The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-08-28
al Eaaminer.
Household and Farm.


SHEEP KILLING DoGs.-A dog
that has had proper schooling with
sheep ON a farm will never kill a
sheep, but on the contrary he will
protect them against the other dogs.
When you feed or salt your sheep,
you should always take your dog
along with you, and especially when
he is young. But when dog has
run after or killed sheep, take rope
about twelve feet long, and fasten
your dog to one end, and your but
ting old buck to the other. Let them
go on in an open pasture or field of
five or ten acres say for about half a
day. That will cure him sure. He
will never be seen that close to a
sheep again.
But to cure your neighbours dog
put a bell on sheep for every fifteen
or twenty head. Have the bells of
different tones. Now, when the dog
makes raid ON them, the ringing of
these different toned bells will make
him so ashamed of himself, that he
will drop his narrative and sneak off.
This, believe, will never fail.
What | say, say from experience,
as have tried it often for thirty
years.-B. T. Akin, Cincinnati En-
quirer. .......
BERMUDA GRAss.-I mailed YOU
last week potato pierced by the
root of what we call cane grass.
which is of very common occurrence
in this vicinity. Is the grass sent
bermuda grass or not 7 Ii so, then
the prayer of our farmers is that they
may be delivered from it, and all
such. / have seen II growing out of
The red clay on the side of a railroad
cut and hanging down 10 feet or
more, ID. Il. II. Charlotte, n. G. las
near as could be identified without
the flower spikes, the grass sent is
Bermuda grass, CyuodOn dactyioa.
As far as known to us, the flowers
are abortive in the United States,
and the plant is only spread by its
root stalks, which like the quack
grass, send up sprouts at every joint.
Country Gentleman, Albany, New
York.
The Bermuda is every where in
Houston. II was introduced here, as
we learn, by u. w. Ceilings, some
twenty years ago, who believed il to
be the best pasture grass. lie plant
ed few roots around his crib, and
In a few years it ran all over his land.
II crossed the bayou and spread all
over Houston. No one has ever seen
a flower-spike on il in Houston, and
I is supposed here TO be seedless vet
II spreads and goes everywhere. AS
II pasture grass there is none to equal
IL that is known Of II grows sum-
mer and winter, and cattle will aban-
don all other grasses TO live upon it.
II strikes deep root, and il is plant
cd on the Mississippi levees TO keep
the banks from caving. Make past
ure of II and coniiDe il to the pasture,
and ii is the best of all grasses, filed
with saccharine matter Botanically
il is the same genus as the sugar
cane. To get rid of it pillow it up in
n dry July. 1t will kill il so dead
that only Il sprout of il will be found
here and there. If time and meney
can be spared, gather the grass and
throw il into heaps. Ii soon rots
and makes n fine manure. A farmer
tells us that he invites it on his place
and never can get as much Us he
wants.-Erening Age.
Rust ON WHARF.-The commits
siOner of agriculture of North Caro-
lima, in his monthly report for July,
saws @-s~ .-- tN'
''rhe damage to this important
crop (wheaD by rust, in this country
may safely be estimated by millions
annually, and il continues to battle
efforts to find remedy. In the Aug
iist number of the Southern Cultiva-
Tor, Mr. j. ID. Cooper of Greenville,
>. e.. gives the following, which he
claims upon Il thorough test to be in
tallible. lie states that this recipe
has stood the test of thirty years In
Germany, and ! reprodI It here
with the hope that some of our farm
crs will give 1t trial and report the
result Some hours-at the longest
six or eight before sowing,-prepare
II steep of three measures of quick
lime and ten measures ofcattle urine,
pour two quarts of this upon a peck
of wheat and stir with a spade until
every kernel is covered With il. BY
using this rust of every kind will be
avoided"
As a remedy against smut and 9TH
or fungus growth of its class, the
remedy is good, but rust is produced
by an entirely different set of condi-
tions. The atmospheric conditions
during ripening being disabilities
from rust,