The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-05-24

and buried under six inches of soil,
the pipes having small holes in them
four inches apart. One bed in each OF
bis three houses was watered in this
way, and one was watered on the sur
face. It was found that the pipes
need not be used more than once q
week, while the surface watering
needed to be done nearly every day.
Parsley on the beds over the pipes
was ready for market when that on
the other beds was but one-third
grown. 1t largely increased the yield
of tomatoes, lettuce and the long
radish, but had no effect upon beets
or the round radish. 1t fastened
the maturity of spinach. 1t
was found to economic in time,
labor, water and ease of culti-
vation, and that the plants were not
as subject to fungus diseases. The cost
of making beds with the pipes in a
house 50Y20 feet was $50, while for sur
face watering it cost SIPS, but de
spite this increased cost it was found
economical and satisfactory.
At the New Hampshire station they
put up 10 cows of various breeds in
five lots, and fed all alike at first with
ration of so pounds of silage, five
pounds mixed hay, five pounds OF oat
hay. five pounds of grain mixture
composed of equal parts of middlings,
gluten meal and cottonseed meal.
This was variously changed by sub
tituting clover hay, vetch hay or corn
stover for the coarse fodder, and corn
meal or corn and cob-meal for
a part of the grain. "With one
exception change to clover not only
checked the natural decrease in milk,
but gave slight increase. Changing
from clover hay was IN every case
accompanied by q ioss. Glover dem
onstrated its superiority over other
hay as supplement to silage. Mixed
clover and timothy hay proved better
than oat hay in all but one case. Sub.
stituting corn meal for gluten meal
and cotton see0 resulted in decidedly
hardening the butter.
The use of fertilizer made with
100 to 200 pounds of nitrate of soda,
200 pounds of superphosphate, and
where required from so to 100 pounds
OF muriate of potash to the acre, is
recommended by the chamber of agri-
culture. Norfolk, England, as a dress.
ing for barley. They also say that for
mangel-wurtzeis it would be difficult
to improve upon the use of 200 pounds
OF nitrate of soda, 800 pounds of COM
mon salt and 200 pounds of superphos.
phate per acre upon any Norfolk soil,
and where 25 or 80 tons per acre are
grown it would probably pay to in.
crerse or double the above amount
of soda. For rutabagas they say 800
to 400 pounds of superphosphaie, l0O
pounds of sulphate of ammonia and so
pounds of muriatic potash per acre is
an admirably complete and economical
dressing for general use.
For grasses they advise too dressing
in the early spring with 100 or 1850
pounds of nitrate of soda per acre for
rye grass, and with 100 pounds per
acre of muriate of potash for clover.
When it is intended to be a permaS
nent grass ley, use 100 pounds of nj
tTate of soda. 200 pounds of super
phosphate and 100 pounds of muriate
of potash mixed, These are the re
suit of several years experiments on
these crops.
The Highland Agricultural society
of Scotland says that two years expe,
riments on over 50 farms in different
parts of Scotland show that a
turnip manure of double strength
consisting of 700 pounds of phos.
phate and 100 pounds of nitrate OF
soda. will produce a larger crop Of
turnips at cost of ST. per acre thar
can be produced by heavy dungine
at four times the cost.
A writer in a foreign publication re
ports a case of all the cows in Ger,
tain village suddenly commencing tc
give bitter milk. Veterinary skill
failed to discover the cause for it il
some months, as the cows were per-
fectly healthy, but it was finally
traced to the excessive feeding O.
Swedish turnips which had beer
washed in filthy ditch water. When
this feed was stopped the milk quickly
returned to natural condition.