The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1882-02-16
HOME AND FARM.

drainage TO keep soils from becom-
ing too wet or dry.
Ten bolls per stalk will give 900
pounds seed cotton per acre. Usually
1900 pounds seed cotton make 500
pounds lint cotton.
Strange as it may seem, there is
more food raised in the poultry
yards OF France than in the stalls
and pastures of England.
Hens, as a rule, lay about an equal
number of eggs in their first and
second seasons, after which the
produce rapidly decreases.
Farmers in southern Indiana state
that the growing wheat is entirely
too thick, the roots and stalks being
stronger than was ever known at
this season.
1t costs the farmer much more
than it formerly did to carry on his
farm, and the need of the hour is
products and prices commensurate
with his increased expenses.
1t is said that piece of zinc placed
on the live Goals will effectually
clean out n stove pipe, the vapor
thus produced carrying of the SCOT
by chemical decomposition.
Cassava, the source from which
tapioca is derived, yields twenty
times as much glucose as corn, and
it will be cultivated extensively in
Florida for glucose Manufacturers
this year. -
Chicago uses every part of her
cattle, from the hoef to the horn,
and from the tip of the nose to the
end of the tail, and therein lies
much of her strength as a market
for Texas cattle.
White leaves and variegated white
and green leaves indicate degeneracy
in a plant. A branch with leaves
entirely white is no longer capable
of propagation it is in the last
stage of its existence.
Nearly all of the agricultural
work in Prussia is done by women,
and the custom is now as it has al
ways been; the men are considered
far TOO brave and strong to engage
in anything less important than
war.
III OiCCuliS nCHo 1OI WluIcE ldy-
ing there is no cross that will equal
the Leghorn and Brahma, or, if pre-
terred, the Leghorn and Cochin.
Cross the white Leghorn on the
Brahma and the brown Leghorn on
the partridge Cochin.
Ozone is much advertised as a
preservative of meat, fruit, eggs,
ofn nf ~, 81 IL,
that name are a compound of sui
phur and charcoal, favored with a
little cinnamon oil. Sulphur fumes
Will preserve fruit, eggs and meat
alone 1t is harmless in its results.
1t is conceded that the Berkshire
will average at SIX months old 16O
pounds; at nine months, 230; at
twelve months, 300; at eighteen
months, 400, and at twenty-iour
months. 500. 1t will be seen that the
best comparative weight is at twelve
months and under.
Linseed cake of digestible mate
rial 24.8 per cent. of albuminOids.
27.5 of carbO hydrates and 8.9 per
cent. of oil. The new process lin
seed meal has 27.8 per cent. of
albuminOids, 349 per cent. of carbo
hydrates and 81 per cent. of oil.
Thirty-nine head of pollcd Angus
cattle passed through Larned, Kan
sas, recently, en- route from Scot
land to Lee & Reynolds ranch, near
Camp Supply, Indian territory.
They cost $4,000 and are said to he
the finest drove of cattle in the
western country.
A number of cattle are dying in
Mills county, Iowa, from what is
supposed to be anthrax. A farmer
named Joseph BOggs skinned one of
his cows and threw the carcass to
his fattening hogs sand next morning
every hog i'll the pen was dead ten
in number.
From the day you slip halter
over young horses ears he should
be encouraged to look to you like a
child for all his little wants and
pleasures. He should come canter-
ing up from the farther corner of
the paddock when he hears your
voice. should ask to have his nose
rubbed, his head stroked, his neck
patted, with those honest pleading
looks which make the confidence of
a dumb creature so touching.
A roam Jersey shorthorn COW be-
longing TO General Howard of Buff
falO, N. Y, is reported by Mark
Comstock to have given 1887 pounds
of milk in one month, last spring,
and making 2lf pounds of butter in
seven days. Her feed was grass and
four quarts of ground corn and oats
daily.
Experiments have already shown
that of 100 pounds of the dry matter
of fodder the following amounts
pass into the eXcrements, solid and |
liquid together: Feed to the horse,
SO pounds; the milch cows, A |
pounds; the OK, 81 pounds, and the |
sheep, 48 pounds. On the average,
then about one-half of the dry mat
ter of the fodder passes into the
manure.
Animals of spirit and determine
ton are stronger than those of |
much greater weight, devoid of |
these qualities. The thoroughbred |
horses of 1000 pounds weight can
draw more than a dung-hill plug of |
ZOO pounds, and can go twice the
distance on the road, day in and |
day out, with a relative burden or |
draught. Blood. in all of our do
mestic animals, is superalative as