St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-10
Agricultural Notes.

seed sold aud used will pay the interes
on the land.
Agricultural Notes.
| Over 1000 farmers in Maine, hay
taken hold OF the beet sugar enterpris
and are raising this root for the factor,
in that state.
1t is dangerous thing, from by
ginnic point, to dig cellar in wet soil
Better not have cellar if you can't b.
certain that it will be dry.
The Argentine Confederation, South
America, is estimated to contain ovel
10000, 900 sheep, or nearly double the
number owned in the United States.
The largest strawberry farm in the
world is probably that of John R.
Young, jr., about two miles from Nor.
folk, Va. He cultivates $50 acres, and
the yield last season was over 100000
quarts,
No animals, unless we'll fed at all
times, can i've constant return for the
food consumed, and no pasture is safe
from injury by over feeding if everrun
in dry weather by herd of poor, hungry
animals.
1t is reported that 100000 Texas cattle
are ''hoofing it, toward the Northern
markets, having started somewhat earlier
than usual. There are also nearly 1OO,-
600 in Southern Kansas, ready for move
ment in June.
'Look where you will on the farm,
whether at its fruit gardens, grains, or
animals, we shall find that whatever
reaches the highest ftnesa for its destined
purpose is beautiful; and whatever fails
of fitness is simply ugly."- Welsh.
Good corn can only be produced by
plenty Of good timely work. Work it
thoroughly and often, early and late till
ready to hay by. Don't let the weeds
get any foothold. The greater the drouth
the CONGRATULATIONS should run through
it.
Don't let the grass get too ripe before
beginning to cut for hay. Don't let it
be exposed to the sun too long. Put it
in cocks to cure. Put 1T in good stacks,
or under shelter, as soon as cured. Don't
let the storms bleach all the substance
out of it.
A Nebraska farmer claims to have
made 900 pounds of bright sugar and
153 gallons of amber syrup from two
acres of cane. The seed planted was of
the early amber variety. The sugar was
obtained by hanging the thick syrup in
coffee sacks after it began to granulate.
A Virginia correspondent of the
American Farmer says: 1--WE have a
ten months old white calf that has been
wet-nursiDg pair of motherless lambs
the past six weeks. They took to her
after the death of their mother, and
tugged away until they brought her to
milk, and seem to thrive as well IS any
of those nursed by their natural mother
California hogs are small, but those
which are fed grain are hard-feshed and
we'll suited for curing purposes. The
Chinese portion of San Francisco's pop
ulation are said to consume, as fresh
pork, the most of the acorn-fed or soft
hogs which ale marketed there. The
average gross weight of hogs slaughtered
in San Francisco was 165 pounds in
1877, 1855 pounds in 1876, 1856 pounds in
1875, and IA pounds in 1874,
The best preventive for worms in cell
cry is to mix plenty of salt, SCOT and fine
lime with the manure that is to be en-
ployed in trenches. This should be
added to the manure some weeks be fore
it is used, during which time it should
be turned now and then. The mixture
above named also benefits the growth of
the celery, which will lift clean and
spotless compared with that grown in
the ordinary way.