The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1879-08-07
Home and Farm.

The dry season has brought out evi-
dences of the value Of deep blowing
and clean cultivation. a foreble Illus
tration was given the other day by
farmeE-who showed the Waco Tee
phoa< a conPle Of sample cornstalks.
said the farmer: "0bserye these
Stalks of corn. They are about four
teen feet high. There is only one car
of corn on each stalk, but the ears are
nearly one foot in length and full and
sol1d." And the stalks were very fine
looking and the ears very large. The
reporter learned that the farmer broke
his corn land this season eight inches
deep and cultivated it with a cultiva
tor. he had thirty acres in corn, and
1t had only one rain during the season.
Farmers who never expect to secure
paying crop Of corn or potatoes with
out thorough preparation of the soil,
careful planting Of the seed, and entire
eradication Of all weeds and plants
from the ground, yaInly think to raise
hne fruits by thrustIng young trees into
hoIes IN q sod, and leaving them TO
take care Of themselves, says the Rural
Wofld. A young tree thus treated will
no more thrive and become productive
OF large fruit than would hill of corn
under the same circumstances. Drein-
age, manure, pulveIiZltion of the soil
and the destruction of weeds, must be
attended TO to secure the best results.
While trees are small, crops may be
raised in the space between them, but
the ground Immediately around each
tree, foot or two beyond the spread
OF its branches, should be kept free
from grass and weeds which would
draw away from the roots moisture and
fertility, and be kept loose, so that air
may circulate freely through it.
The great want of our children I'M
der seven years IS TO be let alone and
not troubled with facts or maxims to
be remembered. We must change our
ideas in respect to education and rec
ognize that healthy, hearty boy or
girl of eight or nine years who is an
adept in all the sports Of childhood is
far better educated than the infant
prodigy who knows the boundaries and
capitals of every country in the world,
but who cares nothing for the ball or
hoop. Three hours confinement in
school, say from 0 to IL in the morn
ing, is amply sufficient for the children
in our primary school, and il any af-
- ternoon attendance IS required 1t might
sslyantageously take the form of open
air rambles with their teachers. This
method, once established, would deVel-
op the faculties OF teachers as we'll as
pupils and lay the basis of Secratic
instruction by object lessons and famil-
lar conversation which would render
the period of education perennial
source of interest and delight.
A writer for the BRENNAN Banner,
referring to the great mills established
at Austin to grind Nicaragua wheat,
sage: 'tIn this section of the State it
makes a certain crop. Planted in Sep
timber or October, 1t makes superb
winter pasture, four acres of it being
more than equal to 100 bushels oil. corn,
and after being pastuTed all winter it
will yield from twenty-five to thirty
bushels of wheat. 1t is antitrust, and
will yield as we'll here as in Northern
Texas. / have often ate bread made
OF the flour of this wheat, and like it
quite as we'll al bread made of the
common wheat flour. 1t is as nutri-
tious and fully AS healthy al any wheat
bread. An intelligent miller up the
country informed me that If the grain
was soaked in water over night or
steamed few hours, it was as easily
ground as any other wheat. AS the
corn crop is very short this season,
would suggest liberal planting of
this wheat for pasture and bread stuff.
If nothing more, it will prevent vast
amount of suffering among the stock
next winter"
At time when there are ten men in
waiting or-every business opportunity
that the cities afford, farmers boys
who have comfortable homes and fair
chances for the future in the country
had much better stay where they are,
rather than swell the army of the un-
employed in the cheap boarding houses
OF the cities. 1t is true that the cities
would run to waste bu. for the fresh
blood and energy which so constantly
come into them from the country, but
Il is also true that where one man
makes fortune large numbers fail TO
al,et even foothold. In very many re-
pects qife in-fnr country is sweeter,
purer, healthier, better and in every
Ndy more desirable than life in the
own. Notwithstanding this is so uni
Yersally admitted to be true. the farm
crs' boys who become dissatisfied with
tke farm-perhaps because the work
Ie not made so pleasant and profitable
10 them as 1t easily might be-will not
readily believe 1t, or il they believe it
they do not show their faith by their
works.
A writer in the late number of the
North British Agricaltmist says: ''MIr.
IcAdam Of Rome, New York-perhaps
1le Of the best living Judges OF an
Ayfshire cow-says that the principal |
points are her udder and teats. The |
ndder must feaeh well forward, and be |
iIfmly attached TO the body, neither
c1mipg out behind or hanging loosely |
down; the quarters alike in size, and |
the teats set on equally and widely |
apart, neat and not very large, cut |
square at the top like cork-not |
blown OF hanging together like bunch |
n parsnips under loose, ilabby bag, |
as the Short-Horns often have. A |
beautiful udder is the siRo gad non of |
The Ayrshire cow A good Ayrshire |
COW VIII give $40 gallons OF milk, $50 |
bounds OF cheese or 200 pounds of but
Ter per annum. She herself weighs
.eont $50 pounds, and many instances
Ie known where the annual milk pro-
GQol weighed SIX times the COW that
gave Il. Professor Arnold quotes one,
|ticb weighing 1850 pounds, gave
.atn COCO to 5000 pounds of milk an
Iplig that Of 1874 being SS71
fnnds.n
Il horse is required to travel long
||<lance and the journey must be &C
.11upl|shed without stopping to bait,
lxhanats the horse less TO increase
s pace up to his best average gait
Ian TO permit = slow gait, consuming
much ieager time in going over the
|14nd, and on an empty stomach. In
|1<f words. If two horses are driven
~ or sixty miles under similsr con-
IONS - 10 the weight they have to
law. and the one Is taken st
1tc Of slx miles an hour, which
keep him fasting from eight TO
hours, while the other is travelled
enough 10 do il in six to seven
1Il. The latter viii be less exhausted
han The former, though even IN this
4|.If case the horse would he all the
Ter fof feed in the middle Of the
.I1If, the time devoted 10 such
Rag being easily made by the in