St. Landry democrat., 1878-03-23
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Cabbage always forms welcome add
tion to the poultry-house cuisine.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Cultivate
says that few drops of butyr of anti
mony applied to the diseased part is
certain cure for footrot in cattle. Slacket
lime thrown at the entrance to the stable
80 that COWS may tread in it, is sur
preventive.
EVERYTHING in history, nature and il
philosophy appeals to the farmer to cul
tivate an unbounded esteem for his occu
patton, and to exert himself, in co.opera
ton with his fellow-farmers, in placing
agriculture at the head of all pursuits il
honor and dignity.
ONE way for the farmer to make the
agricultural columns of permanent value
to himself, is to prepare a scrap-book,
into which may be transferred those bits
of experience, statements of facts and
suggestive paragraphs which seem to
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meet his own peculiar wants.
A CORRESPONDENT says the secret OF
guarding squashes from insects consists
in planting as late as the 18th or Goth of
June, so as to bring the plants up after
squash maggots have settled for the
season somewhere else.
No attempt should be made to put a
colt to work until he is three years old,
and then better not exact any work be-
yond gentle exercising until he is four
and one>half years old. Although this
may not seem profitable at first, it will
prove so in the end, for it will add six
years to a horses working time.
IF you want to keep your hogs, horses,
cattle and sheep healthy, give them salt
regularly. There is no better vermifuge
than salt. Much of the so.called hog
cholera 10 due to intestinal worms. Plenty
OF salt would prevent the accumulation of
these worms. All animals desire salt,
showing that it is 8 want Of their nature,
and undoubtedly for wise purposes
7 The farmers In Switzerland consider
liquid manure as the most efficacious of
any, and hence after the manure is fer
mented they dilute it in water and the
liquid alone is carried to the field and
scattered soyer it. The earth immedi-
atelv imbibes the liquid, which soon
reaches the roots of the plants and causes
a rapid vegetation. The straw that
remains after the manure has been
washed is applied as manure for potatoes.
HERE is way we see suggested to de-
,troy stumps: Bore hole with two
nch auger to the depth of six or eight
inches into the stump to be operated on,
md place there in two ounces of salt
,etre; then fill the hole with water and
'lug it up perfectly tight. Next spring
axe out the plug, pour in gill of kero-
enc oil and set it on fire. The stump
will be entirely consumed, even to the
mallest roots, thus doing away with the
;rouble of removing the debris, which
would be scattered about by the other
method.
MANY have an idea that there is
lothing to learn in order to be a successful
armer; that all they have to do is to
commence the business upon a large |
Gale, and success is bound to crown their |
'farts. There are very few persons at |
his day who are SO foolish as to attempt |
he practice of law or medicine, or
'perate in any mechanical branch |
# business, without q due course of |
if they wish to succeed.
every farmer should have at least prac-
ical knowledge of his business, SO as to
'e able to decide what his land is best |
dapted to, modes OF planting and culti-
alton, harvesting, marketing, etc.
1t hardly needs be said that if the seed |
not good, no good crop can be hoped
or. The necessity for selecting seed
With care has been maxim of agricul.
ure for Thousands of years. 1T Ia a good
Ian to SOW, at least small strip in the
leld, with the best seed to be procured,
lpon ground prepared in the best way,
nd cut by itself at harvest, and thresh
at once for seed. But if this pays,
Vhy not grow the whole crop in the same
ray? A good farmer should have no
rain that he cannot use for seed, none
hat is poor, light, shrunken or mixed
7ith cookie and garlic.
L1EBIG makes the statement that
filtered through fields or gar
en- soil does not dissolve out trace of
otash, silicic acid, ammonia or phospho.
lc acid. The soil does not give up to
ne water one particle of the food of
lants which it contains. The mcst con-
lnueus rain cannot remove from the
eid' except mechanically, any OF the
ssentlal constituents of its fertility.
he soil not only retains firmly all the
'od OF plants which is actually in it, its
over to preserve all that may be useful
them also extends to withdrawing
om ram or other water all the ammo
a. potash, phosphoric and silicic acid in
,lutien.
WHERE farmers keep hired men, and
ormy days abound. they are frequently
loss 70 know how to put them to
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