The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1880-07-13
Nubbins and Rosebuds.

A whole afternoon OF the recent CCnven-
ton at Lansing, of the Michigan Sheep
breeders and Wool-grow association, was
given up to debate on the question of wash
ing sheep, and the result was al almost unan-
imous verdict to the effect that the practice
is not only useless and barbarous, but un-
profitable, taking into account tho often fatal
effect on fine animals thus checked by being
forced into the water.
A singular disease has made its appear
ance among young cattle in Dade county,
Missouri. The symptoms are, foaming at
the mouth after which they run about for a
short time, seeming to be in great pain.
Then they fall to the ground and suffer in the
same manner rs if stry chime had been ad-
ministered to them, killing them half an hour
after the attack.
A correspondent of Vick's Monthly says
that one spoonful of oarse.powdered salt
petre to pail of water will destroy potato
bugs, squash bugs, and other insects. For
roses it is unsurpassed. For maggots that
work at the roots of squash vines, pour about
a pint of the liquid at the root of each vine
as soon as the pests indicate themselves.
Where shall those who have no ice keep
cream and butter this warm weather Those
who have wells in whiclr the oaken bucket
yet swings can suspend the can or pail
therein. We have a spring in the cold water
of which we submerge cans two feet long
containing sweet milk. The cream rises in
twelve hours and never sours therein. Our
butter is firm, golden, and of ine texture,
whereas before we resorted to this method,
our butter was inferior during the heated
terms, If butter or milk is kept in the cellar
the walls should be whitewashed, and the
floor covered with several inches of sand,
after thorough clearance of rubbish-old
pork barrels, mouldy boxes, etc. : Clifton.
A notable example of the profits of sheep
husbandry, under good management, is the
record of y kentucky flock, of Messrs. f. and
G. Brown, of fifteen cotswold ewes, costing
Sl5S in 1866. In ten years, selling wool
and male lambs annually, they had realized
from wool and sheep $500, retaining the
eve; in 1871 their sales were $1,000, and
5000 in 1873, leaving in 1879 flock of 100
sheep, worth 81, S00-over $4,000 in twelve
years from an original flock OF fifteen head
The British garden journals occasionally
give pretty Illustrations of the charming
groups of plants on walls which one sees
now and then in England, growing according
to their own wild will, and seeming bent on
decorstinga ruinous old wall with beauty
the greater and richer in proportion as the
stones are dslocated and antique. The
ivies, the ferns, the wall-ilowers, famous for
their charms Of soft shades and tints and fra.
GRANGE. There is, however, flaming flower
that shines out from such elevations like a
llre--the so-called valerisn; not, however A
Greek valerian, or the medical valerian of.
seen in American gardens, but relative #
tho latter, called botancslly, Centranthus
rubber. AS it endures heat and drought and
frost so well, growing in preference on stony
or chalky cliffs and on walls, one would sun.
pose it well adapted to our climate.
Mr.. A. H. Thompson, near Woodvlle in
Hopkinton, Mass, keeps twenty head of
stock cows and horses on his twenty acres of
| light sandy loan and gives good deal Of
attention to poultry, using an incubator and
an artificial mother for chickens, which lat.
ter is thus described in The New-Engand
Farmer:
"The chicken nursery, with its coal stove
and hot water pipes, is the nearest model
affair of anything of the kind we have ever
seen. The house, some forty feet in length,