The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1884-07-03
FARM ITEMS.

Cotton shipments from Pilot Point
since September | is 5000 bales, an in
crease Of 1000 over the previous year.
Nearly 10000, 900 pounds of maple sugar
were produced in this country last year.
PENNSYLVANIA supplied 2,S66,OlO pounds.
Burnet county reports that crops are
not so badly damaged by the recent
rains and high water rs was at first eN-
pected.
The Farm and Rancho, magazine
devoted to Texas agriculture, is Il very
worthy publication, located at the State
capital.
promising. The corn and Oat crops,
especially, are splendid. Fruit and
vegetables were never in such proiuSion.
Tho Bromus Uniloides, or Rescue
grass, is another valuable winter grass
found growing in all the prairie counties
of Texas, from whence it has been dis
tributed in Louisiana, Alabama and
Georgia. Farm and Rancho.
The Massachusetts Legislature has ap-
propriated $1,000, to be expended, through
the State Cattle Commissioners, in lnNes-
tigating the matter of abortion i'll COWS,
it's causes, its prevention, and its erect
upon the healthfulness of the milk rs an
article of food.
Brush Lariat: The Snyder Cattle com
panv have 10000 head of Texas mixed
cattle on the trail about one hundred
miles east of Brush, and as Bcnkelman
stockmen object to the cattle coming
through their ranges, the outfit Will
drive through Wray, Colorado, near the
Nebraska line, to the Platte river. Ihc
cattle will be turned loose near Brush.
\ fearful drouth prevails all over the
State of Tamaulipas, Mexico. On one
,,,,,h ,,n,r San ponIp 400 np1I of
cattle have starved to death for want of
grass. Near Linares, the people cut
down the trees to feed their mich cows.
No corn will be raised this year if it
does not rain soon. Corn is worth SIS
per cargo of 800 pounds. Every steamer
is bringing 1000 socks of corn there from
| New Orleans.
! About $50 pounds of mangels are equal
| to 100 pounds of hay. Estimating that
seven and one-half tons of mangels are
equal to ton of hay, the hay would have
to yield nearly three time the average
amount in order to produce an equiva-
| lent of the nutritivo matter contained in
an ordinary crop of beets from one acre.
A Dakota farmer in 1881 planted a sim
gle grain of wheat in one of his best
| fields. From it grew twenty-five stalks,
each bearing full head. These yielded
$50 grains, $50 of which were planted the
/
bushel' of splendid wheat. This was
planted last spring, yielding seventeen
bushels, making l,02O pounds of wheat
from one grain in three years.
Relative to the best method of ascer-
tanning the condition of an animals
health, the Dairyman says: There is no
need of bothering about cows pulse to
find out if she is well or not, simply look
at her nose. If well, it will be moist and
cold; if feverish, dry and hot. She is
like a dog in this respect. A staring coat
or hollow eye are also points of indicat-
j ing trouble, and as symptoms of diseases
that are more to be dreaded than the dry
nose.
suppose man pays 81 per day for
help and Il good shovel costs an equal
amount. But you retain the old one be-
cause you think it too good to throw
away, although the man is only capabl.
of doing three-fourths of days work
with\it. How much have you made in