Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-05-17
RURAL AND DOMESTIC ITEMS.

Corn is ten inches high in Texas.
New "go for" all insect enemies.
Mulch apple trees in dry weather
Pear trees require very rich soil.
Complete crops-corn and clover.
Golden Wax is the best snap bean.
Leok after the fiower-garden, girls.
They say" fat hens lay small eggs.
Churn often if you want good butter.
Feed growing chicks all they will eat.
I Don't 60 in debt for what isn't needed.
Raise plenty of carrots for your horses
Imperfect sailing causes streaky but.
ter. .
Give stock little bone meal OCCASION
ally.
sect the best" implements when you
buy.
Do not change sheep suddenly from
dry feed to green.
Plant Danvers and Whethersfeld on
ion for general crop. ..,.-i -"
In England they have ll4 varieties of
peas for planting.
Hungry rats will eat harness. Hang
it out of their reach.
Cows fed on ensilage require less wa
ter than those fed on hay.
Iffrost is feared cover the young potato
shoots with plow.
Slate roofs, being non-combustible, are
the best for farm buildings. ~ Z
Cayenne pepper sprinkled where rats
frequent will drive them away.
Mulch raspberries and blackberries
heavily, and cultivate up to August. ''
Raise fieck of turkeys. If properly
cared for there is money in them. -,
The crops of Southern Australia ARE
seriously injured by the grasshoppers-l
Let the hogs have some salt and char
coal mixed with feed once a week.
The silk industries of Switzerland give
employment to 700 persons 'ss- .ltH
Georgia mas increased her cotton yield
100 per cent, in the past ten years.
Downing's and Smiths gooseberries
reach large size and seldom mildew.
Wild geese are destroying whole fields
of grain along the Savannah river.
The first planting of peas should be
shallow, and each successfully one
deeper. . |r..
Wheat requires a well-drained soil
Too much water is its greatest enemy.
1t is claimed that rice forms the daily
flood of more than half the human race.
The English make their sweetest it pork
by feeding potatoes and barley meal.
A "cowman" owns his cattle. A "cow.
boy" is one who works for "cowman."
Six of the leading railroads in the
Northwest disposed Of 1,137 1897 acres Of
land last year.
st. Louis is now sending large guam
titles of new mixed corn to Europe, via
New Orleans. ....0...
Judge Marshall, of Denver, Col, pur-
chased a ranch near Ell Paso, $4,000
cash for the same.
Examine the clover seed carefully to
see that there are no wild carrots OF
plantaiu seeds among it.
The German government has publish
ed an official edict warning the people
against eating raw pork. -..
Be careful not to grow potatoes near
peach trees, is the advice of one who is
familiar with peach growing.
Sixteen per cent. of the total area OF
the United States is covered with timber
in all 3S0,0O0,OO0 acres.
Feed oats to colts and calves. 1t is
the best food to correct acidity of the
stomach and keep the whole system in
order.
Good feed and abundant pasture will
not keep animals in good condition un-
less they have plenty of pure water.
Don't let your horses spend a night
with mud on their feet and legs IL is
unpleasant for the horses and injurious
also.
Corn will germinate when the tenn
perature of the soil is about 55 degrees;
little lower than this and it will rot.
Recent heavy floods have left the farm.
ing lands along the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers in bad condition.
Nellie Lincoln Rossiter, of Philadelphia
girl Of Is, is at the head of the silk cul-
ture industry of the country. -
Close observers say that the excessive
use of manure in the potato patch has q
tendency to produce scabby tubers.
Special care of farm stock from the 1si
of March to the middle of May pays bet
ter than at any other season OF the year
Mexicans begin 10 appreciate land
They are fighting off such "Americanos'
as want to settle on public land near Al
buquerque. ''..- '.''
A frequent stirring Of the earth pot,
with an old fork is uncomfortable for in
sects which deposit their eggs OF voune
in the earth. Aa..
Radical Tendencies of French No
... bfity. 10 ID.