The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-03-22

once seeded they need no fepsntnr, aud
will make the most feed for tile least ~ Unoy
OF any crop that 10 raised. All Who have
tried II speak In tile highest terms OF the
aftiohoke.
The time has gone by when a speaker
can satisfy the farmers by delivering an nd.
dress which Is renash OF old books. What
the farmers OF to-day want is plain, practi-
cal talk not upon the dignity OF farm labor,
but upon how he can grow the largest crops
at the most profit.
Southern farmers, especially those who
work poor lands and buy western corn TO
feed their teams with, need larger and
stronger teams, larger breaking-up piows,
more thorough and deeper blowing, more
narrowing ana mixing OF the soil, and more
stirring OF the soil until crops are laid by.
Nearly all of the breachy cattle have been
made so at some time of their lives by nav
ing poor fences on the farm. The animals
soon learn to break down or push over
poor fence, and wnen they do happen to
come to good fence they work at 1t till 1t
gives way. Those who raise their own cat
tie never need fear of having breachy cattle
if they always see to having good strong
fences wherever the cattle are confined. :.
English sheep breeders recommend salt
for liver rot in sheep. The Mark Lane tx
press says two methods OF administering
tn give IL with chaR OF cut hay and straw,
or other meat, in a trough; the other IS TO
drench them with brine OF proper strength.
Most men will be disposed to give prefer
ence to the former mode of etiecting the
cure.
During the hot summer months chickens
should not be exposed entirely to the di-
rect rays of the sun, and if they have no
shady place TO retreat to, they are in pitt
able condition; nor does night bring rellef,
| if they have to crowd in hot coops lily ven
tilated. Therefore, for several good rea-
sons, chickens should have access to a good
shade in the summer months, which IS as
| important in summer as sunshine IS IN
winter.
| The British Quarterly Journal of Ayr
culture says: The horses of Normandy
are a capital race for hard work and scanty
fare. We have never elsewhere seen such
horses at the collar. Under the dill
gence, post carriage or cumbrous cabriolet,
or on the iarm, they are enduring and ener-
getic beyond description. With their necks
cut to the bone they finch not. They keep
their condition when other horses would
die of neglect and hard treatment.
In the February number OF the South
ern Cultivator the condition OF Georgia
farmers, compared to last year, is re-
ported better by SO per cent. OF the cores
pondents. This is due mainly to the TACT
thai they produced last year an unusual
quantity of provision crops, and hence, feel,
and really are, better, in better condition
now, and are better prepared to make
crop next year without The necessity OF pay
Ing the rnIlous rates charged on time pur.e
chases of farm supplies. The price OF
lands in Georgia is going up as natural
consequence Of better prospects among the
| farmers.
Prof. J. P. STEELE, agricultural editor of
the Mobile. Register, thinks the Southern
states admirably adapted to raising hogs,
and that by the new refrigerating inventions
pork may be saved at the south as we'll as
anywhere else. Our long continued warm
weather is favorable to rapid fastening and
cheap pork, since pork cannot be kept up
and warmed by stoves and wood hres III
cold weather, and it is expensive TO warm
them BY heat producing food like corn ana
peas. He thinks pork can be made at less
cost in the South than i'll the North.
The CD style of cutting seed potatoes IN
halves and quarters, and in single eyes and
in thin slices, is now condemned. The
theory now is that under each eye there
are roots extending to the middle OF the
potatoe, and that in-cutting out an eye a
thin, narrow bladed knife should be used,
and as much of the potatoe as can be taken
should be removed with the eyes. This
| the roots of the eye feed upon until they
strike out into the soil. A pointed, small
blade to take out piece OF potatoe SNAPPED
like tunnel, back of each eye, would put
| seed in the best shape.
| Having seen several articles on grating
grape-vines, as no one seems to know much.
about it, / will tell what did several years
ago. j had Frost grapevine growing IN
my garden; cut it of an inch or SO below
the surface, inserted two scions OF the Mar
tina (using no wax, hauled the dirt BACK,
banked up little and shaded for time.
They grow well; cut one out; the other
made two-branch vine, running in oppo-
site directions. The vine is now over two
inches through at the base and over twenty
feet long each way, and is loaded with
grapes each year. l also had another grated
My neighbor grated one, and 1t grew well.
Neither of us grated till the buds were fun.
Here is what Troup county farmer says
to the commissioner OF agriculture OF the
state Of GEORGIA:
1.-THE people here are crazy on cotton, de-
oreasing the area in corn and forage crops.
Not bushel ofhome-raised corn or hun
bred pounds OF fodder to be bought
in the county. All of our. supplies
| for man and beast work stock
come from the north and west. The stock,
cattle and hogs, depend on the old fields
and small skirts OF woods, and are generally
poor farm stock are poor, and vii. remain
so until the farming season is over. They
are fed on shelled corn and bran from the
west.n
And here is what is said about Talbot
county in the same state:
al think the people are becoming alive TO
the fact that diversified farming, and inten-
styling, is the only way by which we can
expect to succeed. IL is apparent, so lar
as my observation goes, that those Who
raise their grain and meat are the only par
ties who may look for succor. do not
hno. of a single party VINO raises ms sup
plies who has 10 ask for succor,
To show the advantage OF deep cultiya-
ton, take !, 900 tons Of soil and dry Il in It's
packed state, then expose II TO an ordinary
summers atmosphere for twentt-four-
hours, and the absorption OF moisture IN
sandy loan will be found equal 90 i've
tons; clay loan. seven tons, and garden
mold, twelve tons. Take the same SOL,
thoroughly pulverize and dry II, and then
expose IL in like manner TO the other, and
the sandy loan will absorb twenty-six tons.
the clay loan thirty tons and the garden
mold forty-five tons. Thus IL viii be seen
that the latter process Is guarantee against
drouth. 10 say nothing ofallowing the roots
of plants free scope 10 grow and seek nour-
ishment fos the plant, which they could not
otherwise do. The saving In manure viii
be an item Of Importance, and the increase
In production incredible. When the sub
soil Is a clay IL will require several years OF
deep cultivation 10 thoroughly amalgamate
Il with the tor soil. but, once done. the pro-
ductiveness Of IL will repay for the trouble
and time taken 70 do H.