The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1888-03-01
FARM NOTES.

ment made in Gonzales county by two
brothers in sorghum last year. 1t says;
They planted twenty acres, and from the
crop gathered made 1000 gallons of
syrup, which they sold at 40 cents per
gallon, and 700 bushels of seed, which they
marketed at 81 bushel. Let any of our
farmers make a calculation for themselves
and see if it does not pay to grow other
crops besides cotton.
The small boy will be pleased to learn
that his old friend, the humble bee, after
waiting for thousands of years for his
time to come, is now honOred with a
commercial value. Mr.. Mcdonald, OF
Kentucky, has an order for $4,000 worth
of humble bees for expectation TO Aus
lralia. The Australians want them to
help cultivate their clover. The red
clover does not thrive in Australia as it
should for the want of humble bees to
carry the pollen from fl over 10 flower
ard thus fertilize ell the plants alike.
The average quantity of milk required
for pound of cheese is five quarts. One
hundred pounds of milk will make ten
pound cheese. The milk as it comes
from the COW is just about right tompera-
ture to make cheese. II two milkings be
used, the nights milk should be cooled at
once and warmed in the morning.
| Sheep should be entirely secure from
any exciting causes or liability to be
worried by other animals. Let them have
all the sweet hay or com fodder they will
eat in addition to the grass, and feed
half a pint to pint of cornmeal per day
per head, in two feeds, varying OCCASION
ally with an equivalent of peas or oats.
1t is we'll to give some kind of succuIent
roots, as turnips or potatoes, once day,
as much as they will eat, in place of one
of the feeds of grain.
Farmers and gardeners should gather
up all the bones scattered about tue yards
and prepare them for use in fertil zing
their lands There are various ways Of
doing this. One is to mash them wi h an
old ak or sledgehammer, the finer the bet
ter, and place the broken pieces into a
barrel, or other vessel, interspersed with
layers of good hardwood unslacked ashes.
Keep the mass moist, not allowing the I've
or potash to escape. In few months tho
bones will become jelly.
TO destroy cut worms southern gar.
dener uses what he calls straps" He kills
off the cut worms before the plants ap-
pear. Upon his watermelon field he SO 8
poison traps about fifteen feet apart each
way. These traps" are cabbage or tur-
nj leaves, which have been mOistened on
the concave side and then busted with a
mixture of Paris green with twenty parts
of -four. These leaves are placed over
the fields, with poisoned side down, at the
distance above stated, before the plants
appear. What followsH The doctor
facetiously says "TwO such applications,
particularly in cloudy weather,at intervals
of three or four days, will suffice to allow
the cut worms to make away with them
selves, which they generally do with per-
feet success"
There is no disease of poultry more
common or more unsightly than scaly
legs. Poultry writers have egregiously
erred in teaching that this disease is
peculiar to Asiatics. 1t is common to
every variety, as far as my experience
goes. 1t is easily cured. Take the fowl
in hand, lay it upon it's back, and with q
rag saturated with kerosene battle the
feet and shapks freely. Next day brush
the legs with stiff brush and soap suds,
and finish off with kerosene. Two or
three treatments will cure the worst case.
III Is caused Dy pdrdSlbe WulCn COlleCIS III
Immense numbers under the scales, and
multiplying, causes the scales to rise.
Hens have been taught to anticipate
spring by laying their early eggs while
snow and ice are yet upon the ground;
but many poultry raisers, thinking it too
early for Matching, absolutely eat such
eggs. This ID not ss it should be, for
these very early eggs may be Matched with
the very evident advantage that early
chicks always bring. In this latitude it il
never too cold in February for Matching
II is easy enough to make the sitting hen
comfortable and she will not be apt to
neglect her business on account of the
weather. After Matching, it is also
easy to make mother and brood com
fort, BILE for a month. The twenty one
days of incubation and the thirty days
Of brooding in weather. 7rOof coop, will
advance the season to period of perfect
safety. Chicks month old the first of
March have decided advantage over any
that are Matched later, being ready for the
table or for market when the demand and
the prices are best; and they fully nature
for fall and winter laying, or for exhl-
bitiop. 1t is important always TO have
chicks as early as possible, and l have
no hesitation in rec bmmending for this
purpose the very earliest eggs after the
middla of ,JanuarV.