce it in Europe, and |
that it would afford q cheaper and |
more wholesome food than the rye |
Tread now so generally used by the |
peasantry. Secretary Rusk |
hopes, by 3 more persistent effort |
than has before been made, to show
The people of other countries that
sorn meal is an excellent article of
1ood. and to this end now has a spe-
,ial agent abroad whose sole mission
IA to entieaVor to open a market for
4 merican corn. Twenty years ago
An effort was made to procure an APP
from Congress for this
york. out the farmer was not then
.eceiving much consideration at leg
sIative hands, and the measure
allied. II the work that is now COM
had been done then we
hanId doubtless now have a foreign
MARKET for our corn that would great
" enhance its value and make its Gull
iva1ion much more profitable than
now is: but, meantime, we appear
bile to take care, at home, OF all that
We are producing.
The Ohio Experiment Station has
ken making some chemical and field
- with linseed oil meal to deter
4 its value as q fertilizer, and
Ikoncluslons are worth noticing.
|.' n going closely into the anAly-
|0 Ny say that the fertilizing
'| Of new process meal,
nlttogenI phosphoric