The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-07-26
for Infants and Children.
FARM ITEMS.

FARM ITEMS.
Thus far this season the exports OF butte
show an immense increase over those OF q,
corresponding period last year, while those
of cheese exhibit marked decrease.
The Green City, Mo-, creamery has sew
enteen teams collecting cream, and churns
$500 pounds of butter week. They will
soon have twenty-five teams collecting
cream.
The most satisfactory remedy for the cab
bage worm tried at the New York expert.
meDt station last year consisted of mix
ture of half pound each of hard soap and
kerosene oil in three gallons of water. The
dose should be frequently repeated.
terer of the New York club. should be
peeled and put to soak in ice.salt water at
least an hour before served. The salt ex-
tracts the poison and the ice renders them
brittle and easier to be digested.
The Holstein COW Mercedes, 1928, made in
the thirty days ending June II, ninety
nine pounds six and one-halt ounces of but
ter. No record Of larger quantity of but
ter in the like period has yet been made
public.
A shovelful of dry earth thrown daily
over the floor of the hen-house will absorb
foul odors, and by fall the whole mass may
be worked fine and applied TO the wheat.
1t makes valuable manure, and by sitting
to exclude sticks and stones, it may be
drilled with the seed or mixed with other
fertilizers thus applied.
Professor e. W. Stewart, in his recent
useful book, celebrates the COW as the
most remarkable producer among animals"
She gives at her best nearly seven times
her own weight per annum in milk, of food
value twice as great as the beef creature of
equal size gains during the same period.
The Journal of Chemislry-an un lou bted
authority-says OF eggs that "at average
prices they are among the cheapest and
most nutritious articles Of diet. Like milk,
an egg is complete food in itself, contain
ing everything necessary to the develop
digested ii not spoiled in cooking. Indeed,
there is no more concentrated and nourish.
ing food than eggs. The aibumen, oil and
saline matterin eggs, are as in milk, in the
right proportion for sustaining animal
life"
An average COW will produce $50 worth
Of cream in year, a calf worth ~ or $lo
dollars. and enough skinned milk to fat.
ten $40 porker. Figure up the cost OF
keeping the COW, perform a little problem
in subtraction, and you have the net profits
of the business in figures, which are popu-
larly supposed not to lie.
At recent dairymen's convention one
of the mem bers, during the course OF his re-
marks, among other valuable hints about
farm economy, said: II there is anything
under heaven that will raise the mortgage
off of your farm quicker than COW l 90
not know what 1t is. 1t has proved to be
the best mortgage litter that was ever in
PRODUCED into LIMOS, Iowa pr Wisconsin,
and it will do as much for the other states
as it has for these.
An eastern orchardist gives this advice:
Instead of trimming up" trees according
to the old fashion, to make them long-leg-
ged and long armed, trim them down, so as
to make them even, snug and symmetrlcal.
Instead of manuriDg heavily III a small cir
Gle at the foot of the tree, spread the ma
nure, il needed at all broadcast over the
whole surface especially where the ends OF
the roots can &c it. Instead of spading a
small circle about the stem, cultivate the
whole surface broadcast.
The fatter a breeding sow is kept, the
m ore liable she is to destroy her pigs by
lying Oh them or eating them up. Sowa LETT
TO run wild make good mothers, and will
generally select warm, dry place to farrow.
1t is for this reason that there is so much
advantage in using full-blooded boars OF i'm
proved breeds on large, coarse-boned native
sows. The progeny secures the good quail
ties from its sire with q better constitution
and more hardness than it could get from
a fall-blood pedigree, going back through
generations which have al ways had ample
feed and little exercise. d,
In visiting small diaries whore hand
churns are used it is common sight to see
the churn turned bottom side IN on table
in the sun. This is done to lair" 1t, but In
fact il Is put In Just the position that will
not air il, as the mouth is closed by its con-
tact with the table on which 1t rests. Set
it right side up. and be sure not to let the
sun dry IL enough 10 make 1t leak. Keep
ing the churn sweet inside Is one OF the
hardest things to accomplish in the dairy,
and IL you will take good sniff at your
own you will probably find that heretofore
you have not sufficiently appreciated the
care necessary ~ accomplish this end.
The Farming World has this to say about
feeding sheep: "You must not collect a
large flock OF sheep before you get some
thing for them 10 eat, and that something
must be their natural food. That food Is
grass-grass that is sodded and perennial.
The stomach Of a sheep Is small and he
eats but little at time, but he wants that
little very often. say every two or three
hours, hence he should be where he can
gather his own food. The tendency oil
ali kinds of grain and dry provender is 10
make sheep unhealthy. A little grain be-
fore sending TO the shambles IL used 70 help
fatten, but fat itself is disease, and should
be avoided as far as possible 10 all ore. ding
animals. Likewise should the other ex-
treme-viz., poverty-be avoided. / have
seen sheep degenerate from poverty more
In one generation than they could be i'm
proved 10 two or three. / see much in the
papers about sheep loving bitter weeds,
briars, ssssafras, and the like, and they are
good scavsngers for q foul farm. Ny sheep
ethe.cultivated grasses best. lrememb er
once 10 have killed some sasssfras with
49, T IL la nj rnR
II was done by combining them too long 70
the same territory ~ well as to the same
food. Sheep need 10 have their pasture
changed ct least once q month. Ard TINS
new pasture IL ss much 10 force them q
sleep IN new place - II L % give W.