The Mt. Sterling advocate., 1893-04-04

| Inc only reason many FARMERS no no'
make the stock pay is their indiffer-
ence about breeding good stock. They
breed to scrub sires and raise scrub
stock they think they cannot afford
to take stock Journal, while the i'm
proved stock breeders who make stock
pay, read all the stock journals to gel
all the beet experience of others breed
are, and they breed only to the best
pure bred sires.
The N. f. Farmer says that many
good dairymen advocate small
amount of salt in each days ration for
their COWS. How would human
being like to get his salt in single
batch once week?
With good roads and electric lights
along them at night, it won't be SO
dreary living in the country.
Select your fruit plants, bushes and
trees and order them now, to be sent
when safe to transport and the ground
is ready to receive them.
Do not let the young calf get chilled
and sthnted. 1t is hard work to get
money back out of calf that is once
stuntcd. 1t takes great deal of pet
ting and coaxing and then often fails
to come.
One of the advantages of the small
farmer is that he is obliged to get out
of the usual ruts. He cannot afford to
grow on a small scale the grain and
other staple crops that must compete
with like products grown by the hun
dred or thousand acres. But this dis
advantage of the small farmer, in the
end helps him. Selecting some spe-
cialty and devoting his attention
mainly to that, he soon earns more
from few acres than those who go
in the old ruts get from their larger
farms.
yTLast year Chicago received l57 OOO,-
600 pounds of butter, of which only 10
per cent was extra.
The shipments OF phosphate from
Florida during 1892 were 81, l22 tons.
The previous largest year was l8O,44O
tons in 1891. In 1890 the shipments
were $4,000 tons, and in 1889 only
1900 tons. A material increase is
looked for in the shipments for the
current year.
Twenty-Five thousand trout eggs
were received at the Canton, N. b !,
hatchery in one week, short time
ago, and the young trout are being
put into Madawaska Lake, which
promises good fishing for some one a
few years from now. " .
Choice Canada and New York hay
sells at SIS to $1S so per ton. Eastern
rules at $l5 to SIT. Plenty of hay is
expected from New York State when
the roads are passable. Rye straw
steady at $l3 to $l4 per ton. -
OF the 2,4Ol,741 hogs received at
Chicago market from Nov. l, 1892, 10
March l, 1893, 1,459,34l were handled
by the packers. During the corre-
spending season of l8Sl-92 there ar
rived 3,730,029, and of this number
Chicago packers took 2,726,tOS head.
While during the season of lS9O-9l
receipts were slightly lighter than the
following corresponding period, there
was, however, an increase of about
125,0O0 in the packing. ~. .
Exports of wheat from the United
States, including -four as wheat, equal
2,S93,000 bushels, against S,25l, 900
bushels week before last, and 3,754,-
600 bushels in the corresponding week
for year ago. Bradstreet's estimate,
March 8, was 100000 bushels of
wheat in farmers hands. This points
to reserve July next of 5O,OOO,OOO
bushels, against 6s,OOO,OOO bushels
last year.
During the four months ended Mar.
l the average weight of hogs at
Chicago was 226 pounds against 234
pounds during the corresponding
period of 1912.