The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-04-12
FARM FACTS.
A Batch OF ca-eially CuilCd Items Civ
ing Useful Hints
On Mauy Snbjee'S of Inieres, 10 Farms
ers aud Stock RnIsers.
A Variety Of Views OF Many Topics.

FARmERs OF the rsgion plagued "a TOW
years since by greesaoppers, were helped
then hy those OF tho recently Hooded dis
tticls, and the g,asehopper region has paid
the debt II owed With interest.
Raoorts from all points chow tha' this
years fruit crop will be short
Tho growing crop OF wheat "a IN tne con-
dition generally. The fear is the area IL too
greet and prices for the future endangered
Mixed husbandIy IL what 70 need The
faImer.sho grows something q every thing
adopted 20 his locality will DO safer, and 10
the long run will save more, than M who
deyotes hs energies aud land mainly 10 one
or two crops.
strawberries, brt statistics show thaf they
give moro money from the aame ground
The trancOnia - ops OF the Oldest aud bsEt
known kinds, aud takes the most pliSas.
Every spring there Is more or less con.
plant about aeed corn, and many farmers
who otherwise would rsife excellent crops
of corn are damaged seriously by the delay
ofpleniing their fields a serood time bav-
ing used III tho first instance, interior and
IN many cases worthless seed. No time
should be lost In selecting eeed corn now.
II " IL not possible 10 obtain 10 No home
buy from some neghbor snt do not eend
into another state unless absolutely uu-
nVoludbie, nv lbe tOll buU Clulhle ol tpb
locality where the seed Is grown may differ
10 much from tina. Of your home az 10 in
teriere very materially with the develop
ment OF tho crop. And Ia oil Cases where
II Is decided 20 send away, DO sure TO deal
with none hut reliable Hnd trustworthy
dealers. Perhaps 10 no other line nrc
there 40 many awindlers and dnarke u5 IN
the seed corn business.
"Among asparagus growers too rule Is
that none should be cut the first year OF
planting. The second y ear tho strongest
spears may bo cut at first "a they appear
above the guriaca until the middle OF biay,
when the spears should DC allowed TO ran
10 seed. The third yoer the bed may be
cot regularly until the first week Ia June,
when some OF the weaker growth should
be lett, md by the 18th or 18Th cutting
shoulr cease From then on the bed nay
be cut from the middle Of March until tho
middle OF May, not later "
IL IL estimated that thera ara now la tho
United States 1900 0J0 Mulch cows, and
that there are IA ade annually 800 0Ol COO,
Q9) pounds OF butter, and $50 CJ)00O
hounds IF cheese. In 1850, shown by the
census, 772, 2ol 900 pounds Of butter were
made'on iarms, and 2945l Goa pounds ~
factories-meking lotsl ot oJl.021,OOO
pouuda Also that u, 2o6 coo pounds OF
cheese we're made on farms. and 2l5 $751;
SEQ pounds at factories. giving total OF
2i3, las eco pouuda OF cheese. Besides this,
over 1900 600 pounds OF oleomargarioe
were also manufactured.
To detect authorizations in seed we musL
use he sieve, wafer, and microscope says
Prof. Blount, OF Colorado. Hot weather
diesolyee powder and dirt end washes off
the c,ltring mater. The sieve makes the
separation OF the true seed from the impu.
rifles, and the microscope discovers the
shape. natural indentauone, protuoerances,
and dscoloraiions. TO determine the vii al
A tat, hrtkN a trl.
side Of three or ioug sheets OF blottiug pa
per, which wet aud keep where 1t will be
warm all tho time, and In the dark. In ten
hours The fedish will terminate, cabbsge IN |
eighteen, wheat 10 twenty'eix, aud corn In |
thirty.two hours. These rules are simple |
and will cost nothing. They may save you |
much.
Chickens when fret Matched should not |
be hurried out OF the setting nest. For |
twenty.four hours, at least. rom the time /
the earliest commences 10 show themselves |
il Is better TO leave them under or with the |
hen mother. They need no food Tor from a |
day 70 day end bali usually. When they |
get strong enough 10 venture from beneath |
their mothers wingsit 10 time to move the
brood.
Gardening Is regularly and practically
taught in moro than 10000 primary schools
in France. Every school mas its garden
and teachers must not only be good gar
or they cannot pass examination.
Italy is waking up 20 the Importance OF
potato culture. Even in the most fertile
paris OF 1tsly this potato does not thrive as
In many other Europesn countries. hpsrt
from the usefulness OF the root as az article
OF food. the matter Is Of economical in
portsnce, since slmoSt all the poiaio ilour
ind starch used in Italy are now Imported
from abroad.
In confinement there is nothing SO con.
ductive to the health VI the young or old
fowls as an Agreeable exercise; aud this
can only be given by artificial means &C
our disposal. Scratching Is a very agree
ablo, natural exercise tor hens, and to en.
courage Them during the monotony OF
prison liie golfter some oats, buCkWheai,
screenings or millet through the loose, fins
earth--leaves, chat or any other loose
stuff that may be used on the noor OF the
poultry house 10 set them busy scratching
for the grains, and vcu will observe that
the best layers are generally the most dill
gent scratcnefs and pick up great many
uncopsidered trifies that seem TO b. necess-
airy for the organism OF the egg.
1t ia very importsnt,to harrow wheat and
oats In the spring, although the practice ls
not nearly so common as IL should be. In
dividually we have found IL very profitable
Sx,d since our connection with the farmers
though the agricultural prets, we have
Ihekrd an almost unanimous expression
srnong the farmers In favor OF IT, or at least
among those who have once tried It., The
Tribune and Farmer contains the following
item In regard to the matter which COIN
cides With our own experience:
A New York farmer declares that the
wheat oats end barley which he dragged
last spring, In some doubt as 20 whether he
was doing more harm than GOOD. yielded
thirty. three per csut. mors grain than that
moi dragged, though the latter was on the
richest aud best ground.