The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-03-30
Farm Notes.

The female canler worm as
cends apple trees early in the
spring-frequently in warm March
to lay her eggs. Look out for
her.
Practical shepherds assert that
crossing the common sheep with
the Berino viii donble the weight
Of the fleece and add fully ten per
cent TO the market value.
BY recent experiments in France
it has been proved that ducks are
greater egg producers than hens.
and the eggs richest in all the eie-
ments belonging to good egg.
Regular and generous feeding Of
sheep is necessary 70 develop a
good supply of yoll> without whirh
the wool lacks the elasticity, soft
ness and strenth essential 10 the
finer qualities.
Many Of our best dairymen con-
tend that from the time the milk
leaves the COW till tie butter has
graced the table, milk, cream and
butter must be near the tempera-
ture of sixty degrees.
Southern planters are beginning
to use Paris green very largely for
the destruction of boil worms and
army worms III their cotton fields
Experiments with common cheap
arsenic for this purpose have also
been completely successful
Small farms make near neigh
bors; they make good roads; they
make schools and churches plenty;
there is more money made in pro-
portion to the labor; less labor is
wanted; everything is kept neat;
less wages have to be paid for help;
less time is wasted; more is raised
to the acre, besides it IS titled bet
ter and produces more.
The Farmer and Mechanic, of
South Carolina, a State famous for
sweet potatoes, says; Break yonr
land deep, lay OFF your rows by
opening a deep, vide furrow. Fill
it with trash, scrapings, etc, and
on this put a spripkhng Of wood
ashes Cover with two furrows
with small turning plow and let
this ridge stand until you are
ready to bed your rows for the po-
tato slips. Partially decomposed
pine straw is excellent to manure
with. Now is the time for this
work to be done.
Farmers in Ireland consider bar
ley the best grain crop with which
TO SOW grasses; oats next, while
wheat is the least suitable of the
three. In laying land of good av-
erage quality down to permanent
pasture the following mixture of
seed is sowr there with grain
crop: Italian rye-grass 6 pounds,
parental rye-grass 8 pounds, cock
foot 5 pounds, timothy 3 poands,
rough stalked meadow grass 3 lbs,
meadow fox tan 2 pounds, com
mon feacue 4 pounds, hard fascue
1 pounds, red clover ! pounds, yell
low clover l pound. white clover 2
pounds. - Rural New Yorker.
One bushel of small coal or saw
dust, or both mixed together, two
bushels of sand, one bushel and n
half of clay. Let these be mixed
together with common water, like
ordinary mortar, the more they are
stirred and mixed together the bet
ter. Then make them into balls,
or with a small mould make in the
shape Of brick, pile them in a
dry place, and when they are hard
and sufficiently dry, they may be
used. A fire cannot be lighted
with them, but when the FIRE is
quite lighted, put them on behind
with coal or two in front and
they will be found to keep up a
strong fire.
If a horse is never allowed TO
get an advantage, it viii never
know that it possesses a power
that man cannot control; and if
made familiar with strange objects.
it viii not be skittish and nervous.
II a horse is made accustomed,
from bis early days, to have OBJ
Jets hit him on The heels, back
and hips, he win pay no attention
10 tue giving out of harness, or
of a wagon running against BIN at
an unexpected moment. We once
saw an aged lady drive q very high