The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-04-05

teams waste valuable time. How great
failure to push ones business. Have rs
any right to expect successP
Not all are failing in this way. More OF
us are improving in our methods, doing
more thinking and studying and living up
to our convictions than formerly did so.
But there is always room for better work.
The farmer of today needs to be not only
economical and industrious, but studIous,
energetic. full OF expcdients for cheapen-
ing cost of production, and ready to test
in a conservative way al new methods
for increasing incomes that give promise
of suece ss, whether they consist OF crops
new to the farm or only methods OF cul-
ture. Pushing ones business on the farm
may not mean harder manual labor, but
it means the shrewd management so nee
essary in all other lines OF work.
Suggestions to Feeders.
From a southern state report the follow
ing suggestions are valuable. Two things
are essential in fattening animals:
!. To keep the animal comfortable and
quiet
To induce him to eat the largest
amount OF nutritious food possible.
One is of little value without the other
To keep the cattle comfortable, shelter is
indispensable.
Cattle must be handled quietly. This
point we wish to emphasize, Tor it is
entirely overlooked by too many cattle
men. A barking dog and noisy, loud
mouthed man are two things that should
never be permitted to enter the cattle
feeding pen. 1t should be rememb ered
that when a naturally wild steer is struck
with a whip, or disturbed in any way,
that he stops gaining in weight for a time,
and the food consumed is a loss. This is
not a sentiment, but a business matter of
working the animal machine 10 its full
capacity.
Cattle should be fed twice a day at
regular time il confined in building, by
the same persons, and strangers excluded
for at least month after the cattle are
shut up. Feed what the cattle will eat
and clean out the managers and troughs
once every day. Cattle dislike feed that
has been picked over and breathed upon.
Vary the rations occasionally to stimulate
the appetite; have salt always before
them, or better, il the feeder is careful and
skillful. sprinkle little salt on the feeder,
but care ust be exercised not to give too
much.
II feeding to ship in the spring after
grass starts keep the cattle off the grass
unless il IS proposed to finish on grass,
otherwise the cattle will loso their relish
for Stage and dry feed. stop gaining and
be in soft condition to ship.
Draft Horses Preferred.
"A Letter from 'Norman."1
THE SENTINEL asks whether good reason
can lie given for the advice to farmers that
they breed their mares to draft horses. | think
/ can give several good reasons. One reason
is that most farmers have 20 time TO train and
develop road colts. If they have draft
colts they can teach them TO work on the farm
and reed, and when five or six years old the
horses can be put upon the market Then, a
draft horse sells for what be is. and farmer
can get about all he is worth. His appearance
helps to sell him. While il one raises road
colts, all depends upon speed. and unless one
has track and trains his horses, q buyer can
not tell whether the horse is worth having or
not There are certain sections that have repu-
tatOn for raising road horses, and when such
horses are wanted buyers 20 to those places.
Reputation helps 10 sell them.
Ii farmer las a pair of good draft horses he
can always fluid a market for them. He can
ship them to q city market il there are no local
buyers, and the size and form of the horses
command q good price. Then, too, most
country mares better fitted to produce
draft col,s than road colts. Unless the dam
has fast blood 10 her no sire eau give the colt
raise draft horses. NORMAN.
Our correspondent presents his side of
this question with some force However,
ne says nothing of coach horses and all
that class that commands good price
for pleasure carriages because they have
good form and action, even when speed is
lacking Let us hear from the other side
Are some of our readers doing well with
road stock2 We trust so, and want them
TO speak for their favorite breed.
Canning Factories.
To THE AGRICULTURAL EpIToR-Sv: Will
some of my brother farmers tell US
whether raising vegetables for a canning fac
tory is pro6tabIe business? What are the u.s.
ual prices paid to farmers by the factories?
READER.
Will some one who has had experience
please answer. Give the scale of prices
paid, the average yields OF the various veg.
etables and any other facts that will help
"Reader."
Cow Peas.
To THE AGRICULTURAL EDIToR-Sir: Can
southers COW peas be grown in Indiana?
When should they be sown. and where can
seed be obtained? How much seed Is required
for an acre, the crop to be plowed nnder for
manure? FARMER.
/. Yes. these peas can be grown in
the latitude of our state. They should
not be sown until the ground is thoroughly
warm. as they are a native Of a warm eli
mate. ! shall SOW several acres this year
about June l. II you have no spring Gro D
on the land you will do well to SOW about
| May Is. although they will make fair
| growth il not sown until the LIST OF July.
.. Seedsmen should advertise in our
| columns. | sent to the South for my
seed for this summers planting. having
already ordered as the price goes up later
i'm the season. Write ID. NJ. Ferry. De-
troit. Mich. who advertises with u.s. and
| if he does not handle them l will give
| the name of n southern firm