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ToLX INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 20, 1875. No. 7. w Live Stock* a Will some person tell nie what will cure cracked heels in horses ? u N. C. S. .jj ..,-. - » * « — . -f THOROUGHBRED HORSES. ' An English paper calls attention to the fact that the horse has come to the highest state of development in those localities where the grass and water is highly impregnated with lime. The latter enters into the development of the bones, indeed is essential, and therefore limestone localities are known to have produced the hest developed horses in the world. Take the horse-breeding localities of Kentucky and Tennessee, and we find that this is practically true of this country. These districts in the States named have bred more and better horses than any, perhaps'all the other States. Not altogether because there are not other as favorable localities in this country, but rather because horse- breeding was early introduced there, and has been eminently successful, and it is the success, and the cause of it to which we now direct attention. We have before in the columns of the Indiana Farmer, called attention to the value <bf hard over soft water. It is the natural drink of the horse, as well as of man, for it contains just that which , forms the bone, in a larger per cent, than any other drink or food, .'','. '" The reader will remember the highly interesting paper of Professor Wiley, of Purdue University, written -for and printed in these columns last month, on thesubject of water. . He. took .substantially the same positionin favor of hard water; s■•' >'' '• ■' -' ■ '. A- ■For the Indiana Farmer. . AH I AWAKENING INTEREST J, ,;.■-., qood STOCK. IN -<;I am a reader of the Indiana Farmer, and believe it to be the best paper we farmers can read. It has, I im proud to say, inspired in me a desire for improvement—a lively determina- ■tion to better my condition as a farmer. _is a: primary step in this direction, I recently visited the farms of some of the breeders of fine stock, near Thorntown, . Boone county, Indiana, with a ,tiew to improving my stock of hogs. •The first farm I visited was that of Mr. W. H. Fall, where I was kindly taken ia, and hospitably entertained over night. Mr.' Fall has a fine farm, nicely sifnated, and well watered. He has as .fine Berkshire hogs as I have ever seen. He was very communicative; is a granger, and I think a gentleman. : iijI afterward visited the farms of Mr: James Riley,: and Mr. I. N. Barker. Mr. Riley has Bome very fine hogs and #ouls. He has a good farm and is well situated for the raising of fine stock: I found Mr. Barker at home with his pigs and chickens; many of which are of superior quality. Mr. Barker's attention seems to be much absorbed with his fine stock, which no doubt is the grand secret to his success as a breeder of fine stock. I was much interested in looking through the herds of these men, and _rach pleased at the interest they seemed to take in their stock business. I would like to see hundreds of farmers all over •Indiana feeling a like interest. i Farmers, give the Indiana Farmer Jtmr support, and we will have just such »n interest. •>•■•■• 1 I came home, feeling that I had got ^the worth of my time and money, and fully convinced that Benton is the best pounty in the State. , i Alex. Jefferson. » Benton County, Indiana. - ~ • ;! ■■-■,',•■■"■ ' ■ IA Death of the $25,000 Cow. The Paris True Kentuckian says : ;' On Saturday, the Fourth Duchess of Oneida died at Hon. T. J. Megibben'„. She was purchased by Megibben & Bed- jvford, October, 1873, at Campbell's New >', York Mills sale, for 125,000. She leaves ' a bull calf three months old, by Fourteenth Duke of Thorndale, said to be one of the finest Dukes in the country. There was, of course, no insurance on iher. Thus the $25,000 heifer has met the same fate as the 140,500 cow. . Indiana Farmer Family. Onr Portal Cord Correspondents*. Poland-China Sow, " QUEEN OF THE SOUTH," Owned by A, S. Qilmour & Co., Gree__b_rg, Ind. FEEDING STOCK. Editor Indiana Farmer: "Granger," from Jamestown, Boone county, wants information in regard to feeding cattle. The practice of " rough- ing" cattle until March, causing a shrinkage of 100 to 150 pounds, and then full feeding until grass to get back tbe loss is undoubtedly a bad policy. : My experience ~Ih feeding cattle is that if you want to put your cattle in market before grass, you want to commence with cattle in good flesh, weighing by lst of November at IcaBt 1,200 to 1,300 pounds, then feed all they can eat; do not be afraid of giving too much corn, and bytho lst Of March, or. possibly by lst of February you have cattle that are ready for the butcher. But if the price does not suit, you can feed on later, say until lst of May, just as your fancy may dictate, and you will then have cattle that will command a price in any market.. Cattle fed in this way with above weights at beginning of feeding, will weigh by 1st, of March from 1,400 to 1,500 pounds, and by lst of May 1,500 to 1,600 pounds. But if you want to graze your cattle next summer, I would not advise you to full feed them through the winter; but just keep them in good, growing condition, and when you turn to grass they will put on pounds very fast, and by July or August you will have cattle good enough for any market. But if your fancy should dictate you can graze on until later, and your cattle will still be taking on flesh very fast. My observation is that a steer will take'on about so many pounds in a year, say on an average, 400 to 500 pounds. Now, if you put on'300 pounds in the winter, you will get but 100 to 200 through the summer. But if you feed through the winter just enough to keep your cattle in a good growing condition, bringing them ont in the spring as good as they were in the fall, or possibly 50 to 100 pounds heavier; then through the summer, on the grass, you can put on from 350 to 400 pounds.' 'Then the question would simply be which, is it the cheapest to make the pounds with corn or grass ? which I think would be very easily decided, especially when corn is worth 50 cents per bushel. M. B. Wauoh. Colfax, Indiana. INFLUENCE OF THE STOCK SALES. The evidences given by recent successful sales of Short-Horns, of the course of improvement in general stock breeding, is most encouraging. Seveiity-seven members of the Glen Flora herd have scattered among breeders in eight States and Canada, at a cost of nearly $55,000, and an average of $710 for each animal. At the sale of the Lyndale herd 79 animals realized over $127,000, with the high general average of over $1,600. The result of the sale of the herd of (reneral Meredith, of Cambridge City, Indiana, made up of animals not belonging to highly fashionable families, proved that a good working herd possesses a certain market value for its essential mcnU of blood and bone, with nothing taken to account for style or fancy. Fifty-three animals were disposed of here, for over $24,000, a general average of more than $450. The grand total of the three sales was $205 815, and the average of 209 animals was $984.76. The fact that these 209 animals have gone from the hands of three' breeders into those of a large number in no less than seventeen States, leaving Canada and England out of the question, is of noticeable significance. In their new spheres of usefulness, whatever of excellence these choice animals possess will be added te a hundred herds, and will influence for good the stock of the whole country.in a few years. And as their descendants shall be scattered through the valleys of our Eastern rivers, and the broad plains of the great West, each increment of value will make up in the whole a vast sum in proportion to_ which that expended at these sales will be a mere trifle. It is in that power to raise the standard of our common stock to treble its present value, that the intrinsic worth of these fine cattle is found.—New York Paper., COMPARATIVE NUMBERS OF FARM ANIMALS. - •>-..- measure of wheat bran, would be an excellent feed for cows giving milk, even if they were not to be rattened off when dry. The cows can be fed heavily with this feed without danger of injurv to health, and the flow of milk will be larger than when the oil meal and grain it not given. They will usually gain rapidly in flesh when thus fed, without any reduction in flow of milk.—-Country Gentleman. GENERAL NEWS. A slight increase of horses is reported in most of the States, largest in Nebraska, Tennessee, Missouri, and Wisconsin. In mules, the largest ratio of increase has been made in the following States, in the order named: Illinois, Minnesota, Texas, Tennessee, Ohio, Kansas. In milch cows the increase has been larger than in other kinds of neat stock.. In Minnesota an increase of 13 per cent, is reported, and in Nebraska 8 per cent. This tendency is strong in Maine and Connecticut, where the dairy interest is a growing branch of agriculture, the reported_ advance being_6 per cent. In Wisconsin the increase is 5 per cent.j 4 per cent, in New York, Iowa. California, and Oregon. In other bovine stock, oxen and other cattle, a decrease is reported in all States except Maine. Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut. New Jersey, Pennsylvania^ Delaware, South Carolina, Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Iowa, and Oregon. Texas is reported at 98 per cent, [n Kansas and Nebraska many animals have been sold at any available price, from want of feed to winter them. There is some increase in sheep in the New England States, in Texas and Arkansas in the south-west, in Wisconsin and Minnesota in the north-west, and on the Pacific coast. The largest decline has been in swine, in which nearly every State has participated. The average per centages of the farm-stock of last year, as reported by statistical correspondents on the lst of January, are as follows: Horses, 102: mules, 104; milch cows, 102; oxen and other cattle, 100; sheep, 99 ; swine 91.— Dept. of Ag. Reports, Jan. OH. MEAL FOR FATTENING. Will you, or any of your, correspondents, give the value of oil cake meal made from cotton-seed and from linseed, as compared with corn, for making beef, and also of wheat bran, and what would be a proper quantity of oil cake for an ox weighing 1,400 pounds? I would also like to know if oil cake is good feed for cows giving milk, designed for beef next summer.—E. L., Waterloo, P. Q. The experiments and analysis of Dr. Voclcker go to Bhow that linseed cake is better than cotton-seed cake for fattening purrioses, and that the latter is equal to the former for promoting growth of young stock. Indian meal is nearly as good for fattening purposes as cottonseed meal. Wheat bran is not a fattening food, but assists muscular growth and regulates digestion, and is remarkably well adapted for the food of growing stock, as it can be fed in large quantities without injury to the animal's health. Oil meal is usually fed in combination with corn meal, and a " proper quantity for an ox weighing 1,400 pounds " would he from one to nve> or six pounds per dayj depending on its cost, and on the rapidity with which the animal is to be fattened. One or two pounds of linseed or cotton-seed meal • mixed with six or eight pounds of corn meal would fatten the ox faster than the same value of either, hut without mixture. The same mixture, with an equal quantity by . It has been cold enough in Kansas to freeze whisky, and some ofthe drunkards there have become solid men. The bill removing the Capital of West Virginia to Wheeling only awaits the \ Governor's signature to become a law. It is reported that $2,000,000 worth of goods have been smuggled from Montreal into the United States in a single day recently. The ground in Dayton has been frozen to the depth of five feet, an unprecedented condition in this valley. Suit was begun by the Pacific Mail Company, against the various persons to whom Irwin paid money, for its recovery, on the ground that, by their own testimony, they performed no manner of service for it. The Kansas House, Saturday, passed the Senate conenrrent resolution thanking CongresM for its appropriation for destitute people in that State. - Telegrams from various points in the northwest indicate that the cold weather continues throughout that section. A number of railroads in Iowa are still blockaded. The Wichita (Kan.) Beacon learns from gentlemen who left Ft. Sill last Saturday, that the greater portion ofthe BarrackB at that post were burned, and almost all the Indian prisoners held there escaped. A lease for 999 years has just run out in England. The land is at Woolwich, and was church property a thousand years ago. but the Crown leased it for military purposes; it now reverts to the heirs of the original holders. In view of the anticipated increase of tax on tobacco, there has been a rush on the Internal Revenue office at Richmond, Va., for tobacco stamps, for the past two or three days. $100,000 worth were sold Saturday. There are four living Queens of Spain, so called—Christine, widow of Ferdinand VII, who resides at Sainte Addresse, near Havre: Isabella, II., mother of Al- phonso XII.; the Duches of Aosta, wife of Prince Amadeo, of the house of Savoy, and the wife of Don Carlos, who styles himself Charles VII. A funny story is told of two Vermont farmers who are not Grangers. They induced their wives to join and report before they would commit themselves. Now, when they will, they cannot. Two blackballs greet every application. Meanwhile the wives go. regularly and triumphantly to everv Grange meeting, and the men stay at home and mind the babies. . It is stated that Mr. Serjeant Ballan- tine, of London, has been retained on behalf of the Guicowar of Baroda, who is to be tried at Bombay on or about February the 15th. The fees given to the learned Serjeant amount, it is said, to ten thousand guineas, or about $50,- 000. This exceeds the fee paid by the Hartford & Erie Railroad to Wm. M. Evarts for an opinion upon the Burdell mortgage, which , was 120,000. One of the best years Daniel Webster ever had in the practice of his profession, netted him $22,500. , Many have withstood the frowns of the world, but its smiles and caresses have often hugged them to death. WAYNE COUNTY. ■ Very steady cold weather since the first day of January. ■ Wheat looks bad.' • Peaches are all killed, and we fear that many of the trees ace Injured. Stock of all kinds are looking well.' Stock'hogs scarce. " A Patron. , ANSWER TO QUESTIONS. '' .".'''.' February 8. ' I see a great many questions are being asked through tbe columns or the Farmer; and but few are answered, and thought I would venture to'answer a few that appeared ln last week's paper. !>■..-• Mr. C. M. Sleeth Is ln ' trouble about his: pig. Prom tbe, symptoms stated I suppose the trouble Is mange, and think a few applications of strong soup suds, well rubbed on, will restore Piggy to health and happiness.. Tell "Subscriber" that four pounds of oil meal per head each day, for horses or cattle, at one or two feeds, and one pound for sheep, with plenty other provender, will fatten them on short notice. If'J.K." will give his mare plenty of salt and ashes, I think lt will remedy tbe evil. If not, rub the halter strap well with raccoon oil. I would like for W. II. Farmer to tell us how long it has been since he was 15 years old? lie says he has raised pigs that when 7 months old weighed 820 pounds; never fed strong until they were 8 months old. I would like to know If the pigs weighed 320 pounds each? or Is that what the whole litter weighed? ' stock Fancier. PARKE COUNTY. - ftoKKDALE, Feb. 10. ■ Early wheat looks well. Corn crop fair. ' Potatoes scarce. Hog crop short. Peach buds are killed. The Farmer ls a favorite with the farmers here. L. F. Wood. LAPORTE COUUTY. Can any of your readers inform me about sowing lime on winter .wheat? I would like to know at what time lt should be sewn, tho amount per acre, and the best way of putting it on. I am Informed that lt ls extensively used in Pensylvania and other States.- ■! ■ • .■■.'.» I ABUBSCBIBKR. ', ,'. PRICES OF FARM CROPS. TIPTON COUNTY. Corn selllngat 55cents;wbeat90. Stock hogs are scarce and dying with cholera. The prospect for a wheat crop Is very poor. O. D. PIKE COUNTY. Weather has been cold. Peaches are reported killed. Abundance of hog cholera. Wheat looks bad. .,_..-.. J- Is, Bkhtok. JACKSON COUNTY. Weather cold. Wheat looks bad. Peaches are killed. The action of the Executive Committee in relation to the State Agency, ls entirely satis- fatory. Can cranberries be grown ln the latitudes of Central and Southern Indiana? We have some marshy land of inexhaustable fertility. O.I.C. MARSHALL COUNTY. Plymouth, Feb. 8. If" J. KV'wlll rub his halter strap with flsh oil, his mare will case to trouble him. Corn ls worth 55 cents Q. W. Oles. HANCOCK COUNTY. The growing wheat looks well. Peaches are all killed. We are well pleased wlte the pro- ceedingsof the Executive Committee at their last meeting. J. F.C. VERMILLION COUNTY. Will some of the farmers of this county tell ns the best time to sow'timothy and clover seed? whether It will pay to mix both for hay? and how much of each If mixed? I like your paper. I have been an itinerant preacher forZ7 years ln the IJ. B. C. Six years ago I commenced farming. I think I will have to Join the Grange in order to learn to farm successfully. J. A. M. WHY IS ITT In looking over the Agricultural Reports for 1873 I find a table giving the average price ot hogs on the lst of January frous the year 1869 to 1874 Inclusive. I find tbat the price has been one dollar more on the hundred pounds ln Illinois and Ohio than in this State. In 1873 the number of hogs ln Ohio was about the same as here, and in Illinois there was about one mil lion more. Now, what I want to know Is, why should the price be so much higher on each side of us, when we have as good shipping facilities as either ofthe other States. Is lt due to the ignorance or necessity of the farmers, or to the averloe of the pork packers? or what ls It? M.Y.SKJ.I-. MARION COUNTY. Have any of your subscribers ever sown spring barley ln this county? and will lt grow to do any good? If so, what kind of Boll Is best? when to sow? and the best mode of putting it ln? ate. A.B.W.B. FROM ANOTHER. ' ■ • Inreply*to"J. H." of Hendricks eounty, I would say, I cooked a pepper pod in lard and rubbed en the halter strap, and also rubbed on a few drops of turpentine which cured a horse from chewing the strap for me. •' '' M. Y. 8. HAMILTON COUNTY. Weather very <x>ld and dry. A great many wells are'dry, : Wheat looks bad. ;, Please tell me why lt ls that Congress does not make an appropriation for the relief of the destitute of Nebraska and Kansas? I think they are as needy and as worthy as the sufferers by the overflow of the Mississippi, and Congress made an appropriation for them. ' J.B.K. [Congress has made an appropriation for relief lm Kansas and Nebraska.—Eds.J WABASH COUNTY. Wlllyoupleaaegivemetha address of some one manufacturing windmills, and. oblige a subscriber and Patron. ' '"' " ". I. C. M. Answer.—The Perkins Windmill Company, Mlshawaka, Ind., make the best mill of which we have any knowledge. It is an excellent mill, so good that we selected lt for one of our best premiums. Address aa above.—Ess. MIAMI COUNTY. ' Snow 13 inches deep and still falling; Wheat badly killed. Corn Ig worth 62cents; wheat 92; hogst%; cattle 4. (jsjg. We quote below from the Agricultur-' al Department Crop Reports: " " Corn.—The price of corn iri thiscoun-. try is governed by the quantity grown,, the abundance or scarcity of'Otnerfeed-' ing material having _a slight modifying influence. . The foreign demand, averaging between 1 and 2 per cent., and in. recent years reaching 3 per cent., is too small to be a disturbing^ element in the market. The commercial assertion that the foreign value of an exported article fixes its home price,.while partially true: of wheat, fails almost utterly in its ap-- plication to corn. So we usually see the lowest prices of corn when we have the largest products; but an average crop of wheat, with larger foreign crops, may. bring lower prices than a more pro-: lific one with a deficient harvest abroad. A reference to the records of estimated production and current prices' in past years illustrates this truth, and. at the same time attests the accuracy of the records. The quantity produced and average prices of recent years are as' follows: ' : In 1868, 906,000,000 bushels valued at' 62 cents per bushel. !<:.! In 1869. 874,000,000 bushels, valued at 75 cents per bushel. In 1870, 1,094,000,000 bushels, valued at 54 cents per bushel. ' In 1871, 991.000.000 bushels, valued at' 48 cents per bushel. In 1872,1,092,000,000 bushels, valued, at 39 cents per bushel. In 1873, 932,000,000 bushels, valued af 48'acents per bushel. ■ . . ; In 1874. 854,000,000 bushels, valued at 65 cents perbushel. .... The price in 1873 would have been at least-10 -per «ent. higher than in 1871, but - for theeffect monetary panic on prices generally. Theprice at the - close of 1872 was 15 cents lower than in 1870, partly from gradual decline in . prices and in part because the surplus of old corn was much smaller iri the latter year, the Combined productof 1869-70 being 1,968,-. 000,000 bushels; of 1871-72, 2.083.000,000 bushels, a difference of 115,000,000bushels. _ At the present time, a season of continued monetary depression, the average price is 65 cents, 10 cents less than in 1869, when the crop was 20,000,000 bushels greater. In 1871, a medium crop with a large surplus ofthe immense product of 1870, and a tendency to lower values generally, caused a reduction of 5 cents per bushel. The crops of 1869 and 1874 are the shortest for masy years, and the prices are naturally the highest. The December prices of corn the past six years, in the States on the fortieth parallel, are compared as follows: States. New Jersey... Pennsyl'nla.. Ohio Indiana... Illinois.... Iowa _, Nebraska 1874 187? 1872 .1871 1870 Cents CcntslCents Cents Cents 82 62 62 75 81 78 60 60 77 75 58 42 34 45 48 .51 40 29 37 38 56 32 24 32 3, 43 31 18 23 34 K 28 18 23 36 Cents 95 92 72., 70 57 * SO - 37 TV/tatC—The average value per bushel of the large crop of 1869 was 94 cents. The next crop was under an average, estimated at 236,000,000 bushels, valued at $1.04. Another under-medium crop was gathered in 1871. 231.000.000 bushels, valued at $1.25. That of 1872, estima- mated at 250.000,000 bushels, was valued at $1.24. -The crop of 1873 was a full one, and the rate of valuation receded to $1.15. Three deficient crops in Great Britain made a strong demand for wheat as is shown by the exports (in wheat and flour) of 182,520,878 bushels in the last period of three years against 136,192,092 bushels ofthe previous period of three years, an increase of 46,328,786 bushels. ' Year ending June, 1868 29,717,291. Tear ending June, 1889 53,900,780. Year ending June, 1870 £2,574,111. Year ending June, 1871. 38,995,755. Year ending June, 1872...: 52,014.715. Year ending June, 1873 91,510,408. The present crop exceeds 300,000,000 bushels, and the average value has receded to94 centB. The general European deficiency in 1873 caused heavy shipments throughout 1874, up t# September, mainly from our crop of 1873, which will aid in swelling our aggregate for the fiscal year ending-June 30,1874. The abundant harvests abroad in 1874 have caused^ this decline, which will probably go no further unless a prospect of heavy European production in 1875 should receive general credence. The following statement of prices' in several prominent wheat-growing States, since 1869, will fairly illustrate the range of local prices- in those years. set
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Title | Indiana farmer, 1875, v. 10, no. 07 (Feb. 20) |
Purdue Identification Number | INFA1007 |
Date of Original | 1875 |
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Agriculture Farm management Horticulture Agricultural machinery |
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ToLX
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, FEBRUARY 20, 1875.
No. 7.
w
Live Stock*
a Will some person tell nie what will
cure cracked heels in horses ?
u N. C. S.
.jj ..,-. - » * « — .
-f THOROUGHBRED HORSES.
' An English paper calls attention to
the fact that the horse has come to the
highest state of development in those
localities where the grass and water is
highly impregnated with lime. The latter enters into the development of the
bones, indeed is essential, and therefore
limestone localities are known to have
produced the hest developed horses in
the world. Take the horse-breeding
localities of Kentucky and Tennessee,
and we find that this is practically true
of this country. These districts in the
States named have bred more and better
horses than any, perhaps'all the other
States. Not altogether because there
are not other as favorable localities in
this country, but rather because horse-
breeding was early introduced there, and
has been eminently successful, and it is
the success, and the cause of it to which
we now direct attention. We have
before in the columns of the Indiana
Farmer, called attention to the value
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