The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-23


good stock or good orchards, or In
good improvements about their resi-
dences, or in giving better educa-
ton to their sons and daughtersf
The Zeitung communicates plan
of testing milk which possesses the
merits mt least of simplicity. 4 well
polished knitting needle is dipped in
q vessel of milk and Immediately
withdrawn IN an upright position,
when, if the sample be pure. SOME ~
The fluid win be found II adhere 10
IL. while sncli is not the case II water
has been added to the milk, even in
the smallest proportions.
ODe Of the first things to be taught
Il boy upon n farm is the use OF
tools. lie should be good earpcn-
ter and blacksmith, i'll fact, able to
make or mend almost any inple-
ment upon the farm. A few tools
are always necessary, aud the proper
use of them can soon be acquired, SO
that the farmer can shoe his UNfn
horses, tire a wheel, mend Il pillow,
build his own barns, and thus turn
every day TO account.
The pierino is a far better breeder
than any other fine-wooled sheep,
aud its lambs when newly dropped
are harder than the BaSewell, and
equally SO with the high bred South
Down. The eve is not SO good a
nurse, and viii not usually do JUS
tice to more than one lamb. Eighty
or ninety per cent is about the erdi-
nary number of lambs reared, though
it often reaches a hundred per cent
in carefully managed or small Hooks.
-Chautaaqua Farmer.
A correspondent OF the Chicago
Tribune gives an account of the
practice OF a successful gardener at
Houston, Texas, who usaily plants
his early potatoes about the l0th or
18th OF January and harvests them
about the middle OF April. They
have sometimes yielded two hun
bred bushels to the acre. The same
ground is then planted in sweet po-
tatoes, and "a hundred bushels is SO
obtained. Lastly, he sows the land
in turnips, and has "a moderate crop
of these.
Mr.. Horsfall, the celebrated Eng
fish dairy authority, feeds his herds
as follows: Each COW receives pine
pounds of hay, six pounds of rape
cake. one pound eace of malt comb
ings and bran, with twenty eight
pounds Of roots or cabbage. The
food Except roots aud hay) is given
in mixed. cooked state, and while
warm. In addition to this food. a
cow in full milk receives two pounds
of bean meal daily, and COWS not in
FIJI! milking order, smaller quanti-
ties of this article.
Relative to the best packing for
plants for transportation, IA writer in
the London Garden says: / have
received a great many packages OF
plants from distant narts of the
country lately. Some OF them were
on the road for eight or niue days.
Both rooted plants and cuttings al
ways come in very much better con-
dition in dry packing than in moist.
The latter soon ferments and causes
the plants TO rot, and it should never
he used where ii has TO come in CON
tact with plants more than day.
This matter Of windows in stables
is one of vastly more importance
than most Of farmers think. AMI
mails, no mere than vegetables, can
thrive in the dark. Winter is suffi-
GENTLY trying to the constitution OF
our farm stock under the best cir
cnmstanees, and an Animal upon
which the sun scarcely shiues at all
for four or five months will come out
in the spring in a bad state of health.
even though the feed and the yenti-
lation and temperature have been
all right. The sun is the great life
giver to everything.
Planting Usage Orange.
I. The plants are always raised
from seed.
?. Sow the seed in drills, having
first soaked them in warm water for
forty Eight hours, and then placed
them thinly between damp cloths,
where they may remain warm and
moist, until here and there infica-
tons of sprouting are seen. The
time for sowing is Immediately after
corn planting time, or after the soil
becomes warm. The preparation of
the seed by soaking and sprouiimg
should commence two weeks earlier. |
The rows in which the seeds are to
be plapted should be 3 feet. apart. |
and the seeds be sown about two to
the inch IN the row; SOW in correct !
lines from about three-f9urtbs to one
inch deep, and keep entirely free
from weeds. In the autumn cut the |
tops, about four inches above the |
snsfHce. and the roots abont eigbt \