St. Landry democrat., 1878-08-31

twenty-five per cent. gain 10 stock il
derived from giving them good shelter.
Apples and pears will keep and color
better and bring higher price if picked
few days before they are quite ripe.
Manure from fattening COW is supe.
rior to that of milk COW. There is a
deficiency of phosphates i'll the milk
cows droppings.
1t is asserted that tomatoes rs food for
COWS improves both the quantity and the
quality OF the milk, and give the cream
and butter rich golden color.
To Preserve Eggs.EWith twenty
Eve pals of water mix one bushel of
lime and ten quarts Of salt. In this
brine eggs will keep good, it is said, for
long time.
DR.. Allan Thomson writes that the
bantam cock il said TO cause the COM
mon hen to lay small egg and the COM
mon cock causes the bantam hen to lay
larger egg than usual.
Game fowl chickens usually fight when
six weeks old, as we are credibly in
formed by fancier, when one becomes
recognized master, and no more fighting
occurs. But when the cocks have their
combs cut off, "trimmed," they have
their fight over again and again.
For some sorts Of vegetables, as let
tuce, cress, radishes and others, the
Chinese system of keeping the soil con-
tinuously wet is the best that can be
adopted. 1t Produces crispiness in
the vegetables that is obtained only
when there has been no check in the
growth.
Farmers should be advised not to try
to economic by moving too close. An
old farmer of our acquaintance used TO
say that he thought 1T was better to
leave the lower joint for the old brindle
COW than to save it for her," and we
wonder that all sensible farmers do not
heed his advice.
Fruits gathered in the afternoon are
less acrid than when gathered in the
morning, because fruits are ripened by
the conversion of the acid they contain
into the sugar, and, since it requires the
aid of light and heat, the intervening
hours between morning and afternoon
produce the difference in their ripeness.
Mr.. Chas. Downing says that, as
rule, no variety of apple can bear large
crops annually. except on rich, deep
soils, or where made 30 by enriching
annually and even then, he
thinks, at the expense of life or age of
the tree; that is, trees bearing large
crops annually, will not live as long as
trees bearing moderate crops annually,
Or full crops alternate years.
There is nothing that will induce early
aging in pullets better, if as well, as to
% fed with raw bones pounded in pieces
VI proper size. It strengthens them and
prevents leg weakness, which is often
zen in cockerels. But for chickens in
ended for exhibition we would not
its use, for it is conceded
hat growth ceases when the pullets
commence to lay. In these, bone dust
will be found to answer better, as it does
lot have the same effect on their ten
iency to lay.
The variable effects of plaster on diff
erent lands are we'll known. Is not this
act Of itself proof of the value of ex-
,eriments with commercial fertilizers I?
Why does plaster benefit some soils and
lot others? Is it because it fixes certain
,ases OF the earth7 Is acid available ?
suppose on one plot plaster is fused, on
mother potash, on a third superphos-
,hate, on fourth potash and superphos-
,hate, ON a fifth potash and plaster
loes it not seem reasonable to suppose
hat the best yields will enlighton us as
% what manurial Ingredient is more
needed on the experimental field
There are 100000 beehives i'm the
United States. Every hive yields, upon
IN average, little over twenty-five
pounds of honey. The average price at
which honey is sold is twenty five cents
pound. So that, after paying for their
,wn board, our bees present us with a
evenue of over $S,s00,0O0. To reckon
t another way, they maze clear gift Of
,ure honey to every man, woman and
;hild in the vast realm of the United
states. In 1860 over q, 333, 1888 pounds
# wax were made and given to us by
hese industrious workers. The keeping
# bees is one of the most profitable in
'estments that our people can make of
heir money. The profits arising from
he sale of surplus honey average from
fifty to two hundred per cent. of the
apital invested.
III a farmer does not know what special
ertiiizer his land is deficient in, and
an not experiment, stable manure is the
afest and the cheapest for him. This
furnishes all the Ingredients OF plant
God, though probably not in the guam
tiles needed by his crops. This can
MY be ascertained by experiment. In
cry small plots, potash, nitrogen and