Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1907 — HINTS FOR FARMERS [ARTICLE]

HINTS FOR FARMERS

Work the Stallion. We believe in the working of stallions, says a horse owner and breeder In Farm Progress. We believe that nothing is worse for a breeding horse than to be cooped up in a stall and small lot for weeks and months at a time. It is far better to put the stallion to work and make him earn his oats in that manner. We have had a great deal to do with breeding horses during a quarter of a century, and we have never known working stallions to be excelled in prolificacy by idle ones. A stallion, as a rule, makes a pleasant worker. There is no reason why a stallion should be restive or annoyingly boisterous in the harness. It is all a matter of breaking, and most stallions take kindly to the harness. We do not think there is ever any real reason why a draft stallion should not do his share of the farm work when he is not traveling. A coach or trotting bred stallion makes the finest kind of a runabout horse/ Goat Raining. In view of the fact that in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1906, goat skins to the value of $31,700,000 were Imported into the United States to be manufactured Into shoes, gloves and other articles, the wonder is that goat production is not more* generally encouraged in this great country, so available for the raising of live stock of all kinds. In 1896 the importation of goat and kid skins amounted to $10,300,000, and the importation for the last year shows an Increase to three times the value in ten years. During the last ten years these Importations have amounted to s24o,ooo,ooo.—Nashville Banner. Lnmrira of the Farm. The annual products of dairying, of fruit and vegetable raising and of poultry keeping aggregated nearly $2,000,000,000 In farmers’ hands in 1905, or three-tenths of the gross value of all farm products, and these particular products belong to the class of those for which there is a tendency of demand to be greater than supply. In the case of none of these products Is there a desired quantity satisfactory in quality obtainable by consumers at moderate prices. The public is- underfed in the higher grades of these luxuries of the farm.