The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1868-09-06
AGRICULTURAL.


REMEDY FOR KICKING Cows.-Cows, says
contemporary, seldom kick without some
good reason for it. Teats arc sometimes
chapped or the udder tender; harsl, hand
ling hurts them, and thew kick. Sometimes
long and sharp finger nails cut their teats,
and sometimes the mixer pulls the long
hairs under the udder while milking. Shear
OF the long hairs, cut long finger nails close,
battle chapped teats with warm water and
grease them well with lard, and always
treat n COW gently. She win never kick un-
less something hurts her, or she fears n re-
petition of former hurts. When handled
gently, cows like to be MIXED. When
treated otherwise, they will kick and hold
up their milk.
BEANs.-With a good yield the price may
be very low next winter. We have known
beans sold for seventy-five cents bushel,
that would now bring five dollars. At two
dollars bushel, bears are a profitable crop
to raise. They are planted after all other
spring work is done, and gathered in time
to permit the land to be sown to winter
wheat. If the land is in good condition and
the crop is kept scrupalously clean, twenty
bushels per acre may be expected in an Or
binary season, and thirty bushels if the
season is favorable. The impression that
beans do best on poor land is a mistake.
When the country was new and the land
rich, there may have been some truth in
land it is rare, indeed, to find soil that is
too rich. The crop has such a short season
to grow in that it is essential to have an
abundance of plant-foOd Immediately avail
able and within easy reach of the roots.
Another mistake, equally common, is in not
keeping the land clean. We know n farmer
who planted five acres of beans. He hOed
half IN acre, and then, other work pressing,
gave up the job. The weeds soon smothered
the crop, and he had more beans from the
half acre that was hoed than from all the
rest Of the field.
GET NATIVE FRUITs.-It is matter of
both astonishment and regret, that of the
great number of men devoted to farming,
so few devote any thought to the improve
ment of any of the articles they grow. In
the stock department, there are many lib
eral-minded farmers of intelligence and en-
terprise, who are doing much for the i'm
provement of our various domestic animals,
but in the vegetable and fruit departments
there is a lamentable lack of enterprise.
And yet the field is more inviting, easier
worked out, more likely to prove remunera-
tive. The man who sets out to improve
the breed of any of the domestic animals,
must invest a considerable amount of CAPT.
tai, and wait for several years to secure any
results whatever. This fact confines such
experiments to a few men of means and ex-
traordinary patience and intelligence. But
every man who owns an acre of ground,
can make experiments for the Improvement
of the plants that grow in the ground-at
no cost whatever, and get his results in one
or two seasons. These facts will be recog-
nized and acknowledged by every one to
whom you may present them, bnt, however
we'll convinced of the facts, it takes no
little persuasion to beget eetion. The truth
is, the Southern people have, hitherto, had
such big notions about planting and p,anta-
tions, that they may have been ashamed to
como down to small experiments. But the
day of big things has passed for them.
They can no longer despise little things
potency. They must look after the little
things. What we have said and are going
to say about improving varieties, applies
with like force to all crops grown on the
farm, but our especial attention will, for
the present, be confined to fruits.