The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-05-22
FARM AND GARDEN.

! AN English grape.grower stopped the
| profUse b!eening of a thrifty young
vine by forming sort Of hard cemen
over the cut ends by repea'ed dus Ing
at short intervals with Portland cement
GEORGE CAMPBELL of Westminster
Vermont, rece ntly shipped from Boston
a lot of Vermont merino rams to be useC
for sheep raising purposes at the Cape
of Good Hope.
AN English farmer, very successful
during ten years in fattening cattle and
sheep, supplied a ration made as fol
lows: Eight bushels corn soaked in ter
pals water two days, then simmer ar
hour, afterward mix with fourteen
pounds coarse cheap sugar, and com
mingle with cut straw, hay or Other
fodder.
If, after the wool has grown to some
considerable length, sheep or lambs be-
come annoyed with lice or ticks, wash thu
lambs in strong decoction of tobacco
Another way is to take pair of below:
and inhale tobacco smoke; then blow
the smoke with considerable force
among the ticks. This will prove in
slant death to them.
AN experienced poultry man gives The
following recipe for chicken cholera
For every forty fowls take piece OF
assaf4tida the size of a hickory-nut
break it into small pieces and mix it il
about pint of cornmeal; wet it thor
oughly with boiling water and place i,
near the roosting place so that the
chickens can eat it the first thing in the
morning.
The liquid yieldings of animals are
worth more-good authorities say one
sixth more-pound for pound, than the
solid excrements, and they are saved
with greater care by the best European
farmers and gardeners. All the leak
in the stable are not in the roof; those
in the floor are quite as Objectionable
and are the cause of a great deal Of
waste.
EGG PLANES should be cultivated
more than they are. When peeled and
cut in slices, soaked in salt water, dip,
ped in dry meal, and fried or broiled,
and served with butter and pepper, they
are very nice. Their culture is simple
SOW the seed, transplant say about
three or three and half feet each way
in rich ground, then hoe as often as
needed to keep down weeds.
In preparing ground for squashes,
pu q liberal quantity of manure in
each hill and cover it some two inches
with soil. Then cover the whole with
coal ashes with which the whole is
filled, and the soil on the manure GOV.
cred. The seed is then planted in the
ashes directly over the manure. A,
each hoeiDg, scatter fresh supply OF
ashes around the plants, and grubs will
never trouble the plants.
WHITENING BEEswAx.-Take the
cleanest beeswax you can obtain, mel,
it in hot water, skim it out in q basin
previously oiled when cold cut the wax
in thin slices expose these to the action
of the sun and air upon white dishes,
sprlnkling it, unless there is rain, once
or twice day with clean water. Al
the end of week melt the wax again,
and proceed as before. In hot weather
the wax may be foated on water in the
middle of the day.
The drains for Stops of all kinds when
not built under ground, which is the
safest and in the long run most eco
nomical way, should ut least be covered
and so arranged as to have a good fall
and safe outlet. A little time and money
expended now will pay for itself many
times over in the prevention of all the
ills attendant on poisonous gases gen.
Grated from badly constructed drains
and standing water.-New York World.
Mr.. McAFEE, Superintendent of the
University of Wisconsin Experimental
Farm, Informs us that for three wears
past he has grown lima beans without
poles or stakes, By persistent pinchjng
back, after they reach the desired heig hi
about that of common bunch beans.
He is confident the crop is very per-
cep'ibly earlier, and thinks it is increas-
Ell in quantity-the plant, bel check
ed in its growth of vine, expanding IT'S
energy in fruit production.
In starting squashes, Mr.. J. T.
Chandler, Everett, Mass, places lib
ei"i du1uIiIy VI mduuTe III q mole 1Or
each hill, adds an inch or two of fine
soil, levels up with coal ashes, puts in
the seed or sets the plants, and after
each hoeing scatters on the surface a
fresh supply of ashes. In this way, the
american Cultivator says, his patch is
kept "entirely free from grubs, while in
his experier ce every hill planted with
out ashes will be destroyed"
IT is folly to keep old sheep. They
should be turned off to the butcher
while they are in their prime. 1t does
not take half as much to fatten them
then. When they get old and thin, in
order to put them in condition to
slaughter, the whole superstructure
must be rebuilt. Four sets of lambs are
all eve should bear; this will bring
her to five years, and this is an age
when, with little extra care, she will
round up to fine and full carcass. Ex
ceptions may be made when the breed
is scarce and the blood is more desirable
than any thing else.-New York Iri-
bat1e.
Mr.. NELSON RITTER, Syracuse, N.
T., IN answer to the query, at recen,
of l..