San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-09-14

mense shiftlessness on your part ever to
be satisfied with any other mode Of cul-
tivation.-Country Gentleman.
CURING SITTERs.-Our plan of cur
ing sitting hens Of their broody pro-
pen stiles is somewhat different from the
old lady who cured her hens Of the roup
by wringing their necks. That will, no
doubt, etfectually remove the disease,
but will soon reduce the size Of the flock.
The idea of ducking poor broody hen
to make her stop her clucking and moth
erly propensities Is about as absurd and
useless as putting their heads under their
wings, or whirling them around until
they are almost senseless, and then
tlinging them over the fence to medi-
tate on their past iniquities. There are
others who yoke up their broody hens
the same as many do the geese they
wish to keep from going through the
fences. The plan may be highly orna-
mental and diverting, yet it is rarely
productive of the desired result. These
are mostly the plans resorted to in Eye
olden times" when dung-hill fowls,
whose powers of endurance were of the
highest order, were the rule and pure
bred fowls the exception. There is far
more sensible, as we'll as effectual, plan
now in vogue, and that is to put all the
broody hens into commodious coop
those hens you do not wish to set-put
young, active csckerel in with them,
and they will ere long forget their broody
ways.-Poultry World. SD
FRAUD IN Observation-Disclosures
farmers are quite as shamefully victim
lied by manure dealers as those who
live in the Old World. Professor S. w.
Johnson, director of the Connecticut
experiment station, in his recently is
sued annual report, exposes the worth
lessness of certain so-called fertilizers
which he has examined. He obtained
samples of the fertilizers sold by one
firm at $32 a ton, and found by analy-
sis that they were worth less than 81
per ton. 1t was afterwards discovered
that the firm was merely engaged in bar
reling up harbor sand and mud and sell
ing it to farmers at S32 per ton. For
tunately the firm was forced to close up
its swindling business, and the last in
formation from its chief member was
that he was in Jail in Massachusetts, for
some other villainy. If it had not been
for the experiment station, says an
American exchange, the swindlers might
have made fortune from one years.
sale of mud at 1872 per ton.
BRoCooLI.--This vegetablei is of Italian
origin, and is much more used in Eng
land than with us, but it deserves a
place in every small garden, as it's an
excellent vegetable. 1t resembles the
cauliflower, but its leaves and heads are
purplish, and it is nearly as good for the
table, and much easier of culture, as it is
much more hardy, and is not injured by
the first touch of the frost. There are
several varieties, some of which are
planted for fall use in the spring, others
in the autumn for spring use. Broccoli
requires rich, deep soil, and the seeds
should be thinly planted, and covered
slightly, and when the plants are three
or four inches in height, they should be
transplanted three feet apart, and kept
free from weeds. The plants can be
protected from winter use by laying them
in pits like cabbages, or planting them
out in boxes in the cellar, where the
heads will form nicely. When rightly
managed, broccoli can be had for the
table six or seven months in the year.
OvER-REACHING.-T Germantown
Telegraph gives the following remedy
for this defect in horses: GA sure way
for removing this unpleasant failing in
the movements of horse, in a majority
of cases, is to shorten the toe of the
hind shoes. By this arrangement the
horse will pick up his fore feet quicker
and his hind feet slower, thus accom-
plishing just what is wanted. If a
quarter of second of time is therefore
gained the fore foot will be clear out OF
the way of the hind foot, with it's elong-
ated toe. We owned valuable horse
once subject to over-reaching. He was
taken in hand by several experienced
shoers, and every one adopted the COM
mon erroneous methods. Being in the
stable one day, we sat down upon
chair after examining the shoes, to de-
wise some way to cure the animal of this
defect, and the conclusion we arrived at
led to insisting upon the sheer follow
ing our instructions; the result of it was
a complete success. Now and then a
new sheer would not be aware of this
over-reaching, and would shoe in the
old way, when the over-reaching was
as bad as ever till the first shoes were
removed. We had another horse cured
in the same way, as at that time had
many other persons. Indeed, we have
never known this method to fail when
properly followed"
HoRsE-SHoEING.-Every horsepower
should become in measure acquainted
with the peculiarities of his horses hoos
and the special needs required in each
pasa He should no pomnptent to make