The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-02-12
COLUMBIA JERSEY FARM.

I them. When sold from the farm the
products pass through the hands OF
various dealers and manufacturers,
each of whom procures some profit. by
| feeding the farmer turns manufactures
| himself, and, beside this, he saves one
| important element of value (the ferti-
| LIKING prOperties) of which no one else
| would take any account. To farm with
| out stock entails one of two thingS-the
! buying of commercial manures, or the
! constant deterioration OF the soil. 1t
! should not be difficult for any man to
! determine what course to pursue, in the
| face of such an alternative.
| The Supreme Court of the State OF
{ Indiana has recently decided a some
| what novel case, which Is of interest to
all agricultural communities, especially
AS it reVerSes the usual order of things.
/ A farmers cow StraVed ON the railway
| track and was killed by q train. He
sued the company for the value of the
! cow, aud the company replied by suing
/ him for damages to their locomotive.
| The decision of the Court is, in effect,
| that it is quite as much the farmers
| business TO keep his cows off the rail
| way track as it was the business of the
| railway company to keep its lOcamo-
| lives out OF his pasture fields, and that
| If either strayed on the property of the
other the owner was liable for the dam
| age caused. Consequently the farmer
pays for the damage to the locomotive,
and the company does not paw for the
COW. Farmers who are IN the habit of
| letting their COWS roam at will, or who
have properly fenced pastures adjacent
to railway track, will do well to take
notice of this.
A great deal of pure milk, which 9th
erwise would make a valuable and
wholesome product, is spoiled as soon
as drawn from the COW by simply being
allowed to stand for Il brief period in a
filthy stable. Sometimes it escapes this
danger only to be strained into cans and
stood in an atmosphere charged with
| impure OdOrs. 1t seems hardly worth
while to 20 TO the trouble of producing
milk, and then for want of little care
let 1t be injured and deprecated in
value in this manner; but negligence
right here is the direct cause of one
half the rancid butter that goes to the
corner grOceryman at price about
equal to Oue-half the cost of production.
We presume none of our readers can
accuse themselves of having filthy
stables, or neglecting proper care of the
milk, but perhaps they may hand this
TO some of their neighbors who need
this hint. There must be some people |
to whom 1t will apply, or we should not
see so much poor butter that Is directly
traceable to such causes.
Some objection is made to our recent !
advice regarding the use of cOrn-stalks |
as fodder for horses and colts, on the |
ground that there is danger of clogging |
or impactlOn of the bowels when they |
are used as steady diet. There will be |
no danger of this If proper conditions !
are observed. The crop should be cut |
at seasOnable time and properly |
cured; that is, il should be cut before !
that the fodder does not come out of the |
shock muSty or widowed. Some grain |
must, of course, be fed, and bran or oil |
meal are better to combine with this |
dency to loosen the bowels. As Il mat |
ter of economy, we know that a very /
large amount of it can be produced on a |
few acres, and, indeed, in the great corn |
belt much of it is now produced as a |
by product, and only utilized to small |
degree by turning cattle upon the stalk |
fields. Saved as in the foregoing, and |
fed carefully, it may safely take the |
place of hay, and will prove a very |
much cheaper ration.
In other lines of business we see men
looking for horses that are especially |
adapted to their work, but farmers too |
generally think that any thing in the
shape of horse will do for the farm.
This is a mistaken idea, and il is time
TO abandon il. A light, nondescript
animal is out of place before the pillow,
or drawing heavy wagon, or running
the binder in the heavy grain. Begin
now and raise some horses for your own
use. Get gOOd-siZed mare of some
qualities, breed her to some !
good, pure-bred draft stallion, and raise
horses that are suited to farm work. |
There is no reason why man should |
be engaged in raising good horses for
others and put mp with plugs for HIM
self. tits not consistent. \ good horse
does not eat any more than poor one,
and will DO double the work. Another
thing, have your horses well matched
1t is not economy to pillow with large
horse and a small one, nor to haul grain
TO town with a fast walker and a slow
Dne. One must Overdo or the other
waste much time and strength.
The business of fruit growing is one
hat must be learned-frOm the ground
Up. No man without experience can 90
nto 1t on a large scale and succeed,
rood many of our readers are thinking
y turning their attention in this direca
ION this spring. We want to give them