The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1886-01-14
AGRICULTURAL.

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Soils which have been fertiiized with
stable manure year after year sometimes
become manure sick. Such ground SHOULD
be treated to coat of lime.
In very dry cellar, where the air is ex-
cluded, the fruit is apt to become shriv-
eled up and insipid in taste. little
fresh air on pleasant days viii correct this
tendency.
Hogs which have a strong leaning to-
ward fat accommodations, if kept for breed
ing purposes, should be allowed as wide
a range of pasture as they will travel
over, so as to develop the muscular and
bony system.
In many places wheat bran is now as
cheap per ton as the best quality of hay.
Both its nutritive and manurial values are
greater than those of hay, and some of it
should be used IN the food ration of horses
and cows.
Turnips, beats and potatoes are well
adapted to feed in combination with other
foods, to almost all kinds of farm animals,
and are especially useful to maintain the
appetite and tone up the system of fatten-
ing cattle and sheep.
i Buckwheat is very good for poultry. al
though we think its merit is not to be
compared with other grain for the same
purpose. Decayed grain can never be fed
with safety and should be summed. Dirty
rice or rejected wheat both make good
grain feed and are safe.
1t is noted that "dairymen whose pro-
ducts command fancy prices make prac-
tice of housing their COWS and keeping
them from the fields and pastures after
the first heavy frosts of the season. Ev-
cry farmers wife knows that the quality
of butter is materially effected when cows
subsist upon frost-bitten grass"
All successful cherry growers plant on
hillsides, in dry, gravelly ground, naturally
underdrained. The cherry tree is very i'm
patient of moisture, and many of the fail
ures of this fruit on low ground are due
to this cause. Chsrry-tree roots strike
deeply, and on the dryest soil the tree
seldom suffers for lack of moisture.
certain class of writer's never tire il
, stating their preference for barn-yart
manures over phosphate and other com
mercial fertilizers. This is all well enough
/ provided they did not prejudice farmers
who cannot make enough stable manure
so as to prevent their buying what is at
: tainable, and thus growing good crops
After testing the newer varieties of pc
: tatoes, like the Early Rose and man.
Others that have originated since tn
: Early Rose was produced, English farmer
are coming to the conclusion that, taking
7 everything into consideration, some of tn
older varities possess greater number o
good qualities than the modern ones, wit
one or two exceptions.
While barn easements make warm an
comfortable quarters for stock, there
reason for giving mich COWS some exeI
else in the open yard every day, and o.
sunny winter days for considerable
length CT time 1t will increase the 40
and value or the milk product; and wi
also help the COW to prepare for bringin
forth healthy calf in the spring. To
u little light air and exercise are bad for til
il COW at this time.
Report says that an eccentric bachelc
rs farmer living near Philadelphia, has
~ flock of sheep which has not been shor
for six years, the wool upon some of thei
u having attained length of sixteen niche
Is His farming tools are all of primitiN
l., style and home made. His personal al
/ \
r. Rip Van Wrinkle, as no shears, razor Q
knife, has ever contaminated his hal
beard or nails.
q DR.. Bonavia, of the Lucknow Horticul
e tural Gardens, has but little faith in tn
statements as to the suitability and valu
of the Eucalyptus globulus' in swamp
and marshy districts. The results of hi
experience with the tree confirm the ur
favorable results that have also been OF
tanned with it in Italy, and he is surprise
that it should ever have been deemed fitte
ID to discharge the efficacious and salutar
Is functions that have been so UNIVERSAL
m claimed on its behalf.
he 1t is claimed that "the Plymouth Roc
:. is the best American fowl for the tabl
m while in England and France whit
,; skinned fowl, like the Dorking and l.
a. Fleche, is preferred for the table. I'll
people of this country demand yellow
- skinned bird. The Plymouth Rock pc
sesses such a skin, has yellow legs and
, plumage of such color that even whe
Improperly dressed, at time when PHI
e feathers are abundant, the poultry lool
:" inviting. yellow skin also makes
fowl look fatter than a white skin"
~ The Pennsylvania railroad is to put on
fast potato train to bring north the swe
IN tubers from the southern cellars. Heate
a, cars are being fitted for the service, an
u the prospective scarcity of Irish potato'
is in New York and some other sections
ne stimulating the demand for sweet pott
VI toes from the south. It is among the POI
sibilities of the near future that durin
r. the winter seasons railway express train
will reach into the extreme south an
bring to the north the fresh, outdoor ga
den truck and fruit the sweet potato'
and the oysters, perhaps to exchange fC
northern ice, apples, hay, choice bee
mutton and fresh butter.
Some intelligent farmers with good fis
ponds and who care for fish culture III
studious way will be interested in know
ing that experiments on the sleep q
fishes rave been made in London by M
August Carter. He has found that IN
fresh water fishes obseryed--the roacl
dace, gudgeon, carp, tench, minRow an
catfsh-sIeen Mechanically like terrestrii