Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1886-02-04
FARM AND HOME.
Farm Notes,

Now fix up the gates and fences.
Secure plenty of good seed early.
Plant for agood rotation of
crops.
Never kill insect destroying
birds.
Don't stop feeding your sock
too early.
Let the boys and girls raise
chicks.
1t is bestto engage farm help
early.
Bad drivers often spoil good
horses.
Dispose of all your Improbable
stock.
Don't turn out your stock too
soon.
Be kind and patient in training
colts.
Look after the early calves and
lambs.
Don't miss meetings OF farmers
clubs.
Grow plenty ofsmall fruits this
year.
Have your working teams in good
condition.
Gottools, etc, ready for springs
work.
1t don't pay to breed from scrub
ANIMALS.
Don't neglect the paying pigs
and poultry.
Don't throw away bones, but con-
vert them into fertilizers.
Winter split rails are less dur
able than summer split ones.
Never allow any animal to suffer
from hunger, thirst or cold.
Never allow Wagons or imple-
ments to be used as hen roosts.
Do your work well, so that it
will not have to be done over
again.
Oak branches will outlast body
timber for fence posts, two to one.
Every farmer should have q
workshop for repairing tools, etc.
Warm milk fed to weanlings will,
1t is said, tend to prevent scours.
Keeping and raising live stock
is the salvation of impoverished
soils.
In area 100000 acres OF cot
ton were grown in 1885. The In
d;cotad crnn ia 4 667 600 bales,
Where milk can be sold at 8
cents per quart, it will pay as well
as butter at % cents per pound.
The Industrialist, of Kansas,
saws a bushel of corn in that state
is worth less than a dozen eggs.
Raise hens.
Do you feed your stock where
they will trample half in the mud2
II so, you are guilty of wllful
waste that may make woeiul want.
A Quaker Farms COW, sold to
Waterbury man, is reported suffer-
ing from homesickness, refusing 10
eat and giving little milk.-Con-
nectieut Farmer.
The states producing over 25,-
100000 bushels of wheat last year
were, in the order of production,
Minnesota, Michigan, Iowa, Dako-
tn; Indiana and California.
Mould can be prevented from
forming on fruit jellIes by pouring
a little parafino over the top, and |
that, when cold, will harden to a |
solid cake, which can be easily re-
moved when desired.
Every good housewife should
have few ducks about the barn
yard. They are very prolific,
make excellent eating and afford a
very choice dish to vary the same
ness often experienced IN the
country.
Ifyou have a long days journey
before you spare your horse at the
start; let him frequently walk to
recover his wind. Continue thus
until he has sweated and dried
three times, and you may ask of
him whatever you please; he will
not leave you in difficulty.-Arab
MAXIM.
To clean brass use rotten-stone
scraped fine and made into a paste
with sweet oil, rubbing it on with
4 wooden cloth. Polish it dry with
another, wearing thick gloves, as
it stains the hands badly. Keep
oil, cloths, etc., all in a box to-
gether, and the same way with
whatever is used for silver.
The time 1:44 in running races
was beaten no less than forty-five
times last season. The fastest time
made at Chicago was 1:4l IA, and
I:44 was beaten nine times. Tho
best performance was at Chicago
July 2-the l:41 IA of Modesty,
with 1l3 pounds up-and the next
best that OF Mona over the same
track, 1:41 IL, with rs pounds on
her back.
Some one figures the creamery
and cheese factory as saving nine.
tenths of the labor. This is too
steep. The gathering of cream
and carrying of milk are evident
ly overlooked. These are quite a
tax on the producer OF milk, es-
pecially in the case of the cheese
factory, and the greater the dis
lance the greater the tax. When
all is figured in, the dairyman does
not make a saving of 80 per cent.
in the manufacture of his milk IN
to cheese.