gd USE ANDFARM.
Tborongh-bred Stoclt.
The idea is prevalent among a
certain class of Urmers that it will
t nay to purchase thorough-bred
stock, for the reason that the value
0 t such stock being far above that
0 f common animals, there is no ade-
Qoate profit in the investment
There are two serious mistakes made
•„ this view; The one is.
ID W***'© v - • ”la a ■
that the cost of thorough-bred stock
i 3 excessive, and that an immense
profit is made by the breeders gelling
animals at exorbitant prices; the
other is that it does not pay to im
ove common stock by crossing
pure bred stock upon them, and
that unless there i» large capital
available, with fine stables and cost
lv attendance, the condition of these
Animals so deteriorates that they no
longer posaeis any superiority over
any s other stock. Now, while year
by* year the value of the choicest
specimens of the favorite breeds,
either of horses, cattle, sheep, or
swine, gradually increases, on the
other band, fair average animals, in
which the blood of the choicest is
intermingled, are gradually decreas
ing in price. The great demand for ;
th; best of everything now existing, 1
and the competition of a largely-in-,
creased number of breeders desiring |
to purchase the best, and to cause ,
their increasing price*, but the very j
game increased number of breeders j
who have stock to dispose of tends !
to operate in the contrary direction
with the average class of stock. It
is now possible to purchase full
blood stock of good strains for very
reasonable prices—not more than
twice or thrice those asked for good
native stock. We constantly see
reports of sales of bulls and cows of
Jersey, Ayshire, Devon, or short
horned breeds at from $lOO to $5OO.
These prices are certainly within
the means of a vast majority of
farmers. If not, now is the time,
when cooperation and combination
is the fashion, to make this business
one of those to be brought under
the influence of joint effort. As to
the second mistake made it is only
necessary to point out the money
value of thd product of thorough
bred stock to show that the invest
vsi'mt is a profitable one. In addition
it might be shown that the profit is
not confined to the thorough-bred
alone, but that the first cross par
takes so much of the better quali
ties of its high-bred parent that the
advantage Is immense, even at so
early a period of improvement.
Dairy stock Jersey or
Ayrsire will produce double the
amount that an average native dairy
will, or can. - In a dairy of twenly
tue cows, one pure-bred bull, at a
cost of §5OO, will produce twenty
five heifer calves every two years.
The value ot these calves is doubled
from the moment of their birth on
account of their parentage. When
weaned the owner would rarely ac
cept §2O each for them. The $5OO
then, returns twenty-five per cent,
each year in this way alone. But
it these calves are raised until they
come into‘profit, their product as
cows will doubtless be double that
ot their dams on the whole. Then,
twenty-five cows each year produc
ing a clear profit of $5O each, in
stead of §25, as heretofore,, (a low
estimate,) a difference of $625 year
ly is '•hownto the credit of the in
vestment. In beef stock a larger
than this even can be shown,
f ! not only is a greater amount of
produced for the same quantity
ot tied consumed, but the market
price of a grade steer is higher for
tno whole weight of the animal than
tl tt of a native. Generally the
Iwnetk accruing is equal to a re
t ini of the value of a pure-bred
u i in the third year, and every
o a Iter ward, on the beef sold, in
s i dition to the increased value of
fie heifers as breeding stock. The
SUUK ‘ is true ot sheep, hogs, and
Poultry, and were our young stock
ll!U ' improved each year to come,
far as might be possible, undoubt
e'i y the census of 1880 would show
foe value of our live stock to be
d'nble at least that of the stock
enumerated in the previous one ot
I'T
Ii you wish to add to the wealth
your town never buy anything
abroad that can be purchased at
ho:rie.
J I
The census shows that the aver*
age theslJmted
States was reduced 23 percent trom
1860 to 1870, yet in Illinois and In-
diana they increased in size from
195 to 302 in 1870—or 108 pier cent.
The proper management of these
great estates requires that they
should do nearly all the work by
machinery, employing as few men
and horses as. possible. The small
farmer, near by, produces bis crop
at a greater proportional cost, fails
to compete, and sooner or later sells
out to his rich neighbor. This gives
rise to what isphere
denominated “land monopoly,” and
in the farmer’s granges this has al-
ready created two parties or fac
tions —cme coinposed of those ov*b
ing a thousand acres and over* the
other of average sized farmers*
They are divided in interest, and
the small farmer has the sympathy
of the community, inasmuch as be
directly aids business all about him,
by employing help, patronizing
stores, and iu effect exchanging
products for goods. The larger
producers occasionally hold their
products for a rise, make corners in
wheat, corn, etc., and control the
market as far as their foreign cus
tomers will permit them. The more
democratic, poorer but more numer
ous elements, are already suggesting
inquiries in their respective organi
zations, as tp the effect of immense
farms on the markets, and whether
the Western tendency to land mo
nopoly is beneficial to the general
agricultural interest. The investi
gation will doubtless show ’that one
monopoly Is not materially different
from another in its effect upon the
masses of the people, and the busi
ness and political interests of the
country; and the natural result will
be .a . weeding of the granges. In
the East, owing not alone to our
thickly settled population, but to
our varied industries, to. manufacto
ries, workshops, and countless indi
vidual enterprises, the general tend
ency is toward small farms—such as
cau be used conveniently and profit
ably to supply existing home mark
ets, so far as the law|of supply and
demand will permit them; and their
position is better, more useful, more
permanently prosperous, all round,
than if each and all of them had the
control of thousands of acres. The
large land owners of Great Britain
produced a system of tenantry
which has entailed misery and pov
erty for generations. The small
farms of New England and the
Middle States have given incentive
to growth and enterprise, and social
and political happiness, never before
equaled in the history of any land.
—Berks and Schuylkill Journal.'
Wool Trade.
A correspondent inquires whether
he had better sell his wool v now or
wait for an advance. Our reply is
that we do not assume to give ad
vice in any specific instances, but
we endeavor to present general prin
ciples which should actuate business
men, and leave each to apply them
in particular cases modified as circum
stances require. Some two months
we reviewed the condition and
O
prospects of the wool trade, and
have since then seen no cause to
change the conclusion then reached,
except, perhaps, as .regards the
long staple and higher grades of
wool.
The indications are th&t our do
mestic clip is larger than last year,
and it comes upon a market already
pretty well supplied with the coars
er and lower grades of wool and
woolen fabrics, so that the demand
for this class of wool is not likely
to be large enough to exhaust the
supply, especialy as California and
Texas are furnishing an increased
quantity, and there is considerable
foreign wool of this quality arriving
and to arrive. The indications are
that there will be no improvement
in prices which will pay tor the
shrinkage and cost of carrying; in
deed, we should not be surprised if
this class of wool should sell at
lower prices later in the season than
now.
As regards fine .strong wool with
a long staple, however, the case is
different. There appears to be no
surplus of the fabrics made - fiom
this wool upon the market at jprea*
eat, and the demand for th# fine
domestic goods increases : every
yeiar, as manufacturers improve in
THE RADICAL : FRIDAY, AUGUST 8,1813.
Large and Small Farm*.
their abilities to torn out qualities
whichkell in Successful competition
making foreign goods has mate
rially Increased in New England*
France, • and Germany? since the
war, with the in
creased cost of coal and labor In
these countries, and this gives onr
home millsanadvantage which they
have never possessed and
encourages them to Improve the
quality of their goods, and to use
better material * The chances
are that for the better grades of
wool there will be a ateady demand
daring the whole season. There
has, however, been an increase in
the production of ibis class of wool
daring the last few years, and It Is
not improbable that the supply will
be found adequate to the wants , of
manufacturers. The Eastern deal
ers evidently think that this is the
fact, for they assert that the prices
current in the West are higher than
the circumstances warrant. How
ever this may be, we do not think
that there is any probability of a
scarcity which will cause a sufficient
advance on mixed lots of wool, such
as the average clip of a farmer, that
would justify us in advising him to
take the risk of the market and the
coat of shrinkage and carrying. The
mills have been' buying wool freely,
and when they are filled up there
will probably be a dull io
th. , market, which will make
holders wish they had realized earlier
in the season.
The old rule is a good one that when
ever the farmer can realize a fair
remuneration upon the cost of pro
duction, it is time for him to sell,
tfhe cannot obtain above cost price
and is able to hold, he may be sure
that the market will eventually
turn in his favor, but it sometimes
takes a year or two to bring this
about, and there is considerable
risk assumed meanwhile.—Cincin
nati Price Currant .
Changing Pasta re.
A correspondent of the Weekly
World asks farmers to give their
experience as to the advantages Cf
changing cows from one pasture tOj
another during the grazing season;;
that is, is it better for the pasture
to be in one field or in two or three, 1
so that there may be periodical
changes into fresh feed. This mat
ter deserves the attention of gra
ziers, and some with extended ex
perience have emphatic opinions
relative to the matter, that it is far
better that there be no change, care
being taken not to over stock (he
pastures, and to provide soiling
material (sowed corn, rye or oats)
with which to supplement the graz
ing in case of drontb or the falling
off of grass supply from any cause.
On the other hand, others deem
change essential, care being taken
that it be at regular intervals and
at such intervals as not to allow too
rank a growth in the fresh pasture,
thereby deranging the appetite and
stomachs of the animals. Others
think that all the change needed—
and the wisest one to make—is from
the pasture in which the cows have
foraged daring the day to' another
at night after milking.
How to Destroy the Caterpillar.
The season for that dreadful pest,
the orchard caterpillar, being at
hand, and many farmers knowing of
no cheap and easy metnod of their
destruction, 1 offer the following
plan, that I have used on a couple of
orchards of several hundred trees,
at comparatively no cost, and very
light labor :
Take a common water bucket full
of water, make it very strong with
common lye' and soft soap, that
nearly every farmer has; then add
a lamp of unpacked lime about as
large as a hen’s egg, and your prep
aration is complete, apply with a
rag tied on a stick, or a pole long
enough to reach all the webs in the
tree. Swap the nest well and your
work is completed; it is instant
death to caterpillar that is
wet with the mixture. One bucket
of the mixture will destroy from
one to three hundred nests, owing to
the size and age.
The Vermont Farmer says a jnan
in Sheffield by the name of Hinhaao
Frost has three cows that walk
across a mad bole oo a peeled
sorace log that lies over foar feet
above the mad.
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In &ct if you were to ask the children I'm afraid
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LETTER PROM BISHOP SIMPSON.
PaiLanxLPßia, April iff, 1868.
T. O. Surra & Co.—Gent*—Having need one of
your Bradbury Pianos, It baa given great satisfac
tion to my/femily and to many visitors who have
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superior instrument, both in finish and power. I
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Wm. B. Bradbury, in continuing the manufacture
of bis justly celebrated Pianos. Yours truly,
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Chiei Justice Salmon P. Chase. Washington D. U.,
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Vice Admiral D. D. Porter, Washington D. C.,
“The Bradbury is exquisitely sad beautifully
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Hon. Colambas Delano, Secretary of the Interior,
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for the Interior.
P. M. General Cresswell and Mrs. Cresewel!.—
‘•All oar friends admire the delightful tones o
the Bradbury, used at oar receptions.”
Robert'Bonner, Mew York Ledger—“At any time
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tones of the Bradbury."
Grand Central Hotel, New York—“ln preference
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for our parlors. Oar gaests pronounce them,
splendid.
St. Nicholas Hotel, New York.—“ Have always
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pleasure in recommending them.”
Hon. John Simpson, M. P.. Canada, says: “Ttie
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M. Simpson, Bishop M. B. Church. Philadelphia.
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E. 8. Janes, Bishop H. E. Church, N. Y.-*“Wc
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Rev. Dr. John McCUnton, Drew Theological Sem
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T. 8. Arthur, Philadelphia—“We have used for
years, and can recommend the Bradbary Piano.'*
Philip Philips, New York, says, “1 have song with
and aaed the Bradbary Plano in my family for
years.”
W. G. Fischer, Profeesotmf Music, Girard College,
Philadelphia. “I use as my lamily Piano, the
Bradbury, and can with confidence recommend
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Rev. Daniel Curry, Editor Christian Advocate: “!
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instrument in every respect. ”
Theodore Tilton, Editor Independent: “If yon
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they like me.”
Dr. Daniel Wise. Editor Sunday School Advocate.
“I use the Bradbary Piano, and think, like hi*
music It cannot be excelled.”
Rev. Dr. Ferris, Net# York. “My Bradbury has
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Rev. Dr. Fields, Editor of the Evangelist, “I have
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John Caughey, Beaver Pa., purchased from me
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satisfaction, and grows better as it becomes
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Wm. McCoy, of Beaver, Pa., in tne spring of 1871,
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proven to be a superior instrument in evec r re
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Miss Mary McGafflck also owns and uses a Brad
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