The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-06-21
FARM ITEMS.
The Texas crops will strike an average

| The Texas crops will strike an average
after ALL
A lady has $50 varieties of roses in her
garden ut Pass Christian, Miss.
| An English and German syndicate has
purchased l,UJO,OJ acres of land in
Florida, for settlement by small farmers.
| Tho destruction by gnats in Louisiana
has been terrible. In two districts over
300 horses, cattle and hogs have per-
ishcd. They also attack human beings,
causing blood poisoning.
Tho French Ministry of Agriculture
publishes some statistics which show
that the increase in population has
fallen oil by II third since 1872, and that
the rate of infant mortality is ID per
cent.
The American Cultivator says there
are not so many good plowmen now as
formerly, in part, doubtless, result of
using the sulky 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
! n pillow so that il will run easily for both
| team and holder. The pillow should run
level, the point neither digging down"
wards nor turning up. II is but the work
of minute to set the pillow right for one
who understands the business. Good
blowing is an art bad luck to the coun-
try should it become one of the lost arts,
The infant calf has some rights. II Is
entitled To good, fair share of its
mothers milk until IL il old enough to
he rendered an equivalent amount of
| nourishnent in some other form. II has
| right to Il suitable place to eat and live
| in. where il will not have To fight for its
! existence, or for its small portion of
| daily nourshment. II has Il right 70 he
/ kindly treated fed regularly, and in
uniform quantities. 1t has II right to
clcan-kept quarters, such as are given
! tho horse, and such rs should be given
to every dumb animal in the farmers
care. III one is not willing TO accord to
| the calf these few natural born rights,
he has no right To reap any profit from
him, and it is quite clear that the profit
realized will be fully rs small rs justice
/ demands.
A farmer on Long island, n. Y, who
! has farm of twcnty-cight acres, raised
on it last year the following: Straw
berries, 10000 quarts; early cabbages,
! 10000 heads; early potatoes, Loo
! bushels; early bcets, l20 bushels; potato
onions, O. bushels; onions from seed,
3,l00 bushels late potatoes, $50 bushels;
corn in ear, | 800 bushels; carrots, ii 800
bushels; white beans, III bushels; potato
onions for seed, - bushels; Brussels
sprouts, 400 bushels; onion sets, 100 bush
| els; hay, = tons; cabbage seed, Is pounds;
carrot seed. % pounds; onion seed, 100
| pounds; Brussels sprouts seeds,
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 ut n cost of 81 200 and
clears 500. And yet Texas is better for
truck farms than Is Long Island.
Gardeners, and above all farmers, have
no business to live mcanly, or think of
themselves rs Obliged to drudge cease
lessly without the indulgencies of other
classes. one has no business TO see town
folk having early vegetables and berries
Il month before his tardy supply comes
ON. to be out of them in dog days before
the merchants and cheap boarding
house keepers i'm 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 n bunch of syringa and
cinnamon roses, with a tuit of asparagus
to swectcn her parlor.