Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-10-28
FARM NOTES.


time fighting files will do very lit
tie at the pill.
Says the Scientific American,
nothing will purify and keep the
stable so free from odors as the
use of dry earth.
II is now generally believed that
a solution of copperas is the best
remedy known for around the vines
and on the leaves.
A farmer claims that cucumber
vines fastened TO strong bushy
stakes, like pea sticks, thrive bet
ter than when left on tho ground
in the usual way.
Budding is in season whenever
matured buds may be had and the
stock Is in proper condition-that
is, the bark parts readily from the
wood.
Sulphur, coal oil and lard oil will
clean fowls of lice and scaly legs.
Rub it on the feet and legs, and
rub your greasy hands through the
feathers. .
Do not allow your meadows TO
be gnawcd down into the ground
because rains have freshened them
up little. 1t is not good policy
to pasture meadows severely in the
autumn. $40
Save all worthless heads of cab
bage and the waste leaves for the
cows. They will appreciate and
eat them greedily and materially
increase their flow of milk as re-
suit of the extra feed.
Z Grass is the natural food of
horses and they should be pro-
vided with it asaoftcn as possible.
If they are kept in the stable dur
ing the summer liberal meal of
grass should be cut for them fire.
quently, .t
b Grapes should not be gathered
when wet with dow. Cut the clus-
tiers off carefully during fair
weather. Handle carefully. Look
the punches over thoroughly and
remove imperfect or unripe berries
before marketing.
The experiment Of burying ma
nure fifteen inches deep has been
tried. 1t was never heard from in
the succeeding crops. All cxper-
ience proves that Is better to have
the manure as fine as possible and
applied on, the surface for the
wheat crop.
The CorsIcana Courier never
told q moro solid truth than is con-
tanned IN tho following extract:
'sThey say you must raise cotton in
Texas or thecountry is ruined; yet,
the man who plants the largest
of acres of cotton is the
worse ruined man in Texas. There
is more truth than logic in the
above statement, and tho sooner
our farmers can realize that the
salvation of the country is not in
cotton the better for them. They
must diversity their farming to be
successful"
Says Mr.. Dickson, in his book,
'deep blowing of land is to render
It porous; to place the litter be-
meath the surface to be out of the
way of cultivation TO make the
land spongy enough to hold water;
10 receive the rain moro readily;
10 prevent Washing; to let in the
light, heat and and moisture to
iecompose and render the
surface soluble for plant food
10 enable the roots to penetrate in
al and every direction, and TO pre-
pare the land so that the sweep
will pass over it easily and lightly
Turing the whole of the cultivation.
Growing one crop on the same
and continuously is an evil in
ieperable from new countries. The
,arIy settlers In any locality are
Usually men of small capital, and ,
# course are anxious to turn the
'irgin fertility, of their soil into
as rapidly as possible. The t
,rop best adapted to this end has
heir preiePelce. So long as the .
taple can be grown, it will be. G
LOSS of fertility is not the whole, '
Tor possibly the worse, result of
his kind OF practice. 1t promotes
he increase of destructive insects
md injurious weeds, SO that even
vhen fertility is restored, what i
lad once been staple crop can no S
onger be grown. Ifthe early set i
lers would consent TO vary their
at first, while thor land
vas rich, their gains might be tenn
,orarily decreased for a time, but
heir prosperity would be much
more secure and permanent.-Gon-
ales Gazette.
Theafarmer in politics was one
f the,main subjects of discussion
t the Minneapolis Farmers Con-
ress, and IN a speech on that sub
ect Mr.. Henry Wallace, of Iowa,
ut the nail square on the head !
7hen he said: "When the farmer )
.nows what he wants and resolute-
Y and Independently votes for it, }
be shyster and demagogue will be s
% more. Political speeches will
ease to be rant and fustian and
ppeals to prejudice and passion. b
hey will aim to reach the Judge t
lent and reason. There will be d
omething written on the tariff, p
Or instance, that is worth reading. I
rotes will not be made by pack L
ges of antiquated pumpkin seed
emit out from Washington to the
lrmer, or, the more subtle and del :,
cate influence of posy seeds to the Z
armer's wife. The member OF con- =
ress will dream of the corn or cot =
on fields, and even the senator
vill wonder whether the legista-
ors by whom he expects 10 be re-
lected, are 10 sympathy with the o
or whether, with his re- t:
ord, they dare elect him." q
TO CURE NOSE BLEEDING. 81 81
Take a piece OF very clean a
PONCE, not too large, soak well in q
'mon juice or vinegar; then pass h
up the nostrils, one or both. =,
'hichever is bleeding, as far as 81