The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-03-09
Farm Notes.

In applying lime to the barn yard
or stable manure it should be air
Stacked. Caustic lime has Il ten
dency t9draw out the ammonia. and
should never he applied on the dung
! pile.
! Frozen plants will sometimes re-
! vive ii placed in an apartment where
, the temperature Is just above the
! freezing point. They will thaw grad
ualiy. Never pat frozen plants III Il
warm room.
One pound of corn is equal in real
food to about four pounds OF pota-
taes, or eleven and "A half pounds OF
white turnips, but dairy stock is Of
ten injured by the iniudicious feed
ing of meal. Neal is of Il very heat
ing nature, aud when fed iii large
quantities is apt 20 derange the ami
mails health.
No kind of meat can ,be So profita
bly, grown and pay so well as Bronze
turkeys, especially where grain is
cheap and grasshoppers plenty. In
great many places, so abundant
are insects that shorten the grain
and grass crops, that turkeys could
he almost entirely kept and grown
by snbsisting upon them.
A hen may be calculated to con-
sumo one bushel of corn yearly, and
to law twelve dozen or eighteen
pounds of eggs. This is equiya ent
10 saying that 81 pounds of corn
will produce, when fed 10 this hen,
one pound of eggs. A pound of
pork, ON the contrary, requires about
i've and one-third pounds of corn
for its production. When eggs are
twenty-iOur cents a dozen, and pork
is ten cents a pound, we have the
bushel OF corn fed producing 81 So
worth of eggs, and but 81 % worth
of pork.
The old Romans, who were not ia
,niliar with improved implements
although many Of the Greek iinple-
ments of husbandry We're not, in
principle, unlike those of modern
construction-used carefully to re-
strict the quantity Of land which
each citizen was allowed to own.
According to the orator Curtias, "He
was not accounted as good citizen.
but on the contrary, dangerous TO
to the State, who owned more than
seven acres The Roman acre be
ing about one third less than ours,
the law actually limited the posses
sion to about five acres. Cato ap-
proved the opinion of his ancestors,
that it was IA good point in husband
~ not to have much land in one
farm, and that more profit came by
holding little and tilling 1t WE'LL
And Virgil said: 1.-The farmer may
praise large estates, but let him cul-
tivate a small one" In England the
absorption of ail smaller farms has
become a great and perilous evil
Prairie Farmer.
Fowls in Orchards. In regard TO
keeping fowls ia orchards, the Ponl-
try World says: Last fall we visit
ed an orchard in which fowls were
kept; the owner of which told us
that before the fowls were confined
IN it, the trees made little or no
growth, and only Il corresponding
amount OF fruit was obtained. But
What change was evident now.
The grass was kept down, the weeds
killed, while the trees presented an
appearance of thrift which the most
enthusiastic hOrticrlttuist could not
but admire and envy. The growth
OF the trees was most vigorous, and
the foliage remarkably luXuriant.
The fruit was abundant, OF large
size and free from worms and other
imperfecsions. This excellence was
accounted for by the proprietor, who
that the hens ate all the
worms aud curculiO in their reach.
even the canker worm. He found
less trouble with their roostiug in
the trees than he expected, and that
. picket fence six feet high kept
them within bounds. His orchard
was divided into three sections. and
the fowls we're changed from one to
another, as the condition of the
fowls or the orchard section seemed
TO require. f wf
Salt as a, Fertalizer. There has
never been an established value OF
salt as a fertilizer given to the pub I,
nc, and the question, lis it a teltili-
Ter to any degree7' remains unan-
'wered, SO as to settle the question
'orever. II We refer to all that has
been said about its use by farmers,
u the agricultural press daring the
asst twenty-five years, we shall find
/ large number who ctaim that they
ave used it to advantage, while as
many mora S.x- tbat f.,..,-I l. 49,.