The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-06-08
Farm and Garden.
Thorough culture is better than
three mortgages on the farm.

feeces abound in the agricultural
and other papers.
The Dutch protect fruit blossoms
from frost by placing vessels of
water at the base of the tree or
plant, taking care to remove ice, II
any forms. 1t is very efficient.
Poultry roosts should never be
allowed i'll horse or COW stables.
Hen lice are very apt to attach
themselves to the animals, to their
serious detriment. Nothing is so
surely calculated to destroy their
appetite and keep them poor.
As to the proper time for cut
ting wheat and other grain a cor
respondent says: As soon as the
upper portions of the straw of the
cereals become yellow no further,
increase takes place in the weight
of the seed. If the grain be not
cut down soon after the appear
ance of this sign, its quality dete-
riorates and its weight diminishes.
If You want to keep your hogs,
horses, cattle and sheep healthy
give them salt regularly. There is
no better vermifuge than salt. A
great deal of the so-called hog
cholera is due to intestinal worms.
Plenty of salt would prevent the
accumulation of these worms. All
animals desire salt, showing that it
is want of their nature, and un-
doubtedly for wise purposes.
Perhaps some of our lady read
ers would like to know how to get
two flowers instead of one from
every sheath of their Gala lilies.
As soon as tina joint flower is cut,
or begins to wi,her, pull the stalk
down through the open sheath all
the way to the bottom. At the
bottom will be found, standing
close to the stalk, another bud,
inclosed in a delicate covering.
Cut the old stock away as close as
possible, without injuring the bud,
and if it has not been kept back
too long it will grow up very quick
into a perfect flower.
To make Double Barreled Toi-
let table: Procure. two barrels of
exactly the same size and height.
Place them about eighteen inches
apart and have a board top fitted
over them, straight at the back
and following the cure of the bar
rels around the front, to about SIX
inches toward the center, while the
foot and half between the two
barrels must be straight. Cover
the whole with turkey red, pink OF
blue cambria, or silesia; then with
, dotted muslin OF Nottingham lace
trim the top covering with a fril
, or plating, and the bottom may be
trimmed in the same manner. A
: toilet cusi)n to match can be made
and a glass hung over the table
3 under which small shelf may be
2 placed. Trim the shelf with cur.
3 tains of whatever white materia
the table is covered. Part the chr
tains of the shelf, gathering then
at the ends of the table, and lei
hang full over the barrels to about
e half way the floor. A few knots
4 of ribbon may be added to com
4 plete the Arrangement, which, if i
e is well carried out, will look like {
S much more elegant affair than il
e in reality 10. BY little ingenuit.
/; shelves may be added, and the bar
+ rels dispensed with.
A farmer ought to be, not oDl,
: an accomplished tiller of the soil
but also an excellent mechanic, ;
fair harness maker, member o
I, shoes, tolerable carpenter, black
smith, also a wide awake, thorough
Judge and breeder of stock, know
ing how and caring for theil all
ments-not only horses and cattle
d but sheep, hogs, mules, poultry, o
t anything that money can be mad,
y Of With all this he should be ;
e civil engineer, acquainted will
e levels and hydraulics and repair
i of pumps, and if, in addition Il
D these requirements, he understand
: laying stone and brick, as we'll a
e mixing and applying paints, h
j will find plenty to do, to say moth
ing of what he ought to know
about grain and milling it. Hi
! wife, and in fact good housewife
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