The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-08-16
AGRICULTURAL.

How TO MILK Cows.-A Warren county
MIXED cows for fifty eight years, has com,
to the conclusion that the best way to man.
age bad kicker is to tie her head to post
tie the foot back, and then milk away.
| SEEDLEss WATERNIELoNs.-To raise wa
ter melons without seeds, the following
plan has been successfully adopted by a
planter in Caddo Parish, Louisiana. After
the vine is about two feet long, cover it at
a point intermediate between the root.
After it has taken root where it is covered,
divide the vine between the old and new
root, and the result will be that the melons
Will be seedless, without impairing their
quality.
PoTAroEs.-This crop, at fifty cents a
bushcl rays better than almost any farm
crop. With very careless culture it is not
difficult to get II hundred bushels to the
acre, and with good cultivation twice that
amount is often realized. If it be said,
that the crop has extra risks, we admit it !;
but a man can afford to run some risk for
the chances of the extra profit. But the
risk Is very much diminished by avoiding
the causes that predisposc the crop to rot.
The new seedlings, as the Goodrich, Harri-
son, Cuzco, and Sebcc, with fair treatment,
nave very little rot. Abandon the old va
rieties, and plant these exclusively. Fresh
fermenting lhanures induce rot. Therefore,
plant on sod, or on land we'll MANFRED last
year, and manure in the hill with plaster,
or with ashes. Avoid heavy wet land and
plant ON light sandy or gravely loans, or
on land we'll underdrained. Plant in drills.
thirty inches apart, and one foot apart in
the drill, and do all the cultivation possible
with horse power.
CITT-BRED FARMERs.-One of the most
prosperous farmers in this section was n
city mani think u paintcr-who saved a
little money, and bought, twenty or more
years ago, piece OF thought poor, sandy
land, that the timber had ali been cut from.
He paid about $500 for one hundred acres.
1t is now worth 10000. When lie went on
to the farm, his health was DOOR, and he
has never been what is called i: "hard-
working man." but he attended closely to
ms business. He has tool-housc, and a
place Tor everything, and keeps everything
in its place. Everything in and around the
house and barns is as neat as pin, and Or
der and sy stem pervale all his operations.
1t was thought when he bought the land
that it was " barren" He found, however.
that 1T would grow clover, and i'll this case,
as i'll SO many Others, blowing under clover
made the land rich enough to produce any
thing lie liked to SOW or plant. need
hardly say he had good wife,-one that
Interested herself in farming operations,
and was not continually longing to get
back to the city.
PLANT A GRAPE VINE.-Every farmer
and every one who has vacant spot of
ground suitable for tho purpose, should
set out one or more grape vines. The va
rules known are now so numerous and di-
verse, that it will not be difficult to find
among them one which shall be appropriate
to the proposed situation, and bear fruit
which will meet the taste and wishes of
the cultivator. The care required, espe-
cially If the number of vines be small, is
not excessive, and it will be found rather a
pleasure than toll to give the necessary
attention. The growth is comparatively
rapid-in few years only from the time
of setting out, ample reward may be ex-
pected in the shape of luscious fruit. Be-
sides, grape vine which has once attained
a healthy maturity, is no summer flower,
destined to bloom awhile and speedily die
and decay; with reasonable care and aver
age good fortune, it will last life time,
constantly bearing larger and larger crops,
thousand times over.
PROFITS OF EGG RAIsING.-Ac correspond |
emit of Newtown, Long Island, gives !
an account of his poultry yard, which we |
must abbreviate, in order to find room both |
for it and for the lessons which it teaches. |
cember, 1867. Two hundred fowls, fifteen |
of which were cOckerels, were kept. The |
egg account runs from one thousand three |
hundred and FIVE in February, worth $50,
and two thousand eight hundred and forty
three in March, worth 800, to six hundred
and eighty-six in December, worth ga. 80.
The greatest number laid in any one month
was in March, above stated, the least in
November, six hundred and fifty five. The
greatest number of eggs laid in one day
was enc hundred and seventeen; the least,
fourteen. The price of fresh eggs, received
during the period named, was from thirty
i've cents 70 sixty cents q dozen. No day
IF the eleven months passed without some
eggs being produced; and no month passed
without the production of eggs, the value
Of which exceeded the cost of feed consumed.
The principal feed was wheat screenings,
corn, and pork scraps. The fowls were
fed with as much grain as they would eat
up clean twice day; and were supplied
with lime and cracked oyster shells, and