The Wichita daily eagle., 1898-01-07
News Of the Farm
BEST BREED OF CATTLE.


choice steers are to be raised for market,
and which are to grow rapidly, produce
carcasses that vii lcommand extra prices
! and at the lowest cost, use the beef
breeds If milk and butter are the OBJ
| jects the bef qualities should not be
sought. 1t is not difficult to learn at the
present day how and where to produce
! the best breed of milk and butter pro-
! ducers, but in so doing aim to secure not
| only the breed, but choice animals of the
| breed. If beginning is made with the
pest the more rapid vii be the progress
to success, as there are inferior animals
| even among the pure bred ones. An extra
dollar or two expended at the start will
| return four-fold in the future.
The Ontario experiment station tested |
grains of wheat used for seeding and
found that there was a great difference |
in the yield when plump grains were |
used compared with with seed that was
not perfect The large, plump, selected |
grains yielded at the rate of three and |
two-thirds bushels more per acre than |
the small, plump seed, and six and four
fifths bushels more per acre was obtained |
than from seed that was shrunken. This |
difference was sufficient to pay for the |
seed and its selection, and insures bet
ter yield under adverse condition when
plump seeds are used.
It is estimated that the potato crop IS
20 900, 900 bushels less than last year. Far
mers are disposed TO shorten crop the
following year if there is a surplus, and
the result is better prices because the
supply is les sthan the demand. A far
mer who watches the markets and has
noticed that a short yield follows one
that is heavy, will plant more, instead
of growing smaller crop after pear of
plenty.
There are many theories" held by the
practical farmers, although they are
ever ready to denounce theory and book
farming. In fact, some farmers depend
wholly on theory. They plant by the
moon, and make no distinction in breeds.
The number of farmers who believe that
sheep can do without water is legion,
yet sheep, like other animals, require
water and go without it at times because
they are unable to procure ii rather than
from any unwillingness to drink.
Education in all branches of farming
will in the future be universal Europe
has dairy schools, and short courses in
agriculture are being given at nearly all
of the experiment stations IN this coun-
try. The Rhode Island station now has a
poultry department" in which pupils
are taught the merits and Characters
tice of the breeds, fowl anatomy, dis
eases, artificial incubation and the brood
ing of chicks, chemistry as applied to the
foods of fowls, construction of poultry
houses, growing green foods for poultry,
etc.
A prize of $50 offered by the Charleston
News and Courier for the best half dozen
smoke-cured hams made in South Car
olina from hogs born after November 1,
1895, was awarded to hame cured by the
following recipe: To 100 pounds of meat,
use four quarts of salt, four pounds of
brown sugar and three ounces saltpetre.
The ingredients to be well mixed, the salt
having been beaten fine. When the meat
is cold rub in two-thirds of the mixture
and pack meat in a cask. The next day
rub in the remaining third, and put meat |
again in cask, reversing the pieces from
top to bottom. Let them remain three
weeks, reversing pieces once week. At
the end of two weeks pour off liquor in
the cask, boil and skim till clear, and
when cool pour over the meat again. At
the end of three weeks wash meat IN
hot water, wipe dry and smoke three
weeks, after which bag and hang up. ,
Those who cure their own hame might ,
do wei Ito preserve this recipe, but we
would suggest that the length of time
for remaining in the brine and that re- ,
Quired for the smoking might vary lit
tie, according to the size of the hams, :
as the small ham or shoulder would be ,
cured a little quicker that the large ham.
might also depend upon the .
taste of those who intended to eat it,
some want but little salt and others but
little smoke. But the recipe is good
one as it is. ,
Out Of a total of 2,14S, 600 sheep in the :
Maranoa district of Queensland. Austria
liza, the loss from wild dogs is estimated ,
at 42S. 600. .
Farmers would do well to spend some Of ,
their leisure hours this winter in consid-
ering whether they cannot add something r
to the variety of their crops. either for :
sale or home use, which will be profitable
to them without adding very much to
their labor or cares. =
Runaway horses are unknown In Rus =
STA. No one drives there without having
a thin cord with a running moose around
The neck of the animal When an animal 4;
bolts the cord is pulled, and the horse f,
stops as soon as it feels the pressure on .
the windpipe.
English dairy authorities state that the 2
English COWS produce 1400. 100000 gallons .
Of milk annually, of which 400 600 900 are 4
used for making butter and cheese, 6oo.-
200,0O0 as milk for the table. at an everage +
Of Is gallons per inhabitant. and 400 O00,- 7
10 in fattening calves.
The roof wears unless kept painted. q
faster than vii lany other part of a wood
en- building. 1t pays better TO keep the 4
roof painted than it does the sides. and ?
il vii lalso need 20 be painted oftener. u
When shingles are used from clear
straght-grained wood and kept always :,
painted. they will asst a very long time. ?
One Of the advantages of painting roofs !,
s TO Keep water from the nails whose ',
rusting soon rots the wood where they