The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-05-11
Farm Notes.

A Georgia paper SAYS thaO
bushel of cow peas sown on an
acre and turned under in ninety
DAYS, will be equal to twenty-five
horse loads of stable manure.
In growing cattle, the most pop
ular breed ought TO be that sort
capable of producing both good
beef and plenty OF rich milk, the
more of both on the least feed, the
better.
To destroy lice upon hogs rnb
we'll into the bristles, along the
spine, on the brisket and beneath
the fore-legs and thighs, q mixture
of lard aud sulphur well rubbed
together.
The Scientific Farmer estimates
the value of hen manure from
granted fowls at 81 per hundred
pounds, the valuable constituents
being nitrogen, phosphoric acid
and potash.
For grinding cutlery and edged
tools, the stone should be dipped
in water to prevent the heating OF
the tools. Careful cutters use oil
for polishing instead of water when
using grindstones of small diane
ter.
An hour of persistent, well-di
rected labor among the crops at
this time is worth days aud weeks
later in the season. Weeds and
grass among the grain are nnwel-
come intruders and should be sum
marily elected.
The best farmers are those who
pay the greatest attention to cul-
tivation, who investigate new pro-
cesses aud take advantage of what
is good. In other words, who keep
mp with the progress of the times
and use late inventions.
The strawberry can be more
easily grown than many suppose.
Sandy loans, good gravelly soils,
or rich clay loans, are all suitable,
and if the ground is well enriched
and thoroughly spaded at the com
mencement. then i'll all parts of our
land people may rejoice. over the
rich feast.
Gates, instead of bars should be
provided on every farm. They
save much time in opening and
closing, are not so liable to be ac-
cidentally left open, nor can they
easily get out of order, if properly
made. Making gates is good
work for rainy days, and odds and
ends of lumber may be used in
their construction, which would be
otherwise wasted. Properly con
structed, they are an ornament-a
stiff set of bars is suggestive of a
prison.
| Stables and privies may be eco
nomically and thoroughly disin-
fected by the liberal use of dry,
finely pulverized earth. A compo-
sition of five parts dry earth, three
parts land plaster, and two parts
of finely pulverized charcoal, makes
the best disinfectant cxtant, if lib
orally applied. All f;eeal matter,
from stable, hog pen, hen roost, or
privy, disinfected with this prepa-
ration, makes most powerful and
valuable fertilizer for general or
or special purposes, deserving the
attention of every farmer.
| DR.. James, commissioner o. ae-
riculture, Georgia, and good prac-
teal authority, gives the following
instructions for fattening hogs III
the South: For every twenty
acres of land, in cultivation, APP
propriate two acres distinct, and
plant every year fourtenths in corn
| and early peas; two-tenths III sweet
potatoes; two-tenths in chufas;
One-teuth III sorgum, and one-tenth
in peanuts. The hogs will have
green rye during the winter, the
grain during spring, early peas in
summer, aud tins mixture crop to
finish off with. The other acre of
the two is planted in early peas,
! turnips, etc, ard thus rOtates with
the mixed crop every alternate
year.
With proper attention to three
things. pigs may be kept growing
aud thrifty III winter-and these
thinoS arg. A dry warm uJaca