The independent., 1907-03-07
FARM NOTES
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Nebraska makes a comfortable show
ing in live stock way in the latest
government census of farm animals in
the United States. In mortgage raisers,
hogs and milk cows, the number COM
pared with other states, puts Nebraska
close to the top. This state had 1885,
900 swine four for every inhabiIant,
in which we are surpassed by but two
states, Iowa and Illinois. Iowa has a
wonderful lead in this respect, having
more than twice as many swine as
Nebraska, while Illinois has so short
d lead that Nebraska may hope TO land
in second place in few years more.
No other state comes within a million
of owning as many hogs as Nebraska.
Eight states lead Nebraska in number
of dairy cows, most of these, naturally,
being states near centers of population,
like New York and Illinois Nebraska
is credited with S7O,135 while New York
leads with 1,826211. Iowa's greatness
in agriculture again appears here, that
state having second place with a fifth
less than New York Only three states
lead Nebraska in other cattle than
dairy animals. Nebraska is given g.
1886, 000, less than half as many as
Texas, and a very few less than Kan
sas and Iowa. In sheep we are behind
a dozen other states, but it is in mules
that Nebraska shines at the foot. Texas
has over six hundred thousand n.y.
brids, Missouri with half as many
Almost any southern state shows a
greater prediction for the mule than
Nebraska, with less than seventy thou
sand. Here at last, however, we beat
Iowa
CoylesvilIe, in the eastern part of
Butler county, Penn, has taken Jon
new lease of life as an oil producing
| locality A new gusher was struck
| in that neighborhood last week, the
oil flowing over the top of the der
rick The owners had so little faith
| in their operation that they had pre-
pared no tankage, and the first days
flow, amounting to 12O barrels, was
wasted. The well is on a forty-acre
| lease, and mile from any other well.
Eduard Mygind, writing from Con-
stantinople to the "Berliner Tage-
blatt," says as, to carnivorous horses:
'sWhen the London papers asked the
| question, Are there flesh eating
horses ?" and published learned essays
on the subject looked upon the whole
matter as a huge joke The writer
says that he saw, years later in the
Soudan, the horses employed in trans
porting the army stores "eat and en-
| joy eating scraps Of meat which We're
fed to them by the native drivers
despite the fact that their religion
| forbade the practice. The coats of
these horses We're sleeker and the ami
mails looked better in every respect
than the horses which received what
we recognized as normal food" In
ConstantinopIe, the writer says he
also found carnivorous horses, and
was told by a native groom that, al
though all horses have a natural aver
sion for flesh as food Eve know by
experience that our horses, if they are
employed in or near slaughter houses
slowly but surely overcome the dis
like, and finally thrive on meat. But
there are not many Mohametan butch
ers who are SO forgetful of their re-
ligious duties as to help the horse ac-
quire the habit"
The state forester of Connecticut
notes that two years ago the state
purchased tract of land in the town
Of Union. 1t cost s3775 an acre, and
now has been planted in white pine
seedlings at cost of $3.50 an acre.
1t is estimated that in forty or fifty
years this will return a net result Of
5 per cent compound interest. The
forester intends to have a least one
thousand acres of forest reserves in
each county.
Another seed fraud. that bane Of the
farmer, has reached such dimensions in
Nebraska as to require a warning bull
letin from the state experiment station.
Farmers have lately greatly increased
their use of the tame pasture grasses
that have been found TO thrive In this
state. particularly meadow fescue and
bronze grass The experiment station
workers find that considerable pro-
portion OF the seed samples submitted
IL.