The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-08-09
FARM ITEMS
Notes Both for the Household aud
Farm.
The Management Of stock, Poultry
and Produce.
Matters Well worth the Reading.

A COW In Tippecanoe county weighing
s97 pounds gave 0i7 pounds OF milk durinl
the month OF June.
A hog sweats through pores In his fore
legs, Just below the knee. This part
therefore, should BIZ kept clean all the
time.
A Michigan fruit grower uses a diluted
linton o. ammonia to drive away the
codling moth. He applies II with syringe
early In warm evenings in June.
1t is suggested that the cultivation OF
canary graz might be made profitable in
this Iuntry. A large amount OF the seed
is required for birds kept in cages, and near
ly all of IL is imported.
Half a teaspoonful of carbolic acid in a
gill of milk is recommended by j. A..
Dodge, in the Journal Of Agriculture, as
an excellent remedy for hog cnolera.
Ten wears ago there was not steam en-
CINE used on farm in Houston county,
Ga. Now there are at least twenty-five,
used for threshing grain aud ginning cot
ton.
The squash-vine root.borer ID one of our
worst insect pests, as one grub will destroy
a whole vine A simple way of saving
vines rcom bis depredations is to cover
each joint of the plant with earth; At
each of these places new roots will be
formed, and if the borer destroys the main
root the vine will still grow and perfect its
fruit.
Some bee keepers ship bees south in
winter, where they avoid the dangers OF
northern winters, and ship north again in
time for the seasons harvest. Such an en-
terprlse was carried out by Mr.. Thomas
Mcfarland, of North Mis1ouri, the past
winter. 1t is curious he did no. go to Tex
as instead of Florida.
An exchange says that when matches
were So gross of boxes the tax was Al.
Now, without tax, they sell at 50 cents.
Why should manufacturers have resisted
the removal OF the tax, since that relief has
incr ased their profits on gross Just "
cents?
Thirty years ago single house in the
United States had monopoly of the sale
of backing, but at the present day the arti-
Gle IS being manufactured by many houses,
the sales of any one of them exceeding the
whole quantity sold at that time. 1t has.
too, better lustfe, requires less labor OF
application, and produces less injury to the
leather. Backing is being improved every
year.
The exports OF domestic produce from the
port of New York during the past week
we're on limited scale, their total being
but So, 04O $50, against $6,9O9,443 for the
same week last year. There was good
movement OF provisions, but the exports OF
petroleum and breadstuffs were rather
light, and the shipments of cotton were also
sms'l. Since January the exports aggre-
gate $202, SOL ,153, compared with $1Sl ,o44,-
278 for the corresponding period OF 1857.
The estimated production OF canned
tomatoes, corn, peas and peaches IN this
country, in 1882, was as follows: Tomatoes,
100000 cases; corn, 100000 cases; peas,
800 600, and peaches, SOC, 600. The crop OF
eyaporats ed peaches last year is placed at
nearly 1000 900 pounds, zoe, 900 pared and
500. 600 impaired. The dried-apple product
is placed at about 100000 pounds. Dried
trui7 we're quiet, with decline in DIRE d
blackberries and raspberries.
England is to have a parcel system IN cor .
nectiOn with the postal service. A parcel
not exceeding in length 3 feet 6 inches, or
in length and girth lin the thickest. part
measured together feet, not weighing
more than pounds, may be sent from and
to any part of the United Kingdom, postage
being prepaid by postage stamps, at the fol
lowing rates: Not exceeding pound, 81
over / pound and not exceeding pounds
Cd; over pounds and not exceeding I
pounds, 3D. over pounds and not exceed
ing Z pounds, Is.
A correspondent of western paper asks
"What has become of the potato bugs!
| Last fall they were numerous here, but now
they are not plenty, and they don't appear
| to breed as they did. have been watching
for the slugs for some time, to give them
little Paris green, but they don't appear
What is the matter? There is something
wrong about the machinery. Is there al
enemy tevouring their eggs, or what is uI
with the poor bugs which have not FRIEND
in the wo Id but the COW? He appears tC
like them, for he will eat all he can lind
them"