The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-07-03
BARB WIRE CUTS.

lions should be addressed.l
BARB WIRE CUTS.
Everyone handling horses and cat
tie near barbed wire knows the risks
and injuries incurred, particularly at
this season when flies get their work
in.
One of my mares in paving against
wire fence cut her foot in a dread
full manner. A neighbor who has had
large and long experience advised Inc
to apply iodoform. / did so and the
wound is healing up and promises to
leave no i'll effect. Iodoform is a
powder with a powerful and rather
unpleasant smell which keeps off flies.
1t possesses great healing properties,
and as it can be applied to wound
without touching the animal it is the
best remedy for cuts and wounds 1
have met with. 1t may be mixed
with an equal quantity of flour and
used in the ordinary in sect powder
bellows. When worms are in the
wound calomel and iodoform in equal
parts should be used.
CARE OF IMPLEMENTS.
Much of the unprofitableness of
| farming is due to causes entirely
within the control of the farmer. The
loss from carelessness on the farm,
will equal that from all other causes
combined, and proves that farming
must have within it the elements OF
prosperity when the average farmer
can even exist under his present bad
management.
Amongst the many forms OF extrav-
agance the abuse of implements calls
for special condemnation. To begin
with, our much Wanted protective
tariff imposes heavy tax on every
implement used on the farm. This
should call for special care in their use
and preservation, but it has no
such effect. The wagon is left
standing in the sun and rain, shrinking
and swelling by turns, its iron rusting
and it's wood rotting. 1t is run for
weeks without greasing, the wheels
all the time by their resistance and
squeaking, protesting against such un-
wise treatment. The consequence is
that a wagon which should with ordin-
airy case last for ten years, is utterly
worn, or rather worked out, in about
half that time. Same with plows and
every other implement-they are
usually left where last used from one
season to another. This is willful
waste that may we'll bring woeful
want. 1t is no excuse to say that
you can't afford to build shed to pro
tect the property. In few isolated
cases farmers may not be able to build
an implement shed, but every one can
rig up a rough shelter of some kind
that will serve to ward off the direct
rays OF the sun, which are so destructive
to wood in this country. But it will
pay big Interest on the investment
to build convenient sheds of perma-
nent character.
| FEEDING GREEN CORN.
| Old corn is in such a weevil eaten
condition as to be unfit, for horse food,
and farmers have some difficulty in
keeping their work team in condition.
New corn is too soft to feed full
ration, but if it be fed in moderate
quantities in conjunction with dry
roughness. such as hay and sheaf oats,
horses will fatten on it without danger
of collie.
Discretion, however, is needed, as it
produces in some animals fatulent
collie of violent nature, which often
proves fatal.
Having no old corn fit for use 1 be-
gan feeding green corn two weeks
ago, and the result is satisfactory.
My horses are improving in condition,
and show no bad results of any kind.
1 began by feeding them four ears
each per day, gradually increasing the
rations until now they can eat eight
at meal and call for more.
CORN TOPPING.
Corn is fast approaching the fodder
saving stage, and that important
event should be attended to promptly
or the value of the crop will be largely
discounted. The right time to save
top fodder is as soon as the corn be-
gins to glaze. The removal of the
top does lot affect the maturity OF the
grain, and the fodder when cut while
the sap is in full circulation is more
succulent and nutritious than when
allowed to dry up or "fre."
Wellcured corn fodder is the
sweetest of all "roughness," and is
not only valuable adjunct to corn
for horse feed, but as butter pro-
ducer it beats call comers,"
THE BEST TINE TO CUT SORGHUM.
The best time to cut sorghum is
disputed point amongst farmers, some
contending that it should be cut be-
fore it begins to head and others that
it should not only be headed but ripe
before cutting. Ny own opinion lies
midway between these extremes. /
prefer cutting while in the milk stage,
or just as the first heads begin to
ripen. At this stage the cane, while
not 80 full of sugar as as at later
period, is sufficiently so to make the
fodder attractive to stock and very
nutritious, whereas if left till fully