The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1877-05-03
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akin, and feed very little dry corn to
pigs or sows in pig. Especially in
winter be careful to give all hogs as
warm and dry bed as you would your
horses. Feed roots, pumpkins and bran
swill plentifully, and my word for 1t
you will hear less of cholera, abortion,
scurvy and trichina."
1t is not uncommon for small par
ticles of butter to be formed during tho
milking OF cows that give more than
usually rich milk. The butter glob1les
become broken either in the udder or
in the pail, the thin pelhole which
covers them being ruptured, aud the
minute particles OF butter cohere and
form small masses visible to the eye.
This is not defect; OF the contrary,
it indicates that the COW is an excellent
butter.maker. 1t sometimes occurs
with ordinary cows, when the milk
from neglect has net been drawn at the
usual time. The pressure in the udder
may then cause the globules to become
broken and the fresh butter TO gather.
There is one thing which nature does
not supply, and which civilization, the
Germantown Telegraph thinks, renders
quite necessary to fowls. 1t is char
coal. But charcoal made of wood does
not answer the purpose; it has no taste
of food, is not attractive to the fowl,
and Is seldom eaten. But il any one
will put an ear of ripe corn into the
fire until the grains are we'll charred,
and then shell off the corn and throw
it to his fowls, he will see an eagorness
developed and healthy condition
brought about, which will make de-
cided Improvement. All pale combs
will become bright red, that busy
song which pIecedes laying will be
heard, and the average yield of eggs
will be greatly increased.
Some time ago an intelligent farmer
asked which were the better fertilize 8,
phosphates or potash salts. The reply
was, "potash salts where potash is
needed, phosphates where phosphoric
acid is needed, and heterogeneous
manures where nitrogen is needed.
But if you do not know what your soil
lacks, and want to make sure of crop,
and enrich your land at the same time,
use your nitrogenous superphosphates
and German potash salts together. The
former will furnish nitrogen, phos-
phoric acid, sulphuric acid aAd lime;
the latter, potash and magnesia. Thus
you will have q fertilizer with all that
the plant needs-a complete manure.
, At the same time 1t is we'll to remem-
Der that you may iced your crops, not
only directly by giving them these in
gradients in guanos, phosphates, potash
| ooltc aud nm tNaAtranftxr hv
rendering stores of plant food, present
in the soil and atmosphere, available
through the tillage and use of cheaper
fertilizers. A little lime of plaster may
sometimes be thus more valuable than
an amount of phosphates or potash
salts that would cost several times as
much"
A letter writer tells that 4" some fif-
teen years ago had small apple tree
that leaned considerably. drove o
stake by it, tied string to q limb and
fastened it to stake. The next year
the limb blossomed fully, and not an
other blossom appeared on the tree.
Therefore, after thinking the matter
over, / came to the conclusion that the
string was so tight that it prevented
the sap returning to the roots, conse-
quently fruit buds were formed. Hav-
ing a couple of pear trees that were
large enough to bear, but never bios
somed, took piece of coarse twine
and wound it several times around the
tree above the lower limbs, and tied
it as tightly as l could. The next
spring sll the top above the cord bios
somed as white as sheet, and there
was not one blossom below where the
cord was tied. A neIghbor, seeing my
trees loaded with pears, used this meth
cd with the same result. / have since
tried the experiment on several trees
with equal success. think it is a
} much better plan than root pruning.
In early summer, say June and July,
wind piece of strong cord several
times around the tree or single hmt
and tie it, the tighter the better, and
you will be pleased with the result
, Next winter or spring the cord may bt
taken off,"
A correspondent says. During I
long life have had much experience
in the management Of hogs, and pro
pose to give your readers my proven
tive for that general fatal disease, chol
era. Prevention is better than cure
Take pine tops or leaves and boil in I
half barrel of water sufficiently to max,
strong solution; add thereto three
pounds each of copperas and sulphu
( and one quart of salt. II pine tops OF
leaves cannot be had rosin will answer
, say five pounds. This mixture is Il
! be poured over, say eight or ten bun
. dies of corn fodder (though Hungarian
grass or oats will answer, saturatinG
well. This must be fed to your hogs
and they will eat it very well, but it ID
3 advisable that they be kept up ovei
, night without feed. 1t will cut the
worms out OF the hogs, which, clam
is the main cause of this disease. Thi
D remedy should be given once q week
! or thereabouts. As to the proportion
per hog, any farmer can readily deter
mine that. / have adopted this treat
t ment for the last forty years, and have
, never had hog sick with the chelera
Hogs running on clover or other grasseI
: shanld be salted regularly, and nevsi
z should be allowed to remain on sucf
pasture more than two hours at time
In addition to the specific trehImen
here given, have uniformly made it q
rule to keep tar, wood ashes and sal
in my hog troughs. Speaking o
: troughs, l will give my plan for max
ing them. For trough sixteen fee
long take two heavy planks, one twely'
inches, the other eleven inches in width
fit them together in something like
V shape, and at each end nail piece
two feet long and one foot wide; max
! it immovable by securing with sharp
ened stakes driven in the ground, "
as to draw TO the trough. find tina
hogs will not stand in a trough thu
made, and can't root it over. In tn
: year 1S42, in Jefferson county, Tennet
e see, my neighbor, Col. VIM. Moore
was feeding 2400 head OF large hogs
aud lost of this number fully ten pc
T cent. With my lot Of 500, with tn
treatment described, lost none"
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