Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1888-02-23

OF ample corn fodder supplies. 1t is
he only who rightly improves the OPP
portunity for producing them when
the earth is kept moist and produc-
tive by the early rain.
A2O-acre farm at Carrollton, Mich,
produced, this year, thirty tons of
hay, $1,000 worth of raspberries,
400 bushels of strawberries, 300 of
onions, 200 of potatoes, and 200 of
corn. The total receipts were 81
$50. "a little farm well titled, lit
tie wife well willed, ETC."
The supreme court of Georgia has
rendered an important decision to
the effect that commercial agencies
are not privileged institutions, even
to the extent of making secret com
munications to their patrons which
prove incorrect. By this ruling the
agency is put upon the same footing
of private individual under the
libel law.
Experiments made to discover
how much butter can be made from a
pound of milk show a great variety
of results. It has been found that
the quantity of milk required to pro-
duce pound of butter depends on
so greatly varying circumstances that
no definite quantity can be fixed up
on. Even the same cows milk
varies in quantity as well as quality
from one day to another.
Young Eddie Gould is decidedly
more liberal in his views than the
"old man" as he calls his two-hun-
bred millionaire father. When at Aus
tin, Tex, he was told that an old
dilapidated building was the "old
mans" Union Station, he said:
"Well, I'm going to see if I can't get
him to blow it up and build an ele-
giant structure in keeping with the
city and surroundings"
The value of stable dung, says
Prof. Wyatt, must not be estimated
upon it's actual richness in ammonia
or phosphoric acid within a short
period of its production, but must
be calculated on its wonderful phys
ical and chemical action on the ele-
ments of the soil and the air, and
upon its merits as a vehicle or con-
ductor into which competing quaint
ties of outside substances can be in
troduced, decomposed, and rapidly
made available.
why don't you call me donkey
and be done with it? You have him
ted at it long enough" he snarled
out.
at wouldn't be quite true" she
replied.
'I suppose not. I suppose I have
not ears enough for that animal" he
retorted sarcastically.
30, yes, you have" she returned
sweetly. "You don't need any more
ears"
"What do 1 need thenf"
'.More legs"
A correspondent of the North
British Agriculturalist states that
dandelions in pasture form valuable
food for cattle, and especially for
dairy cows. Some years ago he had
two fields, one with few and the
other with a great many dandelions.
1t was found when the COWS were
put on the field with many of these
plants their yield of milk was i'm
proved both in quality aud quantity.
Since thenhe has planted dandelions
in fields laid down in grass in order
to improve the pasture. and the effect
has been beneficial.
Learn to be a man of your word.
One of the most dishsautening of all
things is to associated In an under
taking with a person whose promise
is not to be depended upon, and
there are plenty of thenin this wide
world, people whose promise is as
slender tie as spiders web. Let
your given word be- IS hempen
cord a chain of wrought steel, that
will bear the heaviest sort of strain.
1t will go far in making man of
you; and real man Is the noblest
work of God; not a lump of moist
putty, moulded and shapen by the
last influence met with that was cal
culated to make an impression; but a
man of forceful, energized, self-re-
liant and reliable character, posi-
tive quantity that can be calculated
upon.
Do not depend upon any one crop.
Have something to keep you reason
ably busy the year round, and make
every thing pay at least a small
profit.