The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1878-02-09

better preparation of the land, pn-
derdraining, less acreage, and more
thorough working before and after
planting.
Farmers who look after the health
and comfort of their stock and do
not trust to hands, seldom suffer pc.
cuniary loss by disease or death.
Always cook the meat which you
give to poultry. 1t will go twice as
far as food, and is more nourishing.
Chop it fine and salt it AS you do for
family use. Mix it with scalded
wheat or corn meal.
Good dairymen contend that milk
is partly absorbed when kept for a
long time in the udder, and also as
sert that cows MIXED thrice daily
produce more milk aud butter than
if MIXED only twid<
The English feed ~ the fattening
of sheep consists & cotton seed and
turnips. They claim that it will put
ON the most fat, is the safest feed,
makes the best mutton at a less cost,
and produces the best aud strongest
manure.
The United States has 65l head of
cattle to every 1000 population,
Denmark 667 head, Norway 564,
Sweden 4s2, Holland 395, Switzer-
land 36S, Germany 3o4, Austro- Hun
gary 351, France 325. Russia 3l5,
and Great Britain 800. (.
A ball of waste cotton saturated
with coal oil, rolled i'm sulphur aud
fired under "a tree did nut. burn rap
idly, but sent up dense smoke
which killed all the bark lice with
which the tree was infested. So says
a Pennsylvania fruit grower.
In house culture, cuttings should
not be started before the month of
February. Plants from cuttings then
taken will, ii well grown, he large
to furnish cuttings them
selves 10y the middle of April, which
viii in turn be good plants for bed
ding out the last of May.
1t is of more credit to farmer to
raise 100 or 40 bushels of shelled
corn on an acre than it would be to
serve a term in the State Legislature;
aud to be able to raise l67 bushels
Of shelled corn from an acre is more
to be desired than an election as a
of Congress.
ButteInnilk cheeses are made by
simply strainiug the buttermilk in a
cloth, aud then either gently heating
the buttermilk, which causes the
curd to separate, or, as is sometimes
done, by the, addition of rennet.
This kind of cheeseis not unworthy
of attention, as it is often richer than
that made from milk only SKINNED
once. -.aI sasrts ..i..f es
Mr.. David Graham, one of the old
est settlers in Anamosa, Iowa, states
that crude petroleum is dead shot
for hog cholera. He has made a
practical test of this remedy upon
his own hogs and upon those of his
neighbor, Mr.. Byers, who had lost Mt |
The rate of ten or a dozen day, but |
rot one died after the petroleum was
administered. This fact is remarka-
Die. The petroleum was given in |
loses of two or three spoonfuls for
,igs and half pint to hogs a year
I'D. The remedy is good for cattle
md horses also. rn 90 ,i.r
Fences may sometimes be made or
epaired in winter, though it is usu-
lily better to defer this till the heavy
pring winds have passed. ANY far
ner who tries can easily think of
ONE work which needs doing on his
arm, and it must be u very peculiar
if he cannot find .plen-
y who would be glad to do it for
wages which he can. well afford to
i've. One farmer is reflooring his
arm this winter, and in doing SO he
cts several loads IF good manure
Thich had accumulated, worth more
D his land than his entire expense
Dr lumber, nails and labor.
Four years ago my barn was regn-
lrly infested with rats; they were
D numerous that had great fears of
~ whole grain being destroyed by
lem, after it was housed; but hav-
ig two acres of wild peppermint
nat grew in field of wheat. after I
re wheat was harvested, the mint
as cut and bound with it, and it
rove the rats from my premises. /
ave not been troubled with one
nee, nor am at present, while my
have any quantity of them.
feel confident that any person who
troubled with these pests could
ssily get rid of them by gathering
good supply of mint and placing It
round the walls or base of their
alls.-Canada Farmer. iit
The disease in horses. known by
lie name of !"big head, ? lis a consti- {
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