The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-10-18
FARM FACTS
Interesting and Valuable Information
.... 10 Stock Halsers.
Items worthy OF the Young Farmers
Attention.
Facts for all Those who are IOterestea.

!. IT soothes and cools a feverish patient
q battle him with warm water In which
!. little saleratus has been Dissolved.
q Borax Is one Of the best roach extermini
: tors. 1t should be pulverized and sprinkle
/, around the infested Places.
To secure success In the management G
. bees, always make or repair their hive
during the winter months, 30 as to hav
them ready when spring operations com
mence.
The best time to procure bees is In Feb
ruary and March. In selecting stocks
choose those with straight, bright, broat
combs, and enough honey TO last Two o
three months.
Pear blight has in several instances beer
arrested in affected trees by Swinging then
with weak solution of potash, and il hal
proved q preventive when applied tt
healthy trees.
None OF the Asiatic fowls mature early
i Brahmas, especially, do not arrive at ful
size till a year old. They increase in weigh
b., TIC accumulation of internal fat for sew.
eral years after that.
try and is often caused by badly venti'
lating their quarters, and by their drink
ing foul or stagnant water. Clearly quart.
ers and pure water, with diet of roe
or whole wheat will in most cases effect a
cure.
The egg and poultry production ard
consumption for the United States per
| The consumption is yearly increased and
the quality and price increase in like
ratio.
A farm like most everything else, can.
not remain stationary tor many years. II a
course of Improvement is not adopted, it
will most certainly deteriorate. The owner
will be growing poorer or richer, according
IN, arl,sn I, ha e., L.
moving.
| Keep the horse collars clean. The dust
and dirt which adheres to collars VIXEN they
| are wet with sweat works into Jumps and
ridges and sore shoulders are the result.
II the collars become hard, wash them
clean, pound them and apply meats foot
To protect fruit trees from the borer, /
take leach ashes, scrape the soil one or two
inches deep around The base of the tree, and
put the ashes all around the tree, and never
allow. any earth thrown on them. ] have
practiced it for twelve years and find it
beneficial.
One bushel Of corn will grow AS many
pounds of live poultry es 1t will Of pork.
One bushel and twelve quarts OF sound
corn, or its equivalent in other grain, will
| keep fowl one yesr. The average hen
will lay ten and one-half dozen OF eggs per
aunum, which ought to secure q profit OF
81 20 to S1.75 per head, according to the
The peach-growing centre is gradually
moving south. A few years ago there were
great orchards in New Jersey. Then Della
ware was the chief producer. Now Mary
! land and Virginia are coming to the front.
| The largest peach farms are in Maryland.
The Round Top farm has 1850 peach
trees. On the estate of Colonel Watkins
there are 100 900 trees.
Corn that has been injured by frost may
be saved in many cases, says an exchange.
and fed to stock, by using little care. 1t
| is a fact known to all that are posted that
frosted corn dries out very slowly, and that
l. heats quickly in very small quantities
| IL should not be gathered until thoroughly
dry. but should be allowed to remain on
the stalk in the field. In this way once dry.
il will make good food for both hogs and
cattle, and keep SQUAD justa well as If it
Alter dairy vessels have been in use for
any considerable time they become
greasy, and it is difficult for inexperienced
persons to cleanse them with hot water, as
| is generally attempted. lye. or ashes and
water, will generally prove effective in re
moving the grease. and lime water will neu-
trsize all acidity.
name and to restore growth, rub the skin
| or the part with the following mixture:
| One pint of alchohol and one drachm of
tincture of catharides. Give the horse
dose of salts Twelve ounces) and feed some
wheat bran which will sllay the irritation OF
thes kin, to which the loss OF hair Is due.
| A Canadian farmer writes: II have one
satisfaction, and that is, there are no Cana
dian thistles going TO seed on my farms,
but l can see them east, west, north and
south OF me in full bloom, flying In all d.
| rections, scattering seed everywhere" In
the state of Michigan man Is appointed
whose duty it is to cut the thistles in case
the farmer neglects to. and the municipal;
| ity charges the cost against the lana, ana
the party pays 1t with his taxes, In the
state of Wisconsin the penalty is very heavy
for allowing thistles TO go to seed.
The difficulty occssioned from the lack oil
facilities for reducing oyster and clam
shells to pieces may be obvated by heat.
ing them in the oven OF the stove and
then pounding with q hammer on nat
stone. 1t is not necessary to beat them
to n fine condition, as fowls prefer the
pieces that are sharp and suitable for as
sistance in grinding food,
lit were not for the enthusiasm OF the
advocates of the red hog we would reed
but little about hogs In the newspapers OF
the dsy. II the auburn-haired animal Will
epthuse the farmers to stand by the most
profitable stock on the farm, he will fulhll
i w
statistics will bear us out, that
hogs have made more money
in the past. are more prontaple
| to-day and promise greater returns IN the
| future 10 the farmer than any other class
Of stock. They require LESS capital; give
larger increase, for land occupied and ieed
consumed, and give quicker returns than
snv of their rival associates OF the farm.
The hog is the animal for the farm where
land is dear and feed accordingly; his COM
| petitor, the steer can stand no SHOW Win
| him in the contest for large profits.
Many borticulturisis and farmers pur:
chase bone dust costing not less tnan
cents q pound simply TO enrich the soil
around and beneath their trees and vines
Fragments Of bones are just as valuable as
ground bone, although their elements OF
fertility will not be found available IN 90
short A time as II the large pieces we're re-
ouced 10 small atoms. Nevertheless, II
large bones be buried three or four feet
from a grapevine, the countless NUMBER oi
mouths at the end OF roots VIII coon or
J solve take MP, and appropriate every par
, ticle. When cast ont Of the kitchen door
homes are like a nuisance; whereas. u prop
erIv buried, they become source ot Naiu'
able fertility. Let every person who own
a grarevine or fruit tree save al the oone'
the, u.s. through the kitchen, and bur
tbs IL enere such worthless material III
No turf ed 10 some profit.
In he spring and summer Of last year ,
H Rypke, near Sunam. Indiana, con
gtructed q stout dam across = marshy moi
llov fed by living springs. thus MAKING
; pond about eight feet IN deDth, ana c0yeflnl
an area OF shout one and bali tcres In N
all be received IRON the Indians nsh com
missioner q few Gsrmsn carp. sDd las
spring he got some more from q gentlefn -
, IN on near C0rinfton kentucky. nor 2 :
. ne FISH being moro than three OF ieu
/. fnchss long. A fev days since be cangn'
! Uith a common book and line, Two hsi
J, measuring fourteen inches 10 lergih az
: weighing two and one-hai poupos -
2 NJ shortly sfterward he csrgbt anothe
one sill lnrRer. At the present tine NJ
rond Il svsrming with Thousands Of yOun