The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-06-26
FARM ITEMS.
The Texas crops will strike an average

The Texas crops will strike an average
after all.
4 lady has $50 varieties of roses in her
garden mt Pass Christian, Miss.
An English and German syndicate has
purchased l,0OO,OW acres of land in
Florida, for settlement by small farmers.
The destruction by gnats in Louisiana
has been terrible. In two districts over
$500 horses, cattle and hogs have per-
ishcd. They also attack human beings,
causing blood poisoning.
The French Ministry of Agriculture
publishes some statistics which show
that the increase in population has
fallen off by Il third since 1872, and that
the rate of infant mortality is ID per
cent.
The American Cultivator says there
are not so many good plowmcn now as
using the sully pillow, with which extra
skill in blowing does not count. An
other reason probably is that few hired
men now understand the art of setting
plow so that it will run easily for both
team and holder. The pillow should run
level, the point neither digging down
wards nor turning up. 1t is but the work
of Il minute to set the pillow right for one
who understands the business. Good
plowing is an art; bad luck to the coun-
try should ii become one of the lost arts.
The infant calf has some rights. 1t is
| entitled to q good, fair share of its
mothers milk until il is old enough to
be rendered am equivalent amount of
nourishment in some other form. 1t has
right to a suitable place to eat and live
in, where it will not have to fight for its
existence, or for its small portion of
daily nouriShment. 1t has right to be
kindly treated, fed regularly, and in
uniform quantities. 1t has Il right to
clean-kept quarters, such as are given
the horse, and such as should be given
to every dumb animal in the farmers
care. II one is not willing to accord to
the calf these few natural born rights,
him, and it is quite clear that the profit
realized will be fully as small as justice
demands. *
A farmer on Long Island, N. Y, who
has farm of twenty-eight acres, raised
ON it last year the following: Straw
berries, 10000 quarts; early cabbages,
100000 heads; early potatoes, 1920
bushels; early beets, 100 bushels; potato
onions, 66 bushels; onions from seed,
3,l0O bushels; late potatoes, 1850 bushels;
corn in ear, 800 bushels; carrots, 500
bushels; white beans, Is bushels; potato
onions for seed, % bushels; Brussels
sprouts, 400 bushels; onion sets, 100 BUSH
els; hay, tons; cabbage seed, is pounds;
carrot seed, 25 pounds; onion seed, 100
pounds; Brussels sprouts seeds, 2
pounds; cabbage plants to carry over,
100000. A Texas farmer on twenty-eight
acres of land, if he has extra luck, raises
% bales of cotton at cost of 81 200 and
clears 5000. And yet Texas is better for
truck farms than is Long Island.
Gardeners, and above all farmers, have
no business to live meanly, or think of
themselves as obliged to drudge cease
lessly without the indulgencies of other
classes. One has no business to see town
folk having early vegetables and berries
month before his tardy supply comes
on, to be out of them in dog days before
the merchants and cheap boarding
house keepers in the city have begun to
see the end of fresh things, he has no
need to live on doughnuts and boiled
dinners the year round, when others try
the changes of spring lamb, fresh fish,
boiled chicken salads, ducks and green
peas, capons and veal till turkey time
comes again. He ought not to see town
homes fragrant with flowers, while his
wife has only bunch of syringa and
cinnamon roses, with tuft of asparagus
to sweeten her parlor.