The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-03-14
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FARM ITEMS

wheat makes better food for growing
working animals than corn the corn is
more fattening.
The oil from sunllower seeds has great
healing qualities; the seeds make food OF
the first order for poultry.
A practical dairyman says that butter
packed directly from the churn will keep
but short time.
Cabbage plants should be planted Oh
ridges. 1t is said they are not then so sub
lect to be destroyed by cutworms, and are
comparatively free of lice.
The Iowa cheese that received the silver
medal AT The cattle and dairy show at Biz
mingham, England, in 1852, weighed three
fourths of ton.
Between the years 1870 and 1850 there has
been large increase in farms of twenty
| acres or less in the eastern states, but in the
west the tendency is still TO large farms.
II M. Risler has made correct obserya.
tions, the wheat plant never grows upon
any day when the temperature OF the air
! does not for n period of several hours at
least rise above As degrees Fahrenheit.
| Practical men say that wool well filled
with grease and potash does not need tho
same process in washing as pulled wool or
wool that has 4 smaller proportion OF
yolk
Those persons, whether farmers or not
who have garden patch, and who have a
due regard for the health and happiness OF
their families should keep in mind that
nothing conduces more to this than well
cultivated garden.
Here is II hint for potato growers. A
man used one quart ofsawdust in each hill
of potatoes in one plot and none in the
other. The sawdust Mills yielded nearly
twice as much as the Others and the tuOeIs
were larger and smoother.
An Iowa farmer says that horses may be
prevented from cribbing by mailing por-
ton of q sheepskin, the wool side upper.
most, on the manger. Another uses wooden
cloth instead of sheepskin, but sprinkles 1t
with red pepper. A third simply smears
the manger with Kerosene.
Experiments at the New York state ex-
pertinent station show that potatoes, raised
IRON eyes cut large yield more and were OF
better quality than those cut shallow.
SINCE eyes cut deepyieded 52bushels, ordi-
nary cuts yielded 127 bushels, and whole
potatoes yielded So bushels of merchanta.
Bile potatoes per acre.
Curious that in this day of chronological
research there should be "a mystery about
the disease known as gapes in chickens. 1t
is caused by O worm in the throat, but
where the worm comes from is unknown,
further than that 1t is bred in filthy water
and from feeding on ground where chickens
have roasted,
Farmers who do not recognize poultry as
farm stock, but look upon it as an insignii-
cant side issue. are not wise in their gener-
alton. They will change their opinions on
poultry matters, il they live few years
longer, and don't you forget II.
Ii is difficult thing to keep large num-
bsrs of chickens together to advantage, I'M
less the keeper manages his young stock
wisely. Where too many are kept to-
gether there is danger of overcrowding, and
IN this way Group, or some other disease
arising from impure blood and air, is
brought on, to say nothing of the ice nui.
sance.
All farmers and dairymen cannot have
the fashionable breeds OF cattle, but they
can take better care of their common native
stock, and by doing so would make reason
aple profits. We have notion that ii
farmers generally would carefully select
their best milk and butter cows, and breed
them to the best bulls they can find, pur.
suing this course for several years they
would themselves be astonished at the re.
suit.
DR.. Sturtevant believes that as we have
improved the quality of the potato we
have necessarily lesscneh i'S productive.
ness. 1t il a fact 49,. g.. .y '.'N.
toes are gen"r'i g. ...
ductive, th"u
nearly AT! "N .." go.
many OF tl4 t,,., A. '.,,.ts ..gr 90 ..' ,,t.-
ity, this Is by no means true of some newer
varieties, which are as fine for cooking as
any early potatoes. -.
An experienced dairyman says: Cows
usually become addicted to kicking when
heiiers, from being MIXED by abusive
mixers. have never seen an old COW DO.
come kicker unless abused Instead OF
cows being adverse TO being MIXED when
giving large quantities, have ever found
Il the reverse. When posturuge is good,
and cows come home at night with their
udders dislended with milk, they seem
grateful to have Il removed
The stock. breeder should always bear In
mind that there is such thing as i'm.
provement The wool of the sheep can be
improved In quality and quantity. Cattle
may be improved In milking qualities or In
beef qualities, by proper selection Of types
and care In management. Horses may be
improved In style, form and speed. Even
the pork quality OF the hog can bs i'm.
proved. There should be no stand-still
with breeder or stock .raiser. He is either
going forward or backward. Which does
he prefer?
The habits OF cankei- worms are peculiar.
the miller that lays the egg for the worm
commences coming out OF the ground as
soon rs II begins 10 thaw in the spring, an Il
and Immediately crawls up the tree aud