The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-01-18
FARM ITEMS,

WILD mint scattered about the house will rio
II of rats and mice.
Weed out your stock and get rid of abe poo
mich and butter cows. Theaprofit in dalr!
comes wholly from the good cows, while 200
ones not only do not pay for their keep. but the!
reduce the profit made by the others
Welshman near Milwaukee, who has on hi
premises twenty-five marten-boXes, eacn las
tened to The top of q stake says their welcome
and happy occupants not only prey on insects
that would spoil his trees and fruit bnt DE
stroy millions of fies"-so many, in fact, tina
his house, wholly without screens at windows
and doors. is less infested than those of hi
neighbors who use these Instructors, but fai
to encourage the birds.
goat dairy farm is conducted On the Sure!
Hills in England. Goa s milk, and butter anc
minor products, are supplied by the farm. There
are thousands of acres of poor land in Surrey
and these may be utilized just as land is mad 6
profitable in this way in various continental
countries. On his Surrey farm is a herd OF IN
milch goats, and the milk, which Is prescribed
bv physicians, and is now comparatively diff
cult to obtain In London, will find ready mar.
ket
There are many farmers who have extra good
butter cows and do not know it.. They have
poor pastures in summer and no shelter and in
different food in winter In the house they nave
no convenience for making butter; the milk Is
set where there are no arrangements for Keep
ing it cool in summer. and in the living room,
exposed to the odors of the Kitchen in winter;
and neither the quantity nor quality was any in
deX of what cow could do Rural Worker.
BY fencing off small field with an area suited
to the stock of hogs and sowing broadcast two
bushels of speckled peas and bushel OF corn
to the acre early In April tn stock nogs may be
TUNED in The field in June or Early in July to
gather the CROP The same field, plowed again
in July, the crop may be agaid harves ed by The
hogs in October and they may go from this TO
HE clay peas in the corn field. ana to the sweet
petat patch, and may make good pork by
Christmas at less than four cents per pound
This may be done even in the uinelands,
Farmers are 100 apt to think ey are the
hardest-worked nnG worst-paid men in the
country; hence the desire of so many of their
sons to strike out for themselves in some other
business, under the impression that they can
improve on the old order OF things. In Lime
cases out of ten the move proves failure.
stick TO the ia I'M, boys; you have much better
chance there than in the great outside world.
Read, think ard observe and determineAto be
the best farmer ir your county Then win sue
cess crown your Efforts your work Will BIZ easy
and your burden light.
When the peach comes into bearing 1t has a
symmetrical head, well fill ed with young WOOD
After having borne few years. tho Inner
branches die out, the fruit and leaves are pro-
duced on the ends of the Leaders only The
naked branches become moss grown, and white
the crop may be abundant the size and quality
of the fruit are impaired To obviat- this we
have always p' uned our orchards annually in
November or March, after they have borne one
full crop. Young trees in luXuriant growth
; hOul not be shortened, 80 1t will cause the
young fruit TO fall off prematurely Until quit
Re Gently. this work was perlOtmed with an orni
nary hand-shear and ladder, but lstrly a tire
pruner, with loDg staff, mas been substituted
Fat mems are proverbialy poor layers and
when age and Obesity are combined, the hirds
% ten think they lay WHEN they don't and
cackle and even carry the hallucinat on so far
as to become bToOdy. This is one OF the many
curious little incidents occurring H. poultry
keeping which are interesting as phenomeni :,
IA mi ~
general principles. Fatness and reprUduc-
ZION are incOmpatibles, - a Iule,' especially
with hens after their first year A very fat
hen over two years old had better be utilized In
the soup pot or on the roasting spit 'C-rbona-
ceous food like corn. sh uld be administered TO
adult owls quite sparingly, unless the object be
to ia.ten them. oals, buckwheat vegetables
an ty OF broken bones or oyster shells is
Cod Berkshire hugs or some other breeds,
are the most In ustfiOuS animals on farm, ex-
cept chickens Their p incipal aim, from morn
lug until night Is 10 make a living If there Is
food within a mile or more of their sleeping
quarters, on the surface or underground, they
will huI It. The BeTkshires have strong con-
= nd they are willing to work for living Give
them comfortable sleeping quarters,
aud they will come home every
night especially in bad weather.
Tor the woods or the creek bottoms If
IN, re is any food IN those quar'eis Their meats
may always be- kept in a healthy condition by
~, IN over hen LITTLE ca oolic acid soap,
nd or li,tie coal Oh should
never be neglected, for 1t projects the hogs
against lice, hangs. and TO some extent hog
The papers everywhere are elorying over the
magnificent facts that we, the people OF the
United states, in 1852, made l,S.O OOO 100 bush
els OF corn and 5lO00OOO bushels OF wheat.
" no made it9 The faruers. They glory IN the
fac, that we have 81, 500, y 600 worth Of live