The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1878-11-13

MAN u hINe II l. llt
editor of the Germantown Telegraph
strongly advocates manuring Or
chards. lie says: A top dressing
of almost anything applied in the
spring or fall will work wonders.
For spring, fine dressing should be
applied, either Of ashes, wood pile
or road scrapings, washings from
bitches, pulverized muck, or conf
mercial fertilizers. In the fall, COM
post or barn-yard manures are to be
preferred. Farmers who hesitate to
enrich their orchards, shopld inform
themselves on the subject from sue
cessful fruit growers, not only ms to
the mode of manuring their orchards,
but as to the best varieties of apples
for the locality, as some varieties,
like in pears, will do much better in
one locality than another, though
the distance may be only few miles.
Tools ON THE FARM.-When far
mers are in the city this fall, laying
in their supplies, they should get u
set of tools. No farm can be run
properly without them. There is al
ways something to mend, and il
mended at onceit will save much
trouble and expense. A good far
mer shonld always keep his eyes
open to see where repairs are need
ed. Implements, gates, fences, doors,
partitions, and hundred other
things need watchful attention.
Then, in stormy weather, many
needed things can be made If one
has good tools. The boys will learn
to be handy with them, and their
mechanical talent can be exercised.
There are also portable FORCES to be
had. and they are useful on every
farm. Every good farmer ought to
he able TO shoe his own horses.
lIorseshoes of various sizes can be
bought cheap, and any man of good
judgement can nail them on. There
is GENERALLY too much cutting and
burning done by blacksmiths. A
good rasp is about all that is needed.
Get II good level bearing on the hoof,
and nail on the shoe. Any one that
can drive a nail in plank, can learn
10 drive and clinch IL in a horses
hoof. Never cut away the frog OF
the bars. These keep the hoof spread
and healthy and prevent contraction
of the foot.
CARE OF PouLTRy.-The care
that poultry is entitled to. to make II
profitable, Is not near so much rs one
would think. 1t is just like any
other business--it needs daily atten'
ton, not only one day in the month
but each and every day.
If YOU expect cow to be profita'
bic, you attend to feeding her resu'
lar, give her good, comfortable quar-
tiers, TO protect her from cold, storms
etc.
Now the poultry should have as
favorable treatment rs any Other
stock. Construct houses, not toe
large, as you will permit too many
10 crowd together. They should bt
about eight feet wide and sixteer
feet long, to accommodate each a flock
of fifty fowls, fronting to the south
with large windows, so placed thai
the fowls may enjoy as much sun
light as possible. Have IL perfectly
tight and dry, excepting means fol
ample ventilation, without a posi-
bility of n direct draft reaching th'
fowls at night after going to roost
A fowl win take cold while asleep a.
easily us u person. Keep the roost
ing apartment clean; sprinkle littl'
air-slacked lime and dry ashes undel
the perch have the house thorough
ly whitcwashed inside three or foul
times a year.
See that they have free access I,
plenty of pure, fresh water at al
times; don't force them TO drink TN
drainage from the barn-yard; man.
cases of cholera have been caused b.
this. A few drops of sulphate o
iron put in their drinking vessels oc
cassionally viii be benefit. Sprinkl
The perches with coal oil and seattle
sulphur in their nests and sawdus
boxes. Many fowls die from sever
colds received by roosting in exposes
places. OF course every fowl tina
dies, il is said, had the cholera, whel
probably half of them were afiecte
IN this way.-Poultry Argus.
Thick AND THIN SOWING o
SEEDs.-A writer in an old humble
OF the American Agricultural says
I'VE have made repeated exper
ments between thick and thin SOW
ing, In different soils, and find ths
four quarts of clover seed will pre-
dnce rs good a stand In rich, fri,
BILE limestone soil, as twenty-four q
thirty-two quarts will on stiff ella
soil. In grass seeds the difference
not SO great. Grain, however, n
quires about double the quantity
seed for a stiff clay over what is n
quired in rich, friable limestoI
soil"