The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-05-30
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FARM ITEMS,

Ashes always make excellent garden ma.
nure-uost useful on stiff soils.
SUI flowers are recommended for pro-
ducing shade about the hives OF bees.
The cultivation of the muskmelo is an
important industry in some parts of New
Jersey. Its proitablen,s So may be guessed
Oy the ct that some New Jersey farmers
for this crop expend $500 an acre tor ma
nure.
A farmer writes that patch of corn upon
which salt has been spread was not so much
affected by drouth ~ another patch upon
which farm manure was used. The yield
was also larger.
Remember to give pigs little charcoal
occasionally. 1t corrects acdity of the
stomach and insures a healthy condition.
II it is not easy to procure charcoal, give
charred Cindtrs of stove coal.
The squashes are of tropical origin, and
therefore 1t is useless to plant them until
the soil is quite warm and all danger of
frost or cold nights is over; and as they
make very rapid growth there is no ne.
cessity, of haste in getting the seed into the
ground.
The winter radish should be sown about
the middle of summer, aud like the turnip.
make its best growth in the autumn. Pitted
out Of doors or buried in earth in cool eel
lar, it will Keep crisp all winter. An hour
before using place the winter radisn in cold
water.
To protect tomato and cabbage plants
from being cut off by the cut-worm. wrap a
bit of paper about the stem extending up
an inch or so and low enough to be held in
its place by the soil. The first paper to
hand, whether wrapping or newspaper, will
answer the purpose. Where cut-worms are
troublesome this simple method of protec-
ton pays.
The cultivation OF broom corn and the
manufacture OF brooms is a growing indus
try in Texas. II can be successfully cult
waited in ali parts OF the state. One hand
with Cultivators can attend to twenty five
acres, producing an average of about five
hundred pounds to the acre. worth in the
market five dollars per hundred. The ma.
chinery for making Drooms is simple and
inexpensive. Two pounds of crush are re-
quir,d TOR each broom.
English sheep breeders recommend salt
f n liver rot in sheep. The Marx Lane Ex-
press says that two methods of administer
ing the salt present themselves; one of
these is to give it with chat or cut hay and
straw, or other food in trough; another is
to drench them with brine OF a proper
strength. Most men will be disposed to
elNt pIclcicuOctO khc ioi ulCT HlOut Vi eIltCt-
ting the cure.
The following rule for estimating the
amount OF hay in stack will be found APP
proximately correct. In stack timothy,
after ten days or two weeks settling, 600
cubic feet to the ton; clover, 200, ana prai-
rie hay $50 feet. After thorough set
Ting about 800 cubic feet of timothy, $50
OF clover and $50 Of prairie hay. To get
the cubic dimensions OF a stack multiply
the average length, breadth, and heigh,h &c
gether.
The flavor Of coffee may be greatly i'm
proved and its delicate aroma increased by
adding little bicarbonate OF soda common
cooking soda) to the water with which il is
made This il the reason why the coffee
obtained at V!chy, Carlsruhe and olner
German watering places is OF such superior
excellence the water in these localities con.
tanning certain percentage Of soda. In
England many persons nabtually use car
Donate soda in making tea, . pinch to u
pint of water being the regulated quantity.
An experienced strawberry cultivator
says that the inconvenience OF having run.
ners extend in all directions may be over
come by setting the plants In such po.
siton that they Will run in given direc-
ton. He discovered years ago, he SAYS,
| tIut tuS bhhht sNhus out
but In one direction, or from one side, and
| that is the side opposite the old runner that
produced it. Hence, if the side OF the
plant from which the main runner was cut
| is set toward the north, the plant will run
to the south. Those who are intending to
set out strawberry. beds will do well to re.
member this.
! An eastern farmer who has halfacre
pond filled with fine fish in permanent
pasture. remarked that 1t paid In three
ways The water, being always accessible,
was worth more to his cows than II the
| half acre was In grass; the fish were worth
| rs much as the product of any half acre on
his farm; and finally, the pond yielded al
| CO crop every winter. The pond was
stocked with gold fish and bullhead.
| II, asks the Poultry and Farm Journal
the value Of the poultry products of the
United States, foots up the enormous sun,
| of six hundred millions of dollars annually
which is probably not estimating II toe
nigh, can any thoughtful man regard 1t u,
small or Insignificant Industry We az,
glad to see that farmers who should, Of al
Classes of producers, be iptert sted in thi'
matter, are waking up to the Importance o
| poultry breediRg Us n business.
The recommendation cannot he too oftei
repeated to plant u patch OF speckled pea
,nd corn In drills or SOW broadcast In April
,nn,her patch IN NAV AID nno' her In une
| or hovs and niulea aud mich cows, IL 4