The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1880-03-10
AGRICULTURAL

better with soaked corn than dry.
Corn stepped in water for twelve
hours has been found more economl
cal to feed than when ground into
meal. The animals are sooner Tiled,
the food digests better, and, conse-
quently, the feeding is finished more
expeditiously and feed - which is
money--is saved.
"A late writer says: "Most far
mers have noticed that in fattening
swine rapidly, they appe; L weak in
their hind legs, and sometimes lose
the use Of them entirely. In such
cases we find that small quantity
of bone meal mixed with their daily
feed will prevent weakness, and will
strengthen the animal so as to admit
of rapid forcing"
Corn burnt on the cob, and the
refuse-which consists almost en-
tirely of the grains reduced to char
coal and still retaining their perfect
shape--placed before fowls, is gree
Oily eaten by them, with q marked
improvement in their health, as is
shown by the bright color of their
combs and their sooner producing a
greater average Of eggs TO the flock
than before.
AN old turkey has rough scales
on the feet, and long, strong claws;
young one the reverse Of all these
marks. When the feathers are on
the old turkey cock has long tuft
or beard, young one but sprout-
ing one; and when they are of the
smooth scales on the legs decide the
point, besides the difference in size
OF wattes of the neck and in the elias
tic shoot upon the neck.
--FRENcH poultry fanciers who
make speciality of raising fowls for
the market are now feeding their
poultry with barley and steamed car
rots. It's rapid fattening qualities
are somewhat wonderful, and it is
said that the roots also impart Pc
culiar flavor to the flesh that suits
the taste of the French epicure ex
actly. The large yellow carrots are
considered the best for this purpose.
A CURE FOR BLACK LEG IN CAT
TLE.--The way to cure black leg is,
just as soon as you find your calves
or yearlings have got it, get out your
horse and put on your saddle; get
whip and commence to run your
creatures around for half an hour or
an hour-that is, until you get them
thoroughly warmed up and sweating,
and this will effect cure. But if
they are so bad that you can't get
them up, you will be pretty sure to
lose them. But one of my neighbors
that had cured couple this way,
found one day another 80 bad that
he could not get it up, and he knew
If it laid there o little longer, it
would be gone, so he called his dog
and set it on the calf. 1t was a
small dog, and after barking around
little, the dog caught the calf by
the nose and it beloved and jumped
up. The horse and whip were rca.
dy, and an hours exercise saved the
calfslife.
SUNFLowER CULTURE. - Sunfower
seed makes very fine oil, and very
large quantity of this seed would
sell at the oil mills if it could be OBJ.
tanned. The number Of bushels oil
this seed that can be produced upon
an acre is very large-we have heard
as high as $50 bushels. But we
think this estimate altogether too
high. IT one half this amount, ii
would be q paying crop. 1t would
always command at the oil mills
from Soc. to 81 per bushel. What
would pay betterp And while upon
this topic, we have good data fol
saying that if planted abuudantly
about the residence In malarious dis
tricts, it prevents fevers. Some re-
marksble instances have occurred in
the East Indies of malarious dis
tricts which were uninhabitable te
white people, on account Of deadly
fevers, that we're made healthy
abodes by liberal planting Of sun
flower seed-the plant consuming
certain qualities in the malarious at
mosphere that produced the febrilt
diseases.
THE Cow PEA.-This plant for th,
South is destined to take the place
that red clover does in higher lati
tudes in the work OF amelloratins