The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-06
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eggs and chickens off the farm. 1 DO moi
think the practice profitable one
There is something due to the farmers
own table, to his kitchen and to the
pastry-room. When zee farmer run
ming to market with dozen Of eggs, OF
more, have a suspicion that he is Q
poor proYider for his own household, and
is robbing his own flesh and blood. A
farmer has wOrk-men and Work-Women,
man-servants and maid-servants, boys
and girls, and they like eggs, and occa-
sionaIly q chicken stew, and they ought
to have them. So say that the profit
to farmer in keeping and raising poul-
try is to provide for and supply his own
table. A farmer can not afford to raise
eggs and poultry for the market. That
is work for the women and children +; let
them do it if they please, Now | am
talking about farmers; not about city
people or town people, or people who
live in the suburbs of cities and towns,
but about farmers, men who raise crops
of wheat and corn, who breed cattle,
sheep and swine, who have pork, beef
and wool to- send to the market. 1t is
preposterous for these men to 60 into
the poultry business. They are away
from the market, and they have a mar
ket of their own, and that is their own
table. The prOft of eggs and poultry,
for the general fagRaer, is in eating them.
To entertain, his friends and exercise the
privilege of hospitality, he should always
have the best the land affords, and fresh
eggs and fat poultry are his privilege.
It is a good hen shat win lay seventy
five eggs-an extra hen that will lay one
hundred eggs per anmum. These are
worth, on an average, at the farmhouse,
one cent each to sell > occasionally they
will bring fifteen cents per dozen. But
if hen lays dollars worth Of eggs per
annum, she is doing well. AS food for
the family of the farmer this is cheap
nothing can be cheaper. but for man
to sell, nothing. raised on the farm is
dearer. 1t is a, good chicken that at
year old will bring $B25 for eggs, feath-
ers, and carcass. The. profit of poultry
to the farmer is, in having them fresh
and fat the year round, but the man
who spends time in running to the COun-
try-store with the products of his fowls
will never make thrifty, profitable far
mer. I believe in'poultry ON the farm,
and nothing looks finer than a flock Of
light Brahmas, without mixture; but
do not believe that hen is a horse or
cow GalJinocuIttIra, IN Michigan Farmer.
SOUTHERN COW CHARACTERIZATION |
ByP. ]. BerckAans, Augusta, Ga.
Any land susceptible of being plOwed |
will, as a general thing, grow the COW
pea, though some varieties, especially |
The "clay," "RedI" and black" sue
,eed better on poor land, than the
'Iady" or "cDOwder" varities. We !
,ften hear it said in, reforming to dead |
poor" land, that cit will mot sprout
low pea"
Land is plowsd in February or March,
f an early crop is. desired, but for fall |
,rops, wheat or Oat stubbGs is PlOWed as
jOOn as these crops are harvested. 1t is
useless to SOW before middle to end of
April, as the seed will not terminate
intil the ground becomes well warmed.
For an early crop. sOw broadcast at the
rate of one bushel to the acre, on ordi-
larily fertile lands, increasing the
quantity to'five pecRs, or even six pecks,
ior poor lands. PiOw the seed under
with light TURNING pillow, and harrow |
The surface; or the peas may be sown
after the land ia Plowed, and harrow in. |
If sown in July and August, it is pre-
ierable 10 pillow in the seed, as deep cover |
ing win hasten their termination.
On good soils two crops. of forage are |
otten cut FROM one sowing, providing the
season is the least ia
yorable. As q renovator of lands, it is |
best to sow the end Of April, let the crop |
grow until end Of June, when the whole |
should be turned under, first sowing |
couple Cor mOre) bushels of land plaster
over the vines; then SOW Immediately
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