The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-02-27
FARM NOTES.
A NEW VARIETY OF COTTON SEED
FORMULA FOR HORSE CONDI.
TON MIXTURE.
The Farmer the Poorest Protected In His
Rights of Any Ameri-
can Citizen.

Edited by John G. Edgar, Duval, Texas
to whom all communications relating to
this column should be addressedl
COTTON SEED.
In my last, the types made me say
that 4 $3.50 pounds of Peterkin seed cot
ton produced $40 pounds of lint. Lest
some farmers might think l was per
petrating joke when 1 praised the
Peterkin for its yielding qualities,
will now state that 1880 pounds OF
seed cotton gave me $40 pound bale.
That was a good outturn, but both
Mr.. Patterson and Mr.. G. w. Walling
report even better yields.
For some years, l have heard from
time to time of the superiority of a
cotton called Jenkins Gold Dust, and
last fall l asked for information about
it, through House and Farm, and have
received over half hundred letters
from nearly every section of the cot
ton belt, and many samples of the
lint. Every planter that has written
me has the same tale to tell of it, and
that is, that it is the best cotton they
ever tried, for earliness, yield and
quality of lint. 1 can speak on the
latter point, as the samples sent me
were exceptionally good. The staple
was long, fine and strong. Whether
it will do as well in Cen
trail Texas as in North Texas
and the other cotton States, re-
mains to be seen. l will plant five
acres of "Gold Dust" this year and
give it the same treatment as other
varieties, then 1 will be able to speak
as one having authority.
HORSE CONDITION MIXTURE.
At this season of the year all
horses, and especially farm horses
that have been fed almost exclusively
on corn, get into poor and unthrifty
condition. A proper change of diet
embracing full supply of nutritious
grass would generally put them all
right, but as the average horse keeper
and farmer cannot supply the animal
with the requisite change of food, it
becomes necessary to resort to physic.
1t is generally difficult and some
times dangerous thing to physic a
horse as he has too much sense to
voluntarily swallow the balls and
boluses usually prescribed by the
horse doctor. To meet the difficulty
many kinds of condition mixture
have been compounded with the
idea of pulling the wool over the
horses eyes and physicing him with
out his knowledge or consent. Some
of these concoctions are all right and
some of them all wrong, when fed to
brood mares, and they are always more
costly than they should be, which
prevents many people of limited
means from using even the desirable
kinds.
The following simple and mex
pensive formula can be relied on as
perfectly safe and effective under all
conditions:
Take an ounce each of salt peter,
sulphur and copperas, pound them
quite fine and add to them one pound
of fine salt; mix the whole thor
oughly and give horse one table
spoonful Of the mixture in his feed
once every day for a week, and then
look out for his improvement. His
appetite will improve, his skin mellow
and hair begin to shed. Let a lump
of rock salt remain in his feed box all
the year round. He won't take more
than he needs.
When China berries can be had
they will be found useful in setting
up an ill-conditioned horse. Give a
handful once day for week, either
alone or in feed.
A BISHOP ON FARMERS TROUBLES.
Bishop Fink of the Roman Catholic
church, in pastoral letter ordered &c
be read in all the churches in his do.
cese in Kansas, refers to the organiza'
tions of farmers and the agricultural
depression throughout the country
He says:
1--WE may say that, surrounded by q
bountiful crop as we are, many OF oul
people are suffering and are i'll mis-
cry, uncertain what they should do in
the future. Complaints come not
only from the laboring classes in cities
who are without work, but especially
from country districts from the farm
ing population, who feel that matter,
cannot be as they are for an indefinite
number Of years or they would lose
their house and home. Owing to tn,
peculiar state of our country every
one suffers when the farming popula
ton is in distress. Thoughtful per
sons are we'll aware that the presen
grievances OF the farmers are but too
true. 1t seems that almost every in
dustry in our country is protected il
order to amass riches in the hands o
a few by which the many will have t.
suffer. The only classes not protected
are those who seem to need IL most
the laboring men and farming popu
lation."
The bishop has level head on thi
subject and it is to be sincerely hopet
that those to whom his message j
sent may consider their ways and b.
WISE" There is no blinking the fac
that the farmer is the most grossly I'm
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