Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — THE STOCK RANCH. [ARTICLE]

THE STOCK RANCH.

■ . Live Stork and Prosperity. .English agricultural journals, while prais-. ing the great average yields per acre of the grain crops of that country, are constantly urging the extension of live-stock breeding. The great average yields of grain in Great Britain are only possible by the liberal use not only of barnyard manure, but of commercial fertilizers in connection with the most precise cultivation. The English have also brought the breeding of animals to the highest perfection—a perfection nowhere else reached except|in the United States and Canada. . The reason why the English press so urgently advise the extension of live stock is, that in the cultivation of cereal grain, even with the obstacles throtvn about the importation of our foreign products, the profits are growing less and less year by year. In this the English landlords are in the same category aS are those of countries where the price of land is too hjgh for the cultivation of the coarser grains. The soil must be used for special crops else rents must fall. It is well known that this has been the case of late years, and during the last year concessions have been made to the extent of from 18 to 30 per cent pn rents, not only in Ireland but in England. Live stock is the basis of successful agriculture in all countries, since without manure there canbeno crops unless on virgin soil; and the higher the cultivation the better the manure pays. It would seem that England had already carried the breeding and feeding of live stock to the full capacity of the country. England buys largely also of our coarse grains and oUcake to feed to animals. If the live-stock industry is still further increased England must call upofa us still further for feeding stuff. To thia our farmers will not object, of course. If England and the Continental countries see fit to throw obstacles in the way of our sending live-stock and meats to their countries, well and good. We cannot help ourselves, except that by common consent we can refuse to buy gewgaws of them. In the mean time there can be no good reason why not only EnglandLut every other country should push its live-stock interests to the utmost. That

is what Western farmers certainly should do. It is cheaper to send the manufactured product to market than the raw material, and the manure is worth as much to western farms ns to any ether land. No farmer ever got rich raising the coarser grains for market, and only in a very limited degree can they so be used. Feed the grain on the farm and sell stock.— Chicago Tribune. Li&>* Xtofk \ntrtt and Frprrifnfr. An average egg weighs about 1,000 grains, divided ns follows; Shell 107, white 00J, and yelk 289. It is the appearance of goods that sells them. Nice, large, fat, plump, white turkeys, ducks, chicks, or geese always bring outside prices. The most successful shepherd of the future wfill have bis mutton on the market as regularly and as in good condition ns his wool. This same man will make both products ns good uh possible. If the wool of sheep becomes wet it dries very slowly and only by chilling the animal through. Shelter from rain and snow, especially the former, is therefore more important than protection from cold. If a sheep is chilled so as to give it cold or fever, the fibre of the wool is injured. The friends of Suffolk swine claim that in nil the qualities that constitute a perfect animal for producing the most pork of the best quality nt the least cost this breed stands unrivaled by any in the United States. In the west the Suffolk never had many friends among practical feeders, and still less now than ever.