Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 2, 1891, Page 8

OMAHA DAILY BEE: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1801 OF INTEREST 10 THE FARMER, The uses of the Spread of Hog Cholera ussed, FEEDING OF CORN STALKS TO COWS W hy Potitoes Run Out of Western _Honey Loying Hen Farm News. The Quality The General Wo think fow things are more clearly established than that hog cholera is caused by a specific germ and spreads only by the spread of that germ, says the lowa Homestead. We have just now a case in hand illustrating the method in which the disease is spread through the deportation of the germs, Mr. John Smith wishes to buy some hogs to follow cattle, He had an opportunity to buy some very well bred at 3 cents, but being what is known as a sharp trader, he went into a neighbor- shoats hood at some distance and bought quite alotat 10 cents per hundred less. He had o chance to buy a wagon load or so at the stock yards av a barg days the 1 the nearest town in and took them in. Ina foew last ta with the cholera contracted no doubt before ship- ment to the yards. After about thirty or forty hogs had died he concluded that a change would do them good, and 80 ho drove thom public* high- way to a farm he owned at some distance, Some died on the way, others strayed off intotho corn fields, others left the new yards and wandered round the neighborhood. Was itanything strange that the di broke out .along this highway and in the neighborhood where this herd was fed? This new lot was on the bank of a stream, and today fifty or more of these dead hogs are lying along its banks waiting tobe carried down with rains. We cito this caso be- causo it is a typical one, and do not give names or loeality, because the civcum- stance common that it will be located by our reade nagreat many counties and in several states. The man who is looking out for bargains abounds every fall of ever: , and in buying hogs to follow cattle he connot resist the temptation to buy cheap. Again, hehas heard that moving hogs will cure the disease, and in doing so he leaves a teail of disenso along the highway. Many statos have laws prohibiting this trafiic, but neighbors do not wish to make trouble and thelaw remains a dead letter, Had the diseased herd been quarantined, the disease might have been stamp:d out, and the loss confined to the man who invited the disease through the mania for buying cheap. Another comes to mind. A prominent breeder attended the Towa state fair® with o large number of hogs. Ile 1 turned them in a stock car that had re- cently carvied hogs, and for lack of crates had to leave two run loose in the car. Shortly after his return one of these two was taken sick; and, being in free communication with the vest of the herd, it was not long until the herd was practically wiped out. Although it is a case not clearly proven, there is every reason to believe that the infection was contracted in this car which had recently been loaded with hogs and used again without being disinfected, ‘We know of another man who is los- ing his hogs with the disease and won- dered long how it ecame to him. He dis- covered at last that the dead-hog-man had been along the rond, and that a little pigr had fallen off the load, and that some of pigs had been seen eating the carcas We might mention dozens 5. When cholera bres ks out n anew locality, a careful in- quiry will show that it had 'some means of conveyance. There are so many means of “conveyance; especially in the fall season, the “season of the greatest movement of stock hogs, that it is not always possible to determine how it does come, nor is it always possible to guard against it. There is, however, much conveyance that is n\uul.ll)l'u and 1t is to call attention to the necessity of lhu utmost vigilance that we cite these that have come to our knowledge fi Ul.ll different partics the last fow days, were wlong o the spring is s0 Towa Feeding Cows C Stalks. Tt has long been considered by many that in feeding corn stalks, with or with- out meal, bran, e it is best to cut them ns ‘shortas possible. In o chat with Mr. Farrell, of Hampshire, Kane county Ill, at the O. J. Farmer oflice the other day, we drew out his method of feeding mileh cows, of which he has about one hundred and fifty, most of whose milk he sends by railroad ot to Chicago dealers. So far this winter he has fed his cows no hay, but only cut corn stalks, and a mixture of one-gquar- ter corn meal and three-quarters shorts, He will continue corn stalks as long as they last tow 5 spring. This method he has practiced for a dozen y more. The corn mainly used is the common westorn dent. It is husked in the field, and partly setin stooks to be hauled in as fed, and partly drawn into stacks when dry. This feeding gives better mill and more of it than the best tame h He, however consider- able B." & W. ensilage corn, which furnishes a large amount of q.ul\\uul leaves to the acre. Itis grown in ¢ three feet ten inches apart, stalks s ten inches apary in the This i dritled in from May 1 to June 20, and cut and shocked in timo to escape the frost. Nooneof the ears mature —In regurd to how long tocut feeding stalks, he ho began with half inch lengths, but the cows soon had sore mouths, and on examination he found the woody por- tion of these short pieces would go up around the teeth and pierce the gums, and his exporience the past ten years has been in favor of cutting about two inches long. These do not get on end and pierce the mouth, and perhaps assist better in forming a cud when no hay is used. Insummer the cows go Lo pas- tureabout themiddle of May, but are fed every night and morning with a small ration of meal shorts, and this is contin- ned into August, when he begins to feed heavier and gives somo ensilage corn cut green, and this is continued on to the ripening of the corn, In winter the cut stalks fed are about haif and halfen- silage stalks and those from the regulan corn crop. On the same day with the above, we had a chat at the office of James War- wick, of Mercer county, lIllinois, who makes a l-u-.llk'ws of raising cattle for market. He also fec 'A]~u||| ly, but in hisexperi the most profitable corn stalks are those which have produced fifty to 100 bushels of sound corn per acre, the corn to be cut as soon as the ears are glazed su ciently to not shrink in drying. Ho be- lieves that while the stalks are almost as rood asfany roised exclusively for Foo e Y, " ouna - com” teclt bas paid for raising, and so the fodder in practically free, Hitherto he has fed his stalks whole, and allowed the eattle tochew them, but proposes the coming year to use one of the *fod- der huskers” which cut and cruch the stalks and in the same operation husk the ears and throws them out separa He has conversed with two or thr farmers who have tried these m the past year and they are much ples with them. e thinks they arethe coming machines, and that they will lessen the amount of hay fed, and in- crease the amount of corn fodder used. Mr, Warwick has used and is using a good deal of Stowell's Evergreen sweet corn for fodder. While this does not © a bulk as ensilage cori tly superior in qt produce o 1 he thinks i He plants it us e 48 practicable, in drills, 3 feet, 10 inches apart, the hills 15 inches apart, two™ to four stalks to- gether, This produces a great many not husked at all,but When thus fed, ears onsiders it the richest fodder ears, which ar fed with sta and all,he grown, The Quality of Three and four tities of western | in the eq The Western Honey. ws ngo large quan- found n market nd t n Michigan, Ohio New York heekeopors were somewh surprised at the quality of this honey it being exceptionally fine, The dis sions in conventions and journal fraterni decided that it was he sease (mammoth smart weed) hone While there is no doubt that there was large quantities of this kind shipped east, fully one-thind to one-half was buckwheat honey. It generally takes the surplusin hives after winterving, together with the May bloom, the white clover and the linden, rt- to build up colonies in the spring pre- paratc ming, to go through nd to build up new r swarming,to a sur- plus storing capacity, This period is generally some time in Augustand the first of September, Tho bees are usual- ly ina hooming shape for surplus stor- ingat the time heartsease and buc wheat ure coming in and are at th best. So the product of these two classes of flowgrs are thrown into tho supers together. H that is sold for buclk wh half hoartscase quality of het rather a dr; and old colon A good tsease honey wathered in season n the eastern ek and ha vor that mak It i grown product, where it the strong buckwheat it unpopular to man claimed there is no suiplus white clo or linden honey in the west. Therc such, and every one having bees should be prepared for catching these crops if their locality is favorable forsuch honey. It easternand southern buckwheat hone are set on the table with the western product from the same source, it will be found that the easternand southern pro- duct cannot be compared with our west- orn honey. The humid east cannot pro- duce in this line what the d west can. The east can produce quantity, the west quality. Why Potatoes Run Out. In response to the query why farmers and others believe that potatoes, aftor a term of yeurs, deteriorate or run out, a espondent of the Germuntown Tele- gravh writes: There are several reasons for believing that they un_ out, but no valid reason for belie lllu should run out if proper seed _is planted in the right kind of soil at the proper time. The potato can be grown to per- fection only upon high ground a little inclined to be dry,not sandy,but a strong loam that is light and fine. Good corn land will usually produce good potatoes, but the practicé has often been t0 plant them where the corn would not grow well. Low, wet, heavy,clayey or mucky s are unsuitable for potato growing; tubers will always be poor and Such soils are lacking in the mineral elements, thereforo otato is not perfectly matured, Planting poor seed upon poor ground for a series of years in suce have a tendency to run out any however good.~ Planting late, ..umt sprouts get along and are knocked off, is poor economy; the second sprouts apt to be wedker and small no reason yet proved why ms nnt be kept up to yield and quality 1f good seed woted and planted on suitable soil, and given the proper cave and handling. It is gen- generally considered poor economy by close observers to use much green ma- nure upon powto land. A light dress- ing of fine old yard manure spread on, and a handful of superphospate in the hill, will produce a good crop on the right soil. As to the soil, which I con- sider of the greatest importunco of ull, Iwould say again, c olly are unsuitanlo, as also are low, he swampy soils that do not drain off rveadily. The soil muy be clayey, but not heayy} in fact, a clayey loam that will produce herdsgrass or timothy, year after year, 1s good land for producing potatoes, Possibilities of the Desert. The Yuma Sentinel draws the follow- ing picture of the products and possibil- ities bordering the desert: ‘In the great valley of the Colorado, below Yuma, rice, cotton, tobneco, and sugar cane will be grown in the rich bottom lands near the riv Just buck of these lio the 50,000 & of wild hemp. 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