Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1884-06-07
RURAL AND DOMESTIC ITHMs.

Inc DtaCk CuTIduI 10 NOiy "hoiScS' |
Caulifiowers require plenty of room.
Put wood ashes in hills for potatoes.
Guard against forest fires nowadays.
Meat and cooked food for laying hens.
Use white hellebore for crlrrant worms.
Cultivate corn shallow and thorough
ly. 80 't',-''
Good seed can't be got at price of poor.
Heavy clay lands need thorough till
age.
Ensilage is gaining popularity in Eng
land.
Draining pays in the long run and in
the short rum H
The lily requires leaf mould TO bring |
it to perfection.
Fottler's Drumhead is a splendidly
successful cabbage.
Paris green kills the canker worm IN
trees. Spray it on. 80 .
If you do not let your pigs run at large
they need bone meal. .-
The French cultivate the so-rel or
sour grass for salads.
The Chile pepper makes a splendid
pickle or addition to ketchup.
Salt around the scots of blackberries
is said to be a cure for rust.
Heavy peach crops are expected in
Middle Florida this year.
4 general crop of beans grows well on
sod land plowed in June.
The Triumph is the earliest of the large
varieties of sweet corn.
Crosby's early sweet corn is very pro-
lductive, and is exceedingly good.
One-sixth of the Montana cattle-rais-
ing business is in English hands.
stowell's Evergreen Sweet is the sweet
est of the green corns for general crop.
The round mangel wurzel beets for
; feeding stock grow best on sandy soil.
The present wheat production of India
. is estimated to be 240.000,OO0 bushels.
Chattanooga expects to ship near two
o million pounds of strawberries this year.
= For those sheep which have the scours
use little linseed meal with the feed.
Y The pine lands of eastern Texas are
e being bought up by Northern capitalists
A late AMI unproductive season is re-
: ported by New England maple sugar
r makers. ta Co.,. .---
e Az valuable as is the wool crop Of Tex
!, as. cotton brings the State vastly great
!. er cash return.
e More than $4,000 skunk skins were
"A used in this country last season, each val
If ued at 80 cents to $l,20, .srsj. ss
e. A Dakota farmer is said to have raiset
l. seventeen bushels of wheat in thre'
II wears from one grain of seed.
'. Four million three hundred and fort.
thousand boxes Of sardines were packe'
i'm Lubec, Me-, last year.
ALondon journal says that a han
.. should always be cooked i'm cider; bolle'
" three hours and baked three.
Ia The membership fee of the Chicag
% Live Stock Exchange has been increase
N from $40 to 500.
A California farmers apply mulch
ar chopped evergreen twigs to the Sol
NJ This, plowed in enriches the soil.
pu II ia said that boots and shoes may B
ho rendered water proof by soaking theI
for hours in thick soap water.
Good seed and abundant pasture wi
not keep animals in good condition, III
less they have plenty of pure water.
~ Buffalo gnats are killing raules in ives
ny ern Mississippi. Deer are fleeing to u
be high lands of Arkansas TO escape II
lso pests.
1ill If two or three rats are caught ally
no given a coat of tar and turned loose, IT
ear said the whole colony will vacate Il
cur premises. -N
the George L. Fox, of London, has devils.
of an apparatus for slaughtering animals
in electricity, said to be entirely painless.
ioi The French Government annual
makes an appropriation of five milli'
dollars for agricultural instruction al
experiment.
A gardener says il you want fine wat
ian melons. use old farm manure and q
po- potassic fertilizers and little qua
the broadcast over the hills.
Vho The English authority feeds to co
bur only the bottom of turnip, after :
bav crown has been cut of, thus PREVENT
~ the turnipy favor.
EN-, When the rich black liquid is Howl
rms awav from the manure heap, it indica
ere thst the fhost valnble and soluble p
Iell. tons are being lost.
as. II is said, by the Mich, Farmer, q
pta Isas the persons who make the money out
Qua Ssilk culture" are "tbose who furn
mn. nm eggs at S. per ounce
It is claimed that in Georgia N
colt can be raised to three years old
cheaply as cow to the same age,
be worth four times as much.
r in It is estimated that a horse in 3
,ort- condition and sound should be aple
;ble carry about 20 per cent. OF his o
80 weight without being overloaded.