OCR Text |
Show my ‘THE WESTERN market will always be good, so far as can be judged from present indications The outlook for the common scrub is not very flattering; he has been filling a demand in street car service that required hundreds and thousands of his kind each year; this demand is being lessened by the application of cable and motor power. Observe that the market for the high-bred roadster and draft horse is not being affected by this change. It will pay to raise good, well-bred colts.” —_ This Depariment will be devoted strictly to the interests and development of Western Farming and Stock Culture, and contributions from persons engaged in those pursuits are solicited. ‘DON’T TAKE A FARM PAPER. Controlling Sex. The opinions expressed in various ways on the question of controlling the sex of animals, if compiled would make a fair sized library in respect to literary bulk. At the same time it is hardly probable that the matter would be worth the paper it would There are a certain class plodding individuals in this require to publish it. of AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE. that the you. ic world We will lose sight of would respectfully add in the management of your farm you can get no time to read and think both, then give up farming entirely. Be assured that you have mistaken your calling, and that you can never attain to any success... Become an employe in - some labor where only physical force is necessary and be contented with your lot.” > —~4~afiit>—~4>< ~? eee ONE WAY TO SHEOL. The other day there stood at the water trough near the WEestERN WEEKLY office a large load of hay, under the projecting front end of which were concealed — all but their noses, which wiggled this way and that to miss the strokes of a billet of wood—two rat like cayusesof the older type. The blows from the _ strong, manly(?) arm’fell thick and fast, and the animation inside the hay floundered and kicked till a goodly portion of the load, including the cross bar of the rack’ and The pursuit of agricultural investiga- tion in its present developments may justly called a profession. purpose of carrying forward agricultural training upon a strictly scientific.basis. The largest and best equipped of these schools is in New York. The agricultural department of Cornell University has a propriety of from $500,000 to $1,000,000 at its disposal. Yet with all these institutions in operation it is only that compe- tent men can be secured to fill the places. Utah for instance will soon be in want of several thorough investigators to assume responsibilities in the Agricultural college now in contemplation. Is there in the Territory one person thorougly competent and at liberty to take one of these positions? It is doubt- ful, very doubtful. the Territory and who have about our farm- of themselves almost wholly so long as they can ramble about, as is their nature. They are useful, too, as a protection against hawks which seek for young are tender when first hatched, but soon grow strong and tough. They will lay during the entire summer and have litLi e- inclinations the lumbermen of Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan are experiencing increased difficulties in procuring adequate supplies. But while the work of the whole- American Apples in China, quantities in to the celestial em- pire. There isa opportunity presents itself to extend the forest areas in our State. An effort should be made to grow timber to par- Two carloads of Georgia farmers with their families, arrived at Atlanta, Wednesday, enroute for Texas and Arkansas. They stated that they were leaving Georgia because the lands are so poor that they couldn’t see any chance of making a living in the future. tially supply the local demand for lumber purposes in the near future. in ON TRESPASS. tendency among farmers who put up hay for the Salt Lake market to mix oat straw with the lucerne. This is probably not intended for a cheat but itis so. .No matter with what relish stock may devour oat straw it has not one-half nor one-third the nourish- ing strength of ordinary hay. tains digestible It con- constituents but they are not the most valuable parts of animal food. Eprrors WESTERN WEEKLY : In albuminoids, the food ingredients absolutely essential to life, straw of all kinds is seriously want- men think a bounty should be offered. . to count it as an equivalent for fraud. upon your called lawful fence, as there is in some counties of the Territory, you could not hold the owner of the stock responsible for the damage. If on the other hand you are living under what is commonly for trespass. Butter, # fb most trustworthy character. Where heedless persons are intrusted with this duty there is no possibility of knowing just what sort of an admixture of filth is the Chicago market 300,000, and in 1887, 1,300,000 and the number of sheep throughout the country greatly reduced. If this is true those who hold on to their sheep may by and by realize the profits if people want to eat oleomargarine at 10 cents, instead of butter at 25 cents, Ramsey in the Wool Journal, farmers are selling their sheep to the butchers. He says that in 1882, there were sold in of their herd. The wool market will never run lower than at present, and the indications are that an immediate and pronounced im- provement in rates may be looked for. A northern exchange in summing up the Utah statistics says there can hardly be less than 3,000,000 sheep in Utah. In 1887, 12,000,000 pounds of wool were handled by Utah buyers. Of this about one-fourth is worked up by Utah mills. Fleeces average about five pounds for happy. The signs of the times indicate THE ancients believed that the whole ;| more plainly now than at any past pe- earth was square, but then they had never had peddler. any dealings with a traveling to aver that Professor Long meant that the farmer would be wise to cease expending his substance in procuring legislative enactments and devote himself to meeting his competitor in afair and equitable way. If legitimate persuasion is not efficient in checking the consumption of oleomargarine, and butter, by a natural evolution in the popular appe- tite goes to the wall, itis avery easy matter to divert the substance that is exhausted in its manufacture into some other productive and profitable channel and permit people to eat what they - evi- dently prefer without molestation. Unrestrained competition is the salvation of trade, and legislation that interferes with it must eventually succumb. being milk. and difficult brought in To presume matter to preserve under the name of that straining is any benefit in such ‘a case is the veriest.delusion. . Again no article of fcod issosubject to those forms of decomposition excited by the substances called ferments as milk. A drop of milk left in the bottom of a pan or the smallest amount of cream left about the edges or corners becomes in a short time a species of ferment that will cause the the vessel panful of milk next put into to sour in five or six hours, when if the pan had been perfectly purified it would have remained sweet in the same temperature for twenty-four or even thirty-six hours. Hence the necessity of having every vessel in which milk is handled perfectly free from any sort of impurities. This can only be effected by washing and then scalding in pure water. The Omaha | statement braska: of TIMBER CULTURE. Bee makes the the following timber culture of Ne- \ The second anuual report of the Chief of the Forestry Division for 1887: has just been issued under the direction of the national Commissioner of Agriculture. It would seem that the farmers of Nebraska had given considerable atten- tion to tree culture. Groves of quick growing trees are found in abundance in connection with farms, and in the eastern counties, especially, the trees have attained such a size as to afford all needed shelter as wind breaks. that there are one It is estimated and a half million acres of woodland in the State, one million of which were planted. For the year of 1887 twenty-three counties are reported to have set out 240 plantations of forest trees. While the statistics of tree-planting are on the whole encouraging, it is nevertheless true that Nebraska is behind in forest-planting for lumber purposes. The constant drain and a Eggs, % doz i ; Flour,. #@ hun’d Bi | epee Syenr ee MiG ind 278 oe 18, 25 26195: ABTA 27 2 2 T5laale 2 602 B02 2535 2253 00° cc cpa oe LM Shorts Oats i 1 ot Denil OOus aera ier ee25 oat Gielen ot 10)1 10) 75 {1 00 Barley “ — |4 9) 90 | 95 | 75 | 99 Corn ar Onions Wheat, Beef, 1 00 ‘“ ‘ oe 24/4 : ; or sn ie30| a 25 a elena | eee 6 41g 10 or en oot a 10 eo) Lae (26) hab: 6c Woallr ee Sak e 95° | 90 | 97 | 80 Bi | ee 30 95 @ tb Mutton 1 41012 15): 00 ROR | Te ie 1 00 180) Iho # bu. Potatoes ile 19 & 6 sc lord agi. LOT a Peaches; dried. shor Apples, “ 4 | 4 Plums, “ eee em! |e ta |! |! ao hog" Brest ip <Q Twenty-one Million Horses Apricots in Russia. The report of the haras of the Rus#ian NEBRASKA’S ©d ee GeO 5. tedious farme.s to discuss whether they should not participate in the profits of that trade, which, we are bouud to believe, are more tangible than those very problematical profits connected with the more ancient industry of dairying.” The Agriculturist asks if Professor Long means ‘hat the farmers should adulterate their butter? We make bold According to the calculations of W. F. sport, © ~E ff the work of milking is not a suitable responsibility for a boy unless he is of the BUTCHERS. works in THE WESTERN WEEKLY tion in milk that in any other article of diet would be simply shocking. It is a public the Genius its are sweet Saturday, Dec. 8, 1888. taste for oleomargarine continues to increase, it will be a question for dairy “If tempered. indicates things MILE. er’s -association, expert, spirit CURRENT MARKET REPORT, PURE be repayed in muscular service. TRE Ranch- goodness smiles to the last. It is observed that depression of spirit develops the germs of a plague in individuals and nations.— Emerson. — to draw upon its neighbors for krains, to dairy the All healthy There is no article of food so subject to uncleanliness as milk. People seem to be perfectly reconciled to contamina- OLEOMARGARINE. said: joy of hay is a <i> <Q Prof. Long, the English Tuer strength. termed a “no fence law,” then you could hold the animals for whatever damage: they should do on your property, and if they did no damage you could hold them milk from receiving more or less the pollution of the yard, and for this reason TO lassoed two wolves of large size. local fence law. If in your county there is a law defining what constitutes a so in an address to the English dairy farm- GOING the pests. the owners? think seriously of these things. It is a burning disgrace to any country to have SHEEP head for the destruction of Driuon, (M. T.) Tribune: Wolves are playing havoc with flocks and herds near Choteau City. Recently a boy ing. Hence thereis a profit in feeding it along with hay to hearty animals. But to ~<tii <p It is estimated that crows have cost the farmers of Maine $100,000 the past , The next Legislature will be year. asked “te give a bountyof ten cents a Suppose my farm was not fenced and I should conclude to stack my hay on it without fencing my stack; if stock running at large should destroy or molest the same conld I collect damages from a case depends entirely Adulteration. certain bushels in nine years. Russia’s average wheat exports have been a little less than onehalf of ours in volume. Your power to collect damages in such ti <> Straw against an average of 67,767,000 sale destruction of natural forests is going on, comparatively little has been done to create new timber lands. The A correspondent of Wellsville makes the following inquiry Oregon apples it appears are receiving great favor among the antipodes. A re- Russta’s wheat crop this year amounts to 238,400,000 bushels, against 260,800,000 last year, and an average of 208,638000 bushels for the last nine years. Russia exported 74,416,000 bushels last year, on the natural wood crop of America will soon use up our forest wealth. Already tle care for setting. It would be well for well for the persons professional seen be one of the older states of the Union now has its school established for the express with the greatest difficulty are they are easy keepers, taking care Nearly every ~<a —_ to the This hens yards. Guinea hens are heavy layers, especially through the summer season, and various the standing ladder, encumbered the street. Finally a well directed blow felled one of the animals to the ground, ewes, seven pounds for wethers, and and as he landed, with one last mighty part of it ranges with the best California revengeful kick he boosted his assailant wool as to quality. Most of the Utah high and dry over the water trough and sheep came from New Mexico down to bestowed him neatly in the gutter on the year 1870. Since the new blood has the other side. A bystander, noted for been brought in from California, generhis cranky opinions on the humane ally fine-wooled Spanish Merinos and treatment of dumb brutes, observed, as long-wooled from Canada, which has he looked down into the flushed face and caused.a marked improvement in the séared eyeballs of the somewhat frus- quality of the wool in respect to the softtrated belligerent, that in his opinion ness, length and firmness of fibre. Hell would claim more balky drivers than The number of sheep kept by the balky horses. principal sheep nations of the world are almost past enumeration. It is sompuNow, reader, kindly peruse the follow- ted that in Russia there are at. least. 50ing; the one who wrote it had a heap oi 000,000, in Germany 24,000,000, in France 25,000,000, while Spain has 22,000,000, good sense: “The owner of the well-bred horse is Hungary 14,000,000, Turkey 16,000,000, always in a good humor, ready every and Great Britain, 22,000,000. In Africa moment to say a good word for his horse; the Algerians raise 10,000,000, and Cape he becomes attached to him,he takes Colony produces 11,000,000. Uruguay, great pleasure in riding behind him, itis in South America, has over 20,000,000, no trouble to see that he is well eared while the Argentine Republic has more The number in Ausfor, the owner’s moral condition is pre- than 70,000,000. served, and he becomes a more pleasant, tralia is estimated at 75,000,000, and in congenial companion. The influence o/ the United States there are at least 40,a good-dispositioned, well-trained, high 000,000. bred horse will make a whole family riod the importance of breeding ,very best stallions accessible. guinea ber of years has been shipping apples who seem to have been created especially for drudgery; not because of a want of brain capacity to methodize their labors as all successful men do, but because of an inherited disposition to linger in the ruts of their fathers whilst their neighbors are availing themselves of allthe current information that falls in their way. Louching the monotonous echo, “JT have no time to read,” that is heard from so many quarters, a correspondent of the Husbandman grows sarcastic and says: “Don’t take a farm paper if you have no time to read—you will not have time to think. and without thought you will be so far behind, Guineas. It is a matter of surprise that so few cent steamer for China. carried away over 200 boxes. California for a num- <i > world WEEKLY. chicks. If raised under common hens guineas take less to a wild nature. They <i Sr i Empire states that there are 21,000,000 horses in the country, not including Finland andthe Caucasus. In the six State haras there were last year 2,449 horses (81 stallions, 755 mares. and 1,607 foals), and 470 horses were sold from them for 79,407 rubles. There are sixty-two e 10 10 10 Tl 9 bu,| 10 | 40 | 35 Apples, green, 6 ; ato" Wool, @ 1.) Hides ne | “ 44 dry) green| LONER TG 6 8 ie 8 4 5 35 4 ag 4 hip- podromes in Russia and the prizes run for amount to 700,000 rubles, of which the State contributed 70,00 rubles. There were seventy-seven horse exhibi- tions during the year, and of 11,328 exhibited 2,042 were sold. The total expense of the haras amounted to 880,000 rubles. ; Nephi Report VICKERS. <i <aRP- Emoluments of Good ti" Ogden Report GRIFFIN, Wholesale Merchant. T emp-#. A dealer in cod-liver oil in Marseilles, advertises that his fish are caught in a safe and quiet harbor,where marine monsters cannot enter to frighten them into diseases of the liver. “They live there,” he says, “in peace and comfort. Their lives are healthy, and this is why my cod-liver oil is the best.”—Popular Science News. Corrected weekly by H. L. Produce and Commission Corrected Provo Report C. A. GLAZIER. weekly Corrected by J. W. weeekly by Logan Report Corrected weekly by J. A. Mclateuuin, at Z. C. M.I Salt Lake Report Corrected weekly by Secretary of Produce Exchange. Hides and Wool by J. W. Sanpmrs. t=3— Where two sets of figures are cA ° quoted in same space, price ranges from£5) one to the other. 9 e%a95, °, |