The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-02-12
Brown Hal 2:l2
Joe Bowers Jr., 2:lS. J
STOCK FARM AND GARDEN.

Excessively fat pork is losing it's pop
ularity in the general market, and the
demand tor lean is increasing. NJ ~
NAV be had nv @iy'iuE freo exercise 70
TITO fiSs55s TO develop muscle ana frame,
and giving varied diet, composed OF
vegetables, waste fruit, skim milk and
bran.
The highest market during the year
for hogs is usually in June, July ana
August, and those are the very months
when pork can be made cheapest, eS-
peCially if you have good clover held; ;
but heavy weights arc not wanted then,
but moderately fat animals that Will
weigh from $50 to 200 pounds.
The market report says that there mas
been an overplus of lambs during the
past season. Few of these reports take
the trouble to say that the surplus was
poor and inferior stock, unsuited to
market, but such is the fact. We have
not had at any time more good lambs
than the market could take at a good
price.
The great number of fast trotters that
has come to the front this season has
awakened even greater interest in the
breeding of that class OF horses IMAM
formerly existed, but we hear as little
"a ever about fast walkers. We wonder
when norsemen will awake to the fact
that the fast walker is the valuable
animal-for the farm, for the road, ana
for every kind of practical work, ana
begin to pay some attention to develop
ing this trait.
In an Ohio manufacturing town the
butchers combined to make high price
OF meats, at the same time paying
starvation prices to farmers for their
cattle. A number of farmers combined
and started p new shop, with good
man in charge, whore they sold their
own beeves and pOrkerS to much better
advantage than they had been doing,
aud gave the people good meat at lower
prices. There is a suggestion in this
for other communities.
1t seems that we are not only Intro
ducing new plants of economic value,
but that nOXiouS and troublesome
foreign weeds are continually finding
their way into this country by some
mysterious agency. So important is 1t
considered that farmers should know
these in time TO fight them upon their
first appearance, that the Secretary of
Agriculture will soon issue a bulletin
illustrating and describing them. 1t
may not be generally known that many
of our most troublesome weeds have
been brought in from other countries. !
Ordinarily the safest plan to follow in |
cutting seed potatoes is to have two |
good eyes to each piece; but if you want
to try On6-eye cutting you should take |
your best piece of potato ground, ma
nure it heavily, and give good cultiva-
ton. Under such circumstances you
'can probably grow as many marketable
potatoes from the One-eye cuttings as
= |
IL on ordinary land, nor If you are care
less cultivator; but the amount of seed
saved by cutting thus will pay for
good deal of manure and extra labor.
If a COW is over-fed it will not properly
digest all its food, and this makes an
expensive leak in the dairy, beside un-
dOubtedly lowering the quality of the
milk and butter. The very best milk
can only come from COW whose enllre
system is in good condition, and this is
not the case when the digestive organs
are clogged or OVerworked. Feed a
COW all il will eat and digest, but DO not
tempt it with more than that. When
COW has been properly fed she will lie
down quietly and chew her cud and
secrete milk. Some dairymen are get
ting good results from feeding twice a
daV, not that there is any saving OF 1000,
but that the cows have u longer period
of quiet, and IL is a considerable saving
of labor.
A good Short-hOrn is valuable where
ever it may be- placed-in the dairy Tor
milk or butter, or to feed for peer, nut
it's most important characteristic, and
that which makes it OF exceptional
value to the general farmer, is Its adap-
ton for the improvement oil other oreeuS
nv crossing. The mixture of its blood
with common or unimproved stock Is
quick to show good results, ana IL is In
mat way that it has proven OF such
Treat value to the cattle interests OF
Great Britain. While other breeds may
take the palm for special purpose, a
farmer can not go far wrong If he intro
naes some good Short-horn blood INTO
ERId. If we were restricted TO a
bis would d0ubtless be
Ssst majority of farmers
ali over the land. {
wv farmers in our
the cattle industry
||| made to supple I
|' crops. If the 4
4 f' HSsrted into 1
tntelli- .