The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-05-31
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FARM ITEMS.

Ashes always make excellent garden ma.
| nure-most useful on stiff soils.
| Surfowers are recommended for pro-
ducing shade about the hives OF bees.
The cultivation of the muskmelon is an
| important industry in some parts of New
Jersey. Its proftableness may be guessed
| py the f. ct that some New Jersey farmers
for this crop expend $500 an acre tor ma
nure.
| which salt has been spread was not so much
affected by drouth as another patch upon
which farm manure was used. The yield
was also larger.
Remember to give pigs little charcoal
occasionally. 1t corrects acidity OF the
stomach and insures healthy condition
| If il is not easy 10 procure charcoal, give
charred cinders of stove coal.
The squashes are of tropical origin, and
{ erefore it is useless to plant them until
the soil is quite warm and all danger oil
| frost or cold nights is over; and as they
| make a very rapid growth there is no me-
cessity of haste in getting the seed into the
ground.
The winter radish should be sown about
! the middle of summer, aud like the tnrnip,
make its best growth in the autumn. Fitted
out of doors or buried in earth in cool Gel
| lar, it will keep crisp all winter. An hour
before using place the winter radisn in cold
water.
To protect tomato and cabbage plants
from being cut off by the cut-worm: wrap a
bit of paper about the stem extending up
an inch or so and low enough to be held In
its place by the soil. The first paper to
hand, whether wrapping or newspaper, will
answer the purpose. Where cut-worms are
troublesome this simple method Of protec-
ton pays.
The cultivation of broom corn and the
manufacture of brooms is growing indus
try in Texas. 1t can be successfully cult
waited in all ports of the state. One hand,
with cultivators can attend to twenty-five
acres, producing an average of about five
hundred pounds to the acre, worth In the
market five dollars per hundred. The ma
chipery for making brooms is simple and
inexpensive. Two pounds Of brush are re-
ouired for each broom. :.
English sheep breeders recommend salt
| " liver rot in sheep. The Marx Lane Elk
| press says that two methods of administer
| ing the salt present themselves; one OF
these is to give it With chat or cut hay and
straw, or other food in trough; another is
| to drench them with brine OF proper
strength. Most men will be disposed to
give preference to the former mode of effect
| ting the cure.
The following rule for estimating the
amount of hay in stack will be found ap'
after ten days or two weeks settling, GOO
cubic feet to the ton; clover, 700, and pra'-
| rie hay $50 feet. After thorough set
ting. about 500 cubic feet of timothy, $50
of clover and 400 of prairie hay. TO gel
| the cubic dimensions OF stack multiply
the average length breadth, aud heiKhth IT,
gether. -
proved and It's delicate aroma increased by
| adding little bi-carbonate OF soda common
cooking soda) to the water with which 1t !,
| made. This is the reason why the coffee
obtained at Vchy, Carlsruhe and otnel
German watering places is OF such superior
excellence the water In these localities con
tanning q certain percentage OF soda. III
England many persons habituslly use car
Donate soda in making tea, pinch TO
pint Of water being the regulated quantity
An experienced awberry cultivato
saws that the inconvenience or having run
pers extend in all directions may be over
come by setting the plants In such po
sition that they will run in given direc
ton, He discovered years ago, he says
that the strawberry plant sends out runner
but in one direction, or from one side, ant
that is the side opposite the old runner tina
produced it. Hence, IL the side of th'
plant from which the main runner was Gu
Il set toward the north, the plant will rul
70 the south. Those who are intending u
set out strawberry-beds will do well TO re
member this.
An eastern farmer who has halfacr
pond filled with fine fish in q permanen
pasture. remarked that it paid in tire
WAYS The water, being always accessible
was worth more TO his cows than II tn
half acre was in grass; the fish were wortl
as much as the product Of any half acre OF
bis farm; and finally, the pond yielded Al
ice crop every winter. The pond wa
stocked with gold fish and bullhead.
II, asks the Poultry and Farm Journal
toe value of the poultry products OF IN
| United States, foots mp the enormous son
of six hundred millions OF dollars annually
which is probably not estimating IL 20
high, can any thoughtful man regard u
q small or insignincsnt inoosL5I ~
| clad 10 see that farmers who should. OF al
classes of producers. be interested in thi
matter, are waking mp 10 the importance
| poultry breediHg IS q business
The Recommendation cannot be too oftel
repeated 70 plant q patch OF specified pea
ard corn in drills. OF SOW broadcast IN April
ANOTHER patch in Nav and another IN June
Tor hogs and mules and mich cows II
cbesp. healthy, and convenient food, ant
hogs. cattle, mules and horses are all q d.
off A small horse cart full may be fec
ont daily cutting IL with ecytbe, OF NOR
n there are many mouths 70 I'll, less maj
be handled with . vbeelbsrrov.
In training tomstoes, the stsE %
serves the Rural Record, should Be se
close 20 the plant, or better. the Plant clos
20 The stake, and the growing stem shout
Be led up quite erect 30 ss % Be able % sup
r,ort the weight Of the fruit and foliage
Which may nftsin 70 twenty pounds OF more
No side brsncbes are allowed, ts they vou'
Dot hsvs Que support, and without supper
Il would Be 20 bent and twisted that tnel
cculd not I'll ont the fruit on them for N
I ~. -.-f If f-ps Sfrrrf rfrrrlrf1on. Ever
sids brrnch i nipped out ss Il sppenrss but
n oDs II already formed and besrinE bios
sorus II IL best 70 pinch u OF - 81 % lssv
but one leaf sb0vs the blossoms, and con
fne he growth % thai. Bob les~es an.
I fruit vii soon Be thicker and larger Cor m