The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-02-23

| heavier kernels and arc more nutri
tious than the short oats. The market,
| however, demands heavy oats and the,
| heavier he grain the more profitable,
| if Less uutriti Ius. The red rust proof
oats OF Texas may be considered the
| best all.rOund oats in cultivation.
They haze the long thin husk aud
plump grain, and are both dIgestibie
and nutritious.
~.
Abiding to the benefits derived
from stirring the soil by checking
evauoraIiOn, "SOiI5 aud Crops" lays
down the law that in any case the
! evapOraIion that is checked by the
stirring of the surface is small Com
pared with tho quantity OF water
taken from the soil by an ordinary
growth OF weeds. The killing of
weeds is therefore, much more i'm
porlant in conserving moi ture than
| in stirring the soil. In ordinary prac-
tice it is essential 10 stir the soil in
order to kill the weeds. 1t may be
! laid down as rule, therefore, that
the soil should not be stirred deeper
than is essential TO thorough eradi.
cation of the weeds. There seems to
be evidence that the cultivation need
not he more frequent than is necessary
TOR their complete destruction.
Nv
The opponents OF the anti.option
bill still insist that it can never be-
come law during the present con
gress, and even If it did they declare
they would evadeits provisions as they
have those of every other law obnox-
ious to them. The bill defines the
word option to mean q contract or
agreement for the right or privilege
10 deliver at future time or
within designated period a
specified gu nifty of raw or
unmanufacturet cotton, hops, wheat,
corn, oats, rye, barley, pork, lard aud
bacon, to which products alone the
bill is applicable.
| 1t dimes futures" to mean CON
tract or agreement to sell and deliver
at a future time or within designated
period any OF such articles when the
party so contracting was not the
owner of such articles or had not
agreed for a right of their future
possession.
The act, however, is not to apply to
contracts to supply national, state or
municipal governments with any of
such articles, nor to contracts by
farmers or planters for future delivery :,
nor 20 agreemen to pay or deliver a
art of the product of land as compen.
sation for work or labor done or to 90
done OH the same; nor to agreements
with farmers or planters to furnish
such articles for food or consumption,
provided that such contracts or agree
menfs shall not be made or settled for
on any board of trade or exchange.
~
Mr.. 8. l.. Burnap, the we'll known
Jersey breeder, says in the Texas
Stockman: IL have found out by ex-
perlence hat COWS will give from 10
TO 10 per cent. more milk when they
have all the salt they will eat. like
the plan of throwing a small hand
tEl of common salt in the mango
every time 1 put them into milk. II
your COWS are used 20 being stated
once or twice a week, try my plan and
see il it DON'T increase your amount OF
milk the most with the least outlay Of
anything you ever tried.
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A correspondent OF The Journal OF
Agriculture writes: 81 will attempt
to give your readers chapter OH
cattle dehOrning from my experience
a bodt two years ago [ obtained q bot.
tie Of your horn killer, which | have
been using on all my calves before
they are month old 1t works like
charm, ana permit mo to say that
now have some as nic1 and a. complete
mules az if they were natural Oues,
and viii never raise another calf with
horns. Last fail my brother End /
procured dehOrning machine, with
which we dehOrned sixty one head of
|, 2, 3, aud 5-year-Old cattle--our en-
tire stock, among which We're some
milk COWS that were giving milk. AZ
an evidence that it does not hurt or
injure the cattle, or cause them to
shrink or decline is hat it did not de-
crease the flow OF milk in our cows the
least bit that we could ever discover
under the very same trt atment and
care. My advise to farmers is to de-
horn your cattle by all MEANS"
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