Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1902-02-06
FUTURE OF THE HORSE.

uSdicT III nurses Sdlu TO me the
other day: Il don't know what we are
going to do for horses. | can't get
enough for my customers. | could use
good many more than | can procure.
Our native horses are all cleaned out,
and what we do get are brought in
from the south or west But the
trouble is, the south and the west are
short, too. Horses must advance In
price, and that right sharply, too"
And yet we are told that the United
States has close to 100000 horses.
valued at perhaps $500. 600 900. Be
sides the horses we have also some
thing like 1000 Coo mules, worth $50
each. or representing total of s120.-
100000, Out of this total there are
probably not more than 100000 young
horses really fit for the market
1t Is easy to account for great
deal of this scarcity from the fact
that there has been a sharp demand
for cur horses from the British, who
have used them in the African war
The Germans have also used a good
market has just taken 500 horses for
their cavalry, paying for them an
average of $3.50. In the year 1900
we exported about 65 O00 horses, \
gain over 1923 Of more than 1000 per
cent. in seven years.
But it is not SO easy to determine
where the horses are coming from TO
continue this ratio OF increase much
longer. unless some of our farmers
turn their attention to horse raising.
The great west is entering upon
period of its history when it will not
be content to devote its time TO
grazing. The immense ranches arc
being turned more and more into
farms. So that we must depend upon
them for our supply of horses. At the
present time a good horse is worth in
New York 500. The price varies
somewhat in other states, but y is not
unfair to say that the price in New
York is representative TO that ruling
elsewhere,
The cost of raising colts on the
increase in value will no doubt be an
incentive to many to do more in the
direction of raising them than we
have done for some time. While the
price was low there was little money
in it for the farmers of the east. The
west could Guido us in every way.
Tho time was when on almost every
farm one might see a young colt
That time will soon come again. |
think.-E. l.. Vincent
Cow Peas.
So much has been written recon-
meBding COW peas and other legumi-
Gus crops that one who reads the
agricultural papers would expect 70
see them growing upon every farm
but in. many sections where COW peas
could be profitably grown they have
not yet been introduced. People are
so used to depending upon the corn,
oats and wheat crops that they pay
but little attention to anything else,
and so they run their land in these
crops until it is exhausted, and then
undertake to remedy this by buying
commercial fertilizer, or moving west
and securing new land. The ones
that depend upon commercial ferti-
lizer are sure to make failure of it
unless they also take to raising some
legaminous crops. OF these the COW
pea is one of the best as it is a
paying crop, and only requires from
seventy to ninety days to mature
Cow peas may be so arranged as to
come in as a catch crop after wheat
or winter oats. and not interfere with
raising other crops. Some recon-
mend them to be sown in corn at last
working, but my experience is that il
there is anything like a good crop 81
corn, the COW peas will not amount &c
much in corn.
The COW pea If sown just after
wheat harvest will make good croI
by latter part of September, and viii
help keep up nitrogen supply in tht
soil. Last summer | tried COW peas
in the field with soy beans. and the
coy peas proved to be much The
better crop. The peas grew right
along through drouth in July. The,
had rich, dark green color. and
seemed to be very little affected b.
the drought The soy beans were ;
very inferior crop. They did not de
velep tubercles on the roots to an,
considerable extent, so they had t.
depend upon the soil for nitrogen
This was not the case with the COW
peas. I think that the cow peas an'
red clover are the best crops of tn
leguminous class for this section
The soy bean may be all right If the
soil is inoculated artificially with so!
bean bacteria, but two years in sue
cession has failed to develop 50.
bean bacteria in my soil to any con
siderable extent Tubercles gr)
upon the roots of the COW pea al
right, and If the land is not too weed
they win make good growth on yer.
thin land.-A J. Legg, Albion, W. u
Hog Cholera.
Commenting on the absence of no
cholera in Iowa this year, Wallace