Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-12-20
RURAL BREYITIES.

RURAL bhE EtIItESs
Poor policy to winter poor stock.
CataIpa tree posts are very durable.
Great supply of soft corn this year.
Don't waste soft corn; feed it out.
Are your garden products secured!
Charcoal prevents disease in swine.
Hog cholera is rapidly disappearing.
The cabling moth is double brooded.
Barley is good to fatten young
geese.
Silesian Merinoes grow very fine
wool.
Boys and girls should not miss
school.
Mules bring more than horses in
Texas.
Denmark makes the best butter
extant.
English sparrows makes delicious
pot-pie.
Chamber lye cures yellows in peach
trees.
Englishmen like black-faced NUT
ton sheep.
Berkshire hogs, being lean, make
good bacon.
Illinois has 400 cheese factories and
creameries.
Corn meal produces more milk
than sorghum meal does.
Cut hack sage plants in the fall to
prevent freezing out.
Strawberry plants should be packed
and set in damp moss.
Northern Maine is already buried
under six inches of snow.
Be careful how you give up the
Wilson strawberry for any other va
riety.
We the people annually eat s75,-
900, 900 worth OF eggs in this coun-
try.
One hundred bushels of shelIed
corn will shrink to ninety in the bin.
This years wool clip exceeds that
of last year by 20,000,000 pounds.
America has 3O,OOO,OOO head of
cattle, and has the range to supply
ten times that number.
Smut, rain in the shock and early
frost have greatly damaged the Da-
kota wheat crop.
Another huge farm, 10000 acres,
has been opened ON the Canadian
Pacific Railroad.
! Eastern wool dealers say that sup
ply is decreasing much more rapidly
than demand.
In whitewashing your hennery put
some kerosene oil into the mixture for
the hen lice.
A New Jersey farm has 1000 acres
in sorghum, and tulns out now 1000
of sugar daily.
st. Louis produce dealers estimate
that the supply of quails this season
will be the largest ever known.
The increase in the cotton-yield in
Georgia for the past ten years is
nearly 100 per cent. or s41, AL bales.
1t has been found that cream is
more easily churned when COWS have
been fed on ensilage than on corr
meal.
| Get your buildings insured. L
lyou neglect to do it you will ranl
well among the nineteenth centur.
fools.
Many costly fowl houses fail t.
keep healthy the inmates principally
beca use of the absence of thorough
ventilation.
The visible supply of wheat, corr
and oats in this country is now NOR
than twice what 1t was this time las
year.
Manure applied to apple-trees
little after midsummer helps the frui
instead of increasing the wood pro
. duction.
|. 1t is now thought that the whea
= surplus in Oregon and Washingto
Territory will be 100000 tons les
than we estimated.
, The Iowa State Agricultural Societ
offers double the amount of premium
# to Holsteins and Jerseys than it doe
to Shorthorns.
2 In the far west a man advertise
for a woman 'to wash. iron and mil
one or two cows" What does b
want his COWS washed and ironed for
When you give an animal dose {
e sulphur be careful to keep it war;
t after taking cold water.
Ten million dollars are invested
the dairy interests Of the Unite
States. The products from this cap
, tai reach the magnificent sum
ls26, ,OO5, 900.
J Make $50 for Christmas.
Tho nuhIishers of Rutledqe