The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1886-10-19
FARM AND GARDEN.


grass.
Never plow up good sod, as 1t will
pay best. -
Reports from the Panhandle of Texas
indicates that the calf crop in that
country is large.
Let 10 animal be placed where it
will BIO helplessly threatened by a
stronger pne with no chance Of escape.
A man may have the best known
breed of fowls. and if they are not
properly cared for they will not give
satisfaction.
Now is an excellent time to push
young pigs, as they grow very rapidly
after the weather commences to be-
come warm.
Celery grown upon clay soil is
more solid and better favored than
that grown upon muck, but it does not
grow so tall.
Grass seed is generally covered too
deep. Use roller or brush harrow, or
else do nothing and let the first rain
cover it in natures way.
A soil but five inches deep can not
be worth as much rs another that gives
free scope to the roots of plants to
whatever depths they may penetrate in
search of nutrment.
By keeping land in clover, cutting
the first crop and blowing under the
second, New York farmer
produced 100 bushels of shelled corn
per acre. The fertilizer used was q
handful of hen manure around each hill
of corn.
In the care of eggs while waiting for
Matching a place is preferred that is
neither hot nor cold, damp nor dry. If
the eggs are to be kept but a little
while turning them every day will an
swer, a box or basket being sufficient.
Now is the time to prepare for blue
grass winter pasture. Let it grow
from this time on undisturbed, and for
fall. winter and early spring pasture it
| Will w NOltH pei tSiO thuh Wiz
everlasting cropping of grain.
If farmer makes but little effort,
and is content to drive an old scrubby
team, and scatter II little fodder to 'old
Brindlc," while sunfish hogs and hairy,
worthless sheep complete the live stock
outfit, that man is a miserable failure.
The dwarf varieties of celery are now
preferred over the taller ones. They
are less expensive to grow as allowing
a greater number of plants to the acre,
are quite as productive, while they
bring as much, and often more, in the
market.
Theo kst month or so of apig's life
has a great influence upon the flesh Of
the animal. You can put on the frame
all through the year, but the flavor is
largely determined by the feeding dur
the latter period of fattening. The
same is true of all animals.
Don't let the hogs have access to
brine that has had meat in 1t. A party
who had f6land- Chinas advertised u
public sale. On the morning appoint
ed bucketfui of beef brine was thrown
into the lot, and by the time the crowd
assembled and the auction began sew
eral of the hogs were dead and others
were dying.
A Southerner writes to the Country
Gentleman to say that all cotton seed
fed to stock should be well cooked.
The cooking does away with all injuri-
GUS effects. The writer had used cot
ton seed in his herd for eleven years,
consuming nearly 10000 bushels in
that time, with no unfavorable results
whatever.
The Indiana Farmer mentions an
experiment reported to the Rush
County Club, indicating that in one in
stance at least gate posts set top-end
down were still sound after seventeen
years, while those placed in the usual
position rotted badly. Under another
test "salt put into the post holes pre-
served the posts, keeping them sound
and dry"