The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-23
AGRICULTURAL.

WORTH KNow1SG.-The Nc,c England
F@rme, says that if you wish to stop cows,
sheep, horses, and other animals from jump
nag or hreaking.over fences into your gar
de.s OF fields, Just clip off, with Il pail of
scissors, the eye-lasles from the under lid,
and The animal VIII neither have the ability
nor disposition to jump. This is Il cheap
and harmless trick. Try it, all who have
had bad fences and mschievous stock
TREATMENT OF Cows.-A writer, wAo
saws that his COW gives all the milk that is
wanted in Il family OF eight persons, and
from which was made two hundred pounds
of butter in 4 year, gives the following as
his treatment: " If you desire to get Il large
yield of rich milk, give your COW, three
times Il day, water slightly warm, Il little
the rate of one quart to two gallons of
water. You will find that your COW will
gain twenty five per cent. Immediately I'M
der the effects of it; and she will become so
attached to this diet as to refuse to drink
clear water, unless very thirsty but this
mess She will drink ut almost any time.
The amount of tbs drink is an ordinary
pai!tul each time, morning, noon, and
night. Your animal VIII then do Ecr best
ut discounting tactical. -Four hundred
pounds of butter are often obtained tr"m
good stock, and instances are mentioned
where the yield was even at a higher
figure"
THE PROFITS OF TAR1IING.-Apart from
what is actually ro!lsHn,rd on the farm, in
the support ot the farmers family, his
profits depend, every one knows, upon
the. market to which he can carry his pro-
duets. The land may he rich, producing
very abundan,ly. with the least possible
labor, and yet, if there * no good available
market, the crops may be OF very little value
to the producer, if raised i'll excess of his
own family consumption For this reason
it is that we have seen corn perfect drug,
at ten to twenty cents per bushcl and ac
tually used for fuel, on the rich new lands
of the West-lands valued, perhaps, at only
five dollars an acre, whilst thousands were
suffering for want of sufficient food in the
ia"Se cities, and much poorer land in their
vicinity, selling ior more than Thousand
dollars an acre, WAS yielding crops which
brought speedy fortunes to the gardeners or
farmers who tiled it. Peter Henderson, in
his g Gar.leningtnr Profit" tells of an indus
trious German gardener, who had been Guilt
waiting for three ,clrs n wet piece Of ground,
making barely IL living, who, following
the kind ad vice given him, spent five hun
drcd dollars in draining his eight acres,
although he had only started ona ten years
lease of th. land. and could ONLY keep pos
session of il f.. seven years longer, tai!
Who at lhc end of his lease, p;tI
twelve thousand dollars for his eight acres
ont of the actual profits of six years on his
drained garden. Peter Henderson very
naturally gives this anecdotc an illu-tGa
zion of The advantages of understanding the
lard but, Wee may well inquire, of what
advantage would have been the greatly
Increased production ut such IA cost, II t.lrIc
had not been Il very good MAJ kct ncar, in
which the crops could be readily converted
into money, at such priccs-as to make the
Improvement profitable 1t is evident to