The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1883-05-03
FARM ITEMS.

The Alabama legislature mas passed.
bill establishing in that state bureau Oh
agriculture.
tato digger which, it is claimed, Will do the
work of twenty men.
The Iivers of old hogs are not healthiul
food for people, but the livers OF healthy
pigs may be eaten by those who relish
them.
A German patent has been taken out for
the manufacture of bottles, etc., from cast
iron, containing IL per cent. OF silicon, q
compound which is said to resist the action
of the strongest ACIDS.
Professor Budd, of the Iowa agricultural
college, who went to Russia to procure
hardy apple stock, brought home some seeds
of Russian melons that are said to be OF
great excellence.
f. D. Curtis says the red Berkshire pig
has more lean than meat in proportion TO
fat than other breeds. He instances one
killed on his farm which weighed SOC
pounds, and measured nine inches through
the back, five inches of which was lean
meat.
Potatoes do better in a cool soil than in
one that is quite warm. II is, accordingly
better to plant them on land that inclines
toward the north. so that they will not be
exposed to the full force of the SUMS rays.
Ducks are reported as being the most
profitable fowls kept in Great Britain, The
first in the market bring the highest prices
Many ducks Matched in the winter are kept
in cottages till the weather becomes warm
Potatoes, when boiled, mashed and mixed
with meal OF any kind, make the best o.
hog feed in fact, even pumpkins, or-bettei
still-s good b liking squash makes most ex
cellent food for fattening hogs, when mixed
with meal.
a most important thing to be remember
ed inthe culture of onions is to keep then
clean. Let the weeds but once get the
start and your crop is ruined beyond re-
demption.
Long grass is distanteful to sheep; they
never feed il down evenly, but will tramplt
down half. They seem TO do better on the
aftermath OF grass, but they should not be
allowed to graze it closely or it will be
long recovering, A frequent change from
field 10 field is better than giving them q
long range; the latter often encourages
them TO rove and make them discontinued.
The Jersey COW, Fannie Taylor, gave in
thirty days $50 pounds OF milk, which
made siXty-iour pounds aud seven ounces
of butter. The best seven days yield
made sixteen pounds Of butter.
The tenderloins and spare-ribs are used
for fresh meat. When the sDare-ribs are to
be kept a while, unless the can be kept
frozen and cool, they ought TO have the
blood washed off before it becomes dry, and
some fine salt rubbed over them.
AT recent convention in Washington,
Milton Ford claimed that salt destroyed
the flavor OF the butter, and that butter
could be kept just as well and long without
salt. He had kept it for long periods.
Those who have tried it say that no
fowls can be so cheaply raised as geese. i
am acquainted with several people who
raise large numbers of geese TOR market,
and they all declare they find the business
Professor Treadwell, Of Massachusetts,
found that hall-grown American robin in
confinement ate in one day sixty eight
worms, weighing together once and hall
as much as the bird himself, and another
had previously starved upon daily allow
ance Of eight or ten worms, or about 20 per
cent. Of his own weight.
Half millet aud half corn, ground fine,
will, Il Is claimed, make better pork than
corn alone. 1t will have better proportion
OF lean, and the pigs will be healthier while
fattening. Ground millet is q very appro-
pirate food for young pigs, giving them
q large and muscular frame.
Farmers should select deep, rich, mel
low soil, pillow deep and plant Jerusalem
artichokes, one foot apart in the bill and
three or four in the row. A single eye Is
sufficient for hill. An acre Of these would
DO the hogs more good next winter than
four acres Of corn.
Dr. Wright recommends the substitution
Of refined cottOn-seed oil for lara, as being
cheaper, cleaner, and more healthful. The
chief adulierant Of lard is water, and lie
origin IL at times Of suspicious nat ure,
No sample Of sdulteratiOn in cotton-seed
oil was found.
Young eoslins should be fed bread
crumbs scaided corn aud oat meal miIed
with onion tops, or the leaves Of early cab
bege. furufps etc When six or eight
veets Of age they may be turned out 20
pasture and the rations grad uAlly redn ced
20 one meal o day. They viii live and
grow on grass alone after the hrsf two
months.
Interest the bows in the farm. Give each
a crop. instruct him IN its culture. and en-
courage him in making il pay. IL viii
tighten the burdens Of toll, make home
happy and inspire an interest that will
have much 10 do IN shaping his future
career. Above all things make home-life
happy. Throw around II every charm that
can tend % make II ettrsctive. How often
= tti9 uerlectedf And how fearful are the
results Of such neglect
he Dorth and west harvest their crops
~ nschinery. The south picks ~ cotton
~ maruai labor. The Springfield Repub-
Iicsn sarr the soufh needs 20 introduce
more labor-sarinr rnecninery; EIHuted, but
rhe-s vi the s1ufh End 4 mnchine 70 90
~ he cotton crop what Tie rsHpers do for
he VEST Perhnps sub machine may
- revsalsf 70 an erpectrut rnrld e. the
.rrshe-r srrrsifion nsrf fsll. buf e. ureE-
~ i = Simply q .lonr1elf rErt-
Fr-ue-s shorld plant IN Aprl. Or souDsf
rsrarT. 6Drtls crors IN cnt sesscr- Cop
n lid prratoes followed b crop q nh