The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-12-20

ialsfs Ufr hbd Reliable Farm iHigf.
msIlon CaisfHiiy roiIseta
A Collection Of Farm Experiences aud
Teachings.
Equally Applicable to Household Use.

defensive. or practical fhrnlnR " ycfHY
becoming more popular IN Georgia ana
South Carolina, snd The farming class III
these states 10 making money.
Let the horse have some exercise every
Gay. Otherwise he will be liable TO fever or
bad feet.
If you want your mutton TO be tender
and Juicy, iced turnips TO your sheep. With
the aid OF turDips a four year.old wether
can be made TO eat as tender as chicken.
Crisp crumbly or short butter Is caused
by too much water being worked into IT by
dos g az accident, and occurs chiefly In
cool weather.
,ntie are three sheep to every four acres
OF land in England, and 1t Is said but for
sheen hu. baDdry the fertility OF the soil
could not be kept UP.
The Wisconsin Wool.Growers Associa-
ten estimate that were 1t not Tor the sheep
killing dogs that ate would now have ten
sheep where she hes one.
Farmers may not be afraid oil overstock-
ing the market with mutton next year, a.
the number of sheep in the country is not
sufficient for the supply according to esti.
mates. This applies also to few crops as
well.
Let your horse stand loose, il possible,
without being tied up to the manger.
Pa and WEAKNESS from continued posi-
lion induce bad habits aud cause swollen
feet and other disorders.
1t is now claimed that "big jaw" in cattle
is mainly, and almos. invariably tooth
trouble, and by KNOCKING out the liberated,
aching member, the contagious disease
will disappear.
In Illinois there are 4l2 butter and cheese
factories, most of which are situated In the
Northern counties of the state. In Nc.
Henry county there are tifty.one; in Kane,
forty-three; the next highest number is in
Du Page county.
A good insecticide for garden plants is
made by boiling four ounces OF quassia IN
a gallon of water, and adding two or three
ounces of soft soap, diluting as may be
necessary, so as to be fully thrown over the
plants with syringe. This answers well
ior sphide-.
Sweet potatoes raised in most parts of
the west the past season are OF very poor
quality. The flesh is extremely soft and
watery. The season doubtlessly had much
TO do in Influencing their quality. The
best sweet potatoes are produced during hot
and dry summers. The past one was moist
and cool.
One of the advantages of raising carp
consists in the circumstance that they can
be taken to marker alive in tubs and bar
rels of water. They can also be Kept in
that condition till they are disposed OF to
customere, who are certain to secure strictly
fresh fish.
A writer 10 a horticultural journal savs
that II Young shoots OF the tomato are taken
off and propagated like bedding plants,
they will make less rampant growth than
seedlings, and be more fruitful. Cuttings
prove the best for pot culture. They are
then to be kept near the glass with tenn
perature of about so degrees. They will
make fine plants by spring.
1t is stated that the average length OF
roll yan m Ia
p... position was 6nree and quarter
inches. On one inch of pelt from fine
ram there we're found to be 100000 wool
fibres. The wool on the pelt was. by actual
measurement, finer than LOCO to the inch.
1t is said that piums, pigs and poultry
flourish well together. If piums are planted
in grounds occupied by pigs and chickens,
good crops nearly always result. The pigs
continually disturbing the soil, and thus
prevent the growth OF weeds, hinder the
curculios from secreting themselves at
night.
With nearly one.ninth of the sheep in
the United states, and with fiocks multiply
ing more rapidly there than at any other
point on the continent, Texas bids fair to
assume still greater prominence in our wool
interests than heretofore. Let the sheep
business do as 1t may elsewhere, 1t is bound
to grow in Texas.
A Jersey COW, In Baltimore, MIXED at in
tervals OF eight hours for one week, yielded
327 bounds of milk, from which was pro.
duced twenty-five pounds and two and
sleyenstyeiGhs ounces OF bntter. The COW
was bred In New Jersey, and was pprehs Sed
last fall sy her present owner for $1,000.
She is pronounced the best butter.produc.
ing COW In the United States.
Put on pienty of whitewash In the poul-
try houses, and let IL be applied thickly.
Mix it with kerosene oil, carbolic acid, or
any of the advertised sheep dips, In order
10 make the premises obnoxious to lice.
Fill every crack and crevice with 1t, for YER
min multiply very rapidly this month.
protect all kinds Of birds on the farm
every quail is worth $40 as worm or better
say moth destroyer, l have scarcely any
moths in the orchard since stopped all
shooting on the farm. The large snakes,
which boys are SO fond of killing, are our
best friends as gopher destroyers aud should
be projected everywhere.
n p. Roe recommends setting raspberry
plants in autumn. as better than in spring.
He places them 30 that there may be four
inches OF soil above the branching Of the
roots after the surface Is lie yeled of, or
only three inches If the soil is heavy. He
then adds two shovelfuls OF manure TO each
plant. Just before freezing he forms a
mouud OF earth around each plant, TO pro-
vent beaying by the frost. This Is leveled
In spring as soon as the frost disappears.
BY this course double growth is secured.
An Illinois farmer gives the following d.
rections for curing CALLING shoulder In
horses, and says that II is reliable: Take
some leather and burn IL to crisp; powder
and rub the same on the CALLED parts. A
few applications will effect . perfect cure.
A new work horse put TO the pillow last
spring received severe gals on both shout.
ders. A few applications OF the burnt
leather made them az sound as II never in.
iureo, and no sea 10 now seen.
The Horticultural editor OF the Country
Gentleman relates an experience In plum
culture. He says his tees have reen unusu-
ally subject 10 the early dropping OF the
leaves, some OF the lats sorts not having
foliage enough to finish the growth and
maturity of the frait. A part OF his or
chard was top dressed last winter with sta.
bic manure, which wassubsequently work
ed into the II. Ga this portion OF the or
chard the trees retained their leaves; on the
uBmanured part most OF them lost their
iolisge.
Mr. Hammond. Of the Warsaw Horticul-
tural ociety, after advancing all the theo-
ries that have been given by others regard
ing the winter killing Of orchard trees, says
that after considering all the conditions, be
IA of the opinion that trees which we're IN
vigorous, healthy condition sem to have
tutf, red less than otnert, and we most sue
cessiul vey OF couDterecting The enscis OF
revere winters IL 70 cultivate and fertilife
The orchards. 70 order that the trees may be
thrifty. A hslf-stsrved, tickly tree can no
more endure the rigor OF our winters than
car a baIi-siafved, sickly horse or coz.
One Of the most promising trees for forest
cul,ure, where the conditions favor, IL the
American chestnut. IL grows spontsn-
eOusiv from New Hampshire 70 Carolina,
and m I'M the eastern slope Of the Al ePbe-
rips 20 the western prairies. Not only 10
this tree valuable Tor i've nuts, the produc-
ton II which begins In very few ye.rs
from plnntine, bat the timber y very vslu
able for fencing; It is also admirable Tor
oLse-finishine, TIRE color and grain OF the
wood being very attractive.
Corn clone viii not keep fowls In the best
coDdiIinn. especially II they are kept IN
cotfuennrnt. IL IL csrb0nsce0us or fst
rrrducing rh'ch IL an objection ior laying