St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1878-05-04

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they cannot get grass they will eat quite
freely of fnely-cut hay. They are not
fond of burnt bones, because the fat and
marrow are burnt out, but raw bones,
chopped into fine pieces, they will devour
greedily. Animal matter, either manu-
featured or home made, is also very
essential to their health in winter and
profit.
1t is often, but wrongly, considered
that anything is good enough for young
stock. On the contrary, nothing can be
too good for growing animals. Coarse,
indigestible and especially, musty food
is very injurious to them. It disorders
the digestion and produces diarrhea, red>
water and impacted rumen, or paves the
way for an attack of "black Leg" or
other anthrax diseases, when the change
to green food comes. Plants affected by
smut, rust and other fungoid diseases
are, when used as food, most dangerous
in their effects, and should be most care
fully avoided.
It is admitted by London brewers that
American hops have greater strength as
well as the property of retaining their
aroma or bitter principle longer than
any other growth. The brewers find
that they can get larger extract out of
small quantity. 1t is claimed that our
hops have not the delicate flavor of finest
English and German growths, but it is
quite certain that the best gsowths of
American hops are making an exceed
ingly favorable impression abroad, and
the day is not far distant when Europe
will give our hop growers remunerative
market for their surplus crops.
There is nothing better than sta BILE
manure, but not enough can be had.
Muck is good if we get the right kind,
fibrous and not too much decomposed.
It may be proitably composted with
stable manure, six or seven loads to one
of the latter, with ashes and with salt.
The coarse grass that grows on muck
swamps, if piled up with it, helps decom-
position. Salt was recommended as
good fertilizer for all kinds of fruit trees.
1t helps to decompose plant food. Ashes
are good, and leached ashes, 800 bushels
per acre, are excellent on sandy soils,
helping mechanical texture, and furnish
ing needed manurial elements.
That famous $780, COW which was so
much talked about in this country few
years ago, has found a rival in point of
proportionate pecuniary worth in a 1902
chicken. The English Agricultural Ga
zette says that a game cock was recently
sold for the above excessive price, and
suggests that in the future the raising of
such chickens would prove very lucra-
tive source of income. The same journal
says that over $13,000,0O0 worth of eggs
were imported into England in 1876, and
yet the supply was short Of the demand.
Here is an opening for poultry men and
a wider field for the inventors of egg
preserving processes and egs-carrying
devices.
Heaps of corn, the Nebraska Farmer
says, are nearly as common in the yards
of that state. as wood-piles at the east,
and for the same purpose, to-wit, for
fuel. It is on record that Kansas farmers
have burned corn, and six months
afterward paid seventy-five cents a
bushel for corn to feed their stock. And
again, that within one year from the
time when corn in that state was drug
at seven cents bushel in the field, there
was ready market for it at ninety five
cents The easy lesson of which is that |
in years Of plenty it is the part of wisdom |
to provide for possible famine-as Joseph |
did in Egypt-and not pile corn on the
kitchen fire.
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