The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-11-30

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The latest dairy item comes from
! Illinois and is to the effect that a
! farmer near Genesee, H., left a num-
Der of milk cans by the side Of the
road for a short time. A muskrat
paved of the cover of one of the cans
ana crawled in. After il had drunk
all the milk it could hold, itcould not
get out. In jumping around in the
can it churned the milk into butter.
4 ball of butter formed around the
muskrat and smOthered it.
Nothing shows better how quickly
an industry NAV become a tempting
one after being for some years almost
despised, than the popular feeling re-
garding the sheep business. One year
ago the mere mention OF sheep as
source Of income or livelihood was
enough to create a sickly smile. But,
as the adage puts it, "whO laughs last
laughs best" The sheep men, while
not inclined to become jubilant, know
very we'll that their tiocks sre the
objects Of envy on the part of men
who would hardly have accepted them
as gift two years ago.-Live Stock
Indicator
Grass has been considered the life
long enemy Of the cotton farmer, and
IL has been his business to destroy ii,
fOrgetfuI of the fact that successful
farming in all sections is based on
grass and stock. Georgia can grow
as fine grass and clover as the sun
ever shOne on. The main thing nee.
essary is to sow the seed on properly
prepared land. A correspondent IN
Polk county recently sent me samples
of clover and timothy ) 81 feet high,
of which be has 400 acres. He says:
1T Is astonishing to a man who has
never tried it how fast land can be
improved by turning under clover.
His crops of grain will improve from
% to $50 per cent after ever turn
of good stand OF it.
Horses, hard-worked in hot
weather, suffer from gals and sore
spots, which are extremely painful
when rubbed by the harness. Many
a horse is taught to become balky by
the pain of such wounds, when chafed
with the harness. The treatment of
gals consists in cleaning the collar
and harness and softening them
through oiling and rubbing, by using
only well-6tting harness; by the use
of sheep-skin pads with the wool next
to the skin, but covered with some
soft linen cloth (the wool slipping
under the pressure relieves the skim,
and by applying calOmel to the raw
spot. This drug-a fine and very
heavy white powder-dusted on the
sore, with a soft feather or a puff of
fine cambria, dries the surface, and
forms a covering which protects it
from the air.
-LAw.-Here are some recent re-
cent decisions of the courts on ques-
tons of special interest to farmers:
Homestead ExemptiOn-A dwelling
house may be claimed as an exempt
homestead even though built on leas-
ed ground and mere chattel, accord
ing to the decision of the Texas SUI
preme Court in the case of Suffers VS..
James. The Court said: cit is con
tended that the homestead, under
the Constitution, cannot embrace per-
sonal property. The exemption is in
terms, of lots or acres of land, but the
object was to secure the family
House is not necessarily embraced in
the term homestead
1.-THE head of family owns a house,
and no inter- st or estate in the land
on which it stands, the house is a
chattel. If he occupies it with bis
family it is their home. He may be
compelled to move it from one lot to
another "a fast as legal process can
GUST him"
If any one wishes to know what
heavy tax the rail fence imposes on its
owner, let him take a 1OO-aere farm
and measure the loss. A rail fence
will occupy space one yard wide. A
100-acre farm is about One-third of a
mile front and one-half mile deep. Or,
we may say, 1900 feet front and 9, 400
feet deep. Now we have two sides
800 feet, making $500 feet, and
two sides 2,40O feet, making 1900
feet, or a total of 8, 400 feet. Multi
ply this by the three feet occupied by
fence, all around the field, and we
have 25,200 feet, This is the space
that the rail fence will take up. Thus,
in order to secure what some suppose
to be an economical fence, the farmer
taxes himself all this ground on
field of 100 acres If his crops are
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