The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-03-31
AGRICULTURAL

"A stock-keeper Reports curing q
many bad warts on cattle and horses
during several years, by application
TO each of "one good daub of tar
Save the SCOT that falls from
the chimneys when the latter are
cleansed. Twelve quarts OF SCOT to
hogshead makes good liquid ma
nure, to be applied to the roots OF
plants.
-The.best way to preserve mn
nure is 10 haul il to the field on
which it is needed as fast as it accu-
mulates. Have a wagon or sled al
ways ready on which to throw the
manure as IL accumulates and haul
It out when there is good load and
spread it at once. This is the latest
approved plan.
If you contemplate at some fu-
ture time sowing meadow fescue,
put in at once sufficiency to make
your own seed. The seed rules high,
and present prices will prevent ex-
teusive seeding. No crop on the
farm will pay better profit than
the raising of meadow fescue seed
for market. Meadow fescue seeded
now will not bear q seed crop before
next year.
"A New York shepherd says: sit
is not impossible to get rid of ticks
on sheep. Take fine dust tobacco;
nut In box, such as ground spice
is sold in, making openings with an
avl in the cover to suit; part the
wool just behind the forelegs, around
the body, and dust ring around the
W sheep quite black. Do the same al
so on different places on the body,
wherever the ticks are most likely to
congregate. Use tobacco literally"
A mixture of kerosene and lard
will remove lice If it is we'll applied
1t should he used all over the skin
and brushed into the hair thorough
ly. 1t will be more effective if some
sulphur is added to it. Take ont
pound of lard, one pint of kerosen'
oil and four ounces of flowers of sui
phur; rub these well together; smea
some of it over horse-brush, ant
brush the horse with 1t until th
skin is all touched; give the colt
each one ounce of sulphur daily
and az soon as the coats are brushe
with the lard mixture cover wit
blankets.
The pecan tree is native an
yields good crop of nuts in dr.
and wet seasons alike. Every yes
the sale of pecans brings thousand
of dollars into our country, and u
no new groves are being plante
and special care is not taken Of I'll
trees that are now yielding ham
somely every year. We urge upe
the citizens the necessity Of takir
care of these trees. The price of p
cans must in time advance, and tho
who have pecan groves will find the
more profitable than any crop tn
can raise.
When manure is applied as
top-dressing without disturbing I
roots, we have never seen a
amount of stable manure or compt
applied that was in any degree
injury to the tree, but, on the otf
hand, it proved decided stimu
and benefit. Sometimes it is sale
tree grows too luxuriously and I'll
will not bear. Very few orch'
growers are In this lucky strait
it Is luck to have ground as rich
this. In such cases, Of course,
manure will be applied, but e.
here it is only question of til
for when in such rich ground tr
do bear, the rich and enormous cr
are well worth waiting for.
The proper depth for pillow
must be determined by the charae
of the soil and subsoil. All d
blowing is not good blowing.
light soils underlaid by por
subsoil, unless the object be to t
under vegetable matter, deep pl
ing is not only unnecessary but
desirable. Ga stiff soils, howe
and especially when the subsoi
tenacious, deep blowing is iudisl
sable. The intelligent farmer n
be the judge in each case of
depth to which his pillow should
run, bearing in mind that his
pose Is to prepare rootebed for
crop, and where the nature of
folds require it this is to be acc
plished by the mechanical dist
tration of the soil.
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