that our appreciat irrigation cheese a New Mex and pork irrigated other cro second pl variably than they in the tov ter is nev although have a be Mexico la from Kan butter wi plus cost ern farm ing ought of affairs WILLIAM MOORE WRIGHT. He WRIGHT, William Moore, Huntingdon, Tenn., son of Dr. Ebenezer and Olivia A. (Moore) Wright, grandson of Moses Wright, of Worcester, Mass., was born November 6, 1838, at Liberty, Tenn. After obtaining an academic education in the schools of Huntingdon, he began to read medicine in 1859 in Huntingdon under the direction of his father, who died in January, 1860. He then went to St. Louis, Mo., and continued his studies with Drs. John T. Hodgen and A. S. Frazier. attended the hospitals of St. Louis in 1861, also a course of lectures at St. Louis Medical College (McDowells), and in the early part of 1862, entered the Confederate service; was commissioned assistant surgeon and assigned to duty in the hospitals of Nashville, Tenn., Atlanta, and Augusta, Ga., with Dr. Paul F. Eve, until the close of the war. Returning to the study of medicine, he attended another course of lectures at the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, receiving his degree from this college, with the class of 1869-70. Since that time he has practised medicine in Huntingdon. Dr. Wright is a member of the Carroll County (Tenn.) Medical Society; of the American Medical Association; was elected a member of the Tennessee Constitutional Convention of 1870; was superintendent of prisons for Tennessee, 1871-75; was a trustee of the Tennessee Hospital for the Insane, near Nashville, Tenn., from 1875-89; a trustee of the West Tennessee Hospital for the Insane, near Bolivar, Tenn., since 1889; has been a member of the United States medical examining board for pensions since 1890. Dr. Wright has been one of the trustees of the Southern Normal University, Huntingdon, Tenn., since 1891; was a delegate from Tennessee to the National Prison Congress, Baltimore, in the winter of 1872, and in St. Louis in 1873; and was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention, St. Louis, 1876. 171 ussion of tle necescauses of d in illy y of the → amount save the has sup! has shut ible. An cow says hould be Iraughts, d be adent space the roof pe. Six Issary for 1 less, of is much 1 than it sions, and ely when feed to urfeit of part of is not so re makes aiddlings and will fattening aiddlings albumi ore, sup Farm of Texas ne crops hers have as good the disow that e again er cares od, as he rst place ries, and like the a sheds kes it in In short, he fields 1 waters, d help 170 of nitrog fruit crop uct due needed in in the soi est impor of fertiliz sults and cation. 1 ingredien will not b things are most ora California do not ge of fertili to apply sheep m horse sta other sub fertilizer will all be the object tention t action al chards, a ject shall of the wri that our appreciat irrigation cheese a New Mex and pork irrigated other cro second pl variably than they in the tov ter is nev although have a be Mexico la from Kan butter wi plus cost ern farm ing ought of affairs total of 13,843,071 bearing trees. In addition there were 6,646,560 fruit trees not in bearing. Subirrigation. -The assertion has been made and reiterated that subirrigation is far superior to surface irrigation. То find out the results and differences of these different methods, experiments were begun in 1890 at the Utah Experiment Station and have been carried on five ' years. Following is a summary of the whole matter: First.-On a poor clay soil containing gravel, with the cobble rock drain, or on a better clay soil containing some sand, with the cement tile, the subirrigation was not so good as the surface. Second. The experiment covers ten trials, and in every trial but one the surface irrigation gave the highest yields. Third.-During irrigation the soil immediately over the rock drains or the plugs in the cement pipes was over saturated, while that between the drains or pipes and between the plugs in the pipes was very dry. Subsoiling.—There is every reason to believe subsoiling to be a valuable aid to the farmers on much Oklahoma soil. Observations made at the Oklahoma Experiment Station at some points in the Territory where subsoiling has been tried. show, however, that it is very desirable to combine with subsoiling the growth of deep-rooted plants and other means of getting vegetable matter into the soil, not only at the surface but as deep as may be practicable. A good deal of soil in the Territory is of such nature that it will become overly compact again even after thorough subsoiling. The more roots or other vegetable matter it can be made to hold, the longer will it remain loose. An More Ventilation. The discussion of the subject of tuberculosis in cattle necessarily involves the subject of the causes of the same which are often found in illy ventilated barns. The tendency of the farmer in winter is to get a large amount of warmth for his cattle so as to save the cost of feed. To secure heat he has supplied little room for his cows and has shut out the cold air as much as possible. authority upon the health of the cow says that the stable, to be healthy, should be well ventilated and free from draughts, and to accomplish this air should be admitted at the door line and sufficient space should be provided at the apex of the roof to allow the heated air to escape. Six hundred cubic feet of air is necessary for Shorthorns and their grades, and less, of course, for the smaller breeds. Has Its Limitations.-Bran is much more highly thought of as feed than it used to be. But it has its limitations, and should not be relied upon entirely when fed alone. It is an excellent feed to give to animals that have a surfeit of corn, and should always form a part of the ration of fattening sheep. It is not so good for hogs, as its coarse texture makes it unpalatable. But fine wheat middlings have all the excellences of bran, and will be eaten in greater quantities by fattening hogs. The bran and wheat middlings furnish a greater proportion of albuminoids than corn has, and, therefore, supplement its deficiencies. Advantages of the Irrigation Farmer. The farmers of many portions of Texas and the West, generally, made fine crops last year, but our Pecos valley farmers have the comfortable assurance of just as good crops every year, while those in the districts depending on rainfall know that such another season may not come again in ten years. The irrigation farmer cares, little for either a drought or a flood, as he is independent of each. In the first place floods are rare in the arid countries, and when they do come, in off years like the present one, the irrigated farm sheds the extra water as readily as it takes it in flooding the fields by irrigation. In short, the same preparation for flooding the fields prepares them for bearing off flood waters, while the rain farmer has to stand help lessly by and see much of his crop drowned by excessive rains. At many points corn is so plentiful that 15 cents is a good price for it, while here 70 cents is as cheap as any one has sold his crop of corn. The Pecos valley farmer can grow hogs enough on a few acres of alfalfa to use all the corn grown on a quarter section of ground, so that he can always market his corn at a good figure. The Pecos valley farmer who stays at home and attends to his business is the most independent man under the sun, for he is not mortgaged up to the eyes to the merchant, and he need never be. The Pecos valley farmer, one of whom we are which, is all right, with a bright and happy future.-Pecos (N. M.) News. Lecturing the Old Style Farmers.Time apparently hangs heavily upon many of our farmers. Prices of most of the products are so low that the business but little more than pays the running expenses. A radical change the whole length of the line is indispensable to anything like fair success. Little less must be done, and accomplished in a great deal better manner, says The American Cultivator. It is en. tirely idle to expect to secure a profit over the cost of production of ordinary to poor goods. The best horses, the best cattle, sheep, dairy products and the like usually pay a good profit, and why? Because it does not cost so much to produce good stuff as the poor stuff costs. The The farmer who raises a good horse or a good ox wastes no feed. His feed is all food of production; he don't feed them a day without some grain. A good dairyman will make as much product from two cows as a poor one will from six. good dairyman not only feeds the food of support, but as much of the food of production as his cows will bear and respond to, while the poor dairyman rarely finds much above the food of support, and of course loses most of that. Farmers do not sell quite so much fertility when they sell stock as they do when they sell hay. If our farmers could provide themselves with first-class stock and learn how to feed it and care for it, they would rise in the scale of being in short time. It is their only way out. As a rule, from three to eight horses are kept on a farm, and not a good one among them. All This and More too.—On the subject "What the Granges Have Done," Senator Chandler of New Hampshire says: "They have promoted and secured their most natural object, better and more profitable agriculture. They have taken up by many wise heads the various questions of importance to farmers; have investigated and studied those questions; have searched the world over for answers, and at last many quick hands have put into practice and proved the soundness of the conclusions reached. There is hardly a method of farming which has not been improved through the influence of the granges. Better market gardening, better flowers, better staple crops, better forestry are the result of the inquiries, discussions, plans and experiments of the granges of America. This most fruitful subject of the results of grange action I leave to be amplified by others." Butter and Eggs.-Poultry and eggs sold in Kansas during 1895 were valued at $3,315,067. During the same period butter to the value of $4,050,048 was sold. Exercise is of the utmost importance for laying hens. One ounce of salt per day for one hundred hens is a good proportion. Supply grit liberally. Give the hens plenty of room and keep them warm. Four hundred thousand sheep will be sheared in the pens around Casper, Wyo., this spring. The Warren Live Stock Company of Cheyenne, Wyo., fed their sheep at Duncan, Neb., during the winter, shipping as many as eight carloads at a time to Omaha. The sheep were in prime condition and brought top prices. The live stock industry of Kansas last year brought returns of $40,691,074 for animals sold. Fred Wachter raised 5,400 bushels of corn this year in this county from 120 acres, and did all the work himself, except six days' work cultivating. This beats the Iowa man and his two small boys, who raised 5,000 bushels, which is being so extensively quoted in the newspapers.Aurora (Neb.) Sun. |