The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-09-27
AGRICULTURAL.
Facts for Farmers on q Variety Of
Topics
Relating 10 Husbandry and Stock
Raising.
Items Of Interest TO Agrlculturists.

Herbert Blakely gives the average period
OF CESSATION 10 COWS at 1888 days.
Corn weighs about twenty-eight pounds
per cubic foot in wagon, box or corn.crib.
Water containing chloride of lime Is said
to improve the quality of rancid butter by
washing with 1t.
Experimei Is prove that 100 pounds of yell
low Dent ca n.;ri oDed in October, weighed
| SO 5.l2 pouu, 8 IN the following February.
J. @. Lively, of Senatobia, Mississippi,
sowed one acre in millet seed, from which
he raised five tons of hay, worth $50. The
cost of producti) IN Tor the same was $40, q
profit OF $40.
In saving seed for the next years crop
save the best. This is true OF potatoes.
The little ones may do for the hogs, but
save the largest and the best for seed.
Just at the time when grass starts grow
ing in the spring; when stock that has been
fed through the winter on dry hay, oats and
corn want change, then is when q good
tield of rye proves of the greatest value.
The Indiana Farmer says: "In Canada
and England the raising of rootcrops is an
essential part of sheep husbandry. Here 1t
can raise corn while the English and Cana
dlans can not. Corn fodder Is an almost
perfect food for sheep, though root-crops.
such as turnips, rutabagas, ETC., can be used
with success in countries where corn can
not be grown profitably."
New oats are not good feed for horses.
They relax the bowels, and often il the
change from old to new is sudden, the value
of the oat ration is almost entirely lost. As
they shrink good deal In drying, the ola
oats, though nominally dearer, are usually
cheaper, as well as better feed than the new
crop.
Ali stock that is being prepared for an
early market should be maturing now on
the best of every thing. Winter will be
along presently and it will cost three times
1t does now. They will fatten now on less
than they will live on then. Keep the corn
going, therefore.
The Dairy and Farm Journal, published
at West Liberty, Iowa, cites as an evidence
of the growing interest in dairy farming
the fact OF the rapid decline in the number
Of beef cattle shipped from Iowa IN the last
three years. That state sold in 1879, $l5-
600 900 worth of cattle; in 1880, $4,000, 900;
and in 1881, trifs over So 500, 900. This, ii
is claimed, is mainly due to the increased
interest in dairyiDg-a change that has been
made because it pays.
Sorghum for fsttening cattle is highly re-
commended by DR.. Kedzie,o the Michigan
Agricultural college. 1t has been found by
some who have tried it he says. to possess
duces beet of very superior quality. But
he adds that the sorghum must be fed eau
tiouslv at first, until the cattle become used
to it, on account of danger of their eating
too freely of the material, causing securing,
etc. The seeds of the corn are equal in
value, pound for pound, to oats or corn.
A correspondent of the Farmers Review
has practiced during several winters the
plan of keeping apples in dry sand, poured
into the filled barrels after storing in the
cellar, and finds it decided improvement
on any other ever tried, the fruit remaining
till late spring as crisp and apparently as
fresh as when first gathered. He does like
wise with potatoes. and uses the same sand
year after year.
male pig upon mixed Berkshire aud Essex
hogs. and from the result decided to con-
tBue The practice. The red hog has an ex-
ceptionally strong constitution, and would
doubtless greatly improve upon most other
breeds in the cross. Aside from this, the
breeder says that the meat was better than
any other he had ever eaten, and the hogs
grew and fattened as well as the average OF
the improved kinds.
We are not ready to recommend the cut
ting of all timber and fuel in summer, but
believe that farmers should know what the
effect upon lumberis when cut at different
seasons. 1t would seem that there is no
way in which the wood OF tree can be re-
lieved of its sap SO thoroughly and be left
in so sound condition as when the sap
goes out through the leaves, or through
pores, during the season OF full leaf.
A scientific authority remarks that facts
collected by Miss Amerod in Great Britain
prove that there the damoge caused by in
sects is in reality enormous. Not less than
f2,0Q0, 900 will befound set down TO aphides
in the country where the inhabitants are
devoted to rhe ca,tle-raising industry while
the ravages annually caused by wire-worms,
weevils, ETC., to wheat, barley, peas, beans
and tares seem to range between f2 and f3
an are
An expert suggests that a daub of tar
upon the noses OF sheep during the months
OF July and September is an effective pre-.
venlive against the attacks OF annoying, II
not fatal grubs. The sheep grub" ne says,
sis not fatal, but very disagreeaole, and
doubtless has bad effect on the health OF
the animal. If anyone desires to study the
subject he may find the grubs in many OF
the heads OF the animals killed IN the
SHAMELESS at later months more or less fully
developed
Whenever bushes of suckers are seen
growing about apple or pear trees.y may
that the proprietor is shiftless owner.
Whenever tree is covered with scale.bark
lice it is wiser TO ask what will restore
health TO the tree than what will kill the
lice. A pear tree whose roots are In damp,
undrained soil is the favorite home OF these
lice, aud destroy them as we may by liquid
applications or by rubbing and crushing
them, others will appear the next season.
You may ward off an attack OF malaria with
outline but II you would escape the disease
change your home and get away from the
cause.
There has been q wonderful improvement
made in the last few years In thoroughbred
poultry bred for special purposes. IL is inn
possible 10 combine all the excellences In
one breed. IL IL possible TO combine them
in a moderate degree, 80 a. TO get good
layers and fair weight OF body. The Ply
mouth Rocks are an illustration OF the best
that can be accomplished In this way.
Those who breed for heavy weights must
not expect 10 secure great laying qualities
in the same breed, any more than they can
expect speed from q large. heavy draft anil
NAL. Poultry men, who are near large city
markets, and take advantage OF high prices
for fresh eggs, must be satisfied with me-
dium-sized fowls. All the best laying breeds
are below the average weight. The Asistics
{ Brahmas and Oochint) lay very large eggs
but not 90 many dozen during the year.
We do not condemn any breed, but In the
selection Of poultry a. IN that Of other live
stock. Il IL desirable 10 choose animals ored