Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-03-22
FARM NOTES.

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There are LAB, 500 mules in
this country, valued at 500. 4So,
$40.
Nebraska raised 24,000,0oo
bushels of corn and 1To,500
hogs in 1871.
Too much exercise is well
known to retard the process OF
flttening animals.
Hundreds of acres of wheat
were sown in Minnesota last
month, a fact worthy of record.
The losses OF the Scotch far
mers this year through floods
and bad weather, are estimated
at $40, 100000.
Deports from the cotton
States in regard to the condi-
Ion OF the crop are not as favor
able as could be desired.
Cattle, sheep and hogs TO the
aggregate value OF s99,a00,000
were received at the Chicago
Union Stock Yards during the
year 1877.
Casava grows well about Tam
pa, Fla. 1t is fine for stock as
well as table use, and is psopag
ated by planting the stalk like
sugar-cane.
Fresh farm-yard manure gen
orally contains about seventy
per cent. of water and thirty
per cent. Of dry organic and
earthly mater.
The peaches and wheat in
southern Illinois and Missouri
are said, by best judges, not TO
have been injured in the least
BY the weather.
California has 3,s0o,O0O fruit
trees and 36.o00,00O grape
vines. and harvests from 300.-
100000 to 5OO,0oO,00O- pounds
OF fruit yearly.
Don't let your stock get bad
Nv chilled. Keep them warm,
and less fodder will be neces-
sary than when they are un-
housed and subject to all kinds
o weather.
In hot countries and dry
seasons the quantity OF milk
yielded is lese, but the quality
Is richer. Cold favors the pro-
duction of cheese, while hot
weather arguments the amount
OF butter.
It is estimated that the farm
ers of jackson Co., Iowa, lost a
half million dollars worth of
hogs during tile past season
IRON hog cholera. Some farm
ers lost as many as two hun
AIRED each.
Farmers of Clay Co., Mimi,
along the line of the Northern
Pacific, celebrated Christmas
By plonghing their fields. which
were in excellent condition for
working.
The wheat crop is set by the
agricultural bureau at 100, 600
900 bushels the largest ever
known by 50,000.0o0. and Afford
ing 100.0o0.000 for export; corn
crop, $500, 000,o bushels.
Pork has deprecated in value
more than any other meat, and
is worth about half as much as
Il was a few years ago. Hogs
are now qnoied at from S4.20
TO $3.50 per hundred.
* is IS estimated by British
authorities that one-halt their
stock OF sheep is annually slangh-
tered tor food, numbering at
least II. 900, 900 animals. aver
airing fifty six pounds per head.
This gives an annual supply of
nearly l,00a.eo9.009 pounds of
mutton through the home sup
ply. in addition to which 1000
600 imported animals give So
100000 pounds more.
The wise farmer viii eye his
stock closely. The very mons
ent he sees they are on the wane
he must begin to teed. lie must
not lose a single pound OF flesh
they have made. On the con-
trary, he must see That every
day there is an increase in the
weight OF his stock, ard espe-
cialiy of such as are intended
Tor beef. This is the only way
he can get pay for the feed Civ
en- in winter. If they remain
at q standstill, merely, all the
food given them and all the care
and labor bestowed on them will |
he lost. Er.