The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-05-31
MORNING STAR AID CATHOLIC NEsGNGIR.
NEW ORLEANS. SUNDAY. NAY 81. 1858.
AGRICULTURAL.

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MANURE YOUR RHUBARB.-If this was
neglected last fall, it would be best to apply
q good coating of manure now, and soon it
should be forked in around the plants. No
danger Of getting the ground too rich.
CAMPHoR ADMINISTERED TO CURE GAPEs.
The dose for q chicken five OF six weeks old
is pill Of camphOr the size of small gar
den pea. when the camphor iulep is given
to them to drink is strong, they seldom re-
quire pill. 1t is the od0r of the camphor
that kills the gape-worms; there is no real
contact with 1t, which is impossible, be-
cause the parasites are in the windpipes.
To MAKE Cows GIVE MIK.-A writer
who says his COW gives all tho milk that is
wanted in q family of eight persons, and
from which was made two hundred and
sixty pounds of butter in the year, give the
following as his treatment. He says: g IF
you desire to get large yield of rich milk,
give your COW, three times day, water
slightly warm, slightly sailed, in which
bran has been stirred at the rate of one
quart to two gallons of water. You will
find, if you have not found this by daily
pactice, that your COW will gain twenty five
per cent immediately under the effect of it,
and she will become SO attached to the diet
as to refuse to drink clear water unless very
thirsty, but this mess she will drink almost
at any time, and ask for more. The amount
Of this drink is an ordinary pailfun each
time, morning, noon, and night. Your ami
NAL will then do her best discounting the
lacteal. Four hundred pounds of butter
are often obtained from good stock, and in
stances are mentioned where the yield was
even at higher figure"
A SMALL Iowa FARM.-Industry and
common sense are certain guarantees of
Valley, Iowa, has farm of thirty six acres.
He raised last season nineteen acres of corn,
four acres Of oats, ten of wheat, two of
grass, half an acre of potatoes, and half an
acre in broom corn, beans, hops, and cab
bage. He harvested one thousand bushels
hundred and sixty -seven of wheat, two
hundred Of potatoes, four tons of Hungarian
grass, and two tons of timothy hay, besides
broom corn enough for ten dozen broOms,
eleven bushels white beans, seven hundred
heads of cabbage, and seven dollars worth
mer's work on thirty-six acres amounted to
81 ,O16 so. Calling the land worth twenty
dollars per acre, Mr.. Briscoe could pay for
his farm and support his family out of one
seasons work. What is the use of being
poorf Mr.. Briscoe, or this small farm, is
on q salary of three thousand dollars a year.
Good land can be bought not far from Mr..
Briscoe's at from six to twenty dollars per
acre. ...
SMALL FRUITs.-There is nothing which
pays better than fruit, even if q man does
not sell dimes worth, for it saves DOCTORS
bills as well as those Of merchants If we
lived more on good fruits we would have
less sickness. Speaking of fruit, we fully
indorse all that is said below by the Sparta
(La.1 Rural Times We would observe
that apples and pears can be shipped from
the most distant inland point in Louisiana
to any place North, East, or West, or to the
West Indies. Speaking Of the objection
that fruits often fail, the writer says: "Do
not all other kinds Of crops fail = Cotton,
corn, and wheat fail about as often as fruit.
Figs and apples, in this country, never en-
will have more or less fruit every year. In
addition IN a houptiful sunnly for home