The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1879-06-12
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AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

THE pea is the most nutritive of the
leguminous crops, and its wholesome
ness as an article of food is attested by
it's great use in Scotland-the country
of great men and able bodied laborers.
In Holland, where sand is more plen-
tiful and cheaper than hay, it is used for
bedding cows. This keeps the animals
always entirely clean, and the milk new
er takes the odor of the stable.
If you have to shut your hens up to
keep them out of the newly made gar
den do not forget to throw them an oc-
casional sod so that they may scratch
and peck it. They will even tear out
the young grass. The exercise does
them good. 75 ~ -.1 g.
THE proper food for young chickens
is, during the first three or four days,
bread soaked in milk, and afterward
wheat middlings wet in milk and water,
or water alone will answer. Give them
no corn meal, keep clean and dry, and
there will be no gapes. 'r9 +.
MUCH material that is allowed to go
to waste on many farm should be util-
lied for comfortable bedding for stock,
or, if this is considered too much trouble,
then at least haul it into the barnyard
and let it be transformed there into
"complete manure that will help
maintain the fertility of our land.
A DWELLING that presents an attract
i've appearance inside and out, with a
handsome lawn, comfortable out-build-
ings, creates home-pride in the boys
and girls, and helps to make the farm
attractive. 1t is not from such places
that the boys and girls are in haste to
rush away to the village; but, instead,
they stay on the farm as long as cir
cumstances will permit. ~-s ..,.s
To raise good tomatoes, says an ex-
cellent authority, take away wheelbar-
row of earth from where each vine is to
stand, fill with half soil and half coal
Plants thus treated will bring out near
ly double the fruit of others, and much
smoother and larger in this soil, though
in case of drought the plants require
water sooner, and more of it, than those
growing in common soil.
MANY of the horses in Florida die
from sanding. We have taken two
buckets of sand out of a dead horse.
Those that are turned out to Craze on
pine land are most subject to it, as in
biting at the low grass they take in much
sand, especially If they are turned out
hungry and try to fill their stomachs
quickly. A bottle of whale oil, or, if
that is not handy, a bottle of melted
lard, will give relief.-Flortda .Agric4l-
turist.
Mr.. FIR. MUENcH, writing to the Ru-
raj World of the best time to cut tim
Der, gives in this paragraph the result
of his own experience of many years
Timber will last longest when cut in
July an II August. From that time the
season becomes less favorable from
month to month-frst rather slowly,
but fast and faster from the beginning
of the new year, it being worst in May.
This is so in the latitude of Missouri,
while in our Southern States the most
unfavorable time will set in earlier, and
later further North. -
SOME one inquiries for the best man.
ures and fertilizers for the tomato. On
the rich, black soil of the prairie,
know of nothing better than two OF
three years old soft coal ashes. The
trouble we have here in growing to-
matoes is, that they run too much to
vine, and refuse to fruit early. Coal
ashes seem to induce early fruiting and
large and fair fruit. Probably, the to-
mato being sour fruit, like other soul
fruits, demands much potash, and this
the coal ashes supply. But this is not
my experience alone, but that of two Of
the best market gardeners I know, who
put the value of coal ashes as equal te
avevage stable manure, bulk for bulk
Cor. Country Gentleman. fya5H1
FOUR turkeys (says an old raiser)
were confined in pen, and fed on meal
boiled potatoes and oats. Four Others
of the same brood were at the same time
confined in another pen, and fed daily
on the same article, but with one pint
of very finely pulverized charcoal mix
ed with their food-mixed meal anC
boiled potatoes. They had also a plen
tiful supply of broken charcoal in theil
pen. The eight were killed on the same
day, land there was difference of one anc
q half pounds each in favor of the fowls
which had been supplied with charcoal
they being much the latest, and thu
meat being superior in point of tender
ness and flavor.
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