The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-09
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in many places is short this year and
farmers viii find IL good economy to use
II sparingly This can better be done be-
cause the grain crop Is large. Both corn
and oats are likely TO be cheap. and some
or these with cut hay or straw viii
make limited amount of hay go far in
!eedlng. 1t VIII also pay II straw is TO
be used for the cut feed to purchase some
1nseed or cotton seed meal to mix with
II. Both of these meals have a larger pro-
portion of heterogeneous or hesh-forming
clements than has Indian corn. The straw
OF grain is largely carbonaceous and it
needs something that has more album
Mods than corn has to make II profitable
feed. Many New England farmers buy
more or less western corn to feed. and this
year, when it is so cheap, they can GER
talnly afford to do So But part of the
money expended for feed should so to the
purchase of wheat bran and linsecd or
cotton seed meal to be fed with the corn
and make better balanced ration.
Feed of Breeding sws.-It is well
known to farmers that corn is too rich
food for young pigs. II is not proper
~ balanced ration for growth. and win
make the pigs grow round and fat rather
than long, which Is the condition for
thrift. The same lack Of bone and muscle
material in corn which units il for feed
undesirable feed for breeding sow vs.
| The SOW bearing pigs must furnish from
! what she eats the material for making
their growth. When the breeding SOW has
had too much corn her pigs viii often
be stunted at birth, and can never be-
come as thrifty as if she had been fed q
better balanced ration. There is nothing
/ better than wheat middlings for breeding
! soWs. That, with milk, viii keep them in
! thrifty condition, and they VIII farrow a
| thrifty lot of pigs without any runts.
1t is deficiency of feed before narrowing
which makes the lot Of pigs uneven at
birth
Profit in Good st6ek.@fsn't it surpris-
/ ing how the farmer will cling 10 the idea
! that the old mongrel hens arc good
| enough for me, when they could dispose
| of them and invest the money in some
| good breed Of thoroughbreds?
If they want a breed for eggs alone.
| there is the brown or buff Leghorn, and
| black Minorcas, in fact most any of
/ the small breeds are good egg produc-
| ers, or II they want good "all round
| fowl | would suggest such as the Plymouth
/ Rock, Brahmas Cochins and Langshcns:
/ but it seems ii is hard for them TO part
| with dear mongrel bddy;" in fact 1
| think the majority of the people are yet
/ 70 be converted to the belief that the
/ thoroughbreds are superior to mongrels.
but the farmer is the one to derive the
/ most benefit, If he would only think SO.
/ and look ct it in the right way So many
/ think that thoroughbreds are more trou-
bic and more liable to disease than
/ common stock, but it is quite a mistake.
/ at any rate, | have found it to be; [
have had less disease in my poultry
]
any other time, and DO you know / really
/ think there is no prettier sight than a
| yard fun of one colored fowls any color
/ one may prefer, but let them all be one
color. Those who do not have pure stock
/ do not know what pretty sight If is.
/ Early Maturity of HOgs-There is not
/ so much call now for hogs that will keep
! on growing three or four years before
/ they reach maturity, says the American
| CultivGtor. The large hog has always
| cOarser meat than the young pig and the
! difference SUSPECT. hnpalFgp
/ is always some check TO growth in cold
/ weather. Spring pigs fattened in the
/ fall, will always make better pork than
| they VIII if kept later. In these times.
too, the hog that weighs 200 or $50 pounds
I sells for higher price per hundred weight
than one that Is heavier. Hence the ear
/ ~ maturing breeds that reach their fun
/ weight when one or two years old are the
favorites with farmers. But there is
! something to be said in favor of the heavy
| weights. If not allowed to get too fat
| the late-maturing hogs are better breed
ers, especially for dams. A cross of an
! early maturing boar with large, long
bodied SOW brings pigs that for fattening
are better than either breed alone. They
/ will be larger al birth, and at ten 10
/ eleven months will weigh thirty or fifty
! pounds more than the fun bloods of either
/ early or late-maturing varieties One
/ reason why late-maturing soWs are bet
ter breeders is because they keep on
! growing until three or four years old, and
! therefore their food does not go to fat so
much as that OF the early-nla turing breeds
! Diversified Crops.-For many years this
/ writer has observed the necessity Of di-
| versifying crops. says the Texas Stock
/ Journal. IN very few instances has the
| farmer who has planted all of one crop
! succeeded. On account of the extremely
/ low price of cotton last year our farm
| ers were forced to plant less cotton and
/ rather than let their hands lay out they
! have perhaps planted greater variety
/ than ever before, and the effect of lasr
/ years low prices has proven a blessing.
/ They have felt perceptibly the benefits
| of the change this year, not only in the
| increased value of a less costly cotton
/ crop, but also in the general benefit that
/ has come to the state with the meat and
/ bread policy The natural and speculative
/ risks that come to the farmer who pins
/ his faith solely to cotton or to any one
| product are certainly too serious and
/ too dangerous for the average man with
| a family to feed and clothe. The farmer
| who undertakes to raise some part Of eV-
| erything he consumes will neither go to
| the poor house nor be forced to make
| an assignment. nor will he have TO mort
| gage a crop IN advance to pay for sup
| plies at high prices while the crop is
maturing. Let US not talk so much about
diversifying but let us diversity.