VOL. L. No 2187. 
NEW YORK, DECEMBER 26, 1891. 
PRICE, FIVE CENTS. 
$ 2.00 PER YEAR. 
French Coach Stallions. 
The six French Coach stallions pictured below in¬ 
clude some of the greatest prize animals imported from 
France this year. The first or nearest is Hermes 906, 
winner of first prize at the Inter-State Fair at Trenton, 
N. J., and third prize at the French Government Fair 
held at Versailles; the second is Ambassadeur 902, win¬ 
ner of the first prize at Versailles, France, and second 
at the New York State Fair. The third is Klora 916, 
winner of the first prize at the Pennsylvania State 
Fair, at Bethlehem; the fourth is Kleeber 914, win¬ 
ner of the first prize at the Inter-State Fairs at Elmira, 
and also at Trenton, N. J.; the fifth is Pacha 729, winner 
of first prize at the western New York Fair at Roch¬ 
ester, and of the second prize at the Inter-State Fair 
at Elmira; the last is Kossuth, 917, winner of the first 
prize at the New York State Fair, first at Trenton at 
the Inter-State Fair and fourth prize at Versailles, 
France. 
These horses are owned by John W. Akin and make 
a goodly show and are worthy of the highest praise. 
We have had much to say about the value of good 
Coach horses, but we have never said all that the facts 
would justify. There are to-day hundreds of people in 
any of our large cities searching for safe and stylish 
carriage horses. Such animals are as hard to get, for 
anything like a fair price, as good Shetland ponies. In 
fact these two classes of horses just now seem worth 
more, per pound, than any others. The cost of raising 
a pound of horse is not much more than that of raising 
a pound of steer, and there is little difference between 
the cost of a pound of car horse and a pound of carriage 
horse. One may sell at 14 cents a pound and the other 
at 35 cents. A difference of 21 cents a pound is worth 
considering. 
We understand that some parties are trying to sell 
grade horses with more or less Percheron blood in 
them for full-blood French Coachers.* Don’t patronize 
such a house if you can help it. The mares found in 
any ordinary neighborhood are of all “ sorts and col¬ 
ors.” To have any approach to uniformity in colts, 
the stallion must be as well bred as possible. 
The Cost of Stable Manure. 
How do you Estimate Labor and Time. 
In attempting to study out the real facts connected 
with the system of farming with “Chemicals and 
Clover,” we have become convinced that some farmers 
are paying more for stable manure than it is worth ; 
that is to say, unless they estimate the manure in 
their barnyard at a higher price than it could be 
bought for in other forms of fertility, they cannot 
figure out fair prices for their own or a profit on 
their hired labor. Every element of fertility that is 
supplied to the plant in stable manure, is supplied in 
high-grade complete fertilizers and clover sod. Is it 
cheaper, all things considered, to sell the hay and 
grain grown on the farm, or to feed it to stock and sell 
it in the form of meat, milk or butter, using the man¬ 
ure to keep up the land ? Every farmer is a plant 
manufacturer. Which farmers shall go further and 
manufacture these plants into animal products ? 
Which shall stop with the plant and depend upon 
sources outside the farm for fertility ? Do farmers 
ever figure on the cost of stable manure ? It is gen¬ 
erally considered a waste product, but is it always so? 
Does it not represent labor, skill and care, and is it 
not a legitimate part of the returns from the year’s 
farming ? Not long since we sent the following ques¬ 
tions to a number of farmers throughout the country. 
1. How many tons of hay and stalks do you estimate 
you feed out in one year ? 
2. How many bushels of grain do you feed ? 
3. How much grain do you buy ? 
4. What is the value of the live stock and their 
products that are produced and sold for this hay and 
grain ? 
The following responses are good samples of others. 
We would like to have farmers figure on these answers. 
Here we have a certain amount of hay and grain 
which was manufactured into food products. 1. At 
the figures given, what did the workmen receive for 
the time spent in caring for the animals ? 2. What 
must the manure be valued at in order to insure them 
fair wages ? 3. If they had sold their hay and grain 
and not fed a pound of what was salable and found 
other winter work, would they have been better off ? 
On a Vermont Dairy Farm. 
1. Eighty tons at least. 2. Two hundred bushels 
raised on the farm. 3. About $200 worth. 4. About 
$1,100. These figures may seem rather startling for a 
56-acre farm, but if anybody will consider the stock I 
am keeping, he will say that no less an amount of 
hay, etc., would feed them. I now have 34 head of 
cattle and horses, six hogs and 14 pigs, and 30 hens. 
Of the cattle and horses, 24 are of mature age and will 
each eat two tons of dry fodder, or its equivalent in 
ensilage, during the winter, 48 tons; 10 head of young 
stock, 10 tons; three horses during summer, 9 
tons; 13 cows during summer, 13 tons; total, 80 tons. 
My dairy of 13 cows have only 17 acres of pasture, so 
that it is necessary to feed them in the barn somewhat 
during the entire summer. I have a small back past¬ 
ure for my young stock, besides the 56 acres which 
constitute the home farm. This produces fruit, pota¬ 
toes- and maple sugar to the value of about $200, be¬ 
sides the hay and forage above referred to. 
Orange Co., Ver. ' k. d. bass. 
A Central Illinois Farm. 
The questions are rather difficult to answer, but 
here are approximate figures : 1. Hay fed out, 60 tons; 
stalks, 20 tons. 2. Corn fed out, 2,700 bushels ; oats, 
700 bushels. 3. None. 4. Value of stock and products 
about $2,000. Add grass to the above and the value of 
stock and products will be raised to about $2,600 ; but 
I have, as nearly as possible, given only the value of 
the stock and products produced by above material. 
Champaign Co., Ill. granger. 
Some Figures for Northern Ohio. 
Some time ago I devoted considerable time to the 
investigation of this matter and an interview with 10 
of the best stock farmers in two townships gave me 
substantially the following facts. 
Average amount of hay or its equivalent of straw, 
corn fodder and grain per cow, two tons ; average in¬ 
come per cow, $25 ; six sheep consumed of hay or its 
A ROW OF PRIZE FRENCH COACH STALLIONS. Fig. 329. 
