The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1890-05-29

a days work its feet are perfectly cool.
| If this surefootedness can be secured
without detriment to the hoof, it GER
tainly would be an incalculable boon
to the horses which are constantly
coming 70 grief in the greasy London
streets, and, besides, it would afford
not little relief to those who have to
watch the torture of the animals as
they make painful efforts to regain
their foothold.
BEEF CLUBS.
If any class should live better than
another it is the farmers, and yet
while surrounded by plenty they often
live meanly from want OF manage
ment. Bacon and corndodger are
wholesome enough, but as an unvary :
ing diet are somewhat monotonous.
Most farmers have yearlings running
round for which they can find no
market and which they can
not kill for their own use this
season of the year. A beef club will
supply family with fresh beef two or
three days every week at very small
cost. This is how it can be done.
Sixteen people living in community
combine and agree each to kill a yearl-
ing or other beeves once week in
rotation. The carcass is divided into
four equal parts and the club is also
quartered so that each four divide a
quarter among them each week, tax
ing the different cuts in rotation.
The killing is done at each members
place in turn. Where neighbors are
neighborly this will be found to be a
good plan. Give it trial.
PURE BRED sIREs.
Mr.. G. H. Hogan writing to the
Dallas News says: CAT the present
time, just in the transition stage, as
it were, from the scrub to the thor
oughbred, it is good, I think, to raise
a note of warning to the breeders OF
cattle, especially those who are grad
ing up for dairy herds, about breeding
to anything but pure bred sire.
With the unthinking it has been the
common practice to turn out half or
three quarter blood bull calf just be-
cause he so nearly resembled his full
blood sire. They do not seem to re-
allied that the prepotency of the pure
bred sire has been fixed by ages OF
careful breeding, and that should the
graded offspring even be able to
transmit the dairy qualities to his off.
spring it would be like drawing q
prize in the Louisiana State Lottery
Just one in thousands.
1t is time now for the far ners and
all others in Texas to begin to i'm
prove their stock, for the scrub must
go; and whenever we begin to improve
by grading up, the only road to sue
cess is to use pure bred sire, as he
is always considered half the herd
and if this be true, it certainly be
hooves us to all work together and see
to it that none but pure bloods are
used.
i have for years been in the habit
regardless of the equity part of the
question, of making steers out of any
half or three-quarter grades that came
around my pens. OF course there hal
been some grumbling at my mode Of
procedure, but 1 have always felt thai
in a court of justice I could prove my
motives were for the good of my fellow
: men. Now this to some may seen
!, rather high handed measure, but
go on the principle that the end JUST
fies the means, and when lool
around my neighborhood and see the
almost phenomenal improvement il
} the Jersey and Holstein cattle during
the last five years l feel much better
J satisfied with myself than when I frs
began to use such seemingly harsl
measures.
1t is useless to enter long disser
J tation to prove that only pure sire
should be used. This is taught il
every newspaper as well as every az
ricultural and stock paper in the State
and poor indeed is he who takes NJ
paper at all. 1t is only those who d.
not stop to think, or for want Of con
venience to pure bred bull that thes'
| lines are addressed, and to those W.
, say if you have realized that the day
of the scrub are numbered in Texas
} just remember that the nearest
straightest and most practicable route
in grading up is to use none but pure
bred sires.
TO DEHoRN CALVES.
A correspondent of the Orange
Judd Farmer writes: The cheapes
and surest way to dehorn calves is tC
get cents worth of caustic potash
(keep it in bottle wrapped arounC
with paper. Take calf two day
old (not older than three), wet the
hair little around the horn about
the size Of quarter of dollar until
it gets sore, and after ten or fifteei
minutes repeat once more.
} A Trip TO Old Mexico Frequently Made fc
r One Dollar.