The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-08-02
FARM ITEMS.
Dots and Data Regarding the Raising
Of stock.
suggestions for DaIrymen and House.
Keepers.
A Budget of Other Valuable Hints

Du"6uo VI VthVi FhiuhpV bih
MINNESOTA is looming up in dairy farl
ing, and II is only a question OF time VIII,
1t will take place alongside the old
states in the production of git-edge butte
The Minneapolis Tribune says: six
new creameries will be in full operation
the state by the LIST of August.
The Nebraska Farmer says: "Fairbui
claims to have the best arranged and mo
successful creamery in the state. 1t ruI
10 wagons, and is now making 700 pounC
of butter per day, with the prospect thu
the daily product will soon reach LOO
pounds Their utter is all sold in Denve
1t is now claimed Tor Jersey cattle thai
in addition to their value for producin
butter, they are also superior for use in civ
ing milk suitable for cheese-making. Eigh
pounds of milk from Jersey COW is said b
produce pound of cheese, while 10 pound
of milk is the quantity usually requires
| FRI m other COWS.
1t is getting to be the fashion to procur,
early queen bees from the south. Thest
can be reared and shipped north so that W,
can have them at the opening of the season
As the queens appear every whit as gooC
as those bred north, this promises to bt
an industry of nc inconsideiable impor
lance.
AT no other time has there been greater
interest in improving stock than at the
present. From all points the information
is that farmers are banishing scrubs
from their herds as fast as possible. Horses
cattle, sheer, hogs and poultry are all shar
ing IN the improvement.
A pretty way to vary orange jelly is, al
ter making the jelly in the usual way, tc
fill the mould half full with the jelly and
L.. 81. - ia with h
rest of the jelly. Pineapple jelly is also
very nice with grated pineapple put in in
this way.
There are SO $50 square feet in an acre Of
ground, and it is easy from this to calculate
the number of hills or plants required on u
given area. At three feet by three feet,
which is the distance commonly required
for potatoes in hills, there will be AZ $40 hills
on an acre. and if these yield at the rate OF
one bushel for twenty hills the crop will be
more than 240 bushels per acre..
Careful experiments have shown that
corn which is hilled will blow down more
readily than that which has level culture
This can be accounted for by the fact that
cora roots run very near the surface, and
when hills are made the plants are confined
to the small space covered by the hills
while in the level the roots run from one
row to the other, thus enabling the corn tC
stand strong, as nature intended being thus
In no way liable to be blown down except
by winds of unusual violence.
A new species of sheep, which may be
termed the beaver tailed variety has been
received at Montgomery for farmer living
near that city. The peculinrity of this
sheep is its tail, which is nearly foot long
and solid piece of flesh, flattened in shape
and something like broad trowel. The
tail is covered with short wool. This spe.
cies of sheep, it is stated, were imported
from the cape of Good Hope, IN South AT.
RIGA, and often grow to very large size.
In all those states where the farm hand
employed the largest per capita money
value In tools his annual product was pro-
portionately incl eased in value and at
surprising rate. In New Jersy, where the
average value of implements per farm
hand was SLIT, the average annual product
was $50l, and in California, where the av.
erage value of implements per farm hand
was $106, the average annual product was
1852. In all the states the returns were the
sar g In character. Where the investments
in improved labor-saving implements were
greatest, the annual products were the
largest.
That Bookkeeping may be valuable ad
junct to the minor profits OF farm no one
who has given the matter an Intelligent ano
fair trial will for moment doubt. Farm
ers who depend upon the old metnods o.
box-hives and birthstone killing, hav,
abandoned the business in disgust. Others
who have studied the nature and habits o.
the bee and have kept abreast OF the times
| by adopting the latest improvements and
using common-sense appliances, have gen
orally been favored with success. Inc
unanimous opinion among the latter class i
that no 81 gle feature OF the farm viii pro
| L.. aI,ya small D..
Law of capital and for the labor and time
required than bee-culture.
Some one speaks sensibly in the following
in regard to horse-shoeing: Two evils result
from shoeing horses, which are never prop
erly guarded against. The shoes arr
allowed TO STAY Oh too long, and
thus the houf becomes cramped
and the horse liable to become
lame. secondly by frequently aud care
lessly pulling OFF shoes, the boot is l'aole tt
become broken. All tn IN be avoided by
care and attention, but the better way is :,
DO without shoeing when possible. II The
h.rse has a tough bard hoof there is no ne
cessity for shoeing for any kind Of farm
work. Economy alone would decide
against shooting when there Is nothing ~ b
gained by It.
Butter at 10 cents means milk at l l.
cents a quart. At this price IL would pay
TO feed TO pigs to make pork. Butwhy should
not dairvmen take hint from other indus
tries? When the markets are glutied VIII
strawberries or peaches, whole car loads arr
thrown into the rivers and the remain
der then brings more than the who'll
| Sould have done. Why should not dairy
men feed one-half the milk 10 pigs au'
poultry, and 50 bring mp the price OF bntte
10 20 cents aud cheese 10 II l-2. Ever!
oiher interest besides agriculture regulat
ing the quantity OF the.product, but farmer
aud dairymen take what fortune sends
and this Is too often a very meagre recon
pense tor their labor.
farmer who found pork-making the mos
profitable part Of farming, and who suit
m'tted every thing 10 weighing and meas
nring. proved that the value Of corn wa
doubled BY grinding and scalding. Ninei
hounds OF hot water was poured on
mounds Of meal, in a covered tub. where
stood from u 20 IS hours. .
cording TO the weather.
fonnd meal mixed with boiling water d.
cidedly better than when mixed with col
water. II never requires more than ~
pounds ofmeal 20 make Q pound 81 porl
His lorg continued experiments, cOnducte
with careful weighing. gave the value
corn in the ear at 90 cents, dry meal
cents. and cooke. meal 81 Y. Another 81
psripeDter found that II required lit
less than four pounds Of cooked meal
} make a pound % uork. and about ssvs
. pounds in the year. Sill another enpei
meufer found that pork made from who
/. corn costs p cents q pound, while thi
/. from cooked meal was only IL cents
hound. Several ears ego Samuel ii. Ga
Of X snfucky, found BY series Of srDef
, meuts that one bushel q dry, ungrDuf
corn made five pounds ten ounces OF li'
! pork; while one bushel o. whole cor
boiled, made fourteen pounds seven ounct