The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-02-08

Usefai Snxs esffons.
Am old potato grower says be think
nifty cents bushel for potatoes as goo,
In the fall as ssventy-fve cents in til,
spring.
EXPERIMENT with q mulch of straw
on portion of your wheat field. Man,
who have tried the plan commend i
highly. sa1
EVERYTHING which is " gilt-edged y
in the way of farm produce brings the
highest prices-butter, cheese, milk
fruit. and 30 on, through the whole List
of farm products.
The farmer who wishes TO avoid an
excess of labor, with improbable result,
viii! not spread a small quantity Of
manure over large surface of poor land,
but will only plew as much as he can
highly manure, when his income will be
as large, and his labor one-half saved.
The superiority of Scotch oatmeal is
said to be partly owing to the grain
being cut rather "glazy that is with
shade of green upon it. Dat straw is
far Less nourishing for cattle when the
crop lis allowed to stand till it 10 dead
ripe. Early cut oats are heavier per
bushel, fairer to the eye and usually sell
for more money.
WHENEVER horses and cows are al
lowed large range of fertile feed all at
once, it is not TIE nature of the animal
to 70 quietly to feeding, but to run all
over the Enclosure, examine the bound.
aries, snatch q mouthful of feed now and
then as they run, and finally to come to
the yard at night tired, overfull, having
trampled down three times NJ much as
they have eaten.
WINTER is the time when 1t ia most
difficult to produce good colored butter
and free from streaks, and the harder to
come; judicious feeding will help this
very much. It viii pay well, with some
simple apparatus, to steam or cook the
food, with little salt through It; the
cows will eat everything up greedily.
A lump of rock salt should always be
where the cows can have access to 1t.
Col. #. ID. CURTIS tells the Weekly
Rural that he should prefer "a cow with
a poor eseutcheon and properly formed
in the body, to one with ever 90 much
width and outline OF escutcheon and
beefy and unDilk-like figure. 1t may be
urged that cow with fine escutcheon
would not have such an inconstant form;
but such is frequently theTcase, and ali
COWS of this style are poor mixers"
THERE are many farmers who have
extra good butter cows, and do not know |
1t. They have poor pastures In summer |
and no shelter, and Indifferent feed in
winter. In the house they have no con-
yeniences for making butter, the milk is
vet where there are no arrangements for
keeping 1t cool In summer, and in the
|iying-room, exposed to the odors of the
kitchen, In the winter and neither the
quantity nor the quality are any index
Of what COW can do
The best fodder corn is that grown
,hickly In drilis--so thickly that no ears
ire developed. Let the ground be rich
lot the cultivation be thorough; cut up
xhen the tassels are dropping their pol
en-; lot II wilt on the ground; tie In
mall bundles and set ia small stacks.
binding firmly at the top, and alss half
way down. Then let 1t stand as late as
'ossible before carrying it to the barn.
t the crop is planted early it may be
ut up 30 early as to get perfectly dry If
has no ears-- Farmer and Fruit
fr0weF. 8gRfa $3.50 II
TIE hog eholera cure men are about
numerous as lightning rod men used
, be. Our readers are hereby eau toned (
gainst investing, notwithstanding the | |
pparently demonstratiye evidence ~ |
red BY the vendors The so-called hog I
aoiera is not one disease responsive to | I
ae kind Of treatment, any more than
! the ills that human flesh is heir to. q
hese patent Rostrums are, therefore,, :
aads, intended only to benefit the Il
'ckets Of the makers Just as euse alls 6
nst in the very nature OF the esss be. i
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