The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-21
LIVERPOOL.
FARM ITEMS.

ORCHARD grass ana meadow Oat grass do
well together, They are both valuable
grasses.
Plant Jerusalem artichokes in March, or
as early in April as possible. Cut like POI
tatoes, one eye tor hill hills foot apart,
in rows four and a half feet apart.
Stock your farm 10 the fullest extent
with horses, cattle, sheep and hogs; raise
all the feed possible, and you have put
your coarse grain, fodder and starw, 10 the
best use possible in increasing the profits
OF the farm.
Plant willows along your streams. IL
will protect the banks from washing, and
will, if properly marketed, be q very sub
stantial addition to the profits of the
farm.
Farmers who are raising hogs should
plant few acres of artiChokes. When
once seeded they need no replanting, and
will make the most feed for the least money
OF any crop that is raised. All who have
tried 1t speak in the highest terms of the
artichoke.
The time has gone by when speaker
can satisfy the farmers by delivering an ad.
dress which is Il rehash 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 plows
more thorough and deeper blowing, more
narrowing and mixing of the soil, and more
stirring OF the soil untll crops are laid by.
Nearly all of the breachy cattle have been
made 80 ut some time OF their lives by hay
J ing poor fences on the farm. The animal:
! soon learn to break down or push over
poor fence, and when they do happen t
come to Il good fence they work at 1t till il
gives way. Those who raise their own cat
tie never need fear OF having breachy cattl,
if they always see to having good stronl
fences wherever the cattle are confined.
English sheep breeders recommend sal
for liver rot in sheep. The Mark Lano Elk
press says two methods OF administering
, the salt present themselves; one of these ii
, to give IL with Chaf OF cut hay and straw
} or other meat, in trough; the other is Il
T drench them with brine OF proper strength
Most men will be disposed TO give prefer
ence to the former mode of etlectins tn,
cure.
q During the hot summer months chickens
should not be exposed entirely 10 the di
rect rays of the sun, and If they have n,
; shady place TO retreat to, they are in pitt
, able condition; nor does night bring reliet
il they have to crowd in hot coops lily ven
tiated. Therefore, for several good rea
sons, chickens should have access TO goot
shade in the summer months, which is a
important in summer as sunshine is il
: winter.
The British Quarterly Journal of Ayr
culture says: The horses of .Normand,
are u capital race for hard work and scant,
, fare. We haye never elsewhere seen sucl
E horses Mt the collar. Under the dill
= gence, post carriage or cumbrous cabriolet
or on the farm, they are enduring and ener
getic beyond description. With their neck,
cut to the bone they finch not. They keeI
their condition when other horses woulC
:. die of neglect and hard treatment.
In the February number OF the South
ern Cultiyator the condition Of Georgi
farmers, compared TO last year, is re
ported better by 03 per cent. OF the CORES
= pondents. This is due mainly to the fac
that they produced list year an unusua
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 ruinous rates charged on time pur
chases of farm supplies. The price G
2 lands in Georgia Is going up as natura
- consequence Of better prospects among tn
farmers.
Prof. ]. I. STEELE, agricultural editor Q
the Mobile Register, thinks the Souther
states admirably adapted to raising hogs
and that by the new rsirigerating invention
pork may be saved ut the south as well a
anywheie else, Our long continued warn
weather Is favorable TO rapid iattening an
cheap pork, since pork cannot be kept u
= and warmed by stoves and wood fires 1
cold weather, and II is expensive 10 war;
them by heat producing food like corn an
peas. lie thinks pork can be- made a. lc,
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