The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-03-16
Farm Notes.

them they will starye yOn.
The Gardeners Monthly says:--
Some people say that land which
will raise good corn will grow good
frnit trees, which is all right; but
they should add. that, like corn, they
icquire regular and continuous ma
nuting.
The experiments which have been
carried on AT the State agricultural
college of Maine for some years, To
rest rhc relative vaIncs Of cooked
aud nncnoked meal in feeding hogs,
are >rill continued, the verdict thus
far being i'll favor of the uncOOked
fuud.
The sun is the great life giver and
fuel creator. Animals cannot posi-
bly, thrive in the dark. Have plenty
of windows in Your barns and sta
bles. protecting the glass with Stats
50 it will not he broken. Throw
yOnr dwelling houses open every
where every day the sun shines, and
let in both the light and the pure
air. Don't keep any rooms shut up,
aud consequently dark and damp.
1t costs no more to produce n
pound OF wool than n pound of cot
tnn, and the wool sells for three
times the price Of the cotton. Again.
the l0O, 900 dogs iu Georgia consume
and destroy an amount of food that
is either already tit for human use
or suitable for feeding TO productive
animals, which, estimated in bacon,
would supply perhaps 50,O0D labor
ing men.--Georgia Ag. Report.
Twelve million acres of forests. il
Is estimated. have been eat down or
burned in the United States within
the last ten years. Much of the tim-
her is USED Tor fuel, twenty five of
our cities being on record a. con-
summing from five To ten thousand
acres each annually. Fences and
railway -'eepers require about I5O.-
ttai acres per aiinum. The tirnirr
industry employs aU0,00O men and
sii4, 100000 capital.
The most usual authorizations of
honey are With various forms of
starch. as vi those III the potato and
wheat, and with starch and zane su-
gar. Dtlier authorizations sometimes
detected are chalk, plaster ct Paris
ami pipe clay. The starch j. not
only added tor the sake Of weight
and iniik, bur Ia improve the color
OF IA very dark honey. and to correct
Il sharp aud acidulous taste which
old horcl' il apt 10 acquire Ameri-
can Cuitlvator.
Celery Tor Farmers This vepc-
table H. net ~ generality cultivated
is II should Ne. !nt tie reason. Doubt
lcs>. that the millions who could
most easily nave il, have never Yet
learned IL like il. A. with touato.S
aud some either vegetables, the ia>te
Tor celery has To he cultivated: hat
wacn once acquired il L. never lost,
aud 40 dehcacy of the garden j.
mote hi.iy appreciated. In most
parts at tue c"uniiN tine u>e of cel,.-
~ Is couilned la eng people. y bile
tIim rr> DO BOT Know pr care FOR j..
Falmei> expand too much labor on
that gave no happiness.
A dozen wears ago Il father and
hi, s"m-in-law made partial pay
nicui en- u ScNcNtN-iivc acre farm in
Niagara county, New York, the pur
Chase pi,ce ot which was sII5 per
acre. Al the end of nine years the
debt WAS eytingnshod, two families .
having meanwhile had good sup ,
port. They then bought seventy I
i've acres more at the SAME price. -
Part o! the crop Of Ie71 was 1000
bushels of winter wheat from twenty
SIX acres. The Chatham Courier
mentions, "a IL prominent cailse of
their success. chat '.they have not
sold n pound of hay or straw; all of
Il has been converted into manure
aud taken back to tile land.-
Clover and Clo3er Seed. For the
great majority OF American farlers :
he clover plant affords the very
cheapest and best means for reno
waiting exhausted land. 1t is not
now necessary To inquire whether
lover actually increases fertility or
)niy makes it more easily available
or the present crops. Years hence
his will be an interesting question,
put for Il long time to come all the
armers need ask is how to make the
'oil produce maximum crops of
grain and grass. Whoever does this
heed not fear that the large crops
Will not sell for enough to supply
he waste of fertility which they
:ause. When this comes, as it never
viii, DO skill in farming can make
he business profitable. In other
words. the men who supply the
World with bread will only partly
arm their own, and make up the de-