The Journal of agriculture and horticulture, 1 octobre 1900, lundi 1 octobre 1900

[" bd TNCs En.C2] ç > SING \u2019 NE ve Ni S\\ THE nN 4 D VoL.4.No.7 ; - THE.Journal of Agricultuye and Borticulture THE JOURNAL OP AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE is the officia organ of the Council of Agriculture of the Province of Quebec, It is issued Bi-monthly and is designed to include not only in name, but in fact, anything concerned with Agriculture and Stock-Raising, Horticulture étc.All matters relating to the reading columns of the Journal must be addressed to Arthur R.Jenner Fust, Editor of the JOURNAL oF AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE, 4 Lincoln Avenue, Montreal.For RATES of advertisements, etc,, address the Publishers LA PATRIE PUBLISHING CO.77, 79 & 81 St.James St., Moatreal Subscription : 81.00 per Annum payable in advance Table of Gontentd THE FARM Notes by th@ WAY.\u2026\u2026oeeuvrociercrens once ossessiseaueees \u2026\u2026 145 Draininge\u2026o\u2026.e sasssnercanenie: cesse ésasosces ns sense scec eee 145 Prospects.our sarecnec e0000rs cavesatasrnesencieners ent avenues 145 Export bacon-hogs \u2019 thesheep shearer has managed to hold his own with the venerable spring back thears ; and even now, so far as speed is concerned, the professional hand sheep-shearer yields little, if any, to the machine.For all that the machine has come to stay ; not only because it saves time on a large flock, but because it saves about as much wool as pays the man who clips.On a first-class plant ten machines are run at a time, but each can be started and stopped at will, The shears are very like a barber's ** clipper, bot with teeth three times as large, and they cut a swath about {wo and one halfirches wide.The power is furnithed by a gasoline engine.An operator hauls forth a fresh sheep, seats the animal between his legs, and while the left hand grasps his muzzle, the right hand guides the shesrs straight down the stomach from a point midway between the front lege.The cheep hold these two front.paws with truly feminine grace.Back go the thears for another ewath, The stomach bared by some four etrokes cf the thears, that big tail is stripped so thatit looks like a peeled banana.One &trcke cleans the wool from inside each hind leg ; then the outside cf the left hind leg is finieh- ed, acd swift strokes of the shears have laid bare the flank up to the neck.This operation makes the theep lock very much like a blood orange peeled by a sharp knife ; for, the red (lech shows pink throvgh the white skin, while here and there a hasty etroke has left à yellowish rise of wool- like so much pulp on thse orange.Having shorn the head, the man works back the reverse way, flops over the eheep, and finiches exactly where he began.R.M.Marquis of Mirabel, Mo., is said to have THE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTUKE AND HORTICULTURE sheared 275 sheep in 12 hours.That would aliow him a trifle over two minutes and one-half per sheep, making no allowance for changing animals or renewing dull hear blades.\u2014N W.Farmer.a SHEEP STATISTICS.The loss of 646,528 sheep in Great Britain, revealed in the Agricultural returns issued by the Board of Agriculture on Tuesday last, is disappointing, though it cannot be said to be altogether unexpected.The effect is to tweep away the gain made on the last two years, and to place the flocks of the country at about the same level as in 1897 The most unsatisfactory feature, perhaps, is the check which appears to have been given to the elow but st:ady augmentation of the numb:r of ewes for breeding which has marked each of the five years immediataly preceding.The loss of ewes is only 1 per cent., the total being still considerably more than in 1898, and the largest decrease is in the number of lambs, of which nearly half a million less were enumerated last June than a year previously.For the first time since these returns were separately given, the number of lambs were returned as less than the number of ewes.This may be due to one or two causes\u2014to a smaller crop of lambs, a greater mortality among them, or the early marketing of a larger number.Possibly all three causes may have operated to some extent.The reduction of 1 3 per cent.in the number of sheep other than breeding ewes and lambs is not very material in itself, but it follows a loss of of just double the relative extent in the preceeding year.\u2014\u2014\u20142_j>eme HAMPSHIRE DOWNS.Professor Wrightson writes : \u201c Tam a ram bre-der, and bring out my lambs in August, I hope, as well aa my brother breeders.Our gystem is peculiar.Welamb in January as far as possible, and our lambs are well kept from birth, and have changes of food.Such lambs have linseed cake, peas, beans, &c., and have turnips, green rye, winter barley, trifolium, vetches, rape, cabbage, clover heads, all in succes:ion, and often {wo baits a day, as well as outruns on clover and sainfoin.I is a thorough system, and cannot be compared at all with open grazng.The Hampshire braed of sheep is wonderful as regards THE JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURE AND HORTICULTURE early maturity, and at Salisbury Fair we shall see lambs I should judge to be 25 1b.per quarter on July 15th.There is always a great competition at this fair; and pens of cignt will be exhibited of the finest type from the best flocks.On the other hend,lambsordinarily kept will not fetch more than from 30s.to 36s per head in most years atthe game date, and there will be plenty at lower fi- «ures unless very high prices rule.As to phosphatic manures, I cannot see that they can injure the sheep, but we generally manure our land through feeding rather than by heavy manuring.\u2014 Eng.Ag.Gazelte A fair weight for a lamb, 100 lbs.of carcase ! We hope Mr James Cochrane will see this extract.Eb, oii.ape RECORD PRICES FOR THOROUGHBREDS.Summing up the results of the recent sale of the Jate Duke «f Westminster's yearling Thorough breds, the Breeders\u2019 Gazette says :\u2014 \u2018\u2018 America no longer holds the record for the largest price paid for a Thoroughbred yearling.formerly the $40 000 paid for King Thomas in New-York stood at the top, but England has of \u2018ate beaten that figure twice.It was supposed for some little time previous to the sale that the vearlings owned by the eatate of the late Duks of Westminster would provoke the keenest competition and reach far up in the price scale, but no one suspected that such tremendous figares would ruie.The twelve head exposed for sale realized no less than 216,500, or an aversge of upwards of 18,000.Never was such an agggregate received for a band of Thoroughbred yearlings.Mr J.S Sevier had apparently made up his mind to take some of the highest priced ones back to France with him, for a few days before the sale he deposited $100,000 in the Bank of Eng'and an 1 he bid on every lot sold.Forthe bay filly by Persimmon (the Prince of Wales) first Derby winner, out of Ornament, he paid $50,000 and he made ihe present Duke of Westminter pay $45,000 for the bay colt by Orme out of Kissing Crust.He securad the bay colt by Orme out of Gauntlet for $28,000 and the bay filly by the Aus ralian sire Tranton out of Sandiway for $27,500.Then he forced the present Duke to pay $28,500 for the colt by Orme out of Vampire and $12,C00 for the grey colt by Grey Leg out of Ruth, by Scottish Chief.For the chestnut colt by Orme out of Throstle\u2014one of the the most beautifully bred Thoroughbreds in exis- 185 tence\u2014he paid $7,500 four of the yearlings thus falling to his bids.The young Duke got one more, including the full brother to flyir g Fox, by Orme out of Vampire, by Galopin.The sale at Newmarket during the week in which thase yearlings was sold was fall of sensational interest, Six mares that were owned by the late Duke of Westminster were among the general offerings and they averaged $5,500.Ths stallion Grey Leg went to Germany at $13,000, for the Imperial stud.Mr Sevier paid $15,000 for the brood mare Astrology and 6 500 for St.Illma, while the Due de Gramont also took to France a lot of five that included a four year old purchase at $15,500.Foxall Keens bwught for exportation to the Uni- tel States the brood mare Sandfly at 11,000 and another mare, Strawberry Hill, by Hampton, was bought al 10 000 with the same destination.Altogether it was a great week.\u201d \u2014_\u2014_\u2014 THE HOG.The U.S.raise about 56 per cent of all the hogs in the world.Ths statistical department shows over 122,000,000 in the world, of which the States produce 69,000,000.Corn is the main source of this immense pork production.Though corn is a very ucsuitable fsed for growing pigs, it lays on fat more cheaply than any other kind of food.England is now receiving each day not l