El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-09-11
Farm aud
Ranch.

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Brown county reports plenty of
corn and hay.
Dry grass causes fear of prairie fires
In many counties.
Mexican June corn is standing the
drouth we'll in Midland county.
The National Farmers congress
meets at Boston, Mass, Oct. 3.
One farmer near Rush Springs, 1. T.
lost eighteen out of thirty head of cat
tie.
Three watermelons, weighing re-
spectively 81, II and 72 pounds, were
taken to Vernon.
Interest in Angors goat raising is
increasing In the west and southwest
portions of the Lone Star state.-Ex.
Childress county farmers have put
up this season the largest crop of for
age and bread stuff ever raised in that
county.
Some people work their COWS too
hard: they make them travel all day
In search of food and water from which
to manufacture milk, and then COM
plain If the milk runs short.-Ex.
Salt, charcoal and wood ashes where
the hogs q help themselves at will is
the best preceution of abnormal ap-
petite, such as pig eating, chicken eat
ing and other swinish vioes--Bonhsm
News.
Alfalfa is the greatest economical
pork-producing food of this section of
the country. Farmers should get a
stand OF it as soon as possible. It will
beat cotton and COSTS nothing after it
is we'll observation-disclosures News.
1t is stated that all the irrigated
farms and gardens In the vicinity of
Waco are looking fresh and vigorous.
The gardeners are selling fresh let
tuce, pears, beans, tomatoes and green
corn at fair prices, with a ready SALE
Elk.
The sale of oleOmargarine, or o
butter'' at the Chicago factories for
the year ending August LIST, have
largely increased over the previous
twelve months, reaching the enormous
amount of SO, 6S5, 600 pounds. How
much of this was sold as also according
to law, deponeut saith not.-Es.
Milk can be kept sweet for testing
purposes for three or four weeks by
using the bi-chromate of potash and
placing the milk in air-tight jars. The
amount of the chrome to to use for q
quart Of milk is what will rest on q
dime. The b~i-chromate Is a poison, so
that milk thus treated could not be
used as food.-Farm & Ranch.
Nursing sows should be we'll fed, as
/ upon this depends The thrift of the
pigs. Brood sows should not be per-
mitted to become thin at any time.
sucking ravenous, growing, insst-
liable pig to esch cal. Feed the pigs
through the SOW, if you want their
tails to curl properly.-Field & Farm.
It ts dtscouraging to observe In many
OF the mountain farming districts how
so many ost fields are ruined by the
bellanthus Or wild s%unfower which
has come in SO thoroughly as to choke
out and destroy the grain growth. On
account off this woody condition, the
oats cannot even be cut for hay. Such
farming is inexcasable.-Farm &
Ranch.
rino bucks recently at q cost of. SIS
each and dipped them In a carbolic dip
in the proportion of l to q. He turn
ed them out to grass, but one by one
they began to die. A veterinary sur
Reon made an examination of one of
the dead animals and found the lungs
badly infamed and the lining of the
stomach peeled off when he scraped it
as though 1t had been cooked with
some acid. The dip should have been
made In the proportion of 1 to 80.-Ex.
The cheapest of all fertilizers is q
leguminous crop, largely plowed un-
der about every third year. The crop
can be gathered and saved for feeding
purposes, n the roots, stubble and
shattered leaves turne under, will
supply in ample quantities the most
costly of fertilizing substances, nitro
gen, natures great reservoir of nitro
gen ts the air. Growing legumes Is
the only process known by which this
nitrogen can be transferred to the soil.
Clover, alfalfa, stock peas and peas
and beans of various kinds are used
for this purpose. In this latitude
stock peas are best suited for the pur-
pose of both feed and fertilizer.-Farm
& Ranch.
The Weaver plum Is one of the best
American varieties grown In Colorado.
The trees at the experiment farm in
Fort Collins were planted In 1894 and
are larger than those of any other va
riety planted at the same time. They
are vigorous and we'll formed. The
tendency to produce long slender
branches is quite marked in this va
riety. Leaves large. leathery in tex
glandless, or with occasional small
glands. Fruit medium to large, round
oblong; suture evident, sides often I'M
equal: color purplish-red on yellow
ground, the red notified with light
dots: flesh firm, sweet when ripe, of
good flavor; stone semi-cling, abruptly
pointed and smooth. Ripe September
18.-Field and Farm.
The higher the temperature in
churning, other things being equal,
the quicker the butter will come and