Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1880-08-12
Farm Notes.

yields about nifty POUNDS oil
blood, which for fertilizing pur-
poses is worth twenty-five
cents.
Salt and ashes mixed i'll the
drink Of hogs has a great ten
dency to ward off disease. A
solution Of coperas also is often
useful to purg them from worms.
Riceis becoming one of the
most important crops planted
in Southwest Georgia. The
rains have given it a splendid
start, and a very large crop is
expected.
Alsike gives smaller crops
than red clover, but of better
quality. 1t is highly recon-
mended for soils liable to heav-
ing by frost and affords to bees
excellent pasture ground.
Kansas City and st. Louis
butchers are highly pleased,
with the beef obtained by cross,
ofpolled Angus upon the native
COWS. II is finely marbled, juicy
and tender. The calves of this
breed are almost jet black and
hornless.
Mr.. Marvin of West Unity,
I.Ohio kept the bugs from melon
and cucumber vines last season
by sowing a few radishes in
each hill. Air-slacked lime,
busted over the vines in the
morning, while the dew is on
is beneficial in wsrding off the
attacks of these insects.
A horses hoof is OF the same
nature as horn. If you desire
to see the effects of applying a
hot shoe to a horses hoof, place
your comb on a hot stove for a
minute or two, then let it cool
and see how easily it will break.
A hot shoe makes the hoof brit
tie instead of tough.
A correspondent Of the Jer-
SEVILLE (Fla.) Dispatch recon-
mends the sowing of blue grass
on pastures, set with Bermuda
grass, giving instances where the
former had accidentally taken
root and spread, affording win
ter pasture when season of the
Bermuda was over. re
Lime Stacked with a solution
of salt in water, and then pro-
perty thinned with skim-milk,
for which all the cream has
been taken, makes permanent
whitewash for outdoor work,
and it is said renders the wood
incombustible. 1t is an excel
lent wash representing shingles
and for all farm buildings.
The American Stockman re-
marks that if there should be a
wool famine within a year or two
nothing it the fact which would
greatly surprise some of the
principal authorities upon wool
matters. Rot has carried off
many sheep in England, and on
the continent, it is said, sheep
are in number below the aver
age. 1t may be that the Amer
lean wool groweris at last abont
to find his reward for having
chung to his sheep through the
long period of low prices.
The following has been hand
cd US by prominent physician
and he assures US it is sure
death to rats. tits simple and
easily prepared, and is worth a
trial: Plaster Paris pint; flour
I gill; powdered sugar I table
spoonful. Mix well and place
in a shallow pan, and by it
place a painful OF clean water.
The rats will eat the mixture
and then drink of the water,
which causes their death almost
instantly. 1t is said they never
leave the pan Of water.-Austin
Statesman.
Horses should be watered in
the morning before they are fed.
A full drink ofwater immediate
ly after being fed isa sure way
of producing indigestion, if not
inflammation. When water is
drank by horses the bulk of it
goes directly to the large intes-
tines, and little Of it is retained
in the stomach. Some old and
worthless horses by way of ex-
pertinent arc fed with split peas,
and then then supplied with
water Immediately before before
being killed. 1t was found that
the water had carried the peas
from fifty to sixty feet into the
intestines where no digestion
took place at all.-Ex.
A correspondent of the Ohio
Farmer gives the following SEN
sible advice about pastures:
There are thousands of acres of
pasture that will require at least
three acres to carry a COW
through the summer and it
needs no argument to show
that it will be profitable to. cx-
pend several dollars per acre
TO reduce this to two acres for
a COW. am more and more in
favor of mixed grasses and
heavy seeding for permanent
pastures. Where l sowed only
clover, the third year the ground
was bare; but where l sowed
orchard grass, blue grass and
timothy with the clover, it is
better now than it was the fir st
year.
According to the West Indian,