The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1883-07-26
Study YOur Farm.

doing so only at certain PERIODS.
Study YOur Farm,
There is too much farming done at
random, the Northwestern Farmer
asserts. Failure frequently purSues a
man through life for want of clear
and determined conception of the OBJ
ject that he ought to aim to accom-
plish. a fprcible writer in the Iii
brary of Useful knowledge" urges
every farmer to consider the nature
of his farm; the quality, abundance,
or the deficiency Of his pasturage; the
character of the soil; the seasons of
the year when he will have plenty OF
deficiency of food; the locality of
his farm. The market to which he
has access, and the produce which
can be disposed Of there with the
greatest profit. These things
when well studied and de-
cided will point him to the
breed of stock he would raise, and the
kind of grains or grasses he should
cultivate. The man of more means
and more ambitious aims may take in
more extensive views and look scien-
tifically to the question OF improve
ment of stock. But the farmer of linn
tied means and less ambition, with
whom we have most to do, does not
feel like running any risks or engag-
ing in the least doubtful enterprise.
Such regard their cattle as valuable
part Of their yearly income, and that
source of revenue cannot be dis
turbed by interrupting the regu-
lar routine of business. And yet
by careful study this necessary
inflow can be kept up and the income
of h farm much increased without
much enlarged expense, while the an
nual outlay otherwise may be less
ened and labor frightened. Rich or
poor, humble or ambitious, he ought
to study closely what will best suit
his farm, examining closely the points
and qualities of his own cattle and
those of his neighbors. If he deter
minis dairying is best for him, he must
examine the question of quantity and
quality of milk, and its value for the
production of butter and cheese; the
time that the cows continue in milk
the character Of the breed for gentle
ness, their predispositions to disease,
and the natural tendency to turn
to nutriment or to milk; the ease
with which she is fattened and
value as beef when she Is given up
as a mixer; the proportion of food
requisite to keep them in full milk or
to fatten when dry. IL grazing is de-
cided to be the main business, then
consider the kind of stock which the
farm will be best suited for, the kind
of meat most in demand at the great
est profit in his neighborhood, the
early maturity, the quickness of fat
tening at any age; the quality of the
meat; the parts on which the flesh
and fat are principally laid, and, last
of all, the hardihood and adaptation
to the climate and soil. When a
farmer wisely settles all these ques-
tions he will find he has but little
time to loiter about neighboring
street corners.
An Invaluable Cure for Yellow Fever.
A correspondent of the New York
Sun writes as follows: The yellow
fever is found to consist of a few
ounces of foreign matter in the blood,
which can never escape but through
the glands of the skin. Let the
patient place his feet in hot water
and wrap himself in blankets and
commence drinking two or three
quarts of water in the form of light
black tea, as hot as he can bear; the
oxygen of the water soon restores the
full power of his nerves, the water
dilutes the blood, and the great heat
expands the smaller blood-yessels, so
that the restored nervous power can
drive the blood to the surface, where
the glands secrete the foreign matter
which forms the fever and expels it
in two or three hours, and can never
fail to do so. This is the prescription
that killed the yellow fever in the
Mississippi valley the last two years,
and this year in Havana.