The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-04-12

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The. .negatiye, aud very likely will BIO an
sW6red for some time 10 come.
Kerosene oil Will soften boots and shoe
that have been hardened by water ant
will render them pliable MS new.
Orchards mulched with rotten leaves
after thoroughly blowing aud narrowing
become more vigorous and thrifty thai
ever
Copperas mixed with whitewash upor
the walls will keep yermin away.
HellebOre sprnkled on tho floor at nigh
destroys cockroaches: they eat IL and are
poisoned.
An Ohio farmer names the mammoth
pearl as the potato TO take the place Of the
peachblow, against which charges of dete
rioration are made.
Ten million dollars are invested in the
dairy interests OF the United States. The
products from this capital reach the mag
nilicent sum of S2G,OO0,UOO.
Camphor gum in small bits put in bottles
or cans with peas or beans, and sealed close,
will destroy insects without iDjuring the
seed.
Watch your grape vines closely, and il
you see signs of the steel-blue beeiles 50
| destructive to grape buds in the early
spring, apply Paris green.
| Blue ointment and kerosene mixed in
equal proportions and applied to bedsteads
is an unfailing bug remedy, and that a coat
OF whitewash is ditto for Il log house,
| New Jersey has law requiring seedsmen
to give. written guarantees to purchasers
that seeds sold them ale SQUAD, and making
them liable for damages in case the seed fail
! to grow on account OF their bad quality.
Beeswax and salt will make your rusty
flat-irons rs smooth as glass. Tie II lump
of wax in a rag and keepiC for that purpose.
| When the irons are hot rub them first with
the wax rag, then scour them with a paper
or cloth sprinkled with salt.
| Fresh cream should not be added to q
churning for twenty-four hours before the
churning commences. In cold weather the
| Jar containing the cream should be placed
| by the stove, and well Tired and warmed.
This will make the butter come quickly,
while neglect to attend to these things
NAV cause perplexing delays.
Orchards have produced good crops when
lett uncultivated for many years and in
grass, grazed closely by sheep or hogs, and
yearly supplied with liberal top-dressing
o. manure, or muck, or well rotted leaves.
However, the best fruitmen cultivate their
orchards and kill the grass and weeds.
Whitewashing pear trees, mixing a little
sulphur with the whitewash, is said to be q
pretty good protection against pear blight
A mixture Of wood ashes, four parts bone
dust, two parts salt, one part, by measure
applying
each tree, gives some protection against
pear blight
The New York Herald reports that ''ir
some towns in western New York alsike
: has taken the place of red clover the latter
abandoned on account of insect eneme!
which do not touch the alsike. It's disad
vantage is that it has a tibrous, and not {
tap root, and is therefore presumably les!
valuable as fertilizer. The farmers who
have alsike, however, are we'll pleased
:. Some of them get from FIVE to six bushels
of seed per acre, worGh $40 per bushel, anC
the threshed chaF makes good hay after
wards"
Oatmeal is genuine bone and muscle
food, excellent for children as they ar
growing up, helping to make good stronj
bones and vigorous muscles. Llme-wate
is very necessary for children In limestone
countries they get plenty of lime i'll tn
, well and spring water; but in treeston
, countries and where cistern water is use'
grown persons as well as children shoul
r occasionally take lime-water 1t is yer
important in forming sound teeth in chi
dren and III Keeping TEEN SOUND III grow
persons
l IL is told that sin Russia the sun-fowe
t is extensively cultivated for the oil tn
/ seeds contain. The oil is palatable, clea
/ and havorless, and it is used for adulters
ting olive tea, being exported from 81
= Petersburg to the shores of the Mediterra
mean sea. Next to poppy-seed oil, sur
. flower oil burns the clearest and Longest
so that the peasants apply 1t to househol
purposes. From the stalks OF the plant
g they also make good quality OF potasf
and the residue of the seeds, after the o
q is extracted, is made into oil cake"
The sunfower is the best egg-producin
G food known for poultry, keeping them IN
thriving condition and largely increasln
Il. n.sA rF MOI
: raiser who tries it will ind that the seed
n the best food known for CLOSING the plum
3 age of fowls. and is almost indispensable I
& those who want TO tit their birds for eXh
!. bitian to the best advantage. The Russia
: sunhower is easily raised, requires very il
r tie care, can be grown in fence corners
q other places difficult TO cultivate. It's pre-
0 duction of seed is immense, Yielding oite
at the rate of 100 bushels 10 the acre,
n should be planted in hills four feet apar
i any time from the 10th of May to the LIST {
j. July. Three quarts OF seed will plant a
5 acre.
r A new plan for training grapevines is I
n nail piece OF board across the top OF IN
usual posts, five and one half feet hlei
On the top of these boards are stretche
three wires-one in the centre, over III
posts. and one on each end of the arm
Y The whole is like the pole, crossbar, an
6 wires of the telegraph. From the mai
;. trunk of the vine branch is trained ov'
d the upper side Of each WIRE, whic
,. branches may be pruned IN the ia
s 10 any desired length. The az
n yantages are, that the clusters hang belo'
IS the WIRE, not tangled with the wood and Il
n liage; there is tree circulation OF ayr, az
n ing the fruit quickly in the morning, pr
e venting rot and preserving the bloom bir'
81 seldom creep down through the i0iIage, an
e cannot rest on the wing beneath 10 iDlul
the fruit; If the grapes are not cut unit
e after frost, the foliage protects the stem
IS fron becoming weakened, and there ls a
e and light enough 10 allow OF the succsssi'
1t cultivation Of Strawberries or vegetables b
z tween the vines.
]. some of the ewes do not come to the
q milk for q few days after Landing. We az
2 a bottle with a rubber nipple for the lamo
10 and feed them on warm COWS milk M
B they get large enough 10 steal IRON u
[, other ewes (which they soOL do lee
IS liberally with shelled oats and bran, or shi
ID stuff, with the addition OF little oil.mea
y which is worth S2l 10 SO per ton. DO y
x be afraid TO feed, tor 1t will pay three-iol,
r LIST. in the carcass and fleece Of the eve; 2
Ie in the size and fleece Of the lamb; %,
il having something that you are proud .
Be kind 10 your sheep talk 10 them, ca
pr them 10 you and give them little salt
al A few grains Of corn: they will sOor ieai
~ 10 come as far as they can hear your yoic
Il or even see you. Before the grass 'tar
IN get the sheep up and with pair Of sna
Nv shears take off all the wool that IS naole
r t-et spoiled, which can be washed aud sol
rs but II left on will be entirely lost and
q damage 10 the sheep: and as soon a. war
e weather comes. the Dies are liEely 20 sri
those dirty ones, and the sheep Die Oeio
you are aware anything - wrong VI
them.