The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-11-22
FARM ITEMS.

WRITER says: GIVE your hogs q rubbing
post IN some accessible part of their enclosure
1t facilitates their keeping clean, and seems TO
afford them much satisfaction.
In feeding sweet milk to pigs, trials made at
the Wisconsin experimental farm showed that
on an average four pounds of coIn-meal Were
equal to twenty pounds of sweet skim milk, If
fed separately.
Commissioner Loring proposes to hold another
agricultural congress or convent I'll at Washing
ton, about January %, The discussions ut one
meeting will be devoted exclusively to live
stock; those at another to cotton, and those at
third TO the work of agricultural colleges. Rep
resentatiye agriculturists rom all parts of the
country are expected to be present.
Oil cake and cotton seed meal is valuable feed
for horses, cows, sheep and hogs giving
healthy tone TO the animal, iatening the lean
ones and keeping the strong healthy and vigor-
Gus. Fed with roofs, the effect on animal lite is
astonishing.
The German papers report the discovery of u
new and apparently unknown enemy OF gain
In the form of n small insect A cargo of rye
has been received at Cologne, ana on examinG
tiou II was noticed that many extremely small
insects appeared TO be attached 10 the berries,
On further examination with microscope. the
berries were found 10 be u mass of living para
sites, and instructions were immedi ately given
for the rye not to be unloaded.
OF the So 00) 90 to TO- 900 coo hogs in the United
States three fths are raised in ten strictly Mis-
sssippi valley states, namely, Illinois, Iowa,
Kansas, Nebraska and Wisconsin. These sta, )
produce annually nearly three. fourths OF the ou-
tire corn crop OF the country.
A Nebraska man says that hay is good for
| hogs Cut the hay short and mix with bran,
shorts Of middlings, and feed as other food
Hogs soon learn 10 like it, and II soaked In swill
or STOP food is highly relished by Them In win.
ter use for hogs the same hay that you feed to
your horses and you will find that 1t will save
| bran, shorts or other food, 1t puts on flesh as
rapidly as anything that can be given them.
| In doing up wool the fleece should b. put NJ
| so as TO be comparatively loose, light and easy
! TO inspect aud handle Lay the fleece on the
| table turn In the head tail and TANKS aud roll
strings to keep the roll In place, and then with
one ABOUT the ends. The strings can be laid III
grooves sawn into the folding platform, SO thai
the fleece can be tied quickly
Potato. growing has been the object OF q
curious experiment just completed iu England
| A pound of early potatoes was taken and A.
| lowed to sprout freely. From each potato q
sprout was broken, and potatoes and sproul,
| were planted in separate rows. Both grew well
and Che following Is the result of the expert
ment From the sprouts, which weighed In al
half an ounce, Eve pounds and five ounces o
sound potatoes have been obtained, and from
the pound of potatoes five pounds four ounces
showing a slight balance in favor OF the sprouts
The sprout potatoes were the more regular IL
shape and the earlier in growth.
Rye has never had the attention among south
ern farmers that II is entitled 10, II is yer!
convenient crop may be sown from August uu
Ill January or later. may be sown on poor lane
with better results IL an oais will give; may b,
sown among cotton or corn In August ana Gu
before 1t is ripe it makes good forage, or plowet
IN 1t makes mn excellent fertilizer II can b'
grazed all winter, and fair crop obtained il
the spring. II sOwed early in the fall, busho
TO the acre will do for seed if In October or later
from Two to four bushels TO the acre would Civ
much more profitable results 1t stools LIBERAL!
II sowed In the fall, but much less II sown lato
IN tie season. II is well To have u small patel
OF rye on rich land near the house for chlcte
grazing In the wintc-. Chickens are very fon
of rye.