The Home advocate. (Farmerville, La.) 1885-1???, 1885-05-15
THE HOME ADVOCATE.
FARMERVILLE, LOUISIANA
Items For Farmers.

cu"-iio"ef Seett Is good egg Pr
.lucing food.
Dampness is worse that cold 9
young chicks.
Cooked food is better forall stoc
than when fed raw.
A Vermont individual claims t.
nave a hen thirty-ninc years old.
Fowls Ovcrf;.tl are more llabl
to disease than those that are ken
hungry.
Vegetables of any kind, and es
pccially onions, are reIished b,
towels of all ages.
All fowls that are yarled III
must have gravel, dust, lime an,
charcoal.
Feed your hens all the milk you
have, sweet or sour. 1t is a mode
food and adds to the flavor Of the
eggs.
If seed corn is taken from any
place except as hung up in Draid>
on the rafters Of il warm room, it
will need to be tested before plant
ing.
Stable manure should always
heat somewhat before being drawn
on the land, to destroy weed seed
and to place the element of plant
fool III more available form.
The ground mole, il, proportion
to its size, excels all other ANIMALS
i'll strength of jaw and shoulder.
a battle between male mOles gen.
orally ends with the death of both.
Returns from Southern parishes
are all favorable for bountiful
crops Of sugar, rice, corn, vege.a-
bles and fruits. \ red letter year
will 1885 prove TO Louisiana agri-
culturalists, if present. promise is
kept.
Before warm weather comes the
pork barrel should be looked after,
and If any redness or scum ap-
pears, the brine should be taken
out, boiled until all the impurities
rise, and returned. The least faint
Of blood will make trouble.
Ground peas, or coolers. are
now to lie planted This is use
full crop. These peanuts are very
gOta! to eat-lt times are really
healthy, and they are valuable 70:
fattening hogs. Some farmers
plant large fields Of Them especially
tor this purpose. The fat of the
hogs, when f;'I altogether on
ground peas, is quite oily.
Perhaps it would not be too
much to SAY that one third OF the
trees and plants, so profi,sely scat
tered over the country every year,
perish because OF the ignorant,
careless, slOvenly manner III which
they are transpI ,ntctl. Never de-
eide to plant tree until You have
made up your mind to give 1t such
care rs will not only insure it's Iiv.
ing, but also It's free, thrifty growth ;
and development.
1t is a very common mistake to ,
throw away eggs after the hen has
left her nest long enough SO that
the eggs have become cold. 1t is
almost universally believed that, if 7
eggs are cold to the touch the en- 5
DryO chicken is chilled to death.
but it by no means follows. The
partially developed chicken an ;,
pears to partske of the nature Of
ld.blOOtled animals and will en-
lre a chill that would be fatal to
3 chicken that Is already Matched n
put or has arrived at q stage of n
development. Many. Ii
experiments prove this; we have !;
Eaken q hen away from her nest s
md kept her away exactly twenty il
our hours, in quite cold weather. II
90, cold enough in fact to give a a
leavy frost all oyer the ground: a
rot the slightest amount of heat
vas perceptible about the eggs
when they were handled and un- :"
Ter the eggs and about the nest -
verything appeared just as cold -
8 any piece of wood or bunch of y
ay or straw anywhere on the <:
remises. The apartment had u
reat cracks in it, so that it was of - =,
O0ut the same temperature in. ~
00rs as without. We then al Is
WED the hen access to her nest A
nd there were eleven good chick ia
is which came from q nest Of ga
'irteen eggs, but be it noted, Ill
'ey Matched out on the twenty 81
'cond and tveDty,tllirl days in. br
cad of on the twenty.firSf 11,x.. MI