The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1879-02-15
invaded parts of Italy, and have proven
very destructive to the growing crops.

MANY wet pasture fields could be made
productive by little labor given to sur
face drains; and the best drains are those
nearest straight. Do not see how little
fall you think win do, but give all you
can.
GERMAN beet-sugar manufacturers
I offer $40 per ton for dried sugar. beets,
delivered at their seaports. At this
place their culture, preparation and
freighting would leave handsome profit
to American farmers and ship-owners.
Cows should not be kept over eight
years old and ewes over five. Now is
the time of year to determine what dis
position is to be made of old stock,
whether to be prepared for the butcher
or continue as at present for another
year.
FARMERS in England sowing arseni-
Gated wheat are, by the recent act of
Parliament made subject to heavy
penalty. The farmers poison their seed
wheat to protect it from birds and in
sects, but the sacred game-birds are apt
to suffer. Hence the penalty.
HIGH prices for the service of blooded
stock sires have not been confined to the
present century. In 1850 Robert Bake
well, the most eminent breeder of that
period, let his rams for about $500 each
season, and in 1890 he let one ram for
81. 087. In one year he made over $15,-
600.
The Michigan Farmer gives the
record of cow owned by Mr.. John
Heath, near Tekonsha, Mich, three
quarters Shorthorn and one-quarter
Devon. The daily yield of milk for the
month of May and three days in June
aggregated 2,163 pounds. She was MIXED
three times day.
IT ia said farmer who has tried the
experiment so often as to be sure of his
ground, that buttermilk poured over the
back Of a scurvy pig will entirely and
speedily remove the scurf The remedy
is simple. Almost every farmer can
boast of one or more scuryy pigs, and if
buttermilk will cure it, it should not be
spared.
IT is beginning to be understood by
breeders that the confinement of stations
is detrimental to their success. We
have always thought that the daily use
of Hsmbletonian as an everyday horse,
one of all work, as it were, was one Of
the causes that showed to such great
advantage in his early colts; and it was
upon these his fame was made.
MANY persons are poisoned by contact
with the wild ivy and sumae, and in
some cases the poisoning is very severe.
To such it may be of interest to know
that DIR. Brown, of the United States
Navy, claims to have discovered GER
tain remedy for such poisoning. 1t is
bromide dissolved in olive oil, cosmoline
or gIycerine. He used twenty drops OF
bromide to an ounce of oil, rubbing it on
the affected part three or four times day,
and washing it off occasionally with
CASTLE soap.
CORN loses one-ffth by drying, and
wheat one-fourthteenth. From this the
estimate is made that it is more profit
able for the farmer to sell unshelled corn
10 the fall at seyenty-fve cents than at
81 bushel in the following summer,
and that wheat at $1.21 in December is
equal to $3.50 in the succeeding June.
In cases of potatoes--taking those that
rot and are otherwise together with
the shrinkage there is little doubt that
between October and June the loss to
the owner who holds them is not less
than thirty-three per cent.
SHEEP dung decomposes moro rapidly
than COW dung, and not SO quickly ~
horse dung. Itis richer in solid matters
than the former. The pig being almost
an omniyorous animal, its excrements
vary ~ composition, according to the
nature of its food. Its dung is soft and
compact, and it decomposes slowly. 1t
| is one Of the richest kind of animal ma
nure, but it is alleged that when used
alone as manure is gives disagreeable
favor to roots. On the Continent pig
dung is largely applied to the hemp