The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-07-06
Farm and Garden.

the gardeners very best friends,
from the fact that they are the
mortal enemies of all insects and
worms that depredate on garden
vegetables.
If YOU are a farmer be good
one. Farm well. Have a good
orchard, good garden, good stock,
and an intelligent family, Be in
telligert yourself, and thus secure
the respect of all who know you.
Some persons think they are
doing a horse kindness by giving
him an extra feed just before
driving, to make him drive better.
A horse thus treated, not only will
drive worse, but is more apt to be
hurt by a long and sharp drive
when the stomach is overloaded.
There is no boy in America, no
matter however humble his birth,
or in whatever depth of poverty
his lot may be cast, who, if he has
a strong arm, clear head and a
brave heart, may not rise by the
light of our schools and the free.
dom of our laws, until he shall
stand foremost in the honor and
confidence of his whole country
Garfield.
The wisest and most sagacious
of the Southern people are turn
ing their attention more and more,
not to party politics, which in its
excessive and highly stimulated
condition is the bane of our ma
tional life, but to the better en-
ployment of labor, the enlarge
ment of their industries, and the
restoration of their waste and i'm
poverished lands.
English sheep-breeders attach a
great deal of Importance to shift
ing sheep from field to field and
giving them fresh pasture. This
can be easily managed by having
some of the fields always clear Of
stock, were it only from twelve to
fourteen days, since during that
time fresh grass starts up and the
land becomes cleaned. When the
sheep are never shifted the grass
gets foul, particularly if the wea-
Their is moist and the land at all
wet, or if on close bottomed, re-
tentive land.
Climbing roses are admirably
adapted for covering walls, trel-
Uses, old trees, unsightly buildings,
ETC., or even for decorating the
most palatial residences. Among
them the prairie rose takes the
first rank. Their rapid growth,
perfect hardness, luxuriant foliage,
immense clusters of beautiful flow
ers, and their protracted blooming,
commend them at once to every
one who wants a climbing rose
with which to armament their dwell
lings. What is known as the AYR
shire rose. from their very slender
growth, properly speaking, are
running roses, and are remarkable
for growing and flourishing in the
poorest soil. They are so thrifty
that they will run twenty feet in a
single season.
The value of poultry manure is
very great. From actual expert
inent it was found that the drop
pings from four Brahlnas, for one
night, weighed in one case exactly
one pound, and in another more
than three-quarters, an average of
nearly four ounces TO each bird.
BY drying this was reduced to not
quite one and one-half ounces.
Other breeds make less. but allow
one ounce per bird daily, of dry
manure, fifty fowls will make, in
their roosting house alone, about
ten hundred weight per annum of
the best manure in the world.
Hence, fifty good fowls will make
more than enough manure for an
acre ofland, seven hundred weight
being the usual quantity applied
per acre, and poultry manure being
even richer than guano in ammo
monia and fertilizing salts, it will
go much farther.
Many people are puzzled to I'M
derstand VIII vt the terms "four-
penny" "sixpenny" and "tenpen-
N.Y." means as applied to nails.
"Fourpenny" means four pounds.
to the thousand nails, or "sixpen-
ny" six pounds to the thousand,
and so on. 1t it an old English
- G.