Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1878-03-15
FARM NOTES.

FARM NOTES.
England imports about $4,000
tons OF foreign. butter, at an an
nilal cost OF nearly 81, 900, oeo.
Sleeps milk is thicker than
that OF cows, and yields a great,
or proportion of butter and
clleese-
NSvm'keep your cattle short;
few farmers can afford it. 1t
You starve them they will starve
YOU.
) TuE United States utilizes in
agriculture ten per cent, OF its
ase.l: Great Britain, ftty-eight
per cent, and Holland, seventy.
Massachusetts, farms produced
more butter III 1855 than in
1915, and fnag-tiines the qnanti-
~ OF cheese; but, on the other
hand, during the same period,
ihc production of milk has in
creased IRON 3,300,916 gallons
in 1856 to IS, SOS, 159 in 1875.
A TACK IN SEAsoN.-If tiie-
corner Of a carpet gets loose,
prevents the door opening, or
trips every one up who enters
I lc room, nail it down at once.
A dog cared carpet makes the
sloven as well as the dog-eared
book.
FLooRs.-Floors should not be
scrubbed too often, and never in
damp weather as they will not
then properly dry, but leave the
room damp for long time.
Once a week is often enough, as
a rule, and thsn be snre to
choose a sunny day.
FRurT FOR DEsERr.-B,at
well the white of an egg with a
little water; dip the trnit in,
and roll it immediately in some
Sna r,.nsbed smear. Mace il on a
dish and leave it five or six
hours, then serve. A moro
slightly an exquisite desert than
a plate of currants thus dressed,
cannot be had.
ENTERPRISE ON THE Farm
What folly to say there is no
limit to enterprise on the farm.
There Is no limit to enterprise.
Farmers of enterprise, governed
by good judgement grow rich,
while those lacking it plod on
il the same old ruts-do things
in the same old way, and can
hardly make accounts balance
at the end of the year, Rural
World.
VALUE OF DIFFERENT FooDs.-
The comparative value of horses
ferd is found to be as follows:
100 pounds of good hay is equal
in y:iloe to IS pounds OF oats,
81 pounds of corn, 275 pounds
of carrots, 81 pounds Of rye or
barley, and los of wheat bran.
Such tables, however carefully
prepared, are too indefinite to
be of any particular value, and
besides, they are too liable to
be affected by attendant cir
cu;nstances to be accarate.-Se-
kcfed.
FARMERS, where are your
plows,euitiyatcrs, harrows, reap
crs and other tools2 How many
OF you have LETT them ex-
posed TO the weather all winter
III the fields and fence cornersl
There are numbers of farmers
who are guilty OF such neglect
tul practice, and yet are always
complaining when they find
themselves poor and unable to
make both ends meet. The
great wonder is that this class
of farmers are not worse off
than they are.
FIVE SHEEP.-H. G. Abbott,
OF Maine, tells in the New Eng
land Farmer, what five sheep
will do. He SAYS: ''Five sheep
will enrich one acre of old, |
worn-out moving land in three
years. so th;.s it will produce one |
and one-half tons OF hay per
year, Tor several years, by a
slight sprinkle OF seed each year. |
sown in the early spring. Five
sheep will produce manure in |
winter TO the valne of SO, by |
giving them suitable bedding. |
Five sheep will ret their living |
through the summer on one
acre of ground; the pasturinp oil
the same would be SO. Five
hecp viii raise five lambs, worth
SIS. Five sheep will shear
twenty-five pounds OF wool worth
So.