The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-06-21
Homo and Farm,

Home and Farm,
Both the Country Gentleman and the
Prairie Farmer are indispensable
papers in any we'll regulated house
hold.
PROTECTING GRAIN.-A horticultural
furnishes the following recipe to pre-
serve all kinds of grain from the
ravages of cut worms, birds, etc. ::
One pound sulphate of iron, one ounce
aloes. Dissolve in water heated to
ninety or ninety-fiYe degrees, and pour
over one bushel of grain.
A KICKING Cow. - dairyman re-
marked that before sitting down to
milk kicking helfer he put "snap"
attached to the end of rope, into her
nose, and tied the rope to pin put
into the scaffold girt over the manger,
slightly elevating her nose, and she
stood as quietly while she was MIXED
as the most gentle COW in the stable.
KILLING WEEDs.-The best time to
kill weed is as soon as it is born, be-
fore you can see it. When the seed
has terminated, and is just ready to
break through the ground, then the
least disturbance of the soil disarranges
its connections and it dies in hot sun !;
but if it grows until it makes roots, if
it is disturbed considerably you do not
kill it; it has hold upon the soil and
it lives in spite of you.
SUNBURNT TREES. - Many young
fruit trees, especially pears, are burned
to death during the hot season. Even
when the ground is kept wet, and their
roots arc moist enough; young and
newly set trees upon which the bark is
thin and tender are cooked by the sun
| as by fire, and the branches and
| trunks die while the roots remain alive.
This may often be prevented by wind
| ing the trunks with cloths, which shuts
out the sun.
BONE MEAL FOR GRAPES. The edi-
tor of the London H0rticulturiSt asserts
that among all the fertilizers proposed
for the grape, none embody more of
| the necessary ingredients than bone
meal. 1t should be applied as early
in the season as possible. About ton
to the acre makes dressing that will
| prove valuable for Two or three years.
In the West, as rule, the necessity
| for the phosphates is not yet felt to any
| considerable degree. Where it is so
| bone meal is to he recommended. The
quantity, however, is excessive. One
thousand pounds ought to make itself
felt for years.
PREVENTION OF SwARMINo.-Ac cor
respondent of the Bee Keepers Magazine
in relation TO the swarming of bees
says: After have had all the increase
| desire, when a hive shows an inclina-
| ton to swarm / move it to the place of
some weaker hive. In that way make
all my colonies strong and when have
accomplished that object but still have
| hive that threatens TO swarm | change
places with another, that may also
| show signs of swarming. The change
| of workers destroys the propensity Of
| swarmlng for the time being, and by
giving them plenty of box room they
will store honey, and if they are again
inclined to swarm, you may move back
| again and it will have the effect.
THE CURoULIo.-In France gentle
man owned q grand country estate;
| surrounding his mansion were orchards
containing fruit trees of all kinds that
could be acclimated, about three acres
in plums, which were healthy looking
trees, blooming each spring, but none
of the fruit coming to maturity. He
became disguised and turned the plum
orchard into chicken yard, leaving
the trees for shade. To his profound
establishment the next season the trees
were fairly breaking down with ripe,
full matured fruit. The poultry had
accomplished what man had utterly
failed in successfully battling the cur
culio.
THE ROAD TO HEALTH.--While' chill
dren are growing, they need sleep. Lit
tie folks who SIT up late at nights are
usually nervous, weak, small and sick
ly. The reason you need more sleep
than your parents is because you have
to grow and they do not. They can
use up the food they eat in thinking,
talking and walking, while you should
| have some of yours in growing. You
I ought TO sleep great deal; il you do
not you will in activity consume all
you eat, and have none, or not enough,
to grow with. Very few clever chll-
dren excel, or even equal other people
when they grow up. Why is thisG
Because their heads, If not their bodies,
are kept too busy; so that they cannot
sleep, rest and grow strong in body and
brain.
PROTECTION FROM FLIEs.-A cotem-
porary records the discovery of a
French pharmaceutal chemist who has
discovered a way to protect horses
from attacks of flies, according TO q
London medical paper. HIS invention
consists in rubbing the horse, especially
the parts most subject TO attack, with
little concentrated oil of laurel. There
is not the least danger in its use, and
the cost is said to be very small. An
other repellent suggested by the same
person is a solution of 90 grammes
q 10. and ozs. avoirduDois) Of ASA
fetida In two glasses OF water and one
of vinegar. If horses be well washed
with this not a fly will settle upon
them, as the assafetida drives the flies
away. This drug has no deleterious
qualities as an external application,
and may be used unhesitatiBgly.
Coon Fowls. The light Brahmas
are among the heaviest of fowls. The
breast full, broad, round and prOmi-
nent; back short. very broad between
the shoulders and across the hips; the
wings are small, held tightly by the
body; thighs large and muscular.
The Brahmas are all good and heavy
fowls for the table; good sitters and