The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-07
FARM ITEMS.

There is fully tenyears N re OF hard work
in mule than in horse, Here is loom
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 yegetI-
BILE that is offered you. 1t may be OF value,
but il is doubtful.
Investigation shows that Of the fibre in
hay and straw from 40 to GO per cent
is generally dlgested by ruminant ami
mails.
In England inferior barley is generally
ground into meal Tor feeding cattle and
pigs, and nothing surpasses its value when
boiled as mash for horses after hard
days work.
The claim ~ that pea straw smore val
liable for fodder than the straw of any ofthe
cereals. II we'll saved IL makes capital fod-
der for all descriptions of domestic ami
mails"
The cauliiower is delicious vegetable
and should be grown more generally. 1t
needs very rich soil; the treatment in the
main should resemble that riven to the
cabbage,
Look well to your seeds. We hear much
complaint from our fellow gardeners in
regard to cabbage heading, one grower
reports 1,CJ0 plants III field, and only
1900 heads.
In selecting potato seed two things should
be kept in mind: First, plant only such
seed as may he expected to produce smooth,
iair-sized potatoes; second, plant only when
the seed is III full yigor.
Yellow ileshed fowls are the ones most
sought after in the market, Don't breed
from any other kind, if you can get them
he sure, at least, that the males are used
for breeding have yellow skin.
IL is not much work TO grow a turnip, but
don't SOW the seed in the garden or in some
field that has been titled for years. Select
now land. piece of wood land Just
cleared, is the spot. Potash is what the
| turnip wants.
If you have u tough piece Of land to be
cleared, set some goats TO work upon it. A
! herd of l,CJO entirely cleared piece of
| brush land in Minnesota, consisting of 800
acres in three years. Not 4 yestage of un-
dergrowth was left,
Milk, in any form, is both meat and drink
| for fowls. IL is excellent for laying hens,
~ it contains constituents of the white or
albumen of eggs. Corn-meal and bran
equal parts, mixed with milk, will make I,
| uptop breakfast.
The farmers and laboring classes are
ground down by an annual tax OF over $780,
100000, eXactea indirectly under the opera.
tons of IN 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 tina. 1t Stands in
much the same relation to cattle food that
eggs and meat do to human rations. 1t
should never be fed exclusively, aud is best
fed with bran, hay or straw"
a cross OF the Jersey with the Ayrshire
should make q desirable COW for ordinary
farm purposes. The Ayrshire has more
size than the Jersey gives Il largest flow of
milk, and the addition of Jersey blood will
create u disposition TO rich cream and gilt
edged butter
Cattle undergoing fattening process as
well Us those kept for the production off
milk, should enjoy the greatest possible
amount of rest. All violent exercise must
he guarded against, rs it greatly increases
the decomposition of fat.
The excellent qualities possessed bv |
lorelgn cattle have been undoubtedly pro |
duced by generations OF judcous feeding |
ana breeding The same slipshod haphaz. |
ard treatment to which our native stock has |
been subjected, if applied to them, will !
very coon dissip2te their superior qualities.
In some parts of Spain, where butter is a
rare article of merchandise, IL is sold not
ny the pound but by the yard. II is |
brought from the mount IN district in
sleeps lntestinCS, like Sall9ages that are
tled oil with strings in lengths US re-.
qHred by the buyer To travellers, butter
by the inch seems rather curious bargain.
inGi the produc Is usually neither palata-
table nor particularly clean.
1t has been discovered that cabbages may
he prevented from rotting after freezing |
simply by cutting them open, or by making
one or two incisions in them with knife.
After freezing, the cabbage commences to
decay in the center, caused by the heating
inside. When open sufficiently 10 let out
tho heated gasses, 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 seedI ngs or cut
tings placed on the inside of this, would, in
year, make quite u pretty hedge, ny the
foliage is rich and glossy. Fifty feet Of
such hedge would, the first year. feed zoo
silk'worms, and the second year twice as
many. This hedge would not require the
N"iciui ouitiiih VI OsUEC, oTaIpe OF pine, ana
would be source ofmuch profit, as well as
an attraction.
Down at Benton, Arkansas, twenty. five
miles soath 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 1854
per acre. The highest reports made were
$40 per acre, and the lowest 800. An old
widow lady was the most successful grower
and made the best showing. The results
presented will stimulate berry culture at
that point.
There is more money TO be made by
breeding and maturing finely.bred horses
for use than in training and racing them,
says one of our Kentucky exchanges We
mean from the farmers sta d point. lie
must be alive TO the progress of breeding,
and procure tho blood that tells, but il is
not necessary that he should make it tell.
When he inspires confidence in his stud,
aud can sell green youngsters at SO } TO 5000
he is on the high road to wealth; but when
he undertakes to win races he goes in the
other direction. The race.track is in the
hands OF sporting men nowadays; and they
laugh at competition, even from blue grass
farmers.