The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-03-08
FARM AND HOME.
FARM HINTS.

yielded by wheat.
Some of the farmers who have bought
patent COW mixers, now call them COW
dryers.
There is no animal that will better
repay the cost of good extra keep than
dairy COW in full milk.
A stock dealer in western Iowa recently
bought 10000 bushels of corn at Lemars
at eight cents per bushel.
The agricultural papers generally are
entering into pretty free discussion ON
the good quality of sorghum.
Standard apple trees should be plant
ed sixty feet apart each way, though
in poor soils twenty-five feet may be
enough.
Clean up all rubbish about the yard
and buildings, and remove manure heaps
having all possible materials for COM
post gathered and utilized
The London Omnibus Company,
which ten years ago fed their horses
principally with oats and beans with hay,
now feed almost exclusively on Indian
corn and hay. !.
The best favored meat, and at the same
time of the richest quality, is attained
when the COWS feed on old and rich per-
manent pastures in summer, the flavor
being particularly sweet.
Some of our best butter-makers claim
that from the time the milk leaves the
cow till the butter graces the table, milk,
cream and butter should be near the
temperature of 6Oo Fahrenheit.
Work not rod of land more than you
can work well. 1t is easier and far more
proftsble to reap sixty bushels from one
acre than fifty from two. Manure and
proper cultivation will enable you to do
Dc.
General Littledale, who has q farm
opposite Liverpool England, keeps
eighty. five cows and fifteen working
horses on the produce of eighty acres Of
land. This shows what thorough Guilt
vation will do.
IA Do not work butter too much nor too
fast. Work slowly, and until all the
salt is thoroughly and evenly absorbed,
otherwise the butter will not be of uni
form color. Working it too fast will
destroy the grain.
If chickens have cholera give them wet
food for few days, we'll stirred into one
iced teaspoontul of sulphur, and into
fhe next about teaspoontul of powdered
charcoal, and 80 alternate the food for
bout three days
@ Laugh at scientific or book farming
just as much as you please, yet the man
Who takes advantage of air, soil and fer
&ilizers, studies how to manufacture
rain and roots, meat and fruits, out OF
fhese raw materials, is The one to sue
iced.
All the harvesting implements and
machines should be cleaned and oiled
10Th woodwork and iron--and stored
- q dry covered place. To remove rust
&ee crude petroleum; then brush over
18th hnseed oil. Petroleum is good
0Eeserver Of wood.
On heavy loans of clay, clover roots
Renetrate the subsoil and open it to the
Utilizing influences Of air and light. 1t
erich, too, in nitrogen, and in the decay
Qk its leaves and roots it gives the soil
Just what is wanted to grow . maximum
A1op of any kind Of grain.
& Pure sir and good water are of even
eater importance than exercise in the
Re of young animals. They are often
&1ddled together In houses altogether
efficient in size, and in which the at
a0ephere is almost constantly impure
M the product of respiration.
Boussincault prescribes the proper
perature for iohurning to be so for
let cream, go for sour and 6Ae for
X. About onesfourth of the total
punt of butter globules which exist
the cream escapes collection, which
cunts for the rich taste OF buttermilk.
b make q cheap pork barrel, buy a
loil barre, knock one head in; take
pnch Of old hay, set fire to il, and
lpw 1T in the barrel; let it burn until
staves begin to burn; put it out by
ping the barrel upside down; scrape
GOALS off, and you havea good, sweet
Vel.
here is no better time than the pres