The Opelousas courier., 1884-05-31
FOR THE FARM AND HOME.
Farm am a e.ara.. u..,

Turnips fed to sheep make tender
mutton.
Mouldy and unventilated cellars will,
spoil butter or milk.
Level culture is coming into practice
with the best farmers.
Soil for radishes should be some
what sandy. Good radishes cannot be-
raised on very rich garden ground.
ooapsuds are a valuable fertilizer
Tor all forms of vegetation, especially
seryicable for small fruits, and in the
fruit garden proper win never be
wasted.
Feed plenty of buttermilk to the
mems. Either give it in place of water
OF thlcken it with a mixture OF bran
and meal. Thick milk and SKINNED
milk are also excellent.
Mr.. Green, of New Albany, Ind.
says ne finished the borers In his
e~ighteen-acre peach orchard by scald-
Ing them with hot water, poured on
from the spout of a tea kettle.
An Iowa farmer makes his granary
distasteful to rats by "Iaubing all the
angles on the outside of the building
with hot pine tar for the width Of
three or four inches, and also any
seam or crack where a rat or mouse
can stand to gnaw."
A farmer says that two pigs fur
nlshed with muck, sand, weeds and
sod will manufacture them into the
best OF manure, which will be worth,
when the pigs are six months old, as
much as a ton of the best superphos-
phate that sells for $50 a ton.
Look to your hen houses. If they
cannot be made air-tight there is no
use in fumigating with sulphur.
Kerosene is always a safe and sure
agent in the destruction of hen lice.
Use it literally, saturate every beam,
perch and nest with it.
1t sometimes happens that leached
wood ashes produce better results on
crops than those that are unleached.
This is especially the cas- in old heaps
of leached ashes that have absorbed
ammonia and formed saltpetre by
being kept protected from light and
moisture.
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune says that any one who allows
his fruit trees to slowly starye to death
and then adds insult to injury by
blaming them for not rewarding his
Incidence with bountiful crops, de-
serves to be debarred from good fruit
the remainder of his life.
The american Cuztigator advises
farmers not to be in q hurry about
drying off mich cows. To cease
milking while the COW is giving four
or five quarts of milk per day causes
carget and caked udder. which cause
more injury to the animal than is oc-
casioned by the drain of keeping up
the milk supply.
II 80 EHEAZ
Professor E. M Shelton, of the
Kansas Agricultural College Farm,
having tired of the necessarily waste
full way of feeding loose salt to stock
now finds that a six-inch square lump
of rock salt in a box to which the ami
mails have free access at all times, il
an economical and beautiful plan
which proves entirely satisfactory"
Cooked potatoes are eaten greedilJ
by hogs, and unstable potatoes car
best be disposed of in this way. Care
full experiments show that on an aver
age cooked potatoes are three-fourths
the value of corr for feeding, while
raw ones are less than one-half. Thi
wear the relative value Of potatoe;
and corn will give a still better show
ing for the tubers.
A farmer says that the leaves from
the woods are q great assistance il
growing Irish potatoes. These. whel
but in the furrow with the potatoes
not only furnish the nutriment s
their sustenance, but retain the waite
from rains and counterfeit the injur
from dry weather. # leaves canno
lie had, straw IS the next best thin
for this purpose.
The agricultural editor OF the Nes
York Times says that no doubt man
farmers who are intending to unde1
drain their farms would save none
!, By employing an expert at the first I
Law out the whole system and make
!. good beginning. and SO avoid any Pc
!. sible mistake, which might cost e
dollars for every one paid for skille
advice. It should not be forgotte
that when d drain is laid IL is laid.
a household Hints.
T. pats and mice avoid chloride