NOTES ABOUT CEREALS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8160, 15 April 1895, Page 4

NOTES ABOUT CEREALS.

This is what cheap wheab is doiug for one K<insa3 farmer : ' Careful experiments showed that a bushel of dry corn made 141b of pork, and a Imshel of wheat ground and fed as slop made 171b. T am this year feeding 10,000 bushels of wheat, of which 12,000 were purchased ab an average of 35 cents per bushel. I sold a car oad of pigs fattened entirely on whnab, which averagod 2491b, find brought oclol per 1001b. When fed to cattlo a bushel of wheat 1 made 141b. The 31b difference in weighb a* well a? tho higher price of hog* as compared wilh cUtle, mado the grain fed to tho former piy much bet f er prices. 1 Iv tho feeding experiments at tho Utah station ib was concluded that for feeding horses during the summer corn and timothy wore not so good as oats, wheat and clover, in maintaining the weighb of the animal. In winter tho difference was not so marked, bub during the spring and summor corn, whoat, or barn, and mixed hay produced rnoro gain that oats, wheab, or bran and hay — Pioneer Press, With a view of remedying the stagnation in tho grain market, tho Russian Government has sanctioned tho purchase of rye and wheat, on behalf of the Stato, direct from tho growers. Tho grain will bo usod for feeding the army and sold to tho populace. Bales to private porsous, however, are to bo limited aa to quantity, and the graiu will only bo disposed of ab bullish ratea. Indian shipments since April lsb 1894 were 12,180,000 bushels, against 21,180 000 bushels in 1893-4 and 27,770,000 bushels in 1892 - 3. Russian shipments from Augusb lsb, 1894, to January 2Gth,wero 02,000,000 bushels against 01,090,000 bushels in 1893-4, and 40,720,000 bushels in The Chicago trado Bulletin saja ; ' North Texas is putting in the biggesb crop of oats ever known in the history of the State. The January and February snows and ico lefb the ground in a pulvorised condition and since the sun has come out thousands of ploughs have been pub to work pre paring 'lie land for oats,' t