The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-04-05

yard will result disastrously. It causes
securing and so weakens the fowls. Scald
the bran and mix with ground grain and
| feed once day.
Professor Shelton, of the Kansas State
| Agricultural college, holds that the culti-
| walton OF such crops as broom-corn, hemp,
| flax, and perhaps castor-beans which fur
nish but little ii any stock iced, will ult
mately lead to serious consequences in the
loss OF fertility sustained by the lands SO
cultivated.
Lima beans, like onions, are an exception
to the general rule that requires rotation in
farm crops. Isaac Eyre stated at a Penn
sylvaRia agricultural society's meeting, re-
Gently, that the Landreths have raised
Limas on the same ground for many years,
with much the same experience as results
from raising onions in the same way.
In looking over the she up industry it will
be found that the small hocks have sue
ceeded much the best. This is in a great
measure due to the fact that hocks get the
best attention, thrive better and are less Ii
able to acct 1ent
The best time for transferring bees from
the old box or log hives into a good, NOV
able frame hive, is just about the time the
fruit blooms commence to show their colors
and all nature smiles with her millions Of
flowers, and thus assist your bees in pro-
curing bountiful crop of honey.
Professor Coook says that carbolic soap
wash has with him proved very ef-
iectual preventive of radish maggots and
apple-tree borers. His formula is as fol-
lows To two quarts OF soft soap added Two
gallons of water; this was then heated to a
boiling temperature when one pint of car
Dolic acid lin crude state) was added.
This mixture is then setaway in a barrel or
other vessel, and is ready for use as occa-
sion may require. One part of this liquid
is then mixed with fifty parts of water and
the plants sprinkled or trees washed whit.
Loss of cud or suspension of Illumination
in COWS is generally due to indigestion,
rom inaction of the muscular coats of the
stomach. The remedy is to clear the bow
els and stomach OF the gathered indigested
matter by brisk purgative; for instance,
quart of linseed oil or twenty ounces of
EPSON salts, and then to give some easily
digested and laxative food, as bran mashes
or linseed meal stepped in water twelve
hours.
A. G. Hawkins, of Lancaster, Massachu-
sets, is one Of the largest poultry raisers n
the country. He has about 1000 laying
hens and 200 cocks. During the last two
years he has raised about 5000 chicks per
year. The cost of keeping varies with the
price of grain; the last year it cost quite
$1.50 per head. His mode of feeding is to
give soft warm food in the morning. such
as boiled small potatoes, turnips mixed
with middlings and meat. At noon he
gives oats; at night whole corn, barley and
wheat. Raw turnip and clover rowen are
given every day; fresh water and oyster
shells are kept before them all the time.
His range and buildings for fowls occupy
some fifteen acres, the land being mostly
in grass and orcharding. The building con-
sists of four houses, each 200 feet long and
! l2l feet wide, all facing south; partitions
| from a TO 50 feet apart, with yards so feet
long in front. These yards he plowed once
week in summer, feeding green grass
freely.
A writer urges more careful study of pure
water, and Of drinks in general on the
economy of animals. The privation of
water tells more rapidly on health than
abstinence from food. In every kind of
beverage, the part eificacious in assuaging
| thirst is the water. The quantity of water
required by an animal varies with the airs
temperature and humidity. A sheep re-
quires least, and a pig most water; horses
and cattle come between. In the care of
sheep, much water thins the blood. They
ought never to be deprived of water, as
many shepherds practice, nor at the same
time allowed to fully slake their thirst.
The latter observation applies also to horses.
The sheep and horses are, of domestic AMI
mails, the most sensitive to impure water.
For draft animals and sheep warm drinks
are enervating.
Sunho wers have become fashionable
flower to have in the garden, and The past
season has seen them in very T any pretty
gardens Besides this use, however, they
have long been known TO some as produc-
ing seeds, OF which poultry are very fond.
Tuen, again, the blossoms feed the bees,
and the seeds contain most excellent oil
that burns clear and long, and makes good
toilet soap. The sunhower will grow any
where, and is an excellent plant. 1t
should, therefore, be planted about pig
pens, barn.yards and hen-roosts, and
serve a double purpose. The seeds
should be planted twelve inches apart, and
when ten or twelve inches high earth them
I up like corn hills, and they will ask no
further attention at your hands. Each
plant Aill produce at the lowest estimate
/ 600 seeds. The center flower often pro-
duces that amount, and the lateral flowers
several hundred. Six pounds OF seeds will
plant an acre, and it can be planted after
the early crop OF potatoes has been har-
| vested.
The average harness in the rural dis
tricts is poorly cared for and short lived.
/ Not inlrequently is it hung in the horse
stable exposed to the ammonia generated
from a pile Of fermenting manure. The
stable may be furnished at odd spells with
bedding or absorbents Of some kind, but
these are not promptly renewed, and there
l is great waste Of the most valuable con-
: stituent of manure. The harness has the
benefit of the ammonia, and the
. effect is about the same as wash
ing it with I've. The harness rots, cracks
; and without frequent oiling comes 90 griet
: az an early date. The safe way IS 10 have a
J place for the harness in the carriage house.
or some building outside the stable. II the
stable alone is available, II should be kept
free from the smell Of ammonia by the con-
slant use Of absorbents, sawdust. sOds.
road dust, straw or refuse hay. A harness
lpr0prrycared for and kept clean ami plia-
: bic will last twice as long IS one
that Is neglected. IL is much cheaper 10
!. spend ten cents for neat s-ioot oil once in
three months than fifty cents at the har-
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