The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-03-08
FARM ITEMS.

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There Is fully ten years me re of hard work
in mule than In a horse. Here Is room
for farm economy.
As soon as the frost is out of the soil SOW
peas for extra early. Use plenty OF
seed-thick seeding promotes early matu-
rity.
Don't fool with every new sort Of yegeta-
BILE that Ia offered you. 1t may be of value,
but 1t is doubtful.
Investigation shows that of the fibre in
hay and straw from 40 to GO per cent.
is generally digested by ruminant ami
mails.
In England inferior barley is generally
ground into meal for ieeding cattle and
pigs, and nothing surpasses its value when
boiled as mash for horses after hard
days work.
The claim is that ''pea straw is more val
liable for fodder than the straw of any ofthe
cereals II well saved it makes capital fod-
der for all descriptions of domestic ami
mails"
The cauliHower is a delicious vegetable
and should be grown more generally. lt
needs q very rich soil; the treatment in the
main should resemble that given to the
cabbage.
Look well to your seeds. We hear much
complaint from our fellow. gardeners in
regard to cabbage heading, One grower
reports 1000 plants IN field, and only
1000 heads.
In selecting potato seed two things should
be kept in mind First, plant only such
seed as may be expected to produce smooth,
fair-sized potatoes; second, plant only when
the seed is in full vigor.
Yellow.heshed fowls are the ones most
1T IND bn Raf
from any other kind, if you can get them.
Be sure, at least, that the males are used
for breeding have yellow skin.
1t isnot much work to grow turnip, but
don't SOW the seed in the garden or in some
| field that has been titled for years. Select
new land. A piece of wood land just
cleared, is the spot. Potash is what the
turnip wants.
If you have tough piece of land to be
| cleared, set some goats to work upon 1t. a.
herd of 1000 entirely cleared piece OF
| brush land in Minnesota, consisting OF 5OO
acres, in three years. Not vestage OF I'M
dergrowth was left.
Milk, in any form, is both meat and drink
for fowls. 1t is excellent for laying hens,
as it contains constituents OF the white or
albumen of eggs. Corn-meal and bran,
equal parts, mixed with milk, will make a
tiptop breakfast.
The farmers and laboring classes are
ground down by an annual tax OF over 500,
0O0 900, exacted indirectly under the opera
tions of an unconstitutional prohibitory
tariff, by the manufacturing capitalists OF
the east and middle states.
| However valuable the meal of cotton seed
may be, the caution is that 1t islands in
much the same relation to cattle food that
eggs and meat do to human rations. 1t
should never be fed exclusively, and is best
fed with bran, hay or straw"
A cross OF the Jersey with the Ayrshire
should make desirable COW for ordinary
farm purposes. The Ayrshire has more
| size than the Jersey, gives a largest flow OF
milk, and the addition of Jersey blood will
create disposition to rich cream and gilt
edged butter.
Cattle undergoing fattening process, as
well as those kept for the production OF
amount of rest. All violent exercise must
be guarded against, as it greatly increases
the decomposition of fat.
The excellent qualities possessed by
foreign cattle have been undoubtedly pro-
duced by generations OF judicious feeding
and breeding. The same slipshod haphaz-
ard treatment to which our native stock has
been subjected, if applied to. them. will
very soon dissipate their superior qualities.
In some parts of Spain, where butter is a
rare article of merchandise, it is sold not
by the pound but by the yard. 1t is
| brought from the mountain district in
sleeps intestines. like sausages that are
tiled off, with strings in lengths as re-
quired by the buyer. To travellers, butter
| by the inch seems rather curious bargain.
| ing; the produces is usually neither palata-
table nor particularly clean.
1t has been discovered that cabbages may
be prevented from rotting after freezing
simply by cutting them open, or by making
one or two missions in them with knife.
After freezing, the cabbage commences TO
decay in the center, caused by the heating
| inside. When open sufficiently to let out
the heated gases, and TO enable them to
| become cool at the center, they Will not de-
cay. A lady is entitled to the credit Of
making this very important discovery.
As silk culture is becoming the rage now,
fence made of two rows of barbed wire
and row of mulberry seedlings or cut
tings placed on the inside Of this, would, in
year, make quite pretty hedge, as the
such hedge would, the first year, feed l ,0Ot
silk worris, and tbc second ycar twice -
many. This hedge would not require the
careful cutting OF Usage, orange or pine, and
would be a source ofmuch profit, as well as
an attraction.
| down. AZ DENTON, AIkhubdS, tWtuty-hNe
miles sodth of Little Rock, on the Arkan-
sas branch Of the Iron Mountain railroad,
the strawberry growers have been figuring
out the profits in the business OF last year.
The average net proceeds appears TO be Sl64
per acre. The highest reports made were
$40 per acre, and the lowest 500. An old
widow lady was the most successful grower
and made the best showing. The results
presented will stimulate berry culture al
that point.
There is more money 10 be made by
breeding and maturing fnely-bred horses
for use than in training and racing them,
says one of our Kentucky exchanges. We
mean from the farmers stand point. He
must be alive 10 the progrets Of breeding.
and procure the blood that tells, but il is
not necessary that he should make Il tell.
When he inspires confidence in his stud
and can sell green youngsters at 500 70 $500
he IL on the high road 10 wealth; but when
he undertakes 10 win races he goes in the
other direction. The rnce-track IL In the
hands Of sporting men nowadays; and they
laugh at competition, even rom blue grass
farmers.