Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-11-15
AGRICULTURAL.
Wisconsin has 10000 silos.

Wisconsin has $4,000 silos.
Feed new corn carefully and salt
freely.
The muddy barnyard should be drain
ed and graveled.
The India wheat crop is reported to
be 2O3, los, 600 bushels
Examine the stable floor and see that
the planks are sound and strong.
The appropriations for agriculture
last year amounted TO over S3,OOO,OOO.
Under shed box can be fastened
so lump of rock salt will be handy at
all times for the horses and cattle.
The cows are now going into winter
quarters, and dirty cows, dirty milk
and dirty stables should be avoided.
The United States has about II sheep
for every 100 population, while Aus
tralia has over 5000 to every 100 people.
A barbed wire collar is being extern
sively used in the Central States for
protecting sheep from the raVages OF
dogs.
Ii is said that American corn meal
/ will be further advertised in Germany
py sending samples to all parts Of the
country.
Hogs are higher now than they have
been since 1882. The lowest figures In
/ ten years was 1885, when they went
down to $500.
Duck culture is now an important
part OF the poultry business, and yet,
until within few years, people did
not suppose that ducks were fit TO eat
Farmers, and especially feeders
| should remember that corn fodder loses
its palatableness the longer it is kept.
Feed the bulk of it during the coolest
weather.
The wheat sown for next years crop,
owing TO the general drouth, is not as
desirable as il should be. With re-
freshing rains the winter wheat is yet
all right.
A sheep raiser writes that he has fed
ensilage for seven years, and believes 1t
it to be one Of the cheapest and best
winter feeds. His sheep relish it and
fed with a grain ration, thrive remark
able.
Nail an old axle with one wheel left
Oh to the heavy farm gate. When the
gate is opened or closed the weight rests
on the wheel, which carries it back and
forth with one-fourth the strength re-
0uired TO move an ordinary heavy gate.
What pity that thousands of gates are
not wheeled for the benefit Of the little
ones.
II the young hogs are fat and the
price good, why not sell? This waiting
10 make heavy weights too often wipes
the profit of feeding clear out Of sight.
Some farmers appear to think it Is
ruinous TO them to sell 150-pound hog;
Not at all if he is gotten there in the
shortest possible time by judicious
feeding.
Horses should not be given water
while driving them. You have noticed
how a spirited horse will go until you
reach watering trough and he fills az
on water After he drinks you can
hardly get him along. The Arabs OF
the desert, the worlds best horsemen,
never feed except at night, and their
| horses are universally noted for sound
ness Of wind and limb, 1eetness and
good disposition.
A mill man says, who uses fifty horses
about his mill, that for several years he
fed the old fashioned way-long hay
and oats, each fed dry, without cuttinE
or grinding. Four years ago he chang
ed the system entirely and has adhered
to it ever since. He cuts all the hay and
grinds finely all the grain fed in the
mornings and evening; the hay is satu'
rated with water for twelve hours be-
fore it is fed and at noon whole oats is
fed dry. This has proven saving in
feed and the horses are in a better con,
dition,