The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1880-02-15

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regular and peculiar prominence. On the
other hand, ~ matter OF course. good care
euye d ms neat clean and plump there Is much
n d rood supply Of wholesome food, but 1t
without occasional rubbing and currying,
will not make the COW look and feel comfort
able. 1T pays to curry the cows"
PLANT STRAWBERRIES.
No family, In country or town, should be
without bed OF this delicious, early fruit.
Don't be induced to plant, unless for amuse-
ment or experiment, any except the Wilson
Albany variety. Prepare the ground thor
oughly and ferttllze well with ashes, a potash
sugerphosphate or aches and bone mem, meal, tho
north side " fence 10 best. None but Inc
black cap varieties succeed In this climate.
GRASS IN THE SOUTH.
great need In the South 10 grass for early
grazing and hay. Some OF the native grasses
that have been fought and struggled with 1or
years as weeds are now found TO 90 81 great
value. BY smoothing off piece Of grassy
land, and using some fertilizer and encourage
Ing the growth, q home supply Of hay may be
secured. 1t 10 often the case that treasure
may lieneglected under our feet, ana some OF
the Southern grasses, long neglected, can be
turned TO profitable use.--I American Agricui-
turist.
PROTECTING SHEEP FROM DOGS.
It consists simply In placing on one sheep
In every ten of the flock bell of the usual
size for sheep. The instinct OF the dog
thy manner, His attacks upon sheep are
mostly made Mt night while they are at rect,
and the simultaneous jlnging OF all the bells
strikes terror to the dogs; they turn their
tails and leave the sheep, fearing the noise OF
the bells will lead to their exposure
FARM NOTES.
A rrnua hpf vyeau fine. htppdAd ltQht RrAhmAB
and partridge Cochins will produce the largest
fowls known.
II you want eggs In winter, never keep old
hens. When hen Is three years old put her
into the soup pot.
Loss Of appetite, thirst, diarrhea, general
weakness and blueness Of the comb are the
principal symptoms OF chicken cholera.
stOck-keeper reports curing many PAD
years, by application to each Of "one good
In Holland, where sand ID plentiful, II e
used for bedding cows. This keeps the AMI
mails always, entirely. clean, and tho milk
never takes the odor of tho stable.
A writer In The Garden says that II pottinR
soil is placed for day or two In the hen
yard every particle OF 1t is dug over, and all
grubs and eggs Of insects are picked out.
A pound oil pure milk is equal In food value
to q pound OF rice or oatmeal or fish, while 1t
is worth four times as much rs pound Of
potatoes and a little more than bakers bread
Fowls may eat too much meat for health:
but milk they may drink nd ltbitnm, and
those who have II cannot put IL 10 more
profitable use than making soft food Tor
poultry.
To destroy pin-worms In horses. give an In
lection OF salt and water two or three days In
succession, then administer ball consisting
OF half an ounce Of alOes and one drachm Of
calomel.
Young stock fattens much more readily than
old stock. Pigs, when they have attained
their growth, fatten at less cost than when
older. The same Is true ef steers and all other
animals.
A correspondent at Keene, N. H.. recon-
mends boiled potatoes as Q remedy for dtar-
rhea In cattle. He says that three pecks q
day fed cured IN tw9 days an OK OF his
For scabby legs In poultry, take equal parts
Of lard and kerosene oil, and thicken with
sulphur into paste. This should be rubbed
upon the legs until the scabby parts come
of. when they should be smeared with sweet
A good test Of the hardness Of any variety
OF forest trees is found In the ripening Of its
seeds (fruit) II q tree does not perfect It's
seeds In given locality. II Ia good evidence
that 1t is not sufficiently hardy to be gen
crafty cultivated In such sections.
Measly pork Is parasitic disease. The
parasite Is q germ Of the tapewOrm, and
measly pork is the source, to . great extent,
Of tapeworms in children: II the pork Is
Ia no reason for experimenting anything 81 an
unpleasant nature from It's consumption.
Cattle like q change OF diet occasionally, as
men DO. Keeping cattle On hay or straw
toes or meat alone, with nothing except that
one dish. Therefore feed some roots, as well
az hay and meal or shorts. III you haven't
the roots on hand, be sure and have supply
next winter.
The raising Of thirty bushels Of wheat to
b0 will hn
pounds OF nitrogen, twenty-four pounds OF
phosphoric acid and thirty-nine pounds Of
potash. This could be replaced by sixty
pounds Of sulphate of ammonia, Ill pounds
OF superphosphate OF lime and seventy-slx
pounds OF chloride Of potassium.
In nearly all soils ashes are beneficial. Their
action Is two-fold; they supply to plants In
organic constituents which they require, and
they act chemically as solvents upon other
salts In the soil. or they neutraliZe acids, etc.
ely lands than on clay. For plants that con-
tain q large percentage OF potash and phos-
phoric acid, as carrots, turnips. potatoes and
oabbages, ashes are an essential manure.
Geese and ducks are profitable birds, and
may be kept where there Ia cheap grazing.
Half dozen geese will soon fill good sized
feather-b or pair OF pillows. The white
ducks are perhaps equally useful IN this way.
at nights, or they will drop their eggs abroad.
The eggs should be gathered and kept In q
cool, but not cold, place until they are wanted
for setting.
Fowls viii need the best food II eggs are de.
sired. Wheat stepped In boiling water, and
given hot, and hot baked potatoes crushed
with masher, are as good food as can be
given; water slightly warmed with small
quantity OF sulphate OF iron (eopperas) In it
will be useful. Allspice mixed with corn-meal
mush is an excellent condiment, and by no
means costly. Laudanum In ten-drop doses
has been found q remedy for the cholera. or
poultry intestinal fever, which has destroyed
so many birds.
The bee farm Of D. N. Jones, OF Ohio, Is
considered the largest and most successful
In the country. It consists Of four bee yards,
each covering an acre Of ground, carefully
inclosed. The hives are oblonR, made Of pine
wood, with capacity Of 324O inches, the
inside measure being 15x1Sx12. Mr.. Jones's
bee yards contain $50, $50, $50 and 70 of such
hives respectively, and he reckons 10000 bees
good swarm for one OF them. At the end OF
July he secured Sc, 900 pounds of honey from
$40 stocks Of bees, and expects total yield
for the year OF 10000 pounds OF honey from