The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-07-19
FARM NOTES.


food alone, however rich and plentiful.
Such food cannot keep the system clear
and in free, wholesome action. Animals
so fed may take on fat very readily. The
most clogged and diseased system tends
to that excess, as we frequently notice in
diseased corn-fed hogs. The rapid taking
on of fat is no indication of health and
thrift-quite often the contrary.
The farming of the future must be
gradually contracted in the number of
acres. Higher cultivation, more remuner-
alive crops. Less hard work over broad
fields and closer attention to special pay
ing crops on the fields that surround the
house. More pasture, more stock and
plenty of ensllage-this insures the pur-
chase of less commercial fertilizer and the
very best results from the contents of the
barn yard.
Do not sell hay; it is the most unfor-
tunate crop that we can sell from the
farm, making an exceedingly heavy draft
on the fertility of the soil for very
limited money return. The money value
OF the elements of plant food contained
IN ton of timothy hay is $6.18; in ton
OF clover hay 1929. We cannot afford to
go into the market and buy the chemicals
which will produce these goods for the
sums mentioned.
Doctor Collier proposes to investigate
the questions: l. Whether the two foods
of similar composition both will affect
equally the milk and butter Weld, or
whether one will tend more to the produc-
ton of body fat and less to an increase of
the milk. 2. The influence of the va
rious grains fed separately and combined
in rations, and to what extent the chemi-
cal and physical properties of butter are
influenced by different foods.
A sure protection against the cut-worm
is found in old tin fruit cans. Throw
them on fire and melt them apart, and
place them around single plants, after
setting them. This method will prove
effectual in keeping off these pests. They
should befi rmly pressed into the soil, be-
ing careful not to leave an open space. 1
have used them for tomatoes and cabbages
for three years without losing a plant
j. L. p, in Farm and Home.
A correspondent of Vick's Magazine
says: 1 do not believe in being stingy,
but, truly, If you want to succeed with
cactus you must refuse your friends ard
all their relations "slips." You pluck
away the blooms, 1 think, and retard the
growth by so doing. Give freely of your
geraniums, coleus, ETC., but hold the cactus
in reserve. Disturb them in pots as little
repot be careful of disturbing the roots
A writer in Southern Planter, Virginia,
agrees to pay 500 to any one who gives
the following fair trial and it does not
prevent hog cholera: Take a sack of salt
and barrel of hard wood ashes (hickory
or oak preferred); mix the salt and ashes
thoroughly, prepare box of any conven
lent size, put it under cover where the
hogs can have free access to it at all times,
and keep a supply of the mixture in it.
This mixture will cost you 81 and some
trouble, but will be sufficient for several
hogs for one year.
A writer for the Southern Cultivator
says: Our squash vines have done very
well and are yet growing vigorously, yet
not single one of them has the least
connection with its original root, which
was long since severed by the squash
vine borer. We had noticed the injury
early in the season, and covered the grow
ing vines to the length of perhaps two
feet each deeply with fresh soil, which pre-
caution has saved US the plants by induce
ing the vines to form new roots all along
the covered sections.
A bulletin from the Vermont Expert
ment station says: For smut in oats four
remedies are suggested. These are: One
pound of blue vitriol to four gallons of
water; let the seed soak forty hours.
ne in 90 nf
water; soak the seed one day. Another
is a solution of CASTLE soap and water
with little lime; soak the seed one day.
The last is brine as strong as is used for
pork; soak several hours. These are not
offered as sure representatives., but are
suggested for trial.
Gardening Illustrated says thu tying up
of the leaves of early cabbages is much
practiced by London market gardeners.
The soft outer leaves are folded carefully
around the heart, or center, of the plant,
and the whole is bound firmly with withe
or piece of bast. There are several good
reasons given by market growers for this
practice. The center being protected
from the weather the cabbages heart
sooner by two or three weeks than they
otherwise would do, and they are more
easily handled ill gathering and packing
for market.
In planning the sizs of the silo allow
twenty cubic feet for every months feed
ing of 1000 pounds live weight of animals
to be fed. This is to be for the space &C.
cupied by the ensilage when fully settled,
and makes due allowance for loss and
waste, sure to occur to some extent. For
example: A silo 10 feet wide, ~ feet long
and 10 feet deep, in full, the contents set
tied to Is feet deep, would hold 1900 cubic
feet of packed ensilage, or about forty
tons, enough TO feed ten cows thirty
pounds of ensiage daily, including waste,
for nine months.