The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-05-25


Potatoes require less manure
than other garden vegetables, but
viii well repay an application Of
800 pounds per acre of wood ashes
or sulphate of potash.
Don't be afraid to cultivate the
corn too well or too much. II you
want big crops cultivate it often.
If you want poor crops give the
corn ground "a HEX and promise
and you will be successful.
Put tablespoonful OF sulphur in
the nest as soon rs the hens or
/ turkeys are set. The heat of the
fowls causes the fumes Of the sui
phur to penetrate every part OF
their bodies, every louise is killed,
and, as all nits are Matched within
ten days, when the mother leaves
the nest with her brood, she is
perfectly free from nits or lice.
Good, sweet, yellow, hard butter
is a good thing to have. 1t takes
skill to make it. 1t also requires
all necessary conveniencies. Bat
few are supplied with these con-
veniences, and consequently the
mass of butter is poor. Farmers
should see that their wives have
every facility for making IL good
article of butter.
A young farmer in Sheldon, Vt,
bought dairy farm, stocked with
sixty cows. During two years he
has sold, exchanged and reduced
the number of dairy cows, SO that
last year he had but thirty-fve.
He reports having made AS much
butter from the thirty five selected
COWS as was formerly made from
the original sixty. 1t is easy to
see that in reduced attendance and
diminished cost of feeding with
equal products his profits must be
largely increased.
Give the boys chance" ex-
clairas an exchange, and it sensibly
|. continues: "Let them have an OPP
portunity to make Il Dittance for
themseives-an acre of corn or a
quarter of that for potatoes-soine-
thing, anything that Will encourage
the boys and give them hope for
the future. Farmers and fathers,
try it for Just one year, and see if
your boys do not seem more cheer
ful; see ii they are not more con-
tented with their sphere III life,
aud also see if it will not tend to
make them real. active and enthu-
siastic farmers.
Those sorrowing farmers who
: always "intend to plant some vines
next spring" but neglect the mat
ter from year to year, are requested
to parse this sentence: ''Ihree
vines, of as many different varie-
ties, planted in some sunny nook
or 10y the side of some building, so
: as to obtain shelter, viii, if prop
erly cared for, furnish many a full
, bnshel Of delicious grapes every
year" There are few other plants
that will DO well III a greater varie-
ty of soils and climates; no other
: whose fruit is more delicious; no
other that may be cultivated with
less trouble, than the grape. And
there is no other that all this may
be said about that Is so neglected
and overlooked, especially among
the farming community.
Last week we published an arti-
Gle on balky horses. Ia reference
to this subject, correspondent of
the New York Observer says this
article reminds him of q successful
experiment made By the writer's
father. Some years ago he bought
a valuable horse that was offered
at very low figure, whose only
fault was being VIGOROUSLY balky,
! believing that kindness would cure
him. Que pleasant morning the
horse was put before u wagon, and
my father seated III it, took the
reias and bld the horse go. lie
started and went about a mile, and
then stopped and looked around
toward the wagon, intimating, as
tar as looks could express tie idea,
that he would 60 no farther. My
| father said, "Weii, we VIII see who
can stand it the longest. Aud
there the horse stood for two
hours, occasionally looking around
rs if dissatisfied; but as often os
the horse was mildly urged to go