Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-10-14
Farm and Home.
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AS soon as tho ears have been
taken from the sweet corn the
stalks should be cut up and fed TO
the COWS In as green condition as
possible.
Sheep will cat nearly all kinds
of weeds and may be made to do
good service in some fields. They
should, however, always be given
a feed of grain at night.
Keep all the suckers that start
from the roots of trees removed.
They not only make the tree un-
slightly, but viii injure its growth.
Remove them early and often.
One of the greatest drawbacks
that now beginners in poultry rails
ing have is the desire to crowd fifty
into tho space that half that num-
Der should occupy.
1t is now generally believed that
q solution of coperas is the best
remedy known for grape rot. 1t is
sprinkled freely on the ground
around the vines and on the leaves.
An Indiana farmer advocates cut
ting off part ofthe tops ofpotato
vines when they grow too rank,
and states that he has increased the
yield by SO doing.
Grass seed sown on well-pulver-
lied soil just before smart show
or will need no other covering to
cause it TO germinate than that re-
sulting from the rain.
Throughout the entire year tur-
keys are saleable in lesser quanti-
ties for tho city hetels and restau-
rants chiefly, and they average
we'll the year through.
Southern farmers believe the COW
pea TO be the best milk-and-cream.
making fodder grown, and from the
known nutritious character of this
plant the claim is no doubt just.
In old times the sowing each fall
of piece of rye was so common as
to be almost universal. Is there
any good reason why the fall SOW
ing of rye should be abandoned?
Destroying a beetle is equal to
killing fifty grubs. When meadows
become infested 1t is we'll to turn
in the hogs and let them root,
They will destroy thousands Of
grubs.
Some OHIO farmers claim that
they can make more money by
ploughing under clover and raising
wheat than by cutting, curing and
feeding the clover either to dairy
or beefstock.
Save the corn-fodder before it is
harmed by frost Mr.. Stewart well
says if it is cut before frost it is
green and full of nutritious starch
and sugar. Frost tends to change
these to woody fiber. This part OF
the corn crop is often equal in
value to the grain.
1t is claimed that rye makes the
best of feed for mich cows, calves
ard swine. There is, it may be
added, as a further point In favor
of rye, no crop which is less ex-
haustive TO the soil or so good with
which to SOW grass seed.
Paint costs little, but agricul-
tural implements are expensive.
By coating the one with tho other
overy season o great saving is
, made, for agricultural implements
may be used many years longer
than IS usual by the judicious and
timely application of paint
The horse that can pillow an acre
while another is plowIng half an
acre, or that which can carry a
load of passengers ten miles while
another IS going i've, independent
of all considerations of amusement,
tasto or what is generally called
fancy, is absolutely worth twice as
much to the owner as the other.
When soft eggs are laid by
fowls, they intimate usually that
the egg organs are infamed. Thus
Estate is occasloned by the fowls
being over fed or too fat. Spare
diet and plenty of green food,
especially lettuce IN the summer
and cabbage in the winter, is the
host treatment for fowls in this
condition.
House plants that have been
planted in tho border need to be
carefully watched and supplied
with water, otherwise in a dry
time they will suffer far sooner
than the plants with their roots
unconfned. AS these make their
growth they will also need some
care in pinching and training with
reference to their future.